College was the location of summer training camp for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League from the team's first season in 1968 through 1996, when the team moved camp to Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky.
== Notable alumni ==
Willis Todhunter Ballard, novelist
Thomas Kelly ‘13, Professor Emeritus
Tom Blackburn, college basketball coach
J. Brent Bill, author, current Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Satch Davidson, professional baseball umpire
Michelle Gorelow, politician
Thomas Raymond Kelly, theologian and author
Joseph Haines Moore, astronomer
Stanley Plumly, poet
Gary Sandy, actor
André De Shields, actor
Arthur R. M. Spaid, educator, school administrator, lecturer, and writer
Alumni of Lebanon University which merged with Wilmington College in 1917 include:
Stanley P. V. Arnold, politician and newspaper editor
Horatio C. Claypool, politician
Myers Y. Cooper, politician
Clement L. Brumbaugh, politician
Francis B. De Witt, politician
Lucien J. Fenton, politician
William T. Fitzgerald, …
