# List of faculty and alumni of Fairmont State University

This is a list of notable people associated with Fairmont State University in Fairmont, West Virginia, United States.

## Faculty
### Administration

* Janet Dudley-Eshbach, former president
* Stacey Franklin Jones, vice president
* Luella Mundel, former head of the art department
* Joseph Rosier, former president

### Academics

* Gayle Conelly Manchin, faculty member
* Louise McNeill, former professor
* Ruth Ann Musick, former professor, noted folklorist and author
* Beulah Boyd Ritchie, former professor, a founding member of the Fairmont Woman Suffrage Club (later the Fairmont Political Equality Club)

### Athletics
#### Basketball

* Jerrod Calhoun, former head basketball coach
* Jasper Colebank, former head basketball coach and athletic director
* Joe Mazzulla, former assistant basketball coach
* Squibb Wilson, former assistant basketball coach and athletic director

#### Football

* Ty Clarke, former head football coach
* Mike Compton, former offensive line coach
* Jovan Dewitt, former running back coach
* Travis Everhart, former offensive line coach

## Alumni
### Athletics
#### Basketball

* Taiwo Badmus, small forward for Valur
* Stevie Browning, former shooting guard for Ovarense Basquetebol
* Shawn Finney, former head coach of Tulane Green Wave men's basketball
* Leroy Loggins, American professional basketball player in Australia
* Thad McFadden, point guard for Basket Zaragoza
* Jamel Morris, shooting guard for Élan Chalon
* RJ Sunahara, former college basketball player under Joe Mazzulla

#### Football

* Harold "Deacon" Duvall, former head coach for Fairmont State Fighting Falcons
* C. J. Goodwin, cornerback for Dallas Cowboys
* Fabian Guerra, wide receiver for San Antonio Gunslingers
* Ed Hodgkiss, former head coach for Los Angeles Avengers, former offensive coordinator for Indiana Firebirds
* Mike Kellar, football head coach for Glenville State Pioneers, former for Lenoir–Rhyne Bears football and Concord Mountain Lions
* Jim Lipinski, former defensive lineman for Calgary Stampeders
* Dewey McDonald, former NFL linebacker for Seattle Seahawks
* Jim Mertens, former American Football League wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins
* Don Overton, former NFL running back for Detroit Lions
* Jacob Owens, former NFL defensive lineman for New York Jets
* Bill Stewart, former head football coach at West Virginia University
* Luc Tousignant, former NFL quarterback for Buffalo Bills
* Jason Woodman, football head coach for Morehead State
* Fielding H. Yost, former football head coach for Michigan Wolverines football, Kansas Jayhawks football, Nebraska Cornhuskers football, and Stanford Cardinal football
* Chandler Zavala, NFL guard for Carolina Panthers

#### Other

* Perry Baker, current U.S. international rugby sevens player and two-time World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year

### Entertainment

* Luke Gallows, former WWE wrestler
* Guy McElroy, African-American art historian and curator, known for the major exhibition titled Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940
* Herbert Morrison, radio reporter whose voice is heard in the footage of the Hindenburg Disaster

### Politics

* Robert E. Lee Allen, former US representative for West Virginia
* William O. Atkeson, former US representative for Missouri
* Bob Beach, former member of West Virginia Senate and West Virginia House of Delegates
* Wendell R. Beitzel, member of Maryland House of Delegates
* Belinda Biafore, former chair of West Virginia Democratic Party
* Larry J. Edgell, former member of West Virginia Senate
* George C. Edwards, member of Maryland State Senate
* Danny Hamrick, former member of West Virginia House of Delegates
* Frank Cruise Haymond, former Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
* Richard Iaquinta, former member of West Virginia House of Delegates
* David Koon, former member of New York State Assembly
* Thomas Demetrios Lambros, former chief judge of United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
* Linda Longstreth, former member of West Virginia House of Delegates
* Ephraim F. Morgan, former governor of West Virginia
* Alberta Ramage Neely, former first lady of West Virginia
* Jack Robert Nuzum, former circuit judge of Randolph County, West Virginia
* Stuart F. Reed, former US representative, West Virginia Senate, and Secretary of State of West Virginia
* Thomas S. Riley, former Attorney General of West Virginia
* Ira E. Robinson, former West Virginia politician and judge, first chairman of the Federal Radio Commission
* Roxann Robinson, former member of Virginia House of Delegates
* James Shaner, former member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
* Charles Sheedy, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
* John Taylor, former member of Iowa Senate
* Ryan Weld, Majority Whip of the West Virginia Senate
* Bob Williams, former member of West Virginia Senate
* John M. Wolverton, former US representative for West Virginia

### Other

* William Jaco, mathematician who is known for his role in the Jaco–Shalen–Johannson decomposition theorem and efficient triangulations of 3-manifolds
* Mark Manchin, former president of Glenville State University
* Howard Llewellyn Swisher, former, businessperson, real estate developer, orchardist, editor, writer, and historian