List of Wabash College people

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

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

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

 * 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, 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

 * 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), pet 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