100 Notable alumni of
American University in Washington
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The American University in Washington is 210th in the world, 89th in North America, and 86th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the American University in Washington sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Goldie Hawn
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- singerstage actorfilm directorfilm producertelevision presenter
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Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress. She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970), before going on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower (1969).
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Cass Elliot
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractorcomposer
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Ellen Naomi Cohen, known professionally as Cass Elliot, was an American singer. She was also known as "Mama Cass", a name she reportedly disliked. Elliot was a member of the singing group the Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she released five solo albums. Elliot received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Performance for "Monday, Monday" (1967). In 1998, she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her work with the Mamas & the Papas.
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Paul Ryan
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- politiciancongressional staff
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Paul Davis Ryan is an American politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was the vice presidential nominee in the 2012 election with Mitt Romney, losing to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
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America Ferrera
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- voice actorstage actortelevision directoractortelevision actor
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America Georgina Ferrera is an American actress, director and television producer. She has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2007 and 2024, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world and in 2023, she was named in BBC's 100 Women list.
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Queen Rania of Jordan
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- queen consort
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Rania Al Abdullah is Queen of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II. Rania's domestic activities include education, youth, environmental, and health initiatives. Globally, she has campaigned for education and cross-cultural dialogue. She has authored three children's books: The Sandwich Swap, The King's Gift, and Enduring Beauty.
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Henry Rollins
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- musicianjournalistsingerpoetsongwriter
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Henry Lawrence Garfield, known professionally as Henry Rollins, is an American singer, writer, spoken word artist, actor, comedian, and presenter. After performing in the short-lived hardcore punk band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986. Following the band's breakup, he established the record label and publishing company 2.13.61 to release his spoken word albums, and formed the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups from 1987 to 2003 and in 2006.
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Judy Sheindlin
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- judgetelevision producerwriterlawyer
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Judith Susan Sheindlin, also known as Judge Judy, is an American attorney, court-show arbitrator, media personality, television producer, and former prosecutor and Manhattan family court judge.
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Michael Cohen
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- advocatejuristlawyerbusinessperson
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Michael Dean Cohen is an American lawyer who served as an attorney for Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, from 2006 to 2018. Cohen served as vice president of the Trump Organization and personal counsel to Trump, often being described as his fixer. Cohen served as co-president of Trump Entertainment and was a board member of the Eric Trump Foundation, a children's health charity. From 2017 to 2018, Cohen was deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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Max Brooks
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- writeractorscreenwriter
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Maximilian Michael Brooks is an American author. He is the son of comedian Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. He was a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.
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Bryan Callen
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- film actorscreenwriterpodcastertelevision actoractor
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Bryan Callen is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and podcaster. He studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Callen initiated his career as one of the original cast members on the sketch comedy series MADtv. Callen played Coach Mellor in The Goldbergs and reprised the role as a main character in the Goldbergs spinoff series Schooled. He is also a co-host of The Fighter and the Kid podcast, alongside Brendan Schaub.
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Barry Levinson
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- film producerfilm directorproduceractorscreenwriter
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Barry Lee Levinson is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Levinson won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988). His other best-known works are Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bugsy (1991), and Wag the Dog (1997). In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries Dopesick and directed the first two episodes.
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Nancy Meyers
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- film directorfilm producerproducerscreenwriterdirector
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Nancy Jane Meyers is an American filmmaker. She has written, produced, and directed many critically and commercially successful films. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Private Benjamin (1980). Her film Baby Boom (1987) was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. She co-wrote Father of the Bride (1991), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), and both wrote and directed The Parent Trap (1998), What Women Want (2000), Something's Gotta Give (2003), The Holiday (2006), It's Complicated (2009), and The Intern (2015).
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Giuliana Rancic
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- television producerwriterfilm screenwriterrestaurateurjournalist
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Giuliana Rancic is an Italian-born American entertainment reporter and television personality. She is a co-anchor of E! News and resides in Chicago and Los Angeles.
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Kathy Reichs
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1971 graduated with bachelor's degree
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- television produceracademicuniversity teachernovelistwriter
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Dr. Kathleen Joan Reichs is an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic. She is a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is well known for inspiring the television series Bones.
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Corey Lewandowski
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- political punditpolitical adviserlobbyist
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Corey R. Lewandowski is an American political operative, lobbyist, political commentator and author who is politically associated with Donald Trump. He was the first campaign manager of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and was dismissed by Trump during the Republican Primary. He later became a political commentator for One America News Network (OANN), Fox News and CNN.
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John P. O'Neill
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- special agentexpert
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John Patrick O'Neill was an American counter-terrorism expert who worked as a special agent and eventually a special agent in charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 1995, O'Neill began to intensely study the roots of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing after he assisted in the capture of Ramzi Yousef, who was the leader of that plot.
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Jesse Itzler
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- entrepreneurrapperwriter
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Jesse Itzler is an American entrepreneur, author, and rapper. He is the co-founder of Marquis Jet, one of the largest private jet card companies in the world, a partner in Zico Coconut Water, the founder of The 100 Mile Group and one of the owners of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.
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Gale Harold
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- film actorassociation football playertelevision actoractor
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Gale Morgan Harold III is an American actor, known for his leading and recurring roles on Queer as Folk, Deadwood, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, The Secret Circle and Defiance. He also starred in the romantic comedy Falling for Grace.
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Alisyn Camerota
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- journalist
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Alisyn Lane Camerota is an American broadcast journalist and former political commentator for CNN. She formerly was an anchor of CNN's morning show New Day, a co-host of the afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom, she also served as host of CNN Tonight from 2022 to 2023 as well as a presenter at Fox News. Camerota has covered stories nationally and internationally and has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award for news reporting.
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Muriel Bowser
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- politician
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Muriel Elizabeth Bowser is an American politician who has served as the current mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented the 4th ward as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt, and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
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Sarah McBride
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 2013 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianLGBTQ rights activist
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Sarah Elizabeth McBride is an American activist and politician who is the U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Delaware Senate from January 2021 to January 2025, representing the state's 1st senate district. Prior, she was the national press secretary of the Human Rights Campaign from 2016 to 2021. McBride is the nation's highest ranking openly transgender elected official and the first openly transgender member of the United States Congress.
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Alice Paul
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- suffragettewomen's rights activistjurist
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Alice Stokes Paul was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns and others, strategized events such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels, which were part of the successful campaign that resulted in the amendment's passage in August 1920.
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Iván Duque
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- Graduated with master's degree in economic law
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- writerpoliticianlawyer
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Iván Duque Márquez ODB ODSC OSP GOM CYC OSC OMDSM GColIH is a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the president of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. He was elected as the candidate from the Democratic Centre Party in the 2018 Colombian presidential election. Backed by his mentor, former president and powerful senator Álvaro Uribe, he was elected despite having been relatively unknown a year before the election. He ran on a platform that included opposing Juan Manuel Santos' peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla group. After Duque's term came to an end, he was succeeded by Gustavo Petro on 7 August 2022, after Petro won the runoff round in the 2022 Colombian presidential election.
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Aamir Ali
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- film actormodeltelevision actoractor
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Aamir Ali Malik, known as Aamir Ali, is an Indian actor and model.
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Petra Kelly
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- environmentalistpoliticianactivist
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Petra Karin Kelly was a German Green politician and ecofeminist activist. She was a founding member of the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence both nationally in Germany and worldwide. In 1982, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."
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Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in management
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa is Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain. He is also the deputy supreme commander of the Bahrain Defence Force.
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Neil Cavuto
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
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Neil Patrick Cavuto is an American television news anchor, executive, commentator, and business journalist. He was the host of Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto Live, both on Fox News, and Cavuto: Coast to Coast on sister channel Fox Business Network until he left the network on December 19, 2024.
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Star Jones
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- fashion designerwriteradvocatefilm directorjournalist
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Starlet Marie Jones Lugo, better known as Star Jones, is an American lawyer, journalist, television personality, fashion designer, author, and women's and diversity advocate. She is best known as one of the first co-hosts on the ABC morning talk show The View, which she appeared on for nine seasons from 1997–98 through 2005–06. She was also one of sixteen contestants of the fourth installment of The Celebrity Apprentice in 2011, coming in fifth place. She currently serves as the host of Divorce Court.
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Donna Shalala
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- politiciantrade unionistuniversity teacher
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Donna Edna Shalala is an American politician and academic who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Shalala is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which she was awarded in 2008, and, on August 16, 2023, assumed the role of Interim President of The New School, a university in New York City.
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Robert Kagan
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- writerhistorianpolitical scientist
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Robert Kagan is an American columnist. He is a neoconservative scholar. He is a critic of U.S. foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal internationalism.
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David Gregory
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- podcasternews presenterjournalisttelevision presenter
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David Michael Gregory is an American television personality and the former host of NBC News' Sunday morning talk show Meet the Press. Gregory has served as a CNN political analyst since 2016.
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Faith Spotted Eagle
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- politicianpolitical activistteacher
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Faith Spotted Eagle is an American activist and politician. She is a citizen of the Yankton Sioux Tribe who attempted to block development of the Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Julius Maada Bio
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- politician
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Julius Maada Wonie Bio is a Sierra Leonean politician and 5th and current president of Sierra Leone since 4 April 2018. He is a retired brigadier in the Sierra Leone Army and was the military head of state of Sierra Leone from 16 January 1996 to 29 March 1996, at only 32 years old in a military junta government known as the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC). Bio is the first democratically elected president of Sierra Leone born after Sierra Leone's independence from British colonial rule in 1961. As president Bio has implemented free primary and secondary school education in government schools throughout Sierra Leone and has repealed the death penalty in the country after it was passed Parliament.
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Max Otte
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- Studied in 1986-1987
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- fund managerauthoreconomistentrepreneuruniversity teacher
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Matthias "Max" Otte is an economist, publicist and political activist who holds German and U.S. citizenship. Otte, who has held professorships in Worms, Graz and Erfurt, is currently a fund manager. He has written several bestsellers, mainly on financial policy topics.
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Jason Kander
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- soldierpoliticianpodcasterlawyer
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Jason David Kander is an American attorney, author, veteran, and politician. A Democrat, he served as the 39th secretary of state of Missouri, from 2013 to 2017. He had previously served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 2009 to 2013. Before entering politics, he was an intelligence officer in the Army Reserve. He served in Afghanistan and achieved the rank of captain.
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Loretta Sanchez
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1982 graduated with Master of Business Administration
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- financial analystpolitician
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Loretta Lorna Sanchez is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2017, representing parts of central Orange County, California. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected in 1996, when she defeated long-serving Republican U.S. Representative Bob Dornan by fewer than 1,000 votes. During her time in the House of Representatives, Sanchez was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition of moderate-to-conservative Democrats.
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John Fahey
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- recording artistguitaristcomposer
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John Aloysius Fahey was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been enormously influential and has been described as the foundation of the genre of American primitive guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres. He would later incorporate 20th-century classical, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Indian influences into his work.
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Edmundo González
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- diplomat
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Edmundo González Urrutia is a Venezuelan politician, analyst, and diplomat. A member of the Unitary Platform political alliance, González was its candidate in the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election. A national and international political crisis erupted following the Venezuelan government's announcement that incumbent Nicolás Maduro won against González, which analysts argue was not based on the actual votes cast. The reactions of the international community were divided: the U.S., most European countries and some Latin American countries (such as Argentina, Peru and Uruguay) rejected the official results and recognized González as the election winner, while a number of countries including Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Cuba recognized Maduro as the winner.
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Kelela
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- singer-songwritercomposer
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Kelela Mizanekristos is an American singer. She made her debut in the music industry with the release of her 2013 mixtape Cut 4 Me. In 2015, she released Hallucinogen, an EP which deals with the beginning, middle, and end of a relationship in reverse chronological order. Her debut studio album, Take Me Apart, was released in 2017 to critical acclaim. After a nearly 5-year hiatus, Kelela released her second album, Raven, in February of 2023.
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Bruce Schneier
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- writerphysicistcomputer scientistmathematiciancryptographer
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Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer. Schneier is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society as of November, 2013. He is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access Now, and The Tor Project; and an advisory board member of Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the author of several books on general security topics, computer security and cryptography and is a squid enthusiast.
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Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar is an Iraqi politician. He was the vice president under the Iraqi Transitional Government in 2006, and was interim president of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004 to 2005. He also served as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq in 2004 following the US-led coalition invasion.
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Dave Brat
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1995 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianbusiness consultanteconomist
- Biography
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David Alan Brat is an American academic and former politician. A member of the Republican Party, Brat served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 7th congressional district from 2014 to 2019.
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Ayman Mohyeldin
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- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Ayman Mohyeldin is an Egyptian-born political commentator based in New York for NBC News and MSNBC. Previously the anchor of an MSNBC weekday afternoon show, Ayman Mohyeldin Reports (formerly MSNBC Live with Ayman Mohyeldin), he currently hosts Ayman on weekend evenings on MSNBC, and Fridays on Peacock. He previously worked for Al Jazeera and CNN. He was one of the first Western journalists allowed to enter and report on the handing over and trial of the deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein by the Iraqi Interim Government for crimes against humanity. Mohyeldin has also covered the 2008–09 Gaza War as well as the Arab Spring.
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Mohammed bin Sulayem
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- entrepreneurrally driver
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Mohammed Ahmad Sultan Ben Sulayem is an Emirati former rally driver and current president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of many auto racing events including Formula One.
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Edward Lee Howard
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- double agent
- Biography
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Edward Lee Victor Howard was a CIA case officer who defected to the Soviet Union.
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Rick Leventhal
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- journalist
- Biography
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Richard Gary Leventhal is an American reporter. Since 2024, he hosts The Leventhal Report on Newsmax2. Previously, he was a senior correspondent for Fox News Channel from June 1997 to June 2021. Before joining Fox, he spent 10 years in local news, reporting and anchoring in markets including Columbia, South Carolina; Spartanburg, South Carolina; West Palm Beach, Florida; Miami; Chicago; and New York City. He is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., with a B.A. in broadcast journalism.
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Masrour Barzani
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- politician
- Biography
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Masrour Barzani is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and serving as prime minister of the Kurdistan Region, since June 2019. He is also the chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council and a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He was sworn in as prime minister of the KRG’s ninth cabinet on 10 June 2019, after receiving 87 votes out of 97 legislators in the Kurdistan parliament.
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Jennifer Palmieri
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- politiciantelevision presenterpolitical adviser
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Jennifer M. Palmieri is an American political advisor and media personality who served as White House Director of Communications from 2013 to 2015 and Director of Communications for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. Palmieri was the co-host of the political documentary series The Circus on Showtime from 2021 to 2023.
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Barry McCaffrey
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Barry Richard McCaffrey is a retired United States Army general and current news commentator, professor and business consultant who served in President Bill Clinton's Cabinet as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He received three Purple Heart medals for injuries sustained during his service in the Vietnam War, two Silver Stars, and two Distinguished Service Crosses—the second-highest United States Army award for valor. He was inducted into United States Army Ranger Hall of Fame at the United States Army Infantry Center at Fort Benning in 2007.
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Gary Cohn
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- investment banker
- Biography
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Gary David Cohn is an American businessman and philanthropist who served as the 11th director of the National Economic Council and chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018. He managed the administration's economic policy agenda. Before serving in the White House, Cohn was president and COO of Goldman Sachs, where he worked for more than 25 years. Cohn was appointed vice-chairman of IBM on January 5, 2021.
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David Aldridge
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- journalistwriter
- Biography
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David Aldridge is an American sports journalist who works as a writer for The Athletic. He was previously a reporter for Turner Sports, contributing to their NBA and MLB coverage. Other outlets that Aldridge has written and contributed for include ESPN, NBA TV, NBA.com, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and TBD. In 2016, he was awarded the Curt Gowdy Media Award by the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Yumi Hogan
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 2010 graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- politicianartistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Yumi Hogan is a Korean–American artist. She served as the first lady of Maryland as wife of Governor Larry Hogan from 2015 to 2023, and is the first Korean American first lady of a U.S. state and the first Asian American first lady in the history of Maryland.
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Steve Scully
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Steven L. Scully is an American broadcast journalist. He is the host of "The Briefing with Steve Scully" on SiriusXM POTUS 124 and contributor to Hill.com & Senior Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center. In July 2024, he was named a Senior Fellow at the University of California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - Center on Communications Leadership and Policy. He is the former C-SPAN Political Editor, as well as former host and producer for its morning call-in show Washington Journal, "Washington Today" on C-SPAN Radio and The Weekly, C-SPAN's podcast. Scully served on the board of the White House Correspondents Association for nine years, including as president from 2006 to 2007.
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Nick Galifianakis
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- artist
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Nicholas Emmanuel Galifianakis Jr. is an American cartoonist and artist. Since 1997, he has drawn the cartoons for the nationally syndicated advice column Carolyn Hax, formerly, Tell Me About It – authored by his ex-wife, writer, and columnist for The Washington Post, Carolyn Hax.
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Asra Nomani
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Asra Quratulain Nomani is an Indian American journalist and author. Born in India to Muslim parents, she earned a BA from West Virginia University in liberal arts in 1986 and an MA from the American University in international communications in 1990. She subsequently worked as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal with her colleague Daniel Pearl in Pakistan post-9/11. Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by Islamist terrorists while following an investigative lead. Nomani later became the co-director of the Pearl Project, a faculty-student investigative-reporting project which has looked into Pearl's murder.
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Gwen Graham
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1988 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politiciandirectorlawyer
- Biography
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Gwendolyn Graham is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district from 2015 to 2017. She is the daughter of Bob Graham, the former United States senator and governor of Florida. A Democrat, she was a candidate in the 2018 Democratic primary for Florida governor. Graham also served assistant secretary of education for legislation and congressional affairs in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025.
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Carmen Maria Machado
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- literary criticessayistshort story writerwriterscience fiction writer
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Carmen Maria Machado is an American short story author, essayist, and critic best known for Her Body and Other Parties, a 2017 short story collection, and her memoir In the Dream House, which was published in 2019 and won the 2021 Folio Prize. Machado is frequently published in The New Yorker, Granta, Lightspeed, and other publications. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Her stories have been reprinted in Year's Best Weird Fiction, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, The New Voices of Fantasy, and Best Women's Erotica.
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Haley Stevens
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Haley Maria Stevens is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 11th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Stevens represents most of urbanized Oakland County, including many of Detroit's northern suburbs.
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Jim McGovern
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1981 graduated with Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- politiciancongressional staffpolitical campaign staff
- Biography
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James Patrick McGovern is an American politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A Democrat, he is the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, chaired the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and is the co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. His district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1997 to 2013, stretches from Worcester to the Pioneer Valley.
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Susan Wild
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Susan Wild is an American lawyer and politician from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A Democrat, she served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 2018 to 2025. The district is in the heart of the Lehigh Valley, and includes Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, and Bangor. Wild spent the last two months of 2018 as the member for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district after Charlie Dent resigned in 2018. She co-chaired the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force and was vice chair of both the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. Wild is the first woman to represent the Lehigh Valley in Congress. Wild lost her re-election bid in 2024 to Republican Ryan Mackenzie.
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Jack Douglass
- Occupations
- television producersongwriterTwitch streamerYouTubervoice actor
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John Patrick Douglass, better known as jacksfilms, is an American YouTuber, videographer, musician, and sketch comedian. He is best known for his series Yesterday I Asked You (YIAY) and Your Grammar Sucks (YGS), in which he commentates on content sent by fans. Douglass' career on YouTube spans over 18 years.
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Keith Mitchell
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianmathematiciancricketer
- Biography
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Keith Claudius Mitchell is a Grenadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Grenada from 1995 to 2008 and from 2013 to 2022. He is the longest-serving Prime Minister in Grenadian history, holding the office for more than 22 years. He was leader of the New National Party (NNP) from 1989 until 2024 and has been the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives of Grenada from 2008 to 2013, and again since 2022.
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A. Donald McEachin
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Aston Donald McEachin was an American politician and lawyer who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 4th congressional district from 2017 until his death in 2022. His district was based in the state capital, Richmond; it included much of the area between Richmond, a portion of its suburbs, and Hampton Roads.
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Alice Bradley Sheldon
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- spypsychologistwriterartistnovelist
- Biography
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Alice Bradley Sheldon, better known as James Tiptree Jr. was an American science fiction and fantasy author. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a pen name of a woman, which she used from 1967 until her death. From 1974 to 1985, she also occasionally used the pen name Raccoona Sheldon. Tiptree was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Yannis Pappas
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- comedian
- Biography
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Yannis Pappas is an American comedian from Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York.
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Susan Eisenberg
- Occupations
- film actorvoice actortelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Susan Eisenberg is an American voice actress. She is best known as the voice of Wonder Woman in the animated shows Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, a role she later reprised in several animated films and video games.
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Carol M. Highsmith
- Occupations
- photographerarchitectural photographer
- Biography
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Carol McKinney Highsmith is an American photographer and author. Her work documents the landscapes, architecture, and people of the rural and urban United States in a decades-long nationwide study, in progress since the 1980s. Highsmith has donated her photographs to the Library of Congress since 1992, creating a collection of nearly 100,000 images, all of which are in the public domain.
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Elmar Theveßen
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Elmar Theveßen is a German journalist and author.
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Garret Graves
- Occupations
- employeepoliticiancongressional staff
- Biography
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Garret Neal Graves is an American politician who served as the United States representative for Louisiana's 6th congressional district from 2015 to 2025. He is a member of the Republican Party. After redistricting dismantled his district, he declined to run for re-election in 2024.
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Tom Goldstein
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Che Goldstein is an American lawyer. He is known for his advocacy before and blog about the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a founding partner of Goldstein and Howe (later Goldstein & Russell), a Washington, D.C., firm specializing in Supreme Court litigation, and was, until the end of 2010, a partner at Akin Gump, where he was co-head of the litigation and Supreme Court practices. He retired from Goldstein & Russell in March 2023.
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Clark Howard
- Occupations
- radio personality
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Clark Brian Howard is an American author and radio/podcast host, focused primarily on personal finance, consumer protection, and related topics. He has hosted The Clark Howard Show, which began in 1989 and has lasted over 30 years as of 2021.
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William C. Sullivan
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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William Cornelius Sullivan was an assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who was in charge of the agency's domestic intelligence operations from 1961 to 1971. Sullivan was forced out of the FBI at the end of September 1971 due to disagreements with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The following year, Sullivan was appointed as the head of the Justice Department's new Office of National Narcotics Intelligence, which he led from June 1972 to July 1973. Sullivan died in a hunting accident in 1977. His memoir of his thirty-year career in the FBI, written with journalist Bill Brown, was published posthumously by commercial publisher W. W. Norton & Company in 1979.
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Heni Ozi Cukier
- Occupations
- political scientistpoliticianoratorconsultant
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Heni Ozi Cukier, also known as Professor HOC is a political scientist, professor, writer and public speaker. In 2018 Heni was elected state legislator to serve a 4-year term at the State Legislative Assembly of São Paulo. He's a faculty member for the International Relations Program at the ESPM college in São Paulo and also teaches geopolitics on his YouTube channel entitled Professor HOC. From 2017 to 2018 he was Deputy Secretary of Urban Security of the city of São Paulo. Heni is also founder of the international political risk analysis consultancy Insight Geopolítico.
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Jennifer Morgan
- Occupations
- diplomatexecutive
- Biography
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Jennifer Morgan is an American German environmental activist specializing in climate change policy. Since 2022, she has been serving as special representative for international climate policy of the Federal Foreign Office in Germany under minister Annalena Baerbock.
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Rick Lazio
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1983 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Enrico Anthony Lazio is an American attorney and former four-term U.S. Representative from the State of New York. A Long Island native, Lazio became well-known during his bid for U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election; he was defeated by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Lazio also ran unsuccessfully for the 2010 New York State Republican Party gubernatorial nomination.
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Frances Townsend
- Occupations
- business executiveconsultantlawyer
- Biography
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Frances M. "Fran" Fragos Townsend is an American lawyer and business executive who served as Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush from 2004 to 2007, and was formerly the executive vice president for corporate affairs, corporate secretary, and compliance chief officer for Activision Blizzard, until September 2022, due to Microsoft acquiring Blizzard for $75 billion. She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism. In 2008, Townsend joined CNN as a contributor, but later switched over to CBS where she is a national security analyst for them. Townsend was president of the Counter Extremism Project.
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Allen Chastanet
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Allen Michael Chastanet is a Saint Lucian businessman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Saint Lucia from 2016 to 2021. He is currently the Leader of the Opposition of Saint Lucia and the political leader of the United Workers Party as well as the parliamentary representative for Micoud South constituency.
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Chris Wylde
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Chris Wylde is an American actor from New Jersey.
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Skip Humphrey
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III is an American retired politician who served as attorney general of the state of Minnesota (1983–1999) and State Senator (1973–1983). Humphrey led the Office of Older Americans as the assistant director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
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Cal Thomas
- Occupations
- journalistradio personalitycolumnist
- Biography
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John Calvin Thomas is an American syndicated columnist, author and radio commentator.
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Lawrence J. Hogan
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1965 graduated with Master of Arts in communication studies
- Occupations
- business executivepoliticianuniversity teacherreal estate agentlawyer
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Lawrence Joseph Hogan Sr. was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. representative for the 5th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1975. In 1974, he was the only Republican representative to vote to recommend all three House articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. He was the father of the 62nd governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan.
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Justin Bibb
- Occupations
- politicianbusiness executive
- Biography
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Justin Morris Bibb is an American politician and former non-profit leader serving as the 58th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio since January 2022. Prior to serving as mayor, Bibb worked with public officials, business leaders and community organizations across the country as the Chief Strategy Officer of Urbanova, a business that leads new initiatives to make cities safer, healthier and more resilient. Bibb was the Co-Chair of Teach for America – Ohio, and a board member for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Destination Cleveland, and LAND Studio.
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Bob Edwards
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- journalistradio personality
- Biography
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Robert Alan Edwards was an American broadcast journalist who was a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He hosted both of National Public Radio's flagship news programs, the afternoon All Things Considered, and Morning Edition, where he was the first and longest serving host in the latter program's history. Starting in 2004, Edwards hosted The Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM Radio and Bob Edwards Weekend distributed by Public Radio International to more than 150 public radio stations. Those programs ended in September 2015.
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Lonnie Bunch
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Lonnie G. Bunch III is an American educator and historian. Bunch is the fourteenth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. He has spent most of his career as a history museum curator and administrator.
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Greg Lukianoff
- Occupations
- television producerwriterjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Gregory Christopher Lukianoff is an American lawyer, journalist, author and activist who serves as the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). He previously served as FIRE's first director of legal and public advocacy until he was appointed president in 2006.
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Christopher Jacobs
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Christopher Louis Jacobs is an American politician who represented New York's 27th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2020 to 2023. Jacobs served as the 62nd secretary of state of New York from April 2006 to January 2007. Beginning in 2012, he held the post of Erie County clerk, and he was a Republican member of the New York State Senate for the 60th district from 2017 to 2020. On June 23, 2020, he won a special election to fill a congressional vacancy in the 27th district. He was reelected to a full term in November 2020.
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Robin Ficker
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1970 graduated with Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- hecklerpoliticianreal estate agentlawyerfarmer
- Biography
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Robin Keith Annesley Ficker is an American political activist, real estate broker, former attorney (disbarred), former state legislator, sports heckler, and perennial candidate from Maryland.
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Tim Huelskamp
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1995 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politiciananalystfarmer
- Biography
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Timothy Alan Huelskamp is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Kansas's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, prior to entering Congress Huelskamp represented the 38th district of the Kansas Senate from 1997 until 2011.
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Kenneth Duberstein
- Occupations
- lobbyist
- Biography
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Kenneth Marc Duberstein was an American lobbyist who served as U.S. president Ronald Reagan's White House Chief of Staff from 1988 to 1989.
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Nicole Petallides
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Nicole Anais Petallides is an American journalist who works as an anchor for the online-only TD Ameritrade Network, which is owned and operated by Charles Schwab Corporation as a result of their acquisition of TD Ameritrade in 2020. Previously, she was an anchor for Fox Business. Gained experience at Dow Jones Television, CNBC, Bloomberg. She studied Communications and Business at The American University, Washington D.C. NCAA Division1 Women's Soccer. High School Friends Academy Locust Valley NY: 11 Varsity Letters (1 JV MVP) Soccer, Basketball, Softball. Lower School: Buckley Country Day School North Hills NY. Headmaster Award. Female MVP Athletics.
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Ann Beattie
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1969 graduated with undergraduate degree
- Occupations
- short story writerwriternovelistprofessor
- Biography
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Ann Beattie is an American novelist and short story writer. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form.
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Severino Montano
- Years
- 1915-1980 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Severino Montano was a playwright, director, actor and theater organizer with an output of one novel, 150 poems and 50 plays in his 65-year lifetime. Through the foundation of the Arena Theater, Montano institutionalized “legitimate theater” in the Philippines. Considered one of the Titans of Philippine Theater, he also have lifetime achievement award as part of National Artist of the Philippines.
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Yousef Al-Othaimeen
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- In 1986 studied political sociology
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen is a Saudi Arabian politician who served as secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) from November 2016, when Iyad bin Amin Madani stepped down for health reasons, to 29 November 2020.
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Ibrahima Kassory Fofana
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- politicianstatespersonofficial
- Biography
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Ibrahima Kassory Fofana is a Guinean politician who served as Prime Minister of Guinea between 21 May 2018 and 5 September 2021.
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Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo
- Occupations
- writereconomist
- Biography
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Dambisa Felicia Moyo, Baroness Moyo is a Zambian-born economist and author, known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs. She has written five books, including four New York Times bestsellers: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (2009), How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices that Lie Ahead (2011), Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World (2012), Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It (2018), and How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World (2021).
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writer
- Biography
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel quartet Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner) and for her "Alice" book series, one of the most frequently challenged books of the last decade.
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Frederick Hart
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Frederick Elliott Hart was an American sculptor. The creator of hundreds of public monuments, private commissions, portraits, and other works of art, Hart is most famous for Ex Nihilo, a part of his Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral, and The Three Servicemen (also known as The Three Soldiers), at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Alex Albrecht
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Alexander Jennings Albrecht is an American television personality, actor and podcaster. He is known for co-hosting the former G4techTV television program The Screen Savers, an hour-long computer and technology variety show, as well as the weekly podcast Diggnation and the weekday podcast The Totally Rad Show on the Revision3 network. On July 15, 2008, he released his new podcast/website Project Lore, all about World of Warcraft. Albrecht has expressed a penchant for dressing up as characters from Street Fighter, most recently appearing as Guile. He was the Head of Original Programming at Caffeine.
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Henepola Gunaratana
- Occupations
- bhikkhu
- Biography
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Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk. He is affectionately known as Bhante G. Bhante Gunaratana is currently the abbot of the Bhavana Society, a monastery and meditation retreat center that he founded in High View, West Virginia, in 1985. He is the author of the bestselling meditation guide Mindfulness in Plain English.
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Bill Shuster
- Enrolled in the American University in Washington
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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William Franklin Shuster is an American politician and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 2001 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party, and is a son of former Congressman Bud Shuster.
