List of faculty and alumni of Fairmont State University

This is a list of notable people associated with Fairmont State University in Fairmont, West Virginia, United States.

Faculty

Administration

• Janet Dudley-Eshbach, former president
• Stacey Franklin Jones, vice president
• Luella Mundel, former head of the art department
• Joseph Rosier, former president

Academics

• Gayle Conelly Manchin, faculty member
• Louise McNeill, former professor
• Ruth Ann Musick, former professor, noted folklorist and author
• Beulah Boyd Ritchie, former professor, a founding member of the Fairmont Woman Suffrage Club (later the Fairmont Political Equality Club)

Athletics

Basketball

• Jerrod Calhoun, former head basketball coach^[1]
• Jasper Colebank, former head basketball coach and athletic director^[2]
• Joe Mazzulla, former assistant basketball coach^[3]
• Squibb Wilson, former assistant basketball coach and athletic director

Football

• Ty Clarke, former head football coach
• Mike Compton, former offensive line coach
• Jovan Dewitt, former running back coach^[4]
• Travis Everhart, former offensive line coach

Alumni

Athletics

Basketball

• Taiwo Badmus, small forward for Valur
• Stevie Browning, former shooting guard for Ovarense Basquetebol
• Shawn Finney, former head coach of Tulane Green Wave men's basketball
• Leroy Loggins, American professional basketball player in Australia
• Thad McFadden, point guard for Basket Zaragoza
• Jamel Morris, shooting guard for Élan Chalon
• RJ Sunahara, former college basketball player under Joe Mazzulla

Football

C. J. Goodwin

Bill Stewart

• Harold "Deacon" Duvall, former head coach for Fairmont State Fighting Falcons
• C. J. Goodwin, cornerback for Dallas Cowboys^[5]
• Fabian Guerra, wide receiver for San Antonio Gunslingers
• Ed Hodgkiss, former head coach for Los Angeles Avengers, former offensive coordinator for Indiana Firebirds
• Mike Kellar, football head coach for Glenville State Pioneers, former for Lenoir–Rhyne Bears football and Concord Mountain Lions
• Jim Lipinski, former defensive lineman for Calgary Stampeders
• Dewey McDonald, former NFL linebacker for Seattle Seahawks^[6]
• Jim Mertens, former American Football League wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins
• Don Overton, former NFL running back for Detroit Lions
• Jacob Owens, former NFL defensive lineman for New York Jets
• Bill Stewart, former head football coach at West Virginia University
• Luc Tousignant, former NFL quarterback for Buffalo Bills
• Jason Woodman, football head coach for Morehead State^{[7][8][9][10]}
• Fielding H. Yost, former football head coach for Michigan Wolverines football, Kansas Jayhawks football, Nebraska Cornhuskers football, and Stanford Cardinal football
• Chandler Zavala, NFL guard for Carolina Panthers

Other

• Perry Baker, current U.S. international rugby sevens player and two-time World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year

Entertainment

• Luke Gallows, former WWE wrestler^[11]
• Guy McElroy, African-American art historian and curator, known for the major exhibition titled Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940
• Herbert Morrison, radio reporter whose voice is heard in the footage of the Hindenburg Disaster

Politics

Robert E. Lee Allen

Stuart F. Reed

• Robert E. Lee Allen, former US representative for West Virginia
• William O. Atkeson, former US representative for Missouri
• Bob Beach, former member of West Virginia Senate and West Virginia House of Delegates
• Wendell R. Beitzel, member of Maryland House of Delegates
• Belinda Biafore, former chair of West Virginia Democratic Party
• Larry J. Edgell, former member of West Virginia Senate
• George C. Edwards, member of Maryland State Senate
• Danny Hamrick, former member of West Virginia House of Delegates
• Frank Cruise Haymond, former Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
• Richard Iaquinta, former member of West Virginia House of Delegates
• David Koon, former member of New York State Assembly
• Thomas Demetrios Lambros, former chief judge of United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
• Linda Longstreth, former member of West Virginia House of Delegates
• Ephraim F. Morgan, former governor of West Virginia
• Alberta Ramage Neely, former first lady of West Virginia
• Jack Robert Nuzum, former circuit judge of Randolph County, West Virginia
• Stuart F. Reed, former US representative, West Virginia Senate, and Secretary of State of West Virginia
• Thomas S. Riley, former Attorney General of West Virginia
• Ira E. Robinson, former West Virginia politician and judge, first chairman of the Federal Radio Commission
• Roxann Robinson, former member of Virginia House of Delegates
• James Shaner, former member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Charles Sheedy, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
• John Taylor, former member of Iowa Senate
• Ryan Weld, Majority Whip of the West Virginia Senate
• Bob Williams, former member of West Virginia Senate
• John M. Wolverton, former US representative for West Virginia

Other

• William Jaco, mathematician who is known for his role in the Jaco–Shalen–Johannson decomposition theorem and efficient triangulations of 3-manifolds
• Mark Manchin, former president of Glenville State University
• Howard Llewellyn Swisher, former, businessperson, real estate developer, orchardist, editor, writer, and historian^[12]