10 Notable alumni of
North Central College
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North Central College is 2852nd in the world, 978th in North America, and 925th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 10 notable alumni from North Central 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 Henry Breasted
- Occupations
- pharmacisthistorianarchaeologistegyptologistanthropologist
- Biography
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James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894 – the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology – he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to full professor, and held the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States.
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Sherrill Milnes
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Sherrill Milnes is an American dramatic baritone most famous for his Verdi roles. From 1965 until 1997 he was associated with the Metropolitan Opera. His voice is a high dramatic baritone, combining good legato with an incisive rhythmic style.
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John Warne Gates
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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John Warne Gates, also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist and gambler. He was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire. He was born and raised in what is now West Chicago, Illinois. He did not enjoy farm life and began offering neighbors various business propositions at an early age, including the sale of firewood to homes and to the local railroad. When he started a local grain brokerage that failed, Gates began spending time at the local railroad station and became reacquainted with the men he previously sold firewood to. He was invited to join their poker games and through this, Gates' aptitude for cards and other games of chance was developed.
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P. J. Hyett
- Occupations
- businesspersonprogrammer
- Biography
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Phillip Jeffrey Hyett is an American software developer, technology entrepreneur, and a co-founder of GitHub, an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git, which he created with Tom Preston-Werner and Chris Wanstrath in 2008.
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Wayne Randazzo
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Wayne Randazzo is an American sportscaster. He is the television play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball.
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John Giannini
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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John Manfredo Giannini is an American college basketball coach, Director of Athletics at Rowan University, and college basketball analyst for NBC Sports and other networks. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Rowan University from 1989 to 1996, the University of Maine from 1996 to 2004, and La Salle University from 2004 to 2018. Giannini led Rowan to an NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament championship in 1996 and led La Salle to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in 2013. Giannini amassed more than 500 victories in his collegiate coaching career.
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Frederick Louis Maytag I
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Frederick Louis Maytag I also known as F. L. Maytag, founded the Maytag Company, which eventually became the Maytag Corporation and in turn was acquired by the Whirlpool Corporation in 2006.
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Marc Chandler
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Marc Chandler is a foreign exchange market analyst, writer, speaker, and professor. On August 19, 2009, Bloomberg L.P. published Chandler's first book, Making Sense of the Dollar.
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Mildred Rebstock
- Occupations
- pharmacologistchemist
- Biography
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Mildred Catherine Rebstock was an American pharmaceutical chemist. She and her team were the first to fully synthesize chloromycetin, also known as chloramphenicol. This was the first instance of an antibiotic being fully synthesized. The World Health Organization classifies it as critically important for human medicine.
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Harris W. Fawell
- Enrolled in North Central College
- Studied in 1947-1949
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Harris Walter Fawell was an American lawyer and politician from Illinois who served seven terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1999.
