15 Notable alumni of
Kentucky State University
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Kentucky State University is 2404th in the world, 834th in North America, and 788th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from Kentucky 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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Yingluck Shinawatra
- Enrolled in Kentucky State University
- Graduated with Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- politicianrefugeebusinesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Yingluck Shinawatra MPCh MWM is a Thai businesswoman, politician and a member of the Pheu Thai Party who became the 28th prime minister of Thailand following the 2011 election. Yingluck was Thailand's first female prime minister and its youngest in over 60 years. She was removed from office on 7 May 2014 by a Constitutional Court decision.
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Whitney Young
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Whitney Moore Young Jr. was an American civil rights leader. Trained as a social worker, he spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the historically disenfranchised. Young was influential in the United States federal government's War on Poverty in the 1960s.
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Jayjay Helterbrand
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Anthony "Jayjay" Helterbrand is a Filipino-American basketball player who last played for the Biñan Tatak Gel of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) and Pilipinas Super League (PSL). He previously played with the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Known by many as Helter Skelter, he is also known, along with backcourt tandem Mark Caguioa, as one-half of the so-called, The Fast and the Furious.
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Billy Ray Bates
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Billy Ray Bates is a retired American professional basketball player. Bates played shooting guard at McAdams High in Mississippi and attended Kentucky State University.
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Lho Shin-yong
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Lho Shin-yong was a South Korean politician, diplomat and intelligence chief, who served as the prime minister, the Foreign Minister and the Director of the Agency of National Security Planning (ANSP, now National Intelligence Service) of the fifth South Korean republic.
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Alice Allison Dunnigan
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Alice Allison Dunnigan was an American journalist, civil rights activist and author. Dunnigan was the first African-American female correspondent to receive White House credentials, and the first black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries. She wrote an autobiography entitled Alice A. Dunnigan: A Black Woman's Experience. She is commemorated by an official Kentucky Historical Society marker.
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Herb Trawick
- Occupations
- Canadian football playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Herb Trawick was a professional Canadian football player and was the first African American to play professional Canadian football. Trawick spent his entire 12-year career as an offensive lineman and defensive guard with the Montreal Alouettes.
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Bob Atcher
- Occupations
- musiciansingersongwriter
- Biography
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James Robert Owen "Bob" Atcher was an American country musician.
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Gerald Neal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gerald Anthony Neal is an American politician and attorney. He is a Democratic Party member of the Kentucky Senate, representing District 33 since January 1989.
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Effie Waller Smith
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Effie Waller Smith was an African-American poet of the early twentieth century. Her published output consisted of three volumes of poetry: Songs of the Month (1904), Rhymes From the Cumberland (1904), and Rosemary and Pansies (1909). Her poetry appeared in the publication Harper's Weekly and various regional newspapers.
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Derrick Graham
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Derrick Wayne Graham is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Kentucky House of Representatives who represented the 57th district, which includes the Kentucky capital city of Frankfort, since January 2003. In 2023, Graham became the first African American to lead a legislative caucus in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
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Joe B. Bates
- Enrolled in Kentucky State University
- Studied in 1916
- Occupations
- politicianschool superintendentteacherlawyermunicipal clerk
- Biography
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Joseph Bengal Bates was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
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William Cotton Hobdy
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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William Cotton Hobdy was an American physician and quarantine officer. From 1914 to 1917, he served as the final physician of Queen Liliuokalani, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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Dale Polley
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Ezra Dale Polley is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees. He bats right-handed and throws left-handed.
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Charles Dazey
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Charles Turner Dazey was an American writer and playwright.
