15 Notable alumni of Asbury University
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
Asbury University is ranked #3,796 in the world and #1,000 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from Asbury University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Asbury University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Frederick Bohn Fisher
1882-1938 (aged 56)
priest
Frederick Bohn Fisher was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1920. He also gained notability as a pastor, missionary, author, and official in the Methodist missionary and men's movements. He is also one of the founders of the prestigious Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling. The yellow house in Mount Hermon School is named after him as Fisher...
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2. Edward L.R. Elson
1906-1993 (aged 87)
Edward Lee Roy Elson was a Presbyterian minister and Chaplain of the United States Senate.
3. Bill Huffman
1924-2019 (aged 95)
politician
William S. Huffman was an American politician from the state of Michigan. Huffman served as mayor of Madison Heights, Michigan from 1961 to 1963. He then served in the Michigan House of Representatives, where he represented Oakland County's 6th district from 1963 to 1964, and then the 66th state House district from 1965 to 1974. He then served in the...
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4. Gregory F. Van Tatenhove
1960-. (aged 66)
lawyer
judge
Gregory Frederick Van Tatenhove is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. He was a legislative aide of Senator Mitch McConnell, a law clerk for Judge Eugene Edward Siler Jr., the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky (2001–2005), and on the recommendation of Senators Jim Bunning and...
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5. Dennis F. Kinlaw
1922-2017 (aged 95)
academic
Dennis Franklin Kinlaw, was an Old Testament Scholar and former President of Asbury College.
6. Becky Lourey
1943-. (aged 83)
politician
Becky Lourey is an American politician, a former Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) state senator and state representative, and a former Minnesota gubernatorial candidate. Her son Matt served in the U.S. Army and was killed on May 27, 2005, as a result of injuries received in combat over Buhriz, Iraq, where he was serving in his second tour of duty.
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7. Sue Bell Cobb
1956-. (aged 70)
lawyer
judge
Sue Bell Cobb is an American jurist and former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, the first woman to hold that office in Alabama's history. In 2018 she unsuccessfully ran for governor of Alabama losing in the primary to Tuscaloosa mayor Walt Maddox receiving 30 percent of the vote compared to his 52 percent.
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8. Andy Merrill
1966-. (aged 60)
voice actor
singer
Andy Merrill is an American voice actor, television writer and producer best known for his portrayal of the character Brak on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, The Brak Show, and Cartoon Planet; as well as Oglethorpe on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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9. Joe Frank Harris
1936-. (aged 90)
politician
Joseph Franklin Harris is an American businessman and Democratic politician who served as the 78th governor of Georgia from 1983 to 1991.
10. Dean Jones
1931-2015 (aged 84)
singer
television actor
film actor
voice actor
stage actor
Dean Carroll Jones was an American actor. He was best known as the Walt Disney Company's main leading man in the 1970s with his roles as Agent Zeke Kelso in That Darn Cat! (1965), Jim Douglas in the Herbie franchise (1969–1997), and with other film companies such as Dr. Herman Varnick in Beethoven (1992). He was nominated for a Golden...
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11. Ted Strickland
1941-. (aged 85)
university teacher
politician
Theodore Strickland is an American politician who served as the 68th governor of Ohio from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 6th congressional district (1993–1995, 1997–2007). As of 2026, he is the most recent Democrat to serve as governor of Ohio.
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12. Jody Hice
1960-. (aged 66)
radio personality
pastor
politician
Jody Brownlow Hice is an American politician, radio show host, and political activist who served as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 10th congressional district from 2015 to 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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13. J. B. Matthews
1894-1966 (aged 72)
peace activist
Joseph Brown "Doc" Matthews Sr., best known as J. B. Matthews, was an American linguist, educator, writer, and political activist. A committed pacifist, he became a self-described "fellow traveler" of the Communist Party USA in the mid-1930s, achieving national prominence as a leader of a number of the party's so-called "mass organizations". Disillusionment with communism led to anti-communist testimony before...
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14. Joseph R. Pitts
1939-. (aged 87)
business executive
teacher
military officer
politician
Joseph Russell Pitts is a former American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district from 1997 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district was based in Lancaster and Reading and included much of the Amish country. It also included the far southwestern suburbs of Philadelphia in Chester County.
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15. Steve Thurston
1974-. (aged 52)
author
photographer
journalist
Steve Thurston is a Chilean-American journalist, entrepreneur, humanitarian photographer and co-founder, CEO and president of Integrity Ministries (Integridad Network, Inc.), a non-profit media organization.
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