100 Notable alumni of
Florida International University
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Florida International University is 679th in the world, 250th in North America, and 230th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Florida International 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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Andy Garcia
- Occupations
- film actorfilm producercomposervoice actoractor
- Biography
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Andrés Arturo García Menéndez, known professionally as Andy García, is an American actor. He first rose to prominence acting in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) alongside Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro. He continued to act in films such as Stand and Deliver (1988), and Internal Affairs (1990). He then costarred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part III (1990) as Vincent Mancini, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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Ana Maria Polo
- Enrolled in Florida International University
- 1979-1983 graduated with bachelors degree in political science
- Occupations
- lawyeractorsingerpresenterjudge
- Biography
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Ana María Cristina Polo González is a Cuban-American television arbitrator on Caso Cerrado and Ana Polo Rules.
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Danny Pino
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Daniel Gonzalo Pino is an American actor who starred as Detective Scotty Valens on the CBS series Cold Case from 2003 to 2010, and as NYPD Detective Nick Amaro in the long-running NBC crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2011 to 2015. In 2002, he appeared in London's West End in Up for Grabs with Madonna. In May 2003, Pino played Desi Arnaz in a CBS special on the life of Lucille Ball, Lucy. He played drug cartel leader Miguel Galindo on Mayans M.C. which airs on FX, and FBI agent John Bishop in procedural crime drama Gone.
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Aimee Carrero
- Occupations
- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
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Aimee Carrero is a Dominican-American actress. She is known for voicing Princess Elena on Disney Channel's Elena of Avalor and Adora/She-Ra in the Netflix series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Her live action roles include Sofia Rodriguez on the Freeform sitcom Young & Hungry and Angie on the Cartoon Network series Level Up.
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T. Y. Hilton
- Occupations
- player of American football
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Eugene Marquis "T. Y." Hilton is an American football wide receiver who is a free agent. He played college football at FIU, and was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft. Hilton has also played for the Dallas Cowboys.
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Mercedes Schlapp
- Enrolled in Florida International University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- writerlobbyistcolumnist
- Biography
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Mercedes Schlapp is an American communications specialist and political commentator for both English and Spanish media. She has served in two presidential administrations as director of specialty media under George W. Bush and as White House Director of Strategic Communications in the Trump administration from September 2017 to July 2019. She went on to work on the Trump 2020 re-election campaign as senior advisor for strategic communications.
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Frank Martin
- Occupations
- designerbasketball playerbasketball coacharchitect
- Biography
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Francisco José Martin is an American basketball coach serving as the head coach for the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team. Martin was previously the head coach of the University of South Carolina men's basketball team for ten seasons. Prior to that, he was the head coach of Kansas State University for five seasons.
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Carlos Arroyo
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Carlos Alberto Arroyo Bermúdez is a Puerto Rican former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association with the Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, and Boston Celtics.
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Chrissie Fit
- Occupations
- television produceractortelevision directortelevision actorscreenwriter
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Chrissie Fit is an American actress. In 2007, Fit rose to prominence after she was cast as the character Mercedes Juarez in the medical drama, General Hospital. She also played the roles of CheeChee in the DCOMs Teen Beach Movie and Teen Beach 2, and Florencia "Flo" Fuentes in Pitch Perfect 2 and Pitch Perfect 3.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
- Enrolled in Florida International University
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- In 1987 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is a politician and lobbyist from Miami, Florida, who represented Florida's 27th congressional district from 1989 to 2019. By the end of her tenure, she was the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida. She was Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2011–2013. In 1989, Ros-Lehtinen won a special election and became the first Cuban American elected to Congress. She was also the first Republican woman elected to the House from Florida. Ros-Lehtinen gave the first Republican response to the State of the Union address in Spanish in 2011, and gave the third in 2014.
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Raja Bell
- Enrolled in Florida International University
- Studied in 1997-1999
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Raja Dia Bell is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Philadelphia 76ers, Dallas Mavericks, Utah Jazz, Phoenix Suns, Charlotte Bobcats, and Golden State Warriors. He was twice named to the NBA All-Defensive Team in his career.
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Barbara Lagoa
- Enrolled in Florida International University
- In 1989 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English studies
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Barbara Lagoa is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to becoming a federal judge, she was the first Latina and Cuban American woman appointed to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
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Allie DiMeco
- Occupations
- television actorsingerfilm actoractormulti-instrumentalist
- Biography
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Alexandra Jean Theresa "Allie" DiMeco is an American actress, reality television personality, multi-instrumentalist, and model primarily known for playing the role of Nat Wolff's main love interest Rosalina in the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band.
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Jeanette Nuñez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jeanette Marie Nuñez is an American businesswoman and politician serving since 2019 as the 20th lieutenant governor of Florida. A member of the Republican Party, she represented Miami-Dade County in the Florida House of Representatives from 2010 to 2018, also serving as speaker pro tempore for her final two years in the office. Nuñez is the first Latina to serve as Florida lieutenant governor.
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Mike Lowell
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Michael Averett Lowell is an American former Major League Baseball third baseman. During a 13-year career, Lowell played for the New York Yankees (1998), Florida Marlins (1999–2005), and the Boston Red Sox (2006–2010). With the Red Sox, he was named MVP of the 2007 World Series.
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Michael Chiarello
- Occupations
- cheftelevision celebrity chef
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Michael Chiarello was an American celebrity chef who was known for Italian-influenced California cuisine. He hosted the cooking show Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello on Food Network and NapaStyle on Fine Living Network. Chiarello owned a winery called Chiarello Family Vineyards, located in Yountville, CA. He was the owner of a tapas restaurant named Coqueta and an Italian restaurant named Bottega and has locations in Napa Valley, California and San Francisco, California. Chiarello also owned NapaStyle in Yountville, CA, which sold a selection of exclusive drinkware, serverware, and designer tabletop pieces but however closed on January 4, 2016. He was a competitor on the fourth season of The Next Iron Chef. In the spring of 2013, Chiarello opened a tapas restaurant named Coqueta on San Francisco's waterfront. In March 2016, two former employees of Coqueta filed lawsuits alleging sexual harassment and labor law violations against Michael Chiarello and his restaurant group Gruppo Chiarello; the sexual harassment lawsuit was settled in 2017.
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Michael Caputo
- Enrolled in Florida International University
- Studied in 2006-2009
- Occupations
- political adviserpoliticianlobbyist
- Biography
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Michael Raymon Caputo is an American political strategist and lobbyist. In April 2020, Caputo was appointed as assistant secretary of public affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. He worked for the Reagan Administration with Oliver North, and later as director of media services on the campaign for President George H. W. Bush in the 1992 United States presidential election. Caputo moved to Russia in 1994, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and was an adviser to Boris Yeltsin. He worked for Gazprom Media in 2000 where he worked on improving the image of Vladimir Putin in the U.S. He moved back to the U.S. and founded a public relations company, and then moved to Ukraine to work on a candidate's campaign for parliament.
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Danny Danon
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Danny Danon is an Israeli politician and former diplomat. A member of the Likud party, Danon served in the Knesset from 2009 to 2015, and re-entered the Knesset in 2022. From 2015 to 2020, Danon served as Israel's 17th Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The former leader of the world Betar organization, Danon was elected Chairman of the World Likud. Considered a 'right-wing thorn in Netanyahu's side," Danon challenged Benjamin Netanyahu for the party's leadership in 2007 and 2014.
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Carmen Reinhart
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Carmen M. Reinhart is a Cuban-American economist and the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Founding Contributor of VoxEU, and a member of Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of American Economic Association, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, and the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. She became the subject of general news coverage when mathematical errors were found in a research paper she co-authored.
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Francis X. Suarez
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- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Francis Xavier Suarez is an American lawyer and politician who is the 43rd and current mayor of Miami since November 2017. The son of former Miami mayor Xavier Suarez, he previously served on the Miami City Commission from 2009 to 2017.
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Manny Diaz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Manuel Alberto Diaz is a Cuban-American politician who served as the chair of the Florida Democratic Party from 2021 to 2023. From 2001 to 2009, he served as the mayor of Miami, Florida.
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Paul Mainieri
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Paul Mainieri is an American former baseball coach and second baseman. He played college baseball at LSU, Miami-Dade CC and New Orleans before pursuing a professional baseball career. He then served as the head coach of the St. Thomas Bobcats (1983–1988), the Air Force Falcons (1989–1994), the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (1995–2006) and the LSU Tigers (2007–2021). Mainieri coached LSU to the 2009 College World Series Championship.
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Ricardo Nanita
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Ricardo Michael Nanita is a Dominican former professional baseball outfielder. He played for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and for the Dominican Republic national baseball team.
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Evelyn Sanguinetti
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Evelyn Sanguinetti is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 47th lieutenant governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019. She previously served on the Wheaton City Council. Sanguinetti announced her candidacy for the 2020 election in Illinois's 6th congressional district, challenging first-term Democratic incumbent Sean Casten, but dropped out on October 11, 2019.
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David Le Batard
- Years
- 1972-2023 (aged 51)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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David Adam Le Batard, also known by the nickname LEBO, was an American graphic and fine artist known for his murals, live painting, and sculpture. He was described as having been one of southern Florida's "most recognizable artists", and "almost an institution" in the art world for his wide range of media, projects, and locations.
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Richard Blanco
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherpoetcivil engineerdocent
- Biography
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Richard Blanco is an American poet, public speaker, author and civil engineer. He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem "One Today" for Barack Obama's second inauguration. He is the first immigrant, the first Latino, the first openly gay person and at the time the youngest person to be the U.S. inaugural poet. In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Adam Stewart
- Occupations
- business executiveinternational forum participant
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Adam Stewart is a Jamaican businessman. He is the executive chairman of the Caribbean-based resort company Sandals Resorts (SRI) and Beaches Resorts, president of the Sandals Foundation, and executive chairman of the ATL Group, a Jamaica-based automotive, commercial, and domestic appliance distributor. Stewart founded Island Routes Caribbean Adventures.
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Joe Carollo
- Enrolled in Florida International University
- In 1976 studied international relations
- Studied criminal justice
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joseph Xavier Carollo is a Cuban-American politician who served as mayor of Miami from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2001. Following his loss in the 2001 mayoral election, he served as Doral, Florida city manager from January 2013 until his firing in April 2014; he was reinstated in June 2017, then immediately resigned. He successfully ran for election to the Miami city commission in 2017.
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Elizabeth Perez
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Elizabeth Pérez is a Cuban-Venezuelan-American television journalist and presenter working for CNN en Español in Miami, Florida.
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Dawn Ostroff
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Dawn Ostroff is an American businesswoman. She was the chief content officer and advertising business officer of Spotify, and is the former president of entertainment of The CW and former president of Condé Nast Entertainment.
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Edwin Ríos
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Edwin Gabriel Ríos is a Puerto Rican professional baseball third baseman and first baseman who is a player in the Cincinnati Reds organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs. He played college baseball for Florida International University. Ríos was drafted by the Dodgers in the sixth round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft and debuted for them in 2019.
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Anitere Flores
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anitere Flores is a Republican politician from Miami, Florida. She served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 2004 to 2010. Subsequently, she served in the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2020. In the 2016–18 legislative session, Flores served as president pro tempore of the Senate.
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David Rivera
- Enrolled in Florida International University
- In 1986 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- In 1994 graduated with Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Mauricio Rivera is an American Republican politician from Florida. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for one term, representing parts of South Florida from 2011 to 2013.
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Steve Ralston
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Steve Ralston is an American former soccer player and manager who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his playing career in Major League Soccer with the Tampa Bay Mutiny and the New England Revolution, retiring in 2010 as the league's all-time career leader in assists (135), appearances (378), starts (372), and minutes played (33,143). He also held the U.S. record for professional appearances (412) in 2010. He served as assistant manager at several teams, including the Houston Dynamo and San Jose Earthquakes, including a brief stint as the interim head coach at the Earthquakes in 2018.
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Bobby Boswell
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Robert Allen "Bobby" Boswell is an American retired soccer player. He played his entire professional career in Major League Soccer, mostly with the Houston Dynamo and D.C. United. He retired in 2017 with over 360 appearances in MLS. His best season was in 2006, when he won the MLS Defender of the Year award.
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Greg Ellingson
- Occupations
- player of American footballCanadian football player
- Biography
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Greg Ellingson is an American professional Canadian football wide receiver for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Florida International. He has also been a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars, New Orleans VooDoo, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Storm, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Ottawa Redblacks, Edmonton Elks, and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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Teresita Fernández
- Occupations
- sculptorinstallation artistdrawerphotographer
- Biography
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Teresita Fernández is a New York-based visual artist best known for her public sculptures and unconventional use of materials. Her work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking. Her experiential, large-scale works are often inspired by landscape and natural phenomena as well as diverse historical and cultural references. Her sculptures present spectacular optical illusions and evoke natural phenomena, land formations, and water in its infinite forms.
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Barbara Sharief
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Barbara Muhammad Sharief is an American politician and nurse. Serving as a Broward County commissioner from 2010 to 2021, she was appointed mayor from 2013 to 2014, and again from 2016 to 2017. She is the county's first African-American female and Muslim mayor. Sharief is also a former Miramar city commissioner and vice mayor. In September 2022, she announced her candidacy for Florida's 35th Senate District in the 2024 election.
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Eulis Báez
- Occupations
- volleyball playerbasketball player
- Biography
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Eulis Báez is a Dominican professional basketball player for Real Betis of the Spanish Liga ACB. He competes internationally with the Dominican Republic national basketball team, and has appeared in various events, including the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship and 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Báez played college basketball with three college teams spanning from 2002 to 2005: Florida International, Southeastern Iowa Community College, and Western Illinois.
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Cecilia Altonaga
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Cecilia María Altonaga is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She is the first Cuban-American woman to be appointed as a federal judge in the United States.
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Tyrone Marshall
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Tyrone Everton Marshall is a retired Jamaican footballer and current head coach of FC Cincinnati 2, the reserve team of Major League Soccer's FC Cincinnati.
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Jeff Cassar
- Occupations
- goalkeeper coachassociation football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Jeff Cassar is an American soccer coach and former goalkeeper who last coached Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer.
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Margie Goldstein-Engle
- Occupations
- show jumper
- Biography
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Margie Goldstein-Engle is an American show jumping equestrian, and a 10-time American Grandprix Association Rider of the Year.
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Ana Cristina
- Occupations
- singer-songwritermodelsingerpianistguitarist
- Biography
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Ana Cristina Cash is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter.
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Ifeoma Dieke
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Ifeoma Nnenna Dieke is an American-born Scottish international footballer who played as a defender for several professional clubs in Sweden, the United States, and Cyprus. Between 2004 and 2017, she won 123 caps for the Scotland women's national football team. Dieke was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Nigerian parents, moving to Cumbernauld in Scotland when she was three years old. Dieke was the first black woman to captain for Scotland, and Dieke and fellow Scot Kim Little were the only non-English players selected in the Great Britain squad for the 2012 London Olympics.
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Antwan Barnes
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Antwan Edward Barnes is a former American football outside linebacker. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Florida International. Barnes also played for the Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers, and New York Jets.
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Teair Tart
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Teair Tart is an American football nose tackle for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at ASA, Ellsworth CC, and FIU.
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Willy Gort
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wilfredo Gort de los Llanos is a Cuban-American politician who served as the 37th and acting Mayor of Miami from June to July 1996. Gort was a City of Miami Commissioner from 1993 to 2001 and again from 2010 to 2020.
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Mark Worrell
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Mark Robert Worrell is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Baltimore Orioles between 2008 and 2011.
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Ariana Fajardo Orshan
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Ariana Fajardo Orshan is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 2018 to 2021. She was previously a Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida.
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John Barsa
- Occupations
- businesspersoncivil servant
- Biography
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John Barsa is an American businessman and consultant who currently serves as the executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba. Previously, Barsa served as the United States Agency for International Development Acting Administrator in 2020. Later, the White House requested that he assume the position of USAID Acting Deputy Administrator on November 7, 2020, which effectively circumvented the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 and would have required that he step down and leave the administrator's post vacant.
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Bryan Avila
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bryan Avila is an American Republican politician who currently serves as a member of the Florida Senate, representing the 39th District. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 111th District, which includes parts of Miami and Hialeah in northeastern Miami-Dade County, since 2014. Avila will be term limited in 2022 and has announced his intention to run for Miami Dade County commission district 6.
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Carlos Alvarez
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Carlos Álvarez is a Cuban American politician, and the former mayor of Miami-Dade County. He was first elected mayor in 2004, and re-elected in 2008. His mayoralty ended in March 2011 after a recall election. In both mayoral elections, he listed his party as "No Party Preference", but an article in The Christian Science Monitor described him as a member of the Republican Party.
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Dalma Iványi
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Dalma Iványi is a Hungarian basketball player and coach, who played as a guard. She won 10 Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A Championships with Mizo Pécs 2010 and PINKK-Pécsi 424. She also played for Utah Starzz, Phoenix Mercury, and San Antonio Silver Stars in the American Women's National Basketball Association. Iványi is the current coach of Hungarian club UNI Győr.
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Noah Schwartz
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Noah Schwartz is an American professional poker player from Miami Beach, Florida. He has won a World Series of Poker bracelet and a World Poker Tour title. He has reached six WPT final tables, five WSOP final tables and his lifetime winnings as of April 2016 exceed $5.3 million.
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Andrea Nagy
- Enrolled in Florida International University
- Studied in 1995
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Andrea Nagy is a retired professional basketball player. After a stand-out career playing at Florida International University, Nagy was drafted into the ABL before finishing her career in the WNBA playing as a point guard.
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Ronald Forbes
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Ronald Joseph Forbes is a track athlete from the Cayman Islands.
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Aranka Siegal
- Occupations
- memoirist
- Biography
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Aranka Siegal is a writer, Holocaust survivor, and recipient of the Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, both awarded to her in 1982. She is the author of three books, the best known of which is Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1930-1944, a memoir of her childhood in Hungary before her 12-month imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz – Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen.
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Ana Maria Rodriguez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ana Maria Rodriguez is a Republican member of the Florida Senate, representing the 40th district encompassing Monroe and parts of Miami-Dade Counties since 2020.
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Elih Villanueva
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Elih Christopher Villanueva is an American professional baseball pitcher and pitching coach who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, who drafted him in the 27th round of the 2008 Major League Baseball draft out of Florida State University. He has also played in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Chinatrust Brothers and Rakuten Monkeys.
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Jose Fernandez
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Jose Luis Fernandez is the head coach of the University of South Florida women's basketball team, starting in 2000.
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Garvin Alston
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Garvin James Alston Sr. is an American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies in 1996. After retiring from playing, he entered coaching and previously served as the pitching coach for the Minnesota Twins. He is currently the bullpen coach for the San Francisco Giants.
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Ashleigh Shim
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Ashleigh Jerise Shim is a Jamaican footballer who plays as a forward for the Jamaica national team. She also holds British citizenship of the Cayman Islands.
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Ian Richards
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Ian Jason Richards is a former county court judge in the Florida's 17th Judicial Circuit. Richards was the first African-American judge to be elected countywide in Broward County, Florida. He presided over State of Florida v. John Reasee, in which Richards jumped over his bench to protect a witness who was being attacked by the man against whom she had testified.
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Ann Valérie Timothée Milfort
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ann Valérie Timothée Milfort, is the cabinet chief of staff of Haiti. She is the current president of Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale (PHTK).
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Jean Monestime
- Born in
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Haiti - Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Jean Monestime is an American politician, real estate businessman and member of the Miami-Dade County Commission since 2010. He is the first Haitian-American to serve as a Miami-Dade County commissioner, as well as the first to chair the commission. Monestime represents District 2 in northeast Miami-Dade County, which incorporates portions of North Miami, North Miami Beach and Biscayne Gardens, as well as the Miami neighborhoods of Little Haiti and Liberty City.
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Juan C. Zapata
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Juan Carlos Zapata, is an American businessman, politician and the owner of Zapata Consulting. Founded in 2004, Zapata Consulting focuses on assisting clients in building strong relationships with public officials and community stakeholders, identifying and pursuing business opportunities, and developing strategies to strengthen a company's brand and market position. Prior to the company's inception, Mr. Zapata was involved in importing seafood, real estate and other business ventures. He also has a strong background in non-profit management.
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Noemi Lung
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Noemi Lung Zaharia is a retired butterfly, freestyle and medley swimmer from Romania, who won two individual medley medals at the 1988 Olympics. A year before she collected a record five gold medals at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb.
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Antoine Ghonda
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Antoine Ghonda Mangalibi was the foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from June 30, 2003, until July 23, 2004.
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Grant Henry
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Grant Henry, aka Sister Louisa, is an American former divinity student, artist, and businessman based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for his artwork and installations created under the auspice of his alter ego "Sister Louisa" and for being the proprietor of the popular Atlanta bar, Sister Louisa's Church of the Living Room and Ping Pong Emporium.
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Dicken Schrader
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Dicken Schrader is a Colombian-American creative director, director, video artist and musician. He is most noted for his YouTube viral videos featuring himself and his two children, Milah and Korben, performing cover versions of Depeche Mode songs using an old keyboard and various toys and household items as instruments, under the name DMK. Schrader and his children are featured in the film Spirits in the Forest, directed by Anton Corbijn.
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Juan Fernandez-Barquin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Juan Alfonso Fernandez-Barquin is an American attorney and politician who has served as clerk of the courts of Miami-Dade County since his appointment in June 2023. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2018 until his appointment as clerk, representing parts of southwest Miami-Dade County.
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Shawn Riggans
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Shawn Willis Riggans is a former professional baseball catcher for the Tampa Bay Rays, spending parts of four seasons with the club from 2006 through 2009.
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Stephanie Burns
- Occupations
- international forum participantchemist
- Biography
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Stephanie A. Burns is an American organosilicon chemist and businesswoman, who served as president and CEO of Dow Corning from 2003 to 2011. She has also served as honorary president of Society of Chemical Industry.
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Irma Becerra Fernandez
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- provost
- Biography
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Irma Becerra-Fernandez is an American electrical engineer and the seventh president of Marymount University. She has held this role since July 1, 2018. Prior to her current post, she was the provost and chief academic officer at St. Thomas University.
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James F. O'Brien
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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James F. O'Brien is a computer graphics researcher and professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also co-founder and chief science officer at Avametric, a company developing software for virtual clothing try on. In 2015, he received an award for Scientific and Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
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Amy Serrano
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Amy Serrano is an American filmmaker, author and human rights activist. She is most well known for her documentary, The Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers on the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic. She has also produced and directed several documentaries for PBS.
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Andy Señor, Jr
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Andres "Andy" Señor Jr. is an American actor, stage director and filmmaker.
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Elizabeth Tudor
- Occupations
- science fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Elizabeth Tudor (Элизабет Тюдор; full name Lala Elizabeth Tudor Hassenberg (Лала Элизабет Тюдор Гассенберг), also known as Lala Hasanova (Лала Гасанова) (born July 26, 1978 in Baku), is an Azerbaijani-Russian science fiction writer and lawyer of Jewish ancestry.
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Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau
- Occupations
- writeressayistpoettranslatorlinguist
- Biography
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Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau is an Argentine-born French author, born in Argentina in 1964.
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Danny Vasquez
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Danny Vasquez is an American soccer player who last played for Miami FC in the USL First Division.
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Brandon Timinsky
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Brandon Timinsky is an American entrepreneur and public speaker. Brandon co-founded GasNinjas, a fuel delivery startup acquired by Silicon Valley-based Exajoule. Timinsky's previous projects include a digital agency, social media marketing services, two real estate technology platforms, wearables, and an automotive focused e-commerce business.
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Willie Collazo
- Occupations
- professional baseball player
- Biography
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William Collazo [koy-yah'-zo] is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball pitcher. During the 2007 season, he appeared in six games for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). Since 2016, Collazo has worked as a minor league pitching coach in the Toronto Blue Jays organization.
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Cassandra Quave
- Enrolled in Florida International University
- 2003-2008 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherherbarium curatorethnobotanist
- Biography
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Cassandra Leah Quave is an American ethnobotanist, herbarium curator, and associate professor at Emory University. Her research focuses on analyzing natural, plant-based medicine of indigenous cultures to help combat infectious disease and antibiotic resistance. In particular, she studies bacterial biofilm inhibition and quorum-sensing inhibition of botanical extracts for inflammatory skin conditions.
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Pan Suk Kim
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- public administration scholar
- Biography
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Pan Suk Kim is a South Korean professor in the field of public administration. He is currently a commission member of the International Civil Service Commission of the United Nations and the International Director of the American Society for Public Administration. He was an assistant professor of public administration in the School of Public Service at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia from 1991 to 1994. Kim is currently a professor emeritus of Public Administration in the Department of Global Public Administration, Yonsei University, Mirae Campus in South Korea.
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Joe Clifford
- Occupations
- editorwriter
- Biography
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Joe Clifford is an American author and editor. His work crosses genres but features mystery and crime fiction. Past struggles with addiction, about which he is candid, have fundamentally influenced his writing.
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Alberto Milian
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Alberto Milian is a Cuban-American soldier, lawyer and judge from Florida. He is a judge in the criminal division of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida.
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Wanle Akinboboye
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Wanle Akinboboye is a Nigerian culture and tourism icon, who owns the world's first African themed beach, forest and river resort- La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort. In recent times, he has commissioned additional resorts in other destinations, such as in Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, Wolyta Soddo in Ethiopia and Koton-Karfe, Kogi State, Nigeria. He created and produces the popular Mare Festival for Ondo State government.
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Raoul Voss
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Raoul Voss is a German association football coach.
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Rene Garcia
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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René García is a Republican politician from Florida. He has served on the Miami-Dade County Commission since 2020, representing the Hialeah area. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and in the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2018.
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Jerome Frink
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jerome Frink is an American basketball player for AB Contern of the Total League. He played college basketball for Florida International University (FIU) and LIU Brooklyn. He was named the 2017 Northeast Conference Player of the Year.
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Moira Dunn
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Moira C. Dunn is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour.
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Mark S. Pafford
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mark S. Pafford is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing District 88 (2008–2012) and District 86 (2012–2016) which included Haverhill, Loxahatchee Groves, Royal Palm Beach, and Wellington in east-central Palm Beach County. Pafford's professional career includes work in the non-profit sector including stints with the ACLU, The Lord's Place, Area Agency on Aging, Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades and CEO of Florida Community Health Action Information Network (CHAIN).
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Osasumwen Osaghae
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Osasumwen Osaghae Jr. is an American basketball player for Spirou of the BNXT League. He played college basketball for the FIU Panthers.
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Rafael Borras
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Biography
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Rafael Borras was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the Under Secretary for Management at the Department of Homeland Security. He joined the Department in April 2010.
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Michael Hamersley
- Biography
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Michael Hamersley is a tax lawyer who, in 2003, became a corporate whistleblower against the accounting firm KPMG's tax shelter fraud. In 2006 he was a candidate for the U.S. Congress in California's 4th congressional district, obtaining third place in the Democratic party primary. Hamersley worked in the Legal Division of California's Franchise Tax Board, as a member of its Abusive Tax Shelter Task Force, from 2004 through 2009.
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Mark Grater
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Mark Anthony Grater is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Grater played in nine games over parts of two seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He batted and threw right-handed.
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Emma Trelles
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpoet
- Biography
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Emma Trelles is a Latina poet, writer, professor, and served as poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California from 2021-2023.
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Charlie Hall
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles Albert Hall Jr. was an American firefighter, labor activist, and politician who served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1980 to 1982.
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Steven Cabas
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Steven Cabas is an American soccer player who played for Miami FC in the USSF Division 2 Professional League.
