19 Notable alumni of
Guilford College
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Guilford College is 1959th in the world, 676th in North America, and 636th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from Guilford 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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Zack Hample
- Occupations
- booksellerwriter
- Biography
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Zachary Ben Hample is an American baseball collector. Hample claims to have collected more than 12,000 baseballs from Major League stadiums, including Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th career hit and Mike Trout's first career home run.
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M. L. Carr
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- businesspersonbasketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Michael Leon Carr is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA), and former head coach and General Manager of the Boston Celtics.
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Dave Odom
- Occupations
- American football playerbasketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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George David Odom is an American retired men's college basketball coach. He served as the head coach of the East Carolina Pirates, Wake Forest Demon Deacons, and South Carolina Gamecocks.
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Tony Womack
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Anthony Darrell Womack is an American former professional baseball player. He played all or parts of 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), with most of his career spent with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Arizona Diamondbacks, then with several other teams during his last four years. A middle infielder, Womack was recognized for his speed and base-stealing prowess and his key hits in the 2001 playoffs which led to the Diamondbacks 2001 World Series win over the New York Yankees.
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Jennifer King
- Occupations
- coachbasketball playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Jennifer King is an American football coach who is an offensive assistant for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). She is best known for being the first black woman to be a full-time NFL coach upon being named assistant running backs coach for the Washington Commanders in 2021. A former two-sport athlete at Guilford College, King has also coached women's college basketball and for the NFL's Carolina Panthers.
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Rick Ferrell
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Richard Benjamin Ferrell was an American professional baseball player, coach, scout, and executive. He played for 18 seasons as a catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1929 through 1947 for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox, and Washington Senators. His brother, Wes Ferrell, was a major league pitcher for 15 seasons, and they were teammates from 1933 through part of 1938 on the Red Sox and Senators. Following his three seasons in minor league baseball, he appealed to the Commissioner of Baseball to become a free agent, claiming that he was being held in the minors though he deserved promotion. The Commissioner agreed, and he was granted free agency; he signed with the St. Louis Browns.
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Howard Coble
- Enrolled in Guilford College
- In 1958 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Howard Coble was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district, serving from 1985 to 2015. He was a member of the Republican Party. The district includes all or portions of ten counties in the northern-central part of the state, including portions of Greensboro and Durham.
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Bob Kauffman
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Robert Kauffman was an American professional basketball player and coach. Kaufmann was a three-time NBA All-Star.
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Ernie Shore
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Ernest Grady Shore was an American professional baseball pitcher. Shore played in Major League Baseball for the New York Giants of the National League in 1912, and in the American League for the Boston Red Sox from 1914 to 1917, and the New York Yankees from 1919 to 1920.
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Doc Searls
- Enrolled in Guilford College
- 1965-1969 studied philosophy
- Occupations
- journalistpodcaster
- Biography
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David "Doc" Searls, is an American journalist, columnist, and a widely read blogger. He is the host of FLOSS Weekly, a free and open-source software (FLOSS) themed netcast from the TWiT Network, a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, editor-in-chief of Linux Journal, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an alumnus fellow (2006–2010) of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and co-host of the Reality 2.0 Podcast.
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Rick Goings
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Rick Goings is Chairman Emeritus of Tupperware Brands. He served as a petty officer in the United States Navy during the Vietnam era. Following this, he founded the fire detector distributor Dynamics, Inc. After his sale of the company, he worked in various positions with Avon, including president of Avon USA. In 1992 he joined Tupperware Worldwide as the CEO.
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Joseph M. Dixon
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Joseph Moore Dixon was an American Republican politician from Montana. He served as a Representative, Senator, and the seventh Governor of Montana. A businessman and a modernizer of Quaker heritage, Dixon was a leader of the Progressive Movement in Montana and nationally. He was the national chairman for Theodore Roosevelt running for the presidency as the candidate of the Progressive Party in 1912.
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James Beverly
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Theodore Beverly is an American politician from the state of Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, Beverly has represented the 143rd district in the Georgia House of Representatives since January 2013. He has served as Minority Leader since January 2021.
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Tom Zachary
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jonathan Thompson Walton Zachary was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for 19 seasons. A left-handed pitcher, he spent most of his early career playing for the Washington Senators, with whom he won the 1924 World Series. He is well known for surrendering Babe Ruth's historic 60th home run in 1927, and he would become Ruth's teammate the following season. Over the course of his career, he also played for the Philadelphia A's, St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees, Boston Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Philadelphia Phillies.
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Big Jack Armstrong
- Years
- 1945-2008 (aged 63)
- Occupations
- radio personalitydisc jockey
- Biography
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Big Jack Armstrong, also known as Jack Armstrong, Jackson W. Armstrong, and Big Jack Your Leader, was a top-40 disc jockey of the 1960s through the 1980s, and an oldies DJ until 2006.
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Tom Abrams
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
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Tom Abrams is an American screenwriter and director whose work has been recognized in both the United States and Europe.
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John Faircloth
- Occupations
- politicianpolice officer
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Joseph Aubrey "John" Faircloth Jr. is a former Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. He represented the 62nd district (and its preceding 61st district) from 2011 to 2024. The district covers parts of western Guilford County.
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Charles Doak
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- basketball coachbaseball manager
- Biography
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Charles Glenn "Chick" Doak coached baseball at North Carolina State University from 1924 to 1939 where he accumulated 145 wins, 131 losses, 6 ties.
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John Hamlin Folger
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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John Hamlin Folger was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1941 and 1949.
