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This is a list of notable individuals associated with the American Goshen College, a private liberal arts college located in Goshen, Indiana. The list includes students, alumni, and faculty.

Academia and theology

Stephen Ainlay, 18th president of Union College (since 2006)
Harold S. Bender (class of 1918), former president, American Society of Church History and author of The Anabaptist Vision (1944)
Denise Konan (class of 1988), Professor of Economics and Dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa^[1]
Alan Kreider (class of 1962), professor, writer and speaker
John W. Meyer (class of 1955), professor, sociologist
John Mark Ramseyer (class of 1976), Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at the Harvard Law School
Emma Richards, first ordained female Mennonite minister
Said Sheikh Samatar (class of 1973), Somali scholar, historian and writer
Janneken Smucker (class of 1998), Historian, author, quilt thought leader, podcast host, professor at West Chester University
Rebecca Stoltzfus (B.A. 1984 Chemistry), professor and vice provost at Cornell University^[2]
John Howard Yoder, Christian theologian, ethicist, and Biblical scholar best known for his radical Christian pacifism
Howard Zehr, "father of restorative justice"; assisted with the founding of a victim-offender reconciliation program

Abbie Adams, contemporary artist and illustrator
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE (class of 2008), editor and literary critic
Howard Dyck, Canadian conductor and radio broadcaster
Vance George, Grammy Award–winning choral director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (1982–2006)
Luke and Jesse Miller, members of the electronic jam band Lotus
Sofia Samatar, professor, editor and writer
James C. Strouse, independent filmmaker, writer and director who wrote the comedy-drama film Lonesome Jim (2005) and directed the drama film Grace Is Gone (2007)
Rudy Wiebe, taught at Goshen College from 1963 to 1967

Justin Yoder, first child with a disability to drive a soapbox in the All-American Soapbox Derby

David Bartel (class of 1982), biology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, member of the Whitehead Institute, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Philip A. Beachy, Gallo Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University
Roger N. Beachy, biologist and the founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
O.J. Eigsti, Goshen College professor and developer of the seedless watermelon^[5]
Owen Gingerich, astronomy professor at Harvard University

Jason Booth, pitching coach for the University of Saint Francis baseball team and manager of the Hamilton Thunderbirds^[6]
Errick McCollum, professional basketball player
Katie Sowers, first openly gay and first female coach in Super Bowl history

Principals of the Elkhart Institute
(Elkhart Institute was the former name of Goshen College.)

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^ Verbeek, Ann Gilliom (December 2011). "The League and the Law: Arthur L. Gilliom and the Problem of Due Process in Prohibition-Era Indiana". Indiana Magazine of History. 107 (4): 289–326. doi:10.5378/indimagahist.107.4.0289. JSTOR 10.5378/indimagahist.107.4.0289.
^ Josephson, Harold (1985). Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders. Connecticut: Greenwood. pp. 607–8. ISBN 0-313-22565-6.
^ "Orie J. Eigsti". Mennonite Weekly Review. May 19, 2003. p. 11. Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved March 24, 2009. … develop[ed] the American Seedless Watermelon variety known as 313.
^ ^{[dead link‍]} "Jason Booth". Oakville Royals. Archived from the original on May 2, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2009.
^ "Past Presidents of Goshen College". Goshen College. 2006. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007. Retrieved May 11, 2008.