Notable Alumni
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bands | |||
| Augustana | rock-n-roll band; formed on campus in 2002-2003; members attended but did not graduate | ||
| Jars of Clay | Christian rock band; formed on campus in the early 1990s, granted honorary degrees in 2001 after dropping out in 1994 | ||
| Paper Route | Indie/Rock Band; members met at Greenville College | ||
| People | |||
| Ernest L. Boyer | former Chancellor of the State University of New York system | ||
| Bob Briner | once a leading figure in professional sports management, an Emmy Award-winning television producer, and president of ProServ Television. The Greenville College Robert A. Briner Salt and Light Award is named after him. | ||
| Leila Fletcher | 1916 | piano pedagog; Greenville College was Leila Fletcher's sixth form college for girls and young women. | http://www.leilafletcher.com/ |
| John Hammond | General Manager of the Milwaukee Bucks | ||
| Alfred Harrison Joy | Bruce Medal-winning astronomer | ||
| Winnie Ruth Judd | enrolled 1919 | Notorious "Trunk Murderess" | |
| Mary Previte | author of Hungry Ghosts, served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1998 to 2006 | ||
| Stephanie Smith | 2006 | Christian singer/songwriter; discovered, signed at Greenville College | |
| Howard Zahniser | B.A., English, 1928 | environmental activist, "Father of the Wilderness Act" | |
| Matthias Zahniser | B.A., 1960 | Author of The Mission and Death of Jesus in Islam and Christianity,Ph. D. Johns Hopkins University, member of American Academy of Religion Wesleyan Theological Society Tyndale House | http://www.greenville.edu/academics/faculty_staff/bio_detail.dot?id=140529 |
| Coleman Griffith | considered the Father of American Sport Psychology, continued education and taught at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he wrote the predecessors to many modern sport psychology and physical fitness text books; worked with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team and the Chicago Cubs as a consultant |
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