38 Notable alumni of
Baldwin Wallace University
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Baldwin Wallace University is 1502nd in the world, 519th in North America, and 487th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 38 notable alumni from Baldwin Wallace 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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Jim Tressel
- Occupations
- head coachAmerican football playerpolitician
- Biography
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James Patrick Tressel is an American politician and retired college football coach who has served as the 67th lieutenant governor of Ohio since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, Tressel previously was the president of Youngstown State University from 2014 to 2023. Before entering higher education administration and public office, Tressel was the head football coach of the Youngstown State Penguins and later the Ohio State Buckeyes from 1986 to 2010. His teams won five national championships (four with YSU during the 1990s, and one with OSU in 2002), earning him multiple Coach of the Year accolades and induction into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Ciara Renée
- Enrolled in Baldwin Wallace University
- In 2013 studied musical theater
- Occupations
- television actorstage actoractormusician
- Biography
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Ciara Renée Harper is an American actress and musician. She is best known for her roles on Broadway as The Witch in Big Fish, the Leading Player in Pippin, Jenna in Waitress, and Elsa in Frozen. She played Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Playhouse and La Jolla Playhouse. In 2015, she guest starred as Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl in episodes of CW series Arrow and The Flash, before reprising the role in the main cast for the first season of the associated series DC's Legends of Tomorrow, from its premiere in 2016. Her vocal type is mezzo-soprano.
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David Ferrie
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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David William Ferrie was an American pilot and anti-communist activist who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Garrison also alleged that Ferrie knew Lee Harvey Oswald. Ferrie denied any involvement in a conspiracy and said he never knew Oswald. Decades later, photos emerged establishing that Ferrie had been in the same Civil Air Patrol unit as Oswald in the 1950s, but critics have argued this does not prove that either Ferrie or Oswald was involved in an assassination plot.
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Claudia Jordan
- Occupations
- modeltelevision actorbeauty pageant contestantactorfilm actor
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Claudia Angela Jordan is an American talk show host, actress, model, businesswoman, and reality television and radio personality. She is known for appearing as a model on the American version of Deal or No Deal and The Price Is Right, and for competing on seasons 2 and 6 of The Celebrity Apprentice as well as the first season of Deal or No Deal Island. Jordan appeared on the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of Atlanta for its seventh season.
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Colton Ryan
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- actortelevision actorfilm actorstage actormusician
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Colton Ryan is an American actor and singer. He is known for his performance as Conrad Roy in Hulu's miniseries, The Girl from Plainville (2022), for which he garnered critical acclaim, and for playing Connor Murphy, a role which he understudied in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen and reprised in the 2021 film adaptation. He is also known for playing the main role of Samuel on the Apple TV+ series Little Voice and originating the roles of Gene Laine in Girl from the North Country and Jim Doyle in New York, New York, the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.
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Amber Lee Connors
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- screenwriterfilm directorwriteraudiobook narratorvoice actor
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Amber Lee Connors is an American voice actress, dubbing director, and line producer who has provided voices for English dubbed Japanese anime and video games. She is known for her roles as Nozomi Kaminashi from Keijo!!!!!!!!, Miki Kawai from A Silent Voice, Takami Karibuchi from Brave Witches, Akane Hiyama from Love Tyrant, Juri Yukawa from Kokkoku: Moment by Moment, Esther Rosenthal from A Certain Scientific Accelerator, Komi Shoko from Komi Can't Communicate, Yuri Shiraki from Lord of Vermilion: The Crimson King, Mai Kawakami from Myriad Colors Phantom World, Akagi from Azur Lane, Ooi from Kancolle, Ayano Hanasaki from Hanebado!, Pieck from Attack on Titan, Lucinia Porter from Meta Runner, Megakaryocyte from Cells at Work!, Mei Aihara from Citrus, Crimson Roselia and Shirley Orlando in The Legend of Heroes, Trails of Cold Steel series, and Furina from Genshin Impact. Connors is also the founder of post-production company Sound Cadence Studios.
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James Lawson
- Enrolled in Baldwin Wallace University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- pastorhuman rights defendermissionaryuniversity teacher
- Biography
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James Morris Lawson Jr. was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was expelled from Vanderbilt University for his civil rights activism in 1960, and later served as a pastor in Los Angeles for 25 years.
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George Buza
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- voice actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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George Buza Jr. is an American-Canadian actor who is best known for voicing Beast in X-Men: The Animated Series and X-Men '97.
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Bud Collins
- Enrolled in Baldwin Wallace University
- Studied in 1951
- Occupations
- tennis playerwritersports journalistnon-fiction writertennis coach
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Arthur Worth "Bud" Collins Jr. was an American journalist and television sportscaster, best known for his tennis commentary. Collins was married to photographer Anita Ruthling Klaussen.
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George W. Norris
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
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George William Norris was a progressive American politician from Nebraska. He served in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1903 to 1913, and in the United States Senate from 1913 to 1943. He became an Independent in 1936. Norris was chairman of the Senate's Judiciary Committee and Agriculture and Forestry Committee.
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Kshitij Thakur
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kshitij Hitendra Thakur is an Indian politician, who served as a Member of Legislative Assembly from Bahujan Vikas Aghadi representing Nalasopara constituency in the Maharashtra State Assembly, from 2009-2024..
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Harrison Dillard
- Occupations
- athletics competitorsprinter
- Biography
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William Harrison "Bones" Dillard was an American track and field athlete, who is the only male in the history of the Olympic Games to win gold in both the 100 meter (sprints) and the 110 meter hurdles, making him the “World’s Fastest Man” in 1948 and the “World’s Fastest Hurdler” in 1952.
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Curt Miller
- Occupations
- head coachbasketball coach
- Biography
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Curt Miller is an American basketball executive and coach who is the Executive Vice-President and General Manager of the Dallas Wings of the WNBA. He most recently served as the head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks from 2023–2024. Other previous head coaching positions include the Connecticut Sun (2016–2022), Bowling Green State University (2001–2012), and Indiana University (2012–2014). Miller also served as an assistant coach to Brian Agler with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2015.
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Peter V. Neffenger
- Enrolled in Baldwin Wallace University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Peter Vance Neffenger is a retired United States Coast Guard vice admiral and public servant who served as Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration from July 2015 to January 20, 2017.
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Scott Shafer
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- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Scott Shafer is an American football coach and former player. He served as the defensive coordinator for the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders until the 2023 season. Previously, he served as the head coach at Syracuse University until November 2015.
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Robert F. Overmyer
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- military flight engineerastronautmilitary officeraircraft pilot
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Robert Franklyn Overmyer was an American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer, and USAF/NASA astronaut. Overmyer was selected by the Air Force as an astronaut for its Manned Orbiting Laboratory in 1966. Upon cancellation of the program in 1969, he became a NASA astronaut and served support crew duties for the Apollo program, Skylab program, and Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. In 1976, he was assigned to the Space Shuttle program and flew as pilot on STS-5 in 1982 and as commander on STS-51-B in 1985. He was selected as a lead investigator into the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, retiring from NASA that same year. A decade later, Overmyer died while testing the Cirrus VK-30 homebuilt aircraft.
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Matt Underwood
- Occupations
- sports journalist
- Biography
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Matt Underwood is an American sportscaster currently serving as the television play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball.
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Kyle Boddy
- Occupations
- athletetrainer
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Kyle Boddy is an American baseball pitching trainer and consultant. He is the founder and owner of the baseball performance training system Driveline Baseball, which uses a sabermetric approach to increase pitching velocity and improve conditioning.
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Martin L. Sweeney
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- peace activistlawyerjudgepolitician
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Martin Leonard Sweeney Sr. was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Ohio and the father of Robert E. Sweeney.
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Eugene N. Borza
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- historian
- Biography
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Eugene Nicholas Borza was a professor of ancient history at Pennsylvania State University, where he taught from 1964 until 1995.
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T. B. Walker
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- teacherart collectorlumberman
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Thomas Barlow Walker was an American business magnate who acquired lumber in Minnesota and California and became an art collector. Walker founded the Minneapolis Public Library. He was among the ten wealthiest men in the world in 1923. He built two company towns, one of which his son sold to become part of what is today known as Sunkist. He is the founder and namesake of the Walker Art Center.
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Robert E. Sweeney
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Robert E. Sweeney was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and a son of another former Representative, Martin L. Sweeney.
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Genevieve R. Cline
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Genevieve Rose Cline was a judge of the United States Customs Court and the first woman to serve in the United States federal judiciary, serving as an Article I federal judge.
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Greg Quick
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- head coach
- Biography
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Phillip "Greg" Quick is an American football coach who is the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is formerly a gridiron football player. Quick served as the head football coach at the University of Chicago (1989–1993), St. Norbert College (1994–1998), and Concord University (2003–2008), compiling a career college football record of 48–112. He has also served as the Director of Global Scouting for the CFL. In this capacity, he was responsible for attending combines held in different countries and identifying global players that could play in the CFL.
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Elisha Scott Loomis
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- 1852-1940 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- mathematiciancivil engineeruniversity teachergenealogist
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Elisha Scott Loomis was an American teacher, mathematician, genealogist, writer and engineer.
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Mike Dovilla
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- politician
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Michael D. Dovilla is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives who represents the Seventeenth District since 2025. He was also in the Ohio House from 2011–2016. He is a Republican.
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Mary Bigelow Ingham
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- writer
- Biography
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Mary Bigelow Ingham was an American author, educator, and religious worker. Dedicated to teaching, missionary work, and temperance reform, she served as professor of French and belles-lettres in the Ohio Wesleyan College; presided over and addressed the first public meeting ever held in Cleveland conducted exclusively by religious women; co-founded the Western Reserve School of Design (later, Cleveland Institute of Art); and was a charter member of the order of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Nan Baker
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- politician
- Biography
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Nan Baker is a Republican politician. Formerly, she represented the 16th district as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2009 to 2016.
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Harriet G. Walker
- Occupations
- medical administrator
- Biography
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Harriet Granger Hulet Walker was an American hospital administrator and leader in the temperance movement.
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William Woodburn Skiles
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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William Woodburn Skiles was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1901 to 1904.
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Henderson Haverfield Carson
- Enrolled in Baldwin Wallace University
- In 1919 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- lawyeracademicpolitician
- Biography
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Henderson Haverfield Carson was a U.S. representative from Ohio for two non-consecutive terms in the 1940s.
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William L. Fiesinger
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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William Louis Fiesinger was an American politician. A Democrat, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1931-1937 representing Ohio's 13th district.
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Amos R. Webber
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Amos Richard Webber was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1904 to 1907.
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Charles O. Lobeck
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- politician
- Biography
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Charles Otto Lobeck was a Nebraska politician who served four terms as a United States representative.
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J. Ford Laning
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jay Ford Laning was an American lawyer and politician who served as a one-term U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1907 to 1909.
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Miner G. Norton
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Miner Gibbs Norton was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1921 to 1923
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John M. Sheets
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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John Marion Sheets was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General from 1900 to 1904.
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James Simester
- Enrolled in Baldwin Wallace University
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Graduated with Doctor of Divinity
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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James Simester was an American Methodist missionary and educator to Fuzhou, China.
