17 Notable alumni of
Eastern New Mexico University
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Eastern New Mexico University is 1952nd in the world, 677th in North America, and 637th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 17 notable alumni from Eastern New Mexico 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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Ronny Cox
- Occupations
- actorsinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox is an American actor, singer and songwriter. His best-known roles include Drew Ballinger in Deliverance (1972), George Apple in Apple's Way (1974–75), Ozark Bule in Bound for Glory (1976), Colonel Kerby in Taps (1981), Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil in Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Dick Jones in RoboCop (1987), Franklin Reed in Family Ties (1986), Vilos Cohaagen in Total Recall (1990), The President in Captain America (1990), Justin in Age of Dinosaurs (2013), Vice President Kinsey in several episodes of Stargate SG-1 and Captain Edward Jellico in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1992) as well as in an episode of Star Trek: Prodigy (2022). Cox is also active as a musician, performing over 100 times per year at festivals and theaters each year as of 2012.
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Steven Michael Quezada
- Occupations
- writertelevision actorfilm actoractorcomedian
- Biography
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Steven Michael Quezada is an American comedian, actor and politician. He played Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Steven Gomez in the AMC series Breaking Bad from 2008 to 2013 and 2 episodes of its spin-off, Better Call Saul in 2020.
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Michael Blake
- Occupations
- novelistwriterscreenwriternon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Michael Lennox Blake was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel Dances with Wolves, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Dana Altman
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Dana Dean Altman is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the Oregon Ducks men's team. Previously he was head coach at Creighton, Kansas State and Marshall. Altman has won conference coach of the year awards at each school he has coached, and has led his teams to 15 appearances in the NCAA tournament.
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Jack Williamson
- Occupations
- science fiction writernovelistwriter
- Biography
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John Stewart Williamson, who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, one of several called the "Dean of Science Fiction". He is also credited with one of the first uses of the term genetic engineering. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund.
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Steve Pearce
- Enrolled in Eastern New Mexico University
- In 1991 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersonmilitary officer
- Biography
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Stevan Edward Pearce is an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for New Mexico's 2nd congressional district from 2003 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party and was his party's unsuccessful nominee in the 2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election. On December 8, 2018, Pearce was elected Chair of the New Mexico Republican Party, replacing Ryan Cangiolosi. He was re-elected in December 2020.
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Mark Fox
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Mark Leslie Fox is a men's college basketball coach who is the Director of Student-Athlete Relations at Georgetown University. He last coached for the California Golden Bears of the Pac-12 Conference. He spent nine seasons (2009 to 2018) as the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs and was previously the head coach for the Nevada Wolf Pack for five seasons.
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Daryush Shokof
- Occupations
- painterphilosopheractorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Daryush Shokof is an Iranian writer, film director, artist and film producer based in Germany. His first feature film was Seven Servants which featured Anthony Quinn in one of his last roles.
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Isaiah Murphy
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Shinsaku Enomoto, also known as Isaiah Murphy (アイザイア・マーフィー, Aizaia Māfī), is a Japanese professional basketball player for Hiroshima Dragonflies of the B.League.
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Katherine D. Ortega
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Katherine Dávalos Ortega is a former politician who was the 38th Treasurer of the United States. She served from September 26, 1983 to July 1, 1989 under Presidents Ronald Reagan and then George H. W. Bush. Ortega also has the distinction of being the first female bank president in the state of California.
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Ed Foreman
- Occupations
- motivational speakerpoliticiancivil engineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Edgar Franklin Foreman Jr. was an American businessman and politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He had one term representing Texas's 16th congressional district from 1963 to 1965 and a second term from 1969 to 1971 representing New Mexico's 2nd district, then newly established. He is the most historically recent member of Congress to have represented more than one state during their career.
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Larry Harris
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Larry D. Harris served as the General Manager of the Milwaukee Bucks from 2003 until March 19, 2008. He currently serves as the Assistant General Manager and Director of Player Personnel for the Golden State Warriors.
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Anthony Bardon
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Anthony Michael Bardon is a retired footballer and current USSF "B" License coach who played as a central midfielder for the Gibraltar national football team and most recently for Lincoln Red Imps.
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Don Carthel
- Occupations
- player of American footballhead coach
- Biography
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Donald Ray Carthel is an American football coach. He is an assistant coach in charge special teams quality control at Stephen F. Austin State University. Carthel served as head football coach at Lubbock Christian College—now Lubbock Christian University—from 1981 to 1982, Eastern New Mexico University from 1985 to 1991, and West Texas A&M University from 2005 to 2012, compiling a career college football coaching record of 124–69–1. He is also the father of Stephen F. Austins' head football coach, Colby Carthel.
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Juan Babauta
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Juan Nekai Babauta is a Northern Mariana Islander politician who served as the fifth governor of the Northern Mariana Islands from January 14, 2002, to January 9, 2006.
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Larry Hays
- Occupations
- baseball playerbasketball coachsoftball coach
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Larry Hays is a US college baseball, basketball, women's basketball, and softball coach. He was the head baseball coach at Lubbock Christian University and Texas Tech University (1987–2008). He was the head coach of the LCU Chaparrals basketball (1969–1975, 1978–1980), LCU Lady Chaps basketball (1982–83), LCU Lady Chaps softball (2010) and LCU athletic director (1979–1987).
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Harry Miller
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Harry Eugene Miller was an American college basketball coach. He spent 34 years as a head coach for Western State (now Western Colorado University), Fresno State, Eastern New Mexico, North Texas, Wichita State and Stephen F. Austin.
