Editing University of Florida (section)

== Notable people ==
{{Main category|University of Florida people}}

=== Notable alumni ===
{{Main list|List of University of Florida alumni}}
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As of August 2018 the University of Florida has 545,165 alumni.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://admissions.ufl.edu/pdf/Freshman%20Applying%20to%20UF%20Flyer%202018.pdf |title=Freshman Applying to UF |date=August 1, 2018 |website=UF website |access-date=December 31, 2019 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308003058/https://admissions.ufl.edu/pdf/Freshman%20Applying%20to%20UF%20Flyer%202018.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>  Over 57,000 are dues-paying members of the University of Florida Alumni Association. Florida alumni live in every state and more than 100 foreign countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ufalumni.ufl.edu/publicdocs/annual-report-2010.pdf |title=About UF Alumni |website=Ufalumni.ufl.edu |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002073841/http://www.ufalumni.ufl.edu/publicdocs/annual-report-2010.pdf |archive-date=October 2, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Florida alumni include two [[Nobel Prize]] winners, nine [[NASA]] astronauts, ten [[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]], forty-two [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representatives]], eight U.S. ambassadors, eleven [[Governor (United States)|state governors]], eleven state Supreme Court justices, and over fifty federal court judges. Florida graduates have served as the executive leaders of such diverse institutions as the [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marine Corps]] and the [[National Organization for Women]].

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File:ErinAndrews.jpg|[[Erin Andrews]]
File:Carol Browner Senate.jpg|[[Carol Browner]]
File:Faye Dunaway - 1971 - PBS.JPG|[[Faye Dunaway]]
File:Kevin A. Ford.jpg|[[Kevin A. Ford|Kevin Ford]]
File:Bob Graham, official Senate photo portrait, color.jpg|[[Bob Graham]]
File:Robert Grubbs Royal Society.jpg|[[Robert H. Grubbs]]
File:MNirenberg-NIH.jpg|[[Marshall Warren Nirenberg|Marshall Nirenberg]]
File:Beverly Perdue.jpg|[[Beverly Perdue]]
File:Official portrait of Secretary Marco Rubio.jpg|[[Marco Rubio]]
File:1joe scarborough.jpg|[[Joe Scarborough]]
File:EmmittSmith2007 (crop).jpg|[[Emmitt Smith]]
File:Harold F. Pryor.jpg|[[Harold F. Pryor]]
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=== Notable faculty ===
{{Main list|List of University of Florida faculty and administrators}}

Awards won by University of Florida faculty members include a [[Fields Medal]] and an [[Abel Prize]] in Mathematics, [[Albert Einstein Medal]], [[ICTP Dirac Medal]]<!--Pierre Ramond-->, [[Sakurai Prize]], [[Frank Isakson Prize]], [[Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize]], [[James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials]] and a few [[Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics#Special Breakthrough Prize|Special Breakthrough Prizes]] for collaborators who made important contributions for the success [[LIGO]]'s discovery of gravitational wave in Physics, numerous [[Pulitzer Prizes]], and [[NASA]]'s top award for research, and the Smithsonian Institution's conservation award.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ufl.edu/facstaff/ |title=About UF Faculty |publisher=University of Florida |access-date=December 11, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030142747/http://www.ufl.edu/facstaff/ |archive-date=October 30, 2011}}</ref> There are more than sixty eminent scholar endowed faculty chairs, and more than fifty faculty elections to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, or Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine or a counterpart in a foreign nation. More than two dozen faculty are members of the National Academies of Science and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine or counterpart in a foreign nation.<ref name="MediaGuide"/>
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File:John_Griggs_Thompson.jpg|[[John G. Thompson|John Thompson]]
File:Marjorie_Kinnan_Rawlings.jpg|[[Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings]]
File:pramod khargonekar in 2002.jpg|[[Pramod Khargonekar]]
File:JosephGloverUFProvost.JPG|[[Joseph Glover]]
File:Manuel A. Vásquez.JPG|[[Manuel Vasquez]]
File:Johannes Vieweg.jpg|[[Johannes Vieweg]]
File:Carl Van Ness.jpg|[[Carl Van Ness]]
File:Harald von Boehmer.jpg|[[Harald von Boehmer]]
File:William Alphonso Murrill.gif|[[William Murrill]]
File:Jonathan_F_K_Earle.jpg|[[Jonathan F. Earle]]
File:Dean Blake Van Leer.jpg| [[Blake Ragsdale Van Leer]]
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