100 Notable alumni of
Iowa State University
Iowa State University is 272nd in the world, 112th in North America, and 106th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Iowa 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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Lee Teng-hui
- Years
- 1923-2020 (aged 97)
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- 1952-1953 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- agricultural economistpolitician
- Biography
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Lee Teng-hui was a Taiwanese statesman and agriculturist who served as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He was the first president to be born in Taiwan, the last to be indirectly elected and the first to be directly elected. During his presidency, Lee oversaw the end of martial law and the full democratization of the ROC, advocated the Taiwanese localization movement, and led an ambitious foreign policy to gain allies around the world. Nicknamed "Mr. Democracy", Lee was credited as the president who completed Taiwan's transition to the democratic era.
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George Washington Carver
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teacherinventorchemistbotanist
- Biography
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George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th century.
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Henry A. Wallace
- Occupations
- writerhorticulturistpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Agard Wallace was an American politician, journalist, farmer, and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and the 10th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was the nominee of the new Progressive Party in the 1948 presidential election.
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Joni Ernst
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joni Kay Ernst is an American former military officer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Iowa since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served in the Iowa State Senate from 2011 to 2014 and as auditor of Montgomery County from 2004 to 2011.
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Jeff Hornacek
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Jeffrey John Hornacek is an American professional basketball coach and a former player who is a coaching consultant for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously was the head coach for both the Phoenix Suns (2013–2016) and the New York Knicks (2016–2018). He was also an assistant coach for the Houston Rockets. He played shooting guard in the NBA from 1986 through 2000 and played collegiately at Iowa State University.
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John Vincent Atanasoff
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianengineerinventorphysicist
- Biography
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John Vincent Atanasoff,, was an American physicist and inventor from mixed Bulgarian-Irish origin, best known for being credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer.
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Betty Gabriel
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in animal science
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Betty Gabriel is an American actress. She began her career in musical theater and made her screen debut with the short film In Memoriam (2011). She subsequently played Laney Rucker in the action film The Purge: Election Year (2016) and Denise in the period drama series Good Girls Revolt (2016).
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Fred Hoiberg
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Fredrick Kristian Hoiberg is an American college basketball coach and former player. He has served as the men's head basketball coach at the University of Nebraska since 2019. Hoiberg grew up in Ames, Iowa, and played college basketball at Iowa State University in Ames where he earned the nickname "The Mayor". He was drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) where, over his ten year career, he played for the Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls, and Minnesota Timberwolves. After retiring as a player, he served as vice president for basketball operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves before beginning his coaching career at his alma mater, Iowa State University. He was there from 2010 to 2015 before going on to coach in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls from 2015 to 2018.
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Kim Reynolds
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Liberal Studies
- Occupations
- pharmacy technicianpolitician
- Biography
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Kimberly Kay Reynolds is an American politician serving as the 43rd governor of Iowa since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Reynolds served as the 46th lieutenant governor of Iowa from 2011 to 2017.
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Talen Horton-Tucker
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Talen Jalee Horton-Tucker is an American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Horton-Tucker played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones.
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Dennis Muilenburg
- Occupations
- international forum participantbusinesspersonchief executive officer
- Biography
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Dennis A. Muilenburg is an American engineer, business executive, and the former president and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Boeing Company, a multinational aerospace and defense company. He was CEO from 2015 to 2019, when he was fired in the aftermath of two crashes of the 737 MAX and its subsequent groundings.
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Royce White
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Royce Alexander White is an American former professional basketball player. During his brief tenure with the NBA—he played just briefly in three regular-season games—White was open about his history of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), mainly triggered by his highly publicized fear of flying, and he became known for refusing to fly with his team, preferring to travel by bus instead.
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Dan Gable
- Occupations
- amateur wrestler
- Biography
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Danny Mack Gable is an American former folkstyle and freestyle wrestler and coach. Considered to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, Gable is a two-time NCAA Division I national champion, a world gold medalist, and an Olympic gold medalist. Gable was only the third wrestler to have ever been inducted into the United World Wrestling's Hall of Fame in the Legend category. On December 8, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump awarded Gable with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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James Daly
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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James Firman Daly was an American theater, film, and television actor, who is perhaps best known for his role as Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series Medical Center, in which he played Chad Everett's superior.
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Wesley Johnson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Wesley JaMarr Johnson is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is a player development assistant for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Syracuse University and Iowa State University. He was selected with the fourth overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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John Garang
- Occupations
- politicianpartisan
- Biography
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John Garang de Mabior was a Sudanese politician and revolutionary leader. From 1983 to 2005, he led the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) after the Second Sudanese Civil War, the comprehensive peace agreement of 2005 was signed and he briefly served as First Vice President of Sudan for 3 weeks until his death in a helicopter crash on July 30, 2005. A developmental economist by profession, Garang was a major influence on the movement that led to the foundation of South Sudan.
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Firouz Naderi
- Occupations
- engineerscientist
- Biography
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Firouz Michael Naderi is an Iranian American scientist who spent 36 years in various technical and executive positions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he contributed to some of America's most iconic robotic space missions.
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Georges Niang
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Georges Niang, nicknamed "The Minivan", is a Senegalese-American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was an All-American college player for Iowa State University.
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Tyrese Haliburton
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Tyrese John Haliburton is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones and was drafted by the Sacramento Kings in the 2020 NBA draft. Listed at 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) and 185 pounds (84 kg), he plays the point guard and shooting guard positions. In 2022, Haliburton was acquired by the Indiana Pacers as part of a trade package for Domantas Sabonis. In 2023, he was named to his first All-Star Game as an East reserve.
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Florin Cîțu
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- In 1999 graduated with master's degree in monetary policy
- Occupations
- bloggerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Florin Vasile Cîțu is a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania between December 2020 and November 2021 (acting/ad interim between October and November 2021). Between September 2021 and April 2022, he was also the leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL).
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Tom Harkin
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- Studied in 1962
- Occupations
- military officerlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Richard Harkin is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representative for Iowa's 5th congressional district from 1975 to 1985. He is the longest-serving senator to spend his whole tenure as a state's junior senator.
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Ezra Taft Benson
- Occupations
- prophetpolitician
- Biography
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Ezra Taft Benson was an American farmer, government official, and religious leader who served as the 15th United States Secretary of Agriculture during both presidential terms of Dwight D. Eisenhower and as the 13th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1985 until his death in 1994.
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Kelechi Osemele
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Kelechi Keith Ayo Osemele is an American football offensive guard who is a free agent. He played college football at Iowa State. He was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the second round of the 2012 NFL Draft, and was a rookie starter throughout the team's Super Bowl XLVII championship run that season.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
- Occupations
- peace activistwomen's rights activistsuffragistpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Carrie Chapman Catt was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920. She founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904, which was later named International Alliance of Women. She "led an army of voteless women in 1919 to pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it in 1920" and "was one of the best-known women in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century and was on all lists of famous American women."
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Hadley Wickham
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- In 2008 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- statisticiansoftware developercomputer scientistdata scientist
- Biography
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Hadley Alexander Wickham is a statistician from New Zealand and Chief Scientist at Posit, PBC (former RStudio Inc.) and an adjunct Professor of statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice University. He is best known for his development of open-source software for the R statistical programming language for data visualisation, including ggplot2, and other tidyverse packages, which support a tidy data approach to data science.
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Nawal El Moutawakel
- Occupations
- politicianathletics competitor
- Biography
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Nawal El Moutawakel is a Moroccan former hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and was the first Moroccan to become an Olympic medalist (gold). In 2007, El Moutawakel was named the Minister of Sports in the upcoming cabinet of Morocco.
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Matt Thomas
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Matthew William Thomas is an American professional basketball player for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones before starting his professional career in Europe, then moving to the NBA.
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Monté Morris
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Monté Robert Morris is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones.
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Howard R. Hughes, Sr
- Occupations
- businesspersoninventorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Howard Robard Hughes Sr. was an American businessman and inventor. He was the founder of Hughes Tool Company. He invented the "Sharp–Hughes" rotary tri-cone rock drill bit during the Texas Oil Boom. He is best known as the father and namesake of Howard Hughes, the famous American business tycoon.
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Justin Hamilton
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Justin Anthony Hamilton is a Croatian-American professional basketball player for Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He plays the center position.
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Antti Herlin
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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Antti Herlin is a Finnish billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Finnish KONE Corporation, as well as the richest person in Finland – as of May 2021 Forbes reported his net worth as $7.0 billion, naming him the 404th richest person in the world. He is also the former chairman of the Confederation of Finnish Industries (Elinkeinoelämän Keskusliitto EK).
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John Cooper
- Occupations
- head coachAmerican football player
- Biography
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John Harold Cooper is a former American football player and coach. Cooper was an assistant coach at Iowa State, Oregon State, UCLA, Kansas, and Kentucky. Then, he embarked on a head coaching career, as he served as the head coach at the University of Tulsa (1977–1984), Arizona State University (1985–1987), and Ohio State University (1988–2000), compiling a career record of 192–84–6. Cooper was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2008.
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Graham Spanier
- Occupations
- announcer
- Biography
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Graham Basil Spanier is a South African-born American sociologist and university administrator who became the 16th president of Pennsylvania State University on September 1, 1995. On November 9, 2011, in the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, Spanier and longtime football coach Joe Paterno were “removed from their positions” by the Penn State board of trustees.
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Randy Feenstra
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Randall Lee Feenstra is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 4th congressional district. The district covers the western border of the state, including Sioux City and Council Bluffs, but stretches as far east as Story County, Franklin County, and Marshall County, including Ames.
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Jackson Vroman
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jackson Brett Vroman was an American-born Lebanese professional basketball player. He was naturalized as a Lebanese citizen to play for the Lebanon national basketball team, replacing the other naturalized American Lebanese player, Joe Vogel. He is the son of former NBA player Brett Vroman, who played briefly for the Utah Jazz in the 1980–81 NBA season.
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Nate Mooney
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Nate Mooney is an American actor best known for his recurring role as Ryan McPoyle on the FX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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Kevin Jackson
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fighteramateur wrestler
- Biography
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Kevin Andre Jackson is an American retired freestyle and folkstyle wrestler, and mixed martial artist. Following his competitive career, Jackson would become a wrestling coach.
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A. J. Klein
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Aaron James Klein is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Iowa State. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the fifth round of the 2013 NFL Draft.
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Terry A. Anderson
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Terry A. Anderson is an American journalist. He reported for the Associated Press. In 1985, he was taken hostage by Shia Hezbollah militants of the Islamic Jihad Organization in Lebanon and held until 1991. In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully for the Ohio State Senate.
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Chris Taylor
- Occupations
- amateur wrestlerprofessional wrestleractor
- Biography
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Christopher J. Taylor was an American super-heavyweight wrestler. He competed in freestyle and Greco-Roman events at the 1972 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the freestyle. At 412 pounds (187 kg), he was the heaviest Olympian ever until the appearance of judoka Ricardo Blas Jr. in 2008 (weight limits have since been imposed).
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Isa Kalantari
- Occupations
- managerpolitician
- Biography
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Issa Kalantari is an Iranian politician and former head of Department of Environment, serving from 2017 to 2021. He served as minister of agriculture in last year of Khamenei's presidency, in both terms of Rafsanjani's presidency and also in first term of President Khatami.
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Jared Homan
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jared William Homan is an American professional basketball player who last played for Maccabi Ashdod of the Israeli Premier League. His natural position is power forward, but he is also an accomplished center.
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Harvey Gantt
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
- Biography
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Harvey Bernard Gantt is an American architect and Democratic politician active in North Carolina. The first African-American student admitted to Clemson University after attending Iowa State University, Gantt graduated with honors in architecture, earned a master's at MIT, and established an architectural practice in Charlotte with a partner.
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Jamaal Tinsley
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jamaal Lee Tinsley is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Tinsley played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones. Following his senior year, he was drafted by the Vancouver Grizzlies with the 27th pick of the 2001 NBA draft, and was immediately dealt to the Atlanta Hawks, and then to the Indiana Pacers on draft night. Tinsley played 11 seasons in the NBA, primarily with the Pacers, as well as the Grizzlies and Jazz.
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Marcus Fizer
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Darnell Marcus Lamar Fizer is an American former professional basketball player.
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Naz Mitrou-Long
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Nazareth Jersey Mitrou-Long is a Canadian professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones. Born in Mississauga, Ontario, he played high school basketball at Father Michael Goetz in his hometown. In 2012, he started playing college basketball for Iowa State. He played in the 2017 NBA Summer League for the Sacramento Kings. He later played a total of 20 regular-season games with the Utah Jazz and the Indiana Pacers.
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Subra Suresh
- Occupations
- academicinternational forum participantuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Subra Suresh is an Indian-born American bioengineer, materials scientist, and academic. On 1 January 2018, he was inaugurated as the fourth President of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, where he is also the inaugural Distinguished University Professor. Subra Suresh plans on stepping down from his role as the President of NTU at the end of 2022. He was the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT from 2007 to 2010 before being appointed as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) by Barack Obama, where he served from 2010 to 2013. He was the president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) from 2013 to 2017.
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Theaster Gates
- Occupations
- performance artistartistinternational forum participantceramicist
- Biography
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Theaster Gates is an American social practice installation artist and a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works.
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David Loebsack
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- political scientistpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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David Wayne Loebsack is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 2nd congressional district from 2007 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he also is an emeritus professor of political science at Cornell College, where he had taught since 1982. On April 12, 2019, Loebsack announced he would not seek reelection.
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Melvin Ejim
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Melvin Obinna Ejim is a Nigerian-Canadian professional basketball player for Unicaja of the Liga ACB. He played college basketball for Iowa State University before playing professionally in Italy, Russia and Spain, as well as the NBA Development League.
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Diante Garrett
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Diante Maurice Garrett is an American professional basketball player for Ironi Kiryat Ata of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for Iowa State University.
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Sehat Sutardja
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Sehat Sutardja is the co-founder of Marvell Technology Group; formerly chief executive officer and a director. Marvell is involved with industry segments including data storage, mobile and smart TVs.
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Eric Cooper
- Occupations
- baseball umpire
- Biography
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Eric Richard Cooper was an American professional baseball umpire, whose Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned 1999 until his death in October 2019. He wore umpire uniform number 56. As a Major League umpire, Cooper officiated in ten Division Series, four League Championship Series, three Wild Card Games, one All-Star Game, and one World Series.
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Clayton Anderson
- Occupations
- radio operatoraerospace engineerengineerastronaut
- Biography
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Clayton Conrad Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut. Launched on STS-117, he replaced Sunita Williams on June 10, 2007 as a member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew. He is currently an author, a motivational speaker, and a Professor of Practice at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. In 2022 he became the president and CEO of the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum.
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Eugene Burton Ely
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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Eugene Burton Ely was an American aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft takeoff and landing.
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Danny Harris
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Danny Lee Harris is an American former track and field athlete who specialized in the 400-meter hurdles (400 mH), in which he won silver medals at the 1984 Olympics and the 1987 World Championships.
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Maxx Payne
- Occupations
- professional wrestleractorwritertelevision actor
- Biography
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Darryl Peterson is an American musician, actor and retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling as Maxx Payne, and in the World Wrestling Federation as Man Mountain Rock.
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Michael M. Crow
- Occupations
- opinion journalistinternational forum participantuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Michael Maurice Crow is an American educator, science and technology scholar, vehicular repository magnate and university design architect. He is the 16th and current president of Arizona State University, having succeeded Lattie F. Coor on July 1, 2002. During his tenure at ASU, he is credited with creating the New American University model.
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Luis Ernesto Derbez
- Occupations
- economistdiplomatminister
- Biography
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Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista is a Mexican politician and rector of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). He served as Mexico's Secretary of Economy from 2000 to 2002 and Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2006.
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Lindell Wigginton
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Lindell Shamar Wigginton is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Wisconsin Herd of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones.
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LeRoy E. Cain
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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LeRoy Edward Cain is an American aerospace engineer who worked for NASA as a flight director, launch integration manager and deputy manager of the Space Shuttle Program. Cain may be best known to the public from footage and documentaries showing his work as the entry flight director for STS-107, the mission that ended in the catastrophic disintegration of Space Shuttle Columbia, February 1, 2003. Cain issued the famous "Lock the doors" command, initiating contingency procedures in mission control for the first time since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 17 years earlier.
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Lauro Cavazos
- Occupations
- academic administratorzoologistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Lauro Fred Cavazos Jr. was an American educator and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Education, and was the first Hispanic to serve in the United States Cabinet.
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Theresa Greenfield
- Occupations
- real estate agentpoliticianurban planner
- Biography
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Theresa Greenfield is an American businesswoman and political candidate. She was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 United States Senate election in Iowa, losing to incumbent Republican Joni Ernst.
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Frank Steunenberg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank Steunenberg was the fourth governor of the State of Idaho, serving from 1897 until 1901. He was assassinated in 1905 by one-time union member Harry Orchard, who was also a paid informant for the Cripple Creek Mine Owners' Association. Orchard attempted to implicate leaders of the radical Western Federation of Miners in the assassination. The labor leaders were found not guilty in two trials, but Orchard spent the rest of his life in prison.
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Tyrus McGee
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Tyrus McGee is an American professional basketball player for Galatasaray Nef of the Turkish Basketball Super League and the Basketball Champions League. He has previously played for Iowa State.
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Bruce Braley
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- In 1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Bruce Lowell Braley is an American politician and attorney who served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 1st congressional district from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was defeated in his attempt to win an open seat in the 2014 United States Senate election in Iowa.
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Matt Blair
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Albert Matthew Blair was an American professional football player who was an outside linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) for all 12 seasons of his career from 1974 to 1985. He played college football at Iowa State.
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Berkley Bedell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Berkley Warren Bedell was an American Democratic Party politician and businessman who served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 6th congressional district from 1975 to 1987. After starting a successful business in his youth, Berkley Fly Co., he ran for Congress in 1972, but was defeated by incumbent Wiley Mayne. In 1974 however, Bedell beat Mayne and was elected to the U.S. House.
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Yang Hung-duen
- Occupations
- politicianphysicistresearcher
- Biography
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Yang Hung-duen is a Taiwanese physicist. Yang was the president of National Sun Yat-sen University from 2008 to 2016, when he was selected to lead the Ministry of Science and Technology.
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John Melcher
- Occupations
- veterinarianpolitician
- Biography
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John David Melcher was an American politician of the Democratic Party who represented Montana as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and as a United States Senator from 1977 until 1989.
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Craig Brackins
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Craig Lee Brackins is an American professional basketball player who last played for Shiga Lakestars of the Japanese B.League.
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H. Otley Beyer
- Occupations
- anthropologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Henry Otley Beyer was an American anthropologist, who spent most of his adult life in the Philippines teaching Philippine indigenous culture. A.V.H. Hartendorp called Beyer the "Dean of Philippine ethnology, archaeology, and prehistory".
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Bourke B. Hickenlooper
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- Studied in 1919
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, was an American politician and member of the Republican Party, first elected to statewide office in Iowa as lieutenant governor, serving from 1939 to 1943 and then as the 29th Governor of Iowa from 1943 to 1945. Hickenlooper was first elected to the United States Senate in 1944. He served in the Senate from 1945 to 1969.
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Lauretta Bender
- Occupations
- psychiatristchild psychiatristphysician
- Biography
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Lauretta Bender was an American child neuropsychiatrist known for developing the Bender-Gestalt Test, a psychological test designed to evaluate visual-motor maturation in children. First published by Bender in 1938, the test became widely used for assessing children's neurological function and screening for developmental disorders.
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Betty Bumpers
- Occupations
- teacherpeace activist
- Biography
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Betty Lou Bumpers was an American politician, advocate for childhood immunizations, and world peace activist, who served as the First Lady of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975. Together, she and Rosalynn Carter ran a successful campaign to ensure that all American school children were immunized. Bumpers was the wife of Dale Bumpers, who served as governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975 and as a U.S. Senator from 1975 to 1999.
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Lucca Staiger
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Lucca Staiger is a German professional basketball player for Löwen Braunschweig of the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). Standing at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), he plays the shooting guard position. He played collegiate basketball for Iowa State University.
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Henry Cantwell Wallace
- Occupations
- writerjournalistpublisheruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Cantwell "Harry" Wallace was an American farmer, journalist, and political activist who served as the Secretary of Agriculture from 1921 to 1924 under Republican presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. He was the father of Henry A. Wallace, who would follow in his father's footsteps as Secretary of Agriculture and later became Vice President under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was an editor of Wallaces' Farmer from 1916 to 1921.
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Jalaludin Rakhmat
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- Studied in 1980-1982
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jalaluddin Rakhmat, also known by the nickname of Kang Jalal, was an Indonesian academician and politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle who became the member of the People's Representative Council from 2014 until 2019.
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Donald Cressey
- Occupations
- criminologistsociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Donald Ray Cressey was an American penologist, sociologist, and criminologist who made innovative contributions to the study of organized crime, prisons, criminology, the sociology of criminal law, white-collar crime.
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Dustin Hogue
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Dustin Hogue is an American professional basketball player for Promitheas Patras of the Greek Basket League. He played college basketball for Indian Hills Community College and Iowa State Cyclones. Hogue entered the 2015 NBA draft, but was not selected in the draft's two rounds.
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Frank Cownie
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- politician
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Thomas Michael Franklin "Frank" Cownie is the current mayor of Des Moines, Iowa. He also owns and operates Cownie Furs, a store that has been in his family for generations.
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Guor Marial
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- marathon runnerathletics competitor
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Guor Mading Maker, also known as Guor Marial, is a South Sudanese Olympic track and field athlete. He is a Dinka tribesman.
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Jameel McKay
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- basketball player
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Jameel McKay is an American professional basketball player. He played two seasons of college basketball for Iowa State, where as a junior in 2014–15, he was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year when he averaged 2.4 blocked shots per game. In 2017, he won an NBL championship with the Perth Wildcats.
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Robert D. Bullard
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- ecologistsociologistuniversity teacher
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Robert Doyle Bullard is an American academic who is the former Dean of the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairs (October 2011 – August 2016) and currently Distinguished Professor at Texas Southern University. Previously Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Bullard is known as the "father of environmental justice". He has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism, as well as the foremost scholar of the problem, and of the Environmental Justice Movement which sprung up in the United States in the 1980s.
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Zaid Abdul-Aziz
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- basketball player
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Zaid Abdul-Aziz is an American former professional basketball player. He was known as Don Smith until he changed his name to Zaid Abdul-Aziz in 1976 after he converted to Islam.
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Tom Latham
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- Studied in 1967-1970
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- politicianbusiness executive
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Thomas Paul Latham is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative for Iowa from 1995 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. On December 17, 2013, Latham announced he would not seek reelection next term, becoming the third member of the U.S. House to announce his retirement on the same day (along with Frank Wolf from Virginia and Jim Matheson from Utah).
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Robert Truax
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- military officerengineeraerospace engineer
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Captain Robert C. Truax was an American rocket engineer in the United States Navy, and companies such as Aerojet and Truax Engineering, which he founded. Truax was a proponent of low-cost rocket engine and vehicle designs.
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Alex Hershaft
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- chemist
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Alex Hershaft is an American animal rights activist, Holocaust survivor, and co-founder and president of the Farm Animal Rights Movement, the nation's oldest (1976) organization devoted exclusively to promoting the rights of animals not to be raised for food. Previously, he has had a 30-year career in materials science and environmental consulting and a prominent role in movements for religious freedom and environmental quality.
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Thomas Sutherland
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- agronomist
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Thomas Sutherland, Dean of Agriculture at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad members near his Beirut home on June 9, 1985. He was released on November 18, 1991 at the same time as Terry Waite, having been held hostage for 2,353 days.
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Sean McLaughlin
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- journalist
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Sean McLaughlin is an anchor of the 10pm newscast and formerly the Chief Meteorologist at KPHO CBS 5 in Phoenix Arizona.
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Georgios Tsalmpouris
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- basketball player
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Georgios Tsalmpouris is a Greek professional basketball player for Bilbao of the Spanish Liga ACB. He is 7'2" (2.18 m) tall, weighs 235 pounds (107 kg), and plays the center position.
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Neta Snook Southern
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- aircraft pilot
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Mary Anita "Neta" Snook Southern was a pioneer aviator who achieved a long list of firsts. She was the first woman aviator in Iowa, first woman student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, first woman aviator to run her own aviation business and first woman to run a commercial airfield. Yet "Snooky", as her friends called her, was fated to be remembered for her relationship to Amelia Earhart. Her autobiography I Taught Amelia to Fly captures the essence of her fame and she is linked to Earhart, as her first instructor.
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Frederick D. Patterson
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Frederick Douglass Patterson was an American academic administrator, the president of what is now Tuskegee University (1935–1953), and founder of the United Negro College Fund (1944, UNCF). He was a 1987 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, and 1988 recipient of the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.
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Darleane C. Hoffman
- Enrolled in Iowa State University
- In 1951 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- university teacherchemist
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Darleane Christian Hoffman is an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of Seaborgium, element 106. She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at UC Berkeley. In acknowledgment of her many achievements, Discover magazine recognized her in 2002 as one of the 50 most important women in science.
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Ben Peterson
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- amateur wrestler
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Benjamin Lee "Ben" Peterson is a retired American freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal, respectively. As a college wrestler, Peterson was a two-time NCAA champion at Iowa State. He founded the "Camp of Champs," which brought in Olympic wrestlers to train with high schoolers. Peterson also coached wrestling at Maranatha Baptist University for 28 years.
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DeAnne Julius
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- economist
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Dame DeAnne Shirley Julius, DCMG, CBE is a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House. An American–British economist, Julius is noted as a founder member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.
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Helena Benitez
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- politician
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Helena Zoila Tirona Benitez was a Filipina academic and administrator of the Philippine Women's University.
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Hillary Bor
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- athletics competitor
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Hillary Bor is a Kenyan-born American track and field athlete. He qualified for the 2016 Olympics by finishing in second place in the 3000 meters steeplechase at the 2016 United States Olympic Trials.
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Garrey Carruthers
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- businesspersonuniversity teacher
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Garrey Edward Carruthers is an American politician and academic who served as the 27th governor of New Mexico and the chancellor of New Mexico State University. He previously served as special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1974 to 1975, director of the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute at NMSU, state chair of the Republican Party of New Mexico from 1977 to 1979, and United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior for Land and Resources from 1981 to 1984.
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Jørn Lyseggen
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Jørn Lyseggen is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur, patent inventor and the founder and Executive Chairman of Meltwater and the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology.
