75 Notable alumni of
Wheaton College - Illinois
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Wheaton College - Illinois is 683rd in the world, 254th in North America, and 234th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 75 notable alumni from Wheaton College - Illinois sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Billy Graham
- Occupations
- preachertheologianclericChristian ministerautobiographer
- Biography
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William Franklin Graham Jr. was an American evangelist, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, and a civil rights advocate whose broadcast and live sermons became well known internationally in the mid-to-late 20th century. During a career spanning six decades, Graham was a prominent evangelical Christian figure in the United States.
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Wes Craven
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- directorscreenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producer
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Wesley Earl Craven was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and editor. Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven was best known for his pioneering work in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor and satire. Craven has commonly been recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre due to the cultural impact and influence of his work.
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Dan Coats
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerpoliticianbusinesspersonlobbyist
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Daniel Ray Coats is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. He was the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2005, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. Coats served on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence while in the U.S. Senate.
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John Piper
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- theologianpastor
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John Stephen Piper is an American Reformed Baptist theologian, pastor, and chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Piper taught biblical studies at Bethel University for six years (1974–1980), before serving as pastor for preaching and vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church (Converge) in Minneapolis for 33 years (1980–2013).
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Bill Gothard
- Occupations
- Christian minister
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William W. Gothard Jr. is an American Christian minister, speaker, and writer, and the founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), an independent fundamentalist Christian organization. His conservative teachings encourage Bible memorization, large families, homeschooling, aversion to debt, familial patriarchy, the submission of wives to husbands, and modest attire.
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William Lane Craig
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- university teacherChristian theologianwriterapologistphilosopher
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William Lane Craig is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author, and Wesleyan theologian who upholds the view of Molinism and neo-Apollinarianism. He is a professor of philosophy at Houston Christian University and at the Talbot School of Theology of Biola University. Craig has updated and defended the Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God. He has also published work where he argues in favor of the historical plausibility of the resurrection of Jesus. His study of divine aseity and Platonism culminated with his book God Over All.
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Bart D. Ehrman
- Occupations
- writertheologianuniversity teacherphilologist
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Bart Denton Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Rob Bell
- Occupations
- authorpastortheologiannon-fiction writer
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Robert Holmes Bell Jr. is an American author, speaker and former pastor. Bell founded Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan, and pastored it until 2012. Under his leadership, Mars Hill was one of the fastest-growing churches in America. Bell is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Love Wins and the writer and narrator of a series of spiritual short films called NOOMA. In 2011, Time named Bell on its list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. He has since become a freelance writer and speaker appearing on various talk shows and national speaking tours on topics related to spirituality and leadership. He also hosts a popular podcast called The Robcast. In 2018, a documentary about Bell called The Heretic was released.
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Ruth Bell Graham
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- poetpainterwriterphilanthropist
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Ruth McCue Bell Graham was a Chinese-born American Christian author, most well known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. She was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, Republic of China, the second of five children. Her parents, Virginia Leftwich Bell and L. Nelson Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles (480 km) north of Shanghai. At age 13 she was enrolled in Pyeng Yang Foreign School in Pyongyang, Korea, where she studied for three years. She completed her high school education at Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were there on furlough. She graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.
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Gary Chapman
- Occupations
- radio personalitywriter
- Biography
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Gary Demonte Chapman is an American author and radio talk show host. Chapman is most noted for his The Five Love Languages series regarding human relationships.
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John Wesley Powell
- Occupations
- linguistexplorermilitary personnelgeographerwriter
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John Wesley Powell was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for his 1869 geographic expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon.
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Michael Gerson
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- journalistcolumnist
- Biography
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Michael John Gerson was an American journalist and speechwriter. He was a neoconservative op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, a Policy Fellow with One Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006, and was a member of the White House Iraq Group.
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Martin O'Donnell
- Occupations
- sound designercomposer
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Martin O'Donnell is an American composer, audio director, and sound designer known for his work on video game developer Bungie's series, such as Myth, Oni, Halo, and Destiny. O'Donnell collaborated with his musical colleague Michael Salvatori for many of the scores; he has also directed voice talent and sound design for the Halo trilogy. O'Donnell was Bungie's audio lead until April 11, 2014.
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Philip Yancey
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpublisher
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Philip Yancey is an American author who writes primarily about spiritual issues. His books have sold more than 15 million copies in English and have been translated into 40 languages, making him one of the best-selling contemporary Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, and What's So Amazing About Grace? in 1998. He is published by Hachette, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, InterVarsity Press, and Penguin Random House.
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Russell Vought
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Russell "Russ" Thurlow Vought is an American former government official who was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from July 2020 to January 2021. He was previously deputy director of the OMB from 2018 to 2020 and acting director from 2019 to 2020.
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Tim Walberg
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- In 1978 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianpriest
- Biography
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Timothy Lee Walberg is an American serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he previously represented the 7th district from 2007 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2023. As the longest tenured member from Michigan, Walberg is the current Dean of its delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Jim McDermott
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- In 1958 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politicianpsychiatristmilitary officer
- Biography
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James Adelbert McDermott is an American politician and psychiatrist who was the U.S. representative for Washington's 7th congressional district from 1989 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The 7th District includes most of Seattle, Vashon Island, Tukwila, Burien, Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Woodway, and Edmonds. He served on the House Ways and Means Committee and was a member of the House Progressive Caucus. He was formerly the committee chairman, then in 1995, ranking minority member on the House Ethics Committee. On January 4, 2016, he announced that he would not be seeking another congressional term.
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Joan Lefkow
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- judgelawyer
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Joan Marilyn Humphrey Lefkow is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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R. A. Torrey
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- theologianuniversity teacherwriter
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Reuben Archer Torrey was an American evangelist, Congregational pastor, educator, and writer. He aligned with Keswick theology.
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Trevor N. McFadden
- Occupations
- police officerUnited States federal judge
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Trevor Neil McFadden is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Previously, he was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.
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Jason Hickel
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in anthropology
- Occupations
- ethnographeranthropologist
- Biography
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Jason Edward Hickel is an Eswazi anthropologist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Hickel's research and writing focuses on economic anthropology and development, and is particularly opposed to capitalism, neocolonialism, as well as economic growth as a model of human development.
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Ken Klippenstein
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 35)
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- 2007-2010 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- journalistinvestigative journalistpresentertelevision producer
- Biography
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Ken Klippenstein is an American journalist working at The Intercept. Prior to joining The Intercept, Klippenstein was the D.C. Correspondent at The Nation and previously a senior investigative reporter for the online news program The Young Turks. His work has also appeared in The Daily Beast, Salon, and other publications. His reporting focuses on U.S. federal and national security matters as well as corporate controversies.
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Steve Saint
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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Stephen Farris Saint is an Ecuadorian-born business entrepreneur, pilot, and author. He is known for being the son of Nate Saint, a famous missionary pilot, as well as for his own work among indigenous tribes.
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Wallace Broecker
- Occupations
- university teachergeophysicistbiogeochemistgeologistenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Wallace "Wally" Smith Broecker was an American geochemist. He was the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University. He developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking the circulation of the global ocean and made major contributions to the science of the carbon cycle and the use of chemical tracers and isotope dating in oceanography. Broecker popularized the term "global warming". He received the Crafoord Prize and the Vetlesen Prize.
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Lewis Sperry Chafer
- Occupations
- theologianauthor
- Biography
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Lewis Sperry Chafer was an American theologian. He co-founded Dallas Theological Seminary with his older brother Rollin Thomas Chafer (1868-1940), served as its first president, and was an influential proponent of Christian Dispensationalism in the early 20th century. John Hannah described Chafer as a visionary Bible teacher, a minister of the gospel, a man of prayer with strong piety. One of his students, Charles Caldwell Ryrie, who went on to become a world renowned theologian and scholar, stated that Chafer was an evangelist who was also "an eminent theologian."
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Mark Noll
- Occupations
- historianwriterpedagogue
- Biography
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Mark Allan Noll is an American historian specializing in the history of Christianity in the United States. He holds the position of Research Professor of History at Regent College, having previously been Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Noll is a Reformed evangelical Christian and in 2005 was named by Time magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America.
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Philip Ryken
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English literature and philosophy
- Occupations
- religious servant
- Biography
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Philip Graham Ryken is an American theologian, Presbyterian minister, and academic administrator. He is the eighth and current president of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.
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Richard C. Halverson
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- In 1939 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- authorChristian ministertheologian
- Biography
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The Reverend Richard Christian Halverson, D.D., was an American Presbyterian minister and author who served as the chaplain of the United States Senate.
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John Nelson
- Occupations
- musicianconductor
- Biography
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John Wilton Nelson is an American conductor. His parents were Protestant missionaries.
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Dawn J. Wright
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- oceanographergeographer
- Biography
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Dawn Jeannine Wright is an American geographer and oceanographer. She is a leading authority in the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to the field of ocean and coastal science, and played a key role in creating the first GIS data model for the oceans. Wright is Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (aka Esri). She has also been a professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University since 1995 and is a former Oregon Professor of the Year as named by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Wright was the first African-American female to dive to the ocean floor in the deep submersible ALVIN. On July 12, 2022 she became the first and only Black person to dive to Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth, and to successfully operate a sidescan sonar at full-ocean depth.
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James S. Albus
- Occupations
- engineerauthor
- Biography
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James Sacra Albus was an American engineer, Senior NIST Fellow and founder and former chief of the Intelligent Systems Division of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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Zane C. Hodges
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Zane Clark Hodges was an American pastor, seminary professor, and Bible scholar.
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Robert A. Cook
- Biography
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Robert Andrew Cook was the president of The King's College (New York) in Briarcliff Manor, and also a Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor.
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David Young
- Occupations
- businesspersonlawyer
- Biography
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David R. Young is an American lawyer, businessman, and academic. He served as a Special Assistant at the National Security Council in the Nixon administration and an Administrative Assistant to Henry Kissinger. He has lived in the United Kingdom since the mid-1970s.
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Marilyn Hall Patel
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Marilyn Hall Patel is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Robert Holmes Bell
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Robert Holmes Bell was an American lawyer and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan from 1987 to 2017. Before assuming the role, he worked as an attorney and judge in Michigan. Bell became a senior judge in 2017, a role which he served until his death in 2023. His son is Rob Bell, the founder of the Mars Hill Bible Church.
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Paul B. Henry
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Paul Brentwood Henry was an American professor of political science and politician from Michigan. He was elected to five terms and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 until his death from brain cancer in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1993.
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Mark S. Inch
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Mark Sherwin Inch is a retired United States Army major general who served as the 9th Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons of the United States. He resigned from that position on May 18, 2018.
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Amy Plum
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Amy Plum is an American-born French young-adult fiction writer, best known for her Die for Me series.
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R. Timothy Ziemer
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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R. Timothy Ziemer is an American retired naval officer. He was a U.S. Navy helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, commanded several squadrons and an air wing during the First Gulf War, and completed his Navy career as commander of the Navy's Mid-Atlantic Region, with the rank of rear admiral. After retiring he became an expert in global disaster response and health threats. He led the President's Malaria Initiative from 2006 until 2017, then joined the National Security Council as the director in charge of global health security and biothreats, serving until May 8, 2018, when the position was abolished by the Trump administration.
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Peter E. Gillquist
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Peter Edward Gillquist was an American archpriest in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and retired chairman of the archdiocese's department of missions and evangelism. He was chairman of Conciliar Press (Ben Lomond, California) and the author of numerous books, including Love Is Now, The Physical Side of Being Spiritual and Becoming Orthodox. He also served as project director of the Orthodox Study Bible and, from 1997, served as the National Chaplain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
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Elliot Leung
- Born in
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China - Occupations
- composer
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Elliot Ho Yat Leung is a composer from Hong Kong who broke into Hollywood in 2023. He was a recipient of the Huabiao Award, and is the youngest in the history of the awards to receive this recognition for music. His works have been performed by orchestras such as the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. Leung has collaborated with many notable conductors, namely Daniel Harding, Yu Long and Gerard Salonga. Leung is best known for his symphonic works, most notably his film scores for Operation Red Sea and The Battle at Lake Changjin as well as his Symphony No. 1 "The Metaverse". He was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022. As of November 2023, his films have grossed $2.2 billion USD worldwide.
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Robert W. Lane
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Robert W. Lane, served as chief executive officer of Deere & Company from 2000 to 2009 and retired as the chairman of the board in February 2010. He served on several boards including: The Northern Trust Company, General Electric Company, BMW AG and Verizon Communications. He was ranked 10th by Forbes Magazine’s Top CEOs based on compensation in 2009.
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Richard Longenecker
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Richard N. Longenecker was a New Testament scholar. He held teaching positions at Wheaton College and Graduate School (1954-57; 1960-63); Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (1963-72); Wycliffe College (Toronto, 1972-94, from which he received an honorary doctorate in 1996); University of St. Michael’s College (Toronto, 1976-78); and McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, 1994-2001). His education included B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wheaton College, and a Ph.D. from New College in the University of Edinburgh.
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John G. Stackhouse, Jr
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- columnist
- Biography
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John Gordon Stackhouse Jr. is a Canadian scholar of religion. His scholarship has been supported by research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Association of Theological Schools, and the Canadian Embassy to the United States. He was fired from his faculty position at Crandall University in 2023 following an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment.
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Lee Ware
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Lee Ware Jr. is an American politician. Since 1998 he has served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 65th district west of Richmond, consisting of the entirety of his home county of Powhatan, the precincts of Skinquarter, Tomahawk, Woolridge, Brandermill, Swift Creek, Evergreen West, Edgewater, Midlothian, Roseland, and Midlothian North in Chesterfield County; the precincts of Fife, Three Square, Sandy Hook, and Goochland Court House 2, in Goochland County; and the precincts of Columbia and Fork Union in Fluvanna County. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Timothy R. Coffin
- Biography
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Timothy R. Coffin is a retired United States Army brigadier general who became the 33rd Commanding General of the White Sands Missile Range on 2 July 2014.
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Don Soderquist
- Occupations
- businesspersonmerchanteconomist
- Biography
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Donald G. Soderquist was an American businessman known for his work as chief operating officer and senior vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Marshall Hollingsworth
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Marshall Hollingsworth is an American retired soccer player who played as a midfielder and fullback. After graduating from Wheaton College, he played professionally for Columbus Crew SC, Pittsburgh Riverhounds, and Lansing Ignite.
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Harry Rimmer
- Years
- 1890-1952 (aged 62)
- Occupations
- pastorevangelist
- Biography
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Harry Rimmer was an American evangelist and creationist. He is most prominent as a defender of creationism in the United States, a fundamentalist leader and writer of anti-evolution publications.
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Cathleen Falsani
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Cathleen Falsani is an American journalist and author. She specializes in the intersection of religion/spirituality/faith and culture, and has been a staff writer for the Chicago Sun Times, the Chicago Tribune, Sojourners magazine, Religion News Service, and the Orange County Register in Southern California. Falsani is the author of several non-fiction books on religious, spiritual, and cultural issues.
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David J. Apol
- Biography
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David J. Apol is General Counsel at the United States Office of Government Ethics. He served as an acting director of the OGE between the resignation of Walter Shaub on July 19, 2017 and the appointment of Emory Rounds on July 13, 2018.
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Douglas Yeo
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- music teacher
- Biography
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Douglas Yeo is an American bass trombonist who played in the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2012, where he held the John Moors Cabot Bass Trombone Chair. He was also on the faculty of the New England Conservatory. In 2012 he retired from the BSO and accepted a position as professor of trombone at the Arizona State University School of Music, a position he held until 2016. In 2019, he was appointed to the faculty of Wheaton College (Illinois).
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Lanny D. Schmidt
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Lanny D. Schmidt was an American chemist, inventor, author, and Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He is well known for his extensive work in surface science, detailed chemistry (microkinetics), chemical reaction engineering, catalysis, and renewable energy. He is also well known for mentoring over a hundred graduate students and his work on millisecond reactors and reactive flash volatilization.
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Marvin R. Wilson
- Occupations
- biblical scholartranslatortheologianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Marvin R. Wilson is an American evangelical Biblical scholar, and was Harold J. Ockenga Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts until his 2018 retirement.
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Gil Dodds
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- Graduated with Master of Arts in Christian education
- Occupations
- middle-distance runner
- Biography
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Gilbert Lothair Dodds, called "The Flying Parson", was an American middle-distance runner. In the 1940s, he held the American and world records for the mile run. He was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States in 1943.
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Bruce Ellis Benson
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Bruce Ellis Benson is a professor of philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois.
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Judith Hand
- Occupations
- novelistpeace activist
- Biography
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Judith L. Hand is an American evolutionary biologist, animal behaviorist (ethologist) and a novelist. She writes on a variety of topics related to the science of animal and human behavior, including the biological and evolutionary roots of war, gender differences in conflict resolution, the empowerment of women, and the steps for ending war.
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Paul-Gordon Chandler
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Paul-Gordon Chandler is the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming in the USA. An author, art curator, peacemaker, and social entrepreneur, his previous roles have included serving as both a non-profit executive and US Episcopal priest. Paul-Gordon Chandler grew up in West Africa (Senegal) and has lived and worked in leadership roles throughout the world, with an emphasis on the Middle East and Africa, with ecumenical publishing, relief and development agencies, the arts and The Episcopal Church. His acclaimed book on Kahlil Gibran, the best-selling Lebanese born poet-artist and author of The Prophet, is IN SEARCH OF A PROPHET: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran.
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Marcus Ch'eng
- Biography
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Marcus Cheng, was a leading Chinese Protestant evangelical leader. Cheng became a prominent evangelical leader and Chinese nationalist and gained international attention in the 1920s. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Cheng joined other Protestant leaders to form the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, which promised independence of foreign financing and control in return for religious autonomy. He became disillusioned and openly criticized the government's policies on religion in 1957. Although he was not arrested, he was severely criticized and died in obscurity in 1963.
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Almon Harris Thompson
- Occupations
- explorergeologist
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Almon Harris Thompson, also known as A. H. Thompson, was an American topographer, geologist, explorer, educator and Civil War veteran. Often called "The Professor" or simply "Prof", Thompson is perhaps best known for being second in command of John Wesley Powell's Second Geographical Expedition (1871–1875), a federally funded scientific expedition that retraced the route of Powell's original expedition in order to further explore and map the drainages and canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers in what is now southern Utah and northern Arizona. Thompson's diary of the expedition was originally published in the Utah Historical Quarterly in 1939. Through his work on the Powell expeditions and later as a geographer at the U.S. Geological Survey, he was responsible for naming many geographic locations in the Western United States. Thompson is also known for being a founding member of the National Geographic Society.
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Jake Armerding
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Jake Armerding is an American folk musician and multi-instrumentalist from Boston, Massachusetts. He plays mostly acoustic string instruments like the mandolin, acoustic guitar, and fiddle. In 1990, Jake began playing with Northern Lights occasionally. He joined the band full-time in 1992 and was a member until 1999 when he left the band to pursue a solo career. Jake attended Wheaton College where he received a degree in English literature. In 2001, Armerding won the Best New Artist Award from Boston's folk-radio station, WUMB.
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Douglas Jacobsen
- Occupations
- church historianreligious studies scholartheologianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Douglas Jacobsen is a scholar in the field of religious studies whose work encompasses history, theology, and sociology. His early works are analyses of Pentecostalism and American Protestantism. He won the Pneuma Book Award from the Society for Pentecostal Studies in 2004. His current work focuses on world Christianity, including the books The World's Christians: Who They Are, Where They Are, and How They Got There and Global Gospel: An Introduction to Christianity on Five Continents.
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William B. Powell
- Occupations
- writeracademic administrator
- Biography
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William Bramwell Powell was an American educator, author and superintendent of schools who co-founded the National Geographic Society.
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Carolyn Raffensperger
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Carolyn E. Raffensperger is an environmental lawyer and the executive director of the Science & Environmental Health Network, as well as being a leading expert on the Precautionary Principle. She has authored a number of papers and publications, as well as being featured in a number of notable magazines. Raffensperger was also a state field representative for the Sierra Club.
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David Iglesias
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- In 1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- university teacherlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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David Claudio Iglesias is an American attorney from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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John J. Tyson
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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John J. Tyson is an American systems biologist and mathematical biologist who serves as University Distinguished Professor of Biology at Virginia Tech, and is the former president of the Society for Mathematical Biology. He is known for his research on biochemical switches in the cell cycle, dynamics of biological networks and on excitable media.
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Brent Nelsen
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Brent Franklin Nelsen is an American political science professor at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He served as chair of the South Carolina Educational Television Commission, having been appointed to the position by South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in 2011. He was reappointed to an additional six-year term in 2014. He resigned from the Commission in 2019.
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Edwin Hartley Pratt
- Occupations
- homeopath
- Biography
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Edwin Hartley Pratt, or E.H. Pratt, was an American practitioner of homeopathic medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He originated the briefly popular practice of "orificial surgery", which sought to cure a variety of physical and psychological ills by surgical corrections to the various orifices of the body. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Orificial Surgery.
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Edward W. Moser
- Years
- 1924-1976 (aged 52)
- Occupations
- anthropologisttranslatorBible translatorlinguist
- Biography
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Edward W. Moser was an American linguist and expert in the Seri language and culture working with the Summer institute of Linguistics.
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Gordon A. Haaland
- Biography
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Gordon Arthur Haaland was an American academic. He was the fifteenth President of the University of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1990, and of Gettysburg College from 1990 to 2004. He was an alumnus of Wheaton College and the State University of New York at Buffalo, earning a doctorate degree in social psychology at the latter.
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Ellen Powell Thompson
- Occupations
- suffragistbotanistcollectorteacher
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Ellen Louella Powell Thompson (1840–1911) was an American naturalist and botanist, and an active advocate for women's suffrage.
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Juanita Breckenridge Bates
- Years
- 1860-1946 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- suffragetteChristian minister
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Juanita Breckenridge Bates was an American Congregationalist minister, her application being the test case to determine the policy of the denomination. She was the first woman to be awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Oberlin College (1891), and Oberlin was the first school to award this degree. For decades, she was a community organizer in the women's suffrage movement.
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Orrin Nelson Carter
- Occupations
- judge
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Orrin Nelson Carter was an American jurist.
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Edwin Kull
- Occupations
- politicianfarmer
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Edwin O. Kull was an American farmer, educator, and politician. Born in the Town of Bloomfield, Walworth County, Wisconsin, Kull attended Wheaton College. He taught school in both Illinois and Walworth County. Kull had a farm in the town of Bloomfield and was involved with the farmers' cooperative creamery and fire insurance company. He served as justice of the peace, Bloomfield town assessor, and on the Bloomfield town board. In 1909, Kull served in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican. Kull died in Elkhorn, Wisconsin on August 25, 1941.
