30 Notable alumni of
Concordia College at Moorhead
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Concordia College at Moorhead is 1960th in the world, 677th in North America, and 637th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 notable alumni from Concordia College at Moorhead sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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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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Clint Hill
- Occupations
- bodyguardintelligence agentU.S. Secret Service agent
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Clinton J. Hill is a former U.S. Secret Service agent who served under five United States presidents, from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Gerald Ford. Hill is best known for his act of bravery on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. During the assassination, Hill ran into the line of fire from the Secret Service followup car, leaped onto the back of the presidential car, and shielded the stricken president and the First Lady with his own body as the car raced to Parkland Memorial Hospital. His act is documented in film footage by Abraham Zapruder. Since the death of Nellie Connally in 2006, Hill is the last surviving person who was inside the presidential limousine that day.
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Don Gaetz
- Enrolled in Concordia College at Moorhead
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in religion and political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Donald Jay Gaetz is an American businessman and Republican politician who has been a member of the Florida State Senate since 2024, representing parts of Northwest Florida. He previously served from 2006 to 2016 and was Senate president from 2012 to 2014.
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Kevin Cramer
- Enrolled in Concordia College at Moorhead
- In 1983 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin John Cramer is an American politician who has served as the junior United States senator for North Dakota since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he represented North Dakota's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.
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David Joerger
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
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David Joerger is an American professional basketball coach who is an assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the head coach of the Dakota Wizards from 2000 to 2004 and in 2006–2007 in the International Basketball Association, Continental Basketball Association, and the NBA Development League, winning championships in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2007. He also coached the Sioux Falls Skyforce from 2004 to 2006, winning a championship in 2005. In the NBA, Joerger served as head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies from 2013 to 2016, and Sacramento Kings from 2016 to 2019.
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Roxana Saberi
- Occupations
- screenwriterjournalistbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Roxana Saberi is an American journalist who works as a correspondent for CBS News. In 2009, she was held prisoner in Iran's Evin Prison for 101 days under accusations of espionage. She subsequently wrote a book about the experience.
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Marcus Borg
- Occupations
- theologianwriterbiblical scholarprofessor
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Marcus Joel Borg was an American New Testament scholar and theologian. He was among the most widely known and influential voices in Liberal Christianity. Borg was a fellow of the Jesus Seminar and a major figure in historical Jesus scholarship. He retired as Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University in 2007. He died eight years later at the age of 72, of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Powell Butte, Oregon.
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Jeff Johnson
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- lawyerpolitician
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Jeff Johnson is an American politician. He was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2000 and served there from 2001 to 2007. Johnson left the legislature to run for state attorney general in 2006, but was defeated. Johnson served as a Hennepin County commissioner for the 7th district from 2009 to 2021. He was elected as the Republican National Committeeman from Minnesota in April 2011. Johnson was the Republican nominee for governor of Minnesota in 2014, losing to incumbent Democrat Mark Dayton, and again in 2018, losing to the Democratic nominee, U.S. Representative Tim Walz.
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Gary Larsen
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Gary Larsen is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL).
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Karan Armstrong
- Occupations
- opera singermusician
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Karan Armstrong was an American operatic soprano, who was celebrated as a singing actress. After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1966, she was given small roles at the Metropolitan Opera, and appeared in leading roles at the New York City Opera from 1969, including Conceptión in Ravel's L'heure espagnol, Blonde in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and the title roles in Verdi's La traviata, Offenbach's La belle Hélène and Puccini's La fanciulla del West. After she performed in Europe from 1974, first as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, and then as a sensational Salome at the Opéra du Rhin, she enjoyed a career at major opera houses, appearing in several opera recordings and films. Armstrong was for decades a leading soprano at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where her husband Götz Friedrich was director. She appeared in world premieres, including Gottfried von Einem's Jesu Hochzeit, Luciano Berio's Un re in ascolto and York Höller's Der Meister und Margarita. She was awarded the title Kammersängerin twice.
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Chris Coste
- Occupations
- baseball player
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Christopher Robert Coste, is an American author, professional baseball coach, and former catcher who is currently the manager for the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks of the American Association of Professional Baseball. Coste first played in Major League Baseball (MLB) at age 33, after twelve seasons of independent and minor league baseball. He was an analyst on Pre Game Live and Post Game Live for the Philadelphia Phillies. He won the 2022 American Association of Professional Baseball championship with the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks.
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Amy Koch
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amy T. Koch is an American politician and a former majority leader of the Minnesota Senate, where she represented portions of Hennepin and Wright counties. Koch, the first female Senate majority leader in state history, is also a regular commentator for Minnesota local media.
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John R. Tunheim
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- lawyerjudge
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John Raymond Tunheim is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
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Coya Knutson
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Cornelia Genevive Gjesdal "Coya" Knutson was an American politician from the state of Minnesota. She served two terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives, from 1951 to 1955, before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 9th congressional district as a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL). She served two terms there, in the 84th and 85th Congresses, from January 3, 1955, to January 3, 1959.
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Einar Lunde
- Occupations
- journalistcorrespondentnews presenter
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Einar Lunde is a Norwegian news anchor.
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Adolph Murie
- Occupations
- zoologist
- Biography
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Adolph Murie, the first scientist to study wolves in their natural habitat, was a naturalist, author, and wildlife biologist who pioneered field research on wolves, bears, and other mammals and birds in Arctic and sub-Arctic Alaska. He was also instrumental in protecting wolves from eradication and in preserving the biological integrity of the Denali National Park and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In 1989 Professor John A. Murray of the English Department at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks received an NEH grant to inventory the extensive Adolph Murie written and slide archives at Rasmusson Library in the Arctic and Polar Collection. He wrote a forty-page report and biographical narrative of Adolph Murie, which remains unpublished but which is in his papers.
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George Halvorson
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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George Halvorson is a retired American healthcare executive who was CEO of Kaiser Permanente. He is the Chair and CEO of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding.
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Merrill Piepkorn
- Enrolled in Concordia College at Moorhead
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in theater arts
- Occupations
- entertainerpolitician
- Biography
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Merrill Piepkorn is an American entertainer and politician who has served in the North Dakota Senate from the 44th district since 2016. He is a member of the Democratic-NPL Party. He has also hosted radio shows on Prairie Public Radio and served as the public address announcer for the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks.
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Ole H. Olson
- Occupations
- farmerpolitician
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Ole H. Olson was the 16th lieutenant governor and 18th governor of North Dakota.
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Kent Eken
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bernhard Kent Eken is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represented District 4, which includes portions of Becker, Clay, and Norman counties in the northwestern part of the state.
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Cynthia L. Bauerly
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- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Cynthia L. Bauerly is an American civil servant who currently serves as the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Revenue. She was appointed commissioner in January 2015 after joining the department as deputy commissioner in the spring of 2014.
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Ernest Omar Wollan
- Occupations
- nuclear physicist
- Biography
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Ernest Omar Wollan was an American physicist who made major contributions in the fields of neutron scattering and health physics.
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Paul Anderson
- Occupations
- politician
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Paul T. Anderson is an American businessman, politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he represented District 44 in the western Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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Dan Fabian
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dan Fabian is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives for District 1A from 2015 to 2019 and as Minority Whip from 2019 to 2021. He represented all of Kittson, Roseau, and Marshall Counties, as well as portions of Pennington County in the northwestern part of Minnesota.
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Gabriel Hauge
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- bankereconomist
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Gabriel Hauge was a prominent American bank executive and economist. Hauge served as assistant to the president for economic affairs during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Samuel Gebru
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Samuel Gebru is an Ethiopian American activist and professor at Tufts University.
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Olaf Storaasli
- Occupations
- computer scientist
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Olaf O. Storaasli is a scientist & engineer who worked at NASA), Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Centrus Energy, & Synective Labs. At NASA, he led a hardware, software & applications teams to successfully develop one of NASA's first parallel computers, the finite element machine, & developed rapid matrix equation algorithms tailored for high-performance computers to harness FPGA & GPU accelerators to solve science & engineering applications. He was a graduate advisor & instructor at the University of Tennessee, George Washington University & Christopher Newport University.
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Alan Bjerga
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- 1973-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- journalist
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Alan Bjerga is an American journalist, author of the book Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest. He also covers global food policy for Bloomberg News and is a journalism instructor at Georgetown University, where in 2016 he received a department award for dedication to student learning. In 2010 he served as president of the National Press Club and was president of the North American Agricultural Journalists in 2010-2011.
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Sidney Rand
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Sidney Anders Rand was an American Lutheran minister, educator and college president. He served under the Carter administration as United States Ambassador to Norway from 1980 to 1981.
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Frank Felice
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Frank Felice is an American composer of contemporary classical music and associate professor of composition, theory, and electronic music in the Jordan College of Arts at Butler University.
