73 Notable alumni of
Macalester College
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Macalester College is 978th in the world, 358th in North America, and 336th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 73 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.
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Danai Gurira
- Enrolled in Macalester College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in psychology
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwriterplaywrighttelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Danai Jekesai Gurira is a Zimbabwean-American actress, playwright, and activist. She is best known for her starring roles as Michonne on the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2012–2020, 2022) and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024), and as Okoye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films, including Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). Gurira is the writer of the Broadway play Eclipsed, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play.
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Kofi Annan
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomateconomist
- Biography
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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.
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Walter Mondale
- Occupations
- memoiristpoliticianlawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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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. He previously served as 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.
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Peter Berg
- Occupations
- film actortelevision directoractorscreenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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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).
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Ari Emanuel
- Occupations
- literary agentbusinessperson
- Biography
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Ariel Zev Emanuel is an American businessman and the CEO of Endeavor, an entertainment and media agency as well as CEO and executive chairman of TKO Group Holdings, which 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.
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Carl Lumbly
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorstage actortelevision actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Carl Winston Lumbly is an American actor. He is best known for M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994–1997) which made him the first black superhero on television. He has also had television roles on Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988) and Alias (2001–2006).
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Bob Mould
- Occupations
- record producerdisc jockeysongwriterplaywrightblogger
- Biography
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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.
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Mary Karr
- Occupations
- poetessayistuniversity teacherwriterhistorian
- Biography
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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.
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Olli Rehn
- Occupations
- association football playerpoliticianpolitical economist
- Biography
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Olli Ilmari Rehn is a Finnish 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.
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Dave Fennoy
- Occupations
- disc jockeyvoice actortelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Dave Fennoy is an American voice actor. His video game roles have included Lee Everett in The Walking Dead, Bluebeard in The Wolf Among Us, Finch in Tales from the Borderlands, Gabriel the Warrior in Minecraft: Story Mode, Lucius Fox in Batman: Arkham Knight and Batman: The Telltale Series and Rodin in Bayonetta. He also voiced "JP Dumund" in the Vendettas mode in The Darkness 2, as well as Satan in Afterparty.
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Walter Kirn
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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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.
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Duane Hanson
- Occupations
- photographerpainterinstallation artistsculptor
- Biography
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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.
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Joan Mondale
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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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.
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Andrés Oppenheimer
- Occupations
- journalistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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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 nine books. 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), The Robots Are Coming (Vintage 2019) and seven other books. Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Portuguese, in addition to Spanish. Oppenheimer 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.
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Ursula Vernon
- Occupations
- writercartoonistchildren's writernovelistvisual artist
- Biography
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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, fantasy novel Nettle & Bone, and fantasy novella Thornhedge, 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.
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Gaelynn Lea
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterviolinistsinger
- Biography
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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.
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M.anifest
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Kwame Ametepee Tsikata, known professionally as M.anifest, is a Ghanaian musician, rapper and record producer.
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Scott McCallum
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Dave Zirin
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Dave Zirin, 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.
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Fred Swaniker
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Fred Swaniker is a Ghanaian serial entrepreneur and leadership development expert, focused on supporting individuals to achieve their goals. 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. He believed that effective leadership was a key factor needed to drive transformation in Africa. He then founded African Leadership Group, which tries to develop ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders.
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Will Sheff
- Occupations
- guitaristsinger-songwritersinger
- Biography
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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.
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Mac King
- Occupations
- writerstage magicianactor
- Biography
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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.
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DeWitt Wallace
- Occupations
- publisher
- Biography
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William Roy DeWitt Wallace, publishing as DeWitt Wallace, was an American magazine publisher.
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William Henry Dietz
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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William Henry "Lone Star" Dietz was an American football player and coach. He served as the head college football coach at Washington State University, Purdue University, Louisiana Tech University, University of Wyoming, Haskell Institute—now known as Haskell Indian Nations University, and Albright College. Dietz was also head coach for the Boston Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Joseph J. Allaire
- Occupations
- entrepreneurprogrammerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Joseph J. Allaire, better known professionally as J. J. Allaire, is an American-born software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He created the ColdFusion programming language and web application server, founded Allaire Corporation, OnFolio, FitNow, and RStudio, and created LoseIt! and Windows Live Writer. Allaire is currently the founder and CEO of statistical computing company Posit (formerly RStudio Inc).
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Joe Radinovich
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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B. Todd Jones
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Byron Todd Jones is an American lawyer who was the seventh director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and was the chief disciplinary officer of the National Football League (NFL). He twice served as United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota.
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Toby J. Heytens
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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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.
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Anthony Weston
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Anthony Weston is an American writer, teacher, and philosopher. He is author of widely used primers in critical thinking and ethical practice and of a variety of unconventional philosophical books and essays.
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Alice Echols
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- music critichistoriancultural criticjournalist
- Biography
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Alice Echols is Professor of History, and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies, at the University of Southern California.
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Rebecca Otto
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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James C. O'Brien
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyer
- Biography
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James C. O'Brien is an American attorney and diplomat who served as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs in the Biden administration. He served as head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination from April 14, 2022 to October 5, 2023 and as the special envoy for hostage affairs from August 28, 2015 to January 20, 2017.
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Bobby Joe Champion
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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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.
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Lillian Dickson
- Occupations
- historianautobiographermissionary
- Biography
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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).
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Amy Thielen
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- television personalitychef
- Biography
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Amy Thielen is a chef, food writer, and television personality who focuses on Midwestern cooking and food culture. She is the author of the James Beard award-winning cookbook The New Midwestern Table ISBN 978-0307954879 and Give a Girl a Knife (Clarkson Potter, 2017) ISBN 978-0307954909. She was also the host of Heartland Table, which debuted in September 2013 on Food Network; season two premiered in March 2014.
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Victoria Ransom
- Biography
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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.
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Federico Campbell
- Occupations
- screenwriterwritertranslatorjournalist
- Biography
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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.
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Shawn Lawrence Otto
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- screenwriter
- Biography
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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.
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Michael J. Davis
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Michael James Davis is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
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Jerry Crawford
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- lobbyist
- Biography
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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.
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Annie VanderMeer
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- video game writer
- Biography
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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.
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Mike Carr
- Occupations
- role-playing game designernovelist
- Biography
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Mike Carr is a writer and game designer.
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Richard P. Binzel
- Occupations
- university teacherastronomer
- Biography
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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.
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Heba Amin
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Heba Y. Amin is a visual artist, researcher and educator.
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Russell L. Blaisdell
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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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.
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Alain Chuard
- Born in
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Switzerland - Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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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.
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Matt Entenza
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Robert W. Warren
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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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.
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Gary Arndt
- Occupations
- photographerblogger
- Biography
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Gary Arndt is an American blogger and photographer. He is the author of the travel blog Everything Everywhere and a former Minneapolis entrepreneur.
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Aditi Kapil
- Born in
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Bulgaria - Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Aditi Brennan Kapil is an American playwright and screenwriter.
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Julianne Ortman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Frank Hornstein
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank Hornstein is an American politician who served in the Minnesota House of Representatives 2003-2025. 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.
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Patricia Olson
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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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.
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Arthur E. Nelson
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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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
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Anne E. Derse
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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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.
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Yuko Nii
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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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.
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James McIntire
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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James Leonard McIntire was an American economist and politician who served as the 22nd Washington State Treasurer from 2009 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. McIntire died on August 16, 2024, at the age of 71.
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Earl Wood
- Occupations
- physiologist
- Biography
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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.
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Chank Diesel
- Occupations
- typographerdesigner
- Biography
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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.
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Carlos Mariani
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carlos Mariani is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represented District 65B, which includes portions of the city of Saint Paul in Ramsey County, a part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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Patricia A. Thiel
- Enrolled in Macalester College
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in chemistry
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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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.
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Robin H. Carle
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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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.
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Paul H. Anderson
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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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.
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Omar Imady
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpoetnovelist
- Biography
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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.
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Larry Miles Dinger
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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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.
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Jean Barman
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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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.
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Chris Kobin
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Chris Kobin is a screenwriter and film producer living in Los Angeles, California.
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Christy Haynes
- Enrolled in Macalester College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in chemistry
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Christy Lynn Haynes is a chemist at the University of Minnesota. She works at the interface of analytical, biological, and nanomaterials chemistry.
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Juan Figueroa
- Occupations
- managerpolitician
- Biography
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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.
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Don I. Wortman
- Biography
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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.
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Donna Baird
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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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.
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Vernon A. Forbes
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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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.
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Jonathan V. Plaut
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Jonathan V. Plaut was an American Reform rabbi and author. Plaut was the rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Jackson, MI.
