33 Notable alumni of
Andrews University
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Andrews University is 1489th in the world, 528th in North America, and 496th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from Andrews University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Clifton Davis
- Occupations
- Christian ministertelevision actorcomedianactorstage actor
- Biography
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Clifton Duncan Davis is an American actor, singer, songwriter, minister, and author.
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Aung La Nsang
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fighter
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Aung La Maung Nsang is a Burmese-American mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to ONE Championship, where he competes in both the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions. He is a former ONE Middleweight and ONE Light Heavyweight World Champion, and was the second two-division champion in ONE history, having held both belts simultaneously.
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Patrick Allen
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- theologianpolitician
- Biography
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Sir Patrick Linton Allen is a Jamaican statesman and former Seventh-day Adventist pastor, who has served as the sixth and current governor-general of Jamaica since 26 February 2009.
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Wintley Phipps
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Wintley Augustus Phipps, Sr. is a Trinidadian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, minister, and founder of the U.S. Dream Academy, Songs of Freedom Publishing Company, and Coral Records Recording Company. He features a booming bass-baritone voice, usually singing inspirational gospel music. He is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister.
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Surangel Whipps Jr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Surangel S. Whipps Jr. is a Palauan businessman and politician, who has served as the president of Palau since 2021. He served as senator from 2008 to 2016. He is from Ngatpang state, Republic of Palau. Whipps assumed office as the President of Palau on 21 January 2021.
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Barry Black
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- chaplainSeventh-day Adventist ministermilitary officer
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Barry Clayton Black is the 62nd chaplain of the United States Senate. He began serving as Senate chaplain on June 27, 2003, becoming the first African American and first Seventh-day Adventist to hold the office.
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Ted N. C. Wilson
- Enrolled in Andrews University
- Graduated with Master of Divinity
- Occupations
- theologianSeventh-day Adventist ministerpastor
- Biography
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Theodore Norman Clair "Ted N. C." Wilson is a Pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and currently serves as the President of the General Conference, the governing organization of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, for the period 2010-2015, and was reelected for the period 2015-2020. During the 61st World Congress of Adventists on June 6, 2022, he was once again elected as president a term that would extend until the year 2025 (up to the next World Congress). He was chosen as one of the General Vice Presidents of the Adventist Church in 2000 during the General Conference Session in Toronto. His 36 years of denominational service include administrative and executive roles in the Mid-Atlantic United States, Africa, and Russia. Wilson is the son of former General Conference President Neal C. Wilson, who served in the position from 1979 to 1990.
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Gary Hamel
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- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- economistbusinessperson
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Gary P. Hamel is an American management consultant. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago.
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Melba Phillips
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- physicistwriternuclear physicistuniversity teacher
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Melba Newell Phillips was an American physicist and a pioneer science educator. One of the first doctoral students of J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley, Phillips completed her PhD in 1933, a time when few women could pursue careers in science. In 1935, Oppenheimer and Phillips published their description of the Oppenheimer–Phillips process, an early contribution to nuclear physics that explained the behavior of accelerated nuclei of radioactive hydrogen atoms. Phillips was also known for her refusal to cooperate with a U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee's investigation on internal security during the McCarthy era which led to her dismissal from her professorship at Brooklyn College, where she was a professor of science from 1938 until 1952. (The college publicly and personally apologized to Phillips for the dismissal in 1987.)
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John D. Waihee III
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- politicianlobbyistlawyer
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John David Waiheʻe III is an American politician who served as the fourth governor of Hawaii from 1986 to 1994. He was the first American of Native Hawaiian descent to be elected to the office from any state of the United States. After his tenure in the governor's office, Waiheʻe became a nationally prominent attorney and lobbyist.
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George McCready Price
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- geologistlecturerwriter
- Biography
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George McCready Price was a Canadian creationist. He produced several anti-evolution and creationist works, particularly on the subject of flood geology. His views did not become common among creationists until after his death, particularly with the modern creation science movement starting in the 1960s.
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Stewart W. Bainum, Jr
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- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Stewart W. Bainum Jr. is an American businessman and politician. Bainum is chairman of Choice Hotels International, Inc. Since the 1980s, Bainum has led businesses including four current or former publicly listed companies: Choice Hotels; HCR Manor Care, which operates nursing and assisted living facilities; Vitalink Pharmacy Services; and Sunburst Hospitality.
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Michael D. West
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Michael D. West is an American biogerontologist, and a pioneer in stem cells, cellular aging and telomerase. He is the founder and CEO of AgeX Therapeutics, a startup focused on the field of experimental gerontology.
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Mathew D. Staver
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- pastorlawyeractivist
- Biography
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Mathew D. "Mat" Staver is an American lawyer and former pastor of several Seventh-day Adventist churches who became a Southern Baptist. He is a former dean of Liberty University's law school. In 1989, he founded the nonprofit organization Liberty Counsel, where he serves as chairman. ProPublica called him "a leading Christian legal theorist."
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Jan Paulsen
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- theologianSeventh-day Adventist minister
- Biography
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Dr. Jan Paulsen is a Seventh-day Adventist Church leader. Paulsen has served in Africa, Europe and America. He was president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from March 1999 to June 2010.
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Neal C. Wilson
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- Seventh-day Adventist minister
- Biography
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Neal Clayton Wilson served as the president of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1979 to 1990. Wilson was head of the North American Division when elected on January 3, 1979, to take the place of the ailing former General Conference president Robert Pierson, who had resigned for reasons of health.
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Shirley Neil Pettis
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Shirley Neil Pettis was an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California between 1975 and 1979. She was first elected to fill the seat after her husband, Jerry Pettis, died in office.
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Ellet J. Waggoner
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- theologian
- Biography
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Ellet Joseph "E.J." Waggoner was a Seventh-day Adventist particularly known for his impact on the theology of the church, along with friend and associate Alonzo T. Jones at the 1888 Minneapolis General Conference Session. At the meeting of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Ellet J. Waggoner along with Alonzo T. Jones presented a message on justification supported by Ellen G. White, but resisted by church leaders such as G. I. Butler and others. He supported theological issues such as the meaning of "righteousness by faith", the nature of the Godhead, the relationship between law and grace, and Justification and its relationship to Sanctification.
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Robert S. Folkenberg
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- pastor
- Biography
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Robert Stanley Folkenberg was an American pastor who served as General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1990 through to his resignation in 1999. His tenure was marked by an unprecedented growth in church membership and his “Global Mission initiative” in the Adventist Church. After his resignation to the President position he worked within the laity of the church through worldwide programs through ShareHim/Global Evangelism.
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John C. Sheehan
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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John Clark Sheehan was an American organic chemist whose work on synthetic penicillin led to tailor-made forms of the drug. After nine years of hard work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), he became the first to discover a practical method for synthesizing penicillin V. While achieving total synthesis, Sheehan also produced an intermediate compound, 6-aminopenicillanic acid, which turned out to be the foundation of hundreds of kinds of synthetic penicillin. Dr. Sheehan's research on synthetic penicillin paved the way for the development of customized forms of the lifesaving antibiotic that target specific bacteria. Over the four decades he worked at M.I.T., Sheehan came to hold over 30 patents, including the invention of ampicillin, a commonly used semi-synthetic penicillin that is taken orally rather than by injection. His research covered not only penicillin, but also peptides, other antibiotics, alkaloids, and steroids.
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A. G. Daniells
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- Seventh-day Adventist minister
- Biography
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Arthur Grosvenor Daniells was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator, most notably the longest serving president of the General Conference. He began to work for the church in Texas in 1878 with Robert M. Kilgore and also served as secretary to James and Ellen White for one year, and later worked as an evangelist. In 1886, he was called to New Zealand, and was one of the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific. Daniells had astounding success through his dynamic preaching and on October 15, 1887, he opened the first Seventh-day Adventist church in New Zealand at Ponsonby. While there he served as president of the New Zealand Conference (1889 to 1891), and of the Australia Conference (1892 to 1895). Later, he became the president of the Australasia Union Conference before becoming president of the General Conference in 1901 and served as president until 1922.
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Delbert Baker
- Enrolled in Andrews University
- Graduated with Master of Divinity
- Occupations
- writerSeventh-day Adventist minister
- Biography
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Delbert W. Baker is a Seventh-day Adventist minister, author, educator, and administrator. Formerly the tenth president of Oakwood University and a vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (2010–2015), Baker is currently the vice chancellor of the Adventist University of Africa.
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Ole A. Olsen
- Occupations
- Seventh-day Adventist minister
- Biography
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Ole Andres Olsen was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator. He was General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist church organization globally from 1888 to 1897.
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Karl Rhoads
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- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Karl A. Rhoads is an American politician, lawyer and a Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate since 2016 representing District 13. Rhoads previously served consecutively from 2012 to 2016 representing District 29 in the Hawaii House of Representatives and from November 2006 to 2012 in the District 28 seat.
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Lynne Waihee
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- politician
- Biography
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Lynne Kobashigawa Waihee was First Lady of Hawaii from 1986 to 1994. Born in Hawaii and married to the first Native Hawaiian governor of the state, she was raised in Kalihi. Educated at Andrews University, her first vocation was teaching. She used her position as first lady to raise the standard of children's literacy in Hawaii. She helped found a children's museum and was a role model for volunteer service in the community, instituting the First Lady's Outstanding Volunteers Program.
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Leslie Pollard
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- religious servant
- Biography
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Leslie N. Pollard is a Seventh-day Adventist minister, author, and administrator. Since 2011 he has served as the eleventh president of Oakwood University, the church's sole HBCU.
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Jon Dybdahl
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- writer
- Biography
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Jon L. Dybdahl is a professor of theology and a college administrator. Inaugurated in 2002, he is the immediate past president of Walla Walla University in College Place, Washington. In 2006, he announced his retirement from that position, effective the end of the 2005–2006 academic year.
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John Leonora
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- 1928-2006 (aged 78)
- Biography
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John Leonora was an endocrinologist and faculty member at Loma Linda University. His research focused on the role of hypothalamic "factors" for indirectly controlling the metabolism of such avascular tissues as dental enamel, dentin, and the Islands of Langerhans (pancreas).
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Lloyd J. Richardson
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- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lloyd Josiah Richardson is a Sint Maarten politician of the United People's Party (UPP). He has been a member of Parliament since 10 October 2010, serving as President of Parliament from 1 December 2014 to 12 October 2015.
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Ella Simmons
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United States - Occupations
- officialeducator
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Ella Simmons is a Seventh-day Adventist administrator and educator. As the only woman to be a vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, she is the highest ranking female official in the history of the denomination, with the exception of three woman treasurers in the pioneer era.
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David Hegarty
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- composerorganistkeyboardist
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David Howard Hegarty is an American organist and composer. He has served as organist at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco since 1978.
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Karen Osborn
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Enrolled in Andrews University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in zoology
- Occupations
- marine biologistcuratorannelidologist
- Biography
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Karen Joyce Osborn is a marine scientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology department. She is known for her work in marine biology specializing in mid-water invertebrates.
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Beryl Esembe
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- sociologistanthropologistphilanthropist
- Biography
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Beryl-Adolphs Nalowa Esembe is a Cameroonian sociologist and anthropologist. She was trained in Cyprus by the present anti-Human trafficking coordinator for the European Commission. She is the author of the book Because I am a Foreigner - Migrant Women In Cyprus Speak Out, the first book published about human trafficking in the Republic of Cyprus. She is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian. She is also the author of How Do You Burn? God Answers Wen We Call. The Intercessors' Regalia. and the most recent controversial book, The Book After Revelations - The You Testament.
