18 Notable alumni of
Coe College
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Coe College is 1954th in the world, 678th in North America, and 638th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Coe College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Marv Levy
- Occupations
- American football coachbasketball coachplayer of American football
- Biography
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Marvin Daniel Levy is an American former football coach and executive who was a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for seventeen seasons. He spent most of his head coaching career with the Buffalo Bills, leading them from 1986 to 1997. Levy's first head coaching position was with the Montreal Alouettes of Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1973 to 1977, where he won two Grey Cup titles.
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William L. Shirer
- Occupations
- historianjournalistwriter
- Biography
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William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist and war correspondent. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years. Originally a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the International News Service, Shirer was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what became a CBS radio team of journalists known as "Murrow's Boys". He became known for his broadcasts from Berlin, from the rise of the Nazi dictatorship through the first year of World War II (1939–1940). Along with Murrow, he organized the first broadcast world news roundup, a format still followed by news broadcasts.
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Shelby Steele
- Occupations
- sociologistjournalist
- Biography
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Shelby Steele is an author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action.
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Curt Menefee
- Enrolled in Coe College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Curt Menefee is an American broadcaster who hosts the Fox Network's NFL pregame show Fox NFL Sunday. He is also the co-anchor of Good Day New York on Fox's New York City flagship station, WNYW.
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Fran Allison
- Occupations
- television actorsingerradio personalityactorfilm actor
- Biography
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Frances Helen Allison was an American television and radio comedienne, personality, and singer.
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Edward Alsworth Ross
- Occupations
- university teacherdemographereconomisteugenicistsociologist
- Biography
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Edward Alsworth Ross was a progressive American sociologist, eugenicist, economist, and major figure of early criminology.
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Chris Funk
- Occupations
- guitaristmusician
- Biography
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Christopher Funk is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist best known as a member of the Portland, Oregon, indie rock band The Decemberists. He plays guitar, pedal steel, piano, violin, dobro, hurdy-gurdy, mandolin, saxophone, the theremin and many other instruments. According to Colin Meloy, as stated at the Pilgrimage Festival in Franklin, TN on September 27, 2015, Funk was originally given the middle name "Ryman" but a clerical error on his birth certificate resulted in his middle name being recorded as "Lyman."
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Fred Jackson
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Frederick George Jackson is a former American football running back. He played college football at Coe College. After going undrafted in 2003 and playing three seasons in arena football and later NFL Europe, Jackson spent nine seasons with the Buffalo Bills, becoming their third all-time leading rusher. In the 2015 season, he was the oldest active running back in the NFL.
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Jason Kottke
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Enrolled in Coe College
- 1991-1995 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in physics
- Occupations
- graphic designerweb developerblogger
- Biography
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Jason Kottke is an American blogger, graphic designer, and web designer known for his blog Kottke.org. He won a Lifetime Achievement Award as a blogger. As of July 2013, his blog is ranked #66 overall and #20 in Science on the Technorati Top 100.
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Katja Koroleva
- Occupations
- association football referee
- Biography
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Ekaterina "Katja" Koroleva is an American international soccer referee for the Professional Referee Organization.
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James A. Reed
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James Alexander Reed was an American Democratic Party politician from Missouri.
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Timothy S. Hillman
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Timothy Spafard Hillman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
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Ed Gorman
- Occupations
- writernovelistadvertising personmagazine editoranthologist
- Biography
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Edward Joseph Gorman Jr. was an American writer and short fiction anthologist. He published in almost every genre, but is best known for his work in the crime, mystery, western, and horror fields. His non-fiction work has been published in such publications as The New York Times and Redbook.
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Ellen Krug
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Ellen Jean Krug is an American transgender activist, author, and lawyer. In 2009, two months after transitioning from male to female, she became the first attorney in Iowa to engage in jury trials in separate genders.
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Tex Sample
- Years
- 1934-.. (age 90)
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Tex Sample is a specialist in church and society, a storyteller, author, and the Robert B. and Kathleen Rogers Professor Emeritus of Church and Society at the St. Paul School of Theology, a United Methodist seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, where he taught from 1967–1999. He has published four books about the working class.
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James William Good
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James William Good was an American politician and lawyer from the state of Iowa, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Cabinet of President Herbert Hoover as Secretary of War. He was a member of the Republican Party.
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Linda Scheid
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerteacher
- Biography
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Linda J. Scheid was a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 46, which includes portions of the northwestern suburbs of Hennepin County in the Twin Cities metro area. A Democrat, she was first elected to the Senate in 1996, and was re-elected in 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2010. Prior to the 2002 redistricting, the area was known as District 47. She died of cancer on June 15, 2011. Her seat was won in special election on October 18, 2011 by Senator Chris Eaton.
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Warren Stanford Stone
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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Warren Stanford Stone was a railway worker who rose to head the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in the United States from 1903 to 1925. He was unusual as a labor leader in that he did not believe in compulsory union membership and was comfortable with "labor capitalism". He supported a radical plan in which workers in an industry would take one-third of the profits, the other thirds going to capital and the public. By the end of his tenure the Brotherhood controlled investments worth over $100 million.
