Paul Brentwood Henry was an evangelical Christian, professor of political science and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Henry was born in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from Pasadena High School, Pasadena, California, in 1959. He received a B.A. from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois in 1963. Henry was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia and Ethiopia from 1963 to 1965. He earned a MA from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in 1968, …

Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 15 November, 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of Frisian ancestry) is a contemporary American philosopher known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion and tentative support of intelligent design. His current position is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Calvinist, despite being a professor at a traditionally Catholic university.

Nicholas Wolterstorff (born January 21, 1932 in Bigelow, Minnesota) is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, and Fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests, he has written books on metaphysics, aesthetics, political philosophy, epistemology and theology and philosophy of religion.

Gaylen James Byker (born 1948) is a former international businessman and the current President of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Byker is a native of Hudsonville, Michigan. He served in the United States Army from 1967 until 1970. Following his service in the Vietnam War, he attended Calvin College graduating in 1973. He went on to do graduate work, and received a master's degree and a JD in World Politics from the University of Michigan, …

Elisabeth (Betsy) DeVos is the former chairman of the Republican Party in the U.S. state of Michigan and wife of former Alticor (Amway) president Dick DeVos, the 2006 Republican candidate for governor of Michigan.

Cornelius "Neal" Plantinga, Jr. (1947 -) is the president of Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan and an author.

Born in Zeeland, Michigan, Diekema graduated from Calvin College in 1956. He received his M.A. in sociology and anthropology and in 1965 and a Ph.D. in sociology all from Michigan State University (MSU). During graduate school he taught at MSU and worked in housing and later the registrar's office. Next he went to the Medical Center of University of Illinois teaching and moving into administration.

Jay Van Andel, (b. June 3 1924 - d. December 4 2004) was an American businessman best-known as co-founder of the Amway Corporation, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was also known as a philanthropist for religious missions and conservative political causes], including the Republican Party. Shortly before his death from Parkinson's Disease-related complications on 4 December 2004, aged 80, Forbes Magazine estimated his net worth at $2.3 billion, …

Vernon James "Vern" Ehlers (born February 6 1934) is a United States politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He has represented Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 1993. The district is based in Grand Rapids and was once represented by former President Gerald Ford. Born in Pipestone, Minnesota, Vern Ehlers attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids for three years before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, …

Josh Leo is a videoblogger who is active in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has been actively "vlogging" since March of 2005. He is a member of the national videoblogging community and a promoter of grassroots media. Though originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, Leo lives in Grand Rapids and produces a vlog which often features attractions around the city. Josh Leo's vlog has an estimated 500 viewers each day.

William Spoelhof (born 1909) is a former President of Calvin College, and President Emeritus of the Grand Rapids, Michigan school. Spoelhof is a native of Paterson, New Jersey and graduate from Calvin College in 1931. He received a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1937. After completing his doctoral studies, he came to Calvin to teach history and political science in 1946. In 1956, after becoming president of the college, …

Cornelius Van Til (May 3, 1895 - April 17, 1987), born in Grootegast, the Netherlands, was a Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist.

Henry Schultze (1893-1959) was an American academic and former president of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Having been born in Sully, Iowa, Schultze graduated from Calvin College in 1915. He also attended Calvin Theological Seminary and went on to study at Yale University and graduated in 1920. After his graduation, he taught Greek and education at Grundy College and in 1924 was ordained as a minister in the Christian Reformed Church.

Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a screenwriter and film director, renowned for his characters that fall into desperation while their world crumbles around them. His influences include Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu and Carl Dreyer, whose cross-cultural similarities he examined in "Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer" (ISBN 0-306-80335-6) in 1972.

Harry Wayne Huizenga (born on December 29, 1937 in Evergreen Park, Illinois) is an American businessman who has built several companies into multi-billion dollar enterprises, mostly through an aggressive process of acquisitions. Huizenga graduated from the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1955 and is an alumnus of Calvin College located in Grand Rapids, MI. He is the owner of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins.

Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit.

Richard DeVos, Sr., (born March 4, 1926, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) is a billionaire co-founder of Amway (restructured as Alticor in 2000). In 2006, "Forbes" magazine listed him as the 73rd wealthiest person in the United States with an estimate net worth of USD$ 3.5 billion. In 2007, Forbes ranked him as the 249th richest person in the world. DeVos is a heart transplant recipient and is the owner of pro basketball's Orlando Magic.

Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers (born August 27, 1941 in Edmonton, Alberta), is a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company. In 2005, he was convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the largest (to date) accounting scandal in United States history, as a result of WorldCom's false financial reporting, and subsequent $180-billion loss to investors.

Michael Marissen (born July 31 1960, Hamilton, Ontario) is a professor of music at Swarthmore College. Raised in St. Thomas, Ontario, he attended Ebenezer Christian School (now called St Thomas Community Christian School) and London District Christian Secondary School. Marissen studied music history at Calvin College and received his PhD from Brandeis University. He has guest taught at Oberlin and Princeton University.

Eric Jager is a professor in the department of English at University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.A. from Calvin College in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987. He has also taught at Columbia University. He specializes in Anglo-Saxon literature (particularly "Beowulf"), as well as in Medieval authors such as Chaucer.

George Marsden (Ph.D. Yale University) is a historian and theologian teacher at University of Notre Dame. He has written extensively on fundamentalism and evangelicalism and its influence in America, both historically and in contemporary politics and ideology. Marsden is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary (M.Div) and Yale University (Ph.D in History). He has taught at Calvin College and Duke University.

Ralph Stob (1894-1965) was an educator, academic, and former president of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Stob was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Roseland Christian School. He felt called to Christian ministry. He enrolled in the preparatory curriculum of Calvin College in 1909 from which he graduated in 1915. He then enrolled and enrolled at the Seminary. Stob then accepted an appointment to teach classical languages at his alma mater.

Patricia Rozema (born 1958) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She was born in Sarnia, Ontario to Dutch parents.

Albert Wolters (born 1942 in the Netherlands) is a professor of Religion & Theology, and Classical Studies at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario (near Hamilton) and has provided expert commentary for the Copper Scroll in the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (ISBN 0-19-508450-0), and also in a Nova documentary. After World War II, his family left the Netherlands for Canada. He studied in the preseminary program at Calvin College, …

Frederick Feikema Manfred (January 6, 1912 to September 7, 1994) was a noted Western author. Manfred was born in Doon, Iowa. He was baptized Frederick Feikes Feikema, VII, and he used the name Feike Feikema when he published his first books. According to Alvin Plantinga, Manfred thought that he would have a hard time being taken seriously by the Eastern establishment with a name like "Feike Feikema", so he elected to change his name to Frederick Manfred.

Ted De Boer (1921 - 2004) was the Founder of the National Inventors Foundation (parent organization of the Inventors Assistance League), which is the first federally chartered non-profit organization for the purpose of educating the creative individual since the patent law was established over 200 years ago in 1790. He spent the last 30 years solving the problems of independent inventors and creative people. Born on an Iowa farm in 1921, he attended Grand Rapids University, …

Kenneth L. Ryskamp (born August 10, 1932) is a Senior Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He was nominated for appointment March 13, 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, appointed April 24, 1986 and entered on duty May 2, 1986, and took senior status January 1, 2000.

Herbert Hovenkamp holds the Ben and Dorothy Willie Chair at the University of Iowa College of Law. Hovenkamp is a recognized expert and prolific author in the area of Antitrust law. He received a BA from Calvin College and earned a MA, PhD, and Doctor of Jurisprudence from The University of Texas at Austin. Hovenkamp was previously Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of Law.

Lewis Benedictus Smedes was a renowned Christian author, ethicist, and theologian in the Reformed tradition. He was a professor of theology and ethics for twenty-five years at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His 15 books, including the popular Forgive and Forget, covered some important issues including sexuality and forgiveness.

James H. Olthuis is an inter-disciplinary scholar in ethics, hermeneutics, philosophical theology, as well as a theorist and practitioner of psychotherapy of a kind he calls "Relational psychotherapy."