19 Notable alumni of
Metropolitan State University of Denver
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The Metropolitan State University of Denver is 2102nd in the world, 724th in North America, and 681st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from the Metropolitan State University of Denver sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Pam Grier
- Occupations
- stage actoraikidokaactortelevision actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Pamela Suzette Grier is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women-in-prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award and a Saturn Award.
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Charles Hoskinson
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Charles Hoskinson is an American entrepreneur who is a co-founder of the blockchain engineering company Input Output Global, Inc. (formerly IOHK), and the Cardano blockchain platform, and was a co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform.
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Laura J. Richardson
- Occupations
- army officermilitary aviator
- Biography
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Laura Jane Richardson is a active United States Army general who last served as the commander of United States Southern Command from 2021 to 2024. Prior to that, she was the commanding general of United States Army North from 2019 to 2021.
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Kat Cammack
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathryn Christine Cammack is an American politician and political advisor serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 3rd congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, Cammack previously served as deputy chief of staff to her predecessor, Representative Ted Yoho, who retired in 2020.
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Nick Kay
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Nicholas Colin Kay is an Australian professional basketball player for Shimane Susanoo Magic of the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for the Metro State Roadrunners before beginning his professional career in the National Basketball League (NBL). He won two NBL championships with the Perth Wildcats in 2019 and 2020. He also won a New Zealand NBL championship and league MVP honours with the Wellington Saints in 2019. In 2021, he won a bronze medal with the Australian national team at the Tokyo Olympics.
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Brittany Pettersen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brittany Louise Pettersen is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Colorado's 7th congressional district since 2023. She previously served as a member of the Colorado Senate from the 22nd district, and in the Colorado House of Representatives, representing the 28th district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Katherine Archuleta
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Katherine L. Archuleta is an American teacher and a political executive. She was the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management. President Barack Obama appointed her on May 23, 2013. She was sworn in on November 4, 2013. She had previously served as National Political Director for Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. Prior to that, she had been executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation in New Mexico, had co-founded the Latina Initiative, had worked at a Denver law firm, and had worked in the Clinton Administration as chief of staff to the Secretary of Transportation, Federico Peña. She became embroiled in controversy after the disclosure of a massive national security breach in June 2015. The hack involved the theft of millions of federal employee records and included security-clearance details dating back 15 years, which prompted lawmakers from both political parties to demand that she resign. On July 10, 2015, Archuleta tendered her resignation.
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Hayden Smith
- Occupations
- American football playerrugby union player
- Biography
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Hayden Smith is an Australian retired professional rugby union player who played for Saracens FC and the United States national rugby union team. Smith also spent two years playing professional American football as a tight end for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL).
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David Barlow
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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David Barlow is an Australian former professional basketball player. He has won five championships in the National Basketball League (NBL).
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Dani Rylan
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Dani Rylan Kearney is an American entrepreneur and former ice hockey player. She is the founder and former commissioner of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), the first professional women's hockey league in the United States, and the first professional women's hockey league ever to pay its players in North America. Prior to launching the league in March 2015, Rylan attempted to bring a CWHL expansion team to New York in 2014. She previously played with the Northeastern Huskies women's ice hockey program in NCAA play and was a captain in her final season.
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Biem Benyamin
- Enrolled in the Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Studied in 1983-1988
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Biem Triani Benyamin is an Indonesian politician and businessman. He was Indonesian senator from Jakarta, known for proposing a judicial review allowing independent candidates to run in regional elections. He also chaired the special committee in the parliament for revising the Jakarta Special Capital Region Government Act. Biem Benyamin is the third son of Benyamin Sueb, Betawi iconic figure. He was later elected into the People's Representative Council in 2014.
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David W. Ball
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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David Wadsworth Ball is an American author whose novels include Empires of Sand (1999), China Run (2002) and Ironfire (2004). His short story, The Scroll, was published in Warriors (2010), and Warriors 2 (2010), anthologies assembled by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. The short story Provenance was included in an anthology entitled Rogues, published by Bantam Spectra in 2014.
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Steve Lebsock
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- politician
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Steve Lebsock is an American politician who served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 34th district as a member of the Democratic and Republican parties from 2013 until his expulsion in 2018. Prior to his tenure in the state house he served on the city council in Thornton, Colorado from 2003 to 2011.
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Tom Sullivan
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Leo Thomas Sullivan III is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Colorado Senate. He represents District 27, which includes all or parts of Aurora, Centennial, Dove Valley, Inverness and Foxfield in Arapahoe and Douglas counties.
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Ricardo Baca
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- newspaper editoreditor
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Ricardo Baca is an American journalist best known for being the first full-time marijuana rights editor for a major American newspaper. He was an editor at The Denver Post, producing The Cannabist for over three years until December, 2016. He is the "central character" of the 2015 documentary film Rolling Papers. He also shares his name with the first person to be convicted for the possession of marijuana after the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 was put into action.
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Omar Hurricane
- Enrolled in the Metropolitan State University of Denver
- 1986-1990 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Omar Hurricane is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in the thermonuclear and inertial confinement fusion design division. Hurricane completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Professor René Pellat in 1994. He remained at UCLA as a postdoc under adviser Steven Cowley (now Director of PPPL), studying the kink and nonlinear ballooning mode instability in high-beta plasmas until joining LLNL in 1998 as a designer in A-Division (Secondary Design).
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Hugo Teufel III
- Enrolled in the Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Hugo Teufel III is an American lawyer and former government official.
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Kevin Van Winkle
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin Van Winkle is a Colorado politician serving as a Douglas County Commissioner. He is a former member of the Colorado Senate, representing the 30th district in Douglas County. Previously, he served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 43rd District, which encompassed Highlands Ranch, Colorado. A Republican, Van Winkle owns a small business based in Highlands Ranch.
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Bobby LeFebre
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Bobby LeFebre is an American poet, performer, and cultural worker. He is the current poet laureate for the state of Colorado. He is the state's youngest and first poet laureate of color.
