26 Notable alumni of
Drury University
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Drury University is 1872nd in the world, 652nd in North America, and 614th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from Drury 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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Bob Barker
- Enrolled in Drury University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- television actorpresentertelevision produceractor
- Biography
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Robert William Barker was an American media personality and animal rights advocate. He hosted CBS's The Price Is Right, the longest-running game show in North American television history, from 1972 to 2007. He also hosted Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975.
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Dabbs Greer
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Robert William "Dabbs" Greer was an American character actor in film and television for over 60 years. With nearly 100 film roles and appearances in nearly 600 television episodes of various series, Greer may be best remembered as series regular Mr. Jonas in Gunsmoke, as Coach Ossie Weiss in the sitcom Hank, and as series regular Reverend Robert Alden in Little House on the Prairie. Greer is probably better known to later audiences for his final film role as the 108-year-old Paul Edgecomb, the character played by Tom Hanks in 1999's The Green Mile.
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Robert Cummings
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision writeractorfilm actoraircraft pilot
- Biography
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Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings was an American film and television actor who appeared in roles in comedy films such as The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943), and in dramatic films, especially two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954). He received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955. On February 8, 1960, he received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture and television industries, at 6816 Hollywood Boulevard and 1718 Vine Street. He used the stage name Robert Cummings from mid-1935 until the end of 1954 and was credited as Bob Cummings from 1955 until his death.
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John Morris
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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John L. Morris is an American billionaire businessman, and the founder, majority owner, and CEO of Bass Pro Shops, a hunting and fishing retail chain in the US and Canada. As of February 2023, his net worth was estimated at US$8.3 billion.
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Lauren Holtkamp
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Lauren Holtkamp is a professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA), wearing number 7. Holtkamp became the third woman to be a full-time NBA referee. Holtkamp also played college basketball at Drury University from 2000 to 2004. Holtkamp previously refereed the last five NBA Development League seasons before becoming a full-time referee for the 2014–15 NBA season. Holtkamp officiated four seasons in the WNBA including the WNBA 2014 conference finals. Holtkamp graduated from Emory University with a Master of Divinity. She also graduated from Drury University with both a Master of Arts in Communication and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. In June 2017, Holtkamp married NBA referee Jonathan Sterling. In 2019, Holtkamp gave birth to their daughter.
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Bill Virdon
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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William Charles Virdon was an American professional baseball outfielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). Virdon played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 through 1965 and in 1968. He served as a coach for the Pirates and Houston Astros, and managed the Pirates, Astros, New York Yankees, and Montreal Expos.
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Trevor Richards
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Trevor Michael Richards is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Miami Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers. He made his debut for the Marlins in 2018.
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William Garwood
- Occupations
- film directorstage actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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William Davis Garwood, Jr. was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent film era in the 1910s.
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Sterling Sharp
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Sterling Barksdale Sharp is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Miami Marlins.
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Susan Montee
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Susan Montee is an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri who served as the 35th State Auditor of Missouri. She won the election in 2006 Missouri State Auditor Election and was sworn into her position on January 4, 2007. She was the third woman in succession to serve as State Auditor of Missouri. She succeeded then-U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill. Montee is a member of the Democratic Party. She was defeated in the 2010 election by Tom Schweich. In 2011 Montee was elected the Chair of the Missouri Democratic Party, which she stepped down from later that year to run for Lieutenant Governor. Susan defeated seven other candidates in the August, 2012 Missouri Democratic Primary for Lieutenant Governor of Missouri. She lost the general election on November 6, 2012 to the Republican incumbent, Peter Kinder.
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Roy Smalley, Jr
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Roy Frederick Smalley Jr. was a shortstop in Major League Baseball. From 1948 through 1958, Smalley played for the Chicago Cubs (1948–1953), Milwaukee Braves (1954) and Philadelphia Phillies (1955–1958). He batted and threw right-handed. In an 11-season career, Smalley was a.227 hitter with 61 home runs and 305 RBI in 872 games played. Smalley was the father of major league shortstop Roy Smalley III.
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Bob Dixon
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bob Dixon is an American Republican politician currently serving as Presiding Commissioner of Greene County, Missouri. He formerly served in the Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri State Senate.
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Michael Mallory
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- novelistjournalist
- Biography
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Michael Mallory is a writer on the subjects of animation and post-war pop culture, and the author of the books X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe, Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror The Science Fiction Universe and Beyond, and Essential Horror Movies. As an animation and film historian he has written over 600 articles, frequently for Variety, the Los Angeles Times and Animation Magazine, and has been featured in documentaries and DVD extras about animation. He co-authored the memoirs of animation legend Iwao Takamoto, which were published in 2009 as Iwao Takamoto: My Life with a Thousand Characters. He has also written the script for the annual Annie Awards ceremony, the Oscars of the animation industry, since the mid-1990s.
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Si Siman
- Years
- 1921-1994 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- record producercomposer
- Biography
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Si Siman was an American country music executive as a radio producer, talent agent, songwriter, record producer, television producer and music publisher who helped transform the sound of music in the Ozarks after World War II and into the 1980s. He discovered Country Music Hall of Fame Members Chet Atkins and Porter Wagoner, and secured record deals for The Browns and Brenda Lee among others; and was the key figure behind Ozark Jubilee, the first network television series to feature America's top country music stars. According to the Encyclopedia of Country Music, he was "the driving force in the emergence of Springfield, Missouri, as a country music center in the 1950s."
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Jay Wasson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jay Wasson is an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the Missouri Senate for the 20th district from 2011 to 2019. Previously, Wasson served four terms in the Missouri House of Representatives (2002–2010).
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Aven Nelson
- Enrolled in Drury University
- In 1890 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- explorermycologistbotanist
- Biography
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Aven Nelson was an American botanist who specialized in plants of the Rocky Mountains. He was one of the founding professors of the University of Wyoming, where he taught for 55 years as professor and served as president (1918-1922). He served as president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and Botanical Society of America.
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Jeanie Riddle
- Years
- 1950s
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jeanie Riddle is an American politician from Missouri. A Republican, she served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 49th District in Callaway County. She is currently serving as a member of the Missouri Senate from the 10th District which includes the counties of Audrain, Callaway, Lincoln, Monroe, Montgomery and Warren.
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Orland K. Armstrong
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Orland Kay Armstrong was a Republican United States Representative, journalist, and social activist.
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Charles Harrison Brown
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles Harrison Brown was a two-term U.S. representative from Missouri's 7th congressional district from 1957–61, and is the most recent Democrat to serve from that district.
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Timothy A. Garrison
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Timothy Allen Garrison is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri from 2018 to 2021.
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Dean Whipple
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Harold Dean Whipple is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
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George Howard Williams
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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George Howard Williams was an American politician and attorney from Missouri. A Republican, he served as U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1925 to 1926, completing the term of Selden P. Spencer following the latter's death.
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Cleveland A. Newton
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Cleveland Alexander Newton was a U.S. Representative from Missouri's 10th congressional district.
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Robert S. Cunningham
- Years
- 1940-2015 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Robert Stephen Cunningham (born 1942 – March 27, 2015) was an American Computer Scientist and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at California State University Stanislaus.
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Durward Gorham Hall
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Durward Gorham Hall was a six-term US representative from Missouri's 7th congressional district.
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Thomas Alberter Chandler
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Alberter Chandler was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
