17 Notable alumni of
Gallaudet University
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Gallaudet University is 1646th in the world, 578th in North America, and 545th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 17 notable alumni from Gallaudet 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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Nyle DiMarco
- Occupations
- militantmodeltelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Nyle DiMarco is an American model, actor, and Deaf activist. In 2015, DiMarco was the winner of The CW's reality television series America's Next Top Model in season 22, becoming the second male winner and the first Deaf winner. In the following year, he and professional dance partner Peta Murgatroyd were the winners of the ABC televised dance competition Dancing with the Stars in season 22.
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Lauren Ridloff
- Enrolled in Gallaudet University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Lauren Ridloff is a deaf American actress known for her roles in the TV series The Walking Dead and the film Eternals. She gained prominence in 2018 with a lead role in the Broadway revival of Children of a Lesser God, earning her a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. Ridloff was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended California State University, Northridge and later earned a master's degree in education from Hunter College. She initially worked as a teacher before pursuing acting, and she was also crowned Miss Deaf America.
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Troy Kotsur
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- actorfilm director
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Troy Michael Kotsur is an American actor. Born deaf, Kotsur made his acting debut in the late 1980s working with the National Theatre of the Deaf. His television debut was in a 2001 episode of Strong Medicine and his film debut was in the 2007 thriller The Number 23.
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Daniel Durant
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- actor
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Daniel N. Durant is an American stage and screen actor. Deaf since birth, his breakthrough starring role was as Moritz Stiefel in the 2015 Broadway revival of Spring Awakening. Durant had a major supporting role in the Academy Award-winning film CODA (2021). He and the cast won the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, along with the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards. On television, he is known for his recurring role in the ABC Family series Switched at Birth (2013–2017).
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Shoshannah Stern
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Shoshannah Stern is an American actress and writer.
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Russell Harvard
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Russell Wayne Harvard is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), playing opposite Daniel Day-Lewis as his adopted son, H.W. Plainview. In the 2010 biopic The Hammer, he portrayed deaf NCAA championship wrestler and UFC mixed martial arts fighter Matt Hamill. Harvard also won acclaim Off Broadway in 2012 as Billy, the deaf son in an intellectual, though dysfunctional, hearing British family, in Tribes by Nina Raine. For his interpretation, he won a 2012 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance and nominations for Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor. He played Mr. Wrench in the first and third seasons of the television series Fargo.
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Emilio Insolera
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- film produceractorfilm actormanufacturerfilm director
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Emilio Insolera is an Italian deaf actor and producer, known for Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes (2017). In 2022, Insolera had a role in Simon Kinberg's The 355. Between 2022 and 2024, Insolera collaborated on feature films for Universal Pictures, Disney, and Paramount Pictures.
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Roberto Wirth
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- entrepreneur
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Roberto Enrico Wirth was the owner and managing director of the Hotel Hassler, a five-star hotel located at the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy. Roberto E. Wirth represented the fifth generation of Swiss hoteliers. His parents Oscar Wirth and Carmen Bucher Wirth were both descendants of two families of hoteliers: the Bucher family from the Luzern area in Switzerland and the Wirth family from Maulach, Germany.
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George Veditz
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- educatorfilm director
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George William Veditz was an American educator, filmmaker, and activist who served as the seventh President of the National Association of the Deaf from 1904 to 1910. He is remembered as one of the most ardent and visible advocates of American Sign Language (ASL) and was one of the first people to film ASL. His 1913 film "Preservation of the Sign Language" was added to the National Film Registry in 2010.
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Arika Okrent
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- talk show guestEsperantistlinguist
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Arika Okrent /ˈɛrɪkə ˈoʊkrɛnt/ is an American linguist and writer of popular works on linguistic topics.
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Audree Norton
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- actor
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Audree Lauraine Norton was a deaf actress and educator.
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Robert Panara
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- educator
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Robert F. Panara was a poet, a professor and a co-founder of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) and the National Theater of the Deaf. Panara is considered to be a pioneer in deaf culture studies in the United States.
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Carl G. Croneberg
- Enrolled in Gallaudet University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English studies
- Occupations
- professorlinguistresearcher
- Biography
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Carl Gustav Arvid Olof Croneberg was a Swedish-American Deaf linguist known for his work on American Sign Language (ASL).
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Andrew Phillips
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United States - Occupations
- lawyer
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Andrew Phillips is a deaf lawyer, and an advocate for equal access.
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Cadwallader Lincoln Washburn
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- painteretcher
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Cadwallader Lincoln Washburn was an American artist and adventurer. Deaf from the age of five, Washburn had a varied career, including creating paintings and etchings and serving as a war correspondent in the Russo-Japanese War, Mexican Revolution, and World War I. He was also an accomplished naturalist, writing on the intelligence of insects and spiders as well as serving on an expedition collecting bird eggs.
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Samuel Thomas Greene
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- educator
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Samuel Thomas Greene was a Deaf American educator and Ontario's first Deaf teacher in 1870 at the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, which later changed to Sir James Whitney School of the Deaf in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. He was born in 1843 in Portland, Maine and attended America's first Deaf school in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Harvey Prindle Peet
- Enrolled in Gallaudet University
- In 1871 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Harvey Prindle Peet was an American educator.
