33 Notable alumni of Fuller Theological Seminary
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Fuller Theological Seminary is ranked #2,210 in the world and #567 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from Fuller Theological Seminary sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Fuller Theological Seminary won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Augustin Ahimana
1955-. (aged 71)
Augustin Murekezi Ahimana is a Rwandan Anglican bishop. He is a bishop in the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda. He is Head of Planning and Development for the Province of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda. Bishop Ahimana built a team for the Athens Olympics in 2004. He was consecrated bishop of the Kivu Diocese on 21 December 2008.
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2. Peter Brain
1947-. (aged 79)
Catholic priest
Peter Robert Brain is a retired bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. He was Bishop of Armidale from 2000 until April 2012.
3. Verna M. Linzey
1919-2016 (aged 97)
writer
Verna May Linzey was an American Evangelical theologian, a Southern Baptist, and the author of numerous Bibles and books. She was the chief editor of the New Tyndale Version, author of the introductions to the books of the Bible in the Modern English Version Bible (MEV), translator of the Book of Proverbs for the MEV, and she was on the...
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4. Lindsay James
politician
Lindsay James is an American politician and Presbyterian minister serving as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 71st district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party and represents part of Dubuque County.
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5. Joseph Cumming
philosopher
Joseph Cumming is an American scholar specializing in Islamic and Christian thought. He serves as International Director of the Woodberry Intercultural Institute and as Research Faculty at Fuller Theological Seminary. He previously worked at Yale University as Director of the Reconciliation Program at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and taught courses at Yale Divinity School. He later served...
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6. James L. Papandrea
1963-. (aged 63)
songwriter
James L. Papandrea is an author, Catholic theologian, historian, speaker, and singer/songwriter. He is professor of church history and historical theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois (on the campus of Northwestern University), and formerly taught at the Archdiocese of Chicago's Institute for Diaconal Studies.
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7. James F. Linzey
1958-. (aged 68)
theologian
Bible translator
translator
James F. Linzey, M.Div. is an American ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention. The chief editor and executive director of the Modern English Version Bible, he is the author of The United States Space Force Hymn, Creator of the Universe.
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8. Alan T. Baker
1956-. (aged 70)
military officer
Rear Admiral Alan T. Baker, USN, is a retired American Navy officer who served as the 16th Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps from 2006 to 2009. Chaplain Baker was the first graduate of the United States Naval Academy and former Surface Warfare Officer to serve as a Chaplain Corps Flag Officer. Following his military career, Baker served as...
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9. Ché Ahn
1956-. (aged 70)
writer
political activist
religious writer
pastor
Ché Ahn is a Korean American evangelical pastor who founded Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, California, in 1994 with his wife Sue Ahn as a small multi-ethnic congregation that has grown into a large church emphasizing supernatural experiences, love, and equipping believers for revival and societal reformation while also establishing Harvest International Ministry in 1996 as an apostolic network that...
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10. Samuel Chu
1978-. (aged 48)
activist
Samuel Chu Muk-man is a Hong Kong and American activist and community organizer. Chu is the founder and President of The Campaign for Hong Kong, a US-based nonpartisan organization whose mission is to advocate for American leadership and policies that advance human rights and democracy in Hong Kong. He is also a founding member of the advisory board of the...
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11. Gregory C. Horn
1953-. (aged 73)
military officer
Gregory Curtis Horn is a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. He retired in 2013 as 17th Deputy Chief of Chaplains for Reserve Matters and Director of Religious Programs, Marine Forces Reserve.
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12. Rick Warren
1954-. (aged 72)
theologian
pastor
writer
Richard Duane Warren is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder of Saddleback Church, an evangelical Baptist megachurch in Lake Forest, California. Since 2022, he serves as executive director of the Finishing the Task mission coalition.
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13. James Brenneman
James E. Brenneman is the president of Berkeley School of Theology, Berkeley, CA, one of the founding seminaries of the Graduate Theological Union. Prior to coming to Berkeley School of Theology in 2017, Jim was the twelfth president of Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana from 2006 to 2017.
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14. David Faust
1955-. (aged 71)
pastor
David Faust was the seventh president of Cincinnati Christian University. He is now the Associate Minister at East 91st Street Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he previously served as the Senior Minister from 1999 to 2002.
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15. Jon Dybdahl
1942-2023 (aged 81)
writer
Jon Lee Dybdahl was a professor of theology and a college administrator who served as president of Walla Walla University from 2002 until 2006.
16. Michael Peter Woroniecki
1954-. (aged 72)
missionary
American football player
Michael Peter Woroniecki is an American evangelical street preacher who has been described as a cult leader. Woroniecki is well known for his ministry on college campuses and at various public events across the US over the span of the last 30 years.
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17. Wes Modder
1966-2021 (aged 55)
military chaplain
Wesley James Modder was an American retired United States Marine Corps officer and military chaplain in the United States Navy. Modder was also occasionally an author in ETHOS, a US Navy newsletter.
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18. Mark L. Tidd
1955-2025 (aged 70)
military officer
Mark Luzerne Tidd was a former United States Navy officer who served as the 25th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy from 2010 to 2014.
19. Tony Jones
1968-. (aged 58)
theologian
Tony Jones is a leader in the Christian emerging church movement, a theologian, and an author.
20. C. Peter Wagner
1930-2016 (aged 86)
theologian
missionary
writer
Charles Peter Wagner was an American missionary, writer, teacher and founder of several Independent Charismatic Christian organizations. He is known for leading and building the New Apostolic Reformation, a network in the Apostolic-Prophetic movement. In his earlier years, Wagner was known as a key leader of the Church Growth Movement and later for his writings on spiritual warfare.
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21. John C. Maxwell
1947-. (aged 79)
opinion journalist
writer
orator
motivational speaker
pastor
John C. Maxwell is an American author, speaker, and pastor who has written books primarily focused on leadership. Titles include The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. Some of his books have been on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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22. Bill Bright
1921-2003 (aged 82)
writer
theologian
William R. Bright was an American evangelist. In 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles, he founded Campus Crusade for Christ as a ministry for university students. In 1952 he wrote The Four Spiritual Laws. In 1979 he produced the film Jesus.
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23. Thomas Talbott
philosopher
Thomas Talbott is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. He is best known for his advocacy of trinitarian universalism.
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24. Richard Foster
1942-. (aged 84)
author
theologian
Richard James Foster is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience. Born in 1942 in New Mexico, Foster spent the majority of his childhood growing up in Southern California. Foster has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. Foster resides in Denver, Colorado. He earned...
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25. Mel White
1940-. (aged 86)
writer
film director
university teacher
theologian
James Melville White is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting autobiographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994 and...
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26. Jay Smith
1954-. (aged 72)
Jay Smith is an American polemicist of Islam. Since 1983, he has been a full-time missionary with the Brethren in Christ Church with a focus on polemics among the Muslims of London.
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27. Richard Carr
1925-2002 (aged 77)
military officer
Richard Carr was Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force.
28. Steven A. Schaick
1958-. (aged 68)
military personnel
Steven Alan Schaick is a retired major general in the United States Air Force, and an ordained Presbyterian minister, who last served as the 19th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force. He previously served as the 25th Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force, Headquarters U. S. Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. As the...
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29. James White
1962-. (aged 64)
theologian
James White was a Canadian geographer. White studied geology at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. In 1883, he became the Geographer and Chief Draftsman for the Geological Survey of Canada. White and a team of 20 cartographers produced the first edition of the Atlas of Canada in 1906.
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30. Rob Bell
1970-. (aged 56)
pastor
author
non-fiction writer
theologian
Rob Bell is a British TV presenter and STEMnet ambassador. He has appeared on TV programmes on BBC, Channel 5, Travel Channel (now DMAX) and Yesterday.
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31. John Piper
1946-. (aged 80)
pastor
theologian
John Stephen Piper is a Reformed Baptist theologian and retired pastor. Specializing in New Testament studies, he is chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Piper taught biblical studies at Bethel University for six years (1974–1980), before serving as pastor for preaching and vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church (Converge) in Minneapolis for 33 years (1980–2013).
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32. Miroslav Volf
1956-. (aged 70)
university teacher
theologian
non-fiction writer
Miroslav Volf is a Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale University. He previously taught at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in his native Osijek, Croatia (1979–80, 1983–90) and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (1990–1998).
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33. Michael Youssef
1948-. (aged 78)
pastor
televangelist
writer
Michael Youssef is an Egyptian-American pastor. He is the founding rector and senior pastor of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia, and the executive president of Leading the Way.
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