13 Notable alumni of
Ottawa University - Ottawa
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Ottawa University - Ottawa is 2569th in the world, 885th in North America, and 836th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Ottawa University - Ottawa sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Trent Franks
- Occupations
- politicianbusiness executive
- Biography
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Harold Trent Franks is an American businessman and former politician who served as the U.S. representative for Arizona's 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2017 (numbered as the 2nd district from 2003 to 2013). He is a member of the Republican Party. During his tenure, Franks served as vice chairman of the United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and chairman of the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
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Derrick Ward
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Derrick Laron Ward is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the New York Jets in the seventh round of the 2004 NFL draft and played for the New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Houston Texans. He played college football for Fresno State Bulldogs and Ottawa Braves.
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Oksana Syroyid
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Oksana Ivanivna Syroyid is a Ukrainian politician and jurist. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections. In December 2014, she became the first woman to serve as the deputy speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament. Since October 2019 Syroyid is the party leader of Self Reliance.
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Ezzedine Choukri Fishere
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- novelistacademicwriter
- Biography
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Ezzedine Choukri Fishere is an Egyptian novelist, diplomat and academic.
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Dorothy C. Stratton
- Enrolled in Ottawa University - Ottawa
- Studied in 1920
- Occupations
- deanuniversity teachermilitary officerpsychologistsecondary school teacher
- Biography
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Dorothy Constance Stratton is best known as the first director of the SPARS, the U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve.
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Michèle Lamont
- Occupations
- researcheracademicsociologist
- Biography
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Michèle Lamont is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her research addresses culture and inequality; racism and anti-racism; cultural processes such as stigmatization and recognition; the sociology of morality; evaluation and higher education; and cultural and social change. She is the recipient of the C. Wright Mills Prize from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Gutenberg Research Award (2014), the Erasmus Prize (2017), and the Kohli Prize for Sociology (2024). She has received six honorary doctorates and is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy and the Royal Society of Canada. She was also appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes académiques. She served as president of the American Sociological Association from 2016 to 2017.
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Reema Harrysingh-Carmona
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Reema Harrysingh-Carmona is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian economist who served as the First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago from 2013 until 2018. She is the wife of the fifth President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Anthony Carmona.
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Daniel D. Crabtree
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Daniel Dale Crabtree is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
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Wayne Angell
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
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Wayne D. Angell was an American economist, politician and academic who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1986 to 1994.
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Abdul Alkalimat
- Biography
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Abdul Alkalimat is an American professor of African-American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is the author of several books, including Introduction to Afro-American Studies (1984), The African American Experience in Cyberspace (2004), Malcolm X for Beginners (1990), and The History of Black Studies (2021). He curates two websites related to African-American history, "Malcolm X: A Research Site" and "eBlack Studies".
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Merritt C. Mechem
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Merritt Cramer Mechem was an American politician who served as territorial Supreme Court justice and fifth governor of New Mexico.
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Lori Peek
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- university teacherresearchersociologist
- Biography
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Lori Peek is an America] sociologist, academic, and author. She is a professor in the Department of Sociology as well as the director of the Natural Hazards Center in the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Furthermore, she is a presidentially-appointed member of the board of directors at the National Institute of Building Sciences.
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J. Nort Atkinson
- Occupations
- head coachAmerican football coachpolitician
- Biography
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James Northrup Atkinson was an American college football coach and politician. He served as the head football coach at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas from 1901 to 1902, and compiled a record of 12–5–2.
