100 Notable alumni of
Case Western Reserve University
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Case Western Reserve University is 336th in the world, 141st in North America, and 134th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Case Western Reserve University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with Case Western Reserve University won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Manute Bol
- Occupations
- basketball playermilitary personnel
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Manute Bol was a Sudanese-American professional basketball player and political activist. Listed at 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) or 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) tall, Bol was one of the tallest players in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Paul Buchheit
- Occupations
- businesspersontech VIPcomputer scientistgame programmerengineer
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Paul T. Buchheit is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur who created the email service Gmail. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested Google's former company motto Don't be evil in a 2000 meeting on company values, after the motto was initially coined in 1999 by engineer Amit Patel.
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Donald Knuth
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1960 graduated with Master of Science in mathematics
- Occupations
- programmeracademicuniversity teachermathematicianengineer
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Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms".
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Don Shula
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- Graduated with master's degree in physical education
- Occupations
- American football coachAmerican football player
- Biography
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Donald Francis Shula was an American professional football player, coach and executive who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) from 1963 to 1995. He played seven seasons as a defensive back in the NFL. For most of his career, Shula was the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.
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Richard Thaler
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Richard H. Thaler is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2015, Thaler was president of the American Economic Association.
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Alan Rosenberg
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision directortrade unionistfilm actorstage actor
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Alan Rosenberg is an American actor who portrayed the character Eli Levinson in both Civil Wars and L.A. Law. From 2005 to 2009, Rosenberg was president of the Screen Actors Guild, the principal motion picture industry on-screen performers' union.
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Rich Sommer
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actorbloggervoice actor
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Rich Sommer is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Harry Crane on the AMC drama series Mad Men (2007–2015) for which he earned two Screen Actors Guild Awards along with the ensemble cast. He is also known for his roles in the comedy-drama films The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), The Giant Mechanical Man (2012), Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015), and BlackBerry (2023) as well as voicing Henry in the 2016 video game Firewatch. He guest starred in a number of Elementary episodes. More recently, he portrayed Detective Dean Riley in The CW crime drama television series In the Dark (2019).
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Dennis Kucinich
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1973 graduated with Master of Arts
- In 1973 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
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Dennis John Kucinich is an American politician. Originally a Democrat, Kucinich served as U.S. Representative from Ohio's 10th congressional district from 1997 to 2013. From 1977 to 1979, he served a term as mayor of Cleveland, where he narrowly survived a recall election and successfully fought an effort to sell the municipal electric utility before losing his reelection contest to George Voinovich.
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Harvey Pekar
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- music criticautobiographercomics writerwriterjournalist
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Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a well-received film adaptation of the same name.
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Franklin Cover
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Franklin Edward Cover was an American actor best known for his role in The Jeffersons, Tom Willis, half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen on prime-time television.
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Margaret Bourke-White
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- photographerjournalistwar photographerartistwriter
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Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' first five-year plan, was the first American female war photojournalist, and took the photograph (of the construction of Fort Peck Dam) that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine.
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Craig Newmark
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- entrepreneurphilanthropistblogger
- Biography
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Craig Alexander Newmark is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the classifieds website Craigslist. Before founding Craigslist, he worked as a computer programmer for IBM, Bank of America, and Charles Schwab. Newmark served as chief executive officer of Craigslist from its founding until 2000. He founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies in 2014.
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Benjamin O. Davis, Jr
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- Studied in 1929-1930
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotmilitary officer
- Biography
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Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. was a United States Air Force (USAF) general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen.
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Jerome Corsi
- Occupations
- political punditwriterconspiracy theorist
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Jerome Robert Corsi is an American conspiracy theorist and author. His two New York Times best-selling books, Unfit for Command (2004) and The Obama Nation (2008), attacked Democratic presidential candidates and have been criticized by opposition.
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Dalton Castle
- Occupations
- professional wrestlerradio personalitymusic criticjournalistamateur wrestler
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Brett Giehl, better known by the ring name Dalton Castle, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a one-time ROH World Champion, a one-time ROH World Television Champion and a two-time ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion. He also makes appearances for its sister company All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is also known for his tenure in Chikara, where he wrestled under the ring names Ashley Remington and Dalton Caroline Castle.
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Girl Talk
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- recording artistrecord producerengineerdisc jockeycomposer
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Gregg Michael Gillis, better known by his stage name Girl Talk, is an American disc jockey who specializes in mash-ups and digital sampling. Gillis has released five LPs on the record label Illegal Art and EPs on both 333 and 12 Apostles. He was trained as an engineer.
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Caldwell Esselstyn
- Occupations
- surgeondietitianrowernutritionist
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Caldwell Blakeman Esselstyn Jr. is an American physician, author and former Olympic rowing champion.
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Ferid Murad
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1965 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicianbiologistpharmacologist
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Ferid Murad was an American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Mike Turner
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1985 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Michael Ray Turner is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Ohio's 10th congressional district since 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. Turner's district, numbered as the 3rd district from 2003 to 2013, contains Dayton and Springfield, taking in part of Clark County and all of Montgomery and Greene Counties. He has served on the House Intelligence Committee including as its chair. He was removed as chair by Speaker Johnson. He served as mayor of Dayton, Ohio.
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Jim Brickman
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- singer-songwriterpianistradio personality
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James Merrill Brickman is an American pop songwriter, pianist and radio host. Brickman has earned two Grammy nominations for his albums Peace (2003) for Best Instrumental, and Faith (2009) for Best New Age Album. He won a Canadian Country Music Award, a Dove Award presented by the Gospel Music Association, and was twice named Songwriter of the Year by SESAC. Billboard lists 22 of his albums reaching No. 1 on the New Age chart, and 16 of his songs reaching Top 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Four of his albums were certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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Mark Hanna
- Occupations
- editorpoliticianscreenwriterbusinessperson
- Biography
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Marcus Alonzo Hanna was an American businessman and Republican politician who served as a United States Senator from Ohio as well as chairman of the Republican National Committee. A friend and political ally of President William McKinley, Hanna used his wealth and business skills to successfully manage McKinley's presidential campaigns in 1896 and in 1900.
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Paul Berg
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1952 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry
- Occupations
- molecular biologistresearcherbiochemistchemist
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Paul Berg was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University.
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Alfredo Palacio
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianphysiciancardiologist
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Luis Alfredo Palacio González is an Ecuadorian cardiologist and former politician who was President of Ecuador from 20 April 2005 to 15 January 2007. From 15 January 2003 to 20 April 2005, he was vice president, after which he was appointed to the presidency when the Ecuadorian Congress removed President Lucio Gutiérrez from power following a week of growing unrest with his government.
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Andrew R. Wheeler
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- businesspersonpoliticianlawyerbiologistlinguist
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Andrew R. Wheeler is an American attorney who served as the 15th administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2019 to 2021. He served as the deputy administrator from April to July 2018, and served as the acting administrator from July 2018 to February 2019. He has been a senior advisor to Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin since March 2022. He previously worked in the law firm Faegre Baker Daniels, representing coal magnate Robert E. Murray and lobbying against the Obama administration's environmental regulations. Wheeler served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and to the chairman U.S. senator James Inhofe, prominent for his rejection of climate change. Wheeler is a critic of limits on greenhouse gas emissions and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Mark Weinberger
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- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Mark A. Weinberger is an American businessman. He is the former global chairman and CEO of EY (formerly known as Ernst & Young). Weinberger currently sits on several boards of directors, including those of Metlife, Johnson & Johnson Saudi Aramco. and JPMorgan Chase. Earlier in his career he has also held several posts in the public sector in Washington, D.C., including time as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy.
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Wayne Wheeler
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- lawyerjurist
- Biography
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Wayne Bidwell Wheeler was an American attorney and longtime leader of the Anti-Saloon League. The leading advocate of the prohibitionist movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s, he played a major role in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which outlawed the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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William Glasser
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- writerpsychologistpsychiatrist
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William Glasser was an American psychiatrist. He was the developer of W. Edwards Deming's workplace ideas, reality therapy and choice theory. His innovations for individual counseling, work environments and school, highlight personal choice, personal responsibility and personal transformation. Glasser positioned himself in opposition to conventional mainstream psychiatrists, who focus instead on classifying psychiatric syndromes as "illnesses" and prescribe psychotropic medications to treat mental disorders.
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Paul Lauterbur
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- professorchemistphysicistbiophysicistresearcher
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Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.
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François-Philippe Champagne
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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François-Philippe Champagne PC MP is a Canadian politician who has been Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry since 2021. He was formerly the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2021. He was elected to represent the riding of Saint-Maurice—Champlain in the House of Commons in the 2015 election for the Liberal Party. He became Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry on January 12, 2021, after a cabinet reshuffle.
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Herbert Henry Dow
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- inventorchemistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Herbert Henry Dow was an American chemical industrialist who founded the American multinational conglomerate Dow Chemical. A graduate of the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a prolific inventor of chemical processes, compounds, and products, notably bromine extraction from sea water, and was a successful businessman.
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David Gorski
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- surgeonbloggeroncologist
- Biography
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David Henry Gorski is an American surgical oncologist and professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He specializes in breast cancer surgery at the Karmanos Cancer Institute. Gorski is an outspoken skeptic and critic of alternative medicine and the anti-vaccination movement. He writes as Orac at Respectful Insolence and as himself at Science-Based Medicine, where he is the managing editor.
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Matt Dolan
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- politicianadjunct professorlawyer
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Matthew John Dolan is an American politician and lawyer who most recently served in the Ohio Senate from 2017 to 2024, representing the state's 24th district. Prior, he served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2005 to 2010.
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Edward C. Prescott
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Edward Christian Prescott was an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". This research was primarily conducted while both Kydland and Prescott were affiliated with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the IDEAS/RePEc rankings, he was the 19th most widely cited economist in the world in 2013. In August 2014, Prescott was appointed an Adjunct Distinguished Economic Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. Prescott died of cancer on November 6, 2022, at the age of 81.
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John Howard
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- actorfilm actoreducatorstage actortelevision actor
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John Howard was an American actor. He is best remembered for his roles in the films Lost Horizon (1937) and The Philadelphia Story (1940).
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Andrew Vachss
- Occupations
- writernovelistlawyerpoet lawyer
- Biography
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Andrew Henry Vachss was an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths.
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Donald Arthur Glaser
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- inventorneuroscientistuniversity teacherneurobiologistphysicist
- Biography
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Donald Arthur Glaser was an American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics.
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Charles Francis Brush
- Occupations
- electrical engineerpatent inventorinventorentrepreneur
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Charles Francis Brush was an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
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Janis Carter
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- film actorstage actorsingeractor
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Janis Carter was an American stage and film actress who performed throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s. During the mid-1950s, she began working regularly on television, co-hosting with Bud Collyer the NBC daytime game show Feather Your Nest.
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Fred Gray
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- lawyerjurist
- Biography
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Fred David Gray is an American civil rights attorney, preacher, activist, and state legislator from Alabama. He handled many prominent civil rights cases, such as Browder v. Gayle, and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1970, along with Thomas Reed, both from Tuskegee. They were the first black state legislators in Alabama in the 20th century. He served as the president of the National Bar Association in 1985, and in 2001 was elected as the first African-American President of the Alabama State Bar.
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Louis Stokes
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- Studied in 1946-1948
- Occupations
- politicianlecturerlawyerjudge
- Biography
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Louis Stokes was an American attorney, civil rights pioneer and politician. He served 15 terms in the United States House of Representatives – representing the east side of Cleveland – and was the first African American congressman elected in the state of Ohio. He was one of the Cold War-era chairmen of the House Intelligence Committee, headed the Congressional Black Caucus, and was the first African American on the House Appropriations Committee.
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David Satcher
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- physician
- Biography
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David Satcher is an American physician, and public health administrator. He is a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the 11th Assistant Secretary for Health, and the 16th Surgeon General of the United States.
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Justin Bibb
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- politicianbusiness executive
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Justin Morris Bibb is an American politician and former non-profit leader serving as the 58th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio since January 2022. Prior to serving as mayor, Bibb worked with public officials, business leaders and community organizations across the country as the Chief Strategy Officer of Urbanova, a business that leads new initiatives to make cities safer, healthier and more resilient. Bibb was the Co-Chair of Teach for America – Ohio, and a board member for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Destination Cleveland, and LAND Studio.
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Salvatore Cezar Pais
- Occupations
- inventorphysicistmilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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Salvatore Cezar Pais is a Romanian-American aerospace engineer and inventor, currently working for the United States Space Force. He formerly worked at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River. His patent applications for the US Navy attracted attention for their potential energy-producing applications, but also doubt about their feasibility, and speculation that they may be scams, pseudoscience, or disinformation intended to mislead the United States' adversaries.
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Peter Breggin
- Years
- 1936-.. (age 89)
- Occupations
- psychiatrist
- Biography
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Peter Roger Breggin is an American psychiatrist and critic of shock treatment and psychiatric medication and COVID-19 response. In his books, he advocates replacing psychiatry's use of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy with psychotherapy, education, empathy, love, and broader human services.
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Alfred G. Gilman
- Occupations
- physiologistpharmacistpharmacologistbiologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alfred Goodman Gilman was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He and Martin Rodbell shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells."
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Robin Ficker
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering
- Occupations
- hecklerpoliticianreal estate agentlawyerfarmer
- Biography
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Robin Keith Annesley Ficker is an American political activist, real estate broker, former attorney (disbarred), former state legislator, sports heckler, and perennial candidate from Maryland.
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Brian Gregory Keating
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1993 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- cosmologistastronomer
- Biography
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Brian Gregory Keating is an American cosmologist. He works on observations of the cosmic microwave background, leading the POLARBEAR2 and Simons Array experiments. He also conceived the first BICEP experiment. He received his PhD in 2000, and is a distinguished professor of physics at University of California, San Diego, since 2019. He is the author of two books, Losing The Nobel Prize and Into the Impossible.
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Jason Brennan
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- professor of philosophyphilosopheruniversity teachernon-fiction writer
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Jason F. Brennan is an American philosopher and business professor. He is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
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Rupert Hughes
- Occupations
- novelistfilm directorwriterhistorianfilm screenwriter
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Rupert Raleigh Hughes was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. He was the brother of Howard R. Hughes Sr. and uncle of billionaire Howard R. Hughes Jr. His three-volume scholarly biography of George Washington broke new ground in demythologizing Washington and was well received by historians. A staunch anti-Communist, in the 1940s he served as president of the American Writers Association, a group of anti-Communist writers.
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Stephanie Tubbs Jones
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Stephanie Tubbs Jones was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district from 1999 until her death in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, her district encompassed most of Downtown and Eastern Cleveland and many of the eastern suburbs in Cuyahoga County, including Euclid, Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights. She was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from Ohio.
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Polykarp Kusch
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist who shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the electron magnetic moment was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of and innovations in quantum electrodynamics.
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Alistair Cockburn
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- computer scientistprogrammer
- Biography
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Alistair Cockburn is an American computer scientist, known as one of the initiators of the agile movement in software development. He cosigned (with 16 others) the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
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Victor Ciorbea
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlawyerjudgetrade unionist
- Biography
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Victor Ciorbea is a Romanian jurist, politician, and civil/public servant. He was the Mayor of Bucharest between 1996 and 1997 and, after his resignation from this public dignity/position, Prime Minister of Romania from 12 December 1996 to 30 March 1998. He had also served as the Ombudsman between 2014 and 2019.
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Edward W. Morley
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Edward Williams Morley was an American scientist known for his precise and accurate measurement of the atomic weight of oxygen, and for the Michelson–Morley experiment.
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Lincoln Diaz-Balart
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1979 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Lincoln Rafael Díaz-Balart is a Cuban-American attorney and politician. He was the U.S. representative for Florida's 21st congressional district from 1993 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate. He retired from Congress in 2011 and his younger brother, Mario Díaz-Balart, who had previously represented Florida's 25th congressional district, succeeded him. He is currently chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute. After leaving Congress, he started a law practice and a consulting firm, both based in Miami, Florida.
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Richard Garwin
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Richard Lawrence Garwin is an American physicist, best known as the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.
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Xiong Xianghui
- Occupations
- diplomatspy
- Biography
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Xiong Xianghui was a Chinese Communist Party spy during the Chinese Civil War, and, after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, a high-ranking official in diplomacy and intelligence. He played a role in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, in his capacity as private secretary and aide-de-camp to Hu Zongnan, one of the most senior Nationalist generals; Xiong was secretly a Communist mole and for many years passed highly sensitive information to the Communist Party leadership, including top-secret orders and documents of Chiang Kai-Shek.
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- 1992-1995 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
- Biography
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist. Her main field of work is comparative neuroanatomy; her findings include a method of counting neurons in human and other animals' brains and the relation between the cerebral cortex area and the thickness and number of cortical folds.
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Wu Cherng-dean
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wu Cherng-dean is a Taiwanese politician who is currently the chairman of the New Party.
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Ron Klein
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1982 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lobbyistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Ronald Jason Klein is an American politician and lawyer who is a former member of the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 22nd congressional district. He is a member of the Democratic Party and chairs the Jewish Democratic Council of America. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate. He is currently employed by the law firm Holland & Knight.
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Milton Shapp
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Milton Jerrold Shapp was an American businessman and politician who served as the 40th governor of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1979 and the first Jewish governor of Pennsylvania. He was also the first governor of Pennsylvania to be eligible for, and re-elected to, consecutive four-year terms per the 1968 Pennsylvania Constitution.
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Eric Meyer
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- designer
- Biography
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Eric A. Meyer is an American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably CSS, a technique for managing how HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is displayed. Meyer has written a number of books and articles on CSS and given many presentations promoting its use. Eric currently works for Igalia.
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Michael Rectenwald
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianacademicsocial critic
- Biography
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Michael D. Rectenwald is an American author and former professor. A member of the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party, he has written about 19th-century British secularism and is a critic of the contemporary social justice movement.
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John D. Mayer
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologist
- Biography
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John D. Mayer is an American psychologist at the University of New Hampshire, specializing in emotional intelligence and personality psychology. He co-developed a popular model of emotional intelligence with Peter Salovey. He is one of the authors of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, and has developed a new, integrated framework for personality psychology, known as the Systems Framework for Personality Psychology. He is the author of Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives.
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Emily Blackwell
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1854 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physicianobstetriciangynecologist
- Biography
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Emily Blackwell was a trailblazer in the 19th century, making numerous contributions in the field of medicine and women's rights. Emily was the second woman to earn a medical degree at what is now Case Western Reserve University, after Nancy Talbot Clark. In 1993, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Emily made major advancements in the medical scene, assisting in the start of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children and creating the Women's Central Association of Relief. Emily, along with her sister Elizabeth Blackwell, had established the Women's Medical College in New York City. Shortly after, Emily helped form the London School of Medicine for Women.
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Muriel Siebert
- Occupations
- businesspersonbanker
- Biography
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Muriel Faye Siebert was an American businesswoman who was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and the first woman to head one of the NYSE's member firms. She joined the 1,365 male members of the exchange on December 28, 1967. Siebert is sometimes known as the "first woman of finance", despite being preceded in owning a brokerage by Victoria Woodhull.
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Martin J. Gruenberg
- Occupations
- chairperson
- Biography
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Martin James Gruenberg is an American attorney who previously served as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Gruenberg previously served as FDIC chairman from 2023 to 2025; 2012 to 2018; as well as on an acting basis from 2005 to 2006 and 2011 to 2012.
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Raymond H. Geist
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- In 1910 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- consuldiplomatfirst secretary
- Biography
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Raymond Herman Geist was the American Consul and First Secretary of the United States embassy in Berlin from 1929 to 1939. Geist has been recognized as Diplomat Savior by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, which advocates for the recognition of Holocaust rescuers. However, one academic researcher has asserted that Geist largely acted to block the granting of visas to Jewish immigrants between 1933 and 1939, in line with the policy adopted by U.S. Foreign Service Officers in Germany at the time. A 2019 book about Geist found that "Geist was doing what he could (which, as a consular officer, was not much) to liberalize America's scandalously tight visa regime for Jewish refugees, help as many German Jews as possible."
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Frederick Chapman Robbins
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954
- Born in
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United States - Years
- 1916-2003 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- physiologistphysicianvirologistuniversity teacherbiologist
- Biography
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Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American pediatrician and virologist. He was born in Auburn, Alabama, and grew up in Columbia, Missouri, attending David H. Hickman High School.
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Mitzi Hoag
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Margaret Myrtle "Mitzi" Hoag was an American actress. Over the course of her career, she appeared in more than 73 different TV shows and movies. Notable among these are recurring roles in We'll Get By, Bonanza, Here Come the Brides, and The Partridge Family.
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Hester Peirce
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- writereconomistjurist
- Biography
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Hester Maria Peirce is an American lawyer who serves as a Commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission. She previously served as the director of the Financial Markets Working Group at George Mason University's Mercatus Center. Peirce was confirmed by the United States Senate in December 2017 to fill a Republican vacancy on the SEC. She was sworn in on January 11, 2018, for a term ending in 2020, and her second term expires in 2025. Peirce is a former staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and of the SEC. In 2016, she was nominated by President Barack Obama for Commissioner on the SEC, but the United States Senate did not act on her nomination.
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George Washington Crile
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- surgeon
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George Washington Crile was an American surgeon. Crile is now formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded in a direct blood transfusion. He contributed to other procedures, such as neck dissection. Crile designed a small hemostatic forceps which bears his name; the Crile mosquito clamp. He also described a technique for using opioids, regional anesthesia and general anesthesia which is a concept known as balanced anesthesia. He is also known for co-founding the Cleveland Clinic in 1921.
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Morton Mandel
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- businessperson
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Morton Leon Mandel was an American business magnate, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Along with his two brothers, Jack and Joe, he founded the Premier Automotive Supply Company in 1940, which later became one of the world's leading industrial parts and electronic components distributors. His philanthropic activities in Cleveland, and in Jewish and Israeli institutions, were via the Mandel Foundation.
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Mohammed Ibn Chambas
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in law
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerdiplomatlecturer
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Mohamed Ibn Chambas is a Ghanaian lawyer, diplomat, politician and academic who has served as an international civil servant since 2006. He last served as the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, and the former head of UNOWAS from April 2014 to April 2021. Previously, he served as the UN SRSG and Head of the Joint UN-AU Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (2012-2014), the Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (2010-2012) and the president of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS, 2006–2009).
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Ou Chin-der
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- civil engineer
- Biography
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Ou Chin-der is a Taiwanese civil engineer.
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John Hessin Clarke
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1922.
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Arun Subramanian
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Arun Srinivas Subramanian is an American lawyer from New York who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Lynn Hershman Leeson
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- theoristartistscreenwriterfilmmakerinstallation artist
- Biography
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Lynn Hershman Leeson is an American multimedia artist and filmmaker. Her work with technology and in media-based practices is credited with helping to legitimize digital art forms. Her interests include feminism, race, surveillance, and artificial intelligence and identity theft through algorithms and data tracking.
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Donald A. Thomas
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- astronautuniversity teacherengineer
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Donald Alan Thomas is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut.
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Capricia Marshall
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- politiciandiplomatpolitical adviserlawyerambassador
- Biography
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Capricia Penavic Marshall served as Chief of Protocol of the United States from 2009 to August 2013.
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Stephen M. Young
- Enrolled in Case Western Reserve University
- Studied in 1911
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Stephen Marvin Young was an American lawyer, World War I veteran, journalist and politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, he served two terms as a United States senator from Ohio from 1959 until 1971.
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Sanjiv Sidhu
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Sanjiv Sidhu, who was born in June 1957 in Hyderabad, India, is an Indian-American software entrepreneur known for founding i2 Technologies, a supply chain management software company, and o9 Solutions, a Dallas, Texas-based company that offers a decision management platform for multinational corporations
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Anu Garg
- Occupations
- computer scientistwriter
- Biography
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Anu Garg is an American author and speaker. He is also the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising aficionados of the English language from across 170 countries. His books explore the joy of words. He has authored several books about language-related issues and written for magazines and newspapers. He was a columnist for MSN Encarta and Kahani magazine.
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Siegfried Hecker
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- management engineeracademicuniversity teacherphysicistmetallurgist
- Biography
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Siegfried S. Hecker is an American metallurgist and nuclear scientist. He served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997 and is now affiliated with Stanford University, where he is research professor emeritus in the Department of Management Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering, and senior fellow emeritus at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. During this time, he was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1988) for outstanding research on plutonium and the forming of materials, and for leadership in developing energy and weapons systems.
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Ann McKee
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- neurologistcelebritypathologistscientist
- Biography
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Ann McKee is a neurologist and neuropathologist and expert in neurodegenerative disease at the VA Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center and is a Warren Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Pathology at Boston University School of Medicine. She is director of the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center. She is particularly known for her work studying Alzheimer's disease and the consequences of repetitive traumatic brain injury. In 2017, she was named "Bostonian of the Year" by The Boston Globe for her leading work in this area, and in 2018, Time named McKee one of its 100 most influential people.
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Hamid Reza Katouzian
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hamid-Reza Katouzian, also known as Hamid Katoozian, born on 23 October 1959 in Tehran, Iran is an Iranian politician and academic. He was a member of the Parliament of Iran; during his two terms, he served as the vice-chairman of the Industry Committee, and chairman of the Energy Committee.
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James Thomas Lynn
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- juristpolitician
- Biography
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James Thomas Lynn was an American cabinet officer and government official. He served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1973 until 1975 and as the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1975 until 1977.
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Gérard Huet
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- engineeruniversity teacherlogiciancomputer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Gérard Pierre Huet is a French computer scientist, linguist and mathematician. He is senior research director at INRIA and mostly known for his major and seminal contributions to type theory, programming language theory and to the theory of computation.
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Alfred J. Gross
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- inventorengineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Irving "Al" Gross was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, Citizens' Band radio, the telephone pager and the cordless telephone.
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James Polshek
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- architect
- Biography
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James Stewart Polshek was an American architect based in New York City. He was the founder of Polshek Partnership, the firm at which he was the principal design partner for more than four decades. He worked as design counsel to the legacy firm Ennead Architects, as well as being actively engaged as design lead on multiple projects.
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Kathleen M. O'Malley
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Kathleen McDonald "Kate" O'Malley is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is currently of counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell.
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William Burnham Woods
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- judgepoliticianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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William Burnham Woods was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. An appointee of President Rutherford B. Hayes, he served from 1881 until 1887. He wrote the majority opinion in United States v. Harris, involving the constitutionality of the Ku Klux Klan Act, and Presser v. Illinois, involving the application of the Second Amendment to the states; both cases adopted a narrow interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. He dissented rarely and wrote mostly uncontroversial opinions, and he has been largely forgotten by history.
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Kelly Morrison
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- politician
- Biography
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Kelly Louise Morrison is an American physician and politician who is the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 3rd congressional district. Morrison was a member of the Minnesota Senate from 2023 to 2024. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, she represented District 45 in the western Twin Cities metropolitan area, which includes the cities of Minnetonka, Mound, Minnetrista, and Orono in Hennepin County. She served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2019 to 2023.
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Henry H. Spalding
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- missionary
- Biography
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Henry Harmon Spalding and his wife Eliza Hart Spalding (1807–1851) were prominent Presbyterian missionaries and educators working primarily with the Nez Perce in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The Spaldings and their fellow missionaries were among the earliest Americans to travel across the western plains, through the Rocky Mountains and into the lands of the Pacific Northwest to their religious missions in what would become the states of Idaho and Washington. Their missionary party of five, including Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa and William H. Gray, joined with a group of fur traders to create the first wagon train along the Oregon Trail.
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Edward Williams
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- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Edward Porter Williams was an American businessman who co-founded the Sherwin-Williams Company with Henry Sherwin.
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Jeff Johnson
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- politician
- Biography
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Jeffrey D. Johnson is an American politician and attorney who served as a member of Cleveland City Council for Ward 10 from 2014 to 2018. Johnson served as councilman for Ward 8 from 1984 to 1990 and as a member of the Ohio Senate from 1990 to 1998.
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Zdravka Bušić
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zdravka Bušić is a Croatian politician for the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union party.
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Nancy Caroline
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- physician
- Biography
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Nancy Lee Caroline was an American physician and writer who worked in emergency medical services (EMS). She was medical director of Freedom House, an emergency ambulance service that assisted underserved populations in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 1970s. She was also the first medical director of Magen David Adom, Israel's Red Cross Society, and was later called "Israel's Mother Teresa" by colleagues.
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Charles Vanik
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- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Albert Vanik was a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to 1981.
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Alix Kates Shulman
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- writernovelist
- Biography
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Alix Kates Shulman is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best-known for her bestselling debut adult novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (Knopf, 1972), hailed by the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing as "the first important novel to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement."
