Notable Alumni of Princeton Theological Seminary [Sorted List]

1. James D. Moffat

1846-1916 (aged 70)

James David Moffat was the 3rd president of Washington & Jefferson College.

2. William Cassaday Cattell

1827-1898 (aged 71)

clergyman

Rev. William Cassady Cattell D.D., LL.D was a Presbyterian divine and educator of the United States and the 7th president of Lafayette College.

3. Charles Clinton Beatty

1800-1882 (aged 82)

religious figure

Charles Clinton Beatty was a Presbyterian minister, seminary founder, and academic philanthropist.

4. Jacqueline Lapsley

1965-. (aged 61)

academic

Jacqueline E. Lapsley serves as President, and Professor of Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary, and served as Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS). Her research interests lie in various fields, including literary theory, ethics (with a specific focus on creation ethics), theological anthropology, and gender theory. These disciplines...

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5. John Alexis Edgren

1839-1908 (aged 69)

military officer

John Alexis Edgren was a Swedish-American Baptist minister. Edgren began what eventually evolved into Bethel University and the Bethel Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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6. John Davis Pierce

1797-1882 (aged 85)

university teacher politician

John Davis Pierce was an American minister, educator and politician. He was Michigan's first superintendent of public schools, a position new to the United States, where he established Michigan's public school system. His work has been compared to that of Horace Mann's.

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7. Baynard Rush Hall

1798-1863 (aged 65)

classical scholar theologian

Baynard Rush Hall was an American academic and Christian minister. A native of Pennsylvania, he served churches and academic institutions in the East for most of his life. However, he was a resident of Indiana for several years, during which time he served as the first faculty member of what today is Indiana University.

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8. Joseph Alden

1807-1885 (aged 78)

writer academic stated supply pastor

Joseph Alden was an American academic and Presbyterian pastor.

9. Lincoln Hurst

1946-2008 (aged 62)

religious studies scholar

Lincoln Douglas Hurst, also known as L. D. Hurst, was an American scholar of the Bible, religious history and film. He was Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Davis (1983–2006), and adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California (1987–2008).

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10. John Finley Crowe

1787-1860 (aged 73)

teacher Christian minister

John Finley Crowe was a Presbyterian minister and the founder of Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana.

11. Frederick H. Borsch

1935-2017 (aged 82)

priest

Frederick Houk Borsch was the Episcopal bishop of Los Angeles from 1988 to 2002, then served as interim dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University and chair of Anglican studies at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.

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12. Neil M. Stevenson

1930-2009 (aged 79)

military personnel Christian minister

Neil MacGill Stevenson was a rear admiral and Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy.

13. Basil Manly, Jr

1825-1892 (aged 67)

theologian

Basil Manly Jr. was an American Baptist minister and educator. He was one of a group of theologians instrumental in the formation of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in South Carolina.

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14. Caleb Cook Baldwin

1820-1911 (aged 91)

missionary

Caleb Cook Baldwin was one of the first Congregationalist missionaries to Fuzhou, China.

15. Derek Browning

1962-. (aged 64)

civil servant

Derek Browning is a minister of the Church of Scotland, who was the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from May 2017 to May 2018

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16. Jonathan Townley Crane

1819-1880 (aged 61)

cleric

Jonathan Townley Crane was an American clergyman, author and abolitionist. He was born in Connecticut Farms, in Union Township, New Jersey, and is most widely known as the father of writer Stephen Crane.

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17. Stephen Alexander

1806-1883 (aged 77)

university teacher author astronomer

Stephen Alexander was an American astronomer and educator.

18. Peter Johnson Gulick

1796-1877 (aged 81)

missionary

Peter Johnson Gulick was a missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii and Japan. His descendants carried on the tradition of missionary work, and included several scientists.

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19. Brian Blount

1955-. (aged 71)

Christian minister teacher biblical scholar

Brian K. Blount is a Presbyterian minister, New Testament scholar and past President of Union Presbyterian Seminary. He is a preacher and scholar on the Book of Revelation.

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20. Samuel Laws

1824-1921 (aged 97)

inventor

Samuel Spahr Laws was an American minister, professor, physician, college president, businessman and inventor best known today as the inventor of the Laws Gold Indicator, a predecessor of the ticker tape machine. He was an 1848 graduate and class valedictorian of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a member of the Alpha chapter of Beta Theta Pi, founded nine years...

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21. Earl F. Palmer

1931-2023 (aged 92)

Christian minister

Earl Frank Palmer was an American Presbyterian minister and Reverend. He served in pastoral ministries at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Union Church in Manila, First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, and The National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. Palmer was known for his expositional preaching and teaching style. He had a strong interest in pursuing theological themes that are present...

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22. William Buell Sprague

1795-1876 (aged 81)

historian theologian biographer

William Buell Sprague was an American Congregational and Presbyterian clergyman and compiler of Annals of the American Pulpit (nine volumes, 1857–1869), a comprehensive biographical dictionary of the leading American Protestant Christian ministers who died before 1850.

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23. Samuel Hugh Moffett

1916-2015 (aged 99)

university teacher church historian historian Christian missionary missionary

Samuel Hugh Moffett was an American Christian missionary and academic who latterly served as professor emeritus at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He was regarded as a leading scholar on Christianity in Asia, and was the author of numerous publications, including the two-volume series of A History of Christianity in Asia.

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24. William Patterson Alexander

1805-1884 (aged 79)

missionary

William Patterson Alexander was an American missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii. His family continued to influence the history of Hawaii.

25. John Livingston Nevius

1829-1893 (aged 64)

missionary writer

John Livingston Nevius was an American Protestant missionary in China for forty years, appointed by the American Presbyterian Mission; his ideas on mission organization were also very important in the spread of the church in Korea. He wrote several books on the themes of Chinese religions, customs and social life, and missionary work.

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26. Sherwood Eddy

1871-1963 (aged 92)

missionary evangelist

George Sherwood Eddy was an American Protestant missionary, administrator and educator. He authored numerous works and traveled extensively to promote dialogue and understanding between missionaries and local communities, particularly in Asia and the Middle East. He played a role in establishing networks of Christian intellectuals across different regions. His contributions to Protestant communities in the United States and abroad have...

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27. Phineas Densmore Gurley

1816-1868 (aged 52)

Phineas Densmore Gurley was Chaplain of the United States Senate and pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.

28. Heup Young Kim

1949-. (aged 77)

teacher theologian

Heup Young Kim is a Korean Christian theologian and a scholar of East Asian religions, particularly Confucianism and Daoism (scholar). He specializes in Asian constructive theology, interfaith dialogue, religion and science (books), and is a leading proponent and architect of the Theology of Dao (Theo-dao), which integrates Christian theology with East Asian wisdom traditions.

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29. William Imbrie

1845-1928 (aged 83)

missionary

William Miller Kisselman Imbrie was an American missionary to Japan.

30. David Trumbull

1819-1889 (aged 70)

missionary

David Trumbull was an early Protestant missionary in Chile and the founder of the Presbyterian Church in that country.

31. Herbert Adams Gibbons

1880-1934 (aged 54)

journalist

Herbert Adams Gibbons was an American missionary and journalist who wrote about international politics and European colonialism during the early 20th century.

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32. James Waddel Alexander

1804-1859 (aged 55)

theologian pastor clergyman

James Waddel Alexander was an American Presbyterian minister and theologian who followed in the footsteps of his father, the Reverend Archibald Alexander.

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33. Theodore S. Wright

1797-1847 (aged 50)

politician preacher Christian minister abolitionist pastor

Theodore Sedgwick Wright, sometimes Theodore Sedgewick Wright, was an African-American abolitionist and minister who was active in New York City, where he led the First Colored Presbyterian Church as its second pastor. He was the first African American to attend Princeton Theological Seminary (and any United States theological seminary), from which he graduated in 1828 or 1829. In 1833 he...

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34. 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.

35. Joseph P. Watkins

1954-. (aged 72)

Joe Watkins is an American pastor of the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. He is a Philadelphia-based Republican media analyst who often appears on MSNBC, and is host of Joe Watkins: State of Independence on Lighthouse TV. He has been married to Stephanie Taylor Watkins since 1975. They have three children.

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36. Jonathan Lee Walton

1973-. (aged 53)

teacher theologian

Jonathan Lee Walton is an American author, ethicist and religious scholar. He is the president of Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. He was previously the dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Presidential Chair in Religion & Society and Dean of Wait Chapel. He is the author of A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in...

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37. Noble Leslie DeVotie

1838-1861 (aged 23)

Noble Leslie DeVotie was a Baptist minister, Confederate chaplain, and the lead founder of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a national fraternity.

38. Paul C. H. Lim

1967-. (aged 59)

historian

Paul Chang-Ha Lim an American ecclesiastical historian who serves as Professor of the Humanities at The Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. His main research involves the intellectual history and historical theology of Reformation and post-Reformation England.

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39. Samuel Simon Schmucker

1799-1873 (aged 74)

theologian

Samuel Simon Schmucker was a German-American Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was integral to the founding of the Lutheran church body known as the General Synod, as well as the oldest continuously operating Lutheran seminary (Gettysburg Seminary) and college in North America (Gettysburg College).

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40. Caspar René Gregory

1846-1917 (aged 71)

theologian university teacher textual criticism of the New Testament philologist translator

Caspar René Gregory was an American-German theologian.

41. Ronald C. White

1939-. (aged 87)

writer

Ronald Cedric "Ron" White Jr. is an American historian, author, and lecturer. He has written bestselling and award-winning biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, as well as three other books on Lincoln and a biography of Joshua Chamberlain. He is a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum.

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42. Eugene Carson Blake

1906-1985 (aged 79)

theologian

Eugene Carson Blake was an American Presbyterian Church leader.

43. Francis Landey Patton

1843-1932 (aged 89)

writer theologian

Francis Landey Patton was a Bermudian-American educator, Presbyterian minister, academic administrator, and theologian, and served as the twelfth president of Princeton University.

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44. D. Michael Lindsay

1971-. (aged 55)

sociologist

David Michael Lindsay is an American sociologist and the president of Taylor University. He was also president of Gordon College, a private, evangelical Christian liberal arts college on Boston's North Shore from 2011 to 2021. Before arriving at Gordon, Lindsay was on faculty for five years at Rice University and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. He...

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45. John Grier Hibben

1861-1933 (aged 72)

logician educator philosopher

John Grier Hibben was a Presbyterian minister, a philosopher, and educator. He served as president of Princeton University from 1912–1932, succeeding Woodrow Wilson and implementing many of the reforms started by Wilson. His term as President began after the term of Acting Princeton President Stewart, who served for two years after Wilson's departure.

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46. Archibald Alexander Hodge

1823-1886 (aged 63)

university teacher theologian

Archibald Alexander Hodge, an American Presbyterian minister, was the principal of Princeton Seminary between 1878 and 1886.

47. John Alexander Mackay

1889-1983 (aged 94)

missionary philosopher university teacher theologian

John A. Mackay was a Presbyterian theologian, missionary, and educator. He was a strong advocate of the Ecumenical Movement and World Christianity.

48. Mar Aprem Mooken

1940-2025 (aged 85)

priest

Mar Aprem Mooken was a prelate who served as the Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East (Classical Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ ܕܐܬܘܖ̈ܝܐ) in India (Chaldean Syrian Church).

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49. Woodrow M. Kroll

1944-. (aged 82)

radio personality

Woodrow Michael Kroll is an evangelical preacher and radio host. He was the president and Bible teacher for the international Back to the Bible radio and television ministry. He was president of Davis College (formerly Practical Bible College) in Johnson City, New York, United States.

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50. Chang Sang

1939-. (aged 87)

university teacher politician

Chang Sang is a South Korean academic and politician who briefly served as the first female prime minister of South Korea when president Kim Dae-jung reshuffled his cabinet in July 2002.

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51. Henry Augustus Boardman

1808-1880 (aged 72)

cleric

Henry Augustus Boardman was an American minister and author.

52. Arthur Tappan Pierson

1837-1911 (aged 74)

missionary writer

Arthur Tappan Pierson was an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, missionary and writer who preached over 13,000 sermons, wrote over fifty books, and gave Bible lectures as part of a transatlantic preaching ministry that made him famous in Scotland, England, and Korea. He was a consulting editor for the original "Scofield Reference Bible" (1909) for his friend, C. I. Scofield...

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53. Tony Jones

1968-. (aged 58)

theologian

Tony Jones is a leader in the Christian emerging church movement, a theologian, and an author.

54. Richard Falley Cleveland

1804-1853 (aged 49)

Richard Falley Cleveland was an American Congregationalist and Presbyterian minister. A graduate of Yale College and Princeton Theological Seminary, Cleveland spent most of his life as a pastor, outside of a brief period as a district secretary for the American Home Missionary Society. He was the father of Grover Cleveland, who served as President of the United States twice.

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55. Robert A. J. Gagnon

1958-. (aged 68)

university teacher theologian

Robert A. J. Gagnon is an American theological writer, professor of New Testament Theology at Houston Baptist University (since 2018), former associate professor of the New Testament at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (1994–2017), and an elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD...

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56. Geerhardus Vos

1862-1949 (aged 87)

theologian

Geerhardus Johannes Vos was a Dutch-American Calvinist theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology. He is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical theology.

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57. Fred Thomson

1890-1928 (aged 38)

athletics competitor actor film actor theologian

Frederick Clifton Thomson was an American silent film cowboy who rivaled Tom Mix in popularity before dying at age 38 of tetanus.

58. Marilyn McCord Adams

1943-2017 (aged 74)

university teacher theologian philosopher Christian minister priestess

Marilyn McCord Adams was an American philosopher and Episcopal priest. She specialized in the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and medieval philosophy. She was Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School from 1998 to 2003 and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2009.

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59. John Gresham Machen

1881-1937 (aged 56)

peace activist biblical scholar university teacher theologian

John Gresham Machen was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar and educator in the early 20th century. He was the Professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary between 1906 and 1929, and led a revolt against modernist theology at Princeton and formed Westminster Theological Seminary as a more orthodox alternative. As the Northern Presbyterian Church continued to reject conservative attempts...

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60. Margaret G. Kibben

1960-. (aged 66)

military chaplain military officer

Margaret Grun Kibben is an American Presbyterian minister who is the acting chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Speaker Mike Johnson appointed Kibben as acting House chaplain on January 3, 2025. Johnson also stated that he is going to be replacing Kibben in the coming weeks.

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61. Robert Merrihew Adams

1937-2024 (aged 87)

university teacher theologian philosopher

Robert Merrihew Adams FBA was an American analytic philosopher. He specialized in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and the history of early modern philosophy.

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62. Charles Hodge

1797-1878 (aged 81)

university teacher theologian

Charles Hodge was a Presbyterian theologian in the area of reformed theology. He was also principal of Princeton Theological Seminary between 1851 and 1878.

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63. Louis Berkhof

1873-1957 (aged 84)

theologian

Louis Berkhof was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian whose works on systematic theology have been influential in North American seminaries and Bible colleges throughout the 20th century.

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64. Greg Boyd

1957-. (aged 69)

writer theologian

Gregory A. Boyd is an American theologian, Anabaptist pastor, and author. Boyd is Senior Pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, and President of Reknew.org. He is one of the leading spokesmen in the growing Neo-Anabaptism movement, which is based in the tradition of Anabaptism and advocates Christian pacifism and a non-violent understanding of God.

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65. William A. Dembski

1960-. (aged 66)

theologian writer computer scientist philosopher mathematician

William Albert Dembski is an American mathematician, philosopher, and theologian. He was a proponent of intelligent design (ID), a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God. He coined the intelligent design argument of specified complexity.

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66. B. B. Warfield

1851-1921 (aged 70)

university teacher theologian writer

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was an American professor of Reformed theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921. He served as the last principal of the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1886 to 1902. After the death of Warfield in office, Francis Landey Patton took over the functions of the office as the first president of seminary. Some conservative Presbyterians consider him...

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67. Howard Baskerville

1885-1909 (aged 24)

teacher

Howard Conklin Baskerville was an American missionary teacher. His life ambition was to become a pastor. He worked as a teacher employed by the American missionaries at the American Memorial School in Tabriz, a Presbyterian mission school, and was killed during the Persian constitutional revolution in an attempt to break the siege of Tabriz. He is often referred to as...

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68. Cornelius van Til

1895-1987 (aged 92)

university teacher theologian

Cornelius Van Til was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian, who is credited as being the originator of modern presuppositional apologetics. Van Til and his work heavily influenced Christian reconstructionist theologians like Greg Bahnsen and R.J. Rushdoony.

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69. Elijah Parish Lovejoy

1802-1837 (aged 35)

journalist editor

Elijah Parish Lovejoy was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. After his murder by a mob, he became a martyr to the abolitionist cause opposing slavery in the United States. He was also hailed as a defender of free speech and freedom of the press.

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70. Jeb Stuart Magruder

1934-2014 (aged 80)

writer politician

Jeb Stuart Magruder was an American businessman and high-level political operative in the Republican Party who served time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal.

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71. 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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72. Henry van Dyke

1852-1933 (aged 81)

diplomat poet writer

Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr. was an American author, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman.

73. Bart D. Ehrman

1955-. (aged 71)

writer philologist university teacher theologian

Bart Denton Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar whose research focuses on the textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or editor of more than...

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74. Dave Brat

1964-. (aged 62)

business consultant economist university teacher politician

David Alan Brat is an American politician and academic who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 7th congressional district from 2014 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 2014 after successfully primarying House majority leader Eric Cantor despite being significantly outspent. Brat served two terms before he narrowly lost re-election in 2018 to...

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75. George Washington Gale

1789-1861 (aged 72)

educator clergyman

George Washington Gale was an American Presbyterian minister who founded the Oneida Institute of Science and Industry. He later purchased land in Illinois that became Galesburg, Illinois, named in his honor, and was instrumental in founding Knox College.

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76. John Williamson Nevin

1803-1886 (aged 83)

theologian

John Williamson Nevin was an American theologian and educator. He was born in the Cumberland Valley, near Shippensburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was the father of noted sculptor and poet Blanche Nevin.

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77. Sheldon Jackson

1834-1909 (aged 75)

missionary

Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and political leader. During this career he travelled about one million miles (1.6 million km) and established more than one hundred missions and churches, mostly in the Western United States. He performed extensive missionary work in Colorado and the Alaska Territory, including his efforts to suppress Native American languages.

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78. Albert Barnes

1798-1870 (aged 72)

theologian preacher writer abolitionist pastor

Albert Barnes was an American theologian, clergyman, abolitionist, temperance advocate, and author. Barnes is best known for his extensive Bible commentary and notes on the Old and New Testaments, published in a total of 14 volumes in the 1830s.

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79. Charles Seymour Robinson

1829-1899 (aged 70)

writer editor

Charles Seymour Robinson, D.D., LL.D.,, was a pastor, and an editor and compiler of hymns.

80. Henry Martyn Baird

1832-1906 (aged 74)

historian writer

Henry Martyn Baird was an American historian and educator. He is best known as a historian of the Huguenots.

81. George Forell

1919-2011 (aged 92)

theologian

George Wolfgang Forell was the Carver Distinguished Chair of Religion in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. He was a scholar, author, and lecturer in the field of Christian ethics.

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82. Charles McEwen Hyde

1832-1899 (aged 67)

missionary

Charles McEwen Hyde was a Congregationalist missionary who arrived in Hawaii in 1877. He was instrumental in establishing and supporting schools to educate and train the Hawaiian population of the time. Hyde mentored native Hawaiians who wanted to enter the Christian ministry, and he helped provide smallpox vaccinations for the population. He was a descendant of Scottish Covenanters, and one...

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83. Conrad Tillard

1964-. (aged 62)

religious leader politician Christian minister activist imam

Conrad Bennette Tillard is an American Baptist minister, radio host, activist, politician, and author.

84. Richard C. Halverson

1916-1995 (aged 79)

Christian minister author theologian

Richard Christian Halverson was an American Presbyterian minister and author who served as the chaplain of the United States Senate.

85. Robert D. Workman

1885-1977 (aged 92)

military personnel Christian minister

Robert DuBois Workman was the U.S. Navy chief of chaplains during most of World War II from 1937 to 1945 and oversaw an increase of chaplains from less than 90 to more than 2800. He was of the Presbyterian faith. Workman was the first Chief of Chaplains to be promoted to rear admiral while still on active duty.

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86. John L. Withrow

1837-1909 (aged 72)

theologian

John Lindsay Withrow was an American Presbyterian minister and theologian.

87. Ralph Cooper Hutchison

1898-1966 (aged 68)

missionary

Ralph Cooper Hutchison was president of Washington & Jefferson College and Lafayette College.

88. William Henry Green

1825-1900 (aged 75)

university teacher theologian

William Henry Green, was an American scholar of the Hebrew language. He was born in Groveville, near Bordentown, New Jersey.

89. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg

1818-1901 (aged 83)

teacher meteorological observer

Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg II FAIA was a leading architect, an American military and political leader who served as a US Congressman from Pennsylvania, and a member of the Muhlenberg political dynasty.

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90. John Clarke Young

1803-1857 (aged 54)

educator pastor

John Clarke Young was an American educator and pastor who was the fourth president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. A graduate of Dickinson College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he entered the ministry in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1828. He accepted the presidency of Centre College in 1830, holding the position until his death in 1857, making him the longest-serving president...

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91. William H. Gray

1941-2013 (aged 72)

religious leader businessperson lobbyist politician

William Herbert Gray III was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1979 to 1991. He also served as chairman of the House Committee on the Budget from 1985 to 1989 and House Majority Whip from 1989 to 1991. He resigned from Congress in September of that year to become president...

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92. Darnell L. Moore

1976-. (aged 50)

writer activist

Darnell L. Moore is an American writer and activist whose work is informed by anti-racist, feminist, queer of color, and anti-colonial thought and advocacy. Darnell's essays, social commentary, poetry, and interviews have appeared in various national and international media venues, including the Feminist Wire, Ebony magazine, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and The Advocate.

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93. William Jacob Holland

1848-1932 (aged 84)

university teacher paleontologist lepidopterist scientific illustrator zoologist

Rev William Jacob Holland FRSE LLD was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished lepidopterist, zoologist, and paleontologist, as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister.

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94. Bruce Manning Metzger

1914-2007 (aged 93)

university teacher theologian biblical scholar

Bruce Manning Metzger was an American biblical scholar and historian who spent his career at Princeton Theological Seminary. Metzger specialized in textual criticism and Bible translation and chaired committees for the Revised Standard Version and New Revised Standard Version. He served on the board of the American Bible Society and United Bible Societies. He was elected to the American Philosophical...

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95. Lorrin Andrews

1795-1868 (aged 73)

judge Bible translator translator lexicographer missionary

Lorrin Andrews was an early American missionary to Hawaii and a judge. He opened the first post-secondary school for Hawaiians called Lahainaluna Seminary, prepared a Hawaiian dictionary and several works on the literature and antiquities of the Hawaiians. His students published the first newspaper, and were involved in the first case of counterfeiting currency in Hawaii. He later served as...

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96. Joseph Ruggles Wilson

1822-1903 (aged 81)

university teacher

Joseph Ruggles Wilson Sr. was a prominent American Presbyterian theologian and father of President Woodrow Wilson, Nashville Banner editor Joseph Ruggles Wilson Jr., and Anne E. Wilson Howe. In 1861, as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia, he organized the General Assembly of the newly formed Presbyterian Church in the United States, known as the Southern Presbyterian Church,...

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97. John Pilley

1928-2018 (aged 90)

ethologist dog trainer academic

John W. Pilley was an American behavioral psychologist best known for his research into canine cognition and language learning with his Border collie, Chaser, who had the largest tested memory of any non-human animal. He was a professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Wofford College and was an avid kayaker throughout his life. Pilley was awarded an honorary...

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98. William Swan Plumer

1802-1880 (aged 78)

Christian minister

William Swan Plumer was an American clergyman, theologian and author who was recognized as an intellectual leader of the Presbyterian Church in the 1800s.

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99. John Maclean

1800-1886 (aged 86)

language teacher

John Maclean was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist of the Red Clydeside era. He was notable for his outspoken opposition to World War I, which caused his arrest under the Defence of the Realm Act and loss of his teaching post, after which he became a full-time Marxist lecturer and organiser. In April 1918 he was arrested for sedition,...

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100. Helen-Ann Hartley

1973-. (aged 53)

Anglican priest

Helen-Ann Macleod Hartley is a British Anglican diocesan bishop, Lord Spiritual, and academic. Since 2023, she has served as the 13th Bishop of Newcastle in the Church of England. She previously served as Bishop of Waikato in New Zealand from 2014 to 2017, and area Bishop of Ripon in the Diocese of Leeds from 2018 to 2023. She was the...

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