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

 * 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

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
 * 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
 * A. John Pelander, justice of the Arizona Supreme Court
 * Augustus N. Summers, Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, 1904–1911
 * 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
 * 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