18 Notable alumni of
Moravian College
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Moravian College is 2631st in the world, 923rd in North America, and 873rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Moravian 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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Florence Foster Jenkins
- Occupations
- socialitepianistsongwriteropera singermusician
- Biography
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Florence Foster Jenkins was an American socialite and amateur soprano who became known, and mocked, for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Stephen Pile ranked her "the world's worst opera singer... No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation."
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John Andretti
- Occupations
- racing automobile driver
- Biography
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John Andrew Andretti was an American race car driver. He won individual races in CART, IMSA GTP, Rolex Sports Car Series, and NASCAR during his career. A member of the Andretti racing family, he was the son of Aldo Andretti, older brother of racer Adam Andretti, nephew of Mario Andretti, and the cousin to CART drivers Michael and Jeff Andretti. He is also the first cousin once-removed of racer Marco Andretti.
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John Sterling
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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John Sterling is an American sportscaster, best known as the radio play-by-play announcer of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. Sterling called 5,060 consecutive Yankees games, beginning in 1989, before taking a four-game break in July 2019.
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John Gorka
- Occupations
- recording artistsinger-songwritersingerguitarist
- Biography
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John Gorka is an American singer-songwriter. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine called him "the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement."
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David Zinczenko
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- entrepreneurediting staffnutritionistdietitianjournalist
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David Zinczenko is an American publisher, author and businessman. Previously, he was the executive vice president and general manager of Men's Health, Women's Health, Prevention and Rodale Books, the editorial director of Men's Fitness and the nutrition and wellness editor at ABC News.
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Andrew A. Humphreys
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- military officer
- Biography
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Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, and a Union General in the American Civil War. He served in senior positions in the Army of the Potomac, including division command, chief of staff, and corps command, and was Chief Engineer of the U.S. Army.
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Richard Shindell
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersongwritermusicianguitarist
- Biography
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Richard Shindell is an American folk singer, songwriter, producer, and musician. Shindell grew up in Port Washington, New York, and now lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his wife, Lila Caimari, a university professor, and their children.
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George Hrab
- Occupations
- podcastercomposermusicianguitarist
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George Joseph Hrab is a drummer, guitarist, composer and podcaster known for performing rock, funk and jazz and for exploring atheist, skeptic and science themes in his work. He has released six albums as a solo artist.
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Fred B. Rooney
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- politician
- Biography
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Frederick Bernard Rooney Jr. was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district from 1963 to 1979.
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John Baillie McIntosh
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- military officer
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John Baillie McIntosh was a Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. His brother, James M. McIntosh, served as a Confederate general until he was killed in the Battle of Pea Ridge.
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James M. Beck
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- politicianlawyer
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James Montgomery Beck was an American lawyer, politician, and author from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Solicitor General and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania.
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William Jacob Holland
- Occupations
- university teachernaturalistzoologistscientific illustratorlepidopterist
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Rev William Jacob Holland FRSE LLD was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished lepidopterist, zoologist, and paleontologist, as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister.
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John B. Callahan
- Occupations
- politician
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John B. Callahan was the 10th Mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was the Democratic nominee in an unsuccessful 2010 bid for United States Representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district.
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Caroline Lockhart
- Years
- 1871-1962 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- novelistjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Caroline Cameron Lockhart was an American journalist, author, newspaper publisher, rodeo promoter and rancher. Along with Buffalo Bill and Senator Alan Kooi Simpson, she is one of Cody Wyoming's most famous citizens.
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William F. Badè
- Occupations
- religious studies scholaranthropologistwriterprofessorbiographer
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William Frederic Badè, perhaps best known as the literary executor and biographer of John Muir, was a versatile scholar of wide interests. As an archaeologist, he led the excavation of Tell en-Nasbeh in Palestine, now believed on the basis of his work to be the biblical city of Mizpah in Benjamin. He was also an ordained Moravian minister, a professor of ancient languages, a theologian and bible scholar, a mountaineer, a conservationist and a naturalist. Born and raised in Minnesota, he studied at Moravian College and its seminary as well as other universities. He served on the faculties of Moravian Theological Seminary and then the Pacific School of Religion. He also served as interim president and subsequently as dean of the Pacific School of Religion and was founding director of the school's Palestine Institute. He was president of the Sierra Club 1919–1922 and edited the Sierra Club Bulletin for 12 years.
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Kathryn Poland
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- 1919-2010 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- politician
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Kathryn E. "Kay" Poland Silides (October 12, 1919 – September 3, 2010) was an American businesswoman and politician.
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Emil Alexander de Schweinitz
- Occupations
- chemistwriter
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Emil Alexander de Schweinitz was an American bacteriologist.
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Zora Martin-Felton
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- Died in 2022
- Enrolled in Moravian College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- writerteacher
- Biography
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Zora Martin-Felton was an American museum director and curator. She established the education department at the Anacostia Community Museum, which is a museum in the Smithsonian Institution and worked as Director of Education from 1967 to 1995.
