List of Butler University alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Art and architecture 

 India Crago Harris, president of the Art Association of Indianapolis (now the Indianapolis Museum of Art)
 Mattie Lietz, painter
 Avriel Shull, architectural designer and interior decorator

Business 

 Barry Fromm, Chairman of Value Recovery Group LLC, Ohio Railcar Group, LLC, and Value Recovery Holding, LLC
 Henry Kahn, founder of the Kahn Tailoring Company
 Chris Kirchner, co-founder and former CEO of logistics company Slync.io

Education 

 Cleo W. Blackburn, CEO of The Fundamental Board of Education
 Hallie Beachem Brooks, professor of library science at Atlanta University
 Jennifer Conrad, an economist currently the Dalton McMichael Distinguished Professor of Finance at Kenan-Flagler Business School
 William G. Dever, archaeologist, Biblical scholar, theologian, and professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Lycoming College
 J. Gordon Edwards, entomologist and professor of entomology at San Jose State University for 40 years
 Edward Ezell, author and professor who served as National Firearms Collection curator at the National Museum of American History
 Flora Frick, chair of the women's physical education department at Moorhead State Teachers College 
 Katharine Merrill Graydon, classical scholar and college professor of English literature 
 Jane Halonen, educational psychologist and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of psychology at the University of West Florida 
 Elmer George Homrighausen, professor and dean at Princeton Theological Seminary 
 Frank Hoppensteadt, mathematician and research professor at New York University's Courant Institute 
 David Starr Jordan, president of Indiana University and first president of Stanford University 
 Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little, educator and the primary founder of the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority 
 Michael Calvin McGee, rhetorical theorist and professor 
 Catherine McGeoch, computer scientist specializing in empirical algorithmics and Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College 
 John S. Schuchman, educator and academic administrator who taught at Gallaudet University 
 Emma Lou Thornbrough, pioneer in African-American history and professor of history at Butler University 
 Ivory Lee Toldson, psychologist and professor at Temple University and Southern University 
 Victor C. Twitty, biologist, embryologist, and chair of the biological sciences department at Stanford University 
 William Ayres Ward, Egyptologist and professor at Beirut College for Women, the American University of Beirut, and Brown University 
 Earl Irvin West, historian of the Restoration Movement and professor of church history at Harding Graduate School of Religion (now Harding School of Theology)

Entertainment 

 Ross Barbour, singer and founding member of Four Freshmen singing group
 Kevin Calabro, play-by-play announcer in basketball and Seattle sports radio host
 Lamar Campbell, gospel musician who created the group Spirit of Praise 
 David Clarke, Broadway and motion picture actor
 George Daugherty, conductor of major American and international symphony orchestras; Emmy winner and 5-time Emmy nominee
 Todd Duncan, baritone opera singer and actor
 Sharon Everitt, film and television director, producer, and editor
 Frank Felice, composer of contemporary classical music and associate professor of composition, theory, and electronic music in the Jordan College of Arts at Butler University
 Luke Flynn, composer
 Brandon Gaudin, television broadcaster for Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast's coverage of the Atlanta Braves baseball
 Bill Hazen, basketball sportscaster and syndicated radio host
 Freddie Hubbard, trumpeter and composer
 Janet Langhart, television journalist and anchor, and author
 Michael Leckrone, director of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band from 1969 to 2019
 Peter Lupus, television actor and bodybuilder
 Corey McPherrin, former evening news anchor for WFLD-TV in Chicago
 John Minko, sports radio and television personality
 Marilyn Mitzel, television reporter and news anchor
 Michael Murray, organist
 Johann Sebastian Paetsch, musician and cellist
 Cassie Pappas, television writer, screenwriter and playwright
 Rebecca Paul, Tennessee Lottery president and CEO, former Florida Lottery secretary, former Georgia Lottery secretary, and Miss Indiana 1972
 Randall Scotting, opera countertenor
 Steve Sledje, singer-songwriter and guitarist of the death metal band Hellstrum
 Jay Stewart,television and radio announcer known primarily for his work on game shows such as Let's Make a Deal
 Joshua Lee Turner, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
 Maurine Dallas Watkins, screenwriter and playwright who wrote Chicago
 Bill Weber, former television sports commentator best known for his work on TNT and NBC NASCAR broadcasts

Law 

John V. Hadley, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court and member of the Indiana Senate
 Lawson Harvey, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
 Jane Magnus-Stinson, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
 John Morton-Finney, civil rights activist and lawyer
 Quincy Alden Myers, justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
 Linley E. Pearson, 37th Indiana Attorney General
 Allen Sharp, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Literature or journalist 

 Ken Brewer, poet, scholar, and Poet Laureate of Utah
 Clotilde Betances Jaeger, feminist writer and journalist
 Grace Julian Clarke, author, journalist, and women's suffrage activist
 Richard N. Côté, author, social historian, and lecturer
 Alice Friman, poet, professor emerita at the University of Indianapolis, and former poet-in-residence at Georgia College & State University
 William Gaines, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune and professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
 Maurice Kenny, poet 
 Mark Kurlansky, journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction books, 
 Elizabeth Miller, novelist
 James Alexander Thom, author, best known for his works in the Western genre
 Wendi C. Thomas, investigative journalist and founder of MLK50
 Gayle Thornbrough, editor and director of publications and library of the Indiana Historical Society
 William Tobin, newspaper journalist, reporter, editor, and correspondent for The Associated Press
 Maurine Dallas Watkins, journalist, playwright; author of play Chicago
 J. N. Williamson, horror writer and editor
 Marguerite Young, novelist and editor

Military 
 Woodrow A. Abbott, United States Air Force brigadier general who served as director of intelligence and inspector general of the U.S. Readiness Command
 Alfred Ahner, Indiana National Guard officer who served for 15 years as the state's Adjutant General
 Alberto Díaz Jr., U.S. Navy Admiral
 Elna Jane Hilliard Grahn, commander in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and later the Women's Army Corps during World War II
 Elaine C. Wagner, Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and 36th Chief of the United States Navy Dental Corps

Politics 
 Terri Austin, member of the Indiana House of Representatives
 Steve Bennett, member of the California State Assembly
 Virginia Murphy Blankenbaker, former member of the Indiana State Senate 
 James Brainard, mayor of Carmel, Indiana
 William E. English, U.S. Representative from Indiana
 David W. Evans, U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1975 to 1983
 John Fogg, mayor of Pensacola, Florida
 John V. Hadley, member of the Indiana Senate and justice of the Indiana Supreme Court 
 Addison C. Harris, member of the Indiana Senate and U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (ambassador) to Austria-Hungary
 Joe Hogsett, 49th mayor of Indianapolis, Secretary of State of Indiana, and United States attorney for the Southern District of Indiana 
 O. P. Hubbard, president and member of the Alaska Senate
 Edward H. Kruse, U.S. Representative from Indiana
 Justin Moed, member of the Indiana House of Representatives
 Nyla Murphy, Wyoming House of Representatives
 Harry S. New, U.S. Senator from Indiana and United States Postmaster General
 Karen Pence, former Second Lady of the United States and first lady of Indiana
 Jerome Reppa, former member of the Indiana House of Representatives
 Richard Roudebush, former U.S. Representative from Indiana
 George Ryan, former Illinois governor
 Bruce Charles Savage, Commissioner of the United States Public Housing Administration (now United States Department of Housing and Urban Development)
 Hal Slager, member of the Indiana House of Representatives
 Raymond S. Springer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana

Religion 
 Robert W. Funk, biblical scholar, founder of the Jesus Seminar and the nonprofit Westar Institute in Santa Rosa, California
 Gerald Andrew Gettelfinger, prelate of the Roman Catholic church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Evansville
 Job Harriman, minister who later became an agnostic and a socialist
 Jim Jones, a preacher who led the Peoples Temple and cult leader who ordered a mass suicide and mass murder of 918 commune members in 1978
 S. U. Hastings, first Jamaican national consecrated as a bishop of the Moravian Church
 Donald McGavran, missiologist and founding Dean of the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary

Social services and nonprofit 
Louise Terry Batties, executive director of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA in Indianapolis
 Talitha Gerlach, YWCA worker who spent most of her life as a social worker in Shanghai, China
 Diane Meyer Simon, environmental activist, founder and leader of Global Green USA

Science and medicine 
 Murge Fries, Pediatric Audiologist at Center for Neuroscience in Tucson, Arizona

Leroy Edgar Burney, physician and eighth Surgeon General of the United States
Stanley A. Cain, botanist, plant ecologist, and college professor
 Arthur C. Cope, chemist and originator of the Cope reaction and Cope rearrangement
 Howard A. Howe, polio researcher
 Robert M. Jacobson, chair of pediatrics at Mayo Clinic and medical director of the Population Health Science Program of the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.
 Charles McKay, naturalist, explorer, and collector for the Smithsonian Institution
 Stewart Springer, ichthyologist and herpetologist

Sports

Baseball 
 Jeff Albert, professional baseball coach
 Radley Haddad, professional baseball coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates
 Jack Hendricks, professional baseball player and manager
 Oral Hildebrand, professional baseball player with the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, and New York Yankees
 Dan Johnson, professional baseball player
 Doug Jones, professional baseball player
 Pat Neshek, professional baseball player
 Ryan Pepiot, professional baseball pitcher
 Eric Stout, professional baseball player
 G. Cullen Thomas, head baseball, basketball, and football coach at Butler University

Basketball 
Darin Archbold, college basketball player
Scott Armstrong, professional basketball player
Frank Baird, professional basketball player with the National Basketball League
Kamar Baldwin, professional basketball player
Rotnei Clarke, professional basketball player
 Barry S. Collier, Butler University athletic director and former head basketball coach at Butler and University of Nebraska
 Bob Dietz, professional basketball player
 Scott Drew, Baylor University men's basketball coach
 Kellen Dunham, professional basketball player
 Norm Ellenberger, head basketball coach at the University of New Mexico
 Bob Evans, professional basketball player
 Darrin Fitzgerald, college basketball player
 A. J. Graves, professional basketball player
 Matthew Graves, former head basketball coach at the University of South Alabama
 Mike Green, professional basketball player
 Jermaine Guice, professional basketball player
 Rylan Hainje, professional basketball player
 Chuck Harris, college basketball player
 Gordon Hayward, professional basketball player and professional e-sports athlete
 Matt Howard, professional basketball player
 Thomas Jackson, professional basketball coach and player
 Roosevelt Jones, professional basketball coach and former player
 LaVall Jordan, college basketball coach
 Todd Lickliter, former college basketball coach
 Shelvin Mack, professional basketball player
 Kelan Martin, professional basketball player
 Thad Matta, former Ohio State University men's basketball head coach and current Butler basketball head coach
 Sean McDermott, professional basketball player
 Brandon Miller, college basketball coach
 Lyle Neat, professional basketball player
 Jon Neuhouser, college basketball player
 Ronald Nored, assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks and former head coach of the NBA D-League Long Island Nets
 Woody Norris, professional basketball player
 Bob Nulf, college football and basketball coach
 Ralph O'Brien, professional basketball player
 Bobby Plump, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, and hero of the 1954 Milan High School team whose story provided the basis for the 1986 film Hoosiers
 Brandon Polk, professional basketball player
 Cy Proffitt, professional basketball player
 Kethan Savage, professional basketball player
 Wilbur Schumacher, professional basketball player
 Billy Shepherd, college basketball player
 Andrew Smith, college basketball player
 Derrik Smits, college basketball player
 Travis Steele, college basketball coach
 Jerry Steiner, professional basketball player
 Jordan Tucker, professional basketball player
 Rolf van Rijn, professional basketball player
 Shawn Vanzant, college basketball coach and former professional basketball player
 Kameron Woods, professional basketball coach and player

Football 
Bob Bartolomeo, college football coach
Phil Brown, college football coach
Babe Dimancheff, professional football player
David Elson, head football coach at Western Kentucky University
Stephen Fickert, college and indoor professional football coach
Hal Griggs, professional football player
Frank Hedden, head football coach at the Butler University
Curly Hinchman, professional football player
Joe Kodba, professional football player
 Ken LaRose, head football coach and athletic director for development as Butler University
 Bill Lynch, head football coach at DePauw University and Indiana University Bloomington
 Arnold Mickens, professional football player
 Robert L. Nipper, head football coach at DePauw University
 Chris Salvi, professional football player
 Matthew Shiltz, gridiron football player with the Canadian Football League
 Bill Sylvester, head football coach and athletic director at Butler University
 Garo Yepremian, Miami Dolphins placekicker

Lacrosse 
 Mike Regan, professional lacrosse player with National Lacrosse League and Major League Lacrosse
 Ryan Ward, professional lacrosse player in the National Lacrosse League
 Tyler Wideman, professional basketball player in the Israeli National League

Racing 
 Ed Carpenter, IndyCar Series driver
 Sarah Fisher, retired professional race car driver who competed in the Indy Racing League

Soccer 
 Jeremy Aldrich, professional soccer player with Major League Soccer
Stephen Armstrong, professional soccer player
Jordan Burt, professional soccer player
Wilmer Cabrera Jr., professional soccer player
Julian Cardona, professional soccer player
Eric Dick, professional soccer player
Brandon Fricke, professional soccer player
 David Goldsmith, soccer player and assistant coach for college soccer
 Matt Hedges, professional soccer player
 Alex Lehtinen, professional soccer player
 Eric Leonard, professional soccer player
 Paige Monaghan, professional soccer player who plays for Racing Louisville FC in the National Women's Soccer League
 Zach Steinberger, professional soccer player
 Casey Sweeney, professional soccer player in the USISL
 Jared Timmer, professional soccer player

Track and field 
 Callum Hawkins, distance runner who competed in the marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics
 Becky Lyne, middle-distance runner
 Victoria Mitchell, long-distance runner
 Scott Overall, track and field Olympic athlete

Other 
 Peter Kassig, aid worker taken hostage and ultimately beheaded by The Islamic State
 Madge Oberholtzer, Indiana state employee whose death at the hands of D.C. Stephenson hastened the demise of the Ku Klux Klan in the state

References 

Butler University