# List of Wabash College people

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Wabash College.

## Alumni
### Academia

* George J. Graham, Jr., political theorist
* John S. Hougham, natural scientist and President, Purdue University, 1876
* William Parker McKee, President, Shimer College
* Stephen G. Miller, archaeologist
* Tom Ostrom, social psychologist
* Stephen H. Webb, theologian and philosopher of religion
* Jamie Bopp, Middle School Principal at Savannah Christian Preparatory School

### Business

* Robert Allen, former AT&T CEO
* David Broecker (born 1961), CEO of Alkermes and Indiana Biosciences Research Institute
* James Bert Garner, Head of the Chemistry Department, 1901–14; inventor of the gas mask used in World War I
* Brad Gerstner, founder of Altimeter Capital
* W. Paul Tippett Jr., former president of American Motors, Springs Industries, and STP

### Law

* Edward Daniels, co-founder of Baker & Daniels (now Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath)
* David E. Kendall, President Bill Clinton's attorney, known for a number of anti-death penalty cases

### Media and the arts

* Richard Elwell (R.E.) Banta - writer, rare book dealer, publisher and humorist
* Eric Daman, Emmy-winning costumer and fashion designer
* Silky Nutmeg Ganache, drag queen and competitor on RuPaul's Drag Race season 11 and All Stars
* Dean Jagger, Oscar-winning motion picture actor
* Kenyon Nicholson, Broadway playwright, screenwriter
* Byron Price, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (1944), director of the Office of Censorship
* Frank Reynolds, ABC World News Tonight anchor
* Lawrence Sanders, novelist
* Allen Saunders, cartoonist
* Dan Simmons, science fiction author, dedicated his novel Ilium to the college
* Lee Orean Smith (1874–1942), composer, arranger, music editor, publisher, music teacher, multi-instrumentalist, and conductor
* Sheldon Vanauken, author, confidante of C. S. Lewis

### Medicine

* Robert G. Roeder, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Biochemical and Molecular Biology at The Rockefeller University
* Emery Andrew Rovenstine, co-founder of the American Society of Anesthesiologists

### Military

* Major General Edward Canby, only United States general killed during the Indian Wars
* Major General Oscar R. Cauldwell, Marine Corps officer during World War II
* Brigadier General John Coburn, Civil War officer; accepted the surrender of Atlanta
* General Charles Cruft, Civil War officer
* Brigadier General Speed S. Fry, Civil War officer
* Lt. Gen. Charles D. Herron, United States Army
* Major General Lew Wallace, Civil War officer, statesman, and author of Ben-Hur

### Politics

* Jeremy Bird, National Field Organizer for Barack Obama's 2012 Campaign
* John C. Black, US Representative and Medal of Honor recipient
* Mike Braun, Governor of Indiana; United States Senator; former Indiana State Representative, District 63
* Kevin P. Chavous, Council of the District of Columbia Representative
* John Coburn, United States Representative from Indiana, Civil War Brigadier General
* Hiram Orlando Fairchild, speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Cleon H. Foust, Indiana Attorney General
* Stephen Goldsmith, Mayor of Indianapolis, Deputy Mayor of New York City
* Dwight Green, Governor of Illinois and Capone prosecutor
* Andrew Hamilton, United States Representative
* Bayless W. Hanna, Indiana Attorney General, United States Ambassador to Iran and United States Ambassador to Argentina
* Will Hays, postmaster general and film censor czar
* Randall Head, Indiana State Senator, District 18
* William A. Ketcham, Indiana Attorney General, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic
* Thomas Riley Marshall, twenty-eighth Vice-President of the United States (under Woodrow Wilson)
* Joseph E. McDonald, United States Representative and Senator
* Reginald Meeks, Kentucky State Representative
* Luke Messer, United States Representative
* Thomas MacDonald Patterson, United States Representative and Senator
* William Pittenger, United States Representative
* John Pope, Chicago alderman (10th ward)
* Todd Rokita, United States Representative, 44th Attorney General of Indiana
* Richard J. Stephenson, financier of conservative causes
* Reginald H. Sullivan, Mayor of Indianapolis
* Brent Waltz, Indiana State Senator, District 36
* Charles P. White, Indiana Secretary of State
* Raymond E. Willis, United States Senator
* Henry Lane Wilson, United States Ambassador to Mexico
* James Wilson, United States Representative from Indiana
* John L. Wilson, United States Representative and Senator
* William Allen Woods, federal judge and Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court

### Science

* Geoffrey W. Coates, polymer chemist
* Robert Dirks, computational chemist
* Watson McMillan "Mac" Laetsch, plant biologist

### Sports

* Knute Cauldwell, NFL player
* Bert Inks, coached the Wabash College Presbyterians in 1905
* Ward Lambert, college basketball coach
* Don Leppert, Major League Baseball player, homered in first at-bat, first position player All-Star in Washington-Texas franchise history
* Ward Meese, National Football League player
* Pete Metzelaars, National Football League all-time leader in games played by a tight end and four-time AFC champion
* Century Milstead, college football Hall of Famer
* William H. Spaulding, football head coach, University of Minnesota and UCLA
* Ed Summers, Major League Baseball player, pitched in Games 1 and 4 of 1908 World Series

## Faculty

* Andrea Chapdelaine, was on the faculty from 1993 to 1995. In 2024, she became president of Connecticut College.
* Garfield V. Cox, established the college's Department of Public Speaking in 1917
* Jeremy Hartnett, Anne and Andrew T. Ford Professor of the Liberal Arts
* William Placher, postliberal theologian, LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
* Ezra Pound (1885–1972), poet and critic; appointed chair of the Department of Romance Languages for the 1907–1908 academic year, but left in February after alleged sexual impropriety
* Benjamin Rogge, economist; taught at Wabash 1949–1980; dean of the college 1955–1964