18 Notable alumni of
Johnson & Wales University - Providence
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Johnson & Wales University - Providence is 1548th in the world, 536th in North America, and 504th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Johnson & Wales University - Providence sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Blac Chyna
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- stripperbusinesspersonentrepreneuractormodel
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Angela Renée White, commonly known as Blac Chyna, is an American model, television personality, rapper, and socialite. She originally rose to prominence in 2010 as the stunt double for Nicki Minaj in the music video for the song "Monster" by Kanye West. She gained wider media attention after being name-dropped in the song "Miss Me" by Drake the same year, leading to a number of magazine appearances, including pieces in Dimepiece, Straight Stuntin and Black Men's Magazine. In 2014, she launched her own makeup brand, "Lashed by Blac Chyna", and a beauty salon in Encino, Los Angeles. She has since made a number of media appearances, including in her own reality television shows, Rob & Chyna and The Real Blac Chyna.
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Maria Kanellis
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- podcastermodelPlayboy Playmatemanagerbeauty pageant contestant
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Mary Louis Kanellis-Bennett is an American professional wrestler, manager, promoter, singer and model. She is best known for her tenures in WWE, TNA, All Elite Wrestling, and Ring of Honor.
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Emeril Lagasse
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- chefrestaurateurbusinesspersonnon-fiction writer
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Emeril John Lagasse III is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, cookbook author, and National Best Recipe award winner for his "Turkey and Hot Sausage Chili" recipe in 2003. He is a regional James Beard Award winner, known for his mastery of Creole and Cajun cuisine and his self-developed "New New Orleans" style. He is of Portuguese descent on his mother's side while being of French heritage through his father.
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Graham Elliot
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- domestic worker cookrestaurateurchef
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Graham Elliot Bowles is an American chef, restaurateur, and reality television personality. He first gained recognition in the restaurant business as a three-time nominee for the James Beard Award. In 2004, he was named to Food & Wine's "Best New Chefs" list and became the youngest chef in the United States to receive four stars from a major publication (Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times).
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Tyler Florence
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- television actorcheffilm director
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Tyler Florence is an American chef and television host of several Food Network shows.
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Anna Olson
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- chef
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Anna Olson is an American pastry chef. She was previously the host of Food Network Canada's Fresh with Anna Olson, Sugar and Kitchen Equipped and Bake with Anna Olson. She is currently a judge on both Great Chocolate Showdown and Junior Chef Showdown, both of which premiered in 2020. She hosts short videos on her YouTube channel Oh Yum with Anna Olson. She resides in Welland in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada.
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Sean Brock
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- cookchef
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Sean Brock is an American chef specializing in Southern cuisine.
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Aarón Sanchez
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- chef
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Aarón Sánchez is a Mexican-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, television personality host, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the executive head chef and part-owner of the Mexican restaurant Johnny Sánchez in New Orleans.
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Chris Santos
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- chef
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Chris Santos is a New York City chef and the former executive chef and owner of The Stanton Social on New York's Lower East Side. In late 2010, he opened Beauty & Essex, a 250-seat, 10,000-square-foot restaurant in the heart of the lower east side. He is a recurring guest judge on the Food Network show Chopped, and is developing a show of his own.
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Rock Harper
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- restaurateurchef
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Rahman "Rock" Harper is an American chef, television personality and restaurateur who won in the third season of the Gordon Ramsay-presented reality television show Hell's Kitchen.
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Andrew Gruel
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- chef
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Andrew Gruel is an American chef, television personality, and politician based in Orange County, California. He appeared as a judge on Food Network's Food Truck Face Off and as a host of FYI's Say It to My Face!, and is the founder of Slapfish, a seafood restaurant franchise that he launched in 2012 and sold to Mac Haik Enterprises in 2022. He is the founder, CEO and executive chef of Calico Fish House, a casual seafood restaurant in Huntington Beach, California. He has been a member of the Huntington Beach City Council since March 18, 2025, when he was appointed to fill a vacant seat on the council.
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Mehmet Gürs
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- writerchef
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Mehmet Gürs is a Finnish celebrity chef, television personality, restaurateur and consultant. He is considered to be Istanbul's most recognizable chef.
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Bryan Acheampong
- Enrolled in Johnson & Wales University - Providence
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in information system
- Occupations
- consultantpolitician
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Bryan Acheampong is a Ghanaian politician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Abetifi Constituency in Ghana's Eastern Region since January 2017. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and previously held the position of Minister of Food and Agriculture from February 2023 to January 2025
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Chris Hastings
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United States - Occupations
- restaurateurchef
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Chris Hastings is the owner and executive chef of Hot & Hot Fish Club, a restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, and was twice a finalist for the James Beard Award "Best Chef in the South" award. In 2012, Chef Hastings was the winner of this award.
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John Antonakis
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- university teacher
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John Antonakis is a professor of organizational behavior at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne. He teaches leadership and applied statistics courses. He was editor-in-chief of The Leadership Quarterly between 2017 and 2022. The status and prestige of the journal increased strongly during his tenure (from an impact factor of 3.307 to 7.5, touching a high of 10.517), wherein he and his team focused on publishing more experimental research, ensuring the use of robust designs to enable causal conclusions in applied research or proper description of a phenomenon in basic research, as well as the use of open-science practices.
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Pamela Rosen Lampit
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- politician
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Pamela Rosen Lampitt is an American Democratic Party politician, who is the current clerk of Camden County, New Jersey. She previously represented the 6th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2006 to 2024. She served as the Deputy Speaker in the General Assembly starting in 2012.
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Vishwesh Bhatt
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- cook
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Vishwesh Bhatt is a James Beard Award-winning chef based in Oxford, Mississippi.
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Elizabeth Poirier
- Occupations
- politician
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Elizabeth Poirier is an American politician who represented the 14th Bristol district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives until 2021, and was the current Third Assistant House Minority Leader. She succeeded her husband Kevin Poirier, who resigned to become director of development at Sturdy Memorial Hospital. She announced in March 2020 that she would not seek another term in that year's election.
