List of Capital University people
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This is a list of notable individuals who currently have or previously had an association with Capital University, located in Bexley, Ohio. Capital University is a private liberal arts university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, founded in 1830. In addition to its undergraduate programs, the university also has graduate programs, as well as a law school.[1] Capital is the oldest university in Central Ohio, and one of the oldest and largest Lutheran-affiliated universities in North America.[2]
- Hanif Abdurraqib, poet and music writer
- Ron Amstutz, Ohio state senator
- Tim Ayers, former mayor and city commissioner, Springfield, Ohio
- David F. Bowers, philosopher and Guggenheim Fellow
- C.C. Finlay, novelist (class of 1990)
- Robert S. Graetz, Lutheran pastor, openly supported Montgomery bus boycotts
- Jay Hottinger, Ohio state senator (R-31)
- Arnett Howard, jazz musician
- Chris Jamison, pop singer who appeared on Season 7 of The Voice
- Theodore E. Long, former president of Elizabethtown College
- Louis H. Mackey, philosopher
- Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Litton-Lodal Music Director of The American Boychoir
- Eric Norelius, Lutheran minister, church leader and writer
- Abdul Samad Rabiu, Nigerian industrialist
- Harold L. Yochum, class of 1923, theologian, district president of the American Lutheran Church, 9th president of Capital University, delegate to the World Council of Churches