100 Notable alumni of
DePaul University
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DePaul University is 315th in the world, 136th in North America, and 129th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from DePaul 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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Gillian Anderson
- Enrolled in DePaul University
- 1986-1990 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm actoractorfilm directorstage actor
- Biography
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Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series The X-Files, ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film The House of Mirth (2000), DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall, sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy drama Sex Education, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama series The Crown. Among other honors, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Judy Greer
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actoractorfilm directorstage actor
- Biography
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Judith Therese Evans, known professionally as Judy Greer, is an American actress. She is primarily known as a character actress who has appeared in a wide variety of films. She rose to prominence for her supporting roles in the films Jawbreaker (1999), What Women Want (2000), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Elizabethtown (2005), 27 Dresses (2008), and Love & Other Drugs (2010).
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Stana Katic
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Stana Katic is a Canadian actress and producer. She played Kate Beckett on the ABC television romantic crime series Castle (2009–2016) and FBI Special Agent Emily Byrne in the psychological thriller series Absentia (2017–2020).
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Joe Keery
- Occupations
- film actormusiciantelevision actor
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Joseph David Keery is an American actor and musician. He became known for playing Steve Harrington in the science fiction series Stranger Things (2016–present), and has since starred in the comedy film Free Guy (2021) and in the fifth season of the crime drama series Fargo (2023–2024).
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Michael Rooker
- Occupations
- television actorkaratekafilm actoractorfilm producer
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Michael Rooker is an American actor who first rose to prominence for portraying Henry in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986). Rooker is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), followed by its sequels Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). He is a recurring collaborator of Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, appearing in his films Slither (2006), Super (2010) and The Suicide Squad (2021).
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John C. Reilly
- Occupations
- voice actorstage actortelevision actorscreenwritercharacter actor
- Biography
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John Christopher Reilly is an American actor. He is known as a character actor taking leading and supporting roles in independent drama films and studio comedies. He gained exposure through his supporting roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's films Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002) and The Aviator (2004). Reilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award for his role in the musical film Chicago (2002). Reilly's other notable films include The River Wild (1994), The Thin Red Line (1998), and The Hours (2002).
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Linda Hunt
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
- Biography
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Lydia Susanna "Linda" Hunt is an American actress of stage and screen. She made her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980). Hunt's portrayal of the male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first person to win an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex. Hunt has also appeared in films such as Dune (1984), Silverado (1985), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Pocahontas (1995), Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998), and Stranger Than Fiction (2006).
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John Barrowman
- Occupations
- television producernovelistchildren's writertelevision actordancer
- Biography
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John Scot Barrowman is a Scottish-American actor, author, presenter, singer and comic book writer. He is known for his roles as Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who (2005-10; 2020-21) and spin-off Torchwood, (2006-11) and as Malcolm Merlyn in the Arrowverse (2012-19).
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Sean Gunn
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Sean Gunn is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kirk Gleason on The WB series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007), and Kraglin Obfonteri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In this role, he has been in the films Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), as well as the animated series What If...? and television film The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022). He also played Weasel and Calendar Man in the Warner Bros./DCEU film The Suicide Squad (2021). He is the younger brother of director James Gunn and often appears in his films.
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Pete Wentz
- Occupations
- bass guitaristsongwriterlyricistmusician
- Biography
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Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III is an American musician who is the bassist and lyricist for the rock band Fall Out Boy. Before the band's formation in 2001, Wentz was a fixture of the Chicago hardcore scene and was the lead singer and songwriter for Arma Angelus, a metalcore band. During Fall Out Boy's hiatus from 2009 to 2012, Wentz formed the experimental, electropop and dubstep group Black Cards. He owns a record label, DCD2 Records, which has signed bands including Panic! at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes.
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Elizabeth Perkins
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
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Elizabeth Ann Perkins is an American actress. She is known for her roles in films including About Last Night (1986), Big (1988), Avalon (1990), and He Said, She Said (1991), The Flintstones (1994), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and her brief voice role as Coral in the Disney/Pixar animated film Finding Nemo (2003). She is also well known for her role as Celia Hodes in the Showtime TV series Weeds, for which she received three Primetime Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations.
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Lauren Lapkus
- Occupations
- television actorpodcasterfilm actoractorcomedian
- Biography
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Dorthea Lauren Allegra Lapkus is an American actress and comedian, known for portraying Susan Fischer in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2014, 2019) and Jess in the HBO comedy-drama series Crashing (2017–2019). She has also appeared in the television series Are You There, Chelsea? (2012), Hot in Cleveland (2012), Clipped (2015), The Big Bang Theory (2018–2019), and Good Girls (2020–2021) and in the films Jurassic World (2015), The Unicorn (2018), and The Wrong Missy (2020). She played the voice role of Lotta in the animated comedy series Harvey Girls Forever! (2018–2020).
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Lili Taylor
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Lili Anne Taylor is an American actress. She came to prominence with supporting parts in the films Mystic Pizza (1988) and Say Anything... (1989), before establishing herself as one of the key figures of 1990s independent cinema through starring roles in Bright Angel (1990), Dogfight (1991), Household Saints, Short Cuts (both 1993), The Addiction (1995), I Shot Andy Warhol, Girls Town (both 1996), Pecker (1998), and A Slipping-Down Life (1999). Taylor is the recipient of four Independent Spirit nominations, winning once in the category of Best Supporting Female. Her other accolades include one Golden Globe Award and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
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David Dastmalchian
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorscreenwriterfilm actorfilm producer
- Biography
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David Dastmalchian is an American film, television, and stage actor. He has had supporting roles in a number of superhero franchises; he portrayed Thomas Schiff in The Dark Knight (2008), Kurt and Veb in the Ant-Man franchise, Abra Kadabra in The CW's The Flash, and Polka-Dot Man in The Suicide Squad (2021). He has also appeared in three of Denis Villeneuve's films: Prisoners (2013), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and Dune (2021). Dastmalchian wrote and starred in the semi-autobiographical film Animals (2014). He had a supporting role in The Boogeyman and portrayed William Borden in Oppenheimer.
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Ray Manzarek
- Occupations
- record producercomposerkeyboardistdirectorsinger
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Raymond Daniel Manzarek Jr. was an American keyboardist. He is best known as a member of the rock band the Doors, co-founding the group in 1965 with fellow UCLA Film School student Jim Morrison. Manzarek is credited for his innovative playing and abilities on organ-style keyboard instruments.
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Ann Dowd
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Ann Dowd is an American actress. She has appeared in numerous films, including Green Card (1990), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Philadelphia (1993), Garden State (2004), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Marley & Me (2008), Compliance (2012), Side Effects (2013), St. Vincent (2014), Captain Fantastic (2016), Hereditary (2018), and Mass (2021). For Compliance, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. For Mass, she earned nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Critics' Choice Award.
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Karl Malden
- Occupations
- film directorstage actortelevision actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Karl Malden was an American stage, movie and television actor who first achieved acclaim in the original Broadway productions of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in 1946-7. Recreating the role of Mitch in the 1951 film of Streetcar, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Harvey Korman
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorcomedianstage actorvoice actor
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Harvey Herschel Korman was an American actor and comedian who performed in television and film productions. He is best remembered as a main cast member alongside Carol Burnett, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence on the CBS sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1977) for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
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Tom Bosley
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
- Biography
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Thomas Edward Bosley was an American actor, television personality and entertainer. Bosley is best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the ABC sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984) for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nomination. Bosley also did a variety of voiceover work such as playing the lead character in the animated series Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, and the narrator of the syndicated film history documentary series That's Hollywood. He's also known for his role as Sheriff Amos Tupper in the Angela Lansbury lead CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1988), and as the title character in the NBC/ABC series Father Dowling Mysteries (1989–1991).
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Geraldine Page
- Occupations
- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Geraldine Sue Page was an American actress. With a career which spanned four decades across film, stage, and television, Page was the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four nominations for the Tony Award.
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Philip Kotler
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teachereconomistbusinesspersonmathematician
- Biography
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Philip Kotler is an American marketing author, consultant, and professor emeritus; the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (1962–2018). He is known for popularizing the definition of marketing mix. He is the author of over 80 books, including Marketing Management, Principles of Marketing, Kotler on Marketing, Marketing Insights from A to Z, Marketing 4.0, Marketing Places, Marketing of Nations, Chaotics, Market Your Way to Growth, Winning Global Markets, Strategic Marketing for Health Care Organizations, Social Marketing, Social Media Marketing, My Adventures in Marketing, Up and Out of Poverty, and Winning at Innovation. Kotler describes strategic marketing as serving as "the link between society's needs and its pattern of industrial response."
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Ashton Sanders
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Ashton Durrand Sanders is an American actor best known for his portrayal of teenage Chiron in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight (2016).
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George Mikan
- Occupations
- basketball coachlawyerbasketball player
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George Lawrence Mikan Jr., nicknamed "Mr. Basketball", was an American professional basketball player for the Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League (NBL) and the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBL, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). Invariably playing with thick, round spectacles, the 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), 245 lb (111 kg) Mikan was one of the pioneers of professional basketball. Through his size and play, he redefined basketball as a game dominated in his day by "big men". His prolific rebounding, shot blocking, and ability to shoot over smaller defenders with his ambidextrous hook shot all helped to change the game. He also utilized the underhanded free-throw shooting technique long before Rick Barry made it his signature shot.
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Jerry Sloan
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Gerald Eugene Sloan was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) before beginning a 30-year coaching career, 23 of which were spent as head coach of the Utah Jazz (1988–2011). NBA commissioner David Stern referred to Sloan as "one of the greatest and most respected coaches in NBA history". Sloan was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Richard Gilliland
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Richard Gilliland was an American television and movie actor, best known as JD Shackleford in Designing Women (1986–1992).
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Gloria Foster
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Gloria Foster was an American actress. She had acclaimed roles in plays In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career. Foster played the Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003) films, the latter film being her last. Foster played the role of the mother of Yusef Bell in the miniseries The Atlanta Child Murders which aired in 1985.
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W. Earl Brown
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorstage actor
- Biography
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William Earl Brown is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, musician, and songwriter. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Kenny, the cameraman in the film Scream (1996), Warren in the film There's Something About Mary (1998), Dan Dority on the HBO series Deadwood (2004–2006), and the voice and motion capture of Bill in the video game The Last of Us (2013). He has appeared in films such as Backdraft, The Master, Being John Malkovich, The Sessions, Vanilla Sky, The Lone Ranger, and Bloodworth (which he also wrote and produced), as well as series such as Seinfeld, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, The X-Files, Six Feet Under, Preacher, Bates Motel, True Detective, American Horror Story, Chicago Fire, Psych, and The Mandalorian.
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Betsy Palmer
- Occupations
- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Betsy Palmer was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing the antagonist and mother of Jason Voorhees, Pamela Voorhees, in the first Friday the 13th film (1980).
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Lila Downsgil
- Occupations
- singer-songwriteropera singerfilm actoractorrecording artist
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Ana Lila Downs Sánchez is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions and the works of others in multiple genres, as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music. She also incorporates indigenous Mexican influences and has recorded songs in many indigenous languages such as Mixtec, Zapotec, Mayan, Nahuatl and Purépecha. Born and raised in Oaxaca, she primarily studied at the Institute of Arts by Oaxaca and briefly attended the University of Minnesota, before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She soon began performing in the traditional music scene of Oaxaca City.
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Monique Coleman
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractorsinger
- Biography
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Adrienne Monique Coleman is an American actress and dancer. She is best known for her role as Taylor McKessie in the High School Musical movies.
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Richard M. Daley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Michael Daley is an American politician who served as the 54th mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1989 to 2011. Daley was elected mayor in 1989 and was reelected five times until declining to run for a seventh term. At 22 years, his was the longest tenure in Chicago mayoral history, surpassing the 21-year mayoralty of his father, Richard J. Daley.
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Adrian Zmed
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actorsinger
- Biography
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Adrian George Zmed is an American actor, singer and television personality, noted for the roles of Johnny Nogerelli in Grease 2 and Officer Vince Romano in the T.J. Hooker television series.
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Dana DeLorenzo
- Occupations
- television actorstage actor
- Biography
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Dana DeLorenzo is an American actress and former radio personality and producer. She is best known for her starring role as Kelly Maxwell in the Starz horror-comedy series Ash vs Evil Dead.
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P. J. Byrne
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- television actorvoice actorfilm actoractor
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Paul Jeffrey Byrne is an American film and television actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Nicky "Rugrat" Koskoff in the Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and Bolin on Nickelodeon's animated series The Legend of Korra (2012–2014).
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Richard J. Daley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Joseph Daley was an American politician who served as the mayor of Chicago from 1955, and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953, until his death. He has been called "the last of the big city bosses" who controlled and mobilized American cities. Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working-class, heavily Irish American South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport, where he lived his entire life. He was the patriarch of the Daley family, whose members include Richard M. Daley, another former mayor of Chicago; William M. Daley, a former United States Secretary of Commerce; John P. Daley, a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners; and Patrick Daley Thompson, a former alderman of the Chicago City Council.
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Max Strus
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Max Strus is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Prior to the Cavaliers, Strus played for the Miami Heat and the Chicago Bulls. He played college basketball for the Lewis Flyers and the DePaul Blue Demons.
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Cole Bennett
- Occupations
- music video directorfilm directorbusiness executivevideographer
- Biography
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Colson Michael "Cole" Bennett is an American music video director, videographer, and music producer. He is the founder of the multimedia company Lyrical Lemonade, which he started in 2013 as an Internet blog.
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Rod Strickland
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Rodney Strickland is an American basketball coach and former professional basketball player. He is currently the head coach at Long Island University. Prior to LIU, he served as the program manager for the NBA G League's professional path. Strickland played college basketball at DePaul University, where he was awarded All-American honors. He then enjoyed a long career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing from 1988 to 2005. Strickland was an assistant coach for the South Florida Bulls, under Orlando Antigua from 2014 to 2017. He formerly served in an administrative role for the University of Kentucky basketball team under head coach John Calipari and was the director of basketball operations at the University of Memphis under Calipari. He is the godfather of current NBA player Kyrie Irving.
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Tarell Alvin McCraney
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- writerstage actoruniversity teacherscreenwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Tarell Alvin McCraney is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He is the chair of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble.
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Mark Aguirre
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Mark Anthony Aguirre is an American former basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Aguirre was chosen as the first overall pick of the 1981 NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks after playing three years at DePaul University. Aguirre played in the NBA from 1981 until 1994 and won two championships with the Detroit Pistons after being traded to Detroit from Dallas in exchange for Adrian Dantley. Aguirre was a three-time All-Star for Dallas. Aguirre was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.
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James Pankow
- Occupations
- musiciancomposersongwriter
- Biography
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James Carter Pankow is an American trombone player, songwriter, and brass instrument arranger who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for his brass arrangements, and for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section alongside Lee Loughnane and Walter Parazaider.
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Quentin Richardson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Quentin Lamar Richardson is an American former professional basketball player who was formerly the director of player development for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Q-Rich", he played professionally for 13 seasons for the Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, Miami Heat, and Orlando Magic. He won the NBA Three-Point Contest in 2005.
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Alexander Koch
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Alexander Koch is an American actor. He played the series regular role of Junior Rennie on the CBS drama series Under the Dome, based on the novel by Stephen King. Alex Koch appears in the fifth season of Lucifer as Ella Lopez's new love interest, Pete Daily. He co-starred in the 2020 meta-thriller Black Bear.
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Wilson Chandler
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Wilson Jamall Chandler is an American former professional basketball player who played in the NBA for 13 seasons, mainly with the New York Knicks and the Denver Nuggets. He has also played for Zhejiang Guangsha of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) during the 2011 NBA lockout. He played college basketball for the DePaul Blue Demons for two years before declaring for the 2007 NBA draft, where he was a first-round selection of the Knicks. Chandler is listed at 6 ft 8 in. and 225 lbs. He can play both forward positions.
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Leonard Roberts
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Leonard Roberts is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Sean Taylor in Drumline and for playing Forrest Gates in the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and D. L. Hawkins in a recurring role on Heroes.
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Jim O'Rourke
- Occupations
- musicianfilm score composerrecord producerguitarist
- Biography
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Jim O'Rourke is an American musician, instrumentalist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his numerous solo and collaborative music projects, many of which are instrumental, and has been acclaimed for his music that spans varied genres, including avant-garde styles such as ambient, noise and minimalism, and styles of rock like indie rock and post-rock. He has been associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene, as well as with New York City when he relocated to it in 2000 for his tenure as a member of American indie rock band Sonic Youth. He subsequently moved to Japan and has since been a Japanese resident.
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Ramsey Lewis
- Occupations
- pianistrecording artistradio personalityjazz musician
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Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. was an American jazz pianist, composer, and radio personality. Lewis recorded over 80 albums and received five gold records and three Grammy Awards in his career. His album The In Crowd earned Lewis critical praise and the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance. His best known singles include "The 'In' Crowd", "Wade in the Water", and "Sun Goddess". Until 2009, he was the host of the Ramsey Lewis Morning Show on the Chicago radio station WNUA.
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Paul Dinello
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directornovelistscreenwriteractor
- Biography
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Paul E. Dinello is an American comedian, actor, and writer, best known for his collaborations with Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris. He portrayed Geoffrey Jellineck on Comedy Central's Strangers with Candy, and later became a writer and supervising producer for The Colbert Report and then The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Chasten Buttigieg
- Occupations
- authorLGBTQI+ rights activistschool teacher
- Biography
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Chasten James Glezman Buttigieg is an American teacher, writer, and LGBT+ activist. He is married to Pete Buttigieg, the current U.S. secretary of transportation. He was an advisor, spokesperson, and social media campaigner during his husband's 2020 presidential campaign. In September 2020, Buttigieg released a memoir titled I Have Something to Tell You.
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Angelo Poffo
- Occupations
- entrepreneurprofessional wrestlermanagerteacher
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Angelo John Poffo was an American professional wrestler and wrestling promoter. He ran International Championship Wrestling for a number of years, holding cards in Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas. He was the father of "Macho Man" Randy Savage and "The Genius" Lanny Poffo and the father-in-law of Miss Elizabeth.
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Zak Orth
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Adam Zachary Orth is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, Melinda and Melinda, In and Out, Music and Lyrics, and NYC 22. He also starred in the NBC television drama Revolution as Aaron.
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Walter Parazaider
- Occupations
- guitaristclarinetistjazz musicianflautistsaxophonist
- Biography
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Walter Parazaider is an American woodwind musician who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section alongside Lee Loughnane and James Pankow. Parazaider is a multi-instrumentalist. He plays a wide variety of wind instruments, including saxophone, flute, and clarinet. He also occasionally plays guitar.
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Michael Muhney
- Occupations
- television actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Michael Muhney is an American actor. His best known roles include Sheriff Don Lamb on the UPN/The CW television series Veronica Mars between 2004 and 2007 and Adam Newman on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2009 to 2014.
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Charlotte Pence
- Enrolled in DePaul University
- In 2016 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- children's writerwriterfilm producerfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Charlotte Pence Bond is an American writer who is the second child and elder daughter of former Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence and former Second Lady of the United States, Karen Pence.
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Jane Byrne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jane Margaret Byrne was an American politician who served as the 50th mayor of Chicago from April 16, 1979, until April 29, 1983. Prior to her tenure as mayor, Byrne served as Chicago's commissioner of consumer sales from 1969 until 1977, the only female in the mayoral cabinet.
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Arthur Goldberg
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerjudgepoliticianjurist
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Arthur Joseph Goldberg was an American statesman and jurist who served as the 9th U.S. Secretary of Labor, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Natalie Jaresko
- Occupations
- businesspersoninternational forum participanteconomist
- Biography
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Natalie Ann Jaresko also known as Natalia Ivanivna Yaresko (Ukrainian: Наталія Іванівна Яресько) is an American-born former U.S. State Department official and Ukrainian investment banker who served as Ukraine's Minister of Finance from December 2014 until April 2016. On 20 March 2017, she was appointed as executive director of the Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico. Jaresko announced her resignation from the PROMESA board effective April 1, 2022. Since April 2022 she has been working as chairman of the Aspen Institute Kyiv and advisor for the non-profit Stronger Than Ever.
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Kwame Raoul
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kwame Raoul is an American lawyer and politician who has been the 42nd Attorney General of Illinois since 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Brian Culbertson
- Occupations
- jazz musicianpianist
- Biography
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Brian Culbertson is an American smooth jazz/R&B/funk musician and producer. His instruments include the synthesizer, piano and trombone.
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Jeremy O. Harris
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Jeremy O. Harris is an American playwright, actor, and philanthropist. Harris gained prominence for his play Slave Play (2018) which received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Play. Harris is also known for his work in film and television. He produced and co-wrote the A24 film Zola (2021) for which he received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay. He acted in the HBO Max series Gossip Girl (2021), the Netflix series Emily in Paris (2022), and in the film The Sweet East (2023).
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Allie Quigley
- Enrolled in DePaul University
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Alexandria "Allie" Quigley is an American and Hungarian professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
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Tom O'Halleran
- Enrolled in DePaul University
- Studied in 1991-1992
- Occupations
- police officerpoliticianbusiness executive
- Biography
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Thomas Charles O'Halleran is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Arizona's 1st congressional district from 2017 to 2023. Beginning his political career as a Republican, he was the Arizona state senator from the 1st district from 2007 to 2009. In 2015, he became a member of the Democratic Party. He also served as the chair of communications for the Blue Dog Coalition. On June 7, 2023, he was appointed as a senior advisor to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Joe Biden administration.
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Desmin Borges
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Desmin Borges is an American actor. He is best known for playing Edgar Quintero on the FX/FXX comedy-drama You're the Worst.
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Sarah Kustok
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Sarah Grace Kustok is an American sports reporter who works for the YES Network and Fox Sports. In 2017, she became the first female full-time analyst for an NBA team's local TV broadcasts, when the YES Network promoted her from sideline analyst for Brooklyn Nets games.
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Paul Reed
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Paul Reed, nicknamed "BBall Paul", is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the DePaul Blue Demons.
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Jacqueline Kim
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Jacqueline Joan Kim is an American writer, actress, filmmaker and composer. She was nominated for a FIND Independent Spirit award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Charlotte Sometimes.
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Edward M. Burke
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- aldermanlawyer
- Biography
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Edward Michael Burke is an American politician found guilty of racketeering, bribery, and extortion who served as the alderman of Chicago's 14th ward from 1969 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the Chicago City Council in 1969, and represented part of the city's Southwest Side. Chair of Council's Committee on Finance, Burke had been called Chicago's "most powerful alderman" by the Chicago Sun-Times. Burke was named one of the "100 Most Powerful Chicagoans" by Chicago Magazine, describing him as "ne of the last of the old-school Chicago Machine pols."
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Graham Harman
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Graham Harman is an American philosopher. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His work on the metaphysics of objects led to the development of object-oriented ontology. He is a central figure in the speculative realism trend in contemporary philosophy.
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John Cabrera
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- film directortelevision actorscreenwriterfilm actor
- Biography
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John Cabrera is an American actor, screenwriter and director best known for his role as Brian Fuller on the television show Gilmore Girls on The WB (later The CW). He has also appeared on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, NCIS, American Dreams, Miracles, and CSI.
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Tyrone Corbin
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- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Tyrone Kennedy Corbin is an American former basketball player and assistant coach for the Charlotte Hornets. He was first appointed the assistant coach of the Phoenix Suns, then was named the Utah Jazz’s head coach, on February 10, 2011, following the resignation of longtime coach Jerry Sloan. He was also the brief interim head coach of the Sacramento Kings in the 2014–15 season before being replaced by George Karl. Prior to that, Corbin played 16 seasons in the NBA.
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Bobby Simmons
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Bobby Simmons is an American former professional basketball player. During his NBA career, Simmons played for five NBA teams between 2001 and 2012. He won the NBA Most Improved Player Award in 2005.
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Samuel K. Skinner
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- university teacherlawyer
- Biography
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Samuel Knox Skinner is an American politician, lawyer, and businessman. Skinner served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Prior to the Bush administration, Skinner served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois under President Gerald R. Ford from 1975-1977, succeeding James R. Thompson.
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How to Dress Well
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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How to Dress Well is the stage name of Tom Krell, an American multimedia artist, singer-songwriter, and producer from Boulder, Colorado. His musical work falls under ambient music, experimental electronic, and alternative R&B. He began releasing music independently through his own blog around 2009 and via labels like Tri Angle, Lefse Records, Weird World, and eventually Domino later on in his career.
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Lina Trivedi
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- entrepreneurcivil servantwriterteacher
- Biography
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Lina Trivedi is an American entrepreneur, author, educator and civil servant.
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Robert Plomin
- Occupations
- behavior geneticistpsychologistgeneticist
- Biography
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Robert Joseph Plomin is an American/British psychologist and geneticist best known for his work in twin studies and behavior genetics. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Plomin as the 71st most cited psychologist of the 20th century. He is the author of several books on genetics and psychology.
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Pidgeon Pagonis
- Enrolled in DePaul University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- LGBTQI+ rights activist
- Biography
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Pidgeon Pagonis is an American intersex activist, writer, artist, and consultant. They are an advocate for intersex human rights and against nonconsensual intersex medical interventions.
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Elene Gedevanishvili
- Occupations
- figure skater
- Biography
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Elene Gedevanishvili is a Georgian former competitive figure skater. She is a two-time (2012, 2010) European bronze medalist. In winning the medal in 2010, Gedevanishvili became the first skater from Georgia to medal at an ISU Championships. She has competed at three Winter Olympics: Turin 2006, Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014.
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Hemant Mehta
- Occupations
- podcasterwriterhigh school teachereditor
- Biography
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Hemant Mehta is an American author, blogger, YouTuber and atheist activist. Mehta is a regular speaker at atheist events, and has been a board member of charitable organizations such as the Secular Student Alliance and the Foundation Beyond Belief.
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Mars Williams
- Occupations
- jazz musicianrecording artistsaxophonist
- Biography
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Marc Charles "Mars" Williams was an American jazz and rock saxophonist. He was a member of the American new wave band The Waitresses from 1980 to 1983, and a member of the British post-punk band The Psychedelic Furs from 1983 to 1989 and again from 2005 until his death in 2023. Williams also was a founding member of the acid jazz group Liquid Soul, and a member of the free jazz-oriented NRG Ensemble.
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Haile Gerima
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker who lives and works in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. Since 1975, Haile has been a film professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is best known for Sankofa (1993), which won two awards.
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Dar Tucker
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Darquavis Lamar "Dar" Tucker is an American-Jordanian professional basketball player for Beirut Club of the Lebanese Basketball League. He played college basketball at DePaul University.
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Julianne Buescher
- Occupations
- actorpuppeteerstage actorvoice actorsinger
- Biography
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Julianne Buescher is an American actress, writer, and puppeteer who performs in film, television, radio, and on stage. As a voice actress, she is known for many roles including Anko Mitarashi on Naruto. Buescher is also a puppeteer for The Jim Henson Company, appearing with CeeLo Green as "Piddles the Pug" at the 2011 Grammy Awards and as the same character among others in the improvisational adult puppet shows. She also has worked for both Sesame Street and The Muppets.
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Sarah Gorden
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Sarah L. Gorden is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Angel City FC in the NWSL.
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Steven Hunter
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Steven Deon Hunter is American former professional basketball player. He is listed as a center. He most recently played for Dinamo Sassari.
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Jill Holtzman Vogel
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jill Kendrick Holtzman Vogel is an American attorney and politician who served as the Virginia State Senator from the 27th district from 2008 to 2024. A Republican, her district was located in exurban and rural parts of Northern Virginia, and it included all of Clarke, Fauquier, and Frederick counties, Winchester city, as well as pieces of Culpeper, Loudoun, and Stafford counties.
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Drake Diener
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Drake Richard Diener is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played college basketball at DePaul University.
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Phil Foglio
- Occupations
- cartoonisteditorcomics artist
- Biography
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Philip Foglio is an American cartoonist and comic book artist known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy art.
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Lourdes Duarte
- Occupations
- television journalist
- Biography
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Lourdes Duarte is an American television journalist for WGN-TV, where she is an investigative reporter and co-host of the WGN Evening News at 4pm.
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Marjorie Vincent
- Occupations
- journalistmodelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Marjorie Judith Vincent is an American journalist and former beauty contestant who was crowned Miss America 1991.
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Cliff Clinkscales
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Clifford Clinkscales is an American professional basketball head coach for the KW Titans of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada) and a former player. A 6-foot-1-inch (1.85 m) point guard, Clinkscales began playing professionally in 2008, with two seasons in the NBA Development League (NBA D-League). He spent most of his professional career in NBL Canada, playing from 2013 to 2020 in Halifax for the Rainmen and the Hurricanes. With the Halifax Hurricanes, he set the record for the most career assists in NBL Canada history.
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Phillipe Cunningham
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Phillipe M. Cunningham is a former city council member for Minneapolis Ward 4 and the first transgender man of color to be elected to public office in the United States. Cunningham won the council position in the 2017 Minneapolis City Council election and lost it in the 2021 election.
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Muriel Anderson
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- classical guitaristjazz guitaristjazz musicianguitarist
- Biography
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Muriel Anderson is an American fingerstyle guitarist and harp guitarist who plays in many genres. She is the first woman to win the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship.
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Brian Mosteller
- Biography
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Brian Mosteller is a diplomat and American operations executive, best known for being the Director of Oval Office Operations in the Obama administration, from 2009 to 2017.
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Mackenzie Firgens
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Mackenzie Firgens is an American actress.
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Sammy Mejía
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Samuel José Mejía is a Dominican American retired professional basketball player. He played college basketball at DePaul University. Standing at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), he plays at the shooting guard and small forward positions.
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Proco Joe Moreno
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- politician
- Biography
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Proco Joe Moreno III is an American politician who served as alderman from the 1st ward in the Chicago City Council starting in 2010 when he was appointed to replace Manny Flores on March 26, 2010. His term ended on May 20, 2019, after his loss to Daniel La Spata in the 2019 Chicago aldermanic elections. The 1st Ward of Chicago incorporates areas including: Wicker Park, Bucktown, East Village, Ukrainian Village, Logan Square and the southeastern tip of Roscoe Village.
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Rudresh Mahanthappa
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposersaxophonist
- Biography
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Rudresh Mahanthappa is a New York-based jazz alto saxophonist and composer.
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Ed Mikan
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Edward Anton Mikan was an American professional basketball player. He was the younger brother of George Mikan.
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Mikki Kendall
- Occupations
- comics writerwriteropinion journalist
- Biography
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Mikki Kendall is an author, activist, and cultural critic. Her work often focuses on current events, media representation, the politics of food, and the history of the feminist movement. Penguin Random House published her graphic novel Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists in 2019, while her political nonfiction book Hood Feminism was released in early 2020.
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Peter J. Stang
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Peter John Stang is a German American chemist and Distinguished Professor of chemistry at the University of Utah. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society from 2002 to 2020.
