The university's leadership, faculty, research staff, and alumni have included several
United States presidents, foreign
heads of state, Nobel laureates,
Pulitzer Prize winners,
Marshall Scholars,
Fulbright Scholars, and 57
Rhodes Scholarsthe most of any state university. Its alumni include 30 state governors (including thirteen
Governors of Virginia) and 33
United States senators. UVA students and alumni have founded companies such as
Reddit,
Skillshare,
VMware, and
Space Adventures. Its athletic teams are called the
Cavaliers and they compete in
NCAA Division I as members of the
Atlantic Coast Conference.