Notable Alumni
- Bluffton's most famous former students are broadcaster Hugh Downs and comedienne Phyllis Diller. Neither graduated.
- Arthur Compton, physicist and Nobel laureate attended for a year.
- Baldemar Velasquez, founder and president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and a 1989 MacArthur Fellow, received a BA in sociology from Bluffton in 1969 and an honorary doctorate in 1999.
- Buffalo Bills' wide receiver Elbert Dubenion played college football at Bluffton.
- Ceramic artist Paul Soldner received a B.A. from Bluffton in 1946 and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts in 2003.
- Jeff Timmons, member of the boy band 98 Degrees, attended Bluffton during the fall 1991 quarter and was a member of the football team.
- Allen Yoder Jr., former president of RV company Jayco and 1995 RV President of the Year.
- Science fiction writer Tobias Buckell
- Comedian Judson Laipply, whose Evolution of Dance video is one of the most viral on YouTube.
- Ross Weber former vice president of Manulife Financial
- Seth Burkholder, played professional football.
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