77 Notable alumni of
Wheaton College - Illinois
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Wheaton College - Illinois is 709th in the world, 264th in North America, and 244th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 77 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
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- theologianpreacherautobiographerChristian ministerpastor
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William Franklin Graham Jr. was an American evangelist, ordained Southern Baptist minister, and civil rights advocate, whose broadcasts and world tours featuring live sermons became well known in the mid-to-late 20th century. Throughout his career, spanning over six decades, Graham rose to prominence as an evangelical Christian figure in the United States and abroad.
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Wes Craven
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- film editortelevision producertelevision directorproducercamera operator
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Wesley Earl Craven was an American filmmaker. Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor. Craven has been recognized as one of the masters of the horror genre.
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Kate Pierson
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- singerguitaristsongwriterlyricistactor
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Catherine Elizabeth Pierson is an American singer, lyricist, and founding member of the B-52s. She plays guitar, bass and various keyboard instruments. In the early years, as well as being a vocalist, Pierson was the main keyboard player and performed on a keyboard bass during live shows and on many of the band's recordings, taking on a role usually filled by a bass guitar player, which differentiated the band from their contemporaries. This, along with Pierson's distinctive wide-ranging singing voice, remains a trademark of the B-52s' unique sound. Pierson has also collaborated with many other artists including the Ramones, Iggy Pop and R.E.M..
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John Piper
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- pastortheologian
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John Stephen Piper is a Reformed Baptist theologian and retired pastor. Specializing in New Testament studies, he is 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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Bart D. Ehrman
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- writerphilologistuniversity teachertheologian
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Bart Denton Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar whose research focuses on the textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including six New York Times bestsellers, and has created nine lecture series with The Great Courses. Ehrman also runs a membership blog whose proceeds support charities that address hunger and homelessness. As of March 2025, the blog had reportedly raised more than $3 million.
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Bill Gothard
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- 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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Dan Coats
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerdiplomatlobbyistbusinessperson
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Daniel Ray Coats is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat from the state of Indiana. A Republican, Coats has served in the United States House of Representatives, in the United States Senate, as United States Ambassador to Germany, and as Director of National Intelligence.
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Russell Vought
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- lawyer
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Russell Thurlow Vought is an American political advisor who has served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget since 2025. Vought has additionally served as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since February 2025. He served as the acting administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from August to November 2025. Vought served as the Office of Management and Budget's director from 2020 to 2021 and as its deputy director, as well as its acting director, from 2018 to 2020.
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William Lane Craig
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- apologistuniversity teacherwriterphilosopherChristian theologian
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William Lane Craig is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author, and theologian. He is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology of Biola University.
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Ruth Bell Graham
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- writerpainterpoetphilanthropist
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Ruth McCue Bell Graham was an American Christian author. She was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, 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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Rob Bell
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- pastorauthornon-fiction writertheologian
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Robert Holmes Bell Jr. is an American author, speaker, playwright, musician 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.
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Gary Chapman
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- writerradio personality
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Gary Demonte Chapman is an American author, radio talk show host, and Baptist minister. Chapman is most noted for his The Five Love Languages series regarding human relationships.
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Martin O'Donnell
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- composersound designer
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Martin O'Donnell is an American composer, audio director, and sound designer best known for his work on video game developer Bungie's titles, such as the Myth series, Oni, the Halo series, and Destiny. O'Donnell collaborated with Michael Salvatori for all of the scores; he has also directed voice talent and sound design for the Halo trilogy.
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John Wesley Powell
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- writergeographergeologistbotanical collectorbotanist
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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
- columnistjournalist
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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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Philip Yancey
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- publisherwriterjournalist
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Philip David Yancey is a retired American Christian author known for his works 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 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 was published by Hachette, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, InterVarsity Press, Rabbit Room Press, and Penguin Random House.
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Tim Walberg
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- In 1978 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- priestpolitician
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Timothy Lee Walberg is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2011, representing the state'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.
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Ken Klippenstein
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 37)
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- 2007-2010 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- presenterinvestigative journalistjournalisttelevision producer
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Kenneth Klippenstein is an American journalist who worked at The Intercept. Before that, Klippenstein was the D.C. Correspondent at The Nation and 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 has focused on U.S. national security, politics, activism, corporate controversies and the media.
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Jason Hickel
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in anthropology
- Occupations
- anthropologistethnographer
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Jason Edward Hickel is a Swazi economic anthropologist, academic and democratic eco-socialist. He is a professor at the Institute of Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a visiting senior fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and was the Chair of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo. He serves on the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences.
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Jim McDermott
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- In 1958 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- military officerpsychiatristpolitician
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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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R. A. Torrey
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- university teachertheologianwriter
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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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Joan Lefkow
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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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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Trevor N. McFadden
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- police officer
- Biography
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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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Steve Saint
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- aircraft pilot
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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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Lewis Sperry Chafer
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- authortheologian
- 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 theologian and scholar, stated that Chafer was an evangelist who was also "an eminent theologian."
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Wallace Broecker
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- geologistbiogeochemistgeophysicistuniversity teacheroceanographer
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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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Mark Noll
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- historianpedagoguewriter
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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
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- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and English-language literature
- Occupations
- religious figure
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Philip Graham Ryken is an American theologian, Presbyterian minister, and academic administrator. He is the eighth president of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.
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Dawn J. Wright
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- 1961-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- geographeroceanographer
- 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 (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 Black 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 side scan sonar at full-ocean depth.
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John Nelson
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- conductor
- Biography
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John Wilton Nelson was an American conductor known for his productions of the music of Hector Berlioz.
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Richard C. Halverson
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- In 1939 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- Christian ministerauthortheologian
- Biography
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Richard Christian Halverson was an American Presbyterian minister and author who served as the chaplain of the United States Senate.
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David Young
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- lawyerbusinessperson
- Biography
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David Reginald Young was 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 lived in the United Kingdom from the mid-1970s.
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Robert A. Cook
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Robert Andrew Cook was an American pastor, radio broadcaster, and college president. He was president of The King's College (New York) in Briarcliff Manor. He was also Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor.
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Marilyn Hall Patel
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- lawyerjudge
- 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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James S. Albus
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- authorengineer
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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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Paul B. Henry
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- university teacherpolitician
- 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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Robert Holmes Bell
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
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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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Mark S. Inch
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Mark Sherwin Inch is an American correctional officer and 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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John G. Stackhouse, Jr
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- columnist
- Biography
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John Gordon Stackhouse Jr. is a Canadian scholar of religion.
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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 works in China and Hollywood. He received the Huabiao Award for Outstanding Composer in 2023, becoming the youngest winner in the history of this category. His works have been premiered by the New York Philharmonic, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, performed in halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Lincoln Center, the Juilliard School, and the National Center for the Performing Arts. Leung has collaborated with Daniel Harding, Charles Dutoit, Lang Lang, Yu Long and Gerard Salonga and has received commissions from the United States Department of State and the Asia Society. His works have been released by Sony Classical and Deutsche Grammophon. Leung is known for his symphonic works, most notably his film scores for Operation Red Sea and The Battle at Lake Changjin as well as his orchestral concert works Symphony No. 1 "The Metaverse", Wuxia and Chinese Kitchen: A Feast of Flavours. Leung was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022 and as of November 2023, his films have grossed $2.2 billion USD worldwide.
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Peter E. Gillquist
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- writer
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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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Shiho Sakanishi
- Occupations
- writertranslatorschool teacherlibrarianacademic
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Shiho Sakanishi was a Japanese critic, essayist, academic, translator, author, and librarian. She was the first Japanese citizen to serve as a librarian at the Library of Congress and was a notable critic of the role of women in Japanese society.
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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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Amy Plum
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writer
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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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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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Lee Ware
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Lee Ware Jr. is an American politician representing Virginia's 72nd House of Delegates district. He was first elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1998, representing the 65th district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Robert W. Lane
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- business executive
- Biography
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Robert W. Lane is the former chief executive officer of Deere & Company from 2000 to 2009. He 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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Don Soderquist
- Occupations
- economistmerchantbusinessperson
- 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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Harry Rimmer
- Years
- 1890-1952 (aged 62)
- Occupations
- evangelistpastor
- 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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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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Douglas Yeo
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- music educator
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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. From 2019 to 2023, he was trombone professor at Wheaton College (Illinois), and he was professor of trombone at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2022-2024.
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David J. Apol
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David John 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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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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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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Christian M. M. Brady
- Occupations
- university teacherpriestHebraist
- Biography
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Christian M. M. Brady is an American scholar who specializes in biblical literature, rabbinic literature, and the targumim, especially Targum Lamentations and Targum Ruth. As of June 1, 2025, he became the 16th president of Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He was the inaugural dean of the Lewis Honors College and professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Kentucky (2017-2025). He was interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky from 2020 to 2022. He was dean of the Schreyer Honors College from 2006 to 2016. He was formerly associate professor of Classical Studies and Jewish Studies at Tulane University. His administrative roles at Tulane included associate director of the Jewish Studies Program (1997-1998), director of the Jewish Studies Program (1998-2003), associate director of the Honors Program (2003-2004), and director of the Honors Program (2004–2006).
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Marvin R. Wilson
- Occupations
- translatorbiblical scholaruniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Marvin R. Wilson is an American evangelical Biblical scholar, and was the Harold J. Ockenga Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts until his 2018 retirement.
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David Iglesias
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Illinois
- In 1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in study of history
- Occupations
- university teachermilitary officerlawyer
- Biography
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David Claudio Iglesias is a Panamanian-American attorney from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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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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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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Brent Nelsen
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Brent Nelsen is an American political science professor at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. There, he currently serves as the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs and the Director of The Tocqueville Center for the Study of Democracy and Society. He has taught at Furman since 1990.
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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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Bruce Ellis Benson
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Bruce Ellis Benson is an American philosopher. He was formerly a professor at Wheaton College in Illinois.
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Judith Hand
- Occupations
- peace activistnovelist
- Biography
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Judith L. Hand is an American evolutionary biologist, 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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Jake Armerding
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersinger
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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, along with his father, Taylor Armerding. 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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Almon Harris Thompson
- Occupations
- geologistexplorermeteorological observer
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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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John J. Tyson
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- 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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Carolyn Raffensperger
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- 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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Douglas Jacobsen
- Occupations
- religious studies scholarchurch historianuniversity teachertheologian
- 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
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- academic administratorwriter
- 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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Edwin Hartley Pratt
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- 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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Ellen Powell Thompson
- Occupations
- botanistbotanical collectorscientific collectorsuffragistteacher
- Biography
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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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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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Edward W. Moser
- Years
- 1924-1976 (aged 52)
- Occupations
- anthropologistlinguistBible translatortranslator
- 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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Juanita Breckenridge Bates
- Years
- 1860-1946 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- Christian ministersuffragette
- Biography
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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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Paul-Gordon Chandler
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Paul Gordon Chandler is the Founding President of CARAVAN Arts. He is an author, art curator, interfaith peacemaker, social entrepreneur, and Anglican clergyman. From 2021 to 2024, he was the US Episcopal Bishop of Wyoming. He has worked on various projects concerning the Middle East and Africa, ecumenical publishing, relief and development agencies, the arts and the Anglican Communion. He wrote In Search of a Prophet: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran on the Lebanese writer and artist Kahlil Gibran. In 2020, he was awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation.
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Orrin Nelson Carter
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Orrin Nelson Carter was an American jurist.
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Edwin Kull
- Occupations
- farmerpolitician
- Biography
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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.
