41 Notable alumni of
East Tennessee State University
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East Tennessee State University is 1143rd in the world, 413th in North America, and 386th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 41 notable alumni from East Tennessee State University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Kenny Chesney
- Occupations
- songwriter
- Biography
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Kenneth Arnold Chesney is an American country singer. He has recorded more than 20 albums that include more than 40 Top 10 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, 32 of which have reached number one. Many of these also have charted within the Top 40 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, making him one of the most successful crossover country artists. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.
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Timothy Busfield
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actorfilm producertelevision directorplaywright
- Biography
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Timothy Busfield is an American actor and director. He has played Elliot Weston on the television series thirtysomething; Mark, the brother-in-law of Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) in Field of Dreams; and Danny Concannon on the television series The West Wing. In 1991 he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for thirtysomething. He is also the founder of the 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization Theatre for Children, Inc. In 2024 he was inducted into the Sacramento Baseball Hall of Fame as a pitcher.
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Steven M. Greer
- Occupations
- ufologistphysician
- Biography
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Steven Macon Greer is an American ufologist and retired physician who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and the Disclosure Project, which seeks the disclosure of alleged classified UFO information.
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Abraham Verghese
- Occupations
- university teacherwriter
- Biography
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Abraham Verghese is an American physician, author and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Vice Chair of Education at Stanford University Medical School. He is the author of four best-selling books: two memoirs and two novels. In 2011, he was elected to be a member of the Institute of Medicine. He received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2015. He is the co-host with Eric Topol of the podcast Medscape Medicine and the Machine.
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Eureka O'Hara
- Occupations
- drag queen
- Biography
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Eureka, also known as Eureka O'Hara and Eureka!, is the stage name of Eureka D. Huggard, an American drag queen and reality television personality. Eureka rose to prominence competing on the ninth and tenth seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race. She was removed from the ninth season due to a knee injury, becoming the first contestant in the history of the show to be sent home due to injury; she was then given an automatic berth to season 10, where she placed as runner-up. In 2021, Eureka competed on the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, where she once more placed as a runner-up.
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Jamey Chadwell
- Occupations
- American football coachplayer of American footballhead coach
- Biography
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Jamey Chadwell is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Liberty University, a position he has held since the 2023 season. Chadwell served as the head football coach at North Greenville University from 2009 to 2011, Delta State University in 2012, Charleston Southern University from 2013 and 2016, and Coastal Carolina University, first in an interim capacity in 2017 and then on a permanent basis from 2019 to 2022.
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Bill Bain
- Occupations
- consultant
- Biography
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William Worthington Bain Jr. was an American management consultant, known for his role as one of the founders of the management consultancy that bears his name, Bain & Company. Prior to founding Bain & Company, he was a vice-president at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
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Gary L. Harrell
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General Gary Lynn Harrell was a United States Army general. He participated in numerous combat operations including Operation Just Cause in 1989, the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Aaron Schoenfeld
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Aaron Maxwell Schoenfeld is an Israeli-American former professional soccer player who played as a forward.
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Eleonora Goldoni
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Eleonora Goldoni is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Lazio in the Serie B and has appeared for the Italy women's national team.
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Sarah Zadrazil
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Sarah Zadrazil is an Austrian footballer who plays as a midfielder for German club Bayern Munich and the Austria national team.
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Marcus Satterfield
- Occupations
- American football coachplayer of American footballhead coach
- Biography
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Marcus David Satterfield is an American football coach and former player, who is the offensive coordinator and tight ends coach for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Satterfield served as the head football coach at Tennessee Tech University from 2016 to 2017. He was the offensive coordinator at the University of Tennessee at Martin (2006–2008), the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (2009–2012), and Temple University (2013–2014). He was an assistant coach at Richmond during the 2004 season and Western Carolina in 2005. Satterfield played college football at East Tennessee State University.
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Atlee Hammaker
- Occupations
- baseball playerbasketball player
- Biography
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Charlton Atlee Hammaker is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher who played the majority of his career for the San Francisco Giants (1982–1990). He also played for the Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres, and Chicago White Sox. During his twelve-year career, he won 59 games, lost 67 games and netted five saves.
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Diana Harshbarger
- Enrolled in East Tennessee State University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politicianpharmacist
- Biography
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Diana Lynn Harshbarger is an American pharmacist, businesswoman, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she has served as the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 1st congressional district since January 3, 2021. Her district is based in the Tri-Cities area in northeastern Tennessee.
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Bryan Lewis Saunders
- Occupations
- television producerpoet
- Biography
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Bryan Lewis Saunders is an endurance artist, a performance artist, videographer, performance poet, and self-portrait painter known for his disturbing spoken word rants, tragic art performances and stand-up tragedy.
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Jill Andrews
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Jill Ellen Andrews is an American singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. She co-founded the indie folk/alt-country band The Everybodyfields, leaving in 2009 to pursue a solo career. In 2018, she co-founded the duo Hush Kids with Peter Groenwald.
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Barry Bales
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Barry Turner Bales is an American musician best known as the long time bass player and harmony vocalist for Alison Krauss and Union Station. He has been in the band for around 25 years. The 2012 Grammy was awarded as a member of the Union Station band on Paper Airplane. He is also a member of The Earls of Leicester.
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Ron Ramsey
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Ronald Lynn Ramsey is an American auctioneer, politician, and lobbyist, who served as the 49th lieutenant governor of Tennessee and speaker of the State Senate from 2007 to 2017. A Republican from Blountville in East Tennessee, Ramsey succeeded long-term Democratic Lieutenant Governor John S. Wilder in 2007, who had held the office of lieutenant governor since 1971.
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Phyllis Tickle
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Phyllis Natalie Tickle was an American author and lecturer whose work focuses on spirituality and religion issues. After serving as a teacher, professor, and academic dean, Tickle entered the publishing industry, serving as the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly, before then becoming a popular writer. She is well known as a leading voice in the emergence church movement. She is perhaps best known for The Divine Hours series of books, published by Doubleday Press, and her book The Great Emergence- How Christianity Is Changing and Why. Tickle was a member of the Episcopal Church, where she was licensed as both a lector and a lay eucharistic minister. She has been widely quoted by many media outlets, including Newsweek, Time, Life, The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, The History Channel, the BBC and VOA. It has been said that "Over the past generation, no one has written more deeply and spoken more widely about the contours of American faith and spirituality than Phyllis Tickle." A biography of Tickle, written by Jon M. Sweeney, was published in February 2018. Phyllis Tickle: A Life (Church Publishing, Inc), has been widely reviewed.
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Amythyst Kiah
- Occupations
- singermusiciansongwriter
- Biography
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Amythyst Kiah is an American singer-songwriter. Kiah is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee and currently lives in Johnson City. She plays guitar and banjo.
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Ric Keller
- Enrolled in East Tennessee State University
- In 1986 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Richard Anthony "Ric" Keller is an American politician, author, and lawyer who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 8th congressional district from 2001 to 2009. His district included much of the Central Florida region including the Greater Orlando metropolitan area and Walt Disney World. He chaired the House Higher Education subcommittee and served on the Judiciary and Education committees. Today he is an author, speaker, TV commentator and attorney.
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Rhys Davies
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Rhys Davies is a Welsh professional golfer.
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Mo Sabri
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- rapper
- Biography
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Mo Sabri is an American hip hop artist and actor from Johnson City, Tennessee. He first rose to prominence on YouTube and is a musician credited by The Washington Post with transforming his subgenre of hip-hop music. Also known for his fashion choices, Sabri has been featured in Vogue and named "Best Dressed" at the Grammy Awards. In February 2013, the positive impact of his music received further recognition and he was invited to Washington D.C. to attend breakfast with President Barack Obama. Sabri's first album, The Overnight Classic, debuted as one of the top five highest-selling albums on the iTunes World chart during its first week in 2012.
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Matthew Hill
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Matthew Joseph Hill is an American talk show host, businessman, and politician who served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2005 to 2021. Hill briefly served as Deputy Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives under appointment by House Speaker Rep. Glen Casada (January 8, 2019 through August 2, 2019).
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Eric Axley
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Eric Allen Axley is an American professional golfer.
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Rusty Crowe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dewey "Rusty" Crowe, is an American politician in the state of Tennessee. He is member of the Tennessee Senate representing the 3rd district, which encompasses Washington County, Unicoi County and Carter County.
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Barclay Radebaugh
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Barclay Radebaugh is an American college basketball coach. He is the former head coach of the men's basketball team at Charleston Southern University.
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David Davis
- Occupations
- business executivepolitician
- Biography
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David Lee Davis is an American Republican politician from Tennessee and one-term member (2007–2009) of the United States House of Representatives and Tennessee House of Representatives. He represented Tennessee's 1st congressional district, located in the northeastern portion of the state and centered on the Tri-Cities area, but was narrowly defeated in the 2008 primary by Johnson City Mayor Phil Roe.
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Timothy Hill
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Timothy Aaron Hill is an American politician and a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
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Kent Calfee
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kent Calfee is an American politician and a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing District 32 since January 8, 2013. A picture of him drinking water out of a Hershey's Syrup bottle went viral in 2020. When asked about it, he said he wasn't going to pay for a water bottle that he would probably end up losing.
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Ernie Bowman
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Ernest Ferrell Bowman was an American professional baseball player, an infielder who appeared in 165 games in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants from 1961 to 1963. Born in Johnson City, Tennessee, he batted and threw right-handed, stood 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 160 pounds (73 kg).
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Ed Goodson
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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James Edward Goodson is an American former first baseman and third baseman in Major League Baseball. He played from 1970 to 1977 for the San Francisco Giants, Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers. In his one World Series plate appearance, in the sixth game of the 1977 fall classic, he was struck out by the Yankees’ Mike Torrez.
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Tilman Goins
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tilman Goins is an American politician and a Republican who represented District 10 in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018, and a former county commissioner from Hamblen County, TN. He is a veteran of both the US Marine Corps and the US Army.
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Dave Ewart
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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David Ewart is the assistant head coach for the Jacksonville Sharks of the National Arena League (NAL).
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Simona Koren
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Simona Koren is an Austrian footballer who plays as a forward for Norwegian club LSK Kvinner and the Austria national team.
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Gary Odom
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gary Odom is an American politician from Nashville, Tennessee, and the former Democratic Minority Leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives. He was elected to represent the 55th district, which is part of Davidson County.
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Harry L. Williams
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Harry L. Williams is an American businessman who is the president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which is an organization of America's 47 publicly supported historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and predominately black institutions (PBIs) representing nearly 300,000 students across the country. Williams has held several senior leadership positions within the University of North Carolina General Administration, Appalachian State University, North Carolina A&T State University, and Delaware State University. He is married to Robin S. Williams and is the father of two sons.
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Jim Saul
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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James Allen Saul is a retired American catcher, manager and coach in minor league baseball. The 2008 season marked Saul's 50th season in professional baseball, all but three of them at the minor-league level. In Major League Baseball, Saul coached for three seasons, with the Chicago Cubs (1975–76) and Oakland Athletics (1979).
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Jim Mooney
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jim Irving Mooney was a Major League Baseball player who played pitcher from 1931 to 1934 for the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Giants.
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J. Jack Kennedy Jr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joe Jack Kennedy Jr. is an American politician who served in the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates. He was first elected to the House in 1987 after defeating incumbent James W. Robinson by a 2-to-1 majority after endorsements by the UMWA mine workers union, the NRA and the VEA teachers over James W. Robinson; and, he won re-election to the House of Delegates in 1989 against Republican Bonnie Elosser.
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Thomai Vardali
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Thomai Vardali is a Greek footballer who plays as a forward for A Division club PAOK FC and the Greece women's national team.
