Notable Alumni
- John Finley Crowe, 1815, founder of Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana.
- John Maclean, Jr.
- George Washington Gale, 1819
- Charles Hodge, 1819
- William Buell Sprague, 1819
- Samuel Simon Schmucker, 1820
- Albert Barnes, 1823
- James Waddel Alexander, 1823
- John Williamson Nevin, 1826
- Elijah P. Lovejoy, 1834, first American martyr for freedom of the press. He was a Presbyterian pastor and publisher of an abolitionist newspaper in Alton, Illinois, and he was killed while defending the press from an angry mob.
- Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg (educator), 1839
- Michael Simpson Culbertson, 1844, missionary to China.
- William Henry Green, 1846
- Basil Manly, Jr., 1847
- Hunter Corbett, was a pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China.
- John Livingstone Nevius, missionary to China
- Francis Landey Patton, 1865
- George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary to Taiwan
- William Imbrie, missionary to Japan
- Henry van Dyke, 1874
- Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, 1876
- Geerhardus Vos, 1885
- Sherwood Eddy, 1896, missionary to India, YMCA leader, author, educator
- Thornwell Jacobs, 1899, founder of Oglethorpe University
- Louis Berkhof, 1904
- Oswald T. Allis, 1905
- Clarence Macartney, 1905
- John Gresham Machen, 1905, founder of Westminster Theological Seminary
- George S. Rentz, ordained in 1909; Navy chaplain during World War I and World War II
- Toyohiko Kagawa, 1916
- Cornelius Van Til, 1924, presuppositional apologist
- Ned B. Stonehouse, 1927
- Allan MacRae, 1927, founder of Faith Theological Seminary and Biblical Theological Seminary
- Loraine Boettner, 1929
- Kyung-Chik Han, 1929, founder of Young Nak Presbyterian Church and winner of Templeton Prize
- Bruce Metzger, 1938
- John H. Eastwood, 1941, chaplain US Army Air Corps 464th Bombardment Group in World War II
- Samuel H. Moffett, 1942, missionary, educator
- Gleason Archer, 1945, evangelical theologian
- James Leo Garrett Jr., 1949, theologian
- James Reeb, 1953, Civil Rights martyr
- Thomas W. Gillespie, 1954, seminary president
- Louis P. Sheldon, 1960
- James Montgomery Boice, 1963
- William H. Gray (Pennsylvania politician), 1970
- Robert B. Sloan, 1973, educator
- Jana Riess, 1994
- William Dembski, Philosopher, Mathematician, and Intelligent Design advocate, 1995
- Rev. Dr. Lu The Nguyen, Esq., 1997, An attorney, historical theologian and ordained as an Episcopal priest.
- William Patterson Alexander, missionary to Hawaii
- Rubem Alves
- Howard Baskerville
- Greg Boyd
- Shane Claiborne (attended but did not graduate)
- Jack Cottrell
- Bart D. Ehrman
- George Forell
- David Otis Fuller
- Timothy Tennent
- Francis James Grimké, African American Presbyterian pastor, co-founder of the NAACP
- John Will Harris, founder of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
- Elmer George Homrighausen
- David McKinney (publisher)
- John Murray (theologian)
- Abune Paulos, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
- Jay Richards
- DeForest Soaries
- Loren Stuckenbruck
- J. G. Vos
- Neil Clark Warren
- Victor Paul Wierwille, Th.M, founding president of The Way International biblical research, teaching and fellowship ministry in New Knoxville, Ohio.
- Bobby Olympic
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