100 Notable alumni of
Haverford College
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Haverford College is 616th in the world, 226th in North America, and 208th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Haverford 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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Chevy Chase
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- voice actorscreenwritertelevision presentercomediantelevision actor
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Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He became the breakout cast member in the first season of Saturday Night Live (1975–1976), where his recurring Weekend Update segment became a staple of the show. As both a performer and a writer on the series, he earned two Primetime Emmy Awards out of four nominations.
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Daniel Dae Kim
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- voice actortelevision directorvideo game actorfilm producerfilm actor
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Daniel Dae Kim is an American actor. He portrayed Jin-Soo Kwon in Lost, Chin Ho Kelly in Hawaii Five-0, Gavin Park in Angel, and Ben Daimio in Hellboy. He also provided the voice of Chief Benja in the animated film Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Johnny Gat in the Saints Row video game series. He runs production company 3AD, which produced the television series The Good Doctor.
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Judd Nelson
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorstage actormanufacturer
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Judd Asher Nelson is an American actor. His acting roles include Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime in The Transformers: The Movie, John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Alec Newbury in St. Elmo's Fire, Alex in Cybermutt, Joe Hunt in Billionaire Boys Club, Nick Peretti in New Jack City, Billy Beretti in Empire, and Jack Richmond in the television series Suddenly Susan.
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George Segal
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- voice actorfilm producerfilm actorstage actorbanjoist
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George Segal Jr. was an American actor. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as Ship of Fools (1965) and King Rat (1965), he co-starred in the classic drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
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Jon Kabat-Zinn
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- writeruniversity teachermolecular biologist
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Jon Kabat-Zinn is an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Zen Buddhist teachers such as Philip Kapleau, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Seung Sahn, and a founding member of Cambridge Zen Center. His practice of hatha yoga, Vipassanā and appreciation of the teachings of Soto Zen and Advaita Vedanta led him to integrate their teachings with scientific findings. He teaches mindfulness, which he says can help people cope with stress, anxiety, pain, and illness. The stress reduction program created by Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), is offered by medical centers, hospitals, and health maintenance organizations, and is described in his book Full Catastrophe Living.
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Juan Williams
- Enrolled in Haverford College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- journalistpolitical pundit
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Juan Antonio Williams is a Panamanian-American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel. He writes for several newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic and Time. Williams has worked as an editorial writer, an op-ed columnist, a White House correspondent, and a national correspondent. He is a registered Democrat.
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Alex Karp
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- businessperson
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Alexander Caedmon Karp is an American billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. As of February 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$9.73 billion, ranking him 276th on their list of the world's billionaires.
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Fredric Jameson
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- political scientistpoliticianwriterteacherliterary theorist
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Fredric Ruff Jameson was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) and The Political Unconscious (1981).
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Takeo Arishima
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- poetliterary criticwriterprose writernovelist
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Takeo Arishima was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist during the late Meiji and Taishō periods. His two younger brothers, Ikuma Arishima (有島生馬) and Ton Satomi (里美弴), were also authors. His son was the internationally known film and stage actor, Masayuki Mori.
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Howard Lutnick
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- businessperson
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Howard William Lutnick is an American businessman, who succeeded Bernard Gerald Cantor as the head of Cantor Fitzgerald. Lutnick is the chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Group. After losing 658 employees, including his brother, in the September 11 attacks, Lutnick also survived the subsequent collapse of the towers on the ground, and has since become known for his charity efforts through the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, which helps to aid families of victims of the attacks and natural disasters.
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Dave Barry
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- journalistnovelisthumoristchildren's writeractor
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David McAlister Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005).
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Maxfield Parrish
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- designerpainterillustrator
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Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. His career spanned more than sixty years and was wildly successful: the National Museum of American Illustration deemed his painting Daybreak (1922) to be the most successful art print of the 20th century.
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Oscar Goodman
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- lawyerpolitician
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Oscar Baylin Goodman is an American attorney and politician. A Democrat-turned-independent, Goodman was the mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada from 1999 to 2011. His wife, Carolyn Goodman, succeeded him as mayor in 2011.
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Andy Gavin
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- engineercomputer scientistnovelist
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Andrew Scott Gavin is an American video game programmer, entrepreneur, and novelist. Gavin co-founded the video game company Naughty Dog with childhood friend Jason Rubin in 1986, which released games including Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter. Prior to founding Naughty Dog, Gavin worked in LISP at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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Nicholson Baker
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- writernovelist
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Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. His early novels such as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature were distinguished by their minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness. Out of a total of ten novels, three are erotica: Vox, The Fermata and House of Holes.
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Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
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- paramedicathletics competitorpoliticianpeace activistdiplomat
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Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, PC, born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a silver medal for the 1500m at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.
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Henry H. Goddard
- Years
- 1866-1957 (aged 91)
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- psychologistpedagogue
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Henry Herbert Goddard was an American psychologist, eugenicist, and segregationist during the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, which he himself came to regard as flawed for its ahistoric depiction of the titular family, and for translating the Binet-Simon Intelligence Test into English in 1908 and distributing an estimated 22,000 copies of the translated test across the United States. He also introduced the term "moron" for clinical use.
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Christopher Morley
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- essayistwriternovelistopinion journalisthumorist
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Christopher Darlington Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
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Joseph Hooton Taylor
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- astronomerNobel Prize winneruniversity teacherphysicistastrophysicist
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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."
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Kriyananda
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- writer
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Kriyananda was an American Hindu religious leader, yoga guru, meditation teacher, musician, and author. He was a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda and founder of the spiritual movement named "Ananda". He wrote numerous songs and dozens of books. According to the LA Times, the main themes of his work were compassion and humility, but he was a controversial figure. Kriyananda and Ananda were sued for copyright issues, sexual harassment, and later, for alleged fraud and labor-law violations.
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Kōichirō Matsuura
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- diplomatconsul general
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Kōichirō Matsuura is a Japanese diplomat. He is the former Director-General of UNESCO. He was first elected in 1999 to a six-year term and reelected on 12 October 2005 for four years, following a reform instituted by the 29th session of the General Conference. In November 2009, he was replaced by Irina Bokova.
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George Smith
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- chemistbiologistbiochemist
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George Pearson Smith is an American biologist and Nobel laureate. He is a Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, US.
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John C. Whitehead
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- politicianbankereconomistbusinesspersoninvestment banker
- Biography
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John Cunningham Whitehead was an American banker and civil servant, a board member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTC Memorial Foundation), and, until his resignation in May 2006, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
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Theodore William Richards
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- chemist
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Theodore William Richards was an American physical chemist and the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements."
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James Clifford
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- anthropologistuniversity teacherhistorian
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James Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work combines perspectives from history, literature, history of science, and anthropology.
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Charles Mathias
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- politicianmilitary officerlawyer
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Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Maryland. A member of the Republican Party, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1969 to 1987. He was also a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1959 to 1961.
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Samuel Hill
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- businessperson
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Samuel Hill, was an American businessman, lawyer, railroad executive, and advocate of good roads. He substantially influenced the Pacific Northwest region's economic development in the early 20th century.
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Hafsat Abiola
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- human rights activist
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Hafsat Olaronke Abiola-Costello, in Lagos, is a Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist, founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), which seeks to strengthen civil society and promote democracy in Nigeria. She is President of Women in Africa Initiative (WIA), international platform for the economic development and support of African women entrepreneurs. She is also one of the founders of Connected Women Leaders (CWL).
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Julius Katchen
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- pianistmusician
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Julius Katchen was an American concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Johannes Brahms's solo piano works.
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Ken Ludwig
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- theatrical directorauthorplaywrightlawyer
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Ken Ludwig is an American playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose work has been performed in more than 30 countries in over 20 languages. He has had six productions on Broadway and eight in London's West End. His 34 plays and musicals are staged throughout the United States and around the world every night of the year.
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Mark D. Levine
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- politician
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Mark D. Levine is an American politician and educator serving as the 28th Borough President of Manhattan since 2022. Previously, he served as member of the New York City Council from 2014 to 2021, where he represented the 7th district covering Manhattan neighborhoods of Morningside Heights, West Harlem, Washington Heights, and part of the Upper West Side.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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- writerliterary critic
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Logan Pearsall Smith was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, Unforgotten Years, in 1938.
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Ronald M. Shapiro
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- adviserlife coachlawyerentrepreneurjurist
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Ronald M. Shapiro is an American attorney, businessman, sports agent and author.
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Ron Christie
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- journalistlawyer
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Ronald Irvin Christie is an American government relations expert and Republican political strategist, who has also worked as a member of former Vice President Dick Cheney's staff. He is the author of two books, and an occasional guest on various cable news programs. He serves as an adjunct professor at Cornell University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and Haverford College. He is currently the CEO of Christie Strategies, a communications and issue management firm that he founded in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Beth Cavener Stichter
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- artist
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Beth Cavener, also known as Beth Cavener Stichter, is an American artist based out of Montana. A classically trained sculptor, her process involves building complex metal armatures to support massive amounts of clay. Cavener is best known for her fantastical animal figures, which embody the complexity of human emotion and behavior.
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Adi Ignatius
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- journalist
- Biography
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Adi Ignatius is editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review. He joined the magazine in January 2009.
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Rufus Jones
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- philosophertheologianhistorianjournalist
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Rufus Matthew Jones was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a precursor to the American Friends Service Committee). One of the most influential Quakers of the 20th century, he was a Quaker historian and theologian as well as a philosopher. He is the only person to have delivered two Swarthmore Lectures.
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Curtis Callan
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- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
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Curtis Gove Callan Jr. is an American theoretical physicist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He has conducted research in gauge theory, string theory, instantons, black holes, strong interactions, and many other topics. He was awarded the Sakurai Prize in 2000 ("For his classic formulation of the renormalization group, his contributions to instanton physics and to the theory of monopoles and strings") and the Dirac Medal in 2004.
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Andy Greenberg
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- 20th Century
- Enrolled in Haverford College
- Studied in 2000-2004
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Andy Greenberg is a technology journalist serving as a senior writer at Wired magazine. He previously worked as a staff writer at Forbes magazine and as a contributor for Forbes.com. He has published the books This Machine Kills Secrets concerning whistleblowing, Sandworm, concerning the eponymous hacking group, and Tracers in the Dark, concerning cryptocurrency tracing as a law enforcement investigative technique.
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Jane Silber
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- businesspersonchief executive officer
- Biography
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Jane Silber is a board member of Canonical Ltd. and was its chief executive officer from 2010 to 2017. Silber is also the chair of the board of Diffblue.
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Stephon Alexander
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- music journalistcosmologistmusicianphysicistwriter
- Biography
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Stephon Haigh-Solomon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, musician and author.
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Rob Simmons
- Enrolled in Haverford College
- Studied in 1965
- Occupations
- special agentpoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Robert Ruhl "Rob" Simmons is an American politician and retired U.S. Army colonel who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007, representing Connecticut's 2nd congressional district as a Republican.
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Stephen J. Lippard
- Enrolled in Haverford College
- 1958-1962 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in chemistry
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Stephen James Lippard is the Arthur Amos Noyes Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is considered one of the founders of bioinorganic chemistry, studying the interactions of nonliving substances such as metals with biological systems. He is also considered a founder of metalloneurochemistry, the study of metal ions and their effects in the brain and nervous system. He has done pioneering work in understanding protein structure and synthesis, the enzymatic functions of methane monooxygenase (MMO), and the mechanisms of cisplatin anticancer drugs. His work has applications for the treatment of cancer, for bioremediation of the environment, and for the development of synthetic methanol-based fuels.
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Richard Lederer
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- 1938-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- scholar of Englishlinguistteacher
- Biography
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Richard Lederer is an American linguist, author, speaker, and teacher. He is best known for his books on the English language and on wordplay such as puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. He has been dubbed "the Wizard of Idiom," "Attila the Pun," and "Conan the Grammarian." His weekly column, "Lederer on Language," appears in the San Diego Union-Tribune and his articles are in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States including the Mensa Bulletin.
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Jack N. Rakove
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- university teacherhistorianacademic
- Biography
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Jack Norman Rakove is an American historian, author, and professor at Stanford University. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner.
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William Henry Chamberlin
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- writerjournalisthistorian
- Biography
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William Henry Chamberlin was an American historian and journalist. He was the author of several books about the Cold War, communism, and foreign policy, including The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 (1935), which was written in Russia between 1922 and 1934 while he was the Moscow correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Colin Harrison
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- writernovelist
- Biography
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Colin Harrison is an American novelist and editor. Harrison is the author of eight novels: Break and Enter (1990), Bodies Electric (1993), Manhattan Nocturne (1996), Afterburn (2000), The Havana Room (2004), The Finder (2008), Risk (2009), which was first published as a fifteen-part serial in The New York Times magazine in 2008, and You Belong to Me, published in June 2017. His books have been published in a dozen countries and four have been selected as Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review. The Finder was a finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2009 Dashiell Hammett Award. All are atmospheric novels of violence, sex, and suspense that explore the underside of city life, most particularly in New York. Although his novels invariably involve the money and power that is concentrated in Manhattan, his stories usually snake through the boroughs outside Manhattan as well, in particular through Brooklyn, which has served as a setting for scenes in Bodies Electric (Park Slope and Sunset Park), Manhattan Nocturne (East New York), The Finder (Marine Park, Bensonhurst) and Risk (Canarsie). A movie version of Manhattan Nocturne, directed and written by Brian DeCubellis and titled Manhattan Night, was released by Lionsgate in May 2016. The movie stars Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Beals, and others.
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Stephen Ridings
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Stephen Thomas Ridings is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees.
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Frederic Prokosch
- Occupations
- translatorwriternovelistcriticlinguist
- Biography
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Frederic Prokosch was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, memoirs and criticism. He was also a distinguished translator.
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Eric Turkheimer
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- psychologistbehavior geneticistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Eric Nathan Turkheimer is an American psychologist and the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.
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Ken Stern
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Ken Stern is President of Palisades Media Ventures and the author of With Charity for All and Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right. He is a former chief executive officer of National Public Radio.
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Kermit Lipez
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Kermit Victor Lipez is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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Andrew L. Lewis, Jr
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Andrew Lindsay Lewis Jr., generally known as Drew Lewis, was an American businessman and politician from the state of Pennsylvania. He was United States Secretary of Transportation in the first portion of the administration of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan, and is best known for presiding over the firing of the striking U.S. air traffic controllers in 1981.
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David Meyer Wessel
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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David Meyer Wessel is an American journalist and writer. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. He is director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing correspondent to The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for 30 years. Wessel appears frequently on National Public Radio's Morning Edition.
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Jesse M. Ehrenfeld
- Occupations
- anesthesiologistresearcher
- Biography
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Jesse Menachem Ehrenfeld is an American physician. Ehrenfeld is President of the American Medical Association (sworn in as such June 13, 2023) and Professor of Anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is also a former Speaker of the Massachusetts Medical Society, where he was the youngest officer in the 228-year history of the organization. He is also a former Vice-President of the Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists. The inaugural recipient on the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Award from the NIH Director, Ehrenfeld has been recognized for his contributions to advancing health equity. A 2008 recipient of the AMA Foundation Leadership Award, Ehrenfeld is a researcher in the field of biomedical informatics. Ehrenfeld's research interests include bioinformatics and the application of information technology to increase quality, reliability and patient safety. Ehrenfeld's work has led to the presentation of over 200 abstracts at national/international meetings and the publication of over 175 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Systems, and is a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
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Mark Hulbert
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Mark J. Hulbert is an American finance analyst, journalist, and author with a focus on expectations of stock market investment newsletters, contrarian investing, and quantitive or technical analysis.
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David S. Kris
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- lawyer
- Biography
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David Steven Kris is an American lawyer. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice. He also served as the associate deputy attorney general for national security issues at the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2003.
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Benjamin Taylor
- Occupations
- writerman of lettersliterary scholar
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Benjamin Taylor is an American writer whose work has appeared in a number of publications including The Atlantic, Harper's, Esquire, Bookforum, BOMB, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, The Georgia Review, Raritan Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, Provincetown Arts and The Reading Room. He is a founding member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty of The New School in New York City, and has also taught at Washington University in St. Louis, the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, Bennington College and Columbia University. He has served as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of PEN American Center, has been a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and was awarded the Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Residency at Yaddo. A Trustee of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc., he is also a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and a Guggenheim Fellow for 2012 - 2013. Taylor's biography of Marcel Proust, Proust: The Search, was published in October 2015 by Yale University Press as part of its newly launched Yale Jewish Lives series.
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Jim Moody
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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James Powers Moody was an American economist and Democratic politician. He served five terms as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 5th congressional district (1983–1993). At the time, the 5th congressional district comprised the north half of Milwaukee County, including much of the city of Milwaukee. Earlier in his career, he represented downtown Milwaukee in the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly.
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Richard G. Andrews
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Richard Gibson Andrews is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. He is a former Delaware state prosecutor and assistant United States attorney.
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Samuel S. Stratton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Samuel Studdiford Stratton was an American politician who was a member of the Democratic Party. He is notable for his service as Mayor of Schenectady, and his 30-year career as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
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Anjan Chatterjee
- Occupations
- teacherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Anjan Chatterjee is a professor of neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics (PCfN) and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. His research focuses on spatial cognition and its relationship to language. He also conducts neuroaesthetics research and writes about the ethical use of neuroscience findings in society.
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Howard Shelanski
- Occupations
- economistjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Howard Shelanski is an American attorney, economist, and legal scholar. He is a professor of law at Georgetown University, where he holds the Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation, and a partner in the law firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell. He served in the Obama administration as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), part of the Office of Management and Budget.
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William Thornton Rickert Fox
- Years
- 1912-1988 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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William Thornton Rickert Fox, generally known as William T. R. Fox (or occasionally W. T. R. Fox), was an American foreign policy professor and international relations theoretician at the Columbia University (1950–1980, emeritus 1980–1988). He is perhaps mostly known as the coiner of the term "superpower" in 1944. He wrote several books about the foreign policy of the United States of America and the United Kingdom (and the British Empire). He was a pioneer in establishing international relations, and the systematic study of statecraft and war, as a major academic discipline. National security policy and an examination of civil-military relations were also focuses of his interests and career. He was the founding director of Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies and held the position from 1951–1976.
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Bruce H. Andrews
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Bruce Huntington Andrews is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce.
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Charles T. Canady
- Enrolled in Haverford College
- In 1976 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Terrance Canady is an American attorney and judge serving on the Supreme Court of Florida since 2008. He previously served as Chief Justice from 2010 to 2012 and from 2018 to 2022.
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Thomas Farley
- Occupations
- adjunct professorphysician
- Biography
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Thomas A. "Tom" Farley is an American pediatrician who served as Commissioner of Health of the City of New York and Commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Health.
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Kari C. Nadeau
- Occupations
- immunologistuniversity teacheracademic
- Biography
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Kari C. Nadeau is the Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies. She is also adjunct professor at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics. She practices Allergy, Asthma, Immunology in children and adults as a physician, and has published over 400 papers. Her team focuses on quantifying health outcomes of solutions as they pertain to air pollution mitigation and adaptation at the local, regional, country, and global levels. Dr. Nadeau, with a team of individuals and patients and families, has been able to help major progress and impact in the clinical fields of exposomics, immunology, infection, asthma, and allergy. Dr. Nadeau is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the WHO Air Pollution and Health Scientific Advisory Group and the U.S. EPA Children’s Health Protection Committee.
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William H. Harris
- Years
- 1927-.. (age 98)
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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William H. Harris, is an American orthopaedic surgeon, Founder and Director Emeritus of the Massachusetts General Hospital Harris Orthopaedics Laboratory, and creator of the Advances in Arthroplasty course held annually since 1970.
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Michael Freilich
- Enrolled in Haverford College
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics and chemistry
- Occupations
- earth scientistoceanographer
- Biography
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Michael H. Freilich was an American oceanographer who served as director of the NASA Earth Science division from 2006–2019.
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Jon Delano
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- political reporter
- Biography
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Jon Delano is the Money & Politics Editor for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a position he began on a full-time basis in 2001 after joining the station in 1994 as its political analyst.
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Mark A.R. Kleiman
- Occupations
- adviserscientistuniversity teachercriminologistblogger
- Biography
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Mark Albert Robert Kleiman was an American professor, author, and blogger who dealt with issues of drug and criminal justice policy.
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Douglas Koshland
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Douglas E. Koshland is a professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Ed Sikov
- Occupations
- writerbiographer
- Biography
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Ed Sikov is an American film scholar and author. His books include Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers (published in 2002), On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder (published in 1998), and Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedies of the 1950s (published in 1994).
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William Chace
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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William Chace is a Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University. He specializes in the work of James Joyce in addition to the work of W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Also the former president of Emory University, he lives in Palo Alto, California, with his wife JoAn Johnstone Chace.
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John F. Hawley
- Enrolled in Haverford College
- 1976-1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- astronomeruniversity teacherastrophysicist
- Biography
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John Frederick Hawley was an American astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia. In 2013, he shared the Shaw Prize for Astronomy with Steven Balbus.
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Sigmund Spaeth
- Enrolled in Haverford College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- composermusicologistradio personality
- Biography
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Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth was an American musicologist who sought to de-mystify classical music for the general public. His extensive knowledge of both the classical repertoire and popular song enabled him to trace the melodies of current hits back to earlier sources; this talent garnered him fame as the "Tune Detective," a role he played as an entertainer, educator, and as an expert witness in cases of plagiarism and infringement of copyrighted music.
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William Draper Lewis
- Occupations
- pedagogue
- Biography
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William Draper Lewis was the first full-time dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1896–1914), and the founding director (1923–1947) of the American Law Institute.
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Iwao Ayusawa
- Years
- 1894-1972 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Iwao Frederick Ayusawa was a diplomat and international authority on social and labor issues.
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Henry Drinker
- Years
- 1880-1965 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Henry Sandwith Drinker was an American lawyer and amateur musicologist. In 1964, the American Bar Association gave Drinker the American Bar Association Medal, stating that Drinker's monumental work Legal Ethics (1953) was "recognized throughout the civilized world as the definitive treatise on this subject."
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David Bispham
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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David Scull Bispham was an American operatic baritone.
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Thomas Barlow
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Barlow III, was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky's 1st congressional district for one term.
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Clark Hulings
- Occupations
- physicistpainter
- Biography
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Clark Hulings was an American realist painter. He was born in Florida and raised in New Jersey. Clark also lived in Spain, New York, Louisiana, and throughout Europe before settling in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the early 1970s. The travels did much to influence his keen eye for people in the state of accomplishing daily tasks.
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Grayson Murphy
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy Sr. was an American banker and company director.
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Terry Belanger
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 84)
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Terry Belanger is the founding director of Rare Book School, an institute concerned with education for the history of books and printing, and with rare books and special collections librarianship. He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia (UVa), where RBS has its home base. Between 1972 and 1992, he devised and ran a master's program for the training of rare book librarians and antiquarian booksellers at the Columbia University School of Library Service. He is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow.
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Brian Cronin
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Brian C. Cronin served as Idaho State Representative for District 19's B seat from 2008 to 2012. District 19 includes downtown Boise, the North End, East End, Foothills, Warm Springs Mesa, Foothills and Highlands areas of Boise. In 2010, Cronin was chosen by fellow House Democrats as Minority Caucus Chairman.
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Richard Unger
- Occupations
- historianresearcher
- Biography
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Richard W. Unger is an emeritus professor of Medieval History at the University of British Columbia and a specialist in European maritime history in the medieval period. He served as Second Vice-President of the Medieval Academy of America in 2011, First Vice-President in 2012, and President in 2013.
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Frank Eugene Lutz
- Occupations
- entomologistzoologistcurator
- Biography
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Frank Eugene Lutz was an American entomologist.
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Louis Round Wilson
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Louis Round Wilson was an important figure to the field of library science, and is listed in "100 of the most important leaders we had in the 20th century," an article in the December 1999 issue of American Libraries. The article lists what he did for the field of library science including dean at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, directing the library at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and as one of the "internationally oriented library leaders in the U.S. who contributed much of the early history of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions." The Louis Round Wilson Library is named after him.
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Henry Richardson
- Occupations
- artistglass artistsculptor
- Biography
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Henry Burtt Richardson is an American sculptor. He works primarily in the medium of plate glass.
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Stephen Klineberg
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 85)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Stephen Klineberg is a demographics expert and sociologist in Houston, Texas. As a former professor at Rice University, Klineberg and his students began conducting an annual survey in 1982, now called the Kinder Houston Area Survey, that tracks the area's demographics and attitudes. Klineberg is also the founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, a think tank affiliated with Rice University that focuses on urban issues and challenges facing Houston, the Sun Belt and other major metro areas. Klineberg founded the institute in 2010 with a $15 million gift from philanthropists Richard and Nancy Kinder.
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Alexander Laszlo
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Enrolled in Haverford College
- 1982-1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Alexander Laszlo is a polycultural systems scientist, currently residing in Argentina.
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Frank Furstenberg
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Frank Folke Furstenberg Jr. is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods and adolescent sexual behavior. Furstenberg has written extensively on social change, transition to adulthood, divorce, remarriage and intergenerational relations. Furstenberg is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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Harlan Jacobson
- Enrolled in Haverford College
- 1967-1971 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- radio personalityfilm criticauthorjournalist
- Biography
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Harlan Marshall Jacobson is an American film critic and scholar.
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Henry Scattergood
- Occupations
- cricketer
- Biography
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Joseph Henry Scattergood was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Scattergood was one of the Philadelphian cricketers that played from the end of the 19th century through the early years of the next.
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Douglas Waples
- Years
- 1893-1978 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Douglas Waples was a pioneer of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in the areas of print communication and reading behavior. Waples authored one of the first books on library research methodology, a work directed at students supervised through correspondence courses. Jesse Shera credits Waples’s scholarly research into the social effects of reading as the foundation for the approaches to the study of knowledge known as social epistemology. In 1999, American Libraries named him one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century".
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Temple Painter
- Occupations
- organistharpsichordistpianist
- Biography
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Temple Painter was an American harpsichordist and organist.
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Joel Selanikio
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Joel Selanikio is an American physician, attending pediatrician, and assistant professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital.
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Isa Leshko
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Isabell Carmella Leshko is an American fine art photographer best known for her Elderly Animals series which focuses on animal rights, aging and mortality.
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Ralph R. Eltse
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ralph William Roscoe Eltse was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from California from 1933 to 1935.
