Sidney Brownsberger

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Sidney Brownsberger (born September 20, 1845, Ohio; died August 13, 1930, Fletcher, North Carolina) was an American Seventh-Day Adventist Church leader and academic. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he was the first president of Battle Creek College, known today as Andrews University, serving from 1874-1881. From 1882-87, he was president of Pacific Union College, then known as Healdsburg Academy.

Some Adventists disagreed with Brownsberger's remarriage after his first wife divorced him; as a result, and despite support for him from Ellen G. White, he left the church. He moved to North Carolina, where he helped to establish the Asheville Agricultural School and Mountain Sanitorium in 1909. He died in North Carolina in 1930.