100 Notable alumni of
Bowling Green State University
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Bowling Green State University is 457th in the world, 184th in North America, and 170th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Bowling Green State 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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Robert Patrick
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- manufacturerfilm actorfilm producervoice actoractor
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Robert Hammond Patrick is an American actor. Known for portraying villains and authority figures alike, Patrick is a Saturn Award winner with four other nominations.
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James Baldwin
- Occupations
- writercivil rights advocateuniversity teacherpoetnovelist
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James Arthur Baldwin was an American writer and civil rights activist. He garnered acclaim for his work across several forms, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953; in 2005, Time magazine included the novel on its list of the 100 best English-language novels released since the year of the Time's first publication in 1923. His first essay collection, Notes of a Native Son, was published in 1955.
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Tim Conway
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- philanthropistscreenwriteractorfilm producercomedian
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Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway was an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. Conway is perhaps best known as a regular cast member (1975–1978) on the TV comedy The Carol Burnett Show where he portrayed his recurrent iconic characters Mister Tudball and the Oldest Man. Over his career he received numerous accolades including five Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He received the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Eva Marie Saint
- Occupations
- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
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Eva Marie Saint is an American retired actress of film, theatre, radio and television. In a career spanning 75 years, she has won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, alongside nominations for a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards. Saint is both the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award-winner, and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
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James Pickens
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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James Pickens Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Webber on the ABC medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, and for his supporting role as Deputy Director Alvin Kersh on later seasons of the Fox Network science fiction series The X-Files, and Chuck Mitchell on Roseanne (1990-1996;2018), and The Conners (2018–Present).
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Scott Hamilton
- Occupations
- figure skater
- Biography
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Scott Scovell Hamilton is a retired American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist. He won four consecutive U.S. championships (1981–84), four consecutive World Championships (1981–84), and a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics. His signature move, the backflip, a feat few other figure skaters could perform at the time, is against U.S. Figure Skating and Olympic competition rules. Yet, he would include it in his exhibition routines as an amateur to please the crowd. Later, he also used the backflip in his professional competition routines. He is widely recognized for his innovative footwork sequences. In retirement, he has been involved in charitable work and is the author of three books.
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Tim Ryan
- Enrolled in Bowling Green State University
- In 1995 graduated with Bachelor of Science in political science
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Timothy John Ryan is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative for Ohio from 2003 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Ohio's 13th congressional district from 2013 to 2023, having previously represented Ohio's 17th congressional district from 2003 to 2013. Ryan's district included a large swath of northeastern Ohio, from Youngstown to Akron. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio.
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Orel Hershiser
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Orel Leonard Hershiser IV is an American former baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1983 to 2000. He later became a pitching coach for the Texas Rangers from 2002 to 2005 and a broadcast color analyst for the Dodgers. He is also a professional poker player.
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Nate Thurmond
- Occupations
- restaurateurbasketball player
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Nathaniel Thurmond was an American basketball player who spent the majority of his 14-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Golden State Warriors franchise. He played the center and power forward positions. Thurmond was a seven-time All-Star and the first player in NBA history to record an official quadruple-double. In 1965, he grabbed 42 rebounds in a game; only Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell recorded more rebounds in an NBA game. Thurmond was named a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985, one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, and part of the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021.
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Shantanu Narayen
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- computer scientistbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Shantanu Narayen is an Indian-American business executive. He has been the chairman, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adobe Inc. since December 2007. Before this, he was the company's president and chief operating officer since 2005.
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Anthony Doerr
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- novelistjournalistwriter
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Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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JP Sears
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- comedianYouTubertelevision producer
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JP Sears, known online as AwakenWithJP, is an American conservative YouTuber and comedian. Sears is known for his satirical YouTube videos where he parodies lifestyle gurus, wellness coaches, and government policies while providing comedic advice.
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Mike Emrick
- Occupations
- sports commentatorjournalist
- Biography
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Michael "Doc" Emrick is an American former network television play-by-play sportscaster and commentator noted mostly for his work in ice hockey. He was the lead announcer for National Hockey League national telecasts on both NBC and NBCSN. Among the many awards Emrick has received is the NHL's Lester Patrick Award in 2004, making him the first of only five to have received the award for media work, and the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008. He has also won nine national Emmy Awards for excellence in sports broadcasting, the only hockey broadcaster to be honored with even one. On December 12, 2011, Emrick became the first member of the media to be inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2017, Sports Illustrated listed Emrick as the sportscaster of the year.
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Dave Wottle
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- middle-distance runnerathletics competitor
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David James Wottle is an American retired middle-distance track athlete. He was the gold medalist in the 800 meter run at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and a world record holder in the 800 meters. In 1973, Wottle also ran the 3rd fastest Mile in history. He was known for wearing a golf cap while running.
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Quinton Flynn
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- singer-songwriterwriterfilm producermusicianstage actor
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Quinton Flynn is an American voice actor and comedian, who has provided the English voices of video game characters such as Raiden in the Metal Gear series, Marcus Damon in Digimon Data Squad, Lea and Axel in the Kingdom Hearts series.
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D. J. Durkin
- Enrolled in Bowling Green State University
- In 2001 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in business marketing
- Occupations
- player of American footballAmerican football coach
- Biography
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Daniel John Durkin is an American football coach who is the defensive coordinator for the Auburn Tigers. He was formerly the head coach for the University of Maryland. Durkin began serving as the head coach of the University of Maryland football team in 2015. Following the practice-related death of player Jordan McNair, Durkin was placed on leave in August 2018. Matt Canada was named acting head coach until further notice.
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Kevin Bieksa
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
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Kevin Francesco Bieksa is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Bieksa started and played most of his career with the Vancouver Canucks and later played for the Anaheim Ducks. After a three-year career in the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) with the Burlington Cougars, Bieksa was awarded a scholarship to Bowling Green State University. He was a one-time All-CCHA honourable mention during his four-year tenure with the Falcons of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). He graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree (B.A.) in finance, and was a two-time CCHA All-Academic honourable mention in 2003 and 2004. Bieksa now co-hosts Hockey Night in Canada.
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Jack Harbaugh
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- coachplayer of American football
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Jack Avon Harbaugh is an American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at Western Michigan University from 1982 to 1986 and Western Kentucky University from 1989 to 2002, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 116–95–3. In his final year at Western Kentucky, he led the 2002 Hilltoppers to an NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship title. In 2023, Harbaugh came out of retirement to become assistant head coach of the Michigan Wolverines under his son Jim (who was head coach at the time) and helped lead the team to win the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship.
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Richaun Holmes
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Richaun Diante Holmes is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Bowling Green Falcons where he was named to multiple All-Mid-American Conference teams. Holmes previously played for the Philadelphia 76ers for three seasons before being traded to the Phoenix Suns in the 2018 offseason. He played one season with the Suns before signing with the Sacramento Kings in the 2019 offseason.
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Judson Laipply
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- dancerYouTubertelevision producer
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Judson Laipply is an American internet celebrity from Bucyrus, Ohio. He served as the state president of The Ohio Association of Student Councils from 1993 to 1994. He is best known for his performance in the "Evolution of Dance" viral video clip, which became one of the most famous YouTube videos ever. He has worked as a public speaker since 2000.
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Dan Bylsma
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Daniel Brian Bylsma is an American professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the head coach of the Coachella Valley Firebirds of the American Hockey League (AHL). He was previously head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Buffalo Sabres in the National Hockey League (NHL), and was also an assistant coach for the Detroit Red Wings. He also was the former head coach of the United States men's national ice hockey team. Prior to coaching the Sabres, Bylsma was the head coach for the Pittsburgh Penguins, whom he led to a Stanley Cup championship in 2009, just four months after being promoted to Pittsburgh's head coaching position.
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Antonio Daniels
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Antonio Robert Daniels is an American former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently the television color analyst for the New Orleans Pelicans on Bally Sports New Orleans and co-host/analyst on SiriusXM NBA Radio.
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Rob Blake
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Robert Bowlby Blake is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He is the current general manager of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was originally drafted by the Kings in 1988, appearing in the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy and serving as team captain for five seasons in his initial 11-season stint with the club. In 2001, Blake was traded to the Colorado Avalanche and was a member of their 2001 Stanley Cup championship team. It was his only Stanley Cup as a player, though he won the Cup again as a member of the Kings' front office in 2014. After a two-season return to Los Angeles, Blake signed with the San Jose Sharks in 2008, retiring as its captain after the 2009–10 season. Four years later, in 2014, Blake was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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Dean Pees
- Occupations
- coachAmerican football coach
- Biography
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Russell Dean Pees is a former American football coach who spent 18 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He has served as the defensive coordinator for the New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens, Tennessee Titans, and Atlanta Falcons. Pees was also the head coach at Kent State University from 1998 to 2003, compiling a record of 17–51.
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George McPhee
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- general managerice hockey player
- Biography
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George McPhee is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player, currently serving as the president of hockey operations for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). McPhee served as the general manager of the Washington Capitals and has also served as alternate governor, vice president and special assistant to the general manager of the New York Islanders. As a player, McPhee won the Hobey Baker Award in 1982 as the best NCAA men's ice hockey player, later playing for the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils.
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Jay Crawford
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Jason "Jay" Crawford is an American TV news and sports anchor, who is best known nationally for his time at ESPN. Crawford anchored the live 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter with Chris McKendry until April 2017. Prior to that, Crawford spent nine years hosting ESPN's morning show Cold Pizza, its successor ESPN First Take, and First Take spinoff 1st and 10. He is currently a news anchor for NBC affiliate WKYC-TV 3 in Cleveland, seen on the station's 5 p.m. newscast since January 2020.
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Marian McPartland
- Occupations
- pianistjazz musicianradio personalityrecording artistcomposer
- Biography
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Margaret Marian McPartland OBE, was an English–American jazz pianist, composer, and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011.
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Alissa Czisny
- Occupations
- figure skater
- Biography
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Alissa Czisny is an American former competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Skate Canada champion (2005, 2010), the 2011 Skate America champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion (2009, 2011). She is also the 2019 and the 2021 U.S. Professional Open Grand Champion.
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John N. Abrams
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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General John Nelson Abrams was a United States Army four-star general who commanded the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command from 1998 to 2002.
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Ken Morrow
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Kenneth Arlington Morrow is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman and a member of the 1980 USA Olympic Miracle on Ice hockey team. He is currently serving as the New York Islanders' director of pro scouting. A member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, he played 550 regular season games in the National Hockey League between 1980 and 1989.
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Andrew Hammond
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Andrew Robert Hammond is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Ottawa Senators, Colorado Avalanche, Montreal Canadiens and New Jersey Devils. Nicknamed the "Hamburglar", he rose to fame in 2014–15 when he was called up from the minors and led the Senators to a 20–1–2 record to clinch a previously unthinkable Stanley Cup playoff berth.
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William Easterly
- Occupations
- university teacheracademiceconomist
- Biography
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William Russell Easterly is an American economist, specializing in economic development. He is a professor of economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and co-director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He is a Research Associate of NBER, senior fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) of Duke University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Easterly is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.
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Sandi Jackson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sandra Lee Jackson is an American politician. She was elected to the Chicago City Council as an alderman of the 7th ward of the City of Chicago in the 2007 municipal elections held on February 27, 2007. She succeeded Darcel A. Beavers who had been appointed by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley after the 2006 November elections to succeed her father William Beavers, Jackson's rival, as alderman of the 7th Ward. Jackson resigned from Chicago City Council, effective January 15, 2013. On February 20, 2013, Jackson pleaded guilty to one count of filing false tax returns, and on August 14, 2013, was sentenced to one year in prison.
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Beth Macy
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- non-fiction writerjournalist
- Biography
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Beth Macy is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of four published books, including national bestsellers Factory Man (2014) and Dopesick (2018).
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Bob Hill
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Robert W. Hill is an American basketball coach. Hill grew up in Mount Sterling, Ohio, moving to Worthington, Ohio, for high school. Hill attended Bowling Green State University.
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Jennifer Higdon
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Jennifer Elaine Higdon is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in 2018, and Harp Concerto in 2020. Elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019, she was a professor of composition at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1994 to 2021.
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Don Nehlen
- Occupations
- player of American footballhead coach
- Biography
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Donald Eugene Nehlen is a former American football player and coach. He was head football coach at Bowling Green State University (1968–1976) and at West Virginia University (1980–2000). Nehlen retired from coaching college football in 2001 with a career record of 202–128–8 and as the 17th winningest coach in college football history. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2005 and has served as a president of the American Football Coaches Association.
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Grant Napear
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Grant Harrington Napear is an American radio personality who currently hosts his own podcast If You Don't Like That With Grant Napear. Before this he hosted The Grant Napear Show, at KHTK Sports 1140 in Sacramento, California where he was fired for tweeting "All lives matter, Every Single One" during the George Floyd protest. He was also the play-by-play announcer for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA), but resigned. He has been a guest host on The Jim Rome Show.
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Bob Latta
- Enrolled in Bowling Green State University
- In 1978 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Edward Latta is an American politician who is the United States representative for Ohio's 5th congressional district, serving since 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes many of Toledo's suburbs, as well as Findlay, Bowling Green, Napoleon, Sylvania, Defiance and Van Wert. It also includes a sliver of Toledo itself.
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Danny Ayalon
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Daniel "Danny" Ayalon is an Israeli diplomat, columnist and politician. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister and as a member of the Knesset. He was the Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2002 until 2006. Previously, he worked as senior foreign policy advisor to Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Ryan Carpenter
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Ryan Michael Carpenter is an American professional ice hockey center for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Sally Miller Gearhart
- Enrolled in Bowling Green State University
- In 1953 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- writernovelistuniversity teacherwomen's rights activistscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Sally Miller Gearhart was an American teacher, feminist, eugenicist, science-fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country. She later became a nationally known gay rights activist.
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Mike Liut
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Michael Dennis Liut is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender.
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James Purdy
- Occupations
- translatorwriterpoetplaywrightteacher
- Biography
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James Otis Purdy was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, from his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy.
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Carolyn Forché
- Occupations
- writerpoettranslatoractivisthuman rights activist
- Biography
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Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate. She has received many awards for her literary work.
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Brian MacLellan
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Brian John MacLellan is a Canadian former ice hockey forward and current president of hockey operations and general manager of the Washington Capitals. He played in the National Hockey League with five teams between 1983 and 1992, winning the Stanley Cup in 1989 with the Calgary Flames. Internationally he played for the Canadian national team at the 1985 World Championships. He joined Washington front office in 2000 and spent 13 seasons in various roles before becoming general manager in 2014, and in 2018 won the Stanley Cup with the team.
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Jordon Crawford
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jordon Benjamin Crawford is an American professional basketball player for the Tasmania JackJumpers of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for Bowling Green.
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Bob Hartman
- Occupations
- musiciancomposerguitarist
- Biography
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Robert "Bob" Hartman is a Christian artist, guitarist, writer and songwriter. He is the founder of Christian rock band Petra. Hartman was involved with the band from its foundation in 1972 to its end in 2005. He took a break from touring in 1995, but continued to write most of the band's songs, record guitars and produce most of the albums. He officially returned to touring with Petra in 2003 until he decided to retire the band in late 2005. Hartman also toured with Petra in 2023 for the band's 50th Anniversary Tour.
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Greg Kampe
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Greg Charles Kampe is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Oakland University. He guided the Golden Grizzlies to their first NCAA Division I tournament and tournament win in 2005. Through the 2022–2023 season, he has compiled a 675–575 (.563) record in 39 seasons at Oakland University.
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Jon Berti
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jonathon David Berti is an American professional baseball utility player for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Toronto Blue Jays selected Berti in the 18th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft. He played college baseball at Bowling Green State University. He has previously played in MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays. Berti made his MLB debut in 2018, and led MLB in stolen bases in the 2022 season.
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Mary Biddinger
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Mary Biddinger is an American poet, editor, and academic.
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Ric Reitz
- Occupations
- television actorscreenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Kenric Lowell Reitz is an American actor, writer, composer, director and producer.
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Nick Bailen
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Nick Bailen is an American-Belarusian professional ice hockey defensemen. He is currently playing for Kölner Haie of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
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Kory Lichtensteiger
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Kory Adam Lichtensteiger is a former American football center who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the fourth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Bowling Green State University.
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Jon Matsumoto
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Jonathan Richard Matsumoto is a Canadian-German professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for Krefeld Pinguine of the DEL2.
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Grant Jackson
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Grant Dwight Jackson was an American professional baseball pitcher who played eighteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos, and Kansas City Royals from 1965 to 1982. Jackson was a switch hitter who threw left-handed and served primarily as a relief pitcher.
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Leon Bibb
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Leon Bibb is an American news anchor and commentator for WKYC in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a member of the BGSU Board of Trustees. Leon Bibb was the first African American primetime news anchor in Ohio.
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Mark Friedman
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Mark Isaac Friedman is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the 3rd round the 2014 NHL Entry Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers, the 86th overall pick of the draft. Prior to turning professional, Friedman played for the Bowling Green Falcons for three seasons where he was named to the WCHA All-Rookie Team and First Team All-WCHA.
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Chuck Share
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Charles Edward Share was an American basketball player. Share has the distinction of being the first NBA draft pick ever: Share was the No. 1 draft pick in the first organized National Basketball Association draft on April 25, 1950. Share was selected by the Boston Celtics as the No. 1 overall pick in the inaugural 1950 NBA draft.
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Tom Luken
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Thomas Andrew Luken was an American politician of the Democratic Party from Ohio, serving in the United States House of Representatives during the 1970s and 1980s.
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David Peters
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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David Peters is an American professional poker player from Toledo, Ohio. One of the most prolific tournament players of all time, Peters' live tournament winnings exceed $40,000,000.
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Everett Piper
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Everett Piper is an American writer, retired university administrator, and conservative commentator. He is the author of Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth and a columnist for The Washington Times.
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Sean Walker
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Sean Iain Walker is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Steve Mears
- Occupations
- sports journalist
- Biography
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Steve Mears is the radio play-by-play voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Burke Badenhop
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Burke Heinrich Badenhop is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays, Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. Badenhop played college baseball at Bowling Green State University.
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Kayla Williams
- Occupations
- memoiristhistorian
- Biography
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Kayla M. Williams is a United States government official and a former Arabic linguist in the United States Army who wrote her experiences of the 2003 Iraq invasion in her book Love My Rifle More Than You. This book details her personal experiences during the war in Iraq.
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Justin Turner
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Justin Rafael Turner, nicknamed "Juice" or "JT", is an American professional basketball player for Río Ourense Termal of the LEB Oro. He played college basketball for the Bowling Green Falcons.
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Jonathan Sigalet
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Jonathan Patrick Sigalet is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Brynäs IF of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He was selected by the Boston Bruins in the fourth round (100th overall) of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.
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Fernando Alegría
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- writerliterary criticpoet
- Biography
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Fernando Alegría was a Chilean poet, writer, literary critic and scholar.
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David Ellett
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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David George John Ellett is an American-born Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the NHL for 16 seasons. He was born in Cleveland because his father, Bob, was a minor-league hockey player playing for the Cleveland Barons of the AHL.
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Greg de Vries
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Gregory de Vries is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played over 800 games with six teams in the National Hockey League (NHL). de Vries won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2000–01 season.
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Ryan Hunter
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Ryan Kenneth Hunter is a Canadian football offensive lineman for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He has also been a member of the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL).
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Doug Bair
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Charles Douglas Bair is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for 15 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons — from 1976 to 1990 — for seven teams.
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Michael Huger
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coachhead coach
- Biography
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Michael Anthony Huger is an American college basketball coach who is an assistant coach for Temple. Prior to Temple, he was the head coach for his alma mater Bowling Green Falcons team. Huger is a native of New York City.
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Ken Klee
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Kenneth William Robert Klee is an American ice hockey coach and former professional defenseman who played most notably with the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL). He is currently the head coach of Minnesota of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).
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Betty Montgomery
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Betty D. Montgomery is an American politician from the state of Ohio. A Republican, she formerly served as Ohio State Auditor and is the first woman Ohio Attorney General.
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Kevin Coughlin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin J. Coughlin is a former Republican member of the Ohio Senate, who represented the 27th District from 2001 to 2010. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1997 until 2000. He served as Clerk of the Stow Municipal Court from 2013 to 2015. Since 2010, he has been President of Lexington Companies, Ltd, a public affairs and investment company.
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Christopher Smitherman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher E.C. Smitherman is an American politician and businessman who previously served as the Vice Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. An Independent, Smitherman has been a member of the Cincinnati City Council and the Cincinnati Planning Commission. Smitherman is the former president of the Cincinnati NAACP, serving from April 2007 to January 2014. From 2013 until January 2022 – when Smitherman was term limited and a newly elected council was sworn in – Smitherman chaired the Law and Public Safety Committee, giving him authority to oversee all legislative issues related to Police, Fire, Safety Policies, Citizen Complaint Authority, Liquor Licenses, and Public Services.
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Kai Kantola
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Kai Kantola is a Finnish-American professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for KalPa of the Finnish Liiga.
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Isaac Rosefelt
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Isaac Daniel "Ike" Rosefelt is an American-Israeli former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Bowling Green Falcons and St. Thomas Tommies before playing professionally in Spain, Portugal, France and Israel, where he was named four-time Israeli League All-Star.
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Tim Hagans
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposertrumpeter
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Tim Hagans is an American jazz trumpeter, arranger, and composer. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards: Best Instrumental Composition for "Box of Cannoli" on The Avatar Sessions (Fuzzy Music, 2010); Best Contemporary Jazz Album for Animation*Imagination (Blue Note, 1999); and Best Contemporary Jazz Album for Re-Animation (Blue Note, 2000).
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Ted Sator
- Occupations
- ice hockey coachice hockey player
- Biography
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Ted Sator is an American professional ice hockey coach. He has twelve seasons of National Hockey League (NHL) coaching experience, serving as an assistant coach for various teams and head coach of the New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabres. He has also spent time coaching in the American Hockey League (AHL) and ECHL along with coaching in Europe including stints as the Slovenian and Hungarian national ice hockey teams. He is a current assistant men's ice hockey coach at Lindenwood University.
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Pierre-Célestin Rwigema
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pierre-Célestin Rwigema is a Rwandan politician previously associated with the moderate faction of the Republican Democratic Movement (MDR) party. He was Prime Minister of Rwanda from 1995 to 2000 and Education Minister from 1994 to 1995. When he was sworn in as prime minister he pledged to reunite his then ethnically torn country.
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Ralfs Freibergs
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Ralfs Freibergs is a Latvian professional ice hockey defenceman for HC Litvínov of the Czech Extraliga (ELH).
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Jordan Samuels-Thomas
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Jordan Blaine Samuels-Thomas is an American National Hockey League referee and former professional ice hockey player. He was selected by the Atlanta Thrashers in the seventh round (203rd overall) of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He signed his first NHL contract with the Buffalo Sabres following his senior season, playing six years professionally before becoming an official.
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Matt Bell
- Occupations
- editorwriter
- Biography
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Matt Bell is an American writer. He is the author of Appleseed (2021), How They Were Found (2010) and Cataclysm Baby (2012). He received his BA from Oakland University and his MFA from Bowling Green State University. In 2012, he took a position as an assistant professor in the English department at Northern Michigan University, and currently teaches in the English department at Arizona State University.
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Don Plusquellic
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Donald L. Plusquellic is the former mayor of Akron, Ohio. First elected in 1987, he became the 59th Mayor of Akron after previously serving 13 years on Akron City Council. Plusquellic has served his seventh term, making him the longest-serving mayor of the city. Plusquellic announced his resignation effective May 31, 2015, citing unfriendly coverage from the Akron Beacon Journal as his primary motivation.
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Stefan Rinke
- Enrolled in Bowling Green State University
- 1988-1989 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Stefan Rinke is a German historian and specialist in Latin American history. Since 2005 he has been professor at the Institute of Latin American Studies and at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin.
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Martin Bayless
- Occupations
- coachplayer of American football
- Biography
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Martin Ashley Bayless is a former American football cornerback/safety and American football coach. He played 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and played college football at Bowling Green State University. He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth round of the 1984 NFL Draft. He holds the record for most career interceptions in NCAA history with 27. After retiring from the NFL in 1998, he joined the Buffalo Bills as a Front Office Executive in 2000. He transitioned into coaching in the college ranks, and he has since held jobs with several professional football organizations.
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David Conte
- Occupations
- composermusic teacher
- Biography
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David Conte is an American composer who has written over 150 works published by E.C. Schirmer (a division of ECS Publishing), including six operas, a musical, works for chorus, solo voice, orchestra, chamber music, organ, piano, guitar, and harp. Conte has received commissions from Chanticleer, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Harvard University Chorus, the Men’s Glee Clubs of Cornell University and the University of Notre Dame, GALA Choruses from the cities of San Francisco, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., the Dayton Philharmonic, the Oakland Symphony, the Stockton Symphony, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, the American Guild of Organists (2004, 2009, 2014, 2015), Sonoma City Opera, and the Gerbode Foundation (for his opera America Tropical). He was honored with the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Brock Commission in 2007 for his work The Nine Muses, and in 2016 he won the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Art Song Composition Award for his work American Death Ballads.
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Jordan Sigalet
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Jordan Marvin Sigalet is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former goaltender who played one game in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins in 2006. In 2004, while playing at Bowling Green University, Sigalet was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. He continued playing until 2009 when he retired and turned to coaching. In 2014 he joined the Calgary Flames as their goaltending coach. His brother Jonathan also played in one NHL game with the Boston Bruins.
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John R. Adams
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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John Randell Adams Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
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George Davis IV
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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George Davis IV is an American former professional soccer player who previously played for Louisville City FC in the USL Championship. Currently, he is the Director of the LouCity & Racing Foundation.
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Scott Vallow
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Scott Vallow is a retired American soccer goalkeeper, most famously for playing with the Rochester Rhinos, 2005-2010. Scott was the assistant coach of the North Carolina Courage soccer team, having followed head coach Paul Riley from the Portland Thorns FC to Western New York Flash and the Courage. He was relieved from his duties on November 19, 2021.
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Dean L. Bresciani
- Born in
- United States
- Biography
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Dean L. Bresciani is an American academic who served as the 14th president of North Dakota State University in Fargo from 2010 to 2022.
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Sara Elizabeth Lioi
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Sara Elizabeth Lioi is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, while also serving as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Jack LoGiudice
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- television producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Jack LoGiudice is an American television writer and producer, best known for his work on the FX series Sons of Anarchy and most recently worked as a co-executive producer and writer on AMC's The Walking Dead.
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Walt Piatkowski
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Walter Piatkowski, Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player.
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Bruce Johnson
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Bruce Edward Johnson is an American lawyer and Republican politician who was appointed the State of Ohio's 63rd lieutenant governor on January 5, 2005, to complete an unexpired term. Johnson concurrently served as Director of the Ohio Department of Development.
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Justin Haire
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Justin Haire is in American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Campbell Fighting Camels baseball team. He has held that position since the 2015 season. He was catcher at Bowling Green and Indianapolis prior to his coaching career. After one season as a pitching coach at Sterling College, he moved to Ouachita Baptist where he remained as an assistant for three seasons. In 2008, he arrived at Campbell as an assistant to Greg Goff, and was elevated to head coach upon Goff's departure after the 2014 season.
