Augustus Hopkins Strong (3 August 1836 – 29 November 1921) was a Baptist minister and theologian who lived in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[citation needed] His father, Alvah Strong, was the printer of such early Rochester newspapers as the Anti-Masonic Enquirer, the Morning Advertiser, and the Weekly Republican, before becoming the longtime proprietor of The Daily Democrat.

[citation needed] His youngest uncle became a Forty-niner in the California Gold Rush, after losing both his wife and infant son.

[citation needed] After Strong graduated from Yale College in 1857, he took a year to travel Europe, before he began his theological studies at RTS.

[6][8]: 44–45 It was during his time as president that he wrote his Systematic Theology, which was the main textbook of Protestant seminaries in North America.

He died on Tuesday, November 29, 1921 in Pasadena, California, after which his body was returned to Rochester, where he was laid to rest in the week following, at Mount Hope Cemetery on December 5, in his family's vault, after lying in state in Alvah Strong Hall at the Seminary.