20 Notable alumni of
Austin College
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Austin College is 2299th in the world, 807th in North America, and 763rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from Austin College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Lance Armstrong
- Occupations
- podcastertriathleteautobiographersport cyclist
- Biography
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Lance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He achieved international fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his titles after an investigation into doping allegations, called the Lance Armstrong doping case, found he used performance-enhancing drugs over his career. He is currently banned for life from all sanctioned bicycling events.
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Stephen Carpenter
- Occupations
- guitaristmusician
- Biography
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Stephen "Steph" Carpenter is an American musician, known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative metal band Deftones.
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Larry Fedora
- Occupations
- player of American footballhead coach
- Biography
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Herbert Lawrence Fedora is an American football coach and former player who is the former coach and general manager for the New Orleans Breakers of the United States Football League (USFL). He previously served as head coach at the University of Southern Mississippi from 2008 to 2011, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2012 to 2018, and the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Baylor University in 2020.
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Ron Kirk
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ronald Kirk is an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Trade Representative from 2009 to 2013, as the 97th Secretary of State of Texas, and as the 56th Mayor of Dallas from 1995 to 2002. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Deborah Crombie
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Deborah Crombie is an American author of the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James mystery series set in the United Kingdom. Crombie was raised in Richardson, Texas, and has lived in the United Kingdom. She now lives in McKinney, Texas.
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Candace Kita
- Occupations
- actorfilm actormodel
- Biography
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Candace Kita is an American actress.
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David Lee "Tex" Hill
- Occupations
- military officeraircraft pilot
- Biography
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David Lee "Tex" Hill was an American fighter pilot and triple flying ace. He is credited with 12+1⁄4 victories as a squadron leader with the Flying Tigers and another six as an officer in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II. He retired as a brigadier general.
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Charlie Robertson
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Charles Culbertson Robertson was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher, and is best remembered for throwing a perfect game in 1922.
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John Hitt
- Biography
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John C. Hitt was an American professor and academic administrator, who served as the fourth president of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida from 1992 to 2018. He was named the Orlando Sentinel's Central Floridian of the Year in 2005, and twice Orlando's most powerful person by Orlando Magazine. He was the dean of Florida's university presidents, as the longest tenured president in the state. His reputation was materially tarnished by auditor findings that tens of millions of dollars were improperly spent on construction during his tenure as president. He acknowledged the spending and resigned from his compensated fundraising role. His successor Dale Whittaker and the university's chief financial officer Bill Merck also resigned because of the scandal. Four other financial officers were fired.
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Tom Thompson
- Occupations
- writerplayer of American footballmotivational speaker
- Biography
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Emmet C. "Tom" Thompson II is an American former college football player who was a member of the football team at Austin College in Sherman, Texas during the 2009 NCAA Division III football season. In 2011, he earned a graduate degree from Austin College. He has been the kicking coach for the football team at Austin College since the 2010 season.
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Smith Ballew
- Occupations
- film actorbandleaderactorsingersongwriter
- Biography
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Sykes "Smith" Ballew was an American actor, sophisticated singer, orchestra leader, and a western singing star. He also was billed as Buddy Blue, Charles Roberts, and Billy Smith.
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Dan Stoenescu
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Dan Stoenescu is a Romanian career diplomat, political scientist and journalist. He was a minister in the technocratic government of Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș.
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Lydia Bean
- Enrolled in Austin College
- In 2002 graduated with bachelor's degree in music and Spanish
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Lydia N. Bean is an American sociologist. She authored an ethnographic book, The Politics of Evangelical Identity, about Evangelical communities on the Canada–United States border. Bean is a fellow at New America and a faculty research associate at the University of Texas at Arlington. She was an assistant professor of sociology at Baylor University. Bean has been a Democratic candidate for the Texas House of Representatives and was a candidate for the 2021 Texas's 6th congressional district special election.
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John Bucy III
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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John Harden Bucy III is an American businessman and politician serving as a member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 136th District, which includes Northwest Austin, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Round Rock, and the Brushy Creek area in Williamson County.
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Dell Morgan
- Occupations
- basketball coachhead coach
- Biography
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John O'Dell Morgan was an American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Texas Tech University from 1941 to 1950, compiling a record of 55–49–3. Morgan was also the head basketball coach at Texas Tech from 1931 to 1934, tallying a mark of 42–29. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Auburn University from 1934 to 1939 and at Rice University from 1953 to 1961, amassing a career college baseball coaching record of 146–143–2.
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Walter E. Rogers
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Walter Edward Rogers was a Democratic United States Representative from Texas.
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Ray Morehart
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Raymond Anderson Morehart was an American major league baseball player.
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John Ohleyer Moseley
- Enrolled in Austin College
- In 1912 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherlatinistacademic administrator
- Biography
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John Ohleyer Moseley was an American educator, a Rhodes Scholar, and a professor of Latin at the University of Oklahoma in the 1920s. He was also the President of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in the 1930s. He served as the President of Central State College from 1935 to 1939, and the University of Nevada, Reno from 1944 to 1949.
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Thomas Henry Ball
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Thomas Henry Ball was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. He was mayor of Huntsville, Texas, from 1877 to 1892, and moved to Houston in 1902.
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Ryan Allen
- Years
- 1943-2018 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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A. Ryan Allen was an American bass singer best known for his work in opera. He performed professionally in all 50 states, appeared with numerous American opera companies, and sang as a soloist in Russia, Israel, Poland, Norway and Sweden.
