Paul Alexander Rader (March 14, 1934 – January 18, 2025), was an American religious leader, who was the 15th General of the Salvation Army from 1994 to 1999, and was the President of Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, from 2000 to 2006.
At Asbury, he met and married his wife, Kay, who upon graduating with a BA degree, qualified as a teacher.
Together, they entered the Salvation Army School for Officers Training in New York in September 1960 and were commissioned a year later.
Lieutenant Rader and his wife temporarily assisted at Newark, New Jersey Central Corps, while learning the Korean language with the intention to serve as missionaries there.
In February 1984, Rader returned to the United States after 22 years of service to serve as principal of the School for Officers' Training in Suffern, New York.