100 Notable alumni of
Middlebury College
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Middlebury College is 405th in the world, 159th in North America, and 148th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Middlebury 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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James Cromwell
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- stage actoractortelevision actorcharacter actorfilm actor
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James Oliver Cromwell is an American actor. Known for his extensive work as a character actor, he has received a Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Babe (1995). Other notable roles include in Star Trek: First Contact (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), Deep Impact (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Space Cowboys (2000), The Longest Yard (2005) The Queen (2006), W. (2008), Secretariat (2010), The Artist (2011), Still Mine (2013), The Promise (2016), Marshall (2017), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and Emperor (2020). He has also voiced roles in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), and Big Hero 6 (2014).
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Jason Mantzoukas
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- television producerscreenwriterfilm actorpodcastercomedian
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Jason Mantzoukas is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and podcaster. He is best known for his recurring role as Rafi in the FX comedy series The League, his role as Nadal in The Dictator, and as one of the three co-hosts of the podcast How Did This Get Made? alongside Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael.
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Amanda Plummer
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Amanda Michael Plummer is an American actress. She is known for her work on stage and for her film roles, including Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), The Fisher King (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Plummer won a Tony Award in 1982 for her performance in Agnes of God. She most recently appeared in the third season of Star Trek: Picard (2023).
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Kristen Connolly
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- film actortelevision actorfilm produceractor
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Kristen Connolly is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Dana Polk in the 2011 film The Cabin in the Woods, Christina Gallagher on the Netflix series House of Cards and Jamie Campbell on the CBS series Zoo.
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Jake Weber
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Jake T. Weber is an English actor. He is known in film for his role as Michael in Dawn of the Dead and for his role as Drew in Meet Joe Black. On television, he is best known for playing Joe DuBois, the sleep-deprived husband of psychic Allison DuBois, in the popular drama series Medium.
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Cassidy Freeman
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- film actortelevision actorsingeractor
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Cassidy Freeman is an American actress and musician. She is known for her roles as Tess Mercer in The CW's superhero drama Smallville, Amber Gemstone in the HBO series The Righteous Gemstones, Sage in the series The Vampire Diaries, and Cady Longmire in A&E's modern western Longmire.
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Roscoe Lee Browne
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- film actortelevision actorvoice actorstage actor
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Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director. He resisted playing stereotypically black roles, instead performing in several productions with New York City's Shakespeare Festival Theater, Leland Hayward's satirical NBC series That Was the Week That Was, and a poetry performance tour of the United States in addition to his work in television and film. He is perhaps best known for his many guest appearances on TV series from the 1970s and 1980s as well as movies like The Cowboys (1972) with John Wayne.
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John Deere
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- inventorfabricatormanufacturerpoliticianbusinessperson
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John Deere was an American blacksmith, businessman, inventor and politician. He founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manufacturers in the world. Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837.
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Bradford Bishop
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- diplomatCapturado en Monterrey N.L
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William Bradford Bishop Jr. is a former United States Foreign Service officer who has been a fugitive from justice since killing his wife, mother, and three sons in 1976. On April 10, 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed him on the list of its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 27, 2018, Bishop, who at the time would have been 81 years old, was removed from the list, making room, the FBI said, for another "dangerous fugitive". However, he is still being actively pursued by the FBI, and an INTERPOL Red Notice is still in effect.
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Jimmy Wong
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- singeractortelevision actorYouTuberfilm actor
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James Franklin Wong is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his 2011 music video, "Ching Chong: Asians in the Library Song" and for his role as Ted in the web series Video Game High School. In 2017, he and YouTuber Meghan Camarena co-hosted the video game themed variety show Polaris Primetime, which was created as part of Disney's "D|XP" programming block on Disney XD.
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Ari Fleischer
- Enrolled in Middlebury College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lawrence Ari Fleischer is an American media consultant and political aide who served as the 23rd White House Press Secretary, for President George W. Bush, from January 2001 to July 2003.
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John Perkins
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- writereconomist
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John Perkins is an American author. His best known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), in which Perkins describes playing a role in a process of economic colonization of Third World countries on behalf of what he portrays as a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States government. The book's claims were contested by some involved parties. The book spent more than 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
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Anaïs Mitchell
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- composersinger-songwriterplaywrightguitarist
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Anaïs Mitchell is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. Mitchell has released eight studio albums, including Hadestown (2010), Young Man in America (2012), Child Ballads (2013), and Anaïs Mitchell (2022).
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Shawn Ryan
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- television producerscreenwritershowrunnerfilm director
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Shawn Ryan is an American screenwriter and television producer. He has created and/or produced a number of television series including The Shield (2002–2008), The Unit (2006–2009), Lie to Me (2009–11), Timeless (2016–2018), S.W.A.T. (2017–present) and The Night Agent (2023–present).
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V
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- film directorautobiographeractorplaywrightwriter
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V, formerly Eve Ensler, is an American playwright, author, performer, feminist, and activist. V is best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. In 2006 Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called The Vagina Monologues "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."
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Dan Schulman
- Occupations
- business executive
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Daniel H. Schulman is an American former business executive. He is the former president and CEO of PayPal, and before that group president of enterprise growth at American Express. Schulman was responsible for American Express' global strategy to expand alternative mobile and online payment services, form new partnerships, and build revenue streams beyond the traditional card and travel businesses. Earlier, he was president of Sprint's prepaid group and the founding CEO of Virgin Mobile.
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Mark Gordon
- Enrolled in Middlebury College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- rancherpolitician
- Biography
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Mark Gordon is an American politician serving as the 33rd governor of Wyoming since January 7, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as state treasurer; then-governor Matt Mead appointed him to that position on October 26, 2012, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Joseph Meyer.
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Emily McLaughlin
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Emily McLaughlin was an American actress, known for her long-standing role as original character Nurse Jessie Brewer on the daytime soap opera General Hospital from 1963 until 1991.
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Michaela Dietz
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- voice actorfilm actor
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Michaela Dietz is an American voice actress whose professional career started in 2005. She voiced the character of Riff on the PBS children's television series Barney & Friends, Amethyst on the Cartoon Network television series Steven Universe and Steven Universe Future, Dolly Dalmatian on Disney Channel's 101 Dalmatian Street, Pita in Fallout 76, Vee on Disney Channel's The Owl House, and Darryl McGee on Disney Channel's The Ghost and Molly McGee.
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Julia Alvarez
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- writerchildren's writerpoetnovelist
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Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers.
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Louis Bacon
- Occupations
- traderfinanciereconomist
- Biography
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Louis Moore Bacon is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive of Moore Capital Management.
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- anthropologistuniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager is an American historian. She is a Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, author of two books on Korea, co-editor of a third book on Asian nations in the post-Cold War era, and a forthcoming book on great power competition in northeast Asia at the turn of the 19th-20th century. She is a well-known historian of Korea and East Asia.
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Barbara Comstock
- Enrolled in Middlebury College
- In 1981 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- activistpoliticianlawyerlobbyistconsultant
- Biography
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Barbara Jean Comstock is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 10th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2010 to 2014.
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Vanessa Branch
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- film producerfilm actormodeltelevision actorbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Vanessa Lynn Branch is an English-born American actress and model. She is best known in the United States as the Orbit Gum girl for its 2002 to 2010 television marketing campaign, as well as Giselle in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, specifically Gore Verbinski's trilogy and James Ward Byrkit's short film Tales of the Code: Wedlocked.
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Brian Deese
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- economist
- Biography
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Brian Christopher Deese is an American economic and political advisor who was the 13th director of the National Economic Council, serving under President Joe Biden.
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Jeff Lindsay
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- writernovelistplaywright
- Biography
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Jeffry P. Freundlich, primarily known by his pen name Jeff Lindsay, is an American playwright and crime novelist. He is best known for his novels about the fictional sociopathic police forensic analyst and serial killer-killing vigilante Dexter Morgan. The first book of the series was later developed into the Showtime television series of the same name with actor Michael C. Hall playing the character.
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Sean Casten
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- politician
- Biography
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Sean Thomas Casten is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 6th congressional district. The district covers southwestern Chicago, as well as many of Chicago's inner southwestern suburbs, such as Downers Grove, Wheaton, Lisle, Orland Park, and Western Springs. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Ron Brown
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- lawyerlobbyist
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Ronald Harmon Brown was an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Commerce during the first term of President Bill Clinton. Before this, he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He was the first African American to hold these positions. He was killed, along with 34 others, in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia.
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Frank Pallone
- Enrolled in Middlebury College
- In 1973 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Frank Joseph Pallone Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 6th congressional district since 1988. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1988 to 1993, is in the north-central part of the state and includes New Brunswick, Woodbridge Township, Perth Amboy, Sayreville, Edison, Piscataway and Asbury Park. Pallone is the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Michael Tolkin
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- film producerscreenwriternovelistfilm directorwriter
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Michael L. Tolkin is an American screenwriter, novelist, and director. He has written numerous screenplays, including The Player (1992), which he adapted from his own 1988 novel of the same name, and for which he received the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay (1993) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He later wrote a follow-up to the novel, titled The Return of the Player, which was published in 2006.
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Julia Whelan
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- writeractortelevision actor
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Julia May Whelan is an American actress, narrator and author. As an actress, she is best known for her role as Grace Manning on the television family drama series Once and Again (1999–2002), and her co-starring role in the 2002 Lifetime movie The Secret Life of Zoey. A noted child actor, Whelan first appeared on screen at the age of 11 and continued to take television roles until her matriculation into Middlebury College in 2004; Whelan graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury in 2008 after spending the 2006–2007 academic year as a visiting student at Lincoln College, Oxford. Whelan returned to film acting in November 2008 with a role in the fantasy thriller Fading of the Cries. In the 2010s, Whelan stepped away from her acting career to become an audiobook narrator. As of July 2022, she has narrated over 400 audiobooks. In 2018, she published her debut novel My Oxford Year.
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Charles Frank
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- film actortelevision actortelevision directoractor
- Biography
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Charles Reser Frank is an American actor noted for playing Bret Maverick's cousin Ben Maverick in the 1978 TV movie The New Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, and in the short-lived 1979 television series Young Maverick. Both featured Frank's real-life wife Susan Blanchard as Ben Maverick's girlfriend.
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Emma Cline
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- writernovelistshort story writer
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Emma Cline is an American writer and novelist from California. She published her first novel, The Girls, in 2016, to positive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her story collection, Daddy, was published in 2020, and her second novel, The Guest, was published in 2023. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Granta, and The Paris Review. In 2017, Cline was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, and Forbes named her one of their "30 Under 30 in Media". She is a recipient of the Plimpton Prize and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Rodney Rothman
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United States - Occupations
- film producertelevision producerscreenwriterfilm directorwriter
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Rodney Rothman is an American filmmaker and author. He is known for his work on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, 22 Jump Street, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, Undeclared, and Late Show with David Letterman.
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Carina Driscoll
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carina Nicole Driscoll is an American politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives from Chittenden County from 2001 to 2003, as a member of the Vermont Progressive Party. She also served on the city council in Burlington, Vermont, and unsuccessfully sought the city's mayoralty in the 2018 election.
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Shenna Bellows
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shenna Lee Bellows is an American politician and a non-profit executive director. On December 2, 2020, the Maine Legislature elected her to serve as the 50th Maine secretary of state. She was executive director of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine between 2018 and 2020, and she served as the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maine between 2005 and 2013.
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Koby Altman
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Koby Altman is the President of Basketball Operations of the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Bill Maris
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- venture capitalistportfolio manager
- Biography
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Bill Maris is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist focused on technology and the life sciences. Bill Maris's investments have to date resulted in over 150 exits and more than 50 companies that have grown to over $1B in value, including: Nest (acquired by Google), Uber (NASDAQ: UBER), Crowdstrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), 23andme, Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche), Foundation Medicine (acquired by Roche), The Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto), Vir (NASDAQ: VIR) and Auris (acquired by JNJ). He is the founder and first CEO of Google Ventures (GV) and also served as VP of Special Projects at Google/Alphabet. He is the creator of Google's Calico project, a company created to treat aging as a disease, and cure it. He is the founder of early web hosting pioneer Burlee.com, now part of Web.com, and the founder of S32, a California-based venture fund focused on frontier technology.
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Felix G. Rohatyn
- Occupations
- diplomatfinancier
- Biography
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Felix George Rohatyn was an American investment banker and diplomat. He spent most of his career with Lazard, where he brokered numerous large corporate mergers and acquisitions from the 1960s through the 1990s. In 1975, he played a central role in preventing the bankruptcy of New York City as chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation and chief negotiator between the city, its labor unions and its creditors.
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Albio Sires
- Enrolled in Middlebury College
- In 1985 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianbasketball playerbusinesspersonteacher
- Biography
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Albio B. Sires is a Cuban-born American businessman and politician serving as the mayor of West New York, New Jersey, since 2023 and previously from 1995 to 2006. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Vendela Vida
- Occupations
- writerjournalistnovelist
- Biography
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Vendela Vida is an American novelist, journalist, editor, screenplay writer, and educator. She is the author of multiple books, has worked as a writing teacher, and is a founder and editor of The Believer magazine.
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Rebecca Makkai
- Occupations
- writernovelisteducator
- Biography
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Rebecca Makkai is an American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for writing The Great Believers (2018) and I Have Some Questions for You (2023), which have been positively received by critics and won awards such as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Libby Book Award.
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Carlos Calleja
- Enrolled in Middlebury College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in liberal arts education
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Juan Carlos Calleja Hakker is a Salvadoran businessman and former politician. Calleja is currently the CEO of Grupo Éxito and the vice president of the Calleja Group which owns Supermercados Super Selectos, the largest supermarket chain in El Salvador. He was the presidential candidate for the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) during the 2019 presidential election. He received 31.72 percent of the vote and came in second place to Nayib Bukele, the election's winner.
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Brendan Bechtel
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Brendan Peters Bechtel is an American businessman who is the chairman and chief executive officer of Bechtel, the second largest construction company in the United States, which has operations in 160 countries. The great-great-grandson of founder Warren A. Bechtel, he became CEO at the age of 35, and is the fifth generation of the Bechtel family to lead the privately owned company since 1898. Bechtel chairs the infrastructure committee of the Business Roundtable, a lobbying group representing CEOs of some of the largest companies in the country.
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Sarah Groff
- Occupations
- triathlete
- Biography
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Sarah True is an American athlete who competes in triathlon. She represented the United States in triathlon in 2012, finishing in fourth place, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics. True is the winner of the 2007 ITU Aquathlon World Championships and finished in second place in the 2014 ITU World Triathlon Series.
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Hiram Bingham I
- Occupations
- translatormissionaryBible translator
- Biography
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Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I, was the leader of the first group of American Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian Islands. Like most of the missionaries, he was from New England.
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John Beyrle
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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John Ross Beyrle is an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer and specialist in Russian and Eastern European affairs, he served as Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federation from July 3, 2008, until January 10, 2012, and as Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2005 to 2008.
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Jim Douglas
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Holley Douglas is an American politician from the state of Vermont. A Republican, he served as the 80th governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011. On August 27, 2009, Douglas announced that he would not seek re-election for a fifth term in 2010. He left the office in January 2011.
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Henry Schoolcraft
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- politicianexplorergeologistgeographerwriter
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of Native Americans commissioned by Congress and published in the 1850s.
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Becky Worley
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- television producertelevision presenterjournalistbloggerrugby union player
- Biography
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Becky Worley is an American journalist and broadcaster. She is the tech contributor for Good Morning America on ABC, host and blogger for a web show on Yahoo! Tech.
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Bob Lefsetz
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Robert Scott "Bob" Lefsetz is an American analyst and critic. He is the author of The Lefsetz Letter, an email newsletter, and a blog.
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Katherine Arden
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Katherine Arden Burdine, best known by her pen name Katherine Arden, is an American novelist. Known primarily for her Winternight trilogy of fantasy novels, which are set in medieval Russia and have garnered nominations for Hugo and Locus Awards, she is also the author of the Small Spaces series of horror novels for middle grade children. The first in the latter series, Small Spaces, won the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 2020.
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Bill Delahunt
- Enrolled in Middlebury College
- In 1963 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lobbyistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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William David Delahunt was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Massachusetts's 10th congressional district from 1997 to 2011. Delahunt did not seek re-election in 2010, and left Congress in January 2011. He was succeeded by Norfolk County District Attorney Bill Keating.
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Roger L. Easton
- Enrolled in Middlebury College
- In 1943 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in physics
- Occupations
- inventorscientist
- Biography
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Roger Lee Easton Sr. was an American physicist and state representative who was the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System, along with Ivan A. Getting and Bradford Parkinson.
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Paul Eaton
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Paul D. Eaton is a former United States Army officer who commanded the operations to train Iraqi troops during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Eaton served in that capacity between 2003 and 2004, and then returned to the US to become Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Training, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia. He previously served as Senior Adviser to the now-defunct National Security Network, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank focused on foreign policy and defense issues.
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Alexander Twilight
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexander Lucius Twilight was an American educator, minister and politician. He was recognized as the first African American to have earned a bachelor's degree from an American college or university, graduating from Middlebury College in 1823. He was ordained as a Congregational minister and worked in education and ministry all his career. In 1829, Twilight became principal of the Orleans County Grammar School. There he designed and built Athenian Hall, the first granite public building in the state of Vermont. In 1836, he was the first African American elected as a state legislator, serving in the Vermont House of Representatives; he was also the only African American ever elected to a state legislature before the Civil War.
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Sarah C. Paine
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Enrolled in Middlebury College
- In 1989 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- naval historian
- Biography
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Sarah Crosby Mallory "Sally" Paine is an American historian, author, and professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She has written and co-edited several books on naval policy and related affairs, and subjects of interest to the United States Navy or Department of Defense. Other works she has authored concern the political and military history of East Asia, particularly China, during the modern era.
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Robert Stafford
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary officerlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Theodore Stafford was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy political career, he served as the 71st governor of Vermont, a United States representative, and a U.S. Senator. A Republican, Stafford was generally considered a liberal, or "Rockefeller Republican".
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Lado Gurgenidze
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vladimer "Lado" Gurgenidze is a Georgian career banker, business executive, and the former politician, who was the sixth Prime Minister of Georgia, from 22 November 2007 to 1 November 2008.
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Chad Urmston
- Occupations
- guitaristmusicianbandleader
- Biography
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Charles Stokes Urmston, better known as Chadwick Stokes is an American musician and a human rights activist. He is the frontman for the Boston-area bands Dispatch and State Radio, and released solo music under the name Chadwick Stokes.
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Alex Prud'homme
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Alex Prud’homme is an American journalist and the author of several non-fiction books.
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John Godfrey Saxe
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianpoet
- Biography
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John Godfrey Saxe I was an American poet known for his re-telling of the Indian parable "The Blind Men and the Elephant", which introduced the story to a western audience.
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Ted King
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Edward Carrington King is a retired American professional road racing cyclist who last rode for UCI ProTeam Cannondale–Garmin. King turned professional in 2006 and raced for ten years, retiring from contemporary road racing in 2015. He quickly segued to the burgeoning world of gravel cycling, where he has been a pioneer in the world of competitive gravel racing.
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Andrew Gross
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Andrew Gross is an American author of thriller novels, including four New York Times bestsellers. He is best known for his collaborations with suspense writer James Patterson. Gross's books feature close family bonds, relationships characterized by loss or betrayal, and a large degree of emotional resonance which generally leads to wider crimes and cover-ups. The books have all been published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins.
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George Arison
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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George Arison is a Georgian-born American businessman and investor. He is the founder and co-CEO of Shift, an online, peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling used cars. Prior to Shift, in 2007, he co-founded Taxi Magic, known today as Curb (RideCharge, Inc.). As a political scholar and activist, he is considered for strong pro-democracy views for Georgia in its post-Soviet transition. Arison is currently the CEO of Grindr.
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Cherine Anderson
- Occupations
- film actorsongwriteractorsinger
- Biography
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Cherine Tanya Anderson is a Jamaican dancehall/reggae vocalist and actress.
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Maciej Cegłowski
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Maciej Cegłowski is a Polish-American web developer, entrepreneur, speaker, and social critic, based in San Francisco, California. He is the owner of the bookmarking service Pinboard, which he calls a social bookmarking site for introverts.
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Samuel Nelson
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Samuel Nelson was an American attorney and appointed as judge of New York State courts. He was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1872. He concurred on the 1857 Dred Scott decision, although for reasons different from Chief Justice Taney's.
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Chris Cheng
- Occupations
- motivational speaker
- Biography
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Chris Cheng is an American sport shooter and The History Channel's Top Shot Season 4 Champion. In 2012, along with the title of "Top Shot", Cheng won a $100,000 cash prize and a professional marksman contract with the show's sponsor, Bass Pro Shops.
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Bryan Goldberg
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Bryan David Goldberg is an American entrepreneur and the owner of Bustle Digital Group, which operates a number of media properties, including Bustle, Nylon, W Magazine and Gawker. Previously, Goldberg founded Bleacher Report, a sports news website that sold to Turner Broadcasting System in 2012 for $200 million.
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Watermelon Slim
- Occupations
- guitaristmusiciansinger
- Biography
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William P. Homans III, professionally known as "Watermelon Slim", is an American blues musician. He plays both guitar and harmonica. He is currently signed to NorthernBlues Music, based in Toronto, Ontario. Homans has also earned bachelor's and master's degrees from University of Oregon and Oklahoma State University.
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Bob Beattie
- Occupations
- sports commentatorcoach
- Biography
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Robert Prime Beattie was an American skiing coach, skiing promoter and commentator for ABC Sports and ESPN. He was head coach of the U.S. Ski Team from 1961 to 1969 and co-founded the Alpine Skiing World Cup in 1966. His work as a ski-racing commentator for ABC included four Winter Olympic Games, from 1976 through 1988.
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Román Macaya
- Occupations
- entrepreneurdiplomatscientist
- Biography
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Román Macaya Hayes is a Costa Rican scientist, entrepreneur, diplomat, and public servant. From 2018-2022 he served as the Executive President and Chairman of the Board of the Costa Rican Social Security [Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social ], the institution that finances and provides universal coverage of public health care services in Costa Rica and manages the largest pension fund of the country. In this role he led the health care delivery response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Macaya spearheaded key priority programs, such as deploying the largest investment in physical and technological infrastructure in the history of the CCSS, promoting innovation throughout the institution, implementing the most ambitious digital transformation agenda, and revamping both the health care delivery and pension system to respond to a rapidly aging population.
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Silas Wright
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Silas Wright Jr. was an American attorney and Democratic politician. A member of the Albany Regency, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, New York State Comptroller, United States Senator, and the sixteenth Governor of New York.
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Alison Knowles
- Occupations
- electronic literature writersound artistdraftspersonperformance artistartist
- Biography
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Alison Knowles is an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications. Knowles was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, an international network of artists who aspired to merge different artistic media and disciplines. Criteria that have come to distinguish her work as an artist are the arena of performance, the indeterminacy of her event scores resulting in the deauthorization of the work, and the element of tactile participation. She graduated from Pratt Institute in New York with an honors degree in fine art. In May 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Pratt.
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Rebecca Rhynhart
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- politicianbusiness executive
- Biography
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Rebecca Rhynhart is an American politician from Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the City Controller of Philadelphia from 2018 to 2022. Prior to running for City Controller, Rhynhart worked in Philadelphia city government as City Treasurer and Budget Director in the administration of Mayor Michael Nutter. Prior to joining city government, Rhynhart worked in public financing at Fitch Ratings and then as a managing director for municipal derivatives at investment bank Bear Stearns, just prior to the financial collapse of 2008.
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Jane Bryant Quinn
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jane Bryant Quinn is an American financial journalist. Her columns talk about financial topics such as investor protection, health insurance, Social Security, and the sufficiency of retirement plans.
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Frank Sesno
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Frank Sesno is an American journalist, former CNN correspondent, anchor, and Washington bureau chief. He is also author, and former director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. Sesno is the creator and host of Planet Forward, a web-to-television show on PBS. Sesno is a professor of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. Sesno assumed the Director's role at the School of Media and Public Affairs in September 2009 and stepped down from the role in June 2020. In 2020, Sesno announced he would serve as the school's director of strategic initiatives.
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Jehudi Ashmun
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jehudi Ashmun was an American religious leader and social reformer from New England who helped lead efforts by the American Colonization Society to "repatriate" African Americans to a colony in West Africa. It founded the colony of Liberia in West Africa as a place to resettle free people of color from the United States.
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Megan Guarnier
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Megan Guarnier is an American former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2019 for the Rabobank–Liv Giant, Boels–Dolmans and Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank teams. She was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Middlebury College in 2007.
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Rana Abdelhamid
- Biography
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Rana Abdelhamid is an American political candidate and activist based in Queens, New York. Abdelhamid is also the founder of Hijabis of New York and the Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment.
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Vivian Schiller
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Vivian Luisa Schiller is the former president and CEO of National Public Radio, and former head of news and journalism partnerships at Twitter. She is also the former senior vice president and chief digital officer for NBC News, including oversight of NBCNews.com.
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Lisa D. Kenna
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyer
- Biography
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Lisa S. Dougherty Kenna is an American diplomat who has served as Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State since January 2025. She had served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research from September 11, 2023, to January 20, 2025. She had served as the United States Ambassador to Peru from March 2021 to September 2023. She served as Acting Secretary of State for only a day, as Senator Marco Rubio was confirmed by the Senate on the day of her appointment, and was later sworn in on January 21, 2025.
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Edward Hitchcock
- Occupations
- botanistwritermycologistgeologistpaleontologist
- Biography
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Edward Hitchcock was an American geologist and the third President of Amherst College (1845–1854).
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Myrtle Bachelder
- Occupations
- engineerchemistteacher
- Biography
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Myrtle Claire Bachelder was an American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer, who is noted for her secret work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb program, and for the development of techniques in the chemistry of metals.
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Dan M. Kahan
- Occupations
- psychologistscientistuniversity teacherprofessorjurist
- Biography
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Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His professional expertise is in the fields of criminal law and evidence, and he is known for his theory of cultural cognition.
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Solomon Foot
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Solomon Foot was an American politician and attorney. He held numerous offices during his career, including Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, State's Attorney for Rutland County, member of the United States House of Representatives, and United States Senator.
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Hedda Berntsen
- Occupations
- alpine skiertelemarkerfreestyle skier
- Biography
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Hedda Berntsen is a Norwegian sportsperson who has competed internationally in telemark skiing, alpine skiing, freestyle skiing and skicross. She is world champion in Telemark classic from 1997. She later concentrated on the alpine slalom, her career peaking in the 2000–01 season with consistent performances in the World Cup as well as a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships. She later switched to skicross, receiving a silver medal at the 2008 Winter X Games. In the Vancouver Winter Olympics on 23 February 2010 she won the silver medal in the women's skicross competition.
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Penny Pitou
- Occupations
- alpine skier
- Biography
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Penelope Theresa "Penny" Pitou is a former United States Olympic alpine skier, who in 1960 became the first American skier to win a medal in the Olympic downhill event. In 2001, Pitou was inducted into the New England Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
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Randy Brock
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Randolph D. "Randy" Brock III is an American politician from the state of Vermont and a member of the Republican Party. He currently serves in the Vermont Senate and is the first African American caucus leader in Vermont. He served as the Vermont Auditor of Accounts from 2005 to 2007 and as a member of the Vermont Senate from 2009 to 2013, and was the Republican nominee for Governor of Vermont in 2012, losing to Democratic incumbent Peter Shumlin. He ran unopposed for the 2016 Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont. In December 2017, Governor Phil Scott announced that he had appointed Brock to the Vermont Senate, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dustin Allard Degree.
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Carlene King Johnson
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Carlene King Johnson Drake was an American model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 1955.
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Edwin James
- Occupations
- editorsurgeongeologistbotanisttranslator
- Biography
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Edwin P. James, a 19th-century American botanist, geologist, linguist, and medical practitioner, was an important figure in the early exploration of the American West. James was also known for his time spent creating relationships with Native Americans in the United States, and also aiding African Americans to escape slavery.
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Richard E. Kim
- Occupations
- translatornovelistwriter
- Biography
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Richard Eun Kook Kim was a Korean–American writer and professor of literature. He was the author of The Martyred (1964), The Innocent (1968), and Lost Names (1970), and many other works. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1966) and was a recipient of a Fulbright grant. His most popular work is Lost Names, a fictional work based on his experience during the Japanese colonization of Korea.
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Dwight Garner
- Occupations
- writerjournalistliterary critic
- Biography
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Dwight Garner is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for The New York Times. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. He is the author of Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany and Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements. In 2023 he published his memoir, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading.
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William K. Sessions III
- Occupations
- judgejuristlawyer
- Biography
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William Kenneth Sessions III is serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and has served as the Vice Chair and eventually as Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. He was confirmed on October 21, 2009 as Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, and served until December 22, 2010.
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Robert Schlesinger
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Robert Schlesinger is an American author, editor and liberal commentator emphasizing politics and political communications.
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Chris Waddell
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- para alpine skier
- Biography
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Chris Waddell is an American Paralympic sit-skier and wheelchair track athlete. He is also a NBC Sports TV host. He was a promising non-disabled skier while attending Middlebury College in Vermont, before a skiing accident left him paralysed from the waist down.
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Greta Neubauer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gretchen Stephens "Greta" Neubauer is an American Democratic politician from Racine, Wisconsin. She is the minority leader in the Wisconsin State Assembly, since January 2022, and has been a member of the Assembly since 2018, representing Wisconsin's 66th Assembly district.
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Edward John Phelps
- Occupations
- diplomatjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Edward John Phelps was a lawyer and diplomat from Vermont. He is notable for his service as Envoy to Court of St. James's from 1885 to 1889. In addition, Phelps was a founder of the American Bar Association, and served as its president from 1880 to 1881.
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Jonathan Blanchard
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Jonathan Blanchard was an American pastor, educator, social reformer, and abolitionist. Born in Vermont, Blanchard attended Middlebury College before accepting a teaching position in New York. In 1834, he left to study at Andover Theological Seminary, but departed in 1836 after the college rejected agents from the American Anti-Slavery Society. Blanchard joined the group as one of Theodore Dwight Weld's "seventy" and preached in favor of abolition in southern Pennsylvania.
