37 Notable alumni of Hanover College
Updated: June 16, 2026 EliteDegrees
Hanover College is ranked #2,247 in the world and #581 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from Hanover College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Hanover College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Amos William Butler
1860-1937 (aged 77)
naturalist
zoologist
ornithologist
writer
Amos William Butler was an American naturalist and prison reformer.
2. Fred V. Archer
1888-1971 (aged 83)
basketball coach
Fred Van Buren Archer was the head football coach for the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team. He compiled an overall record of 2–4. He was born in Vevay, Indiana in 1888.
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3. W. T. Lopp
1864-1939 (aged 75)
writer
William Thomas Lopp, known better professionally as W. T. Lopp, and to his family as Tom Lopp, was a member of the Overland Relief Expedition in Alaska, then a U.S. territory. He was a missionary and advocate of turning native hunters into self-sufficient reindeer herders. Lopp Lagoon, an 18 mi (29 km) long bay near where Lopp lived in Alaska,...
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4. Robert J. Tracewell
1852-1922 (aged 70)
lawyer
judge
politician
Robert John Tracewell was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served one term as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1895 to 1897.
5. Arthur B. Rouse
1874-1956 (aged 82)
lawyer
politician
Arthur Blyth Rouse was a U.S. representative from Kentucky.
6. Edward Porter Humphrey
1809-1886 (aged 77)
Edward Porter Humphrey was an American Presbyterian minister, orator, writer, and moderator of the national Presbyterian General Assembly. He was a planner and co-founder of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
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7. William A. Cullop
1853-1927 (aged 74)
lawyer
politician
William Allen Cullop was an American lawyer, educator, and politician who served four terms as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1909 to 1917.
8. Samuel Gordon Daily
1823-1866 (aged 43)
lawyer
politician
Samuel Gordon Daily was an American politician from the Nebraska Territory.
9. Greenleaf Fisk
1807-1888 (aged 81)
politician
Greenleaf Fisk was a pioneer, known as "the Father of Brownwood, Texas". When a land and water dispute necessitated a new site for Brown County's seat of Brownwood, Fisk donated the land for the new location. He was a military veteran of the Texas Revolution and was a member of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives. Fisk was a...
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10. John Davis Paris
1809-1892 (aged 83)
missionary
John Davis Paris was an American Christian missionary to the island of Hawaii. Coming to the island by accident, he supervised construction of several historic churches, some of which survive today.
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11. Barclay Henley
1843-1914 (aged 71)
lawyer
politician
Barclay Henley was an attorney and politician who served two terms as United States Representative from California from 1883 to 1887.
12. Judith Moffett
1942-. (aged 84)
novelist
science fiction writer
teacher
Judith Moffett is an American author and academic. She has published poetry, non-fiction, science fiction, and translations of Swedish literature. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and presented a paper on the translation of poetry at a 1998 Nobel Symposium.
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13. George F. Whitworth
1816-1907 (aged 91)
university president
missionary
George Frederick Whitworth was an American Presbyterian missionary, educated at Hanover College in Indiana. Whitworth worked as a minister in the Ohio Valley until 1853, when he and his family moved to the Western frontier.
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14. James Kennedy Patterson
1833-1922 (aged 89)
writer
James Kennedy Patterson was an academic who served as the first president of the University of Kentucky. His family immigrated from Scotland to Indiana in 1842 when he was nine years old. He pursued what meager educational opportunities were available in his new home, and eventually attended Hanover College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1856 and...
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15. William Abbott Oldfather
1880-1945 (aged 65)
classical philologist
university teacher
William Abbott Oldfather was an American classical scholar. He was influential for building strong academic traditions in classical studies at the University of Illinois and for his studies of ancient Locris in Greece.
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16. William M. Dunn
1814-1887 (aged 73)
military officer
lawyer
politician
William McKee Dunn was a U.S. representative from Indiana and the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army.
17. Leslie MacDill
1889-1938 (aged 49)
military personnel
Colonel Leslie MacDill was a United States Army Air Corps officer. MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Florida is named in his honor. Colonel MacDill was one of aviation's early pioneers.
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18. Albert G. Porter
1824-1897 (aged 73)
diplomat
lawyer
politician
Albert Gallatin Porter was an American politician who served as the 19th governor of Indiana from 1881 to 1885 and as a United States Congressman from 1859 to 1863. Originally a Democrat, he joined the Republican Party in 1856 after being expelled by the pro-slavery faction of the Democratic Party. Only the second person born in Indiana to become the...
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19. Ebenezer Dumont
1814-1871 (aged 57)
military officer
lawyer
politician
Ebenezer Dumont was a U.S. representative from Indiana, serving two terms from 1863 to 1867. Prior to his service in Congress, he was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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20. Charles Reid Barnes
1858-1910 (aged 52)
botanical collector
botanist
scientific collector
writer
university teacher
Charles Reid Barnes was an American botanist specializing in bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts). He was co-editor of the Botanical Gazette for over 25 years.
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21. Walter L. Fisher
1862-1935 (aged 73)
lawyer
politician
Walter Lowrie Fisher was United States Secretary of the Interior under President William Howard Taft from 1911 to 1913.
22. Brett Dietz
1981-. (aged 45)
American football player
Brett Dietz is an American college football coach and former quarterback. He is the head football coach for DePauw University, a position he has held since 2020. Dietz played college football at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana and professionally with several teams including the Turku Trojans in Finland Vaahteraliiga and in Arena Football League (AFL), Af2, and the National Indoor...
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23. Lafe Pence
1857-1923 (aged 66)
lawyer
judge
politician
Lafayette Pence (December 23, 1857 – October 22, 1923) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Colorado from 1893 to 1895.
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24. Algernon Sydney Sullivan
1826-1887 (aged 61)
lawyer
Algernon Sydney Sullivan was an American lawyer noted for his role in the business law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.
25. John Merle Coulter
1851-1928 (aged 77)
botanical collector
scientific collector
writer
mycologist
botanist
John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. was an American botanist and educator. In his career in education administration, Coulter is notable for serving as the president of Indiana University and Lake Forest College and the head of the Department of Botany at the University of Chicago.
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26. George Washington Brackenridge
1832-1920 (aged 88)
businessperson
suffragist
George Washington Brackenridge was a philanthropist and the longest-serving Regent for the University of Texas. His donations of time, land holdings and wealth expanded the university and provided educational opportunities for women and other minorities. He was an advocate of women's suffrage and women's educational opportunities. He was also a business man who made his initial wealth as a profiteer...
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27. William Hayden English
1822-1896 (aged 74)
historian
lawyer
politician
writer
William Hayden English was an American politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1853 to 1861 and was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1880.
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28. Walter LaFeber
1933-2021 (aged 88)
historian
writer
Walter Fredrick LaFeber was an American academic who served as the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University. Previous to that he served as the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell.
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29. Harvey Washington Wiley
1844-1930 (aged 86)
writer
chemist
Harvey Washington Wiley was an American physician and chemist who advocated successfully for the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and subsequently worked at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories. He was the first commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration. Wiley's advocacy for stricter food and drug regulations indirectly contributed to Coca-Cola's decision...
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30. Eric Holcomb
1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Eric Holcomb is an American politician who served as the 51st governor of Indiana, from 2017 to 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2016 to 2017 as the 51st lieutenant governor of Indiana under Governor Mike Pence, who left the governorship in 2017 to become the vice president of the United States. Holcomb was nominated to...
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31. Thomas A. Hendricks
1819-1885 (aged 66)
lawyer
politician
Thomas Andrews Hendricks was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United States from March 1885 until his death in November of that year. Hendricks represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1851–1855) and the U.S. Senate (1863–1869). He also...
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32. Micah Shrewsberry
1976-. (aged 50)
basketball coach
basketball player
Micah William Shrewsberry is an American basketball coach and former college basketball player who is the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). He previously served as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions.
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33. Woody Harrelson
1961-. (aged 65)
voice actor
stage actor
actor
television actor
film actor
Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations. Harrelson received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), and Best...
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34. Mike Pence
1959-. (aged 67)
radio personality
lawyer
politician
Michael Richard Pence is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana from...
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35. Ginnifer Goodwin
1978-. (aged 48)
stage actor
television actor
voice actor
actor
film actor
Ginnifer Goodwin is an American actress. She starred as Margene Heffman in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), Snow White / Mary Margaret Blanchard in the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2011–2018), Judy Hopps in Zootopia (2016) and its 2025 sequel, and Beth Ann Stanton in Why Women Kill (2019).
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36. John Green
1807-1887 (aged 80)
lawyer
judge
politician
John Lincoln Green was an American professional football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played five seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1947 to 1951. He went to one Pro Bowl during his five-year career. Green played college football at the University of Tulsa and was selected in the sixteenth round of the 1944 NFL draft.
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37. Jonathan Edwards
1817-1891 (aged 74)
educator
David Jonathan Edwards is a Welsh politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr from 2010 to 2024. Initially elected as a Plaid Cymru MP. He sat as an Independent MP after the party's disciplinary panel suspended him in 2020. His membership of Plaid was restored in July 2022, and the whip was returned...
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