100 Notable alumni of
Catholic University of America
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The Catholic University of America is 217th in the world, 94th in North America, and 91st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Catholic University of America sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jon Voight
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- screenwritertelevision actorcomedianactorfilm producer
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Jonathan Vincent Voight is an American actor. Voight is associated with the angst and unruliness that typified the late-1960s counterculture. He has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and four Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2019, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Films in which Voight has appeared have grossed more than $5.2 billion worldwide.
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Susan Sarandon
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- 1964-1968 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in drama fiction
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractorfilm producervoice actor
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Susan Abigail Sarandon is an American actor. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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John Heard
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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John Heard Jr. was an American actor. Heard made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines (1977). He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat (1980), Cutter's Way (1981), Cat People (1982), Beaches (1988), and Deceived (1991). Other films include The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Big (1988), The Pelican Brief (1993), White Chicks (2004), and his role as Peter McCallister in Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). From 1995 to 1996, he played the role of Roy Foltrigg in the television series The Client. From 2005 to 2006, Heard played the role of Governor Frank Tancredi in Prison Break. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for guest-starring as Vin Makazian on The Sopranos (1999–2004).
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John Carroll Lynch
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- film directordirectorfilm actoractorfilm producer
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John Carroll Lynch is an American character actor and film director. He first gained notice for his role as Norm Gunderson in Fargo (1996). He is also known for his television work on the ABC sitcom The Drew Carey Show (1997–2004) as the title character's cross-dressing brother, Steve Carey, as well as on four seasons of American Horror Story (2014–2019), most notably as breakout character Twisty the Clown. His films include Face/Off (1997), Zodiac (2007), Gran Torino (2008), Shutter Island (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Ted 2 (2015), The Invitation (2015), The Founder (2016), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). He made his directorial debut with the 2017 film Lucky.
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Chris Sarandon
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- film actortelevision actoractorfilm producerstage actor
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Christopher Sarandon is an American actor. He is well known for playing a variety of iconic characters, including Jerry Dandrige in Fright Night (1985), Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride (1987), Detective Mike Norris in Child's Play (1988), and Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Leon Shermer in Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
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John Slattery
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- film actordirectorscreenwritertelevision actoractor
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John M. Slattery Jr. is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Roger Sterling in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2007–15), for which he was nominated four times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. For his role he won two Critics' Choice Television Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Brian Williams
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- editing staffnews presentertelevision presenterjournalisteditor-in-chief
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Brian Douglas Williams is an American retired journalist and television news anchor. He was a correspondent for NBC Nightly News starting in 1993, before his promotion to anchor and managing editor of the broadcast in 2004.
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Kathy Hochul
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- In 1983 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Kathleen Hochul is an American politician serving as the 57th governor of New York since August 24, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she is New York's first female governor, as well as the first governor from Upstate New York since Nathan L. Miller became New York's governor in 1920.
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Jason Miller
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- writerfilm directorscreenwriterfilm actorplaywright
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Jason Miller was an American playwright and actor. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for his play That Championship Season, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Father Damien Karras in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, a role he reprised in The Exorcist III. He later became artistic director of the Scranton Public Theatre in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where That Championship Season was set.
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Terry McAuliffe
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- lawyerpoliticianbankerauthorinternational forum participant
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Terence Richard McAuliffe is an American businessman and politician who served as the 72nd governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, he was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.
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Ed McMahon
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- film actorsaxophonistradio personalityactortelevision actor
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Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. was an American announcer, game show host, comedian, actor, singer, and combat aviator. McMahon and Johnny Carson began their association in their first TV series, the ABC game show Who Do You Trust?, running from 1957 to 1962. McMahon then made his famous thirty-year mark as Carson's sidekick, announcer and second banana on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1962 to 1992.
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Lisa Ann Walter
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- Studied in 1983
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actor
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Lisa Ann Walter is an American actress, comedian and television producer, best known for her roles as Chessy in the romantic comedy film The Parent Trap (1998) and Melissa Schemmenti on the Peabody Award winning ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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- writervisual artist
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower is an American author who is the younger daughter of former U.S. president Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat Nixon. Her husband, David, is the grandson of former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie Eisenhower.
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Martin O'Malley
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- guitaristlawyerinternational forum participantsingerpolitician
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Martin Joseph O'Malley is an American lawyer and former politician who currently serves as commissioner of the Social Security Administration since December 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 61st governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015 and the 48th mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007.
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James Soong
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- politician
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James Soong Chu-yu is a Taiwanese politician who is the founder and current Chairman of the People First Party.
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Siobhan Fallon Hogan
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- comedianfilm actorfilm producerfilm screenwritervoice actor
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Siobhan Fallon Hogan is an American actress and comedian. She has appeared in films such as Men in Black, Forrest Gump, The Negotiator, Holes, Daddy Day Care, Going in Style, and The House That Jack Built.
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Fulton J. Sheen
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- theologianCatholic priestradio personalitytelevision presenterwriter
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Fulton John Sheen was an American bishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, in 1919, Sheen quickly became a renowned theologian, earning the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy in 1923. He went on to teach theology and philosophy at the Catholic University of America and served as a parish priest before he was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in 1951. He held this position until 1966 when he was made the Bishop of Rochester. He resigned in 1969 as his 75th birthday approached, and was made archbishop of the titular see of Newport, Wales.
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Laurence Luckinbill
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- In 1958 graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actorfilm producer
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Laurence George Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright and director. He has worked in television, film, and theatre, doing triple duty in the theatre by writing, directing, and starring in stage productions. He is known for penning and starring in one-man shows based upon the lives of United States President Theodore Roosevelt, author Ernest Hemingway, and famous American defense attorney Clarence Darrow; starring in a one-man show based upon the life of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson; and for his portrayal of Spock's half-brother Sybok in the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
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Frances Sternhagen
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Frances Hussey Sternhagen was an American actress. Sternhagen was known as a character actress who appeared on- and off-Broadway, in movies, and on television for over six decades. She received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award and a Saturn Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Raymond Leo Burke
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- Catholic priestwriterjuristCatholic bishopCatholic theologian
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Raymond Leo Burke is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He is a bishop and a cardinal, and was a patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 2014 to 2023. He led the Archdiocese of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008 and the Diocese of La Crosse from 1995 to 2004. From 2008 to 2014, he was the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.
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Bob Casey Jr
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- In 1988 graduated with Juris Doctor
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- politicianauditorlawyer
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Robert Patrick Casey Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Pennsylvania, a seat he has held since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Maureen Dowd
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- journalistcolumnist
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Maureen Brigid Dowd is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.
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Linda Miller
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Linda Mae Miller is an American film, stage, and television actress. The daughter of actor and comedian Jackie Gleason and the mother of actor Jason Patric, Miller began working professionally as a child, later appearing on Broadway in a production of Black Picture Show (1975), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress. She would go on to star in television and in feature films such as the drama One Summer Love, and the horror film Alice, Sweet Alice (both 1976).
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Susan Anspach
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- stage actorfilm actoracting coachwriteractor
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Susan Florence Anspach was an American stage, film and television actress who had roles in films during the 1970s and 1980s such as Five Easy Pieces (1970), Play It Again, Sam (1972), Blume in Love (1973), Montenegro (1981), Blue Monkey (1987), and Blood Red (1989).
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Pat Carroll
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- stage actorcomedianfilm actorvoice actoractor
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Patricia Ann Carroll was an American actress and comedian. She voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid and appeared in CBS's The Danny Thomas Show, ABC's Laverne & Shirley, and NBC's ER. Carroll was an Emmy, Drama Desk, and Grammy Award winner, as well as a Tony Award nominee.
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Timothy M. Dolan
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- university teacherchurch historiantheologianCatholic priesttransitional deacon
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Timothy Michael Dolan is an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is the tenth and current archbishop of New York, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
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Veronica Taylor
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- actorvoice actor
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Kathleen Charlotte McInerney, also known by her stage name Veronica Taylor, is an American voice actress known for her dubbing work in English-language adaptations of Japanese anime, in particular for voicing Ash Ketchum and his mother Delia in the Pokémon anime for its first eight seasons. Other voices she has done include Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun from Slayers, Sailor Pluto from Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Crystal, Nico Robin in the 4Kids dub of One Piece, April O'Neil in the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and has voiced video game characters like Cosmos from Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, Dissidia Final Fantasy, and Dissidia Final Fantasy NT. Additionally, using her real name, she is a narrator for various audio books, such as the Omen of the Stars arc from the Warriors series.
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Mitch Landrieu
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- politicianlawyer
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Mitchell Joseph Landrieu is an American lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010.
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Theodore Edgar McCarrick
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Theodore Edgar McCarrick is a laicized American bishop and former cardinal of the Catholic Church. Ordained a priest in 1958, he became an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in 1977, then became Bishop of Metuchen, New Jersey, in 1981. From 1986 to 2000, he was Archbishop of Newark. He was created a cardinal in February 2001 and served as Archbishop of Washington from 2001 to 2006. Following credible allegations of repeated sexual misconduct towards boys and seminarians, he was removed from public ministry in June 2018, became the first cardinal to resign from the College of Cardinals because of claims of sexual abuse in July 2018, and was laicized in February 2019. Several honors he had been awarded, such as honorary degrees, were rescinded.
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Jim McGreevey
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- politicianlobbyist
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James Edward McGreevey is an American politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004.
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Luis Antonio Tagle
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopinternational forum participant
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Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle is a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church currently serving as the Pro-Prefect for the Section of Evangelization of Dicastery for Evangelization (formerly the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples) since June 5, 2022, and as the President of Interdicasterial Commission for Consecrated Religious since December 8, 2019. He was the 32nd Archbishop of Manila from 2011 to 2020. Tagle is the Cardinal-Bishop of San Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle (pro hac vice) and also serves as the President of the Catholic Biblical Federation, Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, and as a member of various departments and dicasteries in the Roman Curia.
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Brian Cashman
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- baseball playerbusinessperson
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Brian McGuire Cashman is an American baseball executive for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. He has served as the general manager and senior vice president of the Yankees since 1998. During Cashman's tenure as general manager, he inherited a core that was built by Stick Michael and Bob Watson and the Yankees have won six American League pennants and four World Series championships.
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John McGiver
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- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
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John Irwin McGiver was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975.
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Seán Patrick O'Malley
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- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Seán Patrick O'Malley is an American cardinal of the Catholic Church serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts since 2003. He is a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and was elevated by the Vatican to the rank of cardinal in 2006.
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Timothy Shriver
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- film producerinternational forum participantteacher
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Timothy Perry Shriver is an American disability rights activist, film producer, and former educator who has been Chairman of Special Olympics since 1996 and is the founder of UNITE. He is a member of the Kennedy family as the third child of Eunice Kennedy Shriver (who founded the Special Olympics), and Sargent Shriver, who helped found the Peace Corps.
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Ed Gillespie
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- politicianlobbyist
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Edward Walter Gillespie is an American politician, strategist, and lobbyist who served as the 61st Chair of the Republican National Committee from 2003 to 2005 and was counselor to the President from 2007 to 2009 during the Presidency of George W. Bush. In 2012 Gillespie was a senior member of the Mitt Romney presidential campaign.
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Allison Hayes
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- television actormodelfilm actoractorbeauty pageant contestant
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Allison Hayes was an American film and television actress and model.
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Tom Harkin
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- Studied in 1972
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- politicianlawyermilitary officer
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Thomas Richard Harkin is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representative for Iowa's 5th congressional district from 1975 to 1985. He is the longest-serving senator to spend the entire tenure as a state's junior senator.
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Alfred Gough
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- executive producerscreenwritertelevision producerfilm producer
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Alfred Gough is an American screenwriter, producer and showrunner.
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Robert Barron
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- In 1982 graduated with Master of Arts in philosophy
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- university teacherCatholic priestwriterCatholic bishopevangelist
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Robert Emmet Barron is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022. He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of Catholicism, a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS. He served as rector at Mundelein Seminary from 2012 to 2015 and as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2015 to 2022.
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Wally Pipp
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Walter Clement Pipp was an American professional baseball player. A first baseman, Pipp played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, and Cincinnati Reds between 1913 and 1928.
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Robert Sirico
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- Catholic priest
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Robert Alan Sirico is an American Catholic priest and the founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a political, religious, and cultural commentator. He is also the retired pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Grand Rapids.
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Thomas E. Donilon
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- international forum participantlawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Edward Donilon is an American lawyer, business executive, and former government official who served as the 22nd National Security Advisor in the Obama administration from 2010 to 2013. Donilon also worked in the Carter and Clinton administrations, including as chief of staff of the U.S. State Department. He is now Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute, the firm's global think tank.
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Michael Bidwill
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Michael Bidwill is an American businessman who is the principal owner, chairman, and president of the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). After practicing law for six years as a federal prosecutor, he joined the Arizona Cardinals organization in 1996 as vice president and general counsel.
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Rosanna Scotto
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- journalist
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Rosanna Scotto is an American news anchor. She is the co-host of Good Day New York, on Fox 5 NY WNYW in New York City. She formerly hosted with Greg Kelly. Previously, she anchored the 5 and 10 pm news with Ernie Anastos, and the Fox 5 Live 11 am news. She has been the lead female news anchor since 1990.
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Donald Wuerl
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Donald William Wuerl is an American prelate, a cardinal, of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington from 2006 to 2018. He was elevated by Pope John Paul II to serve as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle (1986–1987), and bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh (1988–2006). Pope Benedict XVI named Wuerl as archbishop of Washington and made him a cardinal in 2010.
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Kathleen Rice
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- In 1987 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Kathleen Maura Rice is an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States representative for New York's 4th congressional district from 2015 to 2023. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Before serving in Congress, Rice served as the Nassau County district attorney, and, before that, she served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia and as an assistant district attorney in the Kings County District Attorney's Office in New York City.
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Blase J. Cupich
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- Catholic priesttheologianphilosopherCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Blase Joseph Cupich is an American prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal who serves as archbishop of the Latin Church Archdiocese of Chicago.
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Theodore Hesburgh
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- Catholic priestwriteruniversity teachertheologian
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Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC was an American Catholic priest and academic who was a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He is best known for his service as the president of the University of Notre Dame for thirty-five years (1952–1987).
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Madeleine Leininger
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- nurse
- Biography
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Madeleine Leininger was a nursing theorist, nursing professor and developer of the concept of transcultural nursing. First published in 1961, her contributions to nursing theory involve the discussion of what it is to care.
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Liubomyr Huzar
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- theologianCatholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic bishopmonk
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Liubomyr Huzar MSU was the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the first elected in independent Ukraine. He was also a cardinal of the Catholic Church. After the transfer of the see of Lviv to Kyiv in 2005, he was the Ukrainian Catholic Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia. In February 2011 he became Major Archeparch Emeritus after he resigned due to ill health.
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Roger Mahony
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- amateur radio operatorCatholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
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Roger Michael Mahony is an American cardinal and retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California from 1985 to 2011. Before his appointment, he served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Fresno from 1975 to 1980 and bishop of the Diocese of Stockton from 1980 to 1985.
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Michael D. Griffin
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- aerospace engineerphysicistpolitician
- Biography
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Michael Douglas Griffin is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as Deputy of Technology for the Strategic Defense Initiative, and as Administrator of NASA from April 13, 2005, to January 20, 2009. As NASA Administrator Griffin oversaw such areas as private spaceflight, future human spaceflight to Mars, and the fate of the Hubble telescope.
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Nancy Dickerson Whitehead
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- journalistsocialiteteacher
- Biography
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Nancy Dickerson was an American radio and television journalist and researcher for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Famous as a celebrity and socialite (whereby she was sometimes called Nancy Dickerson Whitehead later in life) as well as her journalism, she later became an independent producer of documentaries.
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Charles J. Chaput
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- theologianCatholic priestarchbishopCatholic bishoppsychologist
- Biography
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Charles Joseph Chaput OFMCap is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the ninth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, serving from 2011 until 2020. He previously served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Denver in Colorado (1997–2011) and bishop of the Diocese of Rapid City in South Dakota (1988–1997). Chaput was the first archbishop of Philadelphia in 100 years who was not named a cardinal.
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Joseph Strickland
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- 1992-1994 graduated with Licentiate of Canon Law
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Joseph Edward Strickland is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Tyler from 2012 until his removal by Pope Francis in 2023.
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Raymond E. Brown
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- university teacherbiblical scholarCatholic priest
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Raymond Edward Brown was an American Sulpician priest and prominent biblical scholar. He was a specialist on the hypothetical Johannine community, which he speculated contributed to the authorship of the Gospel of John, and he also wrote studies on the birth and death of Jesus.
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Emil Kapaun
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- military personnelmilitary chaplainCatholic priest
- Biography
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Emil Joseph Kapaun was a Roman Catholic priest and United States Army captain who served as a United States Army chaplain during World War II and the Korean War. Kapaun was a chaplain in the Burma Theater of World War II, then served again as a chaplain with the U.S. Army in Korea, where he was captured. He died in a prisoner of war camp.
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Katherine Zappone
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Katherine Zappone is an American-Irish independent politician who served as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs from May 2016 to June 2020. She was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-West constituency from 2016 to 2020. She previously served as a Senator from 2011 to 2016, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.
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Francis P. Duffy
- Occupations
- soldierpriest
- Biography
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Francis Patrick Duffy was a Canadian American soldier, Catholic priest and military chaplain.
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Mart Crowley
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- producerscreenwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Edward Martino Crowley was an American playwright best known for his 1968 play The Boys in the Band.
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Daniel DiNardo
- Occupations
- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Daniel Nicholas DiNardo is an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is the second and current archbishop of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston in Texas serving since 2006. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Sioux City in Iowa from 1998 to 2004.
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Daniel J. O'Donnell
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- politician
- Biography
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Daniel J. O'Donnell is an American politician from the state of New York. A Democrat, he is a member of the New York State Assembly. O'Donnell represents the 69th district in Manhattan, made up of the neighborhoods of Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights, and portions of the Upper West Side and West Harlem.
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Francis George
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Francis Eugene George was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the eighth Archbishop of Chicago in Illinois (1997–2014) and previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Yakima and Archbishop of Portland.
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Webster Tarpley
- Occupations
- historianwriterconspiracy theoristphilosopherjournalist
- Biography
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Webster Griffin Tarpley is an American writer, political activist, and conspiracy theorist. A one-time follower of Lyndon LaRouche, Tarpley is known for his role in the 9/11 truth movement, believing 9/11 was a false flag operation.
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Eric Pierpoint
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- writertelevision actorassociation football playerfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Eric Pierpoint is an American actor and author. He is perhaps best known for his role as George Francisco on Fox Network's Alien Nation. He has also notably appeared on each of the first four Star Trek television spin-offs.
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James Rado
- Occupations
- writerdirectortelevision actoractorcomposer
- Biography
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James Alexander Radomski, known professionally as James Rado, was an American actor, playwright, director, and composer, best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of the 1967 musical Hair. He and Ragni won for Best Musical Theater Album at the 11th Annual Grammy Awards and were nominated for the 1969 Tony Award for Best Musical.
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Jeffrey Chiesa
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- In 1990 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Scott Chiesa is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from June 6 to October 30, 2013. As a member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 59th Attorney General of New Jersey from January 10, 2012, until June 6, 2013.
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Paula Vogel
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- university teacherwriterplaywright
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Paula Vogel is an American playwright who received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play How I Learned to Drive. A longtime teacher, Vogel spent the bulk of her academic career – from 1984 to 2008 – at Brown University, where she served as Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor in Creative Writing, oversaw its playwriting program, and helped found the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium. From 2008 to 2012, Vogel was Eugene O'Neill Professor of Playwriting and department chair at the Yale School of Drama, as well as playwright in residence at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
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Joseph Alioto
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- In 1940 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joseph Lawrence Alioto was an American politician who served as the 36th mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1968 to 1976.
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Sammy Nestico
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- Studied in 1951-1952
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposeractortrombonistmusic arranger
- Biography
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Samuel Louis Nistico, better known as Sammy Nestico, was an American composer and arranger. Nestico is best known for his arrangements for the Count Basie orchestra.
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Józef Życiński
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic deaconCatholic bishopphilosopher
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Józef Mirosław Życiński was a Polish philosopher, publicist, the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Lublin and a Professor of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Rome, Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow and Catholic University of Lublin.
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Terence Cooke
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Terence James Cooke was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of New York from 1968 until his death, quietly battling leukemia throughout his tenure. He was named a cardinal in 1969. Cooke previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1965 to 1967.
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William E. Lori
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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William Edward Lori is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as the 16th archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Maryland since 2012.
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Tony Tata
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- novelistpoliticianmilitary officer
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Anthony Jean Tata, is an American retired United States Army officer, author, and government official. He is a retired brigadier general of the United States Army (1981–2009), and later served as a school district administrator for two large school districts in the District of Columbia and North Carolina. He served as Secretary of Transportation of North Carolina from 2013 to 2015 under Governor Pat McCrory. Tata is the author of the Threat series of thriller novels.
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Thomas Berry
- Occupations
- cultural historianenvironmentalistwritertheologian
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Thomas Berry, CP was a Catholic priest, cultural historian, and scholar of the world's religions, especially Asian traditions. Later, as he studied Earth history and evolution, he called himself a "geologian".
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Chuba Okadigbo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo, was a Nigerian politician, philosopher, academic, writer and political scientist. He served as the 8th president of the Nigerian Senate from 1999 to 2000. Sometimes referred to as Oyi of Oyi in reference to his local government council area (Oyi), he held numerous political positions in the Nigeria government and was known to have opposed the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party, which was led by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Anna Mae Hays
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Anna Mae Violet Hays was an American military officer who served as the 13th chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps. She was the first woman in the United States Armed Forces to be promoted to a general officer rank; in 1970, she was promoted to brigadier general. Hays paved the way for equal treatment of women, countered occupational sexism, and made a number of recommendations which were accepted into military policy.
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Dan Gilvezan
- Occupations
- actorvoice actortelevision actor
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Daniel John Gilvezan is an American actor, known for playing Peter Parker / Spider-Man in the 1981 animated series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and Bumblebee in the original 1984-1987 The Transformers series.
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Marty Hurney
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- In 1978 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in general studies
- Occupations
- general managerwritersports executive
- Biography
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Marty Hurney is an American football executive who is an advisor for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as an administrator for the San Diego Chargers in the 1990s before working as the general manager of the Carolina Panthers throughout much of the 2000s and 2010s. Prior to becoming a football executive, Hurney was a sportswriter for Washington, D.C. based newspapers in the 1980s.
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Joseph Weber
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Joseph Weber was an American physicist. He gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser and developed the first gravitational wave detectors (Weber bars).
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Mauricio Claver-Carone
- Occupations
- international forum participant
- Biography
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Mauricio Claver-Carone is an American lawyer, former Treasury Department and National Security Council official, and lobbyist, who was the president of the Inter-American Development Bank from October 2020 until September 26, 2022.
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Patrick O'Connell
- Occupations
- chefrestaurateur
- Biography
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Patrick O'Connell is an American chef and proprietor of the Inn at Little Washington, a country inn and restaurant in the town of Washington, Virginia.
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Li Lili
- Occupations
- actorsingerfilm actor
- Biography
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Li Lili was a Chinese film actress and singer. Her films Playthings, The Great Road and Storm on the Border were blockbusters of the 1930s and 1940s. She was sometimes called "China's Mae West".
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Thomas L. Saaty
- Occupations
- university teacherjournalistmathematician
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Thomas L. Saaty was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. He is the inventor, architect, and primary theoretician of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making framework used for large-scale, multiparty, multi-criteria decision analysis, and of the Analytic Network Process (ANP), its generalization to decisions with dependence and feedback. Later on, he generalized the mathematics of the ANP to the Neural Network Process (NNP) with application to neural firing and synthesis but none of them gain such popularity as AHP.
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Jesse Brown
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jesse Brown was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who served as United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.
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Rick Renzi
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- In 2002 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Richard George Renzi is an American politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing Arizona's 1st congressional district from 2003 until 2009.
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Charles Richard
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Charles Anthony "Chas" Richard is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the 11th commander of United States Strategic Command. He previously served as Commander Submarine Forces, Submarine Force Atlantic and Allied Submarine Command.
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Elizabeth Hand
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writernovelistfantasy authorjournalist
- Biography
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Elizabeth Hand is an American writer.
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Joseph A. Unanue
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Joseph Andrew Unanue was an American-born son of Spanish parents who was the president of Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic–owned food company in the United States.
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Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Colleen Constance Kollar-Kotelly is an American lawyer serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and was previously presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Ernest Thompson
- Occupations
- theatrical directorfilm directordirectorscreenwriteractor
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Ernest Thompson is an American writer, actor, and director. He won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for On Golden Pond, an adaptation of his own play of the same name.
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Andrew Bremberg
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- lawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Andrew P. Bremberg is an American attorney and political advisor who most recently served as Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. He previously served as Assistant to the President and the director of the Domestic Policy Council for U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Robert James Carlson
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Robert James Carlson is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the ninth archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis in Missouri from 2009 to 2020.
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Justin Francis Rigali
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priestphilosopherdiplomat
- Biography
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Justin Francis Rigali is an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the eighth Archbishop of Philadelphia, having previously served as Archbishop of St. Louis from 1994 to 2003, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003. Following a sex abuse probe into the Catholic Church, Cardinal Rigali resigned in 2011.
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John Krol
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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John Joseph Krol was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1961 to 1988, having previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland (1953–1961), and was elevated as a cardinalate in 1967 by Pope Paul VI.
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Jimmy Patsos
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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James John Patsos is an American sports commentator and former college basketball coach. He served as an assistant coach, then head coach at Loyola (MD) and Siena, and is now a commentator and broadcaster.
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Collin P. Green
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Collin Patrick Green is a retired United States Navy vice admiral who last served as the deputy commander of the United States Special Operations Command from 2021 to 2024. He most recently served as Chief of Staff of the United States Special Operations Command. He graduated and was commissioned from the United States Naval Academy in 1986. Green also holds degrees from the Catholic University of America and United States Naval War College. He is a naval special warfare officer and previously served as commander of United States Special Operations Command South from 2016 to June 2018.
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Brendan Carr
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of America
- In 2005 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Brendan Thomas Carr is an American lawyer who has served as a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since 2017. Appointed to the position by Donald Trump, Carr previously served as the agency's general counsel and as an aide to FCC commissioner Ajit Pai. In private practice, Carr formerly worked as a telecommunications attorney at Wiley Rein.
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Mike Lonergan
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Michael Thomas Lonergan is the former head coach of the George Washington University Colonials men's basketball team. He replaced Karl Hobbs. He was formerly the coach of the University of Vermont Catamounts and the Catholic University of America (CUA) and before that a point guard for CUA.
