68 Notable alumni of
Macalester College

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Macalester College is 974th in the world, 358th in North America, and 336th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 68 notable alumni from Macalester College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Danai Gurira

    Danai Gurira
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Enrolled in Macalester College
    Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in psychology
    Occupations
    writeractorstage actortelevision actorplaywright
    Biography

    Danai Jekesai Gurira is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her starring roles as Michonne on the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2012–2020, 2022-2024) and as Okoye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films, including Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).

  2. Kofi Annan

    Kofi Annan
    Born in
    Ghana Flag Ghana
    Years
    1938-2018 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    economistinternational forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
    Biography

    Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela.

  3. Walter Mondale

    Walter Mondale
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1928-2021 (aged 93)
    Occupations
    lawyerautobiographerpoliticiandiplomat
    Biography

    Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. A U.S. senator from Minnesota from 1964 to 1976, he was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1984 presidential election, but lost to incumbent Ronald Reagan in an Electoral College and popular vote landslide.

  4. Peter Berg

    Peter Berg
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    television producerexecutive producertelevision actorfilm screenwriterdirector
    Biography

    Peter Berg is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy Very Bad Things (1998), the action comedy The Rundown (2003), the sports drama Friday Night Lights (2004), the action thriller The Kingdom (2007), the superhero comedy-drama Hancock (2008), the military science fiction war film Battleship (2012), the war film Lone Survivor (2013), the disaster drama Deepwater Horizon (2016), the Boston Marathon bombing drama Patriots Day (2016), the action thriller Mile 22 (2018), and the action comedy Spenser Confidential (2020), the latter five all starring Mark Wahlberg. In addition to cameo appearances in the last six of these titles, he has had prominent acting roles in films including Never on Tuesday (1989), Shocker (1989), The Last Seduction (1994), The Great White Hype (1996), Cop Land (1997), Corky Romano (2001), Collateral (2004), Smokin' Aces (2006), and Lions for Lambs (2007).

  5. Ari Emanuel

    Ari Emanuel
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    businesspersonliterary agent
    Biography

    Ariel Zev Emanuel is an American businessman and the CEO of Endeavor, an entertainment and media agency that owns the UFC and WWE. He was a founding partner of the Endeavor Talent Agency and was instrumental in shaping its June 2009 merger with the William Morris Agency.

  6. Carl Lumbly

    Carl Lumbly
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
    Biography

    Carl Winston Lumbly is an American actor. He is known for his role as television's first Black superhero M.A.N.T.I.S., Dick Hallorann in Doctor Sleep, NYPD detective Marcus Petrie on the CBS police drama Cagney & Lacey, CIA agent Marcus Dixon on the ABC espionage drama series Alias, and as the voice of J'onn J'onnz / Martian Manhunter in the animated series Justice League, Static Shock and Justice League Unlimited, all part of the DC Animated Universe. As a reference to his voice work as J'onn, Lumbly portrayed J'onn J'onnz's father, M'yrnn, on The CW's Arrowverse on Supergirl from 2017 until 2019. He also plays Isaiah Bradley, the first Black super-soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) installments The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and the forthcoming Captain America: Brave New World (2024).

  7. Bob Mould

    Bob Mould
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    guitaristsongwriterdisc jockeysinger-songwriterrecord producer
    Biography

    Robert Arthur Mould is an American musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s.

  8. Mary Karr

    Mary Karr
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    historianwriteruniversity teacheressayistpoet
    Biography

    Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.

  9. Duane Hanson

    Duane Hanson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1925-1996 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    sculptorinstallation artistpainterphotographer
    Biography

    Duane Hanson was an American artist and sculptor born in Minnesota. He spent most of his career in South Florida. He was known for his life-sized realistic sculptures of people. He cast the works based on human models in various materials, including polyester resin, fiberglass, Bondo, and bronze. Hanson's works are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Smithsonian.

  10. Joan Mondale

    Joan Mondale
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1930-2014 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    librarian
    Biography

    Joan Mondale was the second lady of the United States from 1977 until 1981 as the wife of Walter Mondale, the 42nd vice president of the United States. She was an artist and author and served on the boards of several organizations. For her promotion of the arts, she was affectionately dubbed Joan of Art.

  11. Olli Rehn

    Olli Rehn
    Born in
    Finland Flag Finland
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    political economistinternational forum participantpoliticianassociation football player
    Biography

    Olli Ilmari Rehn is a Finnish economist and public official who has been serving as governor of the Bank of Finland since 2018. A member of the Centre Party, he previously served as the European Commissioner for Enlargement from 2004 to 2010, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro from 2010 to 2014, and Minister of Economic Affairs in Juha Sipilä's cabinet from 2015 until 2016. Rehn ran for President of Finland as an independent candidate in 2024, but was not elected.

  12. Walter Kirn

    Walter Kirn
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    novelistwriter
    Biography

    Walter Norris Kirn is an American novelist, literary critic, and essayist. He is the author of eight books, most notably Up in the Air, which was made into a film of the same name starring George Clooney.

  13. Andrés Oppenheimer

    Andrés Oppenheimer
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    political scientistjournalist
    Biography

    Andrés Oppenheimer is the editor and syndicated foreign affairs columnist with The Miami Herald, anchor of "Oppenheimer Presenta" on CNN En Español, and author of seven books, several of which have been published in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. His column, "The Oppenheimer Report," appears twice a week in The Miami Herald and more than 60 U.S. and international newspapers, including the Miami Herald, El Mundo of Spain, La Nación of Argentina, Reforma of Mexico, El Mercurio of Chile and El Comercio of Peru. He is the author of Saving the Americas (Random House, 2007) and six other books, and is a regular political analyst with CNN en Español. His previous jobs at The Miami Herald included Mexico City bureau chief, foreign correspondent, and business writer. He previously worked for five years with The Associated Press in New York, and has contributed on a free-lance basis to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, the BBC, CBS’ “60 Minutes”, and El Pais of Spain.

  14. Gaelynn Lea

    Gaelynn Lea
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1984-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    singerviolinistsinger-songwriter
    Biography

    Gaelynn Lea Tressler is an American folk singer, violinist, public speaker and disability advocate from Duluth, Minnesota. She won NPR's 2016 Tiny Desk Contest.

  15. Ursula Vernon

    Ursula Vernon
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    children's writercartoonistwriterillustratorvisual artist
    Biography

    Ursula Vernon is an American freelance writer, artist and illustrator. She has won numerous awards for her work in various mediums, including Hugo Awards for her graphic novel Digger and fantasy novel Nettle & Bone, the Nebula Award for her short story "Jackalope Wives", and Mythopoeic Awards for adult and children's literature. Vernon's books for children include Hamster Princess and Dragonbreath. Under the name T. Kingfisher, she is also the author of books for older audiences. She writes short fiction under both names.

  16. M.anifest

    M.anifest
    Years
    1982-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    musician
    Biography

    Kwame Ametepee Tsikata, known professionally as M.anifest is a Ghanaian musician, rapper and record producer.

  17. Scott McCallum

    Scott McCallum
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    James Scott McCallum is an American businessman and former politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 43rd governor of Wisconsin, ascending from the Lieutenant Governorship when Tommy Thompson resigned in 2001 to accept appointment as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Prior to becoming Governor, McCallum served 14 years as Thompson's Lieutenant Governor and 10 years in the Wisconsin State Senate.

  18. Dave Zirin

    Dave Zirin
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    journalist
    Biography

    Dave Zirin, born 1974, is an American political sportswriter. He is the sports editor for The Nation, a weekly progressive magazine dedicated to politics and culture, and writes a blog named Edge of Sports: the weekly sports column by Dave Zirin. As of January 2022, he has authored eleven books.

  19. Fred Swaniker

    Fred Swaniker
    Born in
    Ghana Flag Ghana
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    entrepreneur
    Biography

    Fred Swaniker is a Ghanaian serial entrepreneur and leadership development expert on a mission to help the world's most extraordinary talent fulfil its potential. Swaniker recognized the importance of leadership and education while serving as the headmaster of a secondary school founded by his mother at the age of 17, and believed that the missing ingredient needed to transform Africa was good leadership. To solve that problem, he started the African Leadership Group – an ecosystem of organizations that are catalyzing a new era of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders.

  20. Mac King

    Mac King
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    actormagicianwriter
    Biography

    Mac King is an American magician who has performed on television specials, often as a co-host. He has his own family-friendly show, "The Mac King Comedy Magic Show", at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino in the Thunderland Showroom, in Las Vegas, Nevada. King's show is currently the longest running one-man show in the history of Las Vegas.

  21. Will Sheff

    Will Sheff
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    singersinger-songwriterguitarist
    Biography

    Will Robinson Sheff is the frontman for the Austin, Texas-based indie band Okkervil River (1998–present). Originally from Meriden, New Hampshire, he is also a founding member and co-songwriter (along with former Okkervil bandmate Jonathan Meiburg) for Shearwater (2001–2009), another Austin band. Sheff writes and performs many songs as a solo artist while juggling his commitments to Okkervil River and Shearwater, and has released one album as a solo artist. As well as writing and singing songs, he plays guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica.

  22. William Henry Dietz

    William Henry Dietz
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1884-1964 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    player of American football
    Biography

    William Henry "Lone Star" Dietz was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Washington State University (1915–1917), Purdue University (1921), Louisiana Tech University (1922–1923), University of Wyoming (1924–1926), Haskell Institute—now known as Haskell Indian Nations University (1929–1932), and Albright College (1937–1942). From 1933 to 1934, Dietz served as the head coach for the National Football League's Boston Redskins, where he tallied a mark of 11–11–2. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2012.

  23. Joe Radinovich

    Joe Radinovich
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1986-.. (age 38)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Joseph Paul Radinovich is an American politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. As a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represented District 10B in north-central Minnesota. He was the DFL candidate for the United States House of Representatives in Minnesota's 8th congressional district in the November 2018 general election, losing to Republican Pete Stauber.

  24. B. Todd Jones

    B. Todd Jones
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1957-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Byron Todd Jones is an American lawyer who was the seventh director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and is chief disciplinary officer of the National Football League (NFL). He twice served as United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota.

  25. Anthony Weston

    Anthony Weston
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    philosopher
    Biography

    Anthony Weston is an American writer, teacher, and philosopher. He is an author of widely used primers in critical thinking and ethical practice and of a variety of unconventional books and essays on philosophical topics.

  26. Toby J. Heytens

    Toby J. Heytens
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1975-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Toby Jay Heytens is an American attorney and law professor who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He served as the solicitor general of Virginia from 2018 to 2021.

  27. Alice Echols

    Alice Echols
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    historianjournalist
    Biography

    Alice Echols is Professor of History, and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.

  28. Rebecca Otto

    Rebecca Otto
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Rebecca Otto is an American politician who served as State Auditor of Minnesota from 2007 to 2019. Affiliated with the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), she served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2003 to 2005 and on the Forest Lake School Board.

  29. Lillian Dickson

    Lillian Dickson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1901-1983 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    autobiographerhistorianmissionary
    Biography

    Lillian Dickson was an independent missionary, author, and public speaker. She used her maternal identity to develop her vocation in the middle of the twentieth century. Originally, she and her husband, James Dickson (1900-1967), were sent by the Presbyterian Church of Canada, to Taiwan in 1927. Lillian lived and worked in Taiwan until she died, except for the period between 1940 and 1947 when she and her husband were transferred to British Guiana because of growing tensions and war between Japan and the United States. After her return to Taiwan, Lillian eventually developed a long lasting career as an independent missionary. In particular, she founded Mustard Seed International. and The Mustard Seed Mission (based in Taiwan).

  30. Bobby Joe Champion

    Bobby Joe Champion
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Bobby Joe Champion is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represents the 59th district, which includes portions of downtown and north Minneapolis in Hennepin County. He is the incumbent President of the Minnesota Senate.

  31. Victoria Ransom

    Victoria Ransom
    Biography

    Victoria Ransom is a serial entrepreneur from New Zealand. She has developed three companies including Wildfire Interactive, a social marketing SaaS company, where Ransom was chief executive officer until it was sold to Google in 2012. Ransom currently resides in Palo Alto.

  32. Federico Campbell

    Federico Campbell
    Born in
    Mexico Flag Mexico
    Years
    1941-2014 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    journalisttranslatorwriterscreenwriter
    Biography

    Federico Campbell Quiroz was a Mexican writer. Campbell is known for the short story collection Tijuanenses (Tijuana: Stories on the Border). In 2000, he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel Transpeninsular. In 1995, he was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship. Campbell translated works by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia, among others, into Spanish.

  33. James C. O'Brien

    James C. O'Brien
    Occupations
    lawyerdiplomat
    Biography

    James C. O'Brien is an American attorney and diplomat who serves as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. He previously served as head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination in the Biden administration from April 14, 2022 to October 5, 2023 and as the special envoy for hostage affairs from August 28, 2015 to January 20, 2017.

  34. Shawn Lawrence Otto

    Shawn Lawrence Otto
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    screenwriter
    Biography

    Shawn Lawrence Otto is an American novelist, nonfiction author, filmmaker, political strategist, speaker, science advocate, and screenwriter and co-producer of the 2003 film House of Sand and Fog.

  35. Michael J. Davis

    Michael J. Davis
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Michael James Davis is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.

  36. Jerry Crawford

    Jerry Crawford
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    lobbyist
    Biography

    Jerry Crawford is a United States lawyer and leader in the Democratic Party from Des Moines, Iowa. Crawford has also worked for the Democratic Party as fundraiser and lobbyist. Crawford has helped every Democratic presidential nominee succeed in the Iowa Caucus. He had been working for Hillary Clinton´s 2016 presidential campaign in Iowa since 2014.

  37. Annie VanderMeer

    Annie VanderMeer
    Occupations
    video game writer
    Biography

    Annie VanderMeer is an American video game designer specializing in role-playing video games, best known for her narrative work on 2021's Unpacking and her design work on the 2012's Guild Wars 2.

  38. Heba Amin

    Heba Amin
    Born in
    Egypt Flag Egypt
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Heba Y. Amin is a visual artist, researcher and educator.

  39. Richard P. Binzel

    Richard P. Binzel
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    astronomeruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Richard "Rick" P. Binzel is an American astronomer and professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a discoverer of minor planets, photometrist and the inventor of the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets. He is also a frequent trip leader for the MIT Alumni Association.

  40. Alain Chuard

    Alain Chuard
    Occupations
    businessperson
    Biography

    Alain Chuard is a Swiss entrepreneur and former professional snowboarder living in Palo Alto, California. He is best known as the founder and Chief product officer of Wildfire Interactive, the social media marketing technology company acquired by Google in July 2012.

  41. Robert W. Warren

    Robert W. Warren
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1925-1998 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Robert Willis Warren was a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. He had previously served as attorney general of Wisconsin and represented Brown and Calumet Counties in the Wisconsin State Senate.

  42. Matt Entenza

    Matt Entenza
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Matthew "Matt" Keating Entenza is a Minnesota lawyer and former politician who served six terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives. He served as House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2006. After leaving the legislature, he was an unsuccessful candidate for various statewide offices, including governor, attorney general, and most recently state auditor.

  43. Mike Carr

    Mike Carr
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    novelistrole-playing game designer
    Biography

    Mike Carr is a writer and game designer.

  44. Russell L. Blaisdell

    Russell L. Blaisdell
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1910-2007 (aged 97)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Russell L. Blaisdell was an American minister and United States Air Force Chaplain colonel who organised the so-called "Kiddy Car Airlift," the rescue of 964 orphans and 80 orphanage staff from Seoul in the face of the Chinese advance during the Korean War on December 20, 1950.

  45. Gary Arndt

    Gary Arndt
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    bloggerphotographer
    Biography

    Gary Arndt is an American blogger and photographer. He is the author of the travel blog Everything Everywhere and a former Minneapolis entrepreneur.

  46. Aditi Kapil

    Aditi Kapil
    Born in
    Bulgaria Flag Bulgaria
    Occupations
    novelist
    Biography

    Aditi Brennan Kapil is an American playwright and screenwriter.

  47. Julianne Ortman

    Julianne Ortman
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Julianne E. Ortman is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, she represented District 47, which included portions of Carver County in the southwestern Twin Cities metropolitan area. She was a candidate in the 2014 United States Senate election in Minnesota until she was eliminated at the state convention.

  48. Patricia Olson

    Patricia Olson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Patricia Olson is an American graphic designer, painter, feminist artist, and educator whose works are categorized as figurative art. Olson was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her B.A. in studio art from Macalester College in 1973, and her M.F.A. in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1998. Olson's work has been on exhibition continuously throughout the United States since 1973, sometimes in group exhibitions, and sometimes in solo exhibitions. She has works that are part of permanent collections throughout the United States as well.

  49. Anne E. Derse

    Anne E. Derse
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    politiciandiplomat
    Biography

    Anne Elizabeth Derse is an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2006 to 2009 and Lithuania from 2009 to 2012.

  50. Arthur E. Nelson

    Arthur E. Nelson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1892-1955 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Arthur Emanuel Nelson was an American lawyer and politician who served briefly as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota during the end of 1942 and beginning of 1943

  51. Yuko Nii

    Yuko Nii
    Years
    1942-.. (age 82)
    Occupations
    artist
    Biography

    Yuko Nii is a Japanese artist and philanthropist. Her work has included painting, printmaking, graphic design, stage set, costume and fashion design. She has written journalism, poetry, fiction, essays and philosophy, and published two books. She also runs the non-profit organization Yuko Nii Foundation.

  52. Frank Hornstein

    Frank Hornstein
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Frank Hornstein is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2003. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Hornstein represents District 61A, which includes parts of the city of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

  53. James McIntire

    James McIntire
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    economistpolitician
    Biography

    James Leonard McIntire is an American economist and politician who served as the 22nd Washington State Treasurer from 2008 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the Washington State House of Representatives, representing the 46th district from 1998 to 2009.

  54. Earl Wood

    Earl Wood
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1912-2009 (aged 97)
    Occupations
    physiologist
    Biography

    Earl Howard Wood was an American cardiopulmonary physiologist who helped invent the G-suit, brought heart catheterization into a clinical reality and introduced dynamic volumetric computed tomography for the study of the heart and lungs.

  55. Chank Diesel

    Chank Diesel
    Occupations
    designertypographer
    Biography

    Chank Diesel, also known as Charles R. Andermack, is a contemporary type designer. He was born in Canada and raised in the U.S. state of Florida.

  56. Robin H. Carle

    Robin H. Carle
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    business executive
    Biography

    Robin Hewlett Carle served as the thirty-second Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Carle was the first woman to hold the position.

  57. Patricia A. Thiel

    Patricia A. Thiel
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1953-2020 (aged 67)
    Enrolled in Macalester College
    In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in chemistry
    Occupations
    chemist
    Biography

    Patricia Ann Thiel was an American chemist and materials scientist who served as a distinguished professor of chemistry at Iowa State University. She was known for her research on atomic-scale structures and processes on solid surfaces.

  58. Paul H. Anderson

    Paul H. Anderson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Paul Holden Anderson is an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He served as chief judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 1992 to 1994.

  59. Omar Imady

    Omar Imady
    Born in
    Syria Flag Syria
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    novelistpoetwriteruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Omar Imady is a Syrian American scholar, novelist, and poet. In 2016, a second edition of his novel, The Gospel of Damascus, was published, along with an Arabic, French and Spanish translation.

  60. Larry Miles Dinger

    Larry Miles Dinger
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    Larry Miles Dinger was the U.S. chargé d'affaires to Burma from 2008 to August 2011. Since the United States did not accredit a formal United States Ambassador to Burma from 1990 to 2012, the chargé d'affaires was the chief of mission and the most senior official in the embassy.

  61. Chris Kobin

    Chris Kobin
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    screenwriterfilm producer
    Biography

    Chris Kobin is a screenwriter and film producer living in Los Angeles, California.

  62. Jean Barman

    Jean Barman
    Years
    1939-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    historian
    Biography

    Jean Barman is a historian of British Columbia. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, United States, Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971. Her work The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia has been described as the "standard text on the subject [of British Columbia history]." She has received the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for historical writing, and the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award. She is a professor emerita at the University of British Columbia, as is her husband, the historian of Brazil Roderick Barman.

  63. Christy Haynes

    Christy Haynes
    Born in
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    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Enrolled in Macalester College
    Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in chemistry
    Occupations
    chemist
    Biography

    Christy Lynn Haynes is a chemist at the University of Minnesota. She works at the interface of analytical, biological, and nanomaterials chemistry.

  64. Jonathan V. Plaut

    Jonathan V. Plaut
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1942-2012 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    rabbi
    Biography

    Jonathan V. Plaut, was an American Reform rabbi and author. Plaut was the rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Jackson, MI.

  65. Juan Figueroa

    Juan Figueroa
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    politicianmanager
    Biography

    Juan A. Figueroa is an American consultant and political activist. He is a principal with Helene Figueroa at Soltaino Consultants, a strategic planning, applied research, advocacy and health philanthropy nonprofit consulting firm recognized for authoring an in-depth study on the health status of immigrants and refugees in the U.S. state of Missouri.

  66. Don I. Wortman

    Don I. Wortman
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1927-2020 (aged 93)
    Biography

    Don Irvin Wortman was a U.S. federal government administrator who served 27 years in senior-level executive positions in many federal government agencies. He was Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) from December 13, 1977, to October 4, 1978. In early 1977, while working at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)—precursor to the Department of Health and Human Services—he was Chairman of the task force for implementing the reorganization of HEW. This reorganization included the merging of the Medicare and Medicaid programs into a new agency; this agency was named the Health Care Financing Administration (and renamed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in June 2001). He became the first Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration. On two occasions—6 months in 1975 and the first 3 months of 1977—he was Acting Administrator of the Social and Rehabilitation Services, the agency which, at that time, administered the Medicaid program and the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.

  67. Donna Baird

    Donna Baird
    Occupations
    researcher
    Biography

    Donna Day Baird is an American epidemiologist and evolutionary-population biologist. She is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. She is known for her research in reproductive health through NIEHS.

  68. Vernon A. Forbes

    Vernon A. Forbes
    Born in
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    Years
    1883-1918 (aged 35)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Vernon A. Forbes was an American attorney and state legislator from the state of Oregon. After graduation from law school in Minnesota, he moved to central Oregon and opened a law office in the city of Bend. Forbes was a Republican who served three two-year terms in the Oregon House of Representatives, representing Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Jefferson, Klamath, and Lake counties. He drowned during a fishing trip near the end of his third term in the legislature.