Patricia Racette ('88)

Soprano with the Santa Fe Opera and the New York Metropolitan Opera

Azim Rashid ('94)

Senior vice president and head of urban promotion for Columbia Records; former senior vice president of promotion at Roc Nation and Capitol Music Group

Cleatus Rattan ('65, '69 M.Ed.)

Former Texas Poet Laureate and author of The Texas Review Poetry Prize-winning collection of poems, The Border

Ray Renfro

Football player for the Cleveland Browns (1952-1963)

Anne Rice

Best-selling author of the Vampire Chronicles books

Ray Roberts

Former U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Texas

Lexie Dean Robertson ('13)

Former Texas Poet Laureate who was a charter member of the Texas Institute of Letters and whose poems appeared in Good Houskeeping, Ladies' Home Journal and other publications

Craig Robertson

Former linebacker for the New Orleans Saints

G. Brint Ryan ('88, '88 M.S.)

CEO of Ryan, a global tax services firm and software provider, who was named to Texas Monthly's Top 25 Most Powerful People in Texas list

Mark "Hawkeye" Rybczyk ('83)

Radio personality on the DFW radio station 96.3 KSCS; winner of Billboard Magazine's Air Personality of the Year and member of the Country Radio Hall of Fame

Melissa Rycroft ('05)

Television personality; Dancing with the Stars: All Stars winner and The Bachelor contestant

Thomas Sadoski

Tony Award-nominated actor who has appeared in The Newsroom, Life in Pieces, Wild and John Wick

Cara Santa Maria ('04, '07 M.S.)

Los Angeles Area Emmy Award-winning host of the podcast "Talk Nerdy to Me" and science correspondent on National Geographic's TV series "Brain Games"

Greg Millsbaugh Sax ('88)

Longtime radio announcer and member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame

Bill Schmidt ('70)

Won the bronze medal for the javelin at the 1972 Olympics

Jan Seale ('69 M.A.)

Former Texas Poet Laureate, National Endowment for the Arts fellow and author of 20 books of short stories and poems whose works have been published in anthologies, newspapers and magazines and read on National Public Radio

Bobby Sessions

Ron Shanklin

Football player and All-Pro for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1970-1976)

Ann Sheridan

Actress; roles in King's Row and Angels with Dirty Faces; roles in films with Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Cary Grant and Errol Flynn

Bob Singleton ('78)

Grammy and Dove Award-nominated music director of Barney and children's albums