35 Notable alumni of
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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The Indiana University of Pennsylvania is 1595th in the world, 567th in North America, and 534th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ben McAdoo
- Occupations
- coachAmerican football coach
- Biography
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Benjamin Lee McAdoo is an American football coach, currently serving as a senior offensive assistant of the New England Patriots in the National Football League (NFL). McAdoo was most notably the head coach of the New York Giants from 2016 to 2017, after serving as their offensive coordinator the previous two years under former head coach Tom Coughlin. He was fired from that position on December 4, 2017 following a 2–10 start, along with benching longtime starting quarterback Eli Manning. At the time of his termination, his 28 regular season games were the fewest by a Giants coach since 1930. Prior to working for the Panthers, McAdoo has also served as an assistant coach for several college football teams, as well as for the New Orleans Saints, the San Francisco 49ers, Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Carolina Panthers.
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Jim Haslett
- Occupations
- player of American footballAmerican football coach
- Biography
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James Donald Haslett is an American football coach and former linebacker who was recently the head coach of the Seattle Sea Dragons of the XFL. He played college football for the IUP Crimson Hawks before being drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the second round of the 1979 NFL Draft; he went on to be named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year.
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Carla Sands
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianchiropractorbusiness executiveactor
- Biography
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Carla J. Sands is an American businesswoman who is chair and CEO of Vintage Capital Group. During the Trump administration (2017–21) she was U.S. ambassador to Denmark.
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Jim Renacci
- Enrolled in the Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- In 1980 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- accountantpoliticianbusiness executive
- Biography
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James B. Renacci is an American accountant, businessman, and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 16th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he is a former city council president and two-term Mayor of Wadsworth, Ohio. In 2018, Renacci was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, losing to Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown by a 7-point margin. He also ran unsuccessfully in the 2022 Republican primary for governor of Ohio, losing to incumbent Mike DeWine. Renacci currently serves as the chairman of the Republican Party of Medina County.
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Farah Quinn
- Enrolled in the Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Studied finance
- Occupations
- presenterbusinesspersonchef
- Biography
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Farah Farhanah is an Indonesian celebrity chef, restaurateur and media personality, known for her culinary television shows. She was awarded the 2013 Panasonic Gobel Award as the Best Presenter for hobby and lifestyle television program.
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John Murtha
- Enrolled in the Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Studied in 1963
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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John Patrick Murtha Jr. was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Murtha, a Democrat, represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1974 until his death in 2010. He is the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives ever elected from Pennsylvania.
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Trisha Rae Stahl
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Trisha Rae Stahl is an American actress.
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Nikodem Popławski
- Occupations
- physicistastronomertheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Nikodem Janusz Popławski is a Polish theoretical physicist, most widely noted for the hypothesis that every black hole could be a doorway to another universe and that the universe was formed within a black hole which itself exists in a larger universe. This hypothesis was listed by National Geographic and Science magazines among their top ten discoveries of 2010.
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Vicki Iseman
- Occupations
- lobbyist
- Biography
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Vicki L. Iseman is an American lobbyist working for the firm Iseman & Szelinga. As a lobbyist for the firm Alcalde & Fay she gained national media attention in February 2008, and again in May 2022, due to her involvement in the John McCain lobbyist controversy.
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Matthias Zimmer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Matthias Zimmer was a German author and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse from 2009, winning a constituency in Frankfurt am Main for three terms until 2021.
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Atrios
- Occupations
- blogger
- Biography
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Duncan Bowen Black, better known by his pseudonym Atrios /ˈeɪtri.oʊs/, is an Australian-American liberal blogger living in Philadelphia. His weblog is called Eschaton. Black was also a regular guest economics expert on Air America Radio's The Majority Report and is currently a regular commentator on Sam Seder's internet radio (Majority.fm) Majority Report and an op-ed contributor to USA Today.
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Patricia Robertson
- Occupations
- physicianastronaut
- Biography
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Patricia Consolatrix Hilliard Robertson was an American physician and a NASA astronaut. She died in a plane crash the year before she would have flown to the International Space Station.
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Jay Costa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jay Costa is an American politician, currently serving as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate who has represented the 43rd District since 1996. On November 17, 2010, Senate Democrats elected Costa as their new floor leader, succeeding the retiring Bob Mellow.
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Mark Critz
- Enrolled in the Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- In 1987 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- business executivepolitician
- Biography
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Mark Stephen Critz is an American politician and former U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district, having served from a special election in May 2010 until January 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district during his tenure, which was located in the southwestern portion of the state, stretched from Johnstown to the southern suburbs of Pittsburgh.
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Scott Blasey
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Scott Blasey is an American rock musician best known as the lead vocalist for The Clarks, a position he has held since the band's inception in the mid-1980s. Blasey has also released three solo albums.
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Jack Wagner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jack E. Wagner is an American Democratic politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He served as Pennsylvania Auditor General, and previously served in the State Senate and Pittsburgh City Council.
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Shane Alexander
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- singersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Shane Alexander is a contemporary American singer-songwriter and musician. Alexander was born in San Diego, California, raised in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and is currently residing in Southern California.
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Dave L. Reed
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dave L. Reed is a Republican former member, and former Majority Leader, of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He represented the 62nd District, made up of parts of Indiana County. In November 2014, Reed was elected House Majority Leader and assumed those duties on December 1. He was sworn into his seventh term on January 6, 2015.
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Nereus Acosta
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Juan Romeo Nereus Olaivar Acosta, popularly known as Neric Acosta, is a Filipino politician, academician, and political scientist in the Philippines. He is a former member of the Philippine House of Representatives, representing the first district of the province of Bukidnon from 1998 to 2007. He was the Presidential Adviser for Environmental Protection and General Manager of the Laguna Lake Development Authority during the administration of President Benigno Aquino III.
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John Stuchell Fisher
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Stuchell Fisher was an American politician who served as the 29th governor of Pennsylvania from 1927 until 1931. A Republican, he had previously served as a Pennsylvania State Senator from 1901 until 1907.
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Cindy Jaynes
- Occupations
- naval officer
- Biography
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Cindy Louise Jaynes is an American retired rear-admiral. An aeronautics maintenance specialist, she managed several programs relating to US Navy aircraft. Jaynes became the first female flag officer in Naval Air Systems Command when she was promoted to rear-admiral on 1 August 2012. She retired from the US Navy on 1 May 2016.
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John Brallier
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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John Kinport "Sal" Brallier was one of the first professional American football players. He was nationally acknowledged as the first openly paid professional football player when he was given $10 to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association for a game against the Jeanette Athletic Association in 1895.
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John Kopchick
- Occupations
- researcherbiologist
- Biography
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John Kopchick is a molecular biologist and co-inventor of the drug Somavert, which has improved the lives of acromegalic individuals around the world. He is currently the Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Kopchick's groundbreaking work in the field of growth hormone has helped shape the study of endocrinology.
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Leander Jordan
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Leander Jordan is a former American football offensive tackle. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the third round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP).
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Jonathan Dever
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jonathan Dever is an American politician who previously served as a member in the Ohio House of Representatives.
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Stan Saylor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stanley E. "Stan" Saylor is a Republican former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 94th District and was first elected in 1992. After the 2008 election, Saylor was elected the Republican Policy Committee Chairman. Following the 2010 election, he was elected Republican Whip and served in that role until 2015. He is also on the House Rules Committee. After his reelection in 2016, Saylor was named Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Saylor was defeated by Wendy Fink in the 2022 Republican primary election.
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Charles J. Margiotti
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles Joseph Margiotti was a nationally prominent Pennsylvania lawyer who twice served as state attorney general.
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Shelley Vana
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rochelle "Shelley" Vana is a Democratic politician who currently serves as a Palm Beach County Commissioner, representing the 3rd District from 2008 to the present. Prior to being elected to the Broward County Commission, Vana served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2002 to 2008, representing the 85th District.
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Matthew Knisely
- Occupations
- photojournalistwriter
- Biography
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Matthew "Matt" Knisely is an American TV Photojournalist and an American author known for professional standards and his vivid editing and use of depth of field in his photography.
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Janet L. Smith
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Enrolled in the Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- In 1973 graduated with Bachelor of Science in chemistry
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Janet Louise Smith is the Margaret J. Hunter Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences Institute, director of the Center for Structural Biology at the University of Michigan, professor of biological chemistry and biophysics at the University of Michigan, and research professor in the Life Sciences Institute. Additionally, she is the scientific director of The General Medical Sciences and Cancer Institutes’ structural biology facility at the Advanced Photon Source (GM/CA @ APS).
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Adam Frelin
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Adam Frelin is an American artist working in sculpture., video, photography, and performance. He received a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA University of California, San Diego. He has shown at venues such as the Getty Center, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, I-Park Foundation, the Columbus Museum, Samson Projects Evergreen House and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
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J. N. Langham
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Jonathan Nicholas Langham was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Summers Melville Jack
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Summers Melville Jack was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Rena Sarah Eckman
- Occupations
- dietitian
- Biography
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Rena Sarah Eckman was an American dietitian, a founding member and leader of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and founder of the Pennsylvania Dietetic Association. She was co-author of a 1916 book on a dietary protocol for the treatment of diabetes.
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Mette Tommerup
- Occupations
- painterinstallation artist
- Biography
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Mette Tommerup is a painter from Denmark, who lives and works in Miami. She is best known for creating large-scale works where she activates canvases by subjecting them to natural elements such as immersing them in ocean water, putting them in the ground, or tossing them off of buildings at a particular time of day or night. Her art is characterized by exploration, liberation, deconstruction, and immersive performance.
