Princeton Theological Seminary - Notable Alumni

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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