100 Notable alumni of
Northeastern University
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Northeastern University is 417th in the world, 167th in North America, and 155th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Northeastern University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Wendy Williams
- Enrolled in Northeastern University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- actorradio personalitytelevision presenterwriterautobiographer
- Biography
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Wendy Williams Hunter is an American former broadcaster, media personality, and writer. From 2008 to 2021, she hosted the nationally syndicated television talk show The Wendy Williams Show.
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Patrice O'Neal
- Occupations
- film actoractorradio personalitytelevision presentertelevision actor
- Biography
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Patrice Malcolm O'Neal was an American comedian and actor. He was known for his stand-up comedy career and his regular guest appearances on the talk show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and the radio show Opie and Anthony.
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Biz Stone
- Occupations
- creative directorbloggercomputer scientistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone is an American entrepreneur who is a co-founder of Twitter, among other technology companies. Stone was the creative director at Xanga from 1999 to 2001. Stone co-founded Jelly, with Ben Finkel. Jelly was launched in 2014 and was a search engine driven by visual imagery and discovery. Stone was Jelly's CEO until its acquisition by Pinterest in 2017.
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Gina Haspel
- Occupations
- intelligence officerparalegal
- Biography
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Gina Cheri Walker Haspel is an American intelligence officer who was the seventh director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from May 21, 2018, to January 20, 2021. She was the agency's deputy director from 2017 to 2018 under Mike Pompeo, and became acting director on April 26, 2018, after Pompeo became U.S. secretary of state. She was later nominated and confirmed to the role, making her the first woman to become CIA director on a permanent basis.
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Jane Curtin
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actoractorcomedian
- Biography
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Jane Therese Curtin is an American actress and comedian.
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Lyndon LaRouche
- Occupations
- economistpolitical activistpoliticianpeace activistPresidente da república de Moçambique
- Biography
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Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). He was a prominent conspiracy theorist and perennial presidential candidate. He began in far-left politics in the 1940s and later supported the civil rights movement; however, in the 1970s, he moved to the far-right. His movement is sometimes described as, or likened to, a cult. Convicted of fraud, he served five years in prison from 1989 to 1994.
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J. J. Barea
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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José Juan Barea Mora is a Puerto Rican former professional basketball player and current head coach for the Mets de Guaynabo of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He played college basketball for Northeastern University before joining the Dallas Mavericks in 2006 and becoming only the seventh Puerto Rican to play in the NBA. He went on to win an NBA championship with the Mavericks in 2011 before signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves, where he played for the next three seasons before returning to Dallas. He has also played in the NBA Development League and the Baloncesto Superior Nacional.
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Shawn Fanning
- Occupations
- computer scientistprogrammer
- Biography
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Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine.
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Carlos Peña
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Carlos Felipe Peña is a Dominican former professional baseball first baseman and current broadcaster. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Rays, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, and Kansas City Royals.
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D. J. Cotrona
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Donald Joseph Cotrona is an American actor, known for his role in the film G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) and as Seth Gecko in the El Rey Network horror television series From Dusk till Dawn. He was cast as Pedro Peña in the DC Extended Universe film Shazam! and returned for the role in the 2023 sequel.
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Beverly Johnson
- Occupations
- film produceractorfilm actormodeltelevision actor
- Biography
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Beverly Ann Johnson is an American model, actress, singer, and businesswoman. Johnson rose to fame when she became the first Black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in August 1974, after Donyale Luna was the first Black model to appear on the cover of British Vogue in 1966. In 2012, Johnson was the star of the reality series Beverly's Full House that aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). In 2008, The New York Times named Johnson one of the 20th century's most influential people in fashion.
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Scott Brown
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision actormodellawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Scott Philip Brown is an American diplomat, attorney, and politician who served as the United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. He is a former United States senator from Massachusetts (2010–2013), and also was the 2014 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. Before his Senate tenure, Brown served as a member of the Massachusetts General Court, first in the State House of Representatives (1998–2004) and then in the State Senate (2004–2010).
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Nikesh Arora
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Nikesh Arora is an Indian-American business executive. He has been the chairman and chief executive officer of the American cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks since June 2018. Arora was formerly a senior executive at Google and president of SoftBank Group from October 2014 to June 2016. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his net worth was estimated at $1.5 billion in early 2024.
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Gregory Jarvis
- Occupations
- astronautmilitary officerengineer
- Biography
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Gregory Bruce Jarvis was an American engineer and astronaut who died during the January 28, 1986 destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as payload specialist for Hughes Aircraft.
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Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, also known under her stage name Theodora Greece, is a British actress and member of the Greek and Danish royal families. She is the fourth child and younger daughter of deposed King Constantine II of Greece and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece. Theodora made her television debut in 2011 as Alison Montgomery in the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. She has also acted in films, including minor roles in the 2009 romantic comedy The Lightkeepers and in the 2015 war-drama Little Boy.
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Terry Carter
- Enrolled in Northeastern University
- In 1983 graduated with Bachelor of Science in marketing
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actortelevision directoractor
- Biography
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John Everett DeCoste, known professionally as Terry Carter, was a pioneering black American actor and filmmaker, known for his roles as Sgt. Joe Broadhurst on the television series McCloud and as Colonel Tigh on the original Battlestar Galactica.
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Jamie Oleksiak
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Jamieson Oleksiak is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed the "Big Rig", Oleksiak was selected 14th overall in the first round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the Dallas Stars, the highest draft choice in Northeastern University's history.
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Adam Ottavino
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Adam Robert Ottavino is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Colorado Rockies, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and New York Mets. Listed at 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) and 246 pounds (112 kg), he throws right-handed and is a switch hitter.
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Frank Silvera
- Occupations
- stage actoractortelevision actorfilm actortheatrical director
- Biography
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Frank Alvin Silvera was a Jamaican-born American character actor and theatrical director.
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RL Grime
- Occupations
- composerrecord producerdisc jockey
- Biography
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Henry Alfred Steinway, better known by his stage name RL Grime, (previously known as Clockwork) is an American record producer and DJ. RL Grime specializes in trap and bass music and is a member of the Los Angeles electronic music collective WeDidIt. His debut Grapes EP was released in April 2012 on WeDidIt. RL Grime premiered a popular Halloween mix in October 2012, which have continued to be released annually through 2023. His follow-up EP High Beams was released in July 2013 on Fool's Gold Records, which debuted at No. 8 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart, and No. 1 on the iTunes Electronic Chart. RL Grime has produced remixes for Benny Benassi, Chief Keef, Jamie Lidell, and Shlohmo. His second studio album, Nova, was released in 2018. In February 2019, RL Grime announced the founding of his record label Sable Valley.
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Don Orsillo
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Don Orsillo is an American sportscaster who is the play-by-play announcer for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is also an announcer for MLB on TBS and MLB on Fox. Orsillo was the play-by-play announcer for the Boston Red Sox on NESN from 2001 to 2015; he was hired by the Padres to replace Dick Enberg upon his retirement at the end of the 2016 season.
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Sohrab Ahmari
- Occupations
- newspaper editorjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Sohrab Ahmari is an Iranian-American columnist, editor, and author of nonfiction books. He is a founding editor of the online magazine Compact. He is a contributing editor of The Catholic Herald, and a columnist for First Things. Previously, he served as the op-ed editor of the New York Post, an editor with The Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London, and as a senior writer at Commentary.
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Karen M. McManus
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Karen M. McManus is an American author of young adult fiction. She is most known for her first novel, One of Us Is Lying, which spent more than five years on The New York Times Best Seller list, as well as its sequels One of Us Is Next and One of Us Is Back, and the stand-alone novel Two Can Keep a Secret.
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Hadassah Lieberman
- Occupations
- businesspersonlobbyist
- Biography
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Hadassah Lieberman is the widow of former United States Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.
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Kendall Coyne
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Kendall Coyne Schofield is an American professional ice hockey player and captain for the Minnesota Frost and the United States national team. With the national team, she has won six gold medals at the IIHF World Women's Championships and the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. In 2016, she was the winner of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. In January 2017, Coyne was recognized as the recipient of the NCAA Today's Top 10 Award.
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Marc Raibert
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Enrolled in Northeastern University
- 1968-1973 graduated with Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Marc Raibert is the Executive Director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, a Hyundai Motor Group organization. Raibert was the founder, former CEO, and now Chairman of Boston Dynamics, a robotics company known for creating BigDog, Atlas, Spot, and Handle.
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Barbara Kopple
- Occupations
- film directordocumentariandirectorfilm producer
- Biography
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Barbara Kopple is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She is credited with pioneering a renaissance of cinema vérité, and bringing the historic French style to a modern American audience. She has won two Academy Awards, for Harlan County, USA (1977), about a Kentucky miners' strike, and for American Dream (1991), the story of the 1985–86 Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota, making her the first woman to win two Oscars in the Best Documentary category.
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Ernie Anastos
- Occupations
- journalistactornews presenter
- Biography
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Ernie Anastos is a New York Emmy award winning television news anchor and talk show host on WABC (770 AM) with Positively Ernie focusing on uplifting stories and interviews. He is also a children’s author and host of his own nationally syndicated TV show, Positively America. He has anchored the evening news at four flagship network stations in New York: UPN 9 (now My9), ABC 7, CBS 2 and FOX 5. In 2017, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio honored Anastos by designating every March 21 to be Ernie Anastos Day.
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Ronaldo Mouchawar
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Ronaldo Mouchawar, is a Syrian entrepreneur. In 2005, he co-founded Souq.com, the largest e-commerce retailer in the Arab World, making the e-commerce retailer the region's first unicorn. When Amazon acquired Souq in 2017, Mouchewar became vice president of Amazon Middle East and North Africa. He is a veteran of Maktoob, the internet portal that was purchased by Yahoo in 2009.
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Adam Gaudette
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Adam Gaudette is an American professional ice hockey center for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Vancouver Canucks, Chicago Blackhawks, and St. Louis Blues. Gaudette played college ice hockey for the Northeastern Huskies of the NCAA, where he won the Hobey Baker Award, Hockey East Player of the Year, and was named to the AHCA East First-Team All-American. Selected by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2015 NHL entry draft, Gaudette made his NHL debut with the team in 2018.
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John Pastore
- Enrolled in Northeastern University
- In 1931 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Orlando Pastore was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1950 to 1976 and as the 61st governor of Rhode Island from 1945 to 1950. He was the first Italian American elected to the Senate.
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David Poile
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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David Poile is a Canadian-American retired ice hockey executive and former player. He was the president of hockey operations and general manager for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1997 to 2023. He is the son of the former NHL player, coach and executive Bud Poile. Poile was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2024 as a builder.
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Shawn James
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Shawn James is a Guyanese-American former professional basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), he played at the power forward and center positions. In 2010–11, he was the top rebounder in the Israel Basketball Premier League. In 2013 he was the Israeli Basketball Premier League Defensive Player of the Year, and named to the All-EuroLeague Second Team.
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Josh Manson
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Joshua David Manson is a Canadian/American professional ice hockey defenceman for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Manson was selected by the Anaheim Ducks in the sixth round, 160th overall, of the 2011 NHL entry draft. He is the son of former longtime NHL defenceman Dave Manson. Manson won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2022.
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James Franklin Jeffrey
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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James Franklin Jeffrey is an American diplomat who served most recently as the United States Special Representative for Syria Engagement and the Special Envoy to the International military intervention against ISIL.
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Abul Kalam Abdul Momen
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Abul Kalam Abdul Momen, known as AK Abdul Momen, is a Bangladeshi economist, diplomat, and politician who served as minister of foreign affairs from January 2019 to January 2024. He served as permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations from August 2009 until October 2015. He was elected a member of Jatiya Sangsad from the Sylhet-1 constituency at the 2018 general elections. Following his election, he was appointed the minister of foreign affairs by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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Matt Janning
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Matthew Lawrence Janning is a former American-born naturalized Georgian professional basketball player and assistant coach. He is a 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall shooting guard that played college basketball for Northeastern University.
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Cayden Primeau
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Cayden Primeau is an American professional ice hockey goaltender for the Laval Rocket of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the seventh round, 199th overall, by the Canadiens in the 2017 NHL entry draft.
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Zach Aston-Reese
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Zachary Aston-Reese is an American professional ice hockey forward for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Anaheim Ducks and Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Mary Doria Russell
- Occupations
- paleoanthropologistscience fiction writerwriteranthropologistnovelist
- Biography
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Mary Doria Russell is an American novelist.
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Bill Aucoin
- Occupations
- talent agentmanagertalent manager
- Biography
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William Martin Aucoin was an American band manager, well known for his work with the rock band Kiss and Billy Idol.
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Viktor Prokopenya
- Enrolled in Northeastern University
- Studied in 2016
- Occupations
- businesspersoninvestor
- Biography
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Viktor Prokopenya is a British technology entrepreneur and investor. He started in 2001 as a technology entrepreneur, and since 2011 has been investing in fintech companies, including Capital.com. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Leeds since 2023.
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Joe Vitale
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Joseph Dominic Vitale is an American former professional ice hockey player and the current radio color analyst for the St. Louis Blues. Vitale was drafted 195th overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins, with whom he made his NHL debut. He also played with the Arizona Coyotes.
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Ahsha Safaí
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ahsha Safaí is an Iranian-American elected official in San Francisco, California. He served as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 11 from 2017 to 2025.
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Aaron Civale
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Aaron James Civale is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Cleveland Indians / Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays. Civale played college baseball at Northeastern University, and was selected by the Cleveland Indians in the third round of the 2016 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2019 with the Indians.
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Reema Juffali
- Occupations
- racing driver
- Biography
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Reema Juffali, also spelt either as Reema Al Juffali or Reema Al-Juffali, is a Saudi Arabian amateur race car driver who competes in the International GT Open with her own team, Theeba Motorsport. She is the first-ever Saudi Arabian woman racing driver, the first Saudi woman to hold a racing license and also the first Saudi woman to win an international motor race. In November 2019, she became the country's first woman racing car driver to take part in an international racing competition in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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David Ferriero
- Occupations
- archivistlibrarian
- Biography
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David Sean Ferriero is an American librarian and library administrator, who served as the tenth Archivist of the United States. He previously served as the director of the New York Public Library and as the University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs at Duke University. Prior to his Duke position, he worked for 31 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology library. Ferriero was the first librarian to serve as Archivist of the United States.
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Jeff Clarke
- Occupations
- chief financial officercelebrityentrepreneurchief executive officer
- Biography
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Jeffrey J. Clarke is the current Executive Chairman at Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD LLC).
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Robert J. Healey
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert J. Healey Jr. was an American attorney, businessman, and political activist. He was the founder of Rhode Island's Cool Moose Party, the state's third-largest political party from 1994 until 2002, and was a perennial candidate for statewide office. Healey ran for governor or lieutenant governor a total of seven times. Running as an independent candidate in 2010, he won 39% of the vote for lieutenant governor, running on a platform of abolishing the office. As the Moderate Party nominee for governor in 2014, Healey won 22% of the vote while spending less than $40 on the campaign.
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Leila Fadel
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Leila Fadel is a Lebanese American journalist and the cohost of National Public Radio's Morning Edition, a role she assumed in 2022. She was previously the network's Cairo bureau chief. Fadel has chiefly worked in the Middle East, and received a George Polk Award for her coverage of the Iraq War. She is also known for her coverage of the Arab Spring.
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Florence Schelling
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Florence Isabelle Schelling is a Swiss former professional ice hockey goaltender. She briefly served as general manager of SC Bern from 2020 to 2021. She was the first woman to be named GM of a professional men's team in the world.
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Jewelle Gomez
- Occupations
- poetliterary criticwriteruniversity teachernovelist
- Biography
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Jewelle Lydia Gomez is an American author, poet, critic and playwright. She lived in New York City for 22 years, working in public television, theater, as well as philanthropy, before relocating to the West Coast. Her writing—fiction, poetry, essays and cultural criticism—has appeared in a wide variety of outlets, both feminist and mainstream. Her work centers on women's experiences, particularly those of LGBTQ women of color. She has been interviewed for several documentaries focused on LGBT rights and culture.
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Anthony Bitetto
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Anthony Bitetto is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He most notably played in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Julie Schwartz Gottman
- Occupations
- psychologistclinical psychologistpsychotherapistopinion journalist
- Biography
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Julie Schwartz Gottman is an American clinical psychologist, researcher, speaker and author. Together with her husband and collaborator, John Gottman, she is the co-founder of The Gottman Institute – an organization dedicated to strengthening relationships through research-based products and programs. She is the co-creator of the Sound Relationship House Theory, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and The Art and Science of Love weekend workshop for couples, among other programs.
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Floyd H. Flake
- Enrolled in Northeastern University
- Studied in 1974-1976
- Occupations
- politicianpastor
- Biography
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Floyd Harold Flake is an American businessman, minister, and former politician who was the senior pastor of the 23,000-member Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and the 18th president of Wilberforce University. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1987 to 1997.
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Robert DeLeo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Alfred DeLeo is an American former politician from the state of Massachusetts. He served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2009 to 2020, having succeeded Salvatore DiMasi, who resigned due to allegations of an ethics violation.
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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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Dylan Sikura
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Dylan Sikura is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who is currently under contract with Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the sixth round, 178th overall, in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. Before turning professional, Sikura played college ice hockey with Northeastern University, where he was named to the AHCA East First-Team All-American and the Hockey East First All-Star team.
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Bianca Buitendag
- Occupations
- surfer
- Biography
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Bianca Buitendag is a South African professional surfer. She has represented South Africa at the 2020 Summer Olympics where she won silver in the women's shortboard competition.
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Alina Müller
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Alina Müller is a Swiss ice hockey forward for the Boston Fleet of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and a member of the Switzerland women's national ice hockey team. She played college ice hockey at Northeastern. At the age of 15, she became the youngest ice hockey player ever to win an Olympic medal, scoring the game-winning goal for Switzerland in the bronze medal game at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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Jason Vosler
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jason Glenn Vosler is an American professional baseball third baseman and first baseman for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds, and Seattle Mariners. Vosler played college baseball at Northeastern University, and was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 16th round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft.
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Steven Langton
- Occupations
- bobsledder
- Biography
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Steven Daniel Langton is an American bobsledder. He won silver medals in both the two-man and four-man events at the 2014 Winter Olympics, and gold in both the two-man and four-man events at the 2012 FIBT World Championships.
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Mohamed Al Khaja
- Enrolled in Northeastern University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in political science
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Mohamed Al Khaja is the first and current United Arab Emirates ambassador to Israel. He took office on 14 February 2021, being the first ambassador to Israel in the country's history. Previously, he was the chief of staff to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, where he was appointed in 2010.
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Yale Patt
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Yale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery, and in 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
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Martín Espada
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Martín Espada is a Puerto Rican-American poet, and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems.
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Bracha Deutsch
- Occupations
- marathon runner
- Biography
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Bracha “Beatie” Deutsch is an American-Israeli marathon runner. She has won the Tiberias Marathon and the Jerusalem Marathon, as well as the Israeli half-marathon and marathon national championships. In 2024, a documentary of her life called Marathon Mom was released.
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Bob Davis
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Robert J. Davis (born 1956) is a managing partner of Highland Capital Partners. He is the former chief executive officer of Lycos, which he led since its inception and through its acquisition by Terra at the peak of the dot-com bubble.
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Raj Saini
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- pharmacistpolitician
- Biography
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Rajinder "Raj" Saini is an Indian-Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Kitchener Centre in the House of Commons of Canada from 2015 to 2021.
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Vicky Sunohara
- Occupations
- ice hockey playerice hockey coach
- Biography
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Vicky Sunohara is a Canadian ice hockey coach, former ice hockey player, and three-time Olympic medallist. She has been described as "the Wayne Gretzky of women's hockey" and is recognized as a trailblazer and pioneer for the sport. In 2020, Sunohara was named to "TSN Hockey’s All-Time Women’s Team Canada," in recognition of her status as one of Canada’s best female hockey players of all time. She was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2025.
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Tyson Walker
- Years
- 2000-.. (age 25)
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Tyson Walker is an American professional basketball player for the Texas Legends of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans.
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Mathiang Muo
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Mathiang Mauot Muo is an Australian-South Sudanese professional basketball player for the South West Slammers of the NBL1 West. He played four seasons of college basketball in the United States between 2009 and 2013 before joining the Perth Wildcats of the National Basketball League (NBL). He was a member of the Wildcats' 2014 championship-winning team but managed just 15 games over two seasons due to injury. Since parting ways with the Wildcats, Muo has had a successful state league career, playing in the SBL, SEABL, NBL1 and Queensland State League (QSL). He won an SBL championship with the East Perth Eagles in 2014 and a SEABL championship with the Hobart Chargers in 2018.
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Paul Andrew Dever
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary officerlawyer
- Biography
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Paul Andrew Dever was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the 58th Governor of Massachusetts and was its youngest-ever Attorney General. Among his notable accomplishments was the construction of Boston’s circumferential highway Route 128, then called "Dever’s Folley," which was later expanded to Interstate 95, one of the most used national highways.
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Eric Jenkins
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Eric Jenkins is a retired long-distance runner. In college, he ran for Northeastern University, before transferring to the University of Oregon after his junior year. At the University of Oregon, Jenkins was a two-time NCAA Champion, with victories in the 3000 metres and 5000 metres at the 2015 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships. He began competing professionally for Nike in 2015 as part of the Nike Oregon Project. Jenkins retired from competition in 2023.
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Marie Jean Philip
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Marie Jean Philip was a leader in both the American and international Deaf community. She advocated for the right to a natural sign language for Deaf people. Marie was one of the original researchers studying ASL and Deaf Culture. She was active in establishing American Sign Language (ASL) as a recognized language in the colleges of Massachusetts in the early 1980s. Later, Marie was the Bilingual-Bicultural Coordinator at The Learning Center for the Deaf in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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Thomas Finneran
- Occupations
- politicianradio personalitylawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Michael "Tom" Finneran, is a radio talk host and former Massachusetts Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from April 1996 to September 2004. He represented the district that included parts of the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester, Mattapan and Hyde Park as well as parts of the town of Milton for 26 years.
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Eugene Richards
- Enrolled in Northeastern University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in English studies
- Occupations
- photographerphotojournalistdocumentarianjournalist
- Biography
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Eugene Richards is an American documentary photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. He has published many books of photography and has been a member of Magnum Photos and of VII Photo Agency. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
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David Cooper
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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David Fletcher Cooper is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2011 and 2012. He is 6 feet tall and weighs 200 pounds.
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Brad Thiessen
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Brad Thiessen is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played briefly in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Charles Nemeroff
- Occupations
- psychiatristresearcher
- Biography
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Charles Barnet Nemeroff is an American psychiatrist known for his works about depression. He is the author of numerous textbooks, papers, and clinical studies.
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George D. Behrakis
- Occupations
- researcherpharmacistphilanthropistentrepreneur
- Biography
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George D. Behrakis is a Greek-American businessman, pharmaceutical entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is best known for his donations to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, and to Northeastern University's College of Health Sciences.
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Richard I. Neal
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Richard Irving "Butch" Neal was a United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps (ACMC) from 1996 to 1998.
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Stephan Ross
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Stephan Ross, also known as Steve Ross, was a Polish-American holocaust survivor who spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial.
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Petra Conti
- Occupations
- ballet dancer
- Biography
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Petra Conti is an Italian prima ballerina. She is a former principal dancer with Los Angeles Ballet, the Boston Ballet and La Scala Theatre Ballet. She is now the artistic director of her own ballet company, Hollywood Ballet.
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Rudra Pandey
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Rudra Pandey is a Nepali entrepreneur, currently serving as Founder & Executive Chairman of Deerhold Ltd, an American company providing Software Development and Information Technology services globally. He is also the Chairman of Deerwalk Institute of Technology and the Chairman of Hamro Patro. In 2017, he received the prestigious FNCCI Gold Award (Trendsetters) in the sector of Information Technology.
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Albert Sacco
- Occupations
- astronautprofessor
- Biography
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Albert Sacco Jr. is an American chemical engineer who flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on Shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995. He currently serves as the Provost and Dean of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
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Laura Schuler
- Occupations
- ice hockey playerice hockey coach
- Biography
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Laura Lynne Schuler is a Canadian ice hockey coach for Minnesota Duluth of the WCHA and former player who was a member of the 1998 Canadian women's Olympic hockey team.
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David Walker
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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David Michael Walker is an American professional basketball player who last played for Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski of the Polish Basketball League.
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Thomas E. Sniegoski
- Occupations
- comics writernovelist
- Biography
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Thomas E. Sniegoski is an American novelist, comic book writer and pop culture journalist.
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Donald Arthur
- Enrolled in Northeastern University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in biology
- Occupations
- physicianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Donald Caldwell Arthur Jr. is a former United States Navy medical corps vice admiral (VADM). He entered the Navy in 1974, qualified as both a naval flight surgeon and a Submarine Medical Officer, and eventually served as the 35th Surgeon General of the United States Navy from 2004 to 2007.
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Quincy Ford
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Quincy G. Ford is an American professional basketball player who plays for Czarni Słupsk of the Polish Basketball League (PLK). He played college basketball for Northeastern University.
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Dan McGillis
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Daniel Stewart McGillis is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played nine seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks, Boston Bruins, and New Jersey Devils. He spent the final three seasons of his career playing for Adler Mannheim of the German Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
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Neil O'Leary
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Neil Michael O'Leary is an American politician and retired police chief who served as the 46th mayor of the City of Waterbury, Connecticut until 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Osasu Igbinedion
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Osasu Igbinedion Ogwuche is a Nigerian-British media entrepreneur, philanthropist, and business executive. She is the Chief Executive Officer of TOS TV Network, a platform focused on pan-African storytelling, and the co-founder of NatSu Global, a firm involved in real estate and media investments.
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Lizhen Ji
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lizhen Ji, is a Chinese-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Patrick Duddy
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Patrick Dennis Duddy is an American diplomat, formerly United States Ambassador to Venezuela.
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Tyler Madden
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Tyler Madden is an American professional ice hockey center currently playing with the Ontario Reign in the American Hockey League (AHL) as a prospect under contract with the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League (NHL). Madden was selected 68th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.
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Aerin Frankel
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Aerin Frankel is an American professional ice hockey goaltender for the Boston Fleet of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She was one of the best goaltenders in women's NCAA history. She won the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2021. She is a two-time recipient of the WHCA National Goalie of the Year award and was the inaugural winner in 2021. In 2023, Frankel won gold with the United States women's national ice hockey team at the 2023 IIHF Women's World Championship in Brampton, Ontario.
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Mark P. Fitzgerald
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Mark P. Fitzgerald is a retired United States Navy admiral. He is the former Commander, United States Naval Forces Europe – Commander, United States Naval Forces Africa and Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples. He previously served as Director, Navy Staff from December 2006 to November 2007 and Commander, United States Second Fleet from 2004 until December 2006. He assumed the duties of Commander, United States Naval Forces Europe and Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples on November 30, 2007 and assumed the additional duties as Commander, United States Naval Forces Africa on March 26, 2009.
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Russell Holmes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Russell Earl Holmes is an American politician who serves as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. First elected in November 2010, he represents the Sixth Suffolk District, which includes the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan and Roslindale.
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Paul Mark
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul W. Mark is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate. He represents the Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin and Hampshire District, which includes 57 cities and towns throughout Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, and Hampshire counties. Paul Mark previously served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
