100 Notable alumni of
Loyola University Chicago
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Loyola University Chicago is 530th in the world, 199th in North America, and 184th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Loyola University Chicago sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jennifer Morrison
- Occupations
- voice actormodelactorfilm directorstage actor
- Biography
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Jennifer Marie Morrison is an American actress, director, producer, and former child model. She is mainly known for her roles as Allison Cameron in the medical-drama series House (2004–2012) and Emma Swan in the ABC adventure-fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2011–2018). She has also portrayed Zoey Pierson, one of Ted Mosby's love interests, on the comedy series How I Met Your Mother, Winona Kirk, mother of James T. Kirk in the 2009 science-fiction film Star Trek, and Tess Conlon in the 2011 sports drama film Warrior. She made her feature-film directorial debut with Sun Dogs (2017).
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Bob Newhart
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractorvoice actorcomedian
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George Robert Newhart is an American comedian and actor. He is known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style. Beginning as a stand-up comedian, he transitioned his career to acting in television. He has received numerous accolades, including three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2002.
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Lori Greiner
- Occupations
- entrepreneursocialitewriterplaywrightinvestor
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Lori Greiner is an American television personality and entrepreneur. She is an investor on the reality ABC TV series Shark Tank. Greiner has hundreds of inventions and holds 120 patents. She became known as the "Queen of QVC" as a result of her show, Clever & Unique Creations, that premiered on the network in 2000. Greiner is the president and founder of For Your Ease Only, Inc.
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David Draiman
- Occupations
- singersongwriterrecord producer
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David Michael Draiman is an American singer and songwriter. Noted for his distorted, operatic, baritone voice and percussive singing style, he has been the lead vocalist of heavy metal band Disturbed since 1996. He has written some of the band's most successful singles, such as "Stupify", "Down with the Sickness", "Indestructible", and "Inside the Fire". In 2006, he was ranked at No. 42 on the Hit Parader list of "Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time". During Disturbed's hiatus from 2011 to 2015, he worked on an industrial metal project with Geno Lenardo, which was later named Device. They released one self-titled album in 2013. Disturbed returned with the album Immortalized in 2015, Evolution in 2018, and Divisive in 2022.
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Leslie David Baker
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Leslie David Baker is an American actor. He is known for playing disgruntled paper salesman Stanley Hudson in The Office for nine seasons (2005–2013).
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Mercedes McCambridge
- Occupations
- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge was an American actress of radio, stage, film, and television. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress". She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her screen debut in All the King's Men (1949) and was nominated in the same category for Giant (1956). She voiced the demon Pazuzu in The Exorcist (1973).
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Bill Rancic
- Occupations
- restaurateurbusinesspersonwriterentrepreneur
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William Rancic is an American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality television show The Apprentice. He is married to E! News host Giuliana Rancic and currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.
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Karla DeVito
- Occupations
- screenwritersingerfilm actoractorvoice actor
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Karla DeVito is an American singer and actress.
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Sandra Cisneros
- Occupations
- novelistteacherarts administratorwritershort story writer
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Sandra Cisneros is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms that investigate emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, was awarded one of 25 new Ford Foundation Art of Change fellowships in 2017, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicano literature.
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Richard Kiley
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Richard Paul Kiley was an American stage, film and television actor and singer. He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Kiley created the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and was the first to sing and record "The Impossible Dream", the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet, he played the Caliph in the original Broadway cast and, as such, was one of the quartet who sang "And This Is My Beloved". Additionally, he won four Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards during his 50-year career and his "sonorous baritone" was also featured in the narration of a number of documentaries and other films. At the time of his death, Kiley was described as "one of theater's most distinguished and versatile actors" and as "an indispensable actor, the kind of performer who could be called on to play kings and commoners and a diversity of characters in between."
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Greg Pence
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- Studied in 1979
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Gregory Joseph Pence is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 6th congressional district since 2019. The district serves much of east-central Indiana, including Pence's hometown of Columbus, as well as Greenfield, Richmond, Shelbyville, and the southern suburbs of Indianapolis in Marion and Johnson Counties. A member of the Republican Party, he is the older brother of former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who represented the district from 2001 to 2013.
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William M. Daley
- Occupations
- international forum participantlawyerpharmacologistbankerpharmacist
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William Michael Daley is an American lawyer, politician and former banker. He served as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, from January 2011 to January 2012. He also served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, from 1997 to 2000, under President Bill Clinton. He has also served on the executive committee of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Daley was a candidate for Governor of Illinois in the 2014 gubernatorial election, until dropping out of the race on September 16, 2013. He ran in the 2019 Chicago mayoral election but came in third in the first-round voting, and did not advance to the runoff. He served as the Vice Chairman of BNY Mellon from June through October 2019. Since November 13, 2019, Daley has served as the Vice Chairman of Public Affairs for Wells Fargo.
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Jennifer N. Pritzker
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
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Jennifer Natalya Pritzker is an American investor, philanthropist, and member of the Pritzker family. Pritzker retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Illinois Army National Guard (ILARNG) in 2001, and was later made an honorary Illinois colonel. Founder of the Tawani Foundation in 1995, Tawani Enterprises in 1996, and the Pritzker Military Library in 2003, Pritzker has been devoted to civic applications of inherited and accrued wealth, including significant donations to broaden understanding and support for "citizen soldiers."
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Billy Cannon
- Occupations
- player of American footballdentist
- Biography
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William Abb Cannon Sr. was an American football halfback and tight end who played in the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL). He attended Louisiana State University (LSU), where he played college football as a halfback, return specialist, and safety for the LSU Tigers. At LSU, Cannon was twice named a unanimous All-American, helped the 1958 LSU team win a national championship, and received the Heisman Trophy as the nation's most outstanding college player in 1959. His punt return against Ole Miss on Halloween night in 1959 is considered by fans and sportswriters to be one of the most famous plays in LSU sports history.
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Ian Brennan
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- writertelevision produceractorfilm directortelevision actor
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Ian Brennan is an American screenwriter, director and actor. He is known for his work on the American television shows Glee, Scream Queens, The Politician, and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
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Matthew Logelin
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Matthew Logelin is an American author, blogger, public speaker, and charity founder. In 2011, he published Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love, which was a New York Times best seller. His blog, Matt, Liz and Madeline: Life and Death, All in a 27-Hour Period, received over 40,000 hits per day at its height in 2008. Both the blog and the memoir document his grief and sudden single parenthood following the unexpected death of his wife, Liz Logelin, 27 hours after the birth of the couple's first child. A screen adaptation of the memoir starring Kevin Hart and presented by the Obamas premiered on Netflix in 2021. In 2009, Logelin established The Liz Logelin Foundation, a non-profit organization providing financial grants to families with children who have lost a parent. In 2018, he was featured on an episode of the podcast Reply All, where the hosts attempted to help him take down viral ads featuring misrepresentations about his and his wife's story.
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Wilton Daniel Gregory
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Wilton Daniel Gregory is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington since 2019. Pope Francis elevated him to the rank of cardinal on November 28, 2020. He is the first African-American cardinal.
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Henry Hyde
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- In 1949 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Henry John Hyde was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois, an area of Chicago's northwestern suburbs. He was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001, and the House International Relations Committee from 2001 to 2007. He is most famous for writing the Hyde Amendment, as a vocal opponent of abortion.
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Lisa Madigan
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Lisa Murray Madigan is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as Attorney General of the U.S. state of Illinois from 2003 to 2019, being the first woman to hold that position. She is the adopted daughter of Michael Madigan, who served as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2021.
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Todd Ricketts
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Todd M. Ricketts is an American businessman and politician who is a co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, a member of the TD Ameritrade board of directors, and a former Republican National Committee Finance Chairman.
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Michael Pfleger
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Michael Louis Pfleger is an American Catholic priest and social activist located in Chicago. Since 1981, he has been pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church, a Black parish in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
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Bob Livingston
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- politicianlobbyistlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. is an American lobbyist and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999. A Republican, he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a position he declined following revelations of an extramarital affair. He served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999 and as the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995 to 1999. During his final years in Congress, Livingston was a strong supporter of Bill Clinton's impeachment. He is currently a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist. Livingston's memoir, The Windmill Chaser: Triumphs and Less in American Politics, was published in September 2018.
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Blake Schilb
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Blake Schilb is an American-born naturalized Czech former professional basketball player who last played for USK Praha of the Czech NBL. Standing 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), he plays the point forward position.
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Tim McCoy
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- actorfilm actorcircus performer
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Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy was an American actor, military officer, and expert on American Indian life. McCoy is most noted for his roles in B-grade Western films. As a popular cowboy film star, he appeared in front of a Wheaties cereal box.
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Christian Tybring-Gjedde
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christian Tybring-Gjedde is a Norwegian politician who represents the Progress Party. He has been a member of the Norwegian parliament since 2005, and was the leader of the Progress Party's Oslo chapter from 2010 to 2014.
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LaRue Martin
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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LaRue Martin is an American former professional basketball player. Martin was drafted first overall by the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Portland Trail Blazers in the controversy riddled 1972 NBA draft out of Loyola University Chicago. He was drafted ahead of future Hall of Famers Bob McAdoo and Julius Erving. Martin has been discussed as one of the worst first overall draft picks in NBA history, but he moved on to forge a successful corporate career.
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Anita Alvarez
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Anita M. Alvarez is the former State's Attorney for Cook County, Illinois, United States. Alvarez was the first Hispanic woman elected to this position, after being the first Latina to win the Democratic nomination for state's attorney of Cook County.
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Cameron Krutwig
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- Studied in 2017
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Cameron Krutwig is an American professional basketball player for Força Lleida CE of the Spanish Liga Española de Baloncesto. He played college basketball for the Loyola Ramblers. Krutwig drew national attention after helping the 2017–18 Ramblers reach the Final Four of the 2018 NCAA tournament.
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Trey Radel
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenterwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Jude Radel III is an American radio personality, political commentator, author, actor, and former member of the United States House of Representatives. Radel’s show airs on the Florida-based station WFSX-FM, a Fox News Radio affiliate.
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Philip Caputo
- Occupations
- writernovelistmilitary officerveteranjournalist
- Biography
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Philip Caputo is an American author and journalist. He is best known for A Rumor of War (1977), a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War. Caputo has written 18 books, including three memoirs, five books of general nonfiction, nine novels, and one book of short stories. His latest is the novel Memory and Desire which will be published in 2023 by Arcade Publishing.
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Thomas Jaeschke
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- Studied in 2015
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Thomas John Jaeschke is an American professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for the U.S. national team. He won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games Rio 2016.
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Parker Griffith
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- Studied in 1962-1964
- Occupations
- real estate developerpoliticianoncologistteacher
- Biography
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Rolf Parker Griffith Jr. is a retired American physician, entrepreneur and politician who served in the Alabama State Senate from 2006 to 2008 and then as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 5th congressional district from 2009 to 2011.
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Stephen Chow
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- diocesan bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Stephen Chow Sau-yan, S.J. is a Hongkonger prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as Bishop of Hong Kong since 2021. He was the provincial superior of the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus from 2018 to 2021.
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Jerry Harkness
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jerald B. Harkness was an American professional basketball player. He played for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Indiana Pacers of the American Basketball Association (ABA). Harkness played college basketball for the Loyola Ramblers, where he was captain of the 1962–63 team that won the 1963 NCAA national championship. A consensus first-team All-American, Harkness was selected by the Knicks in the second round of the 1963 NBA draft. He was also a civil rights activist.
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John P. Daley
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- politicianinsurance broker
- Biography
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John P. Daley is the 11th Ward Democratic Committeeman in Chicago, Illinois, a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners (11th district), and the Chair of the Cook County Board Finance Committee. He has previously served in both the Illinois State Senate and the Illinois House of Representatives, as well as being employed as a school teacher. He is the son of former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and brother of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, as well as William M. Daley, former White House Chief of Staff under President Obama and United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton. Unlike his brothers, he continues to live in the neighborhood the family was raised in.
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Milton Doyle
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Milton Doyle is an American professional basketball player for the Tasmania JackJumpers of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the Loyola Ramblers.
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Simone Elkeles
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriter
- Biography
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Simone Elkeles is an American author known for the teen romance Perfect Chemistry trilogy and How To Ruin trilogy. She is a New York Times Bestselling young adult author. Simone has won the 2010 RITA Award for Best Young Adult Romance from the Romance Writers of America for her book Perfect Chemistry. The sequel to Perfect Chemistry, Rules of Attraction, appeared on USA Today Best Sellers List and The New York Times Best Sellers List.
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Jeffrey Jendryk
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- Studied in 2015-2018
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Jeffrey Jendryk II is an American professional volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for Gioiella Prisma Taranto and the U.S. national team. Jendryk was a bronze medalist at the 2018 World Championship, 2019 World Cup, and the 2018 Nations League.
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John Cullerton
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John J. Cullerton is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 6th district from his appointment in 1991 to 2020. He served as President of the Illinois Senate from 2009 to 2020.
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Ed Derwinski
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edward Joseph Derwinski was an American politician who served as the first Cabinet-level United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving under President George H. W. Bush from March 15, 1989 to September 26, 1992. He previously served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1983, representing south and southwest suburbs of Chicago.
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Joseph Fitzmyer
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Joseph Augustine Fitzmyer was an American Catholic priest and scholar who taught at several American and British universities. He was a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
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Emily Temple-Wood
- Occupations
- Wikimedian in residencewriterphysicianbiographer
- Biography
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Emily Temple-Wood is an American physician and Wikipedia editor who goes by the name of Keilana on the site. She is known for her efforts to counter the effects and causes of gender bias on Wikipedia, particularly through the creation of articles about women in science. She was declared a joint recipient of the 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award, by Jimmy Wales, at Wikimania on June 24, 2016. Temple-Wood graduated from Loyola University Chicago and Midwestern University. She practices medicine in Chicago.
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Christina Kahrl
- Occupations
- sportswriter
- Biography
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Christina Kahrl is one of the co-founders of Baseball Prospectus. She is the former executive editor of the think tank's website, BaseballProspectus.com, the former managing editor for their annual publication, former writer and editor for ESPN.com, and is currently sports editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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Kathy Kelly
- Occupations
- writerpeace activist
- Biography
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Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and, until the campaign closed in 2020, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. As part of peace team work in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US–Iraq wars.
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Thomas J. Paprocki
- Occupations
- lawyerCatholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Thomas John Joseph Paprocki is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois since 2010. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois from 2003 to 2010.
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Donte Ingram
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Donte Ingram is an American basketball player for Al Bataeh Club of the UAE National Basketball League. He played college basketball for the Loyola Ramblers. Before Loyola, he attended Simeon Career Academy and was teammates with NBA player Jabari Parker. Ingram drew national attention after helping the 2017–18 Ramblers reach the Final Four round of the 2018 NCAA tournament. He was named to the second-team All-Missouri Valley Conference as a senior.
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Mónica Ramírez
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Mónica Ramírez is an American activist, author, civil rights attorney, entrepreneur, and public speaker. She has been engaged in service and advocacy on behalf of farmworkers, Latinas and immigrant women.
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Caryl M. Stern
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Caryl M. Stern is an American author, child advocate, civil and human rights activist, and non-profit executive.
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Robert R. Thomas
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianjudgeplayer of American football
- Biography
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Robert Randall Thomas is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois and a former professional football player. He has served as the Illinois Supreme Court Justice for the Second District since December 4, 2000, and as chief justice from September 6, 2005 to September 5, 2008. His political affiliation is Republican.
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Elliot Collier
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- Studied in 2014-2017
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Elliot Collier is a New Zealand professional soccer player who plays as a forward for USL Championship club Indy Eleven and the New Zealand national team.
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Jerome Edward Listecki
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Jerome Edward Listecki is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has served as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, since 2010.
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La Shawn K. Ford
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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La Shawn K. Ford is an American politician who is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 8th District since 2007.
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William P. Callahan
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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William Patrick Callahan is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse in Wisconsin since 2010.
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Victoria Recaño
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Victoria Recaño is an American television personality currently working for Inside Edition. Her previous jobs including being a special correspondent and media expert for TV Guide Network and co-anchoring the 6 pm and 10 pm news on Los Angeles television station KTLA. She did that work from September 14, 2009 until late May 2010, when she left the show without any announcement by either her or KTLA. Prior to co-anchoring for KTLA, she was a correspondent and host on The Insider.
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Mar Awa III Royel
- Biography
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Mar Awa III is an Assyrian-American prelate who serves as the 122nd Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He previously served as the secretary of the Holy Synod, is one of five trustees of the Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organization (ACERO), and is president of both the Commission on Inter-Church Relations and Educational Development (CIRED) and of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Assyrian Church of the East Youth Association (ACEYA) of the United States of America.
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Louisa Bojesen
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Louisa Bojesen is a Danish-American financial journalist who worked for CNBC Europe television in London for 17 years. She was most recently a co-host of the channel's European version of Street Signs, reporting on global financial markets. In addition, Bojesen reported for CNBC (U.S.), CNBC Asia, NBC and MSNBC. She co-anchored Squawk Box Europe with Geoff Cutmore and Steve Sedgwick and anchored European Closing Bell until its final show on December 18, 2015. Bojesen co-anchored the European version of Street Signs until her departure from CNBC Europe on April 28, 2017.
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Les Hunter
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Leslie Henry Hunter was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the American Basketball Association (ABA). Hunter played college basketball for the Loyola Ramblers and was the starting center on their NCAA championship team in 1963. He was a two-time ABA All-Star.
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Neil Hartigan
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Cornelius Francis "Neil" Hartigan is an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the Attorney General of Illinois and the 40th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Bolanle Olukanni
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Bolanle Olukanni is a Nigerian television host, actor, and radio host. She is known for hosting Moments with Mo on DStv and Project Fame West Africa. Olukanni is also the host of the International Women’s Month special on Channels TV.
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Gerald Frederick Kicanas
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Gerald Frederick Kicanas is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Tucson in Arizona from 2002 to 2017. He served as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Las Cruces in New Mexico from September 2018 to July 2019.
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Mary Jane Theis
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Mary Jane Theis is a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court for the First Judicial District in Cook County, Illinois.
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Vincent W. Patton III
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Vincent W. Patton III is a retired Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard in the United States.
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James W. Pardew
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- Graduated with Master of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- ambassadordiplomat
- Biography
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James William Pardew Jr. was an American diplomat, international negotiator, military officer, and United States Ambassador to Bulgaria. After serving as a military intelligence officer in the United States Army for 28 years, Pardew entered the arena of international diplomacy with a heavy focus on the Balkans, where he was instrumental in coordinating agreements and peace resolutions, as well as heading major State Department programs such as the Bosnian Train-and-equip program.
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Daniel Coughlin
- Occupations
- chaplain
- Biography
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Daniel P. Coughlin, served as the 59th Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives from March 23, 2000, to April 14, 2011. He was the first Roman Catholic priest to serve in that position, and the process that led to his selection included some controversy. However, as a 2010 article in The Washington Post pointed out, on the occasion of Coughlin's tenth anniversary in the House Chaplain position, "there is ample evidence that the rancor that accompanied his selection has disappeared: Last week, lawmakers from both parties streamed onto the House floor to honor his decade of service."
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Christine Radogno
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christine Radogno is an American politician and former Republican member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 41st Legislative District in Cook, DuPage, and Will Counties from 1997 to 2017. Radogno served as the Minority Leader, the first female leader of a political party in the Illinois Legislature. She resigned from the Illinois State Senate on July 1, 2017 amid the Illinois budget crisis.
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Sosay
- Occupations
- artistCategory:Fitness modelsactorprofessional wrestler
- Biography
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Jennifer Elaine Kaiser is an American artist, model, trainer, and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time with Ohio Valley Wrestling under the ring name Sosay (pronounced So-Say).
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Ben Richardson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Ben Richardson is an American former professional basketball player. He spent four seasons with the Loyola Ramblers at the college level, winning Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Defensive Player of the Year as a senior. In his final season at Loyola, he also helped his team reach the Final Four round of the 2018 NCAA Division I tournament. Richardson played professionally for four teams in Europe.
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Pablo Robertson
- Years
- Died in 1990
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Paul "Pablo" Robertson was an American professional basketball player and member of the Harlem Globetrotters. At college, Robertson played on the 1962–63 Loyola University Chicago squad that won the NCAA tournament, although Robertson was dropped in the middle of the season due to poor grades.
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Vic Rouse
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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W. Victor Rouse was an American college basketball player. He was an All-American at Loyola University of Chicago and is best remembered for hitting the game-winning shot as time expired in the overtime period of the 1963 NCAA championship game.
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Michael Madigan
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Michael Joseph Madigan is an American politician who is the former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. He was the longest-serving leader of any state or federal legislative body in the history of the United States, having held the position for all but two years from 1983 to 2021. He served in the Illinois House from 1971 to 2021. He represented the 27th District from 1971 to 1983, the 30th district from 1983 to 1993, and the 22nd district from 1993 to 2021. This made him the body's longest-serving member and the last legislator elected before the Cutback Amendment.
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Mary L. Smith
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Mary L. Smith is an American lawyer and former principal deputy director and acting director of the Indian Health Services from October 2015 to February 2017. Previously she was general counsel for the Illinois Department of Insurance. From 2009 until August 2010, she had been a presidential nominee to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice. However, she was never confirmed by the Senate, and the White House in 2010 decided not to renominate her to the post. In 2023, she was sworn in as president of the American Bar Association.
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Mike Quigley
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- In 1989 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianlegislative assistantteacher
- Biography
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Michael Bruce Quigley is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 5th congressional district since the April 7, 2009 special election. The district includes most of Chicago's North Side and several of its western suburbs. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Quigley is a former member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, where he represented Chicago's northside neighborhoods of Lakeview, Uptown, and Rogers Park. He previously taught environmental policy and Chicago politics as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago.
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Omar Aquino
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Omar Aquino is an American politician serving as a member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 2nd district. A Democrat, he was elected in the March 2016 Democratic primary and appointed to the seat effective July 1, 2016, following the retirement of William Delgado. Sworn into office at age 29, he is the youngest-ever Latino member of the Illinois State Senate and one of the youngest state senators in Illinois history. Previously, he served as an aide to Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth.
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Michael Gronstal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael E. Gronstal is a former Iowa State Senator who represented the 8th district in the Iowa Senate. He served from 1985 to 2017 and was the majority leader and chairman of the Rules and Administration committee. He was also chairman of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), the national organization to elect Democratic state legislators.
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David H. Moore
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David H. Moore is an American politician and member of the Chicago City Council serving as alderman for the 17th ward since May 18, 2015. The 17th ward includes portions of Auburn Gresham, Englewood, Chicago Lawn, Marquette Park and West Englewood.
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Jessica Vega Pederson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jessica Vega Pederson is a Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives, for two two-year terms, from January 2013 through 2016. From 2017 to 2022, Vega Pederson served as a county commissioner for Multnomah County, the state's most populous county. In 2022, Vega Pederson was elected to serve as county chair, and took office in 2023.
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Laura Caldwell
- Years
- 1967-2020 (aged 53)
- Occupations
- novelistlawyer
- Biography
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Laura Caldwell was an American civil trial lawyer and also a law professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, founding director of Life After Innocence, published author of 14 novels and two non-fiction books. The latest book she co-edited is "Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted" (Liveright, 2017), which tells the true stories of over a dozen innocent men and women who were convicted of serious crimes and cast into the maw of a vast and deeply flawed American criminal justice system before eventually, miraculously being exonerated.
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William Joseph Campbell
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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William Joseph Campbell was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Roger William Gries
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Roger William Gries, OSB is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is one of a few monastic priests to be named a bishop.
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Hubert Radke
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Hubert Radke is a Polish former professional basketball player who played at the center position. Radke represented the Poland national basketball team a total of 13 times between 2004 and 2005.
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Louis William Tordella
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Louis William Tordella was the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency.
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David M. VanDrunen
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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David M. VanDrunen is the Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Westminster Seminary California. VanDrunen was the 2004 recipient of the Acton Institute's Novak Award, a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in 2009, and a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for the 2016–2017 academic year.
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Edward Rowan Finnegan
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Edward Rowan Finnegan was an attorney and politician from Illinois. He served as a member of the U.S. representative from Illinois from 1961 to 1964 and a judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County from 1964 until his death.
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Arthur Lewis Miller
- Enrolled in Loyola University Chicago
- Studied in 1918
- Occupations
- surgeonpoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Arthur Lewis Miller was a Nebraska Republican politician.
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Aher Uguak
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Aher Simon Uguak is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Chemnitz 99 of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the FIBA Europe Cup. He played college basketball for New Mexico and Loyola Chicago.
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Paul A. Lombardo
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- legal scholar
- Biography
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Paul A. Lombardo is an American legal historian known for his work on the legacy of eugenics and sterilization in the United States. Lombardo’s foundational research corrected the historical record of the 1927 U.S. Supreme Court case of Buck v. Bell. He found Carrie Buck’s school grades and the grades of her child Vivian. He was the last person to interview her, and he discovered the pictures of all three generations of the Buck family. In 2002, he sponsored and paid for a memorial plaque that was installed in Buck’s hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Susan Ralston
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Susan Bonzon Ralston, is public relations and business consultant. Ralston was formerly Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and a deputy to Karl Rove, the Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor at the White House, from 2001 until her resignation in 2006 after being linked to Jack Abramoff's lobbying.
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Paul Peter Rhode
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Paul Peter Rhode was a German-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay in Wisconsin from 1915 until his death in 1945.
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Charles C. Finn
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Charles "Charlie" Carroll Finn is an American poet most notable for writing "Please Hear What I'm Not Saying" in September 1966.
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Jake Braun
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- university teacherbusiness executivecomputer security engineer
- Biography
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Jacob H. Braun is an American politician, cyber and national security expert. He was appointed by President Joseph Biden as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary's Senior Advisor to the Management Directorate. Braun is also a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies where he teaches courses on cyber policy and election security. He previously served as the Executive Director for the University of Chicago Harris Cyber Policy Initiative (CPI).
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Ruben Castillo
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Rubén Castillo is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In 1994, Castillo was the first person of Latino descent to be named a judge in the Northern District of Illinois, and in 2013 the first to become Chief Judge.
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Daniel J. Ronan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel John Ronan was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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Andrew Pepoy
- Occupations
- comics artistvisual artist
- Biography
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Andrew Pepoy is an American comic book writer and artist.
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John Egan
- Years
- 1940s
- Occupations
- lawyerbasketball player
- Biography
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John "Jack" Egan is an American retired basketball player. His playing career is best remembered for his role on the 1962–63 Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team, which won the 1963 NCAA Championship. Egan was the lone white starting player on a team that broke racial barriers by starting four black players in an era when two or three was considered the maximum.
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John G. Fary
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John G. Fary was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. He represented the Illinois's 5th congressional district
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Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz was an American physician and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 to 1943.
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Emmet Byrne
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Emmet Francis Byrne was an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from the third district of Illinois. He served one term, 1957–59, as a Republican before being defeated in the 1958 election by Democrat William T. Murphy. Byrne voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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Jerry Lyne
- Years
- 1933-.. (age 91)
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Jerry Lyne is a South Side Chicagoan, who played for, captained and coached the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team over the course of several decades that he was affiliated with the Loyola University Chicago.
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Elesha Gayman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elesha L. Gayman is a former Iowa State Representative from the 84th District. She served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. Gayman served on several committees in the Iowa House - the Agriculture committee; the Appropriations committee; the Education committee; and the Public Safety committee. She was vice-chair of the Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee.
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John G. Mulroe
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John G. Mulroe is a judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County and lawyer from Chicago, Illinois. Between August 2010 and June 2019, he was a Democratic state senator, representing the 10th Illinois State Senate District. He was appointed to complete the term of Democrat James DeLeo in August 2010 and elected to a full term in the Illinois State Senate in November 2010. He served in the position for nearly nine years before leaving the Illinois Senate in 2019. Robert Martwick replaced Mulroe in the Illinois Senate.
