56 Notable alumni of
Adelphi University
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Adelphi University is 919th in the world, 339th in North America, and 317th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 56 notable alumni from Adelphi University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jonathan Larson
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- composerwriterplaywrightlibrettistactor
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Jonathan David Larson was an American composer, lyricist and playwright most famous for writing the musicals Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom!, which explored the social issues of multiculturalism, substance use disorder, and homophobia. He received three posthumous Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Rent.
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Sean Hannity
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- writerpoliticiantelevision presenterradio personalityjournalist
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Sean Patrick Hannity is an American conservative broadcast host and writer. He hosts The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show, and has also hosted a commentary program, Hannity, on Fox News, since 2009.
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Chuck Connors
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- television actorbasketball playerbaseball playerfilm actor
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Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers 1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951) and the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1946–48). With a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated ABC series The Rifleman (1958–63).
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Flavor Flav
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- television produceractorsaxophonistpianistmusician
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William Jonathan Drayton Jr., known by his stage name Flavor Flav, is an American DJ, rapper, and hype man. Known for his yells of "Yeah, boyeeeeee!" when performing, he is a founding member, alongside Chuck D, of Public Enemy, a rap group which has earned six Grammy Award nominations, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Sal Mineo
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actorsinger
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Salvatore Mineo Jr. was an American actor. He was best known for his role as John "Plato" Crawford in the drama film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at age 17, making him the fifth-youngest nominee in the category.
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Paul Ekman
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- university teacheropinion journalistanthropologistteachernon-fiction writer
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Paul Ekman is an American psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco who is a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He was ranked 59th out of the 100 most cited psychologists of the twentieth century. Ekman conducted seminal research on the specific biological correlations of specific emotions, attempting to demonstrate the universality and discreteness of emotions in a Darwinian approach.
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Mary L. Trump
- Enrolled in Adelphi University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology
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- non-fiction writerbusinesspersonlife coachbiographerpsychologist
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Mary Lea Trump is an American psychologist and writer. A niece of former US president Donald Trump, she has been critical of him as well as the rest of the Trump family. Her 2020 book about him and the family, Too Much and Never Enough, sold nearly one million copies on the day of its release. A second book, The Reckoning, followed in 2021.
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Chuck D
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- writercomposertelevision producerjournalistradio personality
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, best known as the leader and frontman of the hip hop group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav. Chuck D is also a member of the rock supergroup Prophets of Rage. He has released several solo albums, most notably Autobiography of Mistachuck (1996).
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Max Weinberg
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- musician
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Max Weinberg is an American drummer and television personality, most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. He is the father of former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg.
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Bob Beamon
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- athletics competitorbasketball player
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Robert Beamon is an American former track and field athlete, best known for his world record in the long jump at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. By jumping 8.90 m ( 29 ft 2+1⁄4 in), he broke the existing record by a margin of 55 cm (21+3⁄4 in) and his world record stood for almost 23 years until it was broken in 1991 by Mike Powell. The jump is still the Olympic record and the second-longest in history unassisted by wind.
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Meredith Eaton
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- television actorlawyerfilm actoractorpsychologist
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Meredith Hope Eaton Gordon is an American actress. She is 122 cm (4 ft 0 in) tall, and refers to herself as a "short-stature actress". She is known for portraying the attorney Emily Resnick on the CBS television series Family Law (in which she was the first female with dwarfism to fill a regular role in an American prime time series), for her recurring role as Bethany Horowitz on the ABC series Boston Legal, and for her lead role as Matilda "Matty" Webber on the CBS series MacGyver.
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Peggy Noonan
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- writerjournalist
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Margaret Ellen Noonan, known as Peggy Noonan, is a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986 and has maintained a center-right leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan administration. Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers.
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Gary Dell'Abate
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- autobiographerradio personality
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Gary Dell'Abate, also known by the nickname Baba Booey, is an American radio producer who has been the executive producer of The Howard Stern Show since 1984. His autobiography, They Call Me Baba Booey, was released on November 2, 2010.
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Melanie Chartoff
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- film actortelevision actoractorinventorvoice actor
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Melanie Barbara Chartoff is an American actress and comedian. Chartoff first became famous for her comedy work on the ABC series Fridays (1980–1982), and in the 1990s Fox sitcom Parker Lewis Can't Lose. She voiced both Didi Pickles and Grandma Minka, Didi's mother on the Nickelodeon animated series Rugrats and All Grown Up!.
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Alice Hoffman
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- novelistchildren's writerwriterscreenwriter
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Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
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Jacqueline Woodson
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- novelistpoetchildren's writerwriter
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Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018 to 2019. Her novel Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. She won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.
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Gregory Meeks
- Enrolled in Adelphi University
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Gregory Weldon Meeks is an American lawyer and politician who has been a U.S. representative from New York since 1998. He is a member of the Democratic Party and chaired the House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2023. He still sits on the committee as ranking member.
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Carmen Ortiz
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- lawyer
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Carmen Milagros Ortiz is an attorney, college instructor, and former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
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Paul Riley
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Paul Riley is an English former football player and coach.
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Edolphus Towns
- Enrolled in Adelphi University
- In 1973 graduated with Master of Social Work
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
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Edolphus "Ed" Towns Jr. is an American educator, military veteran, and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2013. A Democrat from New York, Towns was Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from 2009 to 2011.
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John Forslund
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- sports journalist
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John Forslund is an American sports announcer who is the television play-by-play announcer of the Seattle Kraken. He had previously filled the same role for the Carolina Hurricanes and was with the team since 1991 and called games from 1995 to 2020.
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Dot Richardson
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- softball playersoftball coach
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Dorothy Gay Richardson is an American physician and former two-time gold medal-winning Olympian softball player at shortstop. Richardson is currently the head coach at Liberty. Richardson played college softball at UCLA and won the inaugural NCAA Division I softball tournament in 1982. She is a USA Softball Hall of Fame honoree.
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Joseph W. Westphal
- Enrolled in Adelphi University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- university teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Joseph William Westphal is an American politician and diplomat who was most recently the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He served as the 30th United States Under Secretary of the Army from 2009 to 2014.
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Steve Reid
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- jazz musician
- Biography
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Steve Reid was an American jazz drummer who played with Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, James Brown, Fela Kuti, Kieran Hebden, and Sun Ra. He worked as a session drummer for Motown.
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Henry Clay Folger
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- philanthropistindustrialistbook collectorentrepreneur
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Henry Clay Folger Jr. was president and later chairman of Standard Oil of New York, a collector of Shakespeareana, and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Jennifer Michael Hecht
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- poethistorianwriterphilosopher
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Jennifer Michael Hecht is a teacher, author, poet, historian, and philosopher. She was an associate professor of history at Nassau Community College (1994–2007) and most recently taught at The New School in New York City.
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Michael Ochs
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- archivistphotographer
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Michael Ochs is an American photographic archivist best known for his extensive collection of pictures related to rock music dating back to the 1950s and 1960s. The Michael Ochs Archives, located in Venice, California, contained 3 million vintage prints, proof sheets and negatives which were licensed daily for use in CD reissues, books, films and documentaries.
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Donna Orender
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Donna Geils Orender is a sports executive and a former collegiate and professional basketball player. She was formerly president of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and senior vice president of the PGA. Currently, Orender is the founder and CEO of Orender Unlimited, a Jacksonville, FL based advisory and consultancy firm. She travels the world as a motivational speaker and advocating for the empowerment of women and young girls through her non-profit organization Generation W.
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Ron Bruder
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- entrepreneur
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Ron Bruder is an American entrepreneur and advocate for increased youth employment opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the founder of Education for Employment, a network of affiliated locally-run nonprofits which create public-private partnerships with employers to train youth in technical and soft skills and place them in jobs. The network has local affiliates in Jordan, Palestine, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia and capacity-building support organizations in the United States and Spain. EFE has supported over 155,000 youth (59% women) to enter the world of work. In 2011 Bruder was named on the TIME 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He lives in Westchester County, New York.
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Carole Migden
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- politician
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Carole Migden is an American politician from San Francisco who represented the third district of the California State Senate from 2004 to 2008 and the 13th district of the California State Assembly from 1996 to 2002. She is the state's second openly lesbian legislator.
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Joe Sambito
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Joseph Charles Sambito is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Houston Astros (1976–1982, 1984), New York Mets (1985) and Boston Red Sox (1986–1987). He batted and threw left-handed.
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Tom Pecora
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- basketball coach
- Biography
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Tom Pecora is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach at Quinnipiac. Pecora was originally hired as associate head coach at Quinnipiac on March 28, 2017, under new head coach Baker Dunleavy.
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Nancy Buirski
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- film directorfilmmakerscreenwriterphotographer
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Nancy Florence Buirski was an American filmmaker, producer, and photographer. She wrote, directed, and produced the documentary films A Crime on the Bayou (2020) and Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022).
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Kenneth LaValle
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- politician
- Biography
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Kenneth P. LaValle is a former American politician. He represented District 1 in the New York State Senate. The district comprises the five East End towns of Long Island, New York, as well as the central and eastern portions of the Town of Brookhaven, New York. A Republican, LaValle was first elected in 1976. He was the longest-serving member of the Senate and has served more terms in office than any other current state senator in the United States.
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William Ordway Partridge
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- sculptorwriter
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William Ordway Partridge was an American sculptor, teacher and author. Among his best-known works are the Shakespeare Monument in Chicago, the equestrian statue of General Grant in Brooklyn, the Pietà at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, and the Pocahontas statue in Jamestown, Virginia.
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Rich Funke
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- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Rich Funke is an American journalist and politician who represented the 55th district of the New York State Senate from 2015 until 2020.
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Leona Marlin-Romeo
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Leona M. Romeo is a Sint Maarten politician who served as Prime Minister of Sint Maarten from 2018 to 2019. She previously served as a member of Parliament from 2014 to 2016.
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Cynthia M. Rufe
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Cynthia Marie Rufe is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Joe Abbenda
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- bodybuilder
- Biography
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Joe Abbenda is an American former professional bodybuilder during the early to mid-1960s. He competed in the tall man competitions, and as an amateur won the Teen Mr. America in 1959, AAU Mr. America and the amateur NABBA Mr. Universe competition in 1962, and was the professional winner a year later, in the 1963 Mr. Universe.
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Michael Rogers
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- journalist
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Michael Rogers is an American fundraiser, blogger and gay rights activist. He is vice chairman of Raw Story Media, Inc., co-owner of Alternet Media, and founder and Director of Netroots Connect. He is also known for his work in reporting on closeted gay politicians who are anti-gay. He was the subject of the 2009 American documentary film Outrage.
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Rosalie Gardiner Jones
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- politiciansuffragist
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Rosalie Gardiner Jones was an American suffragette. She took the "Pankhursts" as role models and after hearing of the "Brown Women" she organised marches to draw attention to the suffrage cause. She was known as "General Jones" because of her following.
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Matt Senk
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- baseball player
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Matt Senk is an American college baseball coach who is currently the head coach of the Stony Brook Seawolves. Senk has held the head coaching position at Stony Brook since prior to the 1991 season. Under Senk, Stony Brook has won America East Conference baseball tournaments in 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2019, appearing in the NCAA tournament each of those seasons. In 2012, Stony Brook won the Coral Gables Regional and advanced to the Baton Rouge Regional to face LSU. After defeating LSU in a three-game series, the team moved on to the College World Series for the first time in program history. It was the first time that a school from the Northeast had reached the College World Series since 1986.
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Steven Cymbrowitz
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- politician
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Steven H. Cymbrowitz is a former Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing Assembly District 45, which consists of Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach and Midwood, among other communities located in the borough of Brooklyn. He lost to Michael Novakhov in the 2022 midterm election.
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John M. Kennedy, Jr
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- politician
- Biography
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John M. Kennedy Jr. is a politician from Suffolk County, New York. In 2014, he was elected to Suffolk County Comptroller on the Republican ticket, garnering 53% of the vote.
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James Garner
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United States - Occupations
- mayor
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James A. Garner is a U.S. politician from the Republican party who was mayor of the Village of Hempstead, New York, from 1988 to 2005, and was the first African-American to be elected a mayor on Long Island.
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John J. Phelan, Jr
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- businessperson
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John Joseph Phelan Jr. was an American financier who served as president and later chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, where he introduced computerized trading technology. Phelan's leadership tenure at the NYSE included the 1987 stock market crash, during which he declined to halt trading. Phelan's calm and confident manner was widely praised. After the crash, Phelan helped to implement trading curbs also known as "circuit breakers" to help prevent rapid stock selloffs in the future.
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Larry Zimmerman
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- business executive
- Biography
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Lawrence A. Zimmerman, also known as Larry Zimmerman, is an American businessman who served as the chief financial officer and executive vice president of Xerox Corporation from June 1, 2002, to April 2011.
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Rebecca Tobey
- Occupations
- sculptor
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Rebecca Tobey is an American artist from Santa Fe, New Mexico, who creates ceramic, brass, and patina animal sculptures in both modern and abstract styles. Along with her husband, Gene, she worked for decades to create animal forms. Her artworks, inspired by the mythologies of the Native Americans, have been commissioned by the government and private institutions, and exhibited worldwide.
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Ron Atanasio
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Ron Atanasio is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward.
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Edmund H. Driggs
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edmund Hope Driggs was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from New York from 1897 to 1901.
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Eduardo Vilaro
- Occupations
- business executive
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Eduardo Vilaro is a Cuban-American dancer, choreographer, educator, and artistic director & CEO of Ballet Hispánico. He first joined Ballet Hispánico as a principal dancer in 1985, leaving for Chicago a decade later to further his education and found the Luna Negra Dance Theater, for which he was artistic director. He returned to Ballet Hispánico in 2009 as artistic director, the second since the organization's founding in 1970, and has also served as CEO for the company since 2015 when a reorganization merged these artistic and administrative roles. His vision for Ballet Hispánico draws on the Latin dance traditions and educational outreach set forth by founder Tina Ramirez while responding to the more complex cultural landscape of the 21st century with a greater focus on diversity, inclusion, and community engagement.
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William C. Wallace
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Copeland Wallace was a U.S. Representative from New York.
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Steven Vincent
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- choreographer
- Biography
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Steven Vincent is an American choreographer, dancer, teacher and entertainer. He is best known for his role in the 1969 Broadway play, George M! with Mickey Rooney and as a recurring choreographer at the Players Theater in Sarasota, Florida.
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Trisha Ventker
- Occupations
- authorphotographer
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Trisha Ventker is an author, photographic artist, and elementary school teacher. She is best known for her book Internet Dates From Hell which is self-published by Ventker through iUniverse and has since had the movie rights to it optioned to Paula Wagner. She is also one of the first Indie Books authors to have a book that was optioned for the big screen.
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Harry J. Mott, III
- Enrolled in Adelphi University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Harry James Mott III was a brigadier general in the United States Army. He was acting chief of the United States Army Reserve, a position he held from August 1, 1986, to November 30, 1986. Mott also was Deputy Chief of the Army Reserve from March 13, 1983, to July 31, 1986, and from December 1, 1986, to August 5, 1987.
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Deborah A Nickerson
- Occupations
- researchergenomicist
- Biography
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Deborah Ann "Debbie" Nickerson was an American human genomics researcher. She was professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington. Nickerson founded and directed of one of the five clinical sites of the Gregor Consortium and was a major contributor to many genomics projects, including the Human Genome Project and the International HapMap Project.
