22 Notable alumni of
Linfield College - McMinnville
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Linfield College - McMinnville is 2258th in the world, 791st in North America, and 747th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 22 notable alumni from Linfield College - McMinnville sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Joe Medicine Crow
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- historianwriterauthoranthropologistnon-fiction writer
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Joseph Medicine Crow was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Tribe. His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered seminal works, but he is best known for his writings and lectures concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn of 1876.
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Amy Tan
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- writernovelistessayistscreenwriterchildren's writer
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Amy Ruth Tan is an American author of Chinese heritage, best known for the novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film. She is also known for other novels, short story collections, children's books, and a memoir.
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Mark Few
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
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Mark Norman Few is an American college basketball coach who has been the head coach at Gonzaga University since 1999. He has served on Gonzaga's coaching staff since 1989, and has been a constant on the sidelines throughout a period that has seen the Bulldogs rise from mid-major obscurity to consistent NCAA tournament contenders. During his tenure as head coach, Few has led the Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament every season (except 2019–20, when the team had secured an automatic bid but the tournament was canceled), a stretch that has garnered the Bulldogs recognition as a major basketball power despite playing in a mid-major conference. In his 24 seasons as head coach, his teams have won at least a share of 22 WCC regular season titles, 19 WCC tournament titles and have participated in the National Championship game twice (2017 and 2021).
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Aparna Brielle
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- actor
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Aparna Brielle is an American actress. She portrayed Sarika Sarkar on the NBC television series A.P. Bio.
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Reid Blackburn
- Years
- 1952-1980 (aged 28)
- Occupations
- journalistphotographerphotojournalist
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Reid Turner Blackburn was an American photographer killed in the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens. A photojournalist covering the eruption for a local newspaper—the Vancouver, Washington The Columbian—as well as National Geographic magazine and the United States Geological Survey, he was caught at Coldwater Camp in the blast.
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Laura Gibson
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- singercomposersongwriter
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Laura Anne Gibson is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She currently records for the U.S. independent label Barsuk Records, and the Berlin-based label City Slang. Gibson's most recent album Goners was released October 26, 2018.
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Raemer Schreiber
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- physicist
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Raemer Edgar Schreiber was an American physicist from McMinnville, Oregon who served Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II, participating in the development of the atomic bomb. He saw the first one detonated in the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki. After the war, he served at Los Alamos as a group leader, and was involved in the design of the hydrogen bomb. In 1955, he became the head of its Nuclear Rocket Propulsion (N) Division, which developed the first nuclear-powered rockets. He served as deputy director of the laboratory from 1972 until his retirement in 1974.
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Shane McCrae
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- poet
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Shane McCrae is an American poet, and is currently Poetry Editor of Image.
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Grant Sawyer
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- politicianlawyer
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Frank Grant Sawyer was an American politician. He was the 21st Governor of Nevada from 1959 to 1967. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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Landon Curt Noll
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- astronomercomputer scientistmathematiciancryptographer
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Landon Curt Noll is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled at Hayward High School and concurrently at California State University, Hayward.
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George Lemuel Woods
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- judgelawyer
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George Lemuel Woods was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Woods served as the third Governor of Oregon from 1866 to 1870. Failing to win renomination, Woods was then appointed Territorial Governor of Utah by President Ulysses S. Grant, serving in that position from 1871 to 1875.
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Joe Paterson
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Joseph Michael Paterson is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Donald Firesmith
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- engineer
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Donald G. Firesmith is an American software engineer, consultant, and trainer at the Software Engineering Institute.
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Thomas B. Kay
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- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Benjamin Kay was an American politician and businessman in the state of Oregon. A native of New Jersey, he moved to Oregon with his family at the age of one where he later took over the family's woolen mill business. A Republican, he served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and four terms as the Oregon State Treasurer, the longest of anyone in that office's history.
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Thomas Hurley Brents
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Thomas Hurley Brents was an American politician and attorney in the Pacific Northwest. A native of Illinois, he was raised in Oregon where he served in the Oregon House of Representatives. A Republican, he later lived in California and then Washington Territory where he was the Congressional Delegate for the territory from 1879 to 1885.
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Peter Ellefson
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Trombonist Peter Ellefson is a Professor of Music at Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington, having been a faculty member since 2002 and Chair of the Brass Department since 2014.
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William Lair Hill
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- historianlawyereditorjuristjournalist
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William Lair Hill, also referred to as W. Lair Hill, was an American attorney, historian, and newspaper editor in Portland, Oregon. He worked to codify Oregon's and Washington's laws. He briefly owned property in the Portland neighborhood later named after him, Lair Hill.
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W. Lair Thompson
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- politician
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William Lair Thompson, known as Lair Thompson or W. Lair Thompson, was an American politician and lawyer from the state of Oregon. He served one term in the Oregon House of Representatives followed by a four-year term in the Oregon State Senate. Thompson was a conservative Republican who represented a large rural district. He served as President of the Oregon Senate during the 1915 legislative session. Thompson was one of Oregon's most prominent trial attorneys, handling a number of high-profile cases including one, Bunting v. Oregon, that required him to present arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
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Thomas A. McBride
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Thomas Allen McBride was an American attorney and judge in Oregon. He was the 20th Chief Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court serving three times as chief between 1913 and 1927. Overall he served on Oregon’s highest court from 1909 till his death in 1930.
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George H. Burnett
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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George Henry Burnett was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. He was the 21st chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court serving twice as chief first in 1921 to 1923, and then in 1927 when he died in office. Overall he served on Oregon’s highest court from 1911 until 1927.
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Raymond Culver
- Biography
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Raymond Benjamin Culver was a Baptist educator in the United States and the fourth president of Shimer College.
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Marian H. Pettibone
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- biologistzoologistcurator
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Marilyn "Marian" Hope Pettibone was a curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History invertebrate zoology department. She was known for her work on worms, specializing in polychaetes. She was the world authority on polynoidae during her career.
