35 Notable alumni of
Bethany College - West Virginia
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Bethany College - West Virginia is 1922nd in the world, 669th in North America, and 629th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from Bethany College - West Virginia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Frances McDormand
- Enrolled in Bethany College - West Virginia
- In 1979 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in theatre
- Occupations
- voice actortelevision produceractorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Frances Louise McDormand is an American actress and producer. In a career spanning over four decades, she has gained acclaim for her roles in small-budget independent films. McDormand has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awards (three for Best Actress), two Emmy Awards, and one Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting". Additionally, she has received three BAFTAs and two Golden Globe Awards.
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William H. Macy
- Occupations
- theatrical directortelevision actorteacherfilm directorfilm producer
- Biography
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William Hall Macy Jr. is an American actor. His film career has been built on appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in mainstream films. His starring roles include those in Fargo (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), Mystery Men (1999), Jurassic Park III (2001), Cellular (2004), Bobby (2006), Wild Hogs (2007), and Shorts (2009). Macy has won two Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, while his performance in Fargo earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 2011 to 2021, he played Frank Gallagher, a main character in Shameless, the Showtime adaptation of the British television series. Macy has been married to Felicity Huffman since 1997.
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Tom Poston
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Thomas Gordon Poston was an American actor, appearing in television roles from the 1950s through the early to mid-2000s, reportedly appearing in more sitcoms than any other actor. In the 1980s, he played George Utley on the CBS sitcom Newhart, receiving three Emmy Award nominations for the role. In addition he had a number of film roles and appeared frequently on Broadway and television game shows.
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Shane Douglas
- Occupations
- professional wrestlerteacher
- Biography
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Troy Allan Martin is an American professional wrestler and promoter, better known by his ring name Shane Douglas. He is best known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as Dean Douglas, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he worked as a wrestler and manager.
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Thomas Buergenthal
- Occupations
- writerlawyeruniversity teacherjudgejurist
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Thomas Buergenthal was a Czechoslovak-born American international lawyer, scholar, law school dean, and judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). He resigned his ICJ post as of 6 September 2010 and returned to his position at The George Washington University Law School where he was the Lobingier Professor Emeritus of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence.
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Champ Clark
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James Beauchamp Clark was an American politician and attorney who represented Missouri in the United States House of Representatives for thirteen terms between 1893 and 1921 and served as Speaker of the House from 1911 to 1919.
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William Ferrel
- Occupations
- astronomermeteorologist
- Biography
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William Ferrel was an American meteorologist who developed theories that explained the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell in detail, and it is after him that the Ferrel cell is named.
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Joseph Rucker Lamar
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Rucker Lamar was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court appointed by President William Howard Taft. A cousin of former associate justice Lucius Lamar, he served from 1911 until his death in 1916.
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Sukhi Turner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Sukhinder Kaur Gill Turner, commonly known as Sukhi Turner, is an Indian-born-New Zealand politician who served as the Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand, from 1995 until her retirement from the position in 2004. She was also regarded by some as New Zealand's most prominent politician from the country's Indian community.
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José María Jesús Carbajal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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José María Jesús Carbajal was a Mexican Tejano who opposed the Centralist government installed by Antonio López de Santa Anna, but was a conscientious objector who refused to take up arms against his own people. Mexican conscientious objectors paid a price for their refusals, in that Texan Brigadier General Thomas Jefferson Rusk confiscated the homes of those who wished to remain neutral in the war. In July 1836, Rusk ordered the Carbajal and other Tejano families of Victoria escorted off their own land. They took refuge in New Orleans.
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Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. was an American businessman and politician who served as the 34th governor of New York from 1901 to 1904.
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Benjamin Joseph Franklin
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Benjamin Joseph Franklin was a U.S. Representative from Missouri, and territorial governor of Arizona.
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John William McGarvey
- Years
- 1829-1911 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- theologianChristian ministereducator
- Biography
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John William McGarvey (March 1, 1829 – October 6, 1911) was a minister, author, and religious educator in the American Restoration Movement. He was particularly associated with the College of the Bible in Lexington, Kentucky (today Lexington Theological Seminary) where he taught for 46 years, serving as president from 1895 to 1911. He was noted for his opposition to theological liberalism and higher criticism. His writings are still influential among the heirs of the conservative wing of the Restoration Movement, the Churches of Christ and Christian churches and churches of Christ.
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Richard Montgomery Gano
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Richard Montgomery Gano was a physician, Protestant minister, and brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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Edgar Odell Lovett
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
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Edgar Odell Lovett was an American educator and education administrator.
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George T. Oliver
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- entrepreneurlawyerpoliticianpublisherjournalist
- Biography
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George Tener Oliver was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
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Ira Rodgers
- Enrolled in Bethany College - West Virginia
- Studied in 1911-1914
- Occupations
- coachplayer of American footballbaseball playerprofessor
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Ira Errett "Rat" Rodgers was an American football, basketball, baseball, and golf player and coach. He played college football for West Virginia University where he was selected as an All-American in 1919. He also served as the school's head football coach from 1925 to 1930 and again from 1943 to 1945.
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Lawrence B. Slobodkin
- Occupations
- ecologist
- Biography
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Lawrence Basil Slobodkin was an American ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He was one of the leading pioneers of modern ecology. His innovative thinking and research, provocative teaching, and visionary leadership helped transform ecology into a modern science, with deep links to evolution.
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Ben M. Williamson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ben Mitchell Williamson was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky.
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John E. Niederhuber
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- oncologistsurgeon
- Biography
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John E. Niederhuber, MD was the 13th director of the National Cancer Institute, from 2006 until July, 2010, succeeding Andrew von Eschenbach, who went on to become a director at biotechnology firm BioTime. A nationally renowned surgeon and researcher, Dr. Niederhuber has dedicated his four-decade career to the treatment and study of cancer - as a professor, cancer center director, National Cancer Advisory Board chair, external advisor to the NCI, grant reviewer, and laboratory investigator supported by NCI and the National Institutes of Health. He is now Executive Vice President/CEO Inova Translational Medicine Institute and Inova Health System and co-director, Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network.
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Jeffrey L. Seglin
- Occupations
- journalistwriterteacher
- Biography
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Jeffrey L. Seglin is an American columnist, author, and teacher. He is currently a senior lecturer, emeritus, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 2011 until 2023, he was a senior lecturer and director of the communications program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He consults widely on writing, communications, and ethics. His weekly column on ethics, "The Right Thing," is syndicated in newspapers in the United States and Canada. Seglin lives in Boston with his wife, a psychotherapist. He has two adult children and four grandchildren.
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Virginia Dare Aderholdt
- Years
- 1910-1997 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- cryptographer
- Biography
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Virginia Dare Aderholdt was an Arlington Hall cryptanalyst and Japanese translator. She decrypted the intercepted Japanese surrender message at the close of World War II on August 14, 1945.
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John A. Brooks
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Anderson Brooks was a religious scholar and prohibitionist who served as the Prohibition Party's vice presidential nominee during the 1888 presidential election.
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Ed Wells
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Edwin Lee Wells, nicknamed "Satchelfoot", was an American baseball pitcher. He played professional baseball for 14 seasons from 1923 to 1936, including 11 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers (1923–1927), New York Yankees (1929–1932), and St. Louis Browns (1933–1934). Wells was a left-handed pitcher, with a hard fastball and a slow curve. Wells appeared in 291 major league games with a 68–69 record and won a World Series championship with the Yankees in 1932.
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John C. New
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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John Chalfant New was a United States banker and lawyer who held a variety of government positions. He was Treasurer of the United States from 1875 to 1876.
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Ray Rappaport
- Years
- 1922-2010 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Ray Rappaport was an American cell biologist. He did pioneering research using physical manipulations of cells to understand the mechanisms of cytokinesis, the process by which a cell's cytoplasm is divided in two.
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Jeptha D. New
- Years
- 1830-1892 (aged 62)
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Jeptha Dudley New was a U.S. Representative from Indiana. He was the grandson of Jethro New, nephew of Robert A. New, brother of John C. New, and uncle of Harry Stewart New.
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Francis Johnson Love
- Enrolled in Bethany College - West Virginia
- In 1924 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerhead teacher
- Biography
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Francis Johnson Love was an American politician and Republican U.S. Congressman from West Virginia.
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John O. Pendleton
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Overton Pendleton was a U.S. Representative from West Virginia.
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Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Daniel Coleman DeJarnette Sr. was a prominent Virginia politician, serving in the United States Congress and then in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.
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William N. Sweeney
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Northcut Sweeney was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
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John Robinson Tait
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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John Robinson Tait was an American landscape painter, art critic, and travel writer. He spent many years in Germany, where he was associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule and the Munich School.
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Edward Mayes
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Edward Mayes was an American lawyer and law professor who served as the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1887 to 1891.
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Oliver S. Marshall
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Oliver S. Marshall was an American politician serving as a member of the West Virginia Senate from 1st District in three terms from 1897 to 1901, 1905 to 1909, and 1913 to 1917. A member of the Republican Party, he served as President of the Senate from 1899 to 1901.
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George Roark
- Years
- 1898-1993 (aged 95)
- Occupations
- baseball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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George Wheeler Roark was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and track. He served as the head football coach at Westminster College of New Wilmington, Pennsylvania in 1936 and at Washington & Jefferson College from 1937 to 1940, compiling a career college football record of 18–18–3. Roark also coached basketball and track at Westminster.
