18 Notable alumni of
Hendrix College
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Hendrix College is 1731st in the world, 611th in North America, and 576th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Hendrix 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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Mary Steenburgen
- Enrolled in Hendrix College
- 1971-1972 studied drama
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actorfilm producertelevision producervoice actor
- Biography
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Mary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s, she made her professional acting debut in the 1978 Western comedy film Goin' South. Steenburgen went on to earn critical acclaim for her role in 1979 Time After Time and Jonathan Demme's 1980 comedy-drama film Melvin and Howard, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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William Ragsdale
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Robert William Ragsdale is an American actor. He is known for playing Charley Brewster in the cult horror-comedy film Fright Night (1985) and its sequel Fright Night Part 2 (1988), and Herman Brooks on the television series Herman's Head (1991–94).
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Hayes Carll
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Joshua Hayes Carll, known professionally as Hayes Carll, is a singer-songwriter. A native of The Woodlands, Texas, his style of roots-oriented songwriting has been noted for its plainspoken poetry and sarcastic humor.
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Wilbur Daigh Mills
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Wilbur Daigh Mills was an American Democratic politician who represented Arkansas's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 until his retirement in 1977. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 1958 to 1974, he was often called "the most powerful man in Washington".
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Timothy Griffin
- Enrolled in Hendrix College
- In 1990 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneurlawyer
- Biography
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John Timothy Griffin is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 57th attorney general of Arkansas. He previously served as the 20th lieutenant governor of Arkansas, from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas between 2006 and 2007 and U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015. Griffin defeated Democrat John Burkhalter for lieutenant governor in 2014 and served under Governor Asa Hutchinson. In summer 2020, Griffin announced his candidacy for the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election, but withdrew from the race in February 2021 to run for Arkansas Attorney General instead.
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Trenton Lee Stewart
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriter
- Biography
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Trenton Lee Stewart is an American author best known for the Mysterious Benedict Society series. Stewart is a graduate of Hendrix College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Jay Dickey
- Occupations
- university teacherbusiness executivelawyerpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Jay Woodson Dickey Jr., was a Republican U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 1993 to 2001. The amendment known as the Dickey Amendment (1996) blocks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding injury prevention research that might promote gun control, and the Dickey–Wicker Amendment (1995) prohibits federal funds to be spent on research that involves the destruction of a human embryo.
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Douglas A. Blackmon
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Douglas A. Blackmon is an American writer and journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.
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Clint Catalyst
- Occupations
- journalistmodelwriteractor
- Biography
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Clint Catalyst is the nom de plume of Clinton Green, an American author, actor, spoken word performer, and stylist. He has covered music, fashion, LGBT issues, and popular culture for magazines including LA Weekly, Frontiers, Out, Surface and Swindle.
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Winston P. Wilson
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Winston Peabody Wilson was a United States Air Force major general who served as Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
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Margaret Pittman
- Occupations
- bacteriologist
- Biography
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Dr. Margaret Jane Pittman was a pioneering bacteriologist whose research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on typhoid, cholera, and pertussis (whooping cough) helped generate the development of vaccinations against these diseases as well as others. Dr. Pittman was also the first female to lead a NIH laboratory, when in 1957, she was appointed chief of their Laboratory of Bacterial Products, a position she held until 1971. In the 1960s she was a key NIH participant in developing standards for cholera vaccine in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization's campaign to control cholera in the region that is now Bangladesh. After her retirement in 1971, she continued to work for the World Health Organization as a consultant on vaccine standards, working in Cairo and Madrid and for the State Institute for Serum and Vaccine in Iran and Connaught Laboratories, Ltd., in Toronto.
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Doyle Overton Hickey
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Doyle Overton Hickey was an officer in the United States Army who served in World War I, World War II and the Korean War, finishing his military career as a lieutenant general.
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Barkley Thompson
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Barkley Stuart Thompson is a priest in the Episcopal Church who currently serves as the seventh Rector of Saint Mark's Episcopal Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Saint Mark's is in the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas. Before Saint Mark's, he served as the eighth Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas. Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral church for the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
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Benjamin Travis Laney
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Benjamin Travis Laney, Jr., was an American businessman who served as the 33rd governor of Arkansas from 1945 to 1949.
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Robert F. Thompson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert F. Thompson is a former Democratic member of the Arkansas Senate. He represented the 11th District of Arkansas from 2007 to 2013. After senate districts were reorganized, he went on to represent District 20 from 2013 to 2015. Both districts included several counties in northeast Arkansas. From 2005 to 2007, he was a State Representative for the 78th district of the Arkansas House of Representatives, representing the city of Paragould in Greene County, Arkansas. Thompson currently practices law at the Paragould law firm of Branch, Thompson, Warmath, & Dale P.A.
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Max McCalman
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- maître fromager
- Biography
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Max McCalman is an American cheese scholar and advocate for artisanal cheese production. He is an author, was the first Maître Fromager in a North American restaurant, spearheaded the creation of the Artisanal Bistro and Artisanal Premium Cheese Center, and is an advocate for raw-milk cheeses.
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Ark Newton
- Occupations
- player of American footballathletics competitor
- Biography
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Robert Dee "Ark" Newton, Jr. was an American college football player for the Florida Gators football team of the University of Florida. Newton was also a member of the Florida Gators baseball, basketball and track teams.
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Dan C. Rizzie
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- painterprintmaker
- Biography
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Dan C. Rizzie, American artist and musician, was born in Poughkeepsie, NY on May 23, 1951 and grew up in India, Egypt, Jordan and Jamaica. Rizzie lives in Sag Harbor, New York.