18 Notable alumni of
Eckerd College
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Eckerd College is 2298th in the world, 793rd in North America, and 749th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Eckerd College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Hank Green
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- inventorsongwritersingerteacherwriter
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William Henry Green II is an American YouTuber, science communicator, novelist, stand-up comedian, and entrepreneur. He produces the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers with his older brother, author John Green, and hosts the educational YouTube channels Crash Course and SciShow. He has advocated for and organized social activism, created and hosted a number of other YouTube channels and podcasts, released music albums, and amassed a large following on TikTok.
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Dennis Lehane
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- writernovelistscreenwriter
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Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. Four of his novels have been adapted into films of the same names: Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010), and Gone Baby Gone (2007) and Live by Night (2016), both directed by Ben Affleck. His short story "Animal Rescue" was also adapted into the film The Drop, noted for being the final film role for actor James Gandolfini.
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Dorothy Allison
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- poetwriteranthropologistwomen's rights activistnovelist
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Dorothy Earlene Allison was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
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Brian Sabean
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- sports executivescout
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Brian R. Sabean, nicknamed "Sabes", is an American baseball executive for the New York Yankees. He serves as executive advisor to the general manager and senior vice president Brian Cashman. Before coming to the Yankees, he was the executive vice president of baseball operations of the San Francisco Giants. He served as the team's general manager for eighteen seasons, from 1997 to 2014. He succeeded general manager Bob Quinn. The Giants had a winning record in thirteen of the eighteen seasons in which Sabean served as general manager. Prior to his tenure, the team had suffered losing seasons in five out of six years. He is a native of Concord, New Hampshire.
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Steve Balboni
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- baseball player
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Stephen Charles Balboni is an American former Major League Baseball player, who played for the New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, and Texas Rangers. He was a player with home run power and a tendency to strike out. He was nicknamed "Bye Bye" because of his home run hitting prowess. He was also known by the nickname "Bones", which is a malapropism for Balboni. He is also known for the "Curse of the Balboni", an idea written about by Rany Jazayerli which said no baseball team with a player hitting more than 36 home runs for that team could win the World Series. Since Balboni was the last player to hit 36 home runs and win a World Series, (1985 Royals), the curse bore his name. The curse ran from 1985 until Luis Gonzalez and the Arizona Diamondbacks won the 2001 World Series.
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James W. Pennebaker
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- psychologistuniversity teacherauthor
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James Whiting Pennebaker is an American social psychologist. He is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. His research focuses on the relationship between natural language use, health, and social behavior, most recently "how everyday language reflects basic social and personality processes".
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Jay Washington
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- basketball player
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Anthony Jay Washington is a Filipino-American professional basketball player who last played for Yokohama Excellence of the Japanese B.League.
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Laura Helmuth
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- journalistscience journalisteditor-in-chief
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Laura Lee Helmuth is an American science journalist, who was the editor in chief of Scientific American. She was formerly the Health and Science editor at The Washington Post. From 2016 to 2018, she served as the president of the National Association of Science Writers.
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Bob Gualtieri
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- lawyer
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Robert A. "Bob" Gualtieri is an American law enforcement officer, lawyer, and politician who is serving as the 15th sheriff of Pinellas County, Florida. He previously served as Chief Deputy and General Counsel to PCSO under Sheriff Jim Coats. Gualtieri was appointed Sheriff by Governor Rick Scott in 2011 to succeed Coats. Gualtieri was elected to the office in his own right in 2012, and was re-elected in 2016 and 2020. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Joe Lefebvre
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- baseball player
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Joseph Henry Lefebvre is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played all or parts of six seasons in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees (1980), San Diego Padres (1981–83) and Philadelphia Phillies (1983–84 and 1986), primarily as an outfielder. He currently serves as senior advisor for scouting for the San Francisco Giants.
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Aaron D. O'Connell
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- physicist
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Aaron Douglas O'Connell is an American experimental quantum physicist.
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Craig Albernaz
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- baseball managercoachbaseball player
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Craig Francis Albernaz is an American professional baseball coach for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). He currently serves as their associate manager. He played college baseball for Eckerd College. Albernaz signed with the Tampa Bay Rays as a free agent in 2006. He was formerly the bullpen and catching coach for the San Francisco Giants.
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Kathleen Peters
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- politician
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Kathleen M. Peters is an American politician of the Republican Party and a former member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 69th District, which includes southern Pinellas County, stretching from Redington Shores to St. Pete Beach, from 2012 to 2018.
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Sandra Mortham
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- politician
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Sandra Mortham, also known as Sandra Barringer, is an American political who served as the 22nd Florida Secretary of State from 1995 to 1999.
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Janet C. Long
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- politician
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Janet C. Long is an US Democratic politician and educator who serves as a member of the Pinellas County Commission for the at-large District 1. Previously, she represented District 51 in the Florida House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011, and was a member of the Seminole, Florida City Council from 2002 to 2006.
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Jeffrey J. Berger
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- politician
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Jeffrey J. Berger is an American Democratic politician in the state of Connecticut, representing the 73rd district in the Connecticut House of Representatives.
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Tessa M. Hill
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United States - Occupations
- researcheroceanographer
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Tessa Michelle Hill is an American marine geochemist and oceanographer. She is a professor at the University of California, Davis, and a resident professor at its Bodega Marine Laboratory. She is a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and in 2016 was named a Leshner Public Engagement Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In that year she also received the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
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Elizabeth Reitz
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- 1946-.. (age 79)
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- archaeologist
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Elizabeth Jean "Betsy" Reitz is a zooarchaeologist and Professor Emerita in the Georgia Museum of Natural History and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia. She was born in 1946 in Lake Alfred, Florida. She attended Florida Presbyterian College from 1966 to 1967. She received her BA (1969), MA (1975), and her PhD (1979) in Anthropology from the University of Florida. Her dissertation was directed by Elizabeth Wing. Reitz is a member of the International Council for Archaeozoology's Committee of Honor. In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2014, she was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the recipient of the 2016 Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research in Archaeology, given by the Society for American Archaeology. The Fryxell Award is given to scholars who have made significant contributions in the application of the zoological sciences in archaeology. She is a member of the Committee of Honor of the International Council for Zooarchaeology (ICAZ). In 2019, Reitz was awarded the Southeastern Archaeological Conference's Lifetime Achievement Award.
