11 Notable alumni of
Columbus State University
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Columbus State University is 2929th in the world, 1004th in North America, and 950th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from Columbus State University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ma Dong-seok
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Lee Dong-seok, better known by the stage names Ma Dong-seok (마동석) and Don Lee, is an American actor and film producer based in South Korea. With his breakout performance in Train to Busan (2016) and subsequent leading roles, he has become one of the most successful actors from South Korea. He was Gallup Korea's Film Actor of the Year in 2018 and in 2023.
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Joni Ernst
- Enrolled in Columbus State University
- In 1995 graduated with Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joni Kay Ernst is an American politician and former military officer serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from Iowa. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served in the Iowa State Senate from 2011 to 2014 and as auditor of Montgomery County from 2004 to 2011. As Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee from 2023 to 2025, after having been vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference since 2019, Ernst was the fourth-ranking Republican in the Senate.
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Bob the Drag Queen
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actordrag queenLGBTQ rights activisttelevision producer
- Biography
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Christopher Delmar Caldwell, also known by his stage name Caldwell Tidicue and better known by his drag name Bob the Drag Queen, is an American drag queen, comedian, actor, activist, musician, and reality television personality. He is best known for winning the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. As of 2020, he has more than one million followers on Instagram and was the first Black Drag Race queen to reach the milestone. After Drag Race, he pursued acting, appearing in television shows such as High Maintenance (2016), Tales of the City (2019), and A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019). In 2020, he began co-hosting We're Here on HBO alongside fellow Drag Race contestants Eureka O'Hara and Shangela.
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Jason Rogers
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jason Douglas Rogers is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers.
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Rick Lowe
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Rick Lowe is a Houston-based artist and community organizer, whose Project Row Houses is considered an important example of social-practice art. In 2014, he was among the 21 people awarded a MacArthur "genius" fellowship.
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Cale Dodds
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Cale Dodds is an American country music artist and songwriter who is currently signed to Spirit Music Group.
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Ty Harris
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Ty Harris is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for TFT of the Macedonian First League (basketball).
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Larry Wortzel
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- soldiermilitary attachéauthor
- Biography
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Larry M. Wortzel served nine terms as a commissioner on the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the United States Congress. A 32-year military veteran, he was a U.S. Army colonel, director of the Strategic Studies Institute of the United States Army War College, and vice president of The Heritage Foundation. He was a military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, and witnessed the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. He is considered one of the United States' top experts on China and its military strategy. He is Senior Fellow in Asian Security at the American Foreign Policy Council.
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Greg Frady
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Greg Frady is an American college baseball coach. He was most recently the head coach of the Georgia State Panthers baseball team since the start of the 2007 season until the end of the 2019 season. He also served as general manager of the German National team. Frady was the head coach at North Florida Community College from 1990–1996. Before serving as North Florida Community College head coach, Frady played for Troy from 1984–1987. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Columbus State University. From 1997–2003, he served as an assistant at Central Florida before being hired as an assistant coach at Georgia State in 2004. He became general manager for the German national team in 2004 and head coach at Georgia State in 2007. In July, 2020, he was named the first Head Coach of the Nanaimo NightOwls of the West Coast League, signed to a five-year contract to lead the team at historic Serauxmen Stadium. The 2021 season, to be the debut of the NightOwls with Frady at the helm, was cancelled due to the pandemic.
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Matthías Orri Sigurðarson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Matthías Orri Sigurðarson is an Icelandic basketball player, sports commentator and a former member of the Icelandic men's national basketball team.
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Ruslan Apostolov
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 36)
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Ruslan Apostolov is a concert violinist who currently serves as Director and Professor of the Koart Academy of Music in Columbus, Georgia.
