Notable Alumni of Linfield College-McMinnville Campus

George Lemuel Woods 1832–1890

3rd Governor of Oregon

Grant Sawyer 1918–1996

21st Governor of Nevada

Also attended: George Washington University, Georgetown University, University of Nevada-Reno

Gary Stevens 1941–

Alaska state senator

Thomas Hurley Brents 1840–1916

Pacific Northwest politician, attorney and judge

Thomas B. Kay 1864–1931

Oregon politician and woolen mill businessman

Thomas A. McBride 1847–1930

Former Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court

George G. Bingham 1855–1924

Oregon judge and legal educator

Also attended: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Kenneth Scott Latourette 1884–1968

Historian specializing in Chinese studies

Also attended: Yale University

Raemer Schreiber 1910–1998

Nuclear physicist at Los Alamos

Also attended: University of Oregon, Purdue University-Main Campus

Allen C. Kelley 1937–2017

Economist and Duke University professor

Also attended: Stanford University

Edward Shearman Ross 1915–2016

Entomologist, zoologist and photographer

Also attended: University of California-Berkeley

Jerilynn Prior 1943–

Canadian endocrinologist specializing in women's hormone health

Also attended: Boston University

Alfred A. Cave 1935–2019

Historian, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toledo

Also attended: University of Florida

Augustus C. Kinney 1845–1908

Physician and scientist in Oregon

Also attended: New York University, Pacific University, Willamette University

Marian H. Pettibone 1908–2003

Smithsonian zoologist specializing in polychaete worms

Also attended: University of Oregon

Amy Tan 1952–

Author of The Joy Luck Club

Also attended: University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Santa Cruz, San Jose City College

Joseph Medicine Crow 1913–2016

Crow Tribe historian, writer and war chief

Also attended: University of Southern California, Bacone College

Aparna Brielle 1994–

Actress in A.P. Bio and FUBAR

Reid Blackburn 1952–1980

Photographer killed in the Mount St. Helens eruption

Laura Gibson 1979–

Singer-songwriter

Also attended: CUNY Hunter College

Mark Few 1962–

Head men's basketball coach at Gonzaga

Also attended: University of Oregon

Joe Paterson 1986–

Former MLB pitcher for Arizona Diamondbacks

Thomas Ryan 1987–

American soccer player

Howard Glenn 1934–1960

Gridiron football player in the CFL and AFL