25 Notable alumni of
Central Washington University
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Central Washington University is 2003rd in the world, 694th in North America, and 654th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Central Washington University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Miesha Tate
- Occupations
- modelmixed martial arts fighter
- Biography
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Miesha Tate is an American professional mixed martial artist. She currently competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), in which she is a former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion. Tate formerly competed for Strikeforce, in which she is a former Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. She was also the vice president of ONE Championship. As of January 23, 2024, she is #8 in the UFC women's bantamweight rankings.
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Craig T. Nelson
- Occupations
- voice actorkaratekaactordirectormanufacturer
- Biography
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Craig Theodore Nelson is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Hayden Fox in the sitcom Coach (for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series), Deputy Ward Wilson in the 1980 film Stir Crazy, Steve Freeling in the 1982 film Poltergeist, Burt Nickerson in All The Right Moves (1983), Peter Dellaplane in Action Jackson, Chief Howard Hyde in Turner & Hooch (1989), Alex Cullen in The Devil's Advocate (1997), Chief Jack Mannion in The District (2000–2004), The Warden in My Name is Earl, and the voice of Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel. He also starred as Zeek Braverman in the television series Parenthood and plays Dale Ballard on Young Sheldon.
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James Mattis
- Enrolled in Central Washington University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- military officerarmy officer
- Biography
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James Norman Mattis is an American military veteran who served as the 26th United States secretary of defense from 2017 to 2019. A former Marine Corps four-star general, he commanded forces in the Persian Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War.
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Brian Thompson
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Brian Earl Thompson is an American actor. His career began with a small role in the 1984 film The Terminator. He played the villainous "Night Slasher" in the 1986 film Cobra. His first named role was on Werewolf, a horror series that ran during Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988. Thompson has played several characters in the Star Trek franchise—the most notable being the Klingon Lieutenant Klag in which he informed Riker that "Gagh is always best when served live", the Alien Bounty Hunter on The X-Files, and Eddie Fiori on Kindred: The Embraced. In 2014, he produced, wrote and starred in the B movie parody The Extendables.
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Douglas Albert Munro
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Douglas Albert Munro was a United States Coast Guardsman who was posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for an act of "extraordinary heroism" during World War II. He is the only person to have received the medal for actions performed during service in the Coast Guard.
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Matt Hume
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fighter
- Biography
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Matt Hume is an American former professional mixed martial artist, trainer, and businessman. He is the co-founder and head trainer at AMC Pankration in Kirkland, WA. Hume and his AMC team have trained several champions and world-class fighters including Josh Barnett, Demetrious Johnson, Bibiano Fernandes, Tim Boetsch, Jeff Monson, Bob Sapp, Chris Leben, Hayato Sakurai, Akira Shoji, Matt Brown, Rich Franklin, and Caros Fodor. Hume has been the Senior Vice President of Competition for Singapore-based combat sports promotion ONE Championship since 2012.
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Joey Gibson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joseph Owan Gibson is an American right-wing activist and the founder of the far-right group Patriot Prayer, which is active in Portland, Oregon and other cities within the Pacific Northwest.
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Wanz
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersingerrapperengineerstreet artist
- Biography
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Michael "Mike" Wansley, better known by his stage names Wanz and TeeWanz, is an American singer, songwriter and rapper. He performs in various genres, including rock, R&B, soul, hip hop, and pop. He was featured on fellow Seattle-based duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' international hit single "Thrift Shop", which received two Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.
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Chobin Zukeran
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chobin Zukeran is the mayor of Nanjō, Okinawa and a former member of the House of Representatives of Japan, representing Okinawa 4th district (southern Okinawa Island and the Sakishima Islands). He was elected in the 2009 Japanese general election. He is an outspoken proponent of the removal of American bases from Okinawa.
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Doc Hastings
- Enrolled in Central Washington University
- Studied in 1964
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Richard Norman "Doc" Hastings is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. representative for Washington's 4th congressional district from 1995 until his retirement in 2015. The district includes much of central Washington including the Tri-Cities, Yakima, and Moses Lake. The most conservative Republican in Washington's Congressional delegation, he chaired the House Committee on Ethics from 2005 to 2007 and chaired the House Committee on Natural Resources from 2011 to his leaving office.
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Ron Sims
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ronald Cordell Sims is the former Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, having served in the position from May 8, 2009 to July 2011. He is also the former King County Executive. Sims ran unsuccessfully for higher office twice: United States Senator in 1994 and for Governor of Washington in 2004.
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Duane Davidson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Duane A. Davidson is an American accountant and politician who served as the 23rd Washington State Treasurer from 2017 to 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Mary Jo Estep
- Years
- 1909-1992 (aged 83)
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Mary Josephine Estep was a Shoshone child survivor of the Battle of Kelley Creek, "the last massacre" of Native Americans in the United States, in 1911.
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Al Swift
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Allan Byron Swift was an American Emmy award–winning broadcaster and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for eight terms from 1979 to 1995. He represented the Second Congressional District of Washington as a Democrat.
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Alan Bates
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alan Curtis Bates was an American osteopathic physician and a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. He was a member of the Oregon State Senate, representing the 3rd District since 2005. Previously he was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2000 through 2004.
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Mike Burns
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Michael Edward Burns is an American assistant men's college basketball coach at Boise State.
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Floyd Hicks
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Floyd Verne Hicks was an American politician and attorney who served as an associate justice of the Washington Supreme Court and member of the United States House of Representatives.
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Ron S. Jarmin
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Ronald S. Jarmin is an American economist who served as the acting director of the United States Census Bureau from January 20, 2021 to January 5, 2022. He currently serves as the deputy director and previously served as the chief operating officer of the bureau. He also served as acting director from 2017 to 2019 following the resignation of former director John H. Thompson.
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Jim Honeyford
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Dwight Honeyford is an American politician of the Republican Party. He served as a member of the Washington State Senate, representing the 15th district between 1999 and 2023.
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Cary Condotta
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cary Lawrence Condotta is an American politician from Washington. Condotta is a Republican member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 12th Legislative District Position 1 from 2003 to 2019. On May 1, 2018, Condotta announced he would be stepping down at the end of his 2017–2018 term, and not running for reelection in 2018.
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Valerie Jenness
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- researcherwriterteacher
- Biography
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Valerie Jenness is an author, researcher, public policy advisor, and professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Jenness is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and prior to that, was a senior visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. Jenness served as dean of the School of Social Ecology from 2009 to 2015 and chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society from 2001-2006. Jenness is credited with conducting the first systemic study of transgender women in men's prisons.
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David Boyd
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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David R. Boyd was an American surgeon and pioneer in emergency medicine. Boyd is considered to be one of the "fathers of EMS systems." His colleague John Otten noted that Boyd "had been responsible for saving thousands of lives - more than anyone in the medical profession."
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Joseph Rose
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Joseph Rose is an American journalist, priest and theologian formerly based in Portland, Oregon. He currently lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, where he is associate rector of St. James's Episcopal Church. Rose was on the staff of The Oregonian as a writer, columnist and multimedia producer from 1999 until 2016. He has written about crime, prisons, government, Portland's world-famous bicycle scene, religion, popular culture, music, film, Oregon's methamphetamine epidemic and transportation. He is also a former freelance writer for Wired.com. As of January 2017, he described himself as retired from The Oregonian in order to go into ministry.
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Myron N. Dobashi
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Myron N. Dobashi is a retired brigadier general in the National Guard of the United States and former commander of the Hawaii Air National Guard.
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Aaron Reardon
- Years
- 1970s
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aaron G. Reardon is an American politician and lobbyist who served as the Snohomish County Executive from 2004 to 2013. First elected to the post in 2003, Reardon was sworn in as the youngest county executive in the United States. On February 21, 2013, Reardon announced his resignation effective May 31, 2013.
