25 Notable alumni of Biola University
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Biola University is ranked #2,203 in the world and #564 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Biola 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 Biola University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Adam Christing
1964-. (aged 62)
writer
film director
Adam Christing is an American comedian, author, and motivational speaker from La Mirada, California. He is the founder and president of Clean Comedians, an organization composed of comedians, speakers, and entertainers who refrain from using objectionable material and profanity during their performances.
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2. Russ Hiebert
1969-. (aged 57)
lawyer
businessperson
politician
Russel "Russ" Hiebert is a Canadian lawyer, politician and businessman. He was the Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale from 2004 to 2015. He was born in Steinbach, Manitoba. He has a BA from Biola University, and an MBA and LL.B from the University of British Columbia. Hiebert was a practicing lawyer...
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3. Robert Pierce
1960-. (aged 66)
basketball coach
Robert Pierce is an American former professional basketball coach. He was the head coach for Sun Rockers Shibuya (1997–2001), Shiga Lakestars (2008–2010), Akita Northern Happinets (2010–2011), and the Sendai 89ers (2011–2013) in Japan and a former college basketball assistant coach for University of Southern California.
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4. Aaron Sams
teacher
Aaron Sams is one of the developers of the flipped classroom model for education, which seeks to shift lecture from classroom onto video so that teachers can dedicate class time to more interactive activities and extra help. Sams developed the idea with fellow chemistry teacher Jonathan Bergmann at Woodland Park High School, at first to help students who fell behind...
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5. Dennis Linthicum
politician
Dennis Linthicum is an American politician who served in the Oregon Senate from 2017 until 2025. He is a member of the Republican Party.
6. Mark Joseph
1968-. (aged 58)
composer
music historian
film producer
record producer
Mark Joseph is an American multimedia producer, author, and founder/CEO of MJM Entertainment Group and Bully! Pulpit. He lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and children.
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7. David Eastman
1981-. (aged 45)
military officer
firefighter
paramedic
politician
David C. Eastman Jr. is a former Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing District 27 until January 2025. He originally represented District 10 from 2017 until 2022. His career has been marked by various controversial statements and political positions.
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8. Michael Cranford
1963-. (aged 63)
engineer
Michael Cranford is a video game designer and programmer. As a designer and programmer his works include The Bard's Tale, The Bard's Tale II, and Dark Seed. Cranford left the video game industry in 1992 to pursue an academic career as an ethicist.
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9. Todd Worrell
1959-. (aged 67)
baseball player
Todd Roland Worrell is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played all or part of eleven seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball, serving as those teams' closer for most of his seasons from 1985 through 1997. During his playing career, Worrell was a three-time National League (NL) All-Star.
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10. Josh Staumont
1993-. (aged 33)
baseball player
Joshua Tyler Staumont is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Cincinnati Reds organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals and Minnesota Twins. He made his MLB debut in 2019.
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11. George Bell
1957-2025 (aged 68)
basketball player
George Bell, Jr. was an American basketball player, known for his tall stature of 7 ft 8 in (2.34 m). Guinness World Records recognized him as the tallest person in the United States in 2007. Bell played basketball as a college student and as a professional, signing with the Harlem Wizards. After his retirement from competitive sports, he worked as...
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12. Solomon Mercado
1984-. (aged 42)
basketball player
Solomon Jemuel Rayos Mercado is a Filipino-American former professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Known as the "Sol-Train", he had an impressive PBA rookie season and eventually became a reliable point guard for most of the teams he played for.
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13. Judith Hill
1984-. (aged 42)
singer
Judith Glory Hill is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California. She has provided backing vocals for such artists as Michael Jackson, Prince, and Josh Groban. In 2009, Hill was chosen as Jackson's duet partner for the song "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" during his This Is It rehearsals. After Jackson's death in 2009, she, along with the rest...
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14. Steve Bridges
1963-2012 (aged 49)
actor
comedian
film actor
impressionist
Stephen Lynn Bridges was an American comedian who was known for his impressions of politicians, television characters and broadcasters including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barney Fife, Homer Simpson, Tom Brokaw, Paul Harvey, and Rush Limbaugh.
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15. Noah Munck
1996-. (aged 30)
comedian
television actor
YouTuber
rapper
film actor
Noah Bryant Munck is an American actor, musician and YouTuber. He is best known for his roles as Gibby in the Nickelodeon series iCarly and "Naked" Rob Smith in the ABC comedy series The Goldbergs. He also releases music under the aliases Sadworldbeats and Noah Praise God and creates independent comedy videos on YouTube.
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16. Scott Derrickson
1966-. (aged 60)
screenwriter
director
film director
writer
film producer
Scott Derrickson is an American filmmaker. He is known for his work in the horror genre, directing films such as The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Sinister (2012), The Black Phone (2021), and its sequel, Black Phone 2 (2025). He is also known for the superhero film Doctor Strange (2016), based on the Marvel Comics character.
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17. Zach King
1990-. (aged 36)
film director
film editor
film producer
executive producer
actor
Zachary Michael King is an American internet personality and filmmaker known for creating short videos featuring visual effects. He began posting content on YouTube in 2008 and gained widespread recognition on Vine in 2013 for his six-second "magic vines." King later expanded his presence to TikTok, where he has amassed tens of millions of followers for his digitally edited videos,...
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18. Harry Rimmer
1890-1952 (aged 62)
evangelist
pastor
Harry Rimmer was an American evangelist and creationist. He is most prominent as a defender of creationism in the United States, a fundamentalist leader and writer of anti-evolution publications.
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19. Danny Yamashiro
1967-. (aged 59)
missionary
religious writer
autobiographer
evangelist
radio personality
Daniel Keauhou Matsu Yamashiro is an American author, guest lecturer at Harvard, a chaplain at MIT, researcher, clergyman, and podcast host who survived a 400-foot (120-meter) fall from the Nuʻuanu Pali ridge in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 18. He is the first scholar to present aggregate data on childhood trauma as it relates to American presidents. Yamashiro also produced the first...
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20. John Thune
1961-. (aged 65)
railway executive
businessperson
politician
John Randolph Thune is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Dakota, a seat he has held since 2005. From 1997 to 2003, he was the U.S. representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district. A Republican, Thune has been the Senate majority leader and Senate Republican leader since January 2025.
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21. Daniel B. Wallace
1952-. (aged 74)
writer
theologian
Daniel Baird Wallace is an American professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is also the founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, the purpose of which is digitizing all known Greek manuscripts of the New Testament via digital photographs.
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22. Nabeel Qureshi
1983-2017 (aged 34)
missionary
writer
Nabeel Asif Qureshi was a Pakistani-American evangelical Christian apologist. Raised in a devout Ahmadi Muslim family, Qureshi converted to Christianity as a university student following several years of debate with David Wood.
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23. Cassie Randolph
1995-. (aged 31)
reality television participant
speech and language therapist
Cassie Randolph is an American television personality who came to national prominence in 2019, as the winner of season 23 of The Bachelor, starring Colton Underwood.
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24. Steve Taylor
1957-. (aged 69)
songwriter
film director
film producer
singer
Steve Taylor is an English author, lecturer and researcher in psychology, who has written many books on psychology and spirituality, as well as books of poetry. He is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and has been the chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society.
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25. Sikhanyiso Dlamini
1987-. (aged 39)
politician
business executive
Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini is a Swazi princess and politician. She is the eldest daughter of King Mswati III of Eswatini, and is the country's former Minister of Information and Communication Technology.
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