100 Notable alumni of
Lehigh University
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Lehigh University is 633rd in the world, 235th in North America, and 216th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Lehigh 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 Iacocca
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- Studied industrial engineering
- Occupations
- entrepreneurdiaristbusiness executivemanagerautobiographer
- Biography
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Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca was an American automobile executive best known for the development of the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 1992. He was one of the few executives to preside over the operations of two of the United States' Big Three automakers.
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Stephanie Ruhle
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- 1993-1997 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in international business
- Occupations
- journalistinternational forum participantnews presenter
- Biography
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Stephanie Ruhle-Hubbard is the host of MSNBC's The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle and the NBC News Senior Business analyst. Previously, Ruhle was managing editor and news anchor for Bloomberg Television and editor-at-large for Bloomberg News. Ruhle co-hosted the Bloomberg Television show Bloomberg GO and was one of three Bloomberg reporters who broke the story identifying the trader behind the 2012 JPMorgan Chase trading loss.
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Paul Guilfoyle
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Paul Vincent Guilfoyle is an American television and film actor. He was a regular cast member of the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, on which he played Captain Jim Brass from 2000 to 2014. He returned for the series finale, "Immortality", in 2015. He also returned for two episodes in the sequel CSI: Vegas.
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CJ McCollum
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- Studied in 2009-2013
- Occupations
- podcasterbasketball player
- Biography
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Christian James McCollum is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). During his third year in the league in 2015–16, he was named the NBA Most Improved Player.
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Don Most
- Occupations
- film directortelevision actorvoice actoractor
- Biography
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Don Most is an American actor and singer. He is known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy Days.
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Roger Penske
- Occupations
- Formula One driverbusinesspersonNASCAR team owner
- Biography
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Roger Searle Penske is a retired American professional auto racing driver. Penske is most known for his ownership of Team Penske, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IndyCar, and other auto racing-related businesses. Penske is the founder and chairman of the Penske Corporation, a holding company for his various businesses. Penske is also a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
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Martin Baron
- Occupations
- newspaper editoreditorinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Martin Baron is an American journalist who was editor of The Washington Post from December 31, 2012 until his retirement on February 28, 2021. He was previously editor of The Boston Globe from 2001 to 2012; during that period, the Globe's coverage of the Boston Catholic sexual abuse scandal earned a Pulitzer Prize.
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Fred Trump Jr
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in business
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotmaintenance worker
- Biography
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Frederick Crist Trump Jr. was an American airplane pilot and maintenance worker. The eldest son of real-estate businessman Fred Trump Sr., he fell out of his father's favor when he chose to become an airline pilot, leading to his younger brother Donald (the 45th president of the United States) inheriting the family business.
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Alina Habba
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Alina Saad Habba is an American lawyer and Managing Partner of Habba, Madaio & Associates LLP, a firm based in Bedminster, New Jersey, with an office in New York City. Habba is currently representing former U.S. president Donald Trump, and is also a senior advisor for MAGA, Inc., Trump's Super PAC.
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Michael Smerconish
- Occupations
- journalistlawyerwriterradio personality
- Biography
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Michael Andrew Smerconish is an American radio host and television presenter, political commentator, newspaper columnist, author, and lawyer. A self-described "lifelong Republican" and former GOP administration appointee, he left the Republican party during the presidency of Barack Obama. He broadcasts The Michael Smerconish Program weekdays at 9:00 a.m. ET on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel (124), and hosts the CNN and CNN International program Smerconish at 9:00 a.m. ET on Saturdays. He was formerly a Sunday newspaper columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Smerconish has written seven books: six non-fiction works and one novel. He is also of counsel to the Philadelphia law firm of Kline & Specter.
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Robert Christopher Riley
- Occupations
- actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Robert Christopher Riley is an American film, television, and stage actor of Trinidadian and Bajan descent. He is known for his role as Terrence Wall in the VH1 television drama series Hit The Floor from 2013 to 2016, and for playing Michael Culhane in The CW's 2017 Dynasty reboot.
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Ali Al-Naimi
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneurinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi is a Saudi Arabian politician who was the Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources from 1995 to 2016.
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Charlie Dent
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- In 1993 graduated with Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- academic administratorsalespersonclerkpolitician
- Biography
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Charles Wieder Dent is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district from 2005 to 2018.
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Robert Serber
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistuniversity teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Robert Serber was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic principles and goals of the project were printed and supplied to all incoming scientific staff, and became known as The Los Alamos Primer. The New York Times called him “the intellectual midwife at the birth of the atomic bomb.”
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Alexander M. Patch
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- Studied in 1909
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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General Alexander McCarrell Patch was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both world wars, rising to rank of general. During World War II, he commanded U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific, and the Seventh Army on the Western Front in Europe.
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Geoff Diehl
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Geoffrey G. Diehl is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A Republican, he represented the 7th Plymouth district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019.
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Gina Lewandowski
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Gina Loren Lewandowski is an American former soccer player.
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Leonard Lance
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- law clerkpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Leonard John Lance is an American politician and attorney who served as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 7th congressional district, from 2009 to 2019. He ran for re-election in 2018, but was defeated by Democrat Tom Malinowski. He is a member of the Republican Party who previously served in the New Jersey Senate from 2002 to 2009 and the New Jersey General Assembly from 1991 to 2002.
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Joe Morgenstern
- Occupations
- film criticjournalist
- Biography
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Joe Morgenstern is an American writer and retired film critic. He wrote for Newsweek from 1965 to 1983, and then for The Wall Street Journal from 1995 to 2022. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2005. Morgenstern has also written for television.
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Cathy Engelbert
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- 1982-1986 graduated with Bachelor of Science in accounting
- Occupations
- international forum participantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Catherine Engelbert is an American business executive and Commissioner of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Before joining the WNBA, she had been with Deloitte for 33 years, including as its first female CEO from 2015 to 2019.
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Stacey Cunningham
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- international forum participantbanker
- Biography
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Stacey Cunningham is an American banker who served as the 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) from 2018 to 2022. She was the second female president of the NYSE, but the first to hold full leadership of the exchange.
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Brian Tyler Cohen
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- YouTuberpolitical punditpodcasterfilm actor
- Biography
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Brian Tyler Cohen is an American progressive YouTuber, podcaster, political commentator, and MSNBC contributor. In his YouTube channel, titled "Brian Tyler Cohen," he interviews political figures, reports on politics, and live-streams events, including debates and election results. His channel has over 2.5 million subscribers and 1.9 billion views. He also hosts a political podcast called No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen.
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Kyle Neptune
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Kyle Neptune is an American basketball coach. He is the coach of the Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team.
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Maryellen Noreika
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Maryellen Noreika is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
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Richard Harding Davis
- Occupations
- writernovelistwar correspondentplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt. He also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine. His influence extended to the world of fashion, and he is credited with making the clean-shaven look popular among men at the turn of the 20th century.
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James E. Talmage
- Occupations
- geologisttheologianwriter
- Biography
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James Edward Talmage was an English chemist, geologist, and religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1911 until his death.
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William P. Gottlieb
- Occupations
- journalistphotographerteacher
- Biography
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William Paul Gottlieb was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of the leading performers of the Golden Age of American jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. Gottlieb's photographs are among the best known and widely reproduced images of this era of jazz.
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Russell Lee
- Occupations
- journalistphotographerphotojournalist
- Biography
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Russell Werner Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. His images documented the ethnography of various American classes and cultures.
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Steve Chang
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Steve Chang, is a Taiwanese businessperson and the co-founder and former CEO of Trend Micro, the world's largest software security firm. He was named "Star of Asia" by the Business Week in 1999, and he was selected as one of the six protagonists of the Discovery Channel's Portraits Taiwan II in 2006.
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Paul Zane Pilzer
- Occupations
- businesspersonwritereconomist
- Biography
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Paul Zane Pilzer is an American economist, New York Times best-selling author, and social entrepreneur. He has written 13 books, the founder of six companies, and has been profiled in more than 100 publications including on the front page of The Wall Street Journal.
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Pongpol Adireksarn
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Pongpol Adireksarn is a Thai novelist, documentarist and former politician.
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Thomas R. Kline
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Thomas R. Kline is an American personal injury attorney. His cases have helped shape Pennsylvania law and resulted in corporate, institutional, and governmental changes throughout the civil justice system. The law schools at Drexel University and Duquesne University are named for Kline. He is a partner in Kline & Specter and a member and past president (2008-2009) of the Inner Circle of Advocates.
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Todd McCaffrey
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- 1974-1975 studied engineering physics
- Occupations
- science fiction writernovelistwriter
- Biography
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Todd J. McCaffrey is an American science fiction writer known for continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series in collaboration with his mother Anne McCaffrey.
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Edward Avery McIlhenny
- Occupations
- zoologistornithologistexplorer
- Biography
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Edward Avery McIlhenny, son of Tabasco Company founder Edmund McIlhenny, was an American businessman, explorer, bird bander and conservationist. He established a private wildlife refuge around his family estate on Avery Island and helped in preserving a large coastal marshland in Louisiana as a bird refuge. He also introduced several exotic plants into Jungle Gardens, his private wildlife garden.
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Edwin Kneedler
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Edwin Smiley Kneedler is an American lawyer who has served as Deputy United States Solicitor General since 1993. As of June 2020, he has argued more cases before the Supreme Court of the United States than any other active advocate.
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Matt McBride
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Matthew Hagerty McBride is an American former professional baseball first baseman and catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and Oakland Athletics.
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Francis Eugene Walter
- Occupations
- lawyerdirectorpoliticianbanker
- Biography
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Francis Eugene Walter was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Walter was a prominent member of the House Un-American Activities Committee from 1951 to 1963, serving as chair of that committee for the last nine of those years. He was a Democrat who wanted to minimize immigration and was largely responsible for the McCarran–Walter Act of 1952, which kept the old quotas but also opened up many new opportunities for legal immigration to the US.
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Terry Hart
- Occupations
- astronautaircraft pilotmilitary officer
- Biography
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Terry Jonathan "T. J." Hart is an American mechanical and electrical engineer, a retired United States Air Force lieutenant colonel and pilot, and former NASA astronaut. Hart served as a mission specialist on the STS-41-C mission, where tasks included operation of the shuttle Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm to deploy the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) and Solar Max satellite.
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Thomas Duane
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas K. Duane is an American politician from New York, who served in the New York State Senate from 1999 to 2012, and in the New York City Council from 1992 to 1998.
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Peter D. Feaver
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Peter Douglas Feaver is an American professor of political science and public policy at Duke University and a civil-military relations scholar.
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William Amelio
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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William J. "Bill" Amelio is an American business executive who was the CEO of Lenovo. He was also the CEO of Avnet.
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Christopher Porrino
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher S. Porrino is an American trial lawyer who served as the Attorney General of New Jersey from 2016 to 2018. Porrino is currently a partner of Lowenstein Sandler, and chair of the firm's Litigation Department.
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Andrew H. Knoll
- Occupations
- paleontologistuniversity teacherbotanist
- Biography
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Andrew Herbert Knoll is the Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and a Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1951, Andrew Knoll graduated from Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977 for a dissertation titled "Studies in Archean and Early Proterozoic Paleontology." Knoll taught at Oberlin College for five years before returning to Harvard as a professor in 1982. At Harvard, he serves in the departments of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences.
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Maria Jacquemetton
- Occupations
- television producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Maria Jacquemetton is a Greek American television writer and producer. She graduated from Lehigh University in 1983. She served as a producer for the first season of Mad Men and co-wrote, with her husband, Andre, three episodes of the season.
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Tim Kempton Jr
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Timothy Kempton Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Lehigh University, where he was the 2015 and 2016 Patriot League Player of the Year. He is the son of retired National Basketball Association (NBA) player Tim Kempton.
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James Geurts
- Biography
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James F. Geurts is an American former government official and retired United States Air Force colonel who served in 2021 as the official performing the duties of United States Under Secretary of the Navy.
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John-David F. Bartoe
- Occupations
- physicistastronautastronomerastrophysicist
- Biography
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John-David Francis Bartoe is an American astrophysicist. He is the Research Manager for the International Space Station (ISS) at NASA's Johnson Space Center. He provides oversight for the Program Manager concerning the research capability, research hardware, and research plans of the ISS. As a civilian employee of the US Navy, he flew aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-51-F as a Payload Specialist.
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Philip Drinker
- Occupations
- engineerinventor
- Biography
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Philip Drinker was an American industrial hygienist. With Louis Agassiz Shaw, he invented the first widely used iron lung in 1928.
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Jordan Ritter
- Occupations
- software architect
- Biography
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Jordan Ritter is an American serial entrepreneur, software architect and angel investor. He is best known for his work at Napster, the file-sharing service he co-founded along with Shawn Fanning and others. His time at Napster was documented in Joseph Menn's book All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster and Alex Winter's film Downloaded.
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Paul McHale
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- In 1972 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Paul Francis McHale Jr. is a retired American lawyer and politician. From 2003 to 2009, he served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. From 1993 to 1999, he represented Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
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Stephen J. Benkovic
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- In 1960 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English literature and chemistry
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Stephen James Benkovic is an American chemist known for his contributions to the field of enzymology. He holds the Evan Pugh University Professorship and Eberly Chair in Chemistry at The Pennsylvania State University. He has developed boron compounds that are active pharmacophores against a variety of diseases. Benkovic has concentrated on the assembly and kinetic attributes of the enzymatic machinery that performs DNA replication, DNA repair, and purine biosynthesis.
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Daniel McFarlan Moore
- Occupations
- electrical engineerinventor
- Biography
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Daniel McFarlan Moore was a U.S. electrical engineer and inventor. He developed a novel light source, the "Moore lamp", and a business that produced them in the early 1900s. The Moore lamp was the first commercially viable light-source based on gas discharges instead of incandescence; it was the predecessor to contemporary neon lighting and fluorescent lighting. In his later career Moore developed a miniature neon lamp that was extensively used in electronic displays, as well as vacuum tubes that were used in early television systems.
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Morris Llewellyn Cooke
- Occupations
- mechanical engineerengineer
- Biography
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Morris Llewellyn Cooke was an American engineer, best known for his work on Scientific Management and Rural Electrification.
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Marc Holtzman
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- international forum participant
- Biography
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Marc Holtzman is an American banker and former politician who is currently the chairman of the board of directors of the Bank of Kigali, Rwanda’s largest financial institution. Additionally, he serves as chairman of CBZ Holdings, the largest financial institution in Zimbabwe.
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Kevin J. Kennedy
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Kevin J. Kennedy is an American business executive. He is currently the CEO of Quanergy Systems (NYSE: QNGY and QNGY.WS), a growth company that develops software and sensor technology enabling 3D perception and autonomy, after joining the Board in 2019. Before Quanergy, Mr. Kennedy was the president and CEO of Avaya Inc. from January 2009 to October 2017
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Richard Verma
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Richard Rahul Verma is an American diplomat, who serves as the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, a position he has held since April 5, 2023. He served as the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs from 2009 to 2011, and as the U.S. ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. He served as the chief legal officer and head of global public policy at Mastercard, from 2020 to 2023, and as the vice chair of the Asia Group from 2017 to 2020, where he oversaw the firm's South Asia practice. He also practiced law for many years at Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington DC, and served as a Senior Counselor and Lead of the India and South Asia practice at Albright Stonebridge Group.
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Timothy D. Haugh
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- military leader
- Biography
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Timothy D. Haugh is a United States Air Force general who serves as the commander of the United States Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency, and chief of the Central Security Service. He previously served as the deputy commander of the United States Cyber Command.
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Colin J. Kilrain
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Biography
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Colin James Kilrain is a retired United States Navy vice admiral who last served as the assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 20, 2021 to February 2023. He previously served as the associate director for military affairs (ADMA) for the Central Intelligence Agency from 2019 to 2021. He is the former commander of Special Operations Command Pacific and Naval Special Warfare Group Two.
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Paul Lewis Maloney
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Paul Lewis Maloney is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
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Eugene Grace
- Occupations
- industrialist
- Biography
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Eugene Gifford Grace was the president of Bethlehem Steel from 1916 to 1945, and chairman of the board from 1945 until his retirement in 1957. He also served as president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, and sat on the board of trustees for Lehigh University.
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John Kappler
- Occupations
- biochemistuniversity teacherimmunologist
- Biography
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John Wayne Kappler is a professor in the Department of Integrated Immunology at National Jewish Health. His principal research is in T cell biology, a subject he collaborates on with his wife Philippa Marrack. In 1983 they discovered the T cell receptor, together with Ellis Reinherz and James Allison.
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Marwan Awartani
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- Graduated with master's degree in topology
- Occupations
- docentacademicmathematician
- Biography
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Marwan Awartani is a Palestinian professor and educator who formerly served as the Minister of Education and Higher Education of the Palestinian National Authority. He is also President of the Palestinian Society for Mathematical Sciences, Alpha International, and Palestine Technical University-Kadoorie.
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Donald L. Ritter
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Donald Lawrence Ritter is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. From 1979 to 1993, Ritter represented Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, which then included the Lehigh Valley region of the state.
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John H. Tilelli, Jr
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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John Harold Tilelli Jr. is a retired United States Army four-star general who served as Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1994 to 1995; Commanding General, United States Army Forces Command from 1995 to 1996; and Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Commander in Chief, ROK/United States Combined Forces Command/Commander, United States Forces Korea from 1996 to 1999. He retired from the United States Army on January 31, 2000, and later worked for the USO and The Aerospace Corporation.
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Bill Maloney
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Bill Maloney is an American businessman and politician. He was a two-time candidate for the governorship of West Virginia. He was the Republican nominee in the 2011 West Virginia gubernatorial special election, in which he lost by 7,546 votes, and again for the regular election in 2012, which he lost by 31,434 votes.
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Albert P. Crary
- Occupations
- geophysicistglaciologist
- Biography
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Albert Paddock Crary, was a pioneer polar geophysicist and glaciologist. He was the first person to have set foot on both the North and South Poles, having made it to the North Pole on May 3, 1952 (with Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict) and then to the South Pole on February 12, 1961, as the leader of a team of eight. The South Pole expedition set out from McMurdo Station on December 10, 1960, using three Snowcats with trailers. Crary was the seventh expedition leader to arrive at the South Pole by surface transportation (the six others before him were—in sequence—Amundsen, Scott, Hillary, Fuchs, a Russian expedition in 1959/60 from Vostok base, and Antero Havola). He was widely admired for his intellect, wit, skills and as a great administrator for polar research expeditions.
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William Bowie
- Occupations
- surveyorengineer
- Biography
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William Bowie, B.S., C.E., M.A. was an American geodetic engineer.
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Ray O'Connell
- Years
- 20th Century
- Biography
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Ray O'Connell is an American politician who served as the 42nd Mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania. He assumed the office on March 29, 2018 following the resignation of former mayor Ed Pawlowski.
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Edwin H. Simmons
- Occupations
- military officernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Edwin Howard Simmons was a United States Marine Corps brigadier general. He was a career officer who served in combat during three wars — including landing at Inchon and fighting at the Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War. He was renowned as the official Marine Corps historian, being called "the collective memory of the Marine Corps". His 1974 book The United States Marines: A History is a seminal reference text.
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Daphne Jordan
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daphne Veras Jordan is an American politician and attorney who served as a member of the New York State Senate, representing the 43rd district from 2019 to 2022. The district includes northern portions of the Hudson Valley as well as the eastern portions of the Capital Region. Jordan is a Republican. Prior to her Senate tenure, Jordan served as a member of the town board in Halfmoon, New York.
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Chris Campanioni
- Occupations
- novelistmodelpoet
- Biography
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Chris Campanioni is a first-generation American writer and the son of exiles from Cuba and Poland. He was born in Manhattan and raised in New Jersey, studied English literature and journalism at Lehigh University, and graduated from the MA program at Fordham University. He is the editor and publisher of PANK and PANK Books, and a lecturer of Latinx literature, journalism, media studies, and creative writing at Baruch College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Pace University, while serving on faculty at Yale University's Yale Writers' Workshop and the Hudson Valley Writers' Center. He is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize and the International Latino Book Award (2014). From 2014–2016, along with Puerto Rican novelist Jonathan Marcantoni, he ran the YouNiversity, a non-profit digital workshop that provided students access to and experience with the publishing industry through media professionals in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Unlike the curriculum and objectives of many MFA programs across the United States, the YouNiversity focused on several different facets of a writer's literary development, including real-time interaction with editors, literary agents, graphic artists, publishers, and other readers and writers.
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Stephen G. Simpson
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Stephen George Simpson is an American mathematician whose research concerns the foundations of mathematics, including work in mathematical logic, recursion theory, and Ramsey theory. He is known for his extensive development of the field of reverse mathematics founded by Harvey Friedman, in which the goal is to determine which axioms are needed to prove certain mathematical theorems. He has also argued for the benefits of finitistic mathematical systems, such as primitive recursive arithmetic, which do not include actual infinity.
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Jarrod Johnson
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Jarrod Godette Johnson, is a former professional American football player who played in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers, as well as for the Sacramento Surge of the World League of American Football, with whom he won the World Bowl in 1992.
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Robert E. Kraut
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Robert E. Kraut is an American social psychologist who studies human-computer interaction, online communities, internet use, group coordination, computers in organizations, and the role of visual elements in interpersonal communication. He is a Herbert Simon University Professor Emeritus of Human-computer Interaction at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Herman Schneider
- Years
- 1872-1939 (aged 67)
- Occupations
- architectengineer
- Biography
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Herman Schneider, engineer, architect, and educator, was the main founder of cooperative education in the United States and president of the University of Cincinnati.
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William Butterworth
- Years
- 1864-1936 (aged 72)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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William Butterworth served as both president and chairman of Deere & Company.
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Michael Schlossberg
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 41)
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- 2005-2006 graduated with master's degree in political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael H. Schlossberg is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 132nd district since 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Anthony G. Collins
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Biography
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Anthony G. Collins was the 16th President of Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.
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Franck Vogel
- Occupations
- film directorphotojournalistlecturerphotographer
- Biography
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Franck Vogel is a French photographer specializing in social & environmental issues, journalist, speaker and documentary film director. He lives and works in Paris.
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Matt McClung
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Matthew Henry McClung Jr., sometimes referred to as Dibby McClung, was an American college football player, coach and official. Born into a powerful southern family, McClung was raised in Memphis, Tennessee until he was accepted into Lehigh University. Immediately establishing himself as a skilled sportsman, McClung participated on both the school's football and baseball teams. He served as captain of the former in 1892 and is credited with turning it into one of the school's best ever football squads. McClung graduated from Lehigh in 1893 with degrees in metallurgy and mining engineering.
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Fayette Avery McKenzie
- Years
- 1872-1957 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- sociologist
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Fayette Avery McKenzie was an American educator and president of Fisk University from 1915 to 1925. He received his doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1908. His dissertation, The American Indian in Relation to the White Population of the United States was published. He taught and studied Native Americans and was one of the founders of the Society of American Indians.
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Paul Hartzell
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Paul F. Hartzell is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) in all or part of six seasons, between 1976 and 1984. During that time, he pitched for the California Angels, Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, and Milwaukee Brewers of the American League (AL). Hartzell retired in July 1981, but returned to baseball in 1984, playing at each level of professional baseball in one season, culminating with his first MLB appearance since June 14, 1980, when he appeared in relief for the Brewers on September 15, 1984. He was known as a ground-ball pitcher.
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Edward J. Stack
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- politicianlawyer
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Edward John Stack was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida.
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Manuel V. Domenech
- Occupations
- engineerpainterarchitectpolitician
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Manuel V. Domenech Ferrer was a Puerto Rican politician and engineer. He was mayor of Ponce in 1904, and designer of Casa Armstrong-Poventud, Rosaly-Batiz House, and the 1898 Casas Gemelas (Twin Houses) built for Luis Casals, among others prominent structures.
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Alvan Macauley
- Occupations
- patent attorney
- Biography
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James Alvan Macauley Sr. was the president of Packard Motor Car Company] from 1916 until 1939.
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Robert A. Hurley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Augustine Hurley was an American politician and the 73rd Governor of Connecticut.
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Martin C. Faga
- Enrolled in Lehigh University
- Graduated with Master of Science in electrical engineering
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- electrical engineercivil servant
- Biography
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Martin Clark Faga was the tenth director of the National Reconnaissance Office (DNRO).
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Jane Hillston
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Jane Elizabeth Hillston is a British computer scientist who is professor of quantitative modelling and former head of school in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Lori Ehrlich
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Lori A. Ehrlich is the State Representative for the Massachusetts 8th Essex District. Ehrlich won her seat on a March 4, 2008 special election after her predecessor, Doug Petersen, resigned. Peterson was appointed Commissioner of Agriculture by Governor Deval Patrick. After completing Petersen's term, Ehrlich went on to win re-election in November 2008. She is Chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Export Development.
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John R. Patrick
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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John Russell Patrick is a business executive and author in the information technology industry. During his tenure as a vice president at IBM, he helped launch the IBM ThinkPad and the OS/2 operating system and was later an influential force behind IBM’s early adoption of the Internet and World Wide Web.
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D. M. Balliet
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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David Milton "Pete" Balliet was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Auburn University for one game in February 1893, at Purdue University from 1893 to 1895 and again in 1901, and at Washington and Lee University from 1903 to 1904, compiling a career college football record of 30–15–2. Balliet played as a center at Lehigh University and Princeton University.
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Archibald E. Olpp
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Archibald Ernest Olpp was an American physician and politician who served a single term in the U.S. representative from New Jersey. He was the first Republican to be elected to Congress from the New Jersey's 11th congressional district since it was created in 1913.
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John M. Thome
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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John Macon Thome was an American-Argentine astronomer. Some sources say John Macom Thome. He is sometimes known as Juan M. Thome.
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Henry Sturgis Drinker
- Occupations
- mechanical engineer
- Biography
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Henry Sturgis Drinker was an American mechanical engineer, lawyer, author, and the fifth president of Lehigh University.
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Edward Cahn
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Edward Norman Cahn is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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David M. Peterson
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major David McKelvey Peterson was a 1915 Lehigh University graduate who became a World War I flying ace. He achieved six aerial victories, one of which was earned in the Lafayette Escadrille; five were officially credited during his tenure with the United States Army Air Service.
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Holden Greiner
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Holden Greiner is a retired basketball player. Greiner usually plays as forward. He played four seasons for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks men's basketball team.
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Richard Schmierer
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Richard J. Schmierer is a United States diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Oman through August 2012.
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John Hughes
- Occupations
- businesspersondiplomat
- Biography
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Dr John Hughes CBE, FRSA, FLSW (born 27 July 1947) is a retired British diplomat and former British Ambassador to Venezuela, Argentina and Paraguay.
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Edwin Erle Sparks
- Biography
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Edwin Erle Sparks was the eighth president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1908 until 1920.
