List of Linfield College Peopl (52 items)report

• Joe Medicine Crow, Crow historian, last surviving Plains Indian war chief, and WWII veteran who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Academics)

• Raymond Culver, B.Mus. 1914, fourth president of Shimer College (Academics)

• John Wesley Johnson, professor at Linfield from 1863 to 1867 and later president of the University of Oregon (Academics)

• Kenneth Scott Latourette, eminent scholar of Christianity and Chinese history (Academics)

• Raemer Schreiber, '31, experimental physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, and helped develop the atom and hydrogen bomb (Academics)

• Lynwood W. Swanson, professor of chemistry and academic dean 1968-73, co-founder and chairman (1987-2002) of FEI Company (Academics)

• Fred von Appen, retired football coach known for his head coaching stint with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1996–1998 and for serving as an assistant coach on a number of NFL and college coaching staffs (Sports)

• Scott David Brosius, former Major League Baseball third baseman for the Oakland Athletics (1991–1997) and the New York Yankees (1998–2001); 1998 World Series MVP (Sports)

• Mark Few, basketball coach at Gonzaga University, assistant from 1989 to 1999 and head coach since 1999; attended Linfield before transferring to the University of Oregon, where he eventually earned his degree (Sports)

• Randy Mueller, former general manager for the Miami Dolphins and New Orleans Saints, with over two decades of NFL front office experience; former sports analyst for ESPN (Sports)

• Ad Rutschman, head football coach, baseball coach, and athletic director of Linfield College; the only college coach at any level to have won national titles in both football and baseball; currently serves as kick-off return coach at the college (Sports)

• Phillip Bond, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology and Chief of Staff to Commerce Secretary Don Evans (Politics)

• Joseph Medicine Crow, last Crow War Chief (Politics)

• Albin Walter Norblad, Jr., served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly as a representative for one term (1935–1937); member of the board of trustees of Linfield College (Politics)

• Frank Grant Sawyer, Democratic Governor of Nevada, 1959-1966 (Politics)

• George Lemuel Woods, Republican Governor of Oregon, 1866-1870; Utah Territory Governor 1871-1875 (Politics)

• George Henry Burnett, 21st Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court; served twice, 1921-1923, and from 1927 until he died in office; overall, he served on Oregon's highest court from 1911 until 1927 (Law)

• Thomas Allen McBride, 20th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving three times as chief between 1913 and 1927; overall, he served on Oregon's highest court from 1909 till his death in 1930 (Law)

• William Marion Ramsey, 43rd Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court in the United States from 1913–1915; first dean of Willamette University College of Law; mayor of Salem, Oregon and McMinnville, Oregon (Law)

• Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and The Kitchen God's Wife (Literature)

• Spencer Phillips, keyboardist for Danger Radio (Music)

• Laura Gibson, musician (Music)

• Andrea Reinkemeyer, assistant professor of composition and music technology (Music)

• Aparna Brielle, actress (Film & Television)

• Rex T. Barber, pilot in Operation Vengeance; credited with the kill of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack (Other)

• Augustus C. Kinney, longtime physician in Astoria, Oregon, and noted expert on tuberculosis at the turn of the 20th century (Other)

• 1857-60: George C. Chandler
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1864-67: John W. Johnson
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1873: J. D. Robb
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1873-76: Mark Bailey
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1876-77: John E. Magers
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1877-78: Ep Roberts
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1878-81: J. G. Burchett
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1881-87: E.C. Anderson
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1887-96: Truman G. Brownson
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1896-1903: Harry L. Boardman
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1903-05: A. M. Brumback
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1905-06: Emanuel Northup, interim
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1906-31: Leonard W. Riley (name changed to Linfield in 1922)
  
  (Presidents of McMinnville College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1931-32: William R. Frerichs, interim
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1932-38: Elam J. Anderson
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1938-43: William G. Everson
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1943-68: Harry L. Dillin
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1968, 1974: Winthrop W. Dolan, interim
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1968-74: Gordon C. Bjork
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1974-75: Cornelius Siemens, interim
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1975-92: Charles U. Walker
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 1992-2005: Vivian A. Bull
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 2005-06: Marvin Henberg, interim
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 2006–2018: Thomas L. Hellie
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 2018-2020: Miles K. Davis (College changed to University in 2020)
  
  (Presidents of Linfield College) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

• 2020-present: Miles K. Davis
  
  (Presidents of Linfield University) (Current and former McMinnville College/Linfield College/Linfield University presidents)

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