27 Notable alumni of
Bridgewater State University
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Bridgewater State University is 1735th in the world, 614th in North America, and 579th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from Bridgewater 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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Jeffrey Donovan
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor. He played Michael Westen in the television series Burn Notice, and appeared in films such as Hitch, Believe in Me, Changeling, and Come Early Morning. He played Robert F. Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar (2011) and his brother John F. Kennedy in Rob Reiner's LBJ (2016). He had a recurring role in the second season of the TV series Fargo (2015). From 2022 to 2023, he starred as NYPD Detective Frank Cosgrove on the revival of the NBC crime drama Law & Order. He left the show before the 23rd season due to creative differences.
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Robert Stack
- Occupations
- film actorcharacter actortelevision actoractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Robert Stack was an American actor and television host. Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over forty feature films. He starred in the ABC television series The Untouchables (1959–1963), for which he won the 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series, and later hosted/narrated the true-crime series Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2002). He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Written on the Wind (1956). Later in his career, Stack was known for his deadpan comedy roles that lampooned his dramatic on-screen persona, most notably as Captain Rex Kramer in Airplane! (1980).
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Mark Goddard
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorscreenwriterfilm actor
- Biography
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Mark Goddard was an American actor who starred in a number of television programs. He is probably best known for portraying Major Don West in the CBS series Lost in Space (1965–1968). He also played Detective Sgt. Chris Ballard, in The Detectives, starring Robert Taylor.
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Jeff Corwin
- Occupations
- biologisttelevision presenterconservationistactorecologist
- Biography
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Jeffrey Corwin is an American biologist and wildlife conservationist, known for hosting Disney Channel's Going Wild with Jeff Corwin, The Jeff Corwin Experience on Animal Planet, ABC's Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin/Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin and Wildlife Nation with Jeff Corwin.
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Donovan Dijak
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Christopher James Dijak is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the mononymous ring name Dijak (stylized in all caps).
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Isawa Shūji
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Isawa Shūji was a Japanese educator of the Meiji period.
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Barry Clifford
- Occupations
- archaeologistanthropologistexplorer
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Barry Clifford is an American underwater archaeological explorer, best known for discovering the remains of Samuel Bellamy's wrecked pirate ship Whydah [pronounced wih-duh] which, together with La Louise of French pirate La Buse (Olivier Levasseur), is a fully verified and authenticated pirate shipwreck of the Golden Age of Piracy discovered in the world – as such, artifacts from the wreck provide historians with unique insights into the material, political and social culture of early 18th-century piracy.
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Gayle McLaughlin
- Occupations
- politicianpeace activist
- Biography
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Gayle McLaughlin is an American politician from Richmond, California. She was first elected to the Richmond City Council in 2004 when she was a member of the Green Party of California. She won two consecutive four-year terms as the city's mayor in 2006 and 2010. After reaching the mayoral term limit, she was reelected to the City Council in 2014. In June 2017, she announced her candidacy for lieutenant governor of California in the 2018 election.
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Barbara Stevens
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Barbara Stevens is the former head coach of the Bentley University women's basketball team. Stevens had previously served as head basketball coach for Clark University and Massachusetts. Stevens was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. She was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020.
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Jason Schappert
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jason Schappert is an American pilot and entrepreneur. Schappert is a CFII and ATP rated pilot, founder of MzeroA.com, and author of eight aviation flight training books. Schappert was named AOPA's Top Collegiate Flight Instructor in 2008, Outstanding Flight Instructor of 2014 and 2015, has amassed over 8000 hours of in-flight instruction since learning how to fly, and produces MzeroA.com's Online Ground School.
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Peter Koutoujian
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peter John Koutoujian is an American politician who is the current Sheriff of Middlesex County, Massachusetts and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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Robert Correia
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Robert Correia was an American politician who represented the 12th and 7th Bristol Districts in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1977 to 2008 and served as the 41st Mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts from 2008 to 2010. He ran for re-election as Mayor in 2009 but finished third in the mayoral primary behind City Councilor Cathy Ann Viveiros and Attorney William Flanagan.
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Ruth Turner
- Occupations
- biologistmarine biologistzoologistmalacologist
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Ruth Dixon Turner was a pioneering U.S. marine biologist and malacologist. She was the world's expert on Teredinidae or shipworms, a taxonomic family of wood-boring bivalve mollusks which severely damage wooden marine installations.
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Patricia Haddad
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Patricia A. Haddad is an American politician who represents the 5th Bristol district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and formerly served as Speaker pro Tempore of the House.
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Kathy Delaney-Smith
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Kathy Delaney-Smith is a retired American college basketball coach. She retired at the end of the 2021–22 season after 40 seasons as head coach of the women's basketball team at Harvard University. At the time of her retirement, she was the longest-tenured women's head coach at a single school in NCAA Division I. With Harvard, Delaney-Smith had her 600th win as an NCAA Division I coach in March 2019.
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Warren G. Phillips
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Warren G. Phillips is an American science teacher who was inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Frank Palmer Speare
- Occupations
- educator
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Frank Palmer Speare was the first president of Northeastern University, serving from 1898 to 1940. He began the evening program at the Boston YMCA that later became Northeastern. As founding president, he oversaw the launching of the university's evening law school, the now-defunct automobile school, the evening polytechnic schools, the school of commerce and finance, and the co-operative engineering school.
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Joan Menard
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joan M. Menard is a retired American politician who also served as the vice president for work force development, lifelong learning, grant development and external affairs at Bristol Community College.
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James H. Fagan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James H. "Jim" Fagan is an American attorney and politician who represented the 3rd Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011.
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Edward M. Lambert, Jr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edward M. Lambert Jr. is an American politician and government official who currently served as vice chancellor for government relations and public affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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John C. Klimm
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John C. Klimm is an American municipal administrator and politician.
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Stephen Canessa
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stephen R. Canessa was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 12th Bristol District. He resigned to accept the position of executive director for government affairs at the Southcoast Health Systems. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party.
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Kathleen Teahan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathleen M. Teahan is an American politician. She represented the 7th Plymouth District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1997 to 2007. She resides in Whitman.
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David B. Sullivan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David B. Sullivan was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 6th Bristol District. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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William G. Vinal
- Enrolled in Bridgewater State University
- Studied in 1904
- Occupations
- teachernaturalist
- Biography
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William Gould Vinal was an American naturalist, nature educator, and conservationist who was a faculty at Massachusetts State College—now known as the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He wrote numerous books and papers on nature and outdoors education. He has been called the Father of Nature Recreation. He also served as an college football coach while teaching at Marshall College—now known as Marshall University—in 1908.
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John C. Bradford
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John C. Bradford is an American carpenter and politician who represented 10th Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. Before becoming a state representative, Bradford served on the Town of Rochester Finance Committee from 1983 to 1984.
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Helen Tibbo
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- archivist
- Biography
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Helen Ruth Tibbo is an American archivist, professor and author writing about digital preservation in the archival profession. At the University of North Carolina, she created and directed the first American master's degree on digital curation. She is a past President of the Society of American Archivists
