14 Notable alumni of
MacMurray College
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MacMurray College is 3028th in the world, 1048th in North America, and 994th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from MacMurray 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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Cat Zingano
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fighter
- Biography
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Cat Zingano is an American mixed martial artist, currently signed to Bellator MMA, competing in the Women's Featherweight division. Zingano also competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and on April 13, 2013, she became the first woman to win a UFC fight by technical knockout (TKO). At the time of her departure from the UFC, she was No. 7 in the official UFC bantamweight rankings. As of October 10, 2023, she is #4 in the Bellator Women's pound-for-pound Rankings and #2 in the Bellator Women's Featherweight Rankings.
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Judy Collins
- Occupations
- guitariststreet artistactorpianistsinger-songwriter
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Judith Marjorie Collins is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, country, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards), for her social activism, and for the clarity of her voice. Her discography consists of 36 studio albums, nine live albums, numerous compilation albums, four holiday albums, and 21 singles.
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Christine Ebersole
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Christine Ebersole is an American actress and singer. She has appeared in film, television, and on stage. She starred in the Broadway musicals 42nd Street and Grey Gardens, winning two Tony Awards. She has co-starred on the TBS sitcom Sullivan & Son, in which she played Carol Walsh, and earned an Emmy Award nomination for her work in One Life to Live. She is also known for her recurring roles as Ms. Newberg on Royal Pains and White Diamond in the Steven Universe franchise. Since 2019, she has played the role of Dottie on Bob Hearts Abishola.
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Carla Hayden
- Occupations
- librarianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Carla Diane Hayden is an American librarian who is serving as the 14th librarian of Congress. Since the creation of the office of the librarian of Congress in 1802, Hayden is both the first African American and the first woman to hold this post. Appointed in 2016, she is the first professional librarian to hold the post since 1974.
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Nina Burleigh
- Occupations
- journalist
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Nina D. Burleigh is an American writer and investigative journalist, She writes books, articles, essays and reviews. Burleigh is a supporter of secular liberalism, and is known for her interest in issues of women's rights.
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Olindo Mare
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Olindo Franco Mare is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL). He was originally signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 1996. He played college football at MacMurray College and Syracuse. Mare, who was selected to the Pro Bowl in 1999, has also played for the Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Seattle Seahawks, Carolina Panthers and Chicago Bears.
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George Whitmore
- Occupations
- novelistpoet
- Biography
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George Whitmore was an American playwright, novelist, and poet. He also wrote non-fiction accounts about homosexuality and AIDS.
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Richard Yates
- Occupations
- judgelawyerpoliticianeditorjournalist
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Richard Yates Jr. was the 22nd Governor of Illinois from 1901 to 1905—the first native-born governor of the state. From 1919 to 1933, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois.
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Larry J. McKinney
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Larry Jim McKinney was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
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Elaine Alquist
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Elaine Kontominas Alquist is a former Democratic state senator from California's 13th Senate District. Prior to serving in the Senate, she served in the California State Assembly for six years.
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Al Lewis
- Occupations
- journalist
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Al Lewis is an American journalist who has served as a columnist for The Wall Street Journal Sunday and MarketWatch. On April 1, 2016, he became business editor of the Houston Chronicle.
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Mary Louise Marshall
- Years
- 1893-1986 (aged 93)
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Mary Louise Marshall was Librarian and Professor of Medical Bibliography at Tulane University School of Medicine, and the longest-running president of the Medical Library Association (1941–46).
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Martha Capps Oliver
- Occupations
- writerpoet
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Martha Capps Oliver was an American poet and hymnwriter. She was the author of A Year of Sacred Song (1895), A Year's Good Wishes (1895), Round the Year with the Poets (1900), The Far West, Easter Legend, and Christmas Legend, as well as several hundred Easter and Christmas booklets and poems, numerous songs, hymns, anthems, and cantatas. Oliver died in 1917.
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Sophie Naylor Grubb
- Occupations
- suffragistnon-fiction writerwriter
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Sophie Naylor Grubb was a 19th-century American activist. During the civil war, she began to manifest the ability, energy and enthusiasm for activism that distinguished her through life. She published leaflets and tracts on all the issues of the temperance movement in seventeen languages, at the rate of fifty editions of 10,000 each per year. She lectured on the issue of women's suffrage, holding 75 meetings in Kansas in 1898. Grubb died in 1902.
