# 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

* Ben J. Phalen, Salesman at Google responsible for introducing 'Buffalo' to the company
* 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
* Amanda Knerr,Ph.D. (bachelor's degree), student affairs expert and co-author of The Curricular Approach to Student Affairs: A revolutionary shift for learning beyond the classroom

## 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
* Robert C. Henry, first African-American mayor in Ohio
* 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
* Mary Miller Johnston, judge, Superior Court of Delaware, 2003-2024
* A. John Pelander, justice of the Arizona Supreme Court
* Augustus N. Summers, Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, 1904–1911
* Shelice Tolbert, attorney in Indiana
* 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
* David W. Hertzog, scientist
* 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
* Brandy Schillace, writer