Hanover College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • James Graham Brown, philanthropist, businessman and real estate developer.
  • John Merle Coulter 1870, American botanist, professor at Hanover College, Wabash College, and the University of Chicago, President of Indiana University and Lake Forest University.
  • Stanley Coulter 1870, Dean of School of Sciences at Purdue University.
  • William Allen Cullop, member of the United State House of Representatives from Indiana.
  • Thomas Cleland Dawson 1888, United States diplomat.
  • Brett Dietz, Arena Football League quarterback for the Tampa Bay Storm.
  • William Donner 1887, steel industry businessman and philanthropist.
  • Ebenezer Dumont 1836, member of the United State House of Representatives from Indiana and Brigadier general of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  • William M. Dunn, member of the United State House of Representatives from Indiana, Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, and delegate to 1850 Constitution of Indiana Convention.
  • Jonathan Edwards, first President of Washington & Jefferson College.
  • Harriet Elliott, educator and American civic leader.
  • William Hayden English, American politician, member of the United State House of Representatives from Indiana, candidate for Vice President of the United States and Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives.
  • Walter L. Fisher, United States Secretary of the Interior from 1911 to 1913.
  • Woody Harrelson, two-time Academy Award nominee and actor in TV's Cheers.
  • Charles Sherrod Hatfield 1904, judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
  • Thomas Andrews Hendricks, twenty-first Vice President of the United States.
  • Walter LaFeber, historian at Cornell University.
  • Jim Leonard, playwright (The Diviners) and TV producer/writer Close to Home.
  • Bertha Lewis, CEO and Chief Organizer of ACORN.
  • Oscar Montgomery 1881, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court.
  • John Davis Paris 1833, builder of missionary churches on the island of Hawaii.
  • James Kennedy Patterson 1856, first President of University of Kentucky.
  • Mike Pence, Governor of Indiana and member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana.
  • Albert G. Porter, Governor of Indiana and member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana.
  • Carol Warner Shields, Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
  • Monica Sone, author of the noted memoir Nisei Daughter.
  • Reginald H. Thomson, civil engineer who designed modern Seattle.
  • Robert J. Tracewell, member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana and Comptroller of the United States Department of the Treasury.
  • William Ross Wallace 1836, American poet.
  • George Whitworth, Presbyterian missionary, Founder of Whitworth College and President of University of Washington
  • Harvey W. Wiley, chemist involved with the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.

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