18 Notable alumni of
Guilford College
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Guilford College is 1962nd in the world, 681st in North America, and 641st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 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
- writerbookseller
- 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 coachbasketball player
- 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
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- player of American footballbasketball coachbasketball player
- 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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Howard Coble
- Enrolled in Guilford College
- In 1958 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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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 in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox, and Washington Senators, from 1929 through 1947. 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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Bob Kauffman
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- 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 right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox during some of their best years in the 1910s.
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Jennifer King
- Occupations
- coachplayer of American footballbasketball player
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Jennifer King is an American football coach, best known for being the first black woman to be a fulltime National Football League (NFL) coach when she was 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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Doc Searls
- Enrolled in Guilford College
- 1965-1969 studied philosophy
- Occupations
- podcasterjournalist
- 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
- international forum participantchief 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
- politicianlawyer
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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 nation chairman for Theodore Roosevelt running for the presidency as the candidate of the Progressive Party in 1912.
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Tom Zachary
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jonathan Thompson Walton Zachary was a professional baseball pitcher.
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Big Jack Armstrong
- Years
- 1945-2008 (aged 63)
- Occupations
- disc jockeyradio personality
- 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
- screenwriterfilm director
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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
- police officerpolitician
- Biography
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Joseph Aubrey "John" Faircloth Jr. is a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. He has represented the 62nd district (and its preceding 61st district) since 2011. The district covers parts of western Guilford County.
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Charles Doak
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- baseball managerbasketball coach
- 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
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- politicianlawyer
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John Hamlin Folger was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1941 and 1949.
