100 Notable alumni of
Illinois State University
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Illinois State University is 639th in the world, 239th in North America, and 220th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Illinois State 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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John Malkovich
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producertheatrical director
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John Malkovich is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
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Gary Sinise
- Occupations
- directormusicianfilm actoractorfilm producer
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Gary Alan Sinise is an American actor of stage and screen, as well as a director, producer, musician, and humanitarian. Among other awards, he has won a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and he has been nominated for an Academy Award. Sinise has also received numerous awards and honors for his extensive humanitarian work and involvement with charitable organizations. He is a supporter of various veterans' organizations and founded the Lt. Dan Band (named after his character in Forrest Gump), which plays at military bases around the world.
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Laurie Metcalf
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
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Laura Elizabeth Metcalf is an American actress. Metcalf is known for her complex and versatile roles across the stage and screen. She has received various accolades throughout her career spanning more than four decades, including an Obie Award, two Tony Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
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Cloris Leachman
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestanttelevision actorcomedianactorstage actor
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Cloris Leachman was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades. She won many accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded performer in Emmy history. Leachman also won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
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Jane Lynch
- Occupations
- writertelevision actorgame show hoststage actorvoice actor
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Jane Marie Lynch is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is known for starring as Sue Sylvester in the musical comedy series Glee (2009–2015), which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award. Lynch also gained recognition for her roles in Christopher Guest's mockumentary films: Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006).
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Gary Cole
- Occupations
- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
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Gary Michael Cole is an American actor. He began his professional acting career on stage at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985. His breakout role was as Jack 'Nighthawk' Killian in the NBC series Midnight Caller (1988-1991).
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Craig Robinson
- Enrolled in Illinois State University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- film actorwritertelevision actoractorsinger
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Craig Phillip Robinson is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for portraying Darryl Philbin on The Office (2005–2013). He also portrayed Ray Heyworth on Mr. Robot (2016), LeVar "Freight Train" Brown on The Cleveland Show (2009–2013), and Doug "the Pontiac Bandit" Judy on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2021). He also frequently collaborates with Seth Rogen, including the films Pineapple Express (2008), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), This Is the End (2013), and Sausage Party (2016). Robinson has appeared in numerous other television shows and films, including Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), Get On Up (2014), An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018), and Dolemite Is My Name (2019), as well as voicing characters in films such as Shrek Forever After (2010) and The Bad Guys (2022). He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film Morris from America.
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Michelle Williams
- Occupations
- composerrecord producersingeractorrecording artist
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Tenitra Michelle Williams is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame in the early 2000s as a member of R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling female groups of all time with over 100 million records, of which more than 60 million copies sold with the trio lineup that included Williams. During her time in the group she earned several accolades including a Grammy Award and star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Adam Kinzinger
- Enrolled in Illinois State University
- In 2000 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adam Daniel Kinzinger is an American former politician, senior political commentator for CNN, and lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard. He served as a United States representative from Illinois from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Kinzinger originally represented Illinois's 11th congressional district and later Illinois's 16th congressional district.
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Jeff Perry
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Jeffrey Perry is an American actor of stage, television, and film. He is known for his role as Richard Katimski on the teen drama My So-Called Life, Thatcher Grey on the medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, Cyrus Beene on the political drama series Scandal, all for ABC, and as Inspector Harvey Leek on the CBS crime drama Nash Bridges. He most recently starred on the ABC drama Alaska Daily, alongside Hilary Swank.
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Sean Hayes
- Occupations
- television producertelevision actoractorcomposervoice actor
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Sean Patrick Hayes is an American actor, comedian, musician and producer. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he gained acclaim for his role as Jack McFarland on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has also received nominations for six Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards, winning one of the latter.
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Terry Kinney
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorfilm producerfilm directorstage actor
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Terry Kinney is an American actor and theater director, and a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, with Gary Sinise and Jeff Perry. Kinney is best known for his role as Tim McManus on HBO's prison drama Oz.
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Cecilia Suárez
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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María Cecilia Suárez de Garay, known professionally as Cecilia Suárez, is a Mexican actress and activist working with the United Nations and European Union campaigning against femicide and violence against women. She has starred in film, television, and theater across the United States, Mexico, and Spain.
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Doug Collins
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
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Paul Douglas Collins is an American basketball executive, former player, coach and television analyst in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA from 1973 to 1981 for the Philadelphia 76ers, earning four NBA All-Star selections. He then became an NBA coach in 1986, and had stints coaching the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers. Collins also served as an analyst for various NBA-related broadcast shows. He is a recipient of the Curt Gowdy Media Award.
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Tim Russ
- Occupations
- screenwritermusicianfilm actoractorfilm producer
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Timothy Darrell Russ is an American actor, musician, screenwriter, director and amateur astronomer. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager, Robert Johnson in Crossroads (1986), Casey in East of Hope Street (1998), Frank on Samantha Who?, Principal Franklin on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly, and D. C. Montana on The Highwaymen (1987–1988). He appeared in The Rookie: Feds (2022) and reprised his role as Captain Tuvok on Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard.
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Jimmy Dore
- Occupations
- peace activistpodcastertelevision producercomedian
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James Patrick Anthony Dore is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator, conspiracy theorist, podcaster and YouTube personality. He is the host of The Jimmy Dore Show, a comedic political talk show on YouTube.
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LaRoyce Hawkins
- Occupations
- television actormusicianfilm actoractor
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LaRoyce C. Hawkins is an American actor, stand-up comedian, spoken word artist, and musician. Hawkins stars on NBC's police drama Chicago P.D., where he portrays Officer Kevin Atwater. The show is in its eleventh season. Hawkins also has a regular role on the crossover show Chicago Fire.
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Moira Harris
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Moira Jane Sinise is a retired American actress.
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Carlos Bernard
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Carlos Bernard Papierski is an American actor and director, best known for his role as Tony Almeida in 24, which he played from 2001 to 2006, and then reprised again in 2009, 2014 in 24: Solitary and 2017 in 24: Legacy. He received a fine arts degree from American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco after receiving an undergraduate degree from Illinois State University.
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Yetide Badaki
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Yetide Badaki is a Nigerian-American actress. She is best known for playing Bilquis on the Starz series American Gods.
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Todd Stashwick
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- stage actortelevision actorvideo game writerfilm actor
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Todd Stashwick is an American actor and writer. He is known for his roles as Dale Malloy on The Riches and Deacon on 12 Monkeys (2015–2018). He played Captain Liam Shaw in the third season of Star Trek: Picard (2023).
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Richard Roeper
- Occupations
- journalistwriterfilm critic
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Richard E. Roeper is an American columnist and film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, serving as the late Gene Siskel's successor. From 2010 to 2014, he co-hosted The Roe and Roeper Show with Roe Conn on WLS-AM. From October 2015 to October 2017, Roeper served as the host of the FOX 32 morning show Good Day Chicago.
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Syleena Johnson
- Occupations
- actorsinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Syleena Johnson is an American singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter from Chicago, Illinois. She is best known for her guest appearance on Kanye West's 2004 single "All Falls Down," which peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. She signed with Jive Records to release three albums: Chapter 1: Love, Pain & Forgiveness (2001), Chapter 2: The Voice (2002), and Chapter 3: The Flesh (2005), each received critical acclaim and modest commercial response. She returned to work with West for his tenth album Donda (2021), performing on his spoken word song "Donda Chant."
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Rondi Reed
- Occupations
- actorstage actor
- Biography
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Rondi Anne Reed is an American actress of stage and screen. A longtime member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, she has appeared in more than 50 productions at that theater. Also active on Broadway, she won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Mattie Fae Aiken in August: Osage County. She is also known for the role of Peggy on the television sitcom Mike & Molly which she played from 2010-2016.
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Suzy Bogguss
- Occupations
- recording artistsinger-songwritersingerguitarist
- Biography
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Susan Kay Bogguss is an American country music singer and songwriter. She began her career in the 1980s as a solo singer. In the 1990s, six of her songs were Top 10 hits, three albums were certified gold, and one album received a platinum certification. She won Top New Female Vocalist from the Academy of Country Music and the Horizon Award from the Country Music Association.
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Paul DeJong
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Paul Sterling DeJong is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, and San Francisco Giants.
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Minnie Vautrin
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- diaristeducatormissionary
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Wilhelmina "Minnie" Vautrin was an American missionary, diarist, educator and president of Ginling College. She was a Christian missionary in China for 28 years. She is known for the care and protection of at least 10,000 Chinese refugees during the Nanjing Massacre in China, at times even challenging the Japanese authorities for documents in an attempt to protect the civilians staying at her college.
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Rathindranath Tagore
- Occupations
- painteragronomistwriter
- Biography
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Rathindranath Thakur was an Indian educationist, agronomist, painter, in leathercraft, and a woodworker. He served as the first vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, which was founded by his father, Rabindranath Tagore.
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Ralph Modjeski
- Occupations
- civil engineer
- Biography
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Ralph Modjeski was a Polish-American civil engineer who achieved prominence as "America's greatest bridge builder."
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Mad Man Pondo
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Kevin Canady is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Mad Man Pondo. Best known for his hardcore wrestling style, Canady has wrestled for various wrestling promotions, including Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South, Combat Zone Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling, and Juggalo Championship Wrestling. He is also the owner of IWA East Coast, and is currently employed by Juggalo Championship Wrestling.
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Julia Faye
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Julia Faye Maloney, known professionally as Julia Faye, was an American actress of silent and sound films. She was known for her appearances in more than 30 Cecil B. DeMille productions. Her various roles ranged from maids and ingénues to vamps and queens.
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Michele Reagan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michele Reagan is an American Republican politician who served as the 20th Arizona Secretary of State, from 2015 to 2019. She is currently a Justice of the Peace for the Maricopa County McDowell Mountain Precinct.
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William S. Sadler
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- psychiatristwritersurgeonpsychologist
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William Samuel Sadler was an American surgeon, self-trained psychiatrist, and author who helped publish The Urantia Book. The book is said to have resulted from Sadler's relationship with a man through whom he believed celestial beings spoke at night. It drew a following of people who studied its teachings.
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Lewis Stevenson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lewis Green Stevenson was an American politician. He was the Illinois Secretary of State from 1914 to 1917 and a member of Illinois's political Stevenson family.
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Gregory Kunde
- Occupations
- performing artistopera singer
- Biography
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Gregory Kunde is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the French and Italian repertoires.
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Owen Miller
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Owen Robert Miller is an American professional baseball infielder and outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Cleveland Indians / Guardians. Miller was selected by the San Diego Padres in the third round of the 2018 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2021 with the Indians.
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Reggie Lynch
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Reginald Joseph Connor Lynch is an American professional basketball player for Bnei Herzliya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for the Minnesota Golden Gophers. He transferred from Illinois State in 2015 and sat out the 2015–16 season. In 2016, he started at center for the Gophers and won Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year after setting the Gophers single-season record in blocks with 114.
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Nic Moore
- Enrolled in Illinois State University
- Studied in 2011-2012
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Nic Moore is an American professional basketball player for Boulazac Basket Dordogne of the LNB Pro B. Moore played college basketball for the SMU Mustangs. He was named American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016. Moore previously competed for the Illinois State Redbirds.
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Jackie Carmichael
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jackie Carmichael is an American professional basketball player for Igokea of the Adriatic League (ABA) and the Bosnian League. He was a standout college player at Illinois State University before playing professionally in Spain, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Slovenia.
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Matt Herges
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Matthew Tyler Herges is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1999 to 2009, and is the former pitching coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Samuel Garman
- Occupations
- ichthyologistzoologistherpetologist
- Biography
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Samuel Walton Garman, or "Garmann" as he sometimes styled himself, was an American naturalist and zoologist. He became noted as an ichthyologist and herpetologist.
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Boomer Grigsby
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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James Harvey "Boomer" Grigsby is a former American football fullback. He played college football at Illinois State, and was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. Grigsby was also a member of the Miami Dolphins and Houston Texans.
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Donald McHenry
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- university teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Donald Franchot McHenry is a former American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from September 1979 until January 20, 1981.
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Jim Ardis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jim Ardis is an American corporate executive and politician who served as mayor of Peoria, Illinois from 2005 to 2021. Prior to becoming mayor, he had previously served on the Peoria City Council from 1999 through 2005. Ardis is the second-longest serving mayor in city history behind Edward Nelson Woodruff.
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Daryl Gregory
- Occupations
- science fiction writernovelistwriter
- Biography
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Daryl Gregory is an American science fiction, fantasy and comic book author. Gregory is a 1988 alumnus of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction workshop, and won the 2009 Crawford Award for his novel Pandemonium.
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Mick Hubert
- Occupations
- athlete
- Biography
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Mick Hubert is a retired radio play-by-play announcer who from 1989 to 2022 served as the primary radio voice and media host for the Florida Gators sports programs at the University of Florida (UF). He was well known for his exuberant announcing style, highlighted by his use of the phrase "Oh my!" when excited by the action on the field.
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Sandra Steingraber
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teachernon-fiction writerecologist
- Biography
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Sandra Steingraber is an American biologist, author, and cancer survivor. Steingraber writes and lectures on the environmental factors that contribute to reproductive health problems and environmental links to cancer.
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Scott M. Bennett
- Enrolled in Illinois State University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Scott Michael Bennett was an American attorney, politician and Democratic member of the Illinois Senate representing the 52nd district from 2015 to 2022.
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Rachel Crothers
- Occupations
- writertheatrical directorscreenwriterdramaturgeplaywright
- Biography
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Rachel Crothers was an American playwright and theater director known for her well-crafted plays that often dealt with feminist themes. Among theater historians, she is generally recognized as "the most successful and prolific woman dramatist writing in the first part of the twentieth century." One of her most famous plays was Susan and God (1937), which was made into a film by MGM in 1940 starring Joan Crawford and Fredric March.
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Stephen Alfred Forbes
- Occupations
- geologistuniversity teacherichthyologistentomologistacademic
- Biography
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Stephen Alfred Forbes was the first chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, a founder of aquatic ecosystem science and a dominant figure in the rise of American ecology. His publications are striking for their merger of extensive field observations with conceptual insights. Forbes believed that ecological knowledge was fundamental for human well being. Forbes was important to the development of ecological theory. He was acknowledged by the National Academy of Sciences as "the founder of the science of ecology in the United States".
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Osiris Eldridge
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Osiris Eldridge is an American professional basketball player who last played for Büyükçekmece Basketbol of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL). He played college basketball for Illinois State. As a freshman, he won the Missouri Valley Conference Freshman of the Year award, and as a sophomore, he was runner up in MVP honors while leading ISU to its most wins in school history with 25.
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Dori Seda
- Years
- 1951-1988 (aged 37)
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Dorothea Antoinette "Dori" Seda was an artist best known for her underground comix work in the 1980s. She occasionally used the pen name "Sylvia Silicosis." Her comics combined exaggerated fantasy and ribald humor with documentation of her life in the Mission District of San Francisco, California.
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Loren Wiseman
- Occupations
- role-playing game designervideo game designer
- Biography
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Loren Keith Wiseman was an American wargame and role-playing game designer, game developer and editor.
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Carl Hulse
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Carl E. Hulse is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and managing editor of First Draft, a political news stream and morning email newsletter. His regular New York Times column "On Washington", described developments in Washington DC. His writing has also appeared online with MSN, MSN UK, MSN Canada, and CNBC, and in the Sydney Morning Herald, Albany Business Review, Boston.com, The Economic Times, American City Business Journals, and Miami Herald.
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Telly Hughes
- Occupations
- sports journalist
- Biography
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Telly Hughes is an American television sports personality and Big Ten Network host.
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Cleo Madison
- Occupations
- film directorstage actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
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Cleo Madison was a theatrical and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director who was active in Hollywood during the silent era.
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Angela Taylor
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Angela Taylor is a retired American athlete and collegiate coach. She earned nine Gateway titles at Illinois State University. She was a three-time indoor long jump champion and won the 60-meter high hurdles in 1987. In her post-collegiate athletic career, she competed against Jackie Joyner-Kersee in the women's heptathlon and was a member of various U.S. national teams and a finalist in the heptathlon in the 1992 Olympics trials. She finished 1992 ranked 30th in the world.
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Kaza Kajami-Keane
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Kaza Kajami-Keane is a Canadian-Jamaican professional basketball player for Niners Chemnitz of the Basketball Bundesliga. He played college basketball for the Illinois State Redbirds, the Cleveland State Vikings and the Carleton Ravens. He has also competed for the Canadian national basketball team.
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Harry Osterman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Harry Osterman is an American politician who served as a member of the Chicago City Council from the 48th ward from 2011 to 2023. He previously served in the Illinois House of Representatives for the 14th District from 2000 to 2011.
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Dennis Doyle
- Biography
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Dennis Doyle is an American politician and former mayor of Beaverton, Washington County, Oregon. Doyle served as a Beaverton city councilor for 14 years before being elected mayor of the city in 2008, succeeding Rob Drake in January 2009.
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Noah Morgan Mason
- Occupations
- politicianhead teacherteacher
- Biography
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Noah Morgan Mason was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. A conservative Republican, he served 13 terms representing first the state's 12th congressional district and then, after a redrawing of boundaries, the 15th.
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Margaret Haley
- Occupations
- teachereducatoractivistpedagoguetrade unionist
- Biography
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Margaret A. Haley was a teacher, unionist, and Georgist land value tax activist, who was dubbed the "lady labor slugger". Haley was the first business representative of the Chicago Teachers Federation and a pioneer leader in organizing schoolteachers. During her long career with the CTF, Haley fought to correct tax inequalities, increase the salaries of teachers, and expose unfair land leasing by the Chicago Board of Education.
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Thomas Jonathan Burrill
- Occupations
- botanist
- Biography
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Thomas Jonathan Burrill was an American botanist, plant pathologist, and college administrator who first discovered bacterial causes for plant disease. He introduced Erwinia amylovora (called by him Micrococcus amylovorus) as the causal agent of pear fire blight.
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Tammie Wilson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tammie Wilson was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing District 3.
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Elgie Sims
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elgie R. Sims Jr. is the Illinois state Senator for the 17th district. The 17th district includes the Chatham neighborhoods of Chicago along with the all or parts of Burnham, Calumet City, Lansing, Ford Heights, Lynwood, Sauk Village, Beecher, Manteno, and Grant Park.
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LaVerne H. Council
- Biography
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LaVerne H. Council, MBA, DBA was the Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer for the Office of Information and Technology within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Council assumed this role in July 2015. President Obama nominated Council to the role in March 2015. Council was confirmed by the 114th Congress on June 23, 2015, making Council the first female CIO of a Cabinet-level federal agency. She managed a $4.2B Information Technology appropriation, the first centralized and only IT appropriation in the federal government.
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Dwight E. Adams
- Occupations
- forensic scientist
- Biography
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Dwight E Adams, is a forensic scientist.
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Ngo Tu Lap
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- linguist
- Biography
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Ngô Tự Lập is a Vietnamese writer, poet, essayist, translator and songwriter.
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Andrew Velasquez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew Velasquez III is the former Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency, Region V. He coordinated preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities for the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Prior to his appointment as Region V administrator he served as Director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Executive Director of Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communication.
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Eric Rohmann
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Eric Rohmann is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He is a graduate of Illinois State University and Arizona State University. He won the 2003 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing My Friend Rabbit, and he was a runner-up in 1995 for Time Flies. He created a popular series based on a bulldozer that began with Bulldozer’s Big Day.
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Roberto Fortes
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Roberto Duete Fortes is an Angolan former basketball player. Fortes was a member of the Angola national basketball team and formerly the Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team. He represented Angola at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.
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Lena Sadler
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeonobstetrician
- Biography
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Lena Sadler was an American physician, surgeon, and obstetrician who was a leader in women's health issues.
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Norbert Blei
- Occupations
- painternovelistessayistpoetjournalist
- Biography
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Norbert Blei was an American writer of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. In 1994, he established Cross+Roads Press, dedicated to the publication of first chapbooks by poets, short story writers, novelists and artists.
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Narong Prangcharoen
- Occupations
- pianistuniversity teachercomposer
- Biography
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Narong Prangcharoen is a Thai composer of contemporary music. His compositions have won him the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize, and the Alexander Zemlinsky International Composition Competition Prize. He is the founder of Thailand International Composition Festival (TICF). Currently, he serves as Dean of the College of Music, Mahidol University in Thailand, as well as composer-in-residence for Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and Pacific Symphony in Orange County, California. His scores for orchestra and wind ensemble are published exclusively by Theodore Presser Company.
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Robert Atkins
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Robert Q. Atkins, also known as "Professor Addy", is an American comics artist.
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Elmer Ellsworth Brown
- Occupations
- pedagogue
- Biography
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Elmer Ellsworth Brown was an American educator.
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Sarah Hackett Stevenson
- Occupations
- physicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sarah Ann Hackett Stevenson was an American physician in Illinois, and the first female member of the American Medical Association (AMA), as an Illinois State Medical Society delegate in 1876. She was a leader and advocate for the emancipation of women and for the equal treatment of men and women.
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Bob Bacon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Bacon is a retired educator and Democratic politician from Fort Collins, Colorado. Bacon served as a Democratic member of the Colorado Senate, representing the 14th district from 2005 to 2013. Bacon also served in the Colorado State House from 1997 to 2003. Prior to that, he was elected twice to the Poudre School District Board of Education, serving from 1991 to 1999. Bacon Elementary School is named in his honor.
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Logan H. Roots
- Occupations
- bankerpolitician
- Biography
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Logan Holt Roots was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1868 to 1871. He was a member of the Republican Party. He is the namesake of Fort Logan H. Roots.
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Thomas R. Lamont
- Enrolled in Illinois State University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Ray Lamont was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), from June 22, 2009, to September 30, 2013.
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Charles H. Page
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Harrison Page was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.
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Malcolm L. McCallum
- Occupations
- ecologistzoologistherpetologistuniversity teachernatural historian
- Biography
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Malcolm L. McCallum is an American environmental scientist, conservationist, herpetologist, and natural historian and is known for his work on the Holocene Extinction. He is also a co-founder of the herpetology journal, Herpetological Conservation and Biology. He is a key figure in amphibian biology and his research has produced numerous landmark studies. His work has been covered by David Attenborough, Discover Magazine, and other media outlets.
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Richard R. Neely
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Richard R. Neely is a United States Air Force officer and the 40th Adjutant general of Illinois.
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Fred J. Kern
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- politicianteacher
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Frederick John Kern was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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Rich Banner
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United States - Occupations
- board game designer
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Paul Richard "Rich" Banner is an American game designer and graphic artist.
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Ida Crouch-Hazlett
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- journalistpoliticianeditorsuffragette
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Ida Crouch-Hazlett was an American political activist prominent in the suffrage and socialist movements. Crouch-Hazlett is best remembered as a prominent orator and organizer for the Socialist Party of America during the first two decades of the 20th century. In 1902 Crouch-Hazlett became the first female candidate for U.S. Congress from Colorado when she ran for a seat in the House of Representatives.
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Rosemary Mulligan
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- politician
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Rosemary Mulligan served as a Republican Party member of the Illinois House of Representatives for ten terms, representing the 55th District in the northwest suburbs of Chicago from 1993 until 2013. A moderate Republican, Mulligan was particularly known as a strong abortion rights advocate.
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Charles De Garmo
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- university teacher
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Charles De Garmo was an American educator, education theorist and college president.
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H. Robert Fowler
- Years
- 1851-1926 (aged 75)
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- politicianlawyer
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Hiram Robert Fowler was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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Charles A. Karch
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- politicianlawyer
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Charles Adam Karch was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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John L. Keith
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- player of American footballbasketball coach
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John Alexander Hull Keith was an American educator as well as an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Northern Illinois State Normal School—now known as Northern Illinois University–from 1899 to 1903 and at Illinois State Normal University—now known as Illinois State University—in 1907, compiling a career college football record of 25–7–7. Keith was also the head basketball coach at Northern Illinois from 1900 to 1902 and again in 1904–05, tallying a mark of 13–7 in three seasons. He also taught at the school as a professor of pedagogy and as an assistant professor of psychology.
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Tep Sothy
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- politician
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Tep Sothy is a Cambodian politician and former Member of Parliament for Takeo province. She represented the Takeo province since the Cambodia National Rescue Party won 55 seats in 2013 Cambodian general election. Before coming to Cambodia, Sothy was a high school teacher in Chicago. In 2010, she decided to join Cambodia's Human Rights Party established and led by Kem Sokha who previously led the Cambodian Center for Human Rights in Phnom Penh for several years. Tep decided to move to Cambodia shortly before the 2013 National Elections. She told Voice of America Khmer Service in 2010 that she joined the political party because Kem Sokha was really "a great, moral, freedom-seeking leader." In 2012, the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party, Cambodia's two major political parties merged to form the Cambodia National Rescue Party. Her work in Cambodia includes campaigns with women to improve gender awareness, introduction of gender sensitive laws, and policies to address issues on health, children's welfare, domestic violence, reproduction, and migrant workers rights.
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Tom Rethman
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- player of American footballAmerican football coach
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Tom Rethman is an American former college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Briar Cliff University from 2008 to 2016, compiling a record of 21–78. He was the second head coach in the history of the Briar Cliff Chargers football program, succeeding Dick Strittmatter. A native of El Dorado, Kansas, Rethman graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1992.
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Kye Stewart
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- Canadian football player
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Kye Stewart is an American former football linebacker. He played college football at Illinois State, and was signed by the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He was also a member of the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL
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Louis H. Galbreath
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- player of American football
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Louis Hutchinson Galbreath was American educator who specialized in training teachers and advocated educational psychology and scientific pedagogy. A graduate of both Illinois State University and Cornell University, he had his career cut short when he died from typhoid fever. In 1896, while a professor at Illinois State, he became the second head football coach at the school.
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John P. Stewart
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- American football coachbasketball coach
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John Pogue Stewart was an American football and basketball coach. He was the fifth head football coach at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, serving for four seasons, from 1903 to 1906, compiling are record of 14–11–1.
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Martin B. Bailey
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- politician
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Martin Brachall Bailey was an American politician and lawyer.
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James H. Forrester
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- politicianlawyer
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James Henry Forrester was an American lawyer, judge, and politician.
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Sue A. Sanders
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- non-fiction writer
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Sue A. Sanders was an American teacher, clubwoman, and author, who was prominent in charities and social circles. She served as national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, the largest charitable organization in the world in its day. She has the credit of being the originator of placing a flag in every school house, hers the first school to have a flag in McLean County, Illinois. The legislature changed the plan to putting it on the outside, which law was later repealed. She was the author of A journey to on and from the "golden shore" (1887).
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Owen P. Thompson
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- judgelawyerteacher
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Owen Pierce Thompson was a judge of the Seventh Judicial District of Illinois and a delegate to the 1904 Democratic National Convention. He also served on the Illinois State Utilities Commission.
