Prominent alumni of BUSTH include the following (arranged alphabetically): •
George Lincoln Blackwell, theologian and author •
Samuel Logan Brengle, Salvation Army theologian •
Cornell William Brooks, lawyer, activist and president of the
NAACP •
Rev. Dr. Steven W. Brown, Homiletics professor and nationally syndicated broadcaster •
Chai-Sik Chung, social ethicist and sociologist of religion •
Ralph Edward Dodge, a Bishop of the Methodist Church in Rhodesia; •
Peter Deunov, Bulgarian theologian, spiritual leader and author •
Dr. James L. Farmer, Sr., first African-American from Texas to earn a doctorate •
George L. Fox, one of the four chaplains on the USAT Dorchester in WWII •
Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez, author and Professor Emerita at Columbia Theological Seminary •
Dr. Georgia Harkness, Methodist theologian •
Edgar J. Helms, Methodist minister, founder of
Goodwill Industries •
Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, theologian •
S. Clifton Ives, a Bishop of the United Methodist Church •
Martin Luther King Jr., BUSTH Ph.D., minister, civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate •
James Lawson, activist, professor, and leading theoretician of nonviolence within the
civil rights movement •
Henry M. Loud, theologian and early lumber magnate •
Edgar Amos Love, a Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church and co-founder of
Omega Psi Phi fraternity •
Walter G. Muelder, ecumenical leader, theorist of the "responsible society," and shaper of Christian social ethics •
Garfield Bromley Oxnam, a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church •
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, positive thinker and founder of Guideposts magazine •
Luther Pennington, United Methodist pastor and politician •
Samuel DeWitt Proctor, famous African-American preacher and civil rights leader •
John Hudson Riddick, AME preacher •
Dallas Lore Sharp, minister, university professor, and author •
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, a leader of the movement of women's suffrage in the United States •
Katharine Lente Stevenson (1853–1919), temperance reformer, missionary, editor •
Woodie W. White, a Bishop of the United Methodist Church •
Rev Dr. J. Philip Wogaman, theologian, ethicist, professor, Dean, Wesley Theological Seminary, Senior Pastor Foundry Church •
Dr. Amos Yong, Pentecostal theologian ==Organizations and activities==