List Of Wittenberg University Alumni
Following is a list of notable Wittenberg University alumni.
Art and architecture
- George Izenour (BA, 1934; MA 1936), theatre designer, author, and educator
- Jennifer Vanderpool, visual artist
- Helen Bosart Morgan Wagstaff, artist, first president of the Springfield Art Association
Business
- Ronald Fook Shiu Li, founder of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- William C. Martin, founder, Bank of Ann Arbor; founder, First Martin Corp.; former president of the United States Olympic Committee, University of Michigan athletic director
- Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation
- Adam Willis Wagnalls, Funk & Wagnalls Company co-founder
Clergy
- Lloyd C. Douglas, minister and author
- Robert J. Marshall, president of the Lutheran Church of America
- ZeBarney Thorne Phillips, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, 1927–1942
Education
- Mark A. Boyer, Ph.D. 1988, Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
- Barry Burden, Ph.D. 1998, professor of political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Jonathan Howes (bachelor's degree 1959), Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- George Philip Krapp, professor of English at Columbia University
- John Warwick Montgomery, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University, lawyer, theologian(M.Div., 1958)
- Robert Bruce Raup, philosopher, writer, professor in the Philosophy of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Karl Weick, organizational theorist at the University of Michigan
Entertainment
- John Chowning, American musician, inventor, and professor
- Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, television writer
- Thomas Hyland, professional blackjack player, Blackjack Hall of Fame inductee
- Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer
- James Rebhorn, actor
- Barbara Shearer, pianist
- Brendan Wentworth, Actor.
Government and civil service
- Fritz W. Ermarth, Director of National Security Programs at the Nixon Center
- Douglas E. Lumpkin, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
- John E. McLaughlin, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, senior fellow at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and Brookings Institution
Law
- Gregory L. Frost, United States federal judge
- Peter S. Grosscup, Judge U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 1899–1911
- James G. Johnson, justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
- A. John Pelander, justice of the Arizona Supreme Court
- Augustus N. Summers, Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, 1904–1911
- Charles B. Zimmerman, Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, 1933 and 1934–1949
Military
- James M. Bell, (1837–1919), U.S. Army brigadier general
- Benjamin Thurman Hacker (1935–2003), U.S. Navy Officer, first Naval Flight Officer to achieve flag rank
- Edward Vollrath (attended 1879–1881), U.S. Army brigadier general
Nonprofits
- Sandra Postel, founder and director of the Global Water Policy Project, environmentalist and author.
- Jere Ratcliffe, Chief Scout Executive of Boy Scouts of America, from 1993 to 2000.
Politics
- Jennette Bradley, former Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and Ohio State Treasurer
- Albert Bryan, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
- Jonathan Howes (bachelor's degree 1959), mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Thomas D. Shepard, Los Angeles City Council member, 1961–67
- Sheila Simon, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
- Walter L. Weaver, U.S. Representative from Ohio
Sports
- Brian Agler, basketball coach, formerly the head coach of WNBA's Seattle Storm and Los Angeles Sparks. He now serves as Wittenberg's Athletic Director
- Al Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders NFL franchise, attended Wittenberg University but graduated from Syracuse University 1950
- Sandy Dukat, athlete
- Mark Henninger, football coach
- Taver Johnson, football coach
- Ron Lancaster, 4-time Grey Cup-winning CFL quarterback and coach, member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
- William C. Martin, University of Michigan athletic director, 2000–2009; founder, Bank of Ann Arbor; founder, First Martin Corp.; former president of the United States Olympic Committee
- Eldon Miller – former men's college basketball coach at Wittenberg University, Western Michigan University, Ohio State University, and the University of Northern Iowa
Science and medicine
- Paul Dressel (B.A. 1931), American educational psychologist
- Elwood V. Jensen, scientist
- David Ward King, inventor of the King Road Drag
- James Marcia, psychologist of identity development
- Waldo Nelson, pediatrician and author of the Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics
- Hugh M. Raup, botanist and ecologist
Writing and journalism
- Sherwood Anderson, writer
- Isaac Kaufmann Funk, editor, lexicographer, publisher; founder of Funk & Wagnalls Company publishing firm
- Minnie Willis Baines Miller (A.M.), author
References
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