37 Notable alumni of
Azusa Pacific University
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Azusa Pacific University is 1313th in the world, 463rd in North America, and 435th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from Azusa Pacific 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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Colleen Ballinger
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- television actorjournalistactortelevision producerwriter
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Colleen Mae Ballinger is an American comedian, YouTuber, actress, singer and writer. She is best known for her creation and portrayal of the Internet character Miranda Sings, posting videos of the character on YouTube, performing her one-woman comedy act on tour in theatres worldwide, and creating and starring in a Netflix original series titled Haters Back Off (2016–2017). Ballinger created the comically talentless, egotistical and eccentric character to satirize the many YouTube videos featuring people singing badly in hopes of breaking into show business but who appear unaware of their lack of talent.
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John C. Maxwell
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- opinion journalistwriteroratormotivational speakerpastor
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John C. Maxwell is an American author, speaker, and pastor who has written books primarily focused on leadership. Titles include The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. Some of his books have been on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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Scheana Shay
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- modelactor
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Scheana Shay is an American television personality and actress. She was an original cast member on the Bravo reality television series Vanderpump Rules for eleven seasons. Shay made guest appearances on the spin-off, The Valley, in the second season.
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John F. MacArthur
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- Protestant theologianradio personalitypastorwriternon-fiction writer
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John Fullerton MacArthur Jr. was an American Baptist pastor, theologian, author, and broadcaster. He was the founder of Grace to You, a nationally syndicated radio and television Bible teaching program. He was also the longtime pastor of Grace Community Church, a non-denominational church in Sun Valley, California from 1969 until his death in 2025. Additionally, MacArthur served as the chancellor emeritus of The Master's University and The Master's Seminary, both based in Santa Clarita, California.
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Christian Okoye
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- athletics competitorAmerican football player
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Christian Emeka OkoyeListen is a Nigerian–American former professional football fullback who played for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL) from 1987 to 1992. Nicknamed "the Nigerian Nightmare", he was known for his powerful running style and ability to break tackles. His six-season NFL career produced an NFL rushing champion title in 1989, first-team All-Pro honors in 1989, second-team All-Pro honors in 1991, two Pro Bowl appearances in 1989 and 1991, and three playoff appearances. He ended his NFL career due to multiple injuries.
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Hailemariam Desalegn
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- politicianminister
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Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe is an Ethiopian politician who served as prime minister of Ethiopia from 2012 to 2018. He also previously served as deputy prime minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Meles Zenawi from 2010 to 2012. After Meles' death in August 2012, Hailemariam succeeded him as prime minister, initially in an acting capacity. He was then elected as the chair of the EPRDF, the ruling party, on 15 September 2012. Hailemariam also served as the chairperson of the African Union from 2013 to 2014.
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Stephen Vogt
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- baseball player
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Stephen Guy Vogt is an American professional baseball manager and former catcher and coach who currently serves as the manager for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). Vogt played in MLB for the Tampa Bay Rays, Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, San Francisco Giants, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Atlanta Braves. He was an MLB All-Star with the Athletics in 2015 and 2016. Vogt was selected by Tampa Bay in the 12th round of the 2007 MLB draft.
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Dan Barker
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- writersongwriterpianistmusician
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Daniel Edwin Barker is an American atheist activist and musician who served as an evangelical Christian preacher and composer for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. He and his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor are the current co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and he is cofounder of The Clergy Project. He has written numerous articles for Freethought Today, an American freethought newspaper. He is the author of several books including Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist.
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Daniel M. Lavery
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- columnistjournalist
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Daniel M. Lavery is an American author and editor. He is known for having co-founded the website The Toast, and written the books Texts from Jane Eyre (2014), The Merry Spinster (2018), Something That May Shock and Discredit You (2020), and Women's Hotel (2024). Lavery wrote Slate's "Dear Prudence" advice column from 2016 to 2021. From 2022 to 2023, he hosted a podcast on Slate titled Big Mood, Little Mood. In 2017, Lavery started a paid e-mail newsletter titled Shatner Chatner, renamed to The Chatner in 2021.
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Bryan Clay
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- athletics competitor
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Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay is an American decathlete who was the 2008 Summer Olympic champion for the decathlon and was also World champion in 2005.
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Jean-Robert Bellande
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- poker playerreality television participant
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Jean-Robert F. Bellande is an American professional poker player, reality TV contestant, and a nightclub owner and promoter.
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Robert DeLong
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- songwritersinger-songwritersingermusician
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Robert Charles Edward DeLong is an American electronic musician from Bothell, Washington and currently residing in Los Angeles, California. With a background in percussion and influences from a number of indie rock bands, DeLong's primary genres include house, dubstep, and moombahton. He has released three full-length albums on Glassnote Records: Just Movement in January 2013, In the Cards in September 2015, and Walk Like Me in November 2021. His fourth studio album, Playlist of Doom, was released in September 2024.
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Patrick Brennan
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- actor
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Patrick Oliver Lampson, known professionally as Patrick Brennan, is an American actor.
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Coleman Young II
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- politician
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Coleman Alexander Young II is an American Democratic politician who is a current member of the Detroit City Council and a former member of the Michigan Senate.
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Tony Corrente
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- teacherAmerican football official
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Anthony Joseph Corrente is a former American football official in the National Football League (NFL) who served for 26 years from 1995 until his retirement in 2021. He wore uniform number 99. He was the referee of Super Bowl XLI. He served as the coordinator of football officiating for the Pac-12 Conference from June 2011 until he resigned this position in October 2014.
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Paul Cameron
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- psychologist
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Paul Drummond Cameron is an American psychologist. While employed at various institutions, including the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, he conducted research on passive smoking, but he is best known today for his claims about homosexuality. After a successful 1982 campaign against a gay rights proposal in Lincoln, Nebraska, he established the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality (ISIS), now known as the Family Research Institute (FRI). As FRI's chairman, Cameron has written contentious papers asserting unproven associations between homosexuality and the perpetration of child sexual abuse and reduced life expectancy. These have been heavily criticized and frequently discredited by others in the field.
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Mykal Walker
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- American football player
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Mykal Walker is an American professional football linebacker for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Azusa Pacific Cougars and Fresno State Bulldogs and was selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the fourth round of the 2020 NFL draft. Walker has also been a member of the Chicago Bears, Las Vegas Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Washington Commanders.
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Dominique Johnson
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- basketball player
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Dominique Johnson is an American professional basketball player who last played for Al Ittihad Alexandria.
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Josh Staumont
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- baseball player
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Joshua Tyler Staumont is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Cincinnati Reds organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals and Minnesota Twins. He made his MLB debut in 2019.
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Irie Love
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- modelsinger
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Irie Love Taylor is an American R&B Reggae singer and songwriter. She first gained notice as one of the finalists on the "Brown Bags to Stardom" competition in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1999. She was signed by John Iervolino (one of the judges in the competition) onto his record label, Quiet Storm Records. She was featured as the only new artist on his world music compilation entitled Roots Music Volume 2: Private Beach Party for which they used her likeness to promote the album.
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Joseph Tkach, Jr
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Joseph Tkach Jr. is an American minister and formerly president of Grace Communion International, an evangelical Protestant denomination based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He hosted the weekly web-series Speaking of LIFE.
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George Runner
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- politician
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George C. Runner Jr. is an American politician from California who served on the California State Board of Equalization, the only publicly elected tax commission in the United States. A Republican, he represented the Board's 2nd District from 2011 to 2015 and the renumbered 1st District from 2015 to 2019.
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Eliza Rickman
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- pianist
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Eliza Rickman is an American indie singer, songwriter, and pianist from Los Angeles, California. She is best known for her use of unconventional musical instruments, such as the toy piano, and her vintage Victorian Era dresses, as well as her collaborations with the podcast Welcome to Night Vale and musician Jason Webley.
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Malynda Hale
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- singer-songwriterentrepreneuractivistbusinesspersonactor
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Malynda Hale is an American Actress, Singer, and political activist. She is the former host of #WeNeedToTalk Podcast and creator of The Black Voices Heard Project. She is also the owner of JMV Entertainment Production Company based in Los Angeles and the Executive Director of The New Evangelicals.
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Laura Beeman
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- basketball coach
- Biography
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Laura Lynne Beeman is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head women's basketball coach at the University of Hawaii.
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Susan Bonilla
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- politician
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Susan A. Bonilla is an American politician who served in the California State Assembly, representing the 14th district, encompassing parts of Contra Costa and Solano counties. She is a Democrat. Prior to being elected to the state Assembly, she was a member of the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors and was mayor of Concord before that.
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John Littlefield
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- baseball player
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John Andrew Littlefield is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched two seasons in the major leagues, 1980 for the St. Louis Cardinals and 1981 for the San Diego Padres. He appeared in 94 games, all as a reliever. In 1980, he led the Cardinals with 9 saves and in games pitched, 52.
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Vicki Vann
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- singermodelcomposerbusinesspersonsinger-songwriter
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Victoria "Vicki" Araceli Denise Vann Bradford Turnbough is an American country music artist, entrepreneur, and businesswoman. She has been called the Cinderella of country music and was chosen to appear as a featured artist in a Country Music Television documentary called "Waiting in the Wings." The documentary focuses on the ongoing struggles of the African American music artists in the country music industry.
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Steve Barnes
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- basketball coach
- Biography
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Steven Theodore Barnes is an American basketball coach who last served as the associate head coach at Colorado State University.
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Steve Connor
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- American football player
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Steve Connor is an author, speaker, leadership coach, and former NFL football player. He is the founder of Sports Outreach International.
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Wayne Edwards
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- baseball player
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Wayne Maurice Edwards is an American former professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox of the Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted by the White Sox in the 10th round of the 1985 Major League Baseball draft. He was the drummer with V.I.E.W., an alternative rock band whose lead vocalist was fellow White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell. His father Wayne Sr. was the drummer with The Hondells. He is a 2007 Azusa Pacific University Athletics Hall of Fame inductee.
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Eugenio Duarte
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Eugenio Duarte is an ordained minister and 37th General Superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene. Born in Cape Verde, Duarte was the first African elected to the General Superintendency in the Church of the Nazarene. His election occurred in the centenary year of the denomination. Duarte was elected June 30, 2009 at the 27th General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene.
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Matthew J. Brouillette
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- radio personality
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Matthew J. Brouillette is an American businessman and entrepreneur who is the founder and president of Commonwealth Partners Chamber of Entrepreneurs, a 501(c)(6) membership organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is the former president and CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, a free-market think tank in Pennsylvania. He served in that position from February 2002 through June 2016.
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Paul Serna
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- baseball player
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Paul David Serna is an American former professional baseball player. He played two seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners.
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Andriy Budnyi
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- association football player
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Andriy Budnyi is a Ukrainian footballer.
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Adam Davidson
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- tennis player
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Adam Davidson is a former American professional tennis player. Primarily a doubles specialist, he represented the United States on the ATP World Tour, ATP Challenger Tour and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Star Team.
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Aron Rono
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- long-distance runner
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Aron Rono is a Kenyan American long-distance runner. After completing a high school in Kenya he moved to the United States, where he graduated in political sciences from the Azusa Pacific University in 2009. As a member of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program he won a silver medal in the 10,000 m event at the 2015 Pan American Games.
