Yale Divinity School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Diogenes Allen
• Ian Barbour
• Lyman Beecher
• Gregory A. Boyd
• Frederick Buechner
• Will D. Campbell
• William Ragsdale Cannon (Bachelor of Divinity, 1940; Ph.D., 1942), Professor and Dean, Candler School of Theology, Emory University; Bishop of the United Methodist Church

• Donald Eric Capps, (B.D., 1963; S.T.M., 1965), scholar of Pastoral Theology
• Roy Clyde Clark, a Bishop of the United Methodist Church
• William Sloane Coffin
• Chris Coons, United States Senator from Delaware
• John Danforth
• Walter Fauntroy, Founding Member - Congressional Black Caucus
• David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge since 1991
• Hans Wilhelm Frei
• Paul Vernon Galloway, a Bishop of The Methodist Church
• Leroy Gilbert
• Gary Hart
• Stanley Hauerwas
• Richard B. Hays
• Sen Katayama
• Ernest W. Lefever (1919–2009), foreign affairs expert and founder of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
• Otis Moss III Pastor of Trinity Church, Chicago
• Helmut Richard Niebuhr
• Reinhold Niebuhr
• H. Richard Niebuhr
• Richard T. Nolan
• William C. Placher, author and professor at Wabash College.
• William H. Poteat
• Clark V. Poling
• Peter L. Pond (1933–2000), human rights activist and philanthropist who adopted 16 Cambodian orphans.
• Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
• George Rupp
• Father V.C. Samuel, PhD (Yale U), Post Doctoral Research Fellow (U Chicago)- Indian Orthodox Church, Professor and Dean Haili Salasi University, Addis Ababa, Serampore College, Serampore India, United Theological College, Bangalore, Orthodox Theological Seminary, Kottayam, India
• Ron Sider
• John Silber
• Amos Alonzo Stagg
• Barbara Brown Taylor
• Roy M. Terry
• Krista Tippett
• R. A. Torrey
• John W. Traphagan, professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
• Chester Wickwire
• Parker T. Williamson
• William Willimon