53 Notable alumni of
Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is 979th in the world, 359th in North America, and 337th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 53 notable alumni from Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mike Pence
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- In 1986 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- radio personalitylawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Michael Richard Pence is an American politician who served as the 48th Vice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017. Pence was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013.
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Mark Cuban
- Occupations
- voice actorchildren's writertelevision producerbloggerbusinessperson
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Mark Cuban is an American businessman, film producer, investor, philanthropist, television personality, and writer. According to Forbes, Cuban's net worth is an estimated US$5.1 billion, and he was ranked #177 on the Forbes 400 list in 2020. He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and the co-owner of 2929 Entertainment. He is also one of the main "sharks" on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.
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Dan Quayle
- Occupations
- lawyerbusinesspersonpoliticianVice President of the United States
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James Danforth Quayle is an American politician who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, Quayle represented Indiana in the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981 and in the Senate from 1981 to 1989.
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Jerome Adams
- Occupations
- anesthesiologistuniversity teacher
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Jerome Michael Adams is an American anesthesiologist and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 20th surgeon general of the United States from September 5, 2017 until January 20, 2021. Prior to becoming Surgeon General, he served as the Indiana state health commissioner, from 2014 to 2017. On June 29, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Adams to become Surgeon General of the United States. Adams was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 3, 2017.
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George Hill
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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George Jesse Hill Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). While playing for Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) he received many honors, including Summit League Player of the Year and was an honorable mention All-American his junior season.
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Dan Coats
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- In 1971 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- diplomatlobbyistbusinesspersonpoliticianlawyer
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Daniel Ray Coats is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. He was the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2005, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. Coats served on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence while in the U.S. Senate.
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Evan Bayh
- Occupations
- lawyerlobbyistpolitician
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Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III is an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011 and the 46th governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997.
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Todd Young
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- In 2006 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerconsultantpoliticianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Todd Christopher Young is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator for Indiana, a seat he has held since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Young previously served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 9th congressional district. He was elected to the United States Senate in the November 8, 2016, general election, succeeding retiring Republican Dan Coats. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Young was reelected in 2022.
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Marilyn Quayle
- Occupations
- lawyerwriternovelist
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Marilyn Tucker Quayle is an American lawyer and novelist. She is the wife of the 44th vice president of the United States, Dan Quayle, and served as the second lady of the United States from 1989 until 1993.
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John Chambers
- Occupations
- international forum participantentrepreneurcomputer scientist
- Biography
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John Thomas Chambers is the former executive chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems.
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Victoria Spartz
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Victoria Spartz is an American politician and businesswoman who is the U.S. representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, she previously represented the 20th district in the Indiana Senate.
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David Starr Jordan
- Occupations
- pedagogueautobiographerwriterpeace activistnaturalist
- Biography
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David Starr Jordan was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford University, he had served as president of Indiana University from 1884 to 1891.
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Susan Brooks
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- In 1985 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerinternational forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Susan Lynn Brooks is an American prosecutor and politician. She is a Republican and the former U.S. Representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district. She was elected in 2012. The district includes the northern fifth of Indianapolis, as well as many of the city's affluent northern and eastern suburbs. Brooks served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana from 2001 to 2007.
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Norman Bridwell
- Occupations
- illustratorauthor
- Biography
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Norman Ray Bridwell was an American author and cartoonist best known for the Clifford the Big Red Dog book series.
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Todd Rokita
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- In 1995 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Theodore Edward Rokita is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 44th and current Attorney General of Indiana. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served two terms as Secretary of State of Indiana from 2002 to 2010. When Rokita was elected to office in 2002 at age 32, he became the youngest secretary of state in the United States at the time.
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John R. Gregg
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Richard Gregg is an American politician, businessman and attorney who served as the 85th and longest-serving Democratic speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1996 to 2003. He served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003.
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Marshall Goldsmith
- Occupations
- businesspersonwriter
- Biography
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Marshall Goldsmith is an American executive leadership coach and author.
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Trischa Zorn
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- 2002-2005 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Trischa Zorn is an American Paralympic swimmer. Blind from birth, she competed in Paralympic swimming (S12, SB12, and SM12 disability categories). She is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games, having won 55 medals (41 gold, 9 silver, and 5 bronze), and was inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2012. She took the Paralympic Oath for athletes at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta.
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Julia Carson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Julia May Carson was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Indiana's 7th congressional district from 1997 until her death in 2007 (numbered as the 10th District from 1997 to 2003). Carson was the first woman and first African American to represent Indianapolis in the U.S. Congress. She was also the second African American woman elected to Congress from Indiana, after Katie Hall, and her grandson André Carson succeeded to her seat following her death.
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David Wolf
- Occupations
- military officerphysicianengineerastronaut
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David Alexander Wolf is an American astronaut, medical doctor and electrical engineer. Wolf has been to space four times. Three of his spaceflights were short-duration Space Shuttle missions, the first of which was STS-58 in 1993, and his most recent spaceflight was STS-127 in 2009. Wolf also took part in a long-duration mission aboard the Russian space station Mir which lasted 128 days, and occurred during Mir EO-24. He was brought to Mir aboard STS-86 in September 1997, and landed aboard STS-89 in January 1998. In total Wolf has logged more than 4,040 hours in space. He is also a veteran of 7 spacewalks totaling 41hrs 17min in both Russian and American spacesuits.
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Justin Anthony Knapp
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- Studied in 2001-2009
- Occupations
- writerWiktionariandelivery driverbibliographerWikimedian
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Justin Anthony Knapp, also known by his online moniker Koavf, is an American Wikipedia user who was the first person to contribute more than one million edits to Wikipedia. As of September 2021, Knapp has made over 2.1 million edits on English Wikipedia. He was ranked No. 1 among the most active Wikipedia contributors of all time from April 18, 2012, to November 1, 2015, when he was surpassed by Steven Pruitt.
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Edgar Whitcomb
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Edgar Doud Whitcomb was an American attorney, writer and politician, who served as the 43rd governor of Indiana. His term as governor began a major rift in the Indiana Republican Party as urban Republicans became more numerous than rural Republicans, leading to a shift in the priorities of the party leadership.
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John S. Pistole
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- 1978-1981 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John S. Pistole is the former administrator of the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and a former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is currently the president of Anderson University.
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Salman Shah
- Occupations
- economistpoliticianfinancier
- Biography
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Salman Shah is a Pakistani economist who serves as Advisor to the Chief Minister of Punjab on Economic Affairs and Planning & Development. Previously, he has served as the caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan. He has also served as an advisor to the Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz on finance, economic affairs, statistics and revenues. He is the son-in-law of former Chief of Army Staff General Asif Nawaz Janjua. He has two sons and three daughters.
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Randall L. Tobias
- Occupations
- diplomatinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Randall L. Tobias is an American governmental figure and former chief executive officer of Eli Lilly and Company. A Republican, he was appointed the first United States Director of Foreign Assistance, and served concurrently as the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with the rank of ambassador.
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Daniel Anthony Manion
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Anthony Manion is an American lawyer, politician, and jurist serving as an inactive senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit whose chambers were in South Bend, Indiana.
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Alice Wong
- Occupations
- bloggersociologistactivist
- Biography
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Alice Wong is a disability rights activist based in San Francisco, California.
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Otis R. Bowen
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Otis Ray Bowen was an American politician and physician who served as the 44th Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Cabinet of President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989.
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Brian Bosma
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brian C. Bosma is an American politician and lawyer who served as speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives from 2004 to 2006 and 2010 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party, Bosma has served in the Indiana House since 1986. He replaced Gordon Harper. He was originally elected in the 50th district, but was redistricted to the 88th district in 1992. The 88th district encompasses northeast Marion County and portions of Hancock and Hamilton County.
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Jonathan Weinzapfel
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jonathan David Weinzapfel is an American politician, attorney, businessman, and Democratic nominee for Indiana Attorney General in the 2020 election. Weinzapfel formerly served as the 33rd mayor of Evansville, Indiana. He was elected in November 2003 and again in 2007. He did not run for a third term in office, and was succeeded by Lloyd Winnecke. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He most previously served as the Chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College's Southwest campus, a position he held from 2014 to 2019.
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Melanie Benjamin
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Melanie Benjamin is the pen name of American writer Melanie Hauser (née Miller).
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Andrew Jacobs, Jr
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- In 1958 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Andrew Jacobs Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he served as an Indiana state legislator and Congressman. Jacobs was a member of the United States House of Representatives for thirty years, beginning in the 1960s. His father, Andrew Jacobs, was also a congressman for one term.
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Samuel D. Jackson
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Samuel Dillon Jackson was an American attorney and politician from Indiana. He was the Attorney General of Indiana from 1940 to 1941, and briefly served as a United States Senator in 1944.
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Frederick Van Nuys
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Frederick Van Nuys was a United States senator from Indiana. Born in Falmouth, he attended the public schools and graduated from Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) in 1898 and from Indiana Law School (now Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law) in 1900. He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Shelbyville moving shortly afterward to Anderson. From 1906 to 1910 he was prosecuting attorney of Madison County and was a member of the Indiana Senate from 1913 to 1916, serving as president pro tempore in 1915. He moved to Indianapolis in 1916 and continued the practice of law; he was United States Attorney for the U.S. District of Indiana from 1920 to 1922.
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Harry G. Leslie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Harry Guyer Leslie was an American politician and Indiana Republican Party member, speaker of the state house and the 33rd governor of the state. His term as governor was marked by the start of the Great Depression.
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Chet Jastremski
- Occupations
- swimmerphysician
- Biography
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Chester Andrew Jastremski was an American competition swimmer, Olympic medalist and world record-holder.
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Arthur Raymond Robinson
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Arthur Raymond Robinson was a United States senator from Indiana.
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Jane E. Henney
- Occupations
- oncologistphysician
- Biography
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Jane Ellen Henney is an American physician who was the first woman to serve as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, she served at the FDA from 1999 to 2001.
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Alex Young
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Alex Young is an American professional basketball player for Sharjah of the UAE National Basketball League. He played college basketball for the IUPUI Jaguars before playing professionally in Italy, Israel, France, Russia and China.
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Adrian Moss
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Adrian Moss is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Windsor Express of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL). Born in Centralia, Illinois, he played high school basketball for Franklin Community High School. Following his graduation, he committed to IUPUI to play college basketball. After his sophomore season at IUPUI he transferred to the University of Indianapolis, where he played for two more seasons.
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Steven H. David
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Steven H. David is a former justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. David previously served as a lawyer and military officer. He retired from the United States Army Reserve in September 2010 with the rank of colonel.
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Adam M. Robinson, Jr
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Adam Mayfield Robinson Jr. is a United States Navy vice admiral who served as the 36th Surgeon General of the United States Navy (2007–2011).
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Joshua Claybourn
- Occupations
- bloggerlawyer
- Biography
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Joshua Claybourn is an American attorney, author, and historian considered one of the foremost living scholars on Abraham Lincoln’s youth in Indiana.
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Carol I. Turner
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 76)
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- Graduated with Doctor of Dental Surgery
- Occupations
- dentistmilitary officer
- Biography
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Rear Admiral Carol Irene Baker Turner is a retired United States Navy officer who served as the first female chief of the United States Navy Dental Corps from 2003 to 2007. She also served as the commanding officer of the National Naval Dental Center at Bethesda, Maryland.
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Edward H. Kruse
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- Studied in 1942
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Edward Herman Kruse was an American lawyer, World War II veteran, and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1949 to 1951.
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Elaine C. Wagner
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- dentist
- Biography
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Elaine C. Wagner is a retired United States Navy rear admiral. She was the first female pediatric dentist to achieve flag rank in the United States Navy, and served as the 36th Chief of the United States Navy Dental Corps. Her retirement ceremony was held on January 9, 2017, and she was transferred to the retired list the following April, after 33 years of service in the United States Navy. She is a member of the International College of Dentists.
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Gary Dilley
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Gary J. Dilley is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. He represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he received a silver medal in men's 200-meter backstroke, finishing second behind American teammate Jed Graef. Dilley set new Olympic records in the heats and semifinals, but Graef improved upon Dilley's records in the event's second semifinal and final.
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Henderson Haverfield Carson
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- Graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyeracademicpolitician
- Biography
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Henderson Haverfield Carson was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for two non-consecutive terms in the 1940s.
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Alexus Laird
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Alexus Lucienne Laird is an American-Seychellois swimmer. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she competed in the Women’s 100 m backstroke.
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Camille Chevalier
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Camille Chevalier is a French professional golfer playing on the Ladies European Tour since January 2017.
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Ed Pease
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- In 1977 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- directorlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Edward Allan Pease is an American politician and lawyer from Indiana. He is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, serving two terms from 1997 to 2001,
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William H. Gourley
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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William Harvey Gourley was a major general in the United States Army. He served as Commanding General of the 1st Personnel Command.
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Joseph D. Noble
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 56)
- Enrolled in Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Joseph Douglas Noble Jr. is a United States Navy rear admiral who has served as the Director of Logistics Operations of the Defense Logistics Agency and Commander of Joint Regional Combat Support since May 19, 2021. Previously, he served as the Commander of the Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support.
