100 Notable alumni of
CUNY Queens College
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CUNY Queens College is 484th in the world, 188th in North America, and 174th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from CUNY Queens 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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Jon Favreau
- Occupations
- voice actorcharacter actortelevision produceractortelevision actor
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Jonathan Kolia Favreau is an American filmmaker and actor. As an actor, Favreau has appeared in films such as Rudy (1993), PCU (1994), Swingers (1996), Very Bad Things (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Replacements (2000), Daredevil (2003), The Break-Up (2006), Four Christmases (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), I Love You, Man (2009), People Like Us (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Chef (2014), and several films created by Marvel Studios.
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Adrien Brody
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- television actorfilm actoractorfilm producervoice actor
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Adrien Nicholas Brody is an American actor. He is best known for his appearances in independent film and for his portrayal of Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win in that category. He also became the second American male actor to win the César Award for Best Actor for the same film. He has starred in several other films and has received several other awards including nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Paul Simon
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- 1959-1963 studied English literature
- Occupations
- guitaristmusiciantelevision actorrecord produceractor
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Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter known both for his solo work and his collaboration with Art Garfunkel. He and his school friend Garfunkel, whom he met in 1956, came to prominence in the 1960s as Simon & Garfunkel. Their blend of folk and rock, including hits such as "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", "America" and "The Boxer", served as a soundtrack to the counterculture movement. Their final album before disbanding, Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970), is among the bestselling of all time. In his solo career, Simon explored genres including gospel, reggae and soul. His 1970s output, comprising Paul Simon (1972), There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), and Still Crazy After All These Years (1975), kept him in the public eye and drew acclaim, producing the hits "Mother and Child Reunion", "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard", and "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover". Simon reunited with Garfunkel for several tours and the 1981 Concert in Central Park.
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Jerry Seinfeld
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- stand-up comedian
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Jerome Allen Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. From 1989 to 1998, he played a semi-fictionalized version of himself in the sitcom Seinfeld, which he created and wrote with Larry David. The show aired on NBC from 1989 until 1998, becoming one of the most acclaimed and popular sitcoms of all time. As a stand-up comedian, Seinfeld specializes in observational comedy. In 2004, Comedy Central named him the 12th-greatest stand-up comedian of all time.
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Fran Drescher
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- screenwriterwritercharacter actorsingerfilm producer
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Francine Joy Drescher is an American actress, comedian, writer, activist, and trade union leader, currently serving as the national president of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). She is known for her role as Fran Fine in the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson.
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Carole King
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- musicianfilm actoractorcomposerpianist
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Carole King Klein is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. One of the most successful female songwriters of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005.
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Ray Romano
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- film actorscreenwritervoice actortelevision writeractor
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Raymond Albert Romano is an American stand-up comedian, actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Raymond "Ray" Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, for which he won three Primetime Emmy Awards (one as an actor and two as producer). He is also known for being the voice of Manny in Ice Age (2002), Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016). He has received several other awards including nominations for two Grammy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Barbara Bach
- Occupations
- fashion modelmodelfilm actoractor
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Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey is an American actress and former model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
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Dan Bongino
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- Secret Service agentradio personalitytelevision producerspecial agentpundit
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Daniel John Bongino is an American conservative political commentator, radio show host, author, and former law enforcement officer.
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Joy Behar
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- writercomedianchildren's writervoice actorteacher
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Josephine Victoria "Joy" Behar is an American comedian, television host, actress, and writer. She co-hosts the ABC daytime talk show The View, where she is the only original panelist still regularly appearing. She hosted The Joy Behar Show on HLN from 2009 to 2011 and Joy Behar: Say Anything! on Current TV, from 2012 until the channel switched formats in August 2013. Behar's latest weekly late-night talk show, Late Night Joy, aired on TLC in 2015. She also wrote The Great Gasbag: An A–Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World.
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Lou Pearlman
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- talent managercomposerimpresariorecord producer
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Louis Jay Pearlman was an American talent manager and scam artist. He was the person behind many successful 1990s boy bands, having formed and funded the Backstreet Boys. After their massive success, he then developed NSYNC.
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Peter Marc Jacobson
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- film actorfilm producerscreenwritertelevision produceractor
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Peter Marc Jacobson is an American television writer, director, producer, and actor. He is best known as the showrunner of the popular sitcom The Nanny, which he created and produced with his then-wife, Fran Drescher, who also starred in the series. He was often credited as Peter Marc in his early acting roles.
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Stanley Milgram
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- social psychologistuniversity teacherpsychologistsociologist
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Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiments on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.
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Gerry Goffin
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- singersongwriterlyricist
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Gerald Goffin was an American lyricist. Collaborating initially with his first wife, Carole King, he co-wrote many international pop hits of the early and mid-1960s, including the US No.1 hits "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", "Take Good Care of My Baby", "The Loco-Motion", and "Go Away Little Girl". It was later said of Goffin that his gift was "to find words that expressed what many young people were feeling but were unable to articulate."
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Hal Linden
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- film actorjazz musiciantelevision directortelevision actorstage actor
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Hal Linden is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician.
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Marvin Hamlisch
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- film score composersongwriterconductoractorcomposer
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Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor. He is one of few people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards, a feat dubbed the "EGOT". He and composer Richard Rodgers are the only people to have won those prizes and a Pulitzer Prize ("PEGOT").
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Michael Savage
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- radio personalitysocial workerpunditteacher
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Michael Alan Weiner, known by his professional name Michael Savage, is an American right-wing author, political commentator, activist, and former radio host. Savage is best known as the host of The Savage Nation, a nationally syndicated talk show that aired on Talk Radio Network across the United States until 2021, and in 2009 was the second most listened-to radio talk show in the country with an audience of over 20 million listeners on 400 stations across the United States. From October 23, 2012, to January 1, 2021, Michael Savage had been syndicated by Cumulus Media and Westwood One. He holds master's degrees from the University of Hawaii in medical botany and medical anthropology, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in nutritional ethnomedicine. As Michael Weiner, he has written books on nutrition, herbal medicine, and homeopathy; as Michael Savage, he has written several political books that have reached The New York Times Best Seller list. In 2022, The Michael Savage podcast surpassed 20 million downloads and a reach of 500,000 listeners per week. Savage maintains a large social media following with over 200,000 followers on both Twitter and Facebook.
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Bruce Kulick
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- Studied in 1972-1974
- Occupations
- songwriterguitarist
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Bruce Howard Kulick is an American guitarist best known as a former guitarist of the band Kiss (1984–1996). He was also a member of Union with John Corabi from 1997–2002, Blackjack from 1979–1980 and Grand Funk Railroad from 2000–2023.
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Jerry Lawson
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- businesspersoninventor
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Gerald Anderson Lawson was an American electronic engineer. He is known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console as well as leading the team that pioneered the commercial video game cartridge. He was thus dubbed the "father of the videogame cartridge" according to Black Enterprise magazine in 1982. He eventually left Fairchild and founded the game company Video-Soft.
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Joe Crowley
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- In 1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
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Joseph Crowley is a former American politician and consultant who served as U.S. Representative from New York's 14th congressional district from 1999 to 2019. He was defeated by Democratic primary challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in what was viewed as one of the biggest upsets of the 2018 midterm elections.
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Shaunette Renée Wilson
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- actorwriter
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Shaunette Renée Wilson is a Guyanese-born American actress. She is best known for four seasons in the role of Dr. Mina Okafor in the Amy Holden Jones-created Fox series The Resident. She appeared in Black Panther, Billions, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
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Richard Kline
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Richard Kline is an American actor and television director. His roles include Larry Dallas on the sitcom Three's Company, Richie in the later seasons of It's a Living and Jeff Beznick in Noah Knows Best.
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Robert Moog
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- inventormusical instrument makermusicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Robert Arthur Moog was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, which debuted in 1964. In 1970, Moog released a more portable model, the Minimoog, described as the most famous and influential synthesizer in history. Among Moog's honors are a Technical Grammy Award, received in 2002, and an induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Frank Kameny
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- LGBTQI+ rights activistastronomerpolitical activist
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Franklin Edward Kameny was an American gay rights activist. He has been referred to as "one of the most significant figures" in the American gay rights movement.
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Cara Santa Maria
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- biologistjournalistscience communicatorpodcasterneuroscientist
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Cara Louise Santa Maria is an American science communicator. She hosts the podcast Talk Nerdy and co-hosts The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast, and was a co-host of TechKnow on Al Jazeera America.
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Nestor Serrano
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Nestor Serrano is an American film and television actor. He is known for playing Navi Araz in the fourth season of 24. He also appeared as Emilio Loera in the fourth season of the Cinemax series Banshee.
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Andrew Goodman
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- politician
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Andrew Goodman was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. Goodman and two fellow activists, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were volunteers for the Freedom Summer campaign that sought to register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi and to set up Freedom Schools for black Southerners.
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Adriano Espaillat
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- In 1978 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- directorpolitician
- Biography
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Adriano de Jesús Espaillat Rodríguez is a Dominican-American politician. He is the U.S. representative for New York's 13th congressional district and the first Dominican American and first formerly Undocumented immigrant to serve in Congress. He previously served in the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly.
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Nikos Christodoulidis
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- Graduated with Bachelor's degree in byzantine studies in economics, political science, Byzantine studies, and Modern Greek Studies
- Occupations
- diplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
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Nikos Christodoulides is a Cypriot politician, former diplomat and academic, and the 8th and current President of Cyprus. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022 and Spokesman of the Government from 2014 to 2018, under President Nicos Anastasiades.
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Danny Burstein
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- television actorstage actorsingeractorvoice actor
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Danny Burstein is an American actor and singer. Known for his work on the Broadway stage, he's received numerous accolades including a Tony Award, two Drama Desk Awards and nominations for three Grammy Awards.
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Corky Lee
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- photographer
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Young Corky Lee was a Chinese-American activist, community organizer, photographer, journalist, and the self-proclaimed unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate. He called himself an "ABC from NYC... wielding a camera to slay injustices against APAs." His work chronicled and explored the diversity and nuances of Asian American culture often ignored and overlooked by mainstream media, striving to make Asian American history a part of American history.
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Jason Katims
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- film directorexecutive producertelevision directorplaywrightscreenwriter
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Jason Katims is an American television writer, producer, and playwright. He is best known as the creator of several television series, including Relativity (1996), Roswell (1999–2002), Friday Night Lights (2006–2011), Parenthood (2010–2015), About a Boy (2014–2015) and Rise (2018).
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Robert Axelrod
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- film actorvoice actortelevision actor
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Robert Axelrod, also credited as Axel Roberts and Myron Mensah, was an American actor. He was primarily known for his voice work, which included Digimon, having started voice acting for the English-language versions of anime in 1980; providing the voice of Lord Zedd, the main villain of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; and Finster, the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers monster maker. He also portrayed a sympathetic doctor, Jennings, in The Blob. He also portrayed a Paul McCartney look-alike on the popular sitcom Family Matters, and later in his career appeared in several productions by comedy duo Tim & Eric.
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Russell Targ
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- writerphysicist
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Russell Targ is an American physicist, parapsychologist, and author who is best known for his work on remote viewing.
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Iris Marion Young
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- philosopherwomen's rights activistuniversity teacherpolitical scientist
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Iris Marion Young was an American political theorist and socialist feminist who focused on the nature of justice and social difference. She served as Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and was affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program there. Her research covered contemporary political theory, feminist social theory, and normative analysis of public policy. She believed in the importance of political activism and encouraged her students to involve themselves in their communities.
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Jacob M. Appel
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- writermedical writerjournalistpsychiatristuniversity teacher
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Jacob M. Appel is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics, and euthanasia. Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and a professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl.
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Marie Maynard Daly
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in chemistry
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Marie Maynard Daly was an American biochemist. She was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Columbia University and the first African-American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. Daly made important contributions in four areas of research: the chemistry of histones, protein synthesis, the relationships between cholesterol and hypertension, and creatine's uptake by muscle cells.
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Nasser Khalili
- Occupations
- entrepreneurphilanthropistbusinesspersonart collectorart historian
- Biography
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Sir Nasser David Khalili KCSS PhD is a British-Iranian scholar, collector, and philanthropist based in London. Born in Iran and educated at Queens College, City University of New York and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, he is a naturalised British citizen.
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Occupations
- political scientistresearcher
- Biography
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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Nicholas Rescher
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- In 1949 studied mathematics
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Nicholas Rescher was a German-born American philosopher, polymath, and author, who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh from 1961. He was chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science and chairman of the philosophy department.
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Dov Hikind
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dov Hikind is an American politician, activist, and radio talk show host in the state of New York. Hikind served as a Democratic New York State Assemblyman representing Brooklyn's Assembly district 48 for 35 years – from January 1983 until December 2018.
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Howie Rose
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Howard Jeffrey Rose is an American sportscaster. He is currently a radio broadcaster for the New York Mets on WCBS. Previously, Rose called play-by-play for the New York Rangers and New York Islanders.
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Gary Ackerman
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianbusiness executiveteacher
- Biography
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Gary Leonard Ackerman is an American retired politician and former U.S. Representative from New York, serving from 1983 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. On March 15, 2012, Ackerman announced that he would retire at the end of the 112th Congress on January 3, 2013, after fifteen terms, and would not seek re-election in November 2012.
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Jose Peralta
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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José Rafael Peralta was an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate. A member of the Democratic Party, he last represented District 13 in the State Senate, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and Woodside. He previously represented District 39 in the New York State Assembly, which is located in Queens, New York and includes Corona, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights. He was elected to the New York State Senate in a landslide on March 16, 2010. Peralta was a member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of Democratic senators who allied themselves with Senate Republicans. He was re-elected in 2012, 2014 and 2016, but was defeated in the 2018 Democratic primary.
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Flowsik
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Jay Pak, more commonly known by his stage name, Flowsik, is a Korean–American rapper and singer. He debuted in 2011 as a member of the hip-hop trio Aziatix. He released his first solo single, "The Calling," in 2015 and was a contestant on the South Korean rap competition TV show Show Me the Money 5 in 2016.
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Joel Benenson
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Joel Benenson is an American pollster and consultant known for his role as a strategist for Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. He was the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
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Jeffrey Klein
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jeffrey David Klein is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. He represented the New York State Senate's 34th District, serving parts of Bronx and Westchester Counties from 2005 to 2018. Klein also served as Deputy Democratic Conference Leader.
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Reri Grist
- Occupations
- university teacheropera singermusician
- Biography
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Reri Grist is an American coloratura soprano, one of the pioneer African-American singers to enjoy a major international career in opera.
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David A. Adler
- Occupations
- children's writerwriterteacher
- Biography
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David Abraham Adler is an American writer of 265 books for children and young adults, most notably the Cam Jansen mystery series, the "Picture Book of..." series, and several acclaimed works about the Holocaust for young readers.
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Susan Isaacs
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- novelistwriterscreenwriter
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Susan Isaacs is an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. She adapted her debut novel into the film Compromising Positions.
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Michael Wildes
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Michael Jay Wildes is an American immigration lawyer and politician who serves as the 38th and current Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. He previously served as the 36th Mayor of Englewood from 2004 to 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Wildes served as a Federal Prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York and as a City Councilman for Englewood before he was elected mayor in 2003. He was reelected in 2006 and again in 2018. A nationally recognized authority on American immigration law, Wildes has had success in defending the immigration rights of his clients, some of whom are celebrities. Wildes is the managing partner of the law firm Wildes and Weinberg PC. He also serves as immigration counsel to Davidoff Hutcher and Citron LLP, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
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Norm Roberts
- Occupations
- basketball coachhead coach
- Biography
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Norman Roberts is a men's college basketball coach who is an assistant coach at the University of Kansas. He also is the former head coach at St. John's University.
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Jonny Podell
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United States - Occupations
- talent agent
- Biography
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Jonny Podell is an American music agent and owner of the Podell Talent Agency in New York.
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Michèle Pierre-Louis
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis is a Haitian politician who was Prime Minister of Haiti from September 2008 to November 2009. She was Haiti's second female Prime Minister, after Claudette Werleigh, who served from 1995 to 1996.
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Blaise Ingoglia
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Blaise Ingoglia is an American politician who currently serves as a member of the Florida Senate, representing the 11th district, since 2022. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2014 to 2022 in the 35th district, as well as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida from 2015 to 2019.
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Arturo Casadevall
- Occupations
- researcherbotanist
- Biography
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Arturo Casadevall is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease research, with a focus on fungal and bacterial pathogenesis and basic immunology of antibody structure-function. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
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Robert Holden
- Occupations
- graphic designer
- Biography
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Robert F. Holden is an American professor, graphic designer, and the New York City Council member for the 30th district, representing the neighborhoods of Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood, and parts of Woodside and Woodhaven in the borough of Queens.
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Donna Orender
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Donna Geils Orender is a sports executive and a former collegiate and professional basketball player. She was formerly president of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and senior vice president of the PGA. Currently, Orender is the founder and CEO of Orender Unlimited, a Jacksonville, FL based advisory and consultancy firm. She travels the world as a motivational speaker and advocating for the empowerment of women and young girls through her non-profit organization Generation W.
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Felice Picano
- Occupations
- novelistwriterpublisher
- Biography
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Felice Picano is an American writer, publisher, and critic who has encouraged the development of gay literature in the United States. His work is documented in many sources.
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Rafael Espinal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rafael L. Espinal Jr. is an American politician and non-profit executive. A Democrat, he represented the 37th district of the New York City Council, which includes portions of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, and East New York in Brooklyn.
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Charlie Harary
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- motivational speaker
- Biography
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Charles Harary is an American investor, strategic adviser and professor who has gained fame as a motivational speaker, radio show host, and television personality. He is an Orthodox Jew.
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Jeffrey White
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Steven White is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Gil Dor
- Occupations
- guitaristcomposer
- Biography
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Gil Dor is an Israeli guitar player mostly known for his long term collaboration as an accompanist, arranger, producer and co-composer with international concert and recording artist Achinoam Nini, also known as Noa.
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Gregory Kelley
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gregory Kelley is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Jacques-Cartier as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.
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Elizabeth F. Neufeld
- Occupations
- biochemistuniversity teachergeneticist
- Biography
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Elizabeth Fondal Neufeld is a French-American geneticist whose research has focused on the genetic basis of metabolic disease in humans.
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Costa Constantinides
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Costa Constantinides is an American politician and attorney who served as a member of the New York City Council from the 22nd district. The district includes Astoria, East Elmhurst, part of Long Island City, Rikers Island and part of Woodside in Queens.
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Helen Marshall
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Helen Marie Marshall was an American politician from New York City. She was Borough President of Queens from 2002 - 2013. She was also the first African-American Borough President of Queens.
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Richard A. Muller
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Richard A. Muller is an American historical theologian.
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Ester Fuchs
- Biography
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Ester Rachel Fuchs is an American academic. She is Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Fuchs studied at Queens College, CUNY, Brown University, and the University of Chicago.
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Elliot Sperling
- Occupations
- tibetologistuniversity teachertranslatorhuman rights activisthistorian
- Biography
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Elliot Sperling was one of the world's leading historians of Tibet and Tibetan-Chinese relations, and a MacArthur Fellow. He spent most of his scholarly career as an associate professor at Indiana University's Department of Central Eurasian Studies, with seven years as the department's chair.
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Rory Lancman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rory Lancman is an American politician and former member of the New York City Council, representing the 24th district from 2014 until 2020. He is a Democrat.
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Wolfgang Zuckermann
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- In 1949 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in psychology
- Occupations
- businesspersonwritermusical instrument maker
- Biography
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Wolfgang Joachim Zuckermann was a German-born American harpsichord maker and writer. He was known for inventing a highly popular kit for constructing new instruments and wrote an influential book, The Modern Harpsichord. As a social activist, he authored books including The Mews of London and The End of the Road.
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Deborah Glick
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Deborah J. Glick is a member of the New York State Assembly representing the 66th Assembly District in Lower Manhattan, including the neighborhoods of Alphabet City, Greenwich Village, Noho, SoHo, the East Village, the West Village, Tribeca, and Battery Park City. She is a Democrat.
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James Vacca
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Vacca is an American politician who served in the New York City Council from the 13th district from 2006 to 2017. He is a Democrat.
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Annette Insdorf
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Annette Insdorf is an American film historian, author and interviewer, who is host of Reel Pieces.
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Philip Ewell
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- music theoristmusicologistcellistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Philip Adrian Ewell is an American professor of music theory at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He specializes in Russian and twentieth century music, as well as rap and hip hop.
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Alexander L. Wolf
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Alexander L. Wolf is an American computer scientist known for his research in software engineering, distributed systems, and computer networking. He is credited, along with his collaborators, with introducing the modern study of software architecture, content-based publish/subscribe messaging, content-based networking, automated process discovery, and the software deployment lifecycle. Wolf's 1985 Ph.D. dissertation developed language features for expressing a module's import/export specifications and the notion of multiple interfaces for a type, both of which are now common in modern computer programming languages.
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Marilyn Singer
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Marilyn Singer is an author of children's books in a wide variety of genres, including fiction and non-fiction picture books, juvenile novels and mysteries, young adult fantasies, and poetry.
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Tito Muñoz
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Tito Arturo Muñoz is an American conductor. He is currently music director of The Phoenix Symphony. He was previously music director of the Opéra national de Lorraine and Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy in Nancy, France, and Ensemble LPR in New York City, as well as Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
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Holly-Jane Rahlens
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- Studied theatre studies and literary studies
- Occupations
- writeractordirectorjournalistradio playwright
- Biography
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Holly-Jane Rahlens is an American writer, journalist and entertainer living in Berlin, Germany. She is best known for her personal essays that were broadcast on German radio in the 1990s and performed for the stage, her “future fiction” novel Infinitissimo, written in English, but first published in German as Everlasting — Der Mann, der aus der Zeit fiel, and her award-winning coming-of-age novel, Prince William, Maximilian Minsky and Me, about a young Jewish girl living in today's Berlin.
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David De Silva
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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David De Silva is an American film writer and producer, best known for the 1980 MGM movie Fame. De Silva retained the stage rights to the film, and, conceived and developed Fame - The Musical, which has since been produced in many countries around the world, leading De Silva to be known as "Father Fame", and launching a foundation called the Father Fame Foundation to promote theatre arts.
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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
- Occupations
- professorhistorian
- Biography
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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn was an American professor of history and author. Terborg-Penn specialized in African-American history and black women's history. Her book African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850–1920 was a ground-breaking work that recovered the histories of black women in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was a faculty member of Morgan State University.
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Darren Barrett
- Occupations
- jazz musicianpianist
- Biography
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Darren Barrett is a Canadian jazz musician who won the 1997 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, and is a professor at Berklee College of Music.
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Babette Josephs
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Babette Josephs was a Democratic politician and attorney, who served 28 years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Josephs was first elected in 1984, representing the 182nd Legislative District, which encompasses Center City and South Philadelphia. She held office through November 30, 2012. Josephs served as the Democratic chair of the House State Government Committee from 2001 to 2012. She was the senior woman in the General Assembly and convener of the Women's Caucus. In her role as state representative, she was an unabashed champion of progressive causes. Josephs was one of a few members of the Democratic Socialists of America to be elected to public office at the time.
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Bobby Susser
- Years
- 1942-2020 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- singer-songwritercomposersongwriterrecord producer
- Biography
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Bobby Susser, and also known as Bob Susser, was an American songwriter, record producer, and performer, best known for his young children's music. Among some of his several honors, he is the recipient of the "Distinguished Alumni Award" for his life's work, awarded from Teachers College, Columbia University. Susser has sold over 5 million children's albums.
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Lloyd Schwartz
- Occupations
- poetjournalist
- Biography
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Lloyd Schwartz is an American poet, and the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was the classical music editor of The Boston Phoenix, a publication that is now defunct. He is Poet Laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts (2019-2021), Senior Music Editor at New York Arts and the Berkshire Review for the Arts, and a regular commentator for NPR's Fresh Air.
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John Mateer
- Occupations
- writersongwriterfilmmakersingermusician
- Biography
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John Thomas Mateer, also known as Johnny Saint Marks, is an American musician, filmmaker, and entertainment entrepreneur. He grew up in Wantagh, New York. Mateer was an early-era content creator on YouTube in the late 2000s, and his first media appearances resulted from the viral content that he created on the platform. Shifting his focus towards music at the beginning of the 2010s, Mateer released his first extended play, Love is Not a Lifestyle, in the summer of 2011. Mateer's entrepreneurial endeavors include the founding and operation of the post-production company, RIOT MOTION LLC and the nonprofit organization, Empathy Always Corp, which provides relief to victims of narcissistic abuse. Mateer also writes screenplays and poetry, his first published collection of poetry, The Flight of a Monarch: Poetry From Young Adulthood, was released in spring 2023.
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Daisy Cocco De Filippis
- Occupations
- literary criticacademicwriterchancellor
- Biography
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Daisy Cocco DeFilippis is a Dominican-American academic administrator and author. She is the current president at Hostos Community College in The Bronx, making her the first person born in the Dominican Republic to serve as President of a college of the City University of New York. From 2008 to 1 August 2020 she was president of Naugatuck Valley Community College (NVCC) in Waterbury, Connecticut. She is the author of works of fiction and non-fiction dealing with Dominican and Dominican-American women.
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Merle Hoffman
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- publisher
- Biography
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Merle Hoffman is an American journalist and activist.
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Mark M. Goldblatt
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Mark Meyer Goldblatt is an American journalist, novelist, theologian and educator. He attended Queens College of the City University of New York from 1974-1979, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English. After brief stints as a proofreader and copyeditor, he enrolled in the CUNY Graduate Center in 1983 and was awarded a doctorate in English literature in 1990, writing his dissertation on the theological underpinning of the Protestant Reformation in England.
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John Sitilides
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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John Sitilides is a Washington, D.C. geopolitical strategist and diplomacy consultant to the U.S. Department of State.
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Joseph Zinker
- Years
- 1934-.. (age 90)
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Joseph Chaim Zinker is a therapist who has contributed to the growth and development of Gestalt theory and also Gestalt methodology. He co-founded the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.
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Helen W. Gillmor
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Helen W. Gillmor is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.
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Perri Pierre
- Occupations
- filmmakeractor
- Biography
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Perri Pierre is an American filmmaker and actor of Haitian descent.
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Mel Alexenberg
- Occupations
- university teacherartist
- Biography
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Mel Alexenberg is an American-Israeli artist, art educator, and writer recognized for his pioneering work exploring the intersections of art, science, technology and digital culture. He created the first digital computer generated painting in 1965, experimental digital fine art prints in the 1980s that are in 30 museum collections worldwide, circumglobal cyberangel flights honoring Rembrandt in 1989 and in 2019.
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Elaine Barkin
- Occupations
- music teachermusicographercomposer
- Biography
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Elaine "Ray" Barkin was an American composer, writer, and educator.
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Leo M. Chalupa
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Leo M. Chalupa is a Ukrainian-American Neuropsychologist who was Vice President for Research and is Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at George Washington University. He was previously a Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology at the University of California, Davis and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior where he also served as the Director of the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Interim Dean of the College of Biological Sciences.
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Peter Calandra
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Peter Calandra is a New York City-based composer and pianist. He is known for his work composing music for television and film as well as conducting and playing piano in Broadway and Off Broadway productions. The former includes the FIFA Men's and FIFA Women's World Cup themes for FOX Sports and, starting 2015, the themes for the Special Olympics World Games and Invictus Games for ESPN, in film, 13th Child, Unknown Soldier (2004), Jellysmoke (2005), and BearCity 2: The Proposal (2012). He has also composed the music for the Kennedy Center Honors.
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Lisa Gutkin
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- composerviolinist
- Biography
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Lisa Gutkin is an American violinist, singer and songwriter of The Klezmatics. She played in Sting's The Last Ship, had a cameo appearance in “Sex and the City,” and is a MacDowell Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Lisa appears on hundreds of recordings including From Here On In, a CD of her original songs produced by John Lissauer, and Play Klezmer Fiddle!, an instructional DVD. She has co-authored songs with Woody Guthrie, Anne Sexton, and Maggie Dubris, and composed for symphony orchestra, dance, and film. She is the Co-Music Director and Co-Composer for the Broadway show "Indecent " which won 2 Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play and Best Lighting Design of a Play in 2017.
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Edward John Ray
- Enrolled in CUNY Queens College
- 1962-1966 graduated with bachelor's degree in mathematics
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Edward John Ray is an American economist who became the 14th president of Oregon State University on July 31, 2003. Prior to joining Oregon State, Ray was executive vice president and provost of Ohio State University for the previous six years. At OSU, Ray earned $648,648 for his position as president and $17,550 for his position as professor in the School of Public Policy, for a gross salary of $666,198. He also serves as chairman of the NCAA's Executive Committee.
