The following people have been employed by or are otherwise currently employed on the faculty at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
The university recognizes faculty each year as endowed "Distinguished Professors" [1]
| Srdjan Nesic | Russ Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology | 2021 | |
| Nancy Stevens | professor of evolutionary ecology in the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine | 2020 | |
| Steven W. Evans | Department of Psychology professor, Co-Director of the Center for Intervention Research in Schools | 2019 | |
| Susan Burgess | Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 2018 | |
| Alexander Govorov | Physics | 2016 | |
| Judith Yaross Lee | Charles E. Zumkehr Professor and the Director of Honors Tutorials in the School of Communication Studies | 2016 | |
| Gerardine Botte | Russ Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | 2015 | |
| Christopher France | Psychology | 2014 | |
| Tom Carpenter | Department of Classics and World Religions | 2013 | |
| John Kopchick | Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Molecular Biology in the Edison Biotechnology Institute | 2012 | |
| Mark Halliday | Poetry | 2011 | |
| Charles Smith | head of the university's Professional Playwriting Program | 2010 | |
| Peter Jung | Physics | 2009 | |
| R. Damian Nance | Geology | 2008 | |
| Mark Phillips | Music | 2007 | |
| Tadeusz Malinski | Marvin and Ann Dilley White Professor of Biochemistry | 2006 | |
| David A. Drabold | Physics | 2005 | |
| Gar W. Rothwell | Botany | 2004 | |
| Alexander Arhangelskii | Mathematics | 2003 | |
| Kenneth A. Holroyd | Psychology | 2002 | |
| Steve Grimes | Physics | 2001 | |
| Ursula Belden | Theater | 2000 | |
| Surender K. Jain | Mathematics | 1999 | |
| Robert J. DeMott | English | 1998 | |
| Edward W. Stevens | Education | 1998 | |
| Robert Hikida | Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine | 1997 | |
| Alonzo L. Hamby | History | 1996 | |
| Thomas E. Wagner | director of Ohio University's Mammalian Recombinant Genetics Institute, founder and director of the Edison Biotechnology Institute | 1993 | |
| Wayne Dodd | English | 1993 | |
| Roger Finlay | Physics | 1991 | |
| Charles C. Alexander | History | 1989 | |
| Gladys Bailin | Dance | 1986 | |
| Richard K. Vedder | Economics | 1985 | |
| John L. Gaddis | History | 1983 | |
| Guido Stempel III | Journalism | 1982 | |
| Jacobo Rapaport | Physics | 1981 | |
| Peter R. Griffiths | Chemistry | 1980 | |
| George R. Klare | Psychology | 1979 | |
| Wai-Kai Chen | Electrical Engineering | 1978 | |
| John M. (Jack) Matthews | English | 1977 | |
| Lee C. Soltow | Economics | 1976 | |
| Lowell E. Gallaway | Economics | 1974 | |
| Karl F. Ahrendt | Music | 1973 | |
| Raymond O. Lane | Physics | 1972 | |
| Carl G. Gustavson | History | 1971 | |
| William U. Snyder | Psychology | 1970 | |
| William W. Paudler | Chemistry | 1970 | |
| Roma A. King, Jr. | English | 1969 | |
| William D. Huntsman | Chemistry | 1968 | |
| Norman S. Cohn | Botany | 1968 | |
| Edward Stone | English | 1966 | |
| Troy W. Organ | Philosophy | 1965 | |
| Hollis Summers | English | 1964 | |
| George E. Hill | Education | 1963 | |
| John E. Edwards | Physics | 1962 | |
| Robert L. Morton | Mathematics | 1960 | |
| Dwight O. Mutchler | Lecturer in Drawing | 1960 | |
| John F. Cady | History | 1959 | |
| Harvey C. Lehman | Psychology | 1959 | |
| Paul Murray Kendall | English | 1959 |