List of Harding University alumni

Harding University is a private university in Searcy, Arkansas. Following are some of its notable alumni.

Academia

C. Leonard Allen, historian and college administrator
James D. Bales, professor and administrator
Martin Doyle, ecologist at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions of Duke University
Henry C. Farrar, III, toxicology researcher at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Clifton L. Ganus Jr., theologian, educator, and president of Harding College
George Howard, Hebraist and professor emeritus and head of the Department of Religion and Hebrew at the University of Georgia
E. H. Ijams, president of Lipscomb University
Annie May Alston Lewis, theological librarian
Ed Madden, poet, gay rights activist, professor of English, and director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina^[1]
J. Stanley Marshall, college administrator, former president of Florida State University
Bruce McLarty, academic, minister, and president of Harding University
Carroll D. Osburn, professor emeritus at Abilene Christian University and leading New Testament textual critic
Edward Granville Sewell, mathematician and professor at University of Texas, El Paso^[2]
Rubel Shelly, writer, minister, professor, and former president of Rochester College^[3]
Richard Felix Staar, political scientist, historian, and fellow at Stanford
Jason R. Wiles, associate professor of biology at Syracuse University

Roxanne Beck, actress and screenwriter
Stephen Mark Brown, opera tenor
David Ray Campbell, screenwriter and producer
Verna Howard, founder of the radio International Gospel Hour, originally based in Texarkana, Texas^[4]
Korie Robertson, star of A&E's Duck Dynasty and wife of Willie Robertson
Willie Robertson, star of A&E's Duck Dynasty, CEO of Duck Commander^[5]
W. Stephen Smith, voice teacher and author, Northwestern University Professor of Voice and Opera^[6]
Ray Walker, singer with The Jordanaires

Jeremy Kernodle, United States district judge
Ken Starr, attorney, judge, U.S. solicitor general, special prosecutor for the impeachment of Bill Clinton, president and chancellor of Baylor University

Tamera Alexander, author
Jerry Mitchell, investigative reporter formerly with The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi
Farrell Till, activist and editor of The Skeptical Review

Tim Barnes, Democratic politician from Tennessee
George S. Benson, missionary, college administrator, and conservative political activist
Mary Elizabeth Bentley, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives^[7]
Keith Brooks, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Jim R. Caldwell, first Republican member of the Arkansas State Senate in the 20th century
Jonathan Dismang, politician
Timothy Chad Hutchinson, attorney and former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Khalil Jahshan, political analyst, media commentator, and executive director of Arab Center Washington DC, a nonprofit think tank
David Porter, Texas railroad commissioner
Harmon Seawel, former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Ryan Walters, former Oklahoma state secretary of education
Thomas Philip Watson, politician
Carlton Wing, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives

George S. Benson, missionary, college administrator, and conservative political activist
Charles Coil, evangelist
Roger Duke, theologian
Gary Holloway, executive director of the World Convention of Churches of Christ
Larry M. James, minister, social worker, and CEO of the Dallas housing enterprise CitySquare