100 Notable alumni of
Rutgers University - New Brunswick
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Rutgers University - New Brunswick is 86th in the world, 42nd in North America, and 40th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Rutgers University - New Brunswick sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with Rutgers University - New Brunswick won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Sebastian Stan
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Sebastian Stan is a Romanian-born American actor. He gained recognition for his role as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe media franchise, beginning with the film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and serving as a lead actor in the Disney+ miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and the film Thunderbolts* (2025).
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James Gandolfini
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- actortelevision actor
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James John Gandolfini was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Tony Soprano, the Italian-American Mafia crime boss in HBO's television series The Sopranos (1999–2007). For this role, he won three Emmy Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. His role as Tony Soprano has been described as the greatest and most influential performance in television history.
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Calista Flockhart
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Calista Kay Flockhart is an American actress best known as the title character on Ally McBeal (1997–2002), for which she won a Golden Globe Award in 1998 and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series three times. She is also known for portraying Kitty Walker on Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011), and Cat Grant on Supergirl (2015–2021). In film, she is known for her performances in The Birdcage (1996), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), and Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000). Flockhart has been married to actor Harrison Ford since 2010.
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Elizabeth Warren
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- economistjuristlawyerwriteruniversity teacher
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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American politician and former law professor who is the senior United States senator from the state of Massachusetts, serving since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party and regarded as a progressive, Warren has focused on consumer protection, equitable economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, ultimately finishing third after Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
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Paul Wesley
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- actortelevision actorbusinesspersonfilm actorfilm director
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Paweł Tomasz Wasilewski, better known by his stage name Paul Wesley, is an American actor and film director. He is known for starring as Stefan Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017) and James T. Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present).
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Milton Friedman
- Enrolled in Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- In 1932 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in mathematics
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- economiststatisticianessayistuniversity teacher
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Milton Friedman was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism before shifting their focus to new classical macroeconomics in the mid-1970s. Several students, young professors and academics who were recruited or mentored by Friedman at Chicago went on to become leading economists, including Nobel laureates Gary Becker (1992), Robert Fogel (1993), and Robert Lucas Jr. (1995).
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Kristin Davis
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- actortelevision actorfilm actorvoice actorstage actor
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Kristin Landen Davis is an American actress and producer. She is known for playing Charlotte York in the HBO romantic comedy series Sex and the City (1998–2004). She received nominations at the Emmys and the Golden Globes in 2004 for her role as Charlotte, and reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the revival of the show And Just Like That... (2021–2025) on HBO Max.
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Roy Scheider
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- film actormilitary officertelevision actoractorvoice actor
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Roy Richard Scheider was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, one Golden Globe, and one BAFTA.
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Richard Winters
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- army officer
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Richard Davis Winters was a United States Army officer who served as a paratrooper in "Easy Company" of the 506th Infantry Regiment within the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Winters was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his successful command of the assault on Brécourt Manor during the invasion of Normandy.
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Jane Krakowski
- Enrolled in Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- Graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
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- child actorfilm actorgame show hoststage actortelevision actor
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Jane Krakowski is an American actress and singer. She starred as Jenna Maroney in the NBC satirical comedy series 30 Rock (2006–13, 2020), for which she received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Krakowski's other television roles have included Elaine Vassal in the Fox legal comedy-drama series Ally McBeal (1997–2002) and Jacqueline White in the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020). For the latter, she received another Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nomination.
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Brandon Flynn
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Brandon Paul Flynn is an American actor known for his role as Justin Foley in the Netflix teen drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020). His work in film and television includes the series Manhunt (2024), Ratched (2020), and True Detective (2019), and the films The Parenting (2025) and Hellraiser (2022).
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Philip Roth
- Enrolled in Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- Studied in 1951-1952
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- novelistscience fiction writeruniversity teacherpoetessayist
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Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
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Mike Colter
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Mike Colter is an American actor best known for his role as Luke Cage in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Luke Cage (2016–2018), The Defenders (2017), and Jessica Jones (2015; 2019). He has also appeared as Lemond Bishop in the television series The Good Wife (2010–2015) and The Good Fight (2018–2019), Malcolm Ward in Ringer (2011–2012), Agent J's father in Men in Black 3 (2012), Jameson Locke in the Halo franchise (2014–2015), and David Acosta, a former journalist studying to be a Catholic priest in the CBS/Paramount+ series Evil (2019–2024).
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John DiMaggio
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- voice actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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John William DiMaggio is an American actor. His various voice roles include Bender in Futurama, Jake the Dog in Adventure Time, Marcus Fenix in the Gears of War series, Dr. Drakken in Kim Possible, Hak Foo in Jackie Chan Adventures, The Scotsman in Samurai Jack, Brother Blood in Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!, Shnitzel in Chowder, Rico in The Penguins of Madagascar, Fu Dog in American Dragon: Jake Long, Hammerhead and Sandman in The Spectacular Spider-Man, Aquaman in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, King Zøg on Disenchantment, Jocktopus in Fish Hooks, Niblet on Pound Puppies, Angus Ron Shackelton in Middlemost Post, Wakka and Kimahri in Final Fantasy X, Rath in the Ben 10 franchise, Crosshairs, Leadfoot, Nitro Zeus, Transit and Stratosphere in the Transformers film franchise, and Gonza in the English version of Princess Mononoke.
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Hasan Piker
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- political punditvloggercolumnisttelevision producerTwitch streamer
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Hasan Doğan Piker, also known by the online name HasanAbi, is an American online streamer, influencer, and left-wing political commentator. His streams typically consist of political and social commentary, and media consumption. As of 2026, Piker is the 30th most subscribed channel on the streaming platform Twitch. Piker has been described as one of the biggest voices on the U.S. left. Piker started streaming on Twitch in March 2018 while working at The Young Turks.
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Kurt Sutter
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- television directorshowrunneractortelevision actordirector
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Kurt Sutter is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He worked as a writer, director, and executive producer on The Shield, and appeared on the show as hitman Margos Dezerian. Sutter is also the creator of Sons of Anarchy and its spinoff Mayans M.C. on FX; he wrote, produced, and directed the series, as well as played incarcerated club member Otto Delaney. Sutter spent time with members of an outlaw motorcycle club in Northern California as research for Sons of Anarchy. Sutter's wife, actress Katey Sagal, played main character Gemma Teller.
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Scott Patterson
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- television actorfilm actoractorbaseball player
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Scott Patterson is an American actor. After making his film debut in Intent to Kill (1992), Patterson had his breakout with a main role as Luke Danes on the WB comedy-drama television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007). He reprised his role on the Netflix miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016).
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James Tupper
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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James Tupper is a Canadian actor known for his roles as Jack Slattery on the ABC television series Men in Trees, Dr. Chris Sands on the NBC medical drama series Mercy, and David Clarke on ABC's Revenge. He also starred in the post-apocalyptic thriller Aftermath, on Space in Canada and Syfy in the U.S., and in the HBO series Big Little Lies.
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Sheryl Lee Ralph
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- singertelevision actorfilm actorvoice actorstage actor
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Sheryl Lee Ralph OJ is an American actress and singer. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she earned acclaim for her role as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls (1981), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Since 2021, she has starred as Barbara Howard on the ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2022, becoming the first Black woman in 35 years to win the award.
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Bob Menendez
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- lawyerpolitician
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Robert Menendez is an American former politician and lawyer who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 2006 until his resignation in 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented New Jersey's 13th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2006. His political career ended after he was convicted in a political corruption case in 2024, making him the first sitting member of Congress convicted of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent.
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Carli Lloyd
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- association football player
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Carli Anne Hollins is an American former professional soccer player. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2008 and 2012), two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion (2015 and 2019), two-time FIFA Player of the Year (2015 and 2016), and a four-time Olympian (2008, 2012, 2016 and 2021). Lloyd scored the gold medal-winning goals in the finals of the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Lloyd also helped the United States win their titles at the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cups, the bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and she played for the team at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup where the U.S. finished in second place. After the 2020 Summer Olympics, Lloyd announced she would be retiring from the national team following four final friendly matches in 2021. Lloyd has made 316 appearances for the U.S. national team, placing her second in caps, and has the third-most goals and fifth-most assists for the team. In March 2021, she was named as the highest paid female soccer player in the world. She played her last international match with the USWNT on October 26, 2021, shortly before retiring from professional soccer at the completion of the 2021 NJ/NY Gotham FC season.
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Mario Batali
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- writerrestaurateurmedia personalitycook
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Mario Francesco Batali is an American chef, writer, and former restaurateur. Batali co-owned restaurants mainly in New York City along with Las Vegas; and Los Angeles including his flagship restaurant Babbo in New York City, which received a Michelin star for several years. Other notable Batali restaurants were Del Posto, Lupa, and The Spotted Pig where Batali was an investor. Batali has appeared on the Food Network, on shows such as Molto Mario and Iron Chef America, on which he was one of the featured "Iron Chefs". From 2011–2017 he was a host on ABC's The Chew. In 2017, the restaurant review site Eater revealed multiple accusations of sexual misconduct against Batali and, in March 2019, he sold all his restaurant holdings.
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Ramy Youssef
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- actortelevision actorscreenwritertelevision directorfilm director
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Ramy Youssef is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is known for his role as Ramy Hassan on the Hulu comedy series Ramy (2019–2022), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy and a Peabody Award in 2020. He was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
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David Stern
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- screenwriterjuristlawyerentrepreneur
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David Joel Stern was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. Stern oversaw NBA basketball's growth into one of the world's most popular sports during the 1990s and 2000s. He is credited with developing and broadening the NBA's audience, especially internationally by setting up training camps, playing exhibition games, and recruiting more international players. In addition, with Stern's guidance the NBA opened 12 offices in cities outside the United States, and broadcast to over 200 territories in over 40 languages. Stern also helped found the Women's National Basketball Association and the NBA G League, the NBA's development league. Under Stern, the NBA launched their digital presence with NBA.com, NBA TV, and NBA League Pass. He also established the NBA's social responsibility program, NBA Cares.
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Ray Rice
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- American football player
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Raynell Mourice Rice is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons with the Baltimore Ravens. He played college football for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, earning first-team All-American honors in 2007, and was selected by the Ravens in the second round of the 2008 NFL draft. During his career, Rice was named to three Pro Bowls and was a member of the team that won Super Bowl XLVII. He is second in franchise rushing yards, rushing attempts, and rushing touchdowns, and he is third in the franchise in combined touchdowns.
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Wade Williams
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- stage actortelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Wade Williams is an American actor. He is known for his various character roles, and for a major supporting role as correctional officer Brad Bellick on the Fox television series Prison Break and Father Cronin on The Bernie Mac Show (2001–2004). Williams also voiced Two-Face in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2012–2013).
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Avery Brooks
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- film directorpedagoguetelevision actorvoice actortheatrical director
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Avery Franklin Brooks is an American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award–nominated film American History X. Brooks has delivered a variety of other performances to a great deal of acclaim. He has been nominated for a Saturn Award and three NAACP Image Awards. Brooks has also been inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and bestowed with the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre by the Shakespeare Theatre Company.
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Jim Valvano
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- coachbasketball playerbasketball coach
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James Thomas Anthony Valvano, nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster. Valvano had a successful coaching career with multiple schools, culminating at NC State. While the head coach at NC State, his team won the 1983 NCAA Division I men's basketball title against improbable odds. Valvano is remembered for his ecstatic celebration after winning the national championship game against the heavily favored Houston Cougars.
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Keir Dullea
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Keir Atwood Dullea is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of astronaut David Bowman in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its 1984 sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
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James O'Keefe
- Enrolled in Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- 2002-2006 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in philosophy
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- writerfilmmakerjournalistpolitical activist
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James Edward O'Keefe III is an American political activist who founded Project Veritas, a far-right activist group that uses deceptively edited videos and information gathering techniques to attack mainstream media organizations and progressive groups. Both O'Keefe and Project Veritas have produced secretly recorded undercover audio and video encounters in academic, governmental, and social service organizations, purporting to show abusive or illegal behavior by representatives of those organizations; the recordings are often selectively edited to misrepresent the context of the conversations and the subjects' responses. O'Keefe served as chairman until he was fired from the organization in February 2023.
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Aaron Stanford
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- television actorfilm produceractorfilm actor
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Aaron Stanford is an American actor known for his roles as Pyro in the X-Men films X2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), and Doug in the remake of The Hills Have Eyes (2006). On television, he also starred as Birkhoff in Nikita (2010–2013) and as James Cole in 12 Monkeys (2015–2018), based on the 1995 film of the same name.
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Tim DeKay
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Timothy Robert DeKay is an American actor. He starred in the USA Network series White Collar (2009–2014).
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Kevin Chamberlin
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- screenwriterstage actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Seth Kevin Chamberlin is an American actor and singer. He is known for his theatre roles such as Dimas in Triumph of Love, Horton in Seussical, and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family. For his theatre work, he was nominated for three Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards. On television, he starred as Bertram Winkle in the Disney Channel Original Series sitcom Jessie from 2011 to 2015. From 2018 to 2019, he starred as The Wizard of Oz in Wicked on Broadway.
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Frank Iero
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- singerguitarist
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Frank Anthony Iero Jr. is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist of the rock band My Chemical Romance and as a guitarist in the supergroup L.S. Dunes. He was also the lead vocalist of the post-hardcore band Leathermouth. He has a solo project titled Frank Iero and the Future Violents (formerly frnkiero andthe cellaboration and Frank Iero and the Patience). He released his debut solo album titled Stomachaches on August 26, 2014.
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Natalie Morales
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- journalist
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Natalie Morales-Rhodes is an American journalist who recently was a co-host and moderator of the CBS Daytime talk show The Talk. Prior to that, Morales worked for NBC News for 22 years in various roles as the West Coast anchor of Today and appeared on Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News.
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Sekhar Kammula
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Sekhar Kammula is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer who works in Telugu cinema. He has garnered two Filmfare Awards South, and six state Nandi Awards for his directional works. Sekhar Kammula was among the director's delegation to represent South Indian Cinema at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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John McWhorter
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- creolistprofessorwriter
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John Hamilton McWhorter V is an American linguist. He is an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, where he also teaches American studies and music history. He has authored a number of books on race relations and African-American culture, and is a political commentator especially in his New York Times newsletter.
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Todd Frazier
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- baseball player
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Todd Brian Frazier, nicknamed "the Toddfather", is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, New York Mets, and Pittsburgh Pirates from 2011 to 2021. Frazier was an MLB All-Star in 2014 and 2015.
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Mohamed Sanu
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- American football player
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Mohamed Sanu Sr. is an American former professional football wide receiver who played ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the 2012 NFL draft. Sanu was also a member of the Atlanta Falcons, New England Patriots, Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, and the Miami Dolphins.
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David Bryan
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- songwriterkeyboardist
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David Bryan Rashbaum is an American musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the keyboardist and one of the founding members of the rock band Bon Jovi, in which he also co-wrote songs and performs backing vocals. In 2018, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi. He is also known for writing the music and co-writing the lyrics with Joe DiPietro for the musical Memphis, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Original Score.
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Stephen Belichick
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- American football coachcoach
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Stephen C. Belichick is an American football coach who is the defensive coordinator for the North Carolina Tar Heels. The son of Bill Belichick, he began his career as a defensive assistant under his father for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL) from 2012 to 2023. He rejoined his father with the Tar Heels in 2025.
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Jason McCourty
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- American football player
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Jason McCourty is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the 2009 NFL draft. McCourty also played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns, the New England Patriots (with which he won Super Bowl LIII), and ended his playing career with the Miami Dolphins. He primarily played cornerback throughout his first 11 NFL seasons, but moved to free safety while playing for the Miami Dolphins in 2021. His twin brother, Devin, also played in the NFL. In 2022, McCourty was hired by NFL Network to serve as an analyst on Good Morning Football, and by Westwood One to help call select Thursday Night Football radio broadcasts. In late 2023, he was providing color commentary for college football telecasts on CBS.
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Bernard Marcus
- Enrolled in Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- Studied pharmacy
- Occupations
- political donorphilanthropistentrepreneur
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Bernard Marcus was an American billionaire businessman. He co-founded Home Depot in 1978. He was the company's first CEO and first chairman until retiring in 2002. In November 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$10.3 billion. He was a major donor to the Republican Party, including Donald Trump's presidential campaigns.
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Junot Díaz
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- writerscience fiction writernovelistuniversity teacher
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Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.
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Ozzie Nelson
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- film directorbandleadertelevision actorsaxophonisttelevision producer
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Oswald George Nelson was an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and bandleader. He originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and television series with his wife Harriet and two sons David and Ricky Nelson.
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Bill Bellamy
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- actortelevision actor
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William Bellamy is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Bellamy first gained national notoriety on HBO's Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, where he is credited for creating or coining the phrase "booty call", described as a late night call to a potential paramour with the intention of meeting strictly for sex.
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Mizkif
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- Twitch streamerYouTuber
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Mizkif, also known as Matthew Rinaudo, is an American Twitch streamer and YouTuber. He is a founder of the gaming organization One True King. He was named Best Just Chatting Streamer at the 2021 Streamer Awards.
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Amiri Baraka
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- journalistmusic criticnovelistactivistessayist
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Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture.
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Janet Evanovich
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- writernovelist
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Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. The novels in this series have been on The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestseller lists. Evanovich has had her last seventeen Plums debut at #1 on the NY Times Best Sellers list and eleven of them have hit #1 on USA Today Best-Selling Books list. She has over two hundred million books in print worldwide, and her books have been translated into over 40 languages.
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Louis Joseph Freeh
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- lawyerjudge
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Louis Joseph Freeh is an American attorney and former judge who served as the fifth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from September 1993 to June 2001.
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Holly Black
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- writernovelistchildren's writerjournalist
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Holly Black is an American writer and editor best known for her children's and young adult fiction. Her most recent work is the New York Times bestselling young adult Folk of the Air series. She is also well known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and her debut trilogy of young adult novels officially called the Modern Faerie Tales. Black has won a Nebula Award and a Newbery Honor. The Spiderwick Chronicles was adapted into a 2008 film and into a 2023 television series, for which Black received a nomination for the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Young Teen Series.
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Tara Platt
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- voice actortelevision actorfilm directorfilm actor
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Tara Platt is an American actress and author who has provided voices for dozens of English-language versions of Japanese anime films, television series and video games. Her notable roles in anime include Temari in Naruto and Reina in Rave Master. She also voices Kali Belladonna in RWBY, Mitsuru Kirijo and Elizabeth in Persona 3, Edelgard von Hresvelg in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Miriel & Flavia in Fire Emblem: Awakening, Anna Williams from the Tekken series, as well as characters in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Saints Row: The Third, Bayonetta 2, Setsuka from Soulcalibur series, League of Legends, and Yuri Watanabe / Wraith in the Marvel's Spider-Man series by Insomniac Games.
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Sister Souljah
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- songwriterwriterautobiographerfilm producerrapper
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Lisa Williamson, known as Sister Souljah, is an American author, activist, rapper, and film producer.
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Jeff Van Drew
- Occupations
- politician
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Jefferson H. Van Drew is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 2nd congressional district since 2019. He was elected as a Democrat but joined the Republican Party in 2020.
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Chris Gethard
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- television actortalk show hosttelevision presenteractorimproviser
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Christopher Paul Gethard is an American actor, comedian and writer. He was the host of The Chris Gethard Show, a talk show based in New York City, which aired from 2011 to 2018. He hosts the podcasts Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People and New Jersey is the World.
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Dahntay Jones
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
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Dahntay Lavall Jones is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and Duke Blue Devils. Jones played in the NBA as a small forward and shooting guard from 2003 to 2017. He won an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016.
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Saul Zaentz
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- film producerrecord producer
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Saul Zaentz was an American film producer and record company executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times and, in 1996, was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
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Logan Ryan
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- American football player
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Logan Daniel Ryan is an American former professional football defensive back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons. He played college football for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights as a cornerback and was selected by the New England Patriots in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft. Ryan also played for the Tennessee Titans, New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and San Francisco 49ers. He played cornerback for the first seven seasons of his career before switching to safety in 2020 and playing the position in his last four seasons. Since retiring from playing, Ryan has worked as an NFL color analyst for CBS television broadcasts.
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Rebecca Quick
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- journalistblogger
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Rebecca Quick is an American television journalist/newscaster and co-anchorwoman of CNBC's financial news shows Squawk Box and On the Money.
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Judea Pearl
- Enrolled in Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- In 1965 graduated with Master of Science in physics
- Occupations
- artificial intelligence researcheruniversity teacherphilosopherengineerphysicist
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Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models (see article on causality). In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning". He is the author of several books, including the technical Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, and The Book of Why, a book on causality aimed at the general public.
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Kim Min-seok
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- politician
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Kim Min-seok is a South Korean politician, activist and educator who has served as the prime minister of South Korea since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), he has represented Yeongdeungpo District B in the National Assembly from 1996 to 2002 and since 2020.
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Dan Green
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- screenwritervoice actorstage actorcasting director
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James Hadley Snyder, known professionally as Dan Green, is an American voice actor, voice director and screenwriter. He is best known for being the voice of Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi/Pharaoh Atem for the English dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, the anime series version of Yu-Gi-Oh!, as well as all of the character's U.S. series appearances.
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Garret Hobart
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- lawyerpolitician
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Garret Augustus Hobart was the 24th vice president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his death in 1899, under President William McKinley. A member of the Republican Party, Hobart was an influential New Jersey businessman and political operative prior to his vice presidency.
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Ron Harper Jr
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- basketball player
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Ronald Harper Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Maine Celtics of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights of the Big Ten Conference. He is the son of former NBA player Ron Harper and his younger brother Dylan currently plays for the San Antonio Spurs.
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Esther Salas
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- lawyerjudge
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Esther Salas is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey sitting in Newark, New Jersey. She previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court from 2006 until her confirmation as a district judge in 2011. Salas is the first Hispanic woman to serve as a United States magistrate judge and as a United States District Judge in the District of New Jersey.
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Rana Kapoor
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- banker
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Rana Kapoor is an Indian former banker who was the founder, managing director and CEO of Yes Bank, an Indian private sector bank. Following a career in financial institutions, he co-founded Yes Bank in 2003, with its registered office in Mumbai. He served as CEO from its founding in 2003 to 2019. He also was appointed as the president of ASSOCHAM in July 2013, and was succeeded by Sunil Katoria after serving his two year term.
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Regina Belle
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- actorsingersinger-songwriter
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Regina Belle is an American singer-songwriter who started her career in the mid-1980s. Known for her singles "Baby Come to Me" (1989) and "Make It Like It Was" (1990), Belle is most notable for three hit duets, all with Peabo Bryson: "Without You", the love theme from the comedy film Leonard Part 6, recorded in 1987; "A Whole New World", the main theme of the Disney's animated feature film Aladdin recorded in 1992, with which Belle and Bryson won a Grammy Award; and "I Just Can't Imagine". The theme song "Far Longer than Forever" from the animated movie The Swan Princess, performed with Jeffrey Osborne, was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1995 for Best Original Song.
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Joyce Kilmer
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- writerpoetjournalistsoldier
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Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the "Fighting 69th") in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.
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Marc Ecko
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- fashion designerpainterbusinesspersongraffiti artist
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Marc Louis Ecko is an American fashion designer, entrepreneur, and artist. He is the founder and chief creative officer of fashion company Ecko Unlimited. He also founded Complex magazine in 2002.
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Karen Young
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- television actorstage actorfilm directorfilm actor
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Karen Young is an American film, television, and stage actress.
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DJ Akademiks
- Occupations
- Twitch streamerpodcasterYouTubermedia personality
- Biography
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Livingston George Allen, known professionally as DJ Akademiks (or simply Akademiks, or by his stage name Lil AK), is a Jamaican-American podcaster, YouTuber and live streamer who specializes in music industry journalism. After gaining fame on YouTube in the mid-2010s, he and rapper Joe Budden began co-hosting Everyday Struggle, a daily show by Complex Networks, in 2017. He also hosts Off the Record with DJ Akademiks on Spotify.
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Gabe Saporta
- Occupations
- composersinger
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Gabriel Eduardo Saporta is an American musician and entrepreneur. From 2005 until 2015, and again since 2024, he is the lead vocalist and founder of the electropop band Cobra Starship. On November 10, 2015, after nearly ten years and two Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits, Saporta announced that the band would stop its work, and that he would be focusing on helping other musicians through his new venture, The Artist Group. Prior to Cobra Starship, Saporta had been the lead singer, bassist, and lyricist for the punk band Midtown.
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Fabian Nicieza
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- editorcomics artistwriter
- Biography
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Fabian Nicieza is an Argentine-American comic book writer and editor who is best known for his work on Marvel titles such as X-Men, X-Force, New Warriors, Nomad, Cable, Gambit, Deadpool and Thunderbolts, for all of which he helped create numerous characters, among them Adam X, Deadpool, Domino, Feral, G. W. Bridge, Kwannon, Shatterstar, and Silhouette. He also created and wrote the WEBTOON series Outrage.
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Kenny Britt
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Kenneth Lawrence Britt is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and was selected by the Tennessee Titans with the 30th overall pick in the 2009 NFL draft. He has also played for the St. Louis / LA Rams, Cleveland Browns and New England Patriots.
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Dorian Leigh
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker, known professionally as Dorian Leigh, was an American model and one of the earliest modeling icons of the fashion industry. She is considered one of the first supermodels, and was well known in the United States and Europe.
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Birgit Cunningham
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Birgit Cunningham is a British-American events organiser, activist, and campaigner for the rights of single mothers.
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Geoff Rickly
- Occupations
- singerrecord producersongwriter
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Geoffrey William Rickly is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of rock band Thursday. He is also a member of hardcore punk band United Nations and the alternative rock group No Devotion with former members of Lostprophets, and is the founder of the label Collect Records. In 2023, his debut novel, Someone Who Isn't Me, was published by Rose Books.
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Adriano Espaillat
- Occupations
- politiciandirector
- Biography
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Adriano de Jesús Espaillat Rodríguez is a Dominican-American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for New York's 13th congressional district since 2017. He is the first Dominican American and first formerly undocumented immigrant to serve in Congress. He previously served in the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly.
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Mark Fields
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Mark Fields is an American businessman and former chief executive officer of Ford Motor Company. Prior to his July 1, 2014 appointment, Fields served as the company's chief operating officer. Previously, as Ford's president of The Americas, Fields developed "The Way Forward" plan and separately led a significant turnaround of Mazda. He succeeded Alan Mulally as Ford's president and CEO. Fields announced his retirement on May 22, 2017. He currently serves as senior advisor at TPG Capital and on several corporate boards and he previously served as interim CEO of Hertz.
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Patrick Morrisey
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Patrick James Morrisey is an American politician and attorney serving as the 37th governor of West Virginia since 2025. He served as the 34th attorney general of West Virginia from 2013 to 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected state attorney general in 2012, becoming the first Republican in the role since 1933. Morrisey ran for the United States Senate in 2018 and narrowly lost to incumbent Senator Joe Manchin.
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Stanton T. Friedman
- Occupations
- physicistessayistufologistnuclear physicist
- Biography
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Stanton Terry Friedman was an American–Canadian nuclear physicist and professional ufologist who was based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Louise Nevelson
- Occupations
- serigrapherartistpaintercollagistlithographer
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Louise Nevelson was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in Pereiaslav in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire, she emigrated with her family to the United States in 1905. Nevelson learned English at school, as she spoke Yiddish at home.
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Bakhtiyaar Irani
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Bakhtiyaar Irani is an Indian film and television actor who has participated in Indian television reality shows. He has appeared in the reality dance series Nach Baliye, paired with his wife Tannaz Irani. In 2009, the couple became participants in Bigg Boss.
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Selman Abraham Waksman
- Enrolled in Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- In 1915 graduated with Bachelor of Science in agriculture
- Occupations
- autobiographerchemistmicrobiologistbotanistbiologist
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Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics. For his work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Rollie Massimino
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- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Roland Vincent Massimino was an American basketball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Stony Brook University (1969–1971), Villanova University (1973–1992), the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1992–1994), Cleveland State University (1996–2003), and at Northwood University's Florida campus, which was sold in 2014 to Keiser University (2006–2017). He reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament five times (all with Villanova) and reached the NAIA Semi-final twice.
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Eddie Jordan
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Edward Montgomery Jordan is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He formerly served as head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, Washington Wizards, and Sacramento Kings in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was also head coach for three seasons at Rutgers University.
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Rob Menendez
- Enrolled in Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- In 2011 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Robert Jacobsen Menendez Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 8th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party and son of former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, he was a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 2021 to 2023.
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Brian Joo
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- singerrapper
- Biography
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Brian Joo, better known professionally as Brian (Korean: 브라이언), is an American singer and one-half of the R&B duo Fly to the Sky. His first solo album, The Brian was released in December 2006. His second solo album, Manifold was released in December 2009.
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Lenny Kaye
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- music journalistbiographersongwriterguitaristmusician
- Biography
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Lenny Kaye is an American guitarist, composer, and writer, notable for his work with the Patti Smith Group, his contributions to music magazines, and his garage rock retrospective anthology Nuggets.
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Paolo Montalbán
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- television actorstage actorsingeractor
- Biography
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Paolo Montalban is an American actor and singer best known for his performance in the 1997 Disney television film Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella as Prince Christopher, opposite Brandy as Cinderella and Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother. He reprised that role in a stage version of the musical with Deborah Gibson and then Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Cinderella and Eartha Kitt as the Fairy Godmother.
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Richard Florida
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- university teachereconomistsociologist
- Biography
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Richard L. Florida is an American urban studies theorist focusing on social and economic theory. He is a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a Distinguished Fellow at NYU's School of Professional Studies.
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John Paul Vann
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- army officersoldier
- Biography
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John Paul Vann was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army who became a senior civilian official in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He first gained prominence as a military adviser in 1962–1963, where his outspoken criticism of South Vietnamese leadership and U.S. strategy following the Battle of Ap Bac challenged official optimism and drew media attention. After retiring from the Army amid career setbacks, Vann returned to Vietnam in a civilian capacity with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and later the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) program, becoming a pivotal figure in U.S. pacification efforts.
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Laurie Berkner
- Occupations
- singerfilm director
- Biography
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Laurie Berkner is a French-American musician and singer best known for her work as a children's musical artist. She plays guitar and sings lead vocals in The Laurie Berkner Band, along with pianist Susie Lampert, bassist Winston Roye, and drummer Bob Golden. She is a popular artist in the kindie rock genre.
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Robert Torricelli
- Enrolled in Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- assistantlawyerlobbyistpolitician
- Biography
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Robert Guy Torricelli is an American attorney and former politician. A Democrat, Torricelli served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 9th district from 1983 to 1997 and as a United States senator from New Jersey from 1997 to 2003.
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Bill Stepien
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- political adviserpoliticiancampaign manager
- Biography
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William Stepien is an American political consultant who served as the campaign manager for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign beginning in July of that year. A member of the Republican Party, he was the White House Director of Political Affairs in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2018.
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Yuri Felshtinsky
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Yuri Georgievich Felshtinsky is a Russian American historian. Felshtinsky has authored a number of books on Russian history, including The Bolsheviks and the Left SRs (Paris, 1985), Towards a History of Our Isolation (London, 1988; Moscow, 1991), The Failure of the World Revolution (London, 1991; Moscow, 1992), Blowing up Russia (with Alexander Litvinenko), and The Age of Assassins (with Vladimir Pribylovsky).
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Kōjirō Matsukata
- Occupations
- art collectorentrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Kōjirō Matsukata was a Japanese businessman who, in parallel to his professional activities, devoted his life and fortune to amassing a collection of Western art which, he hoped, would become the nucleus of a Japanese national museum focused particularly on masterworks of the Western art tradition. Although his plans were not realized in his lifetime, his vision is partly realized in Japan's National Museum of Western Art (NMWA) in Ueno Park, central Tokyo. where part of his collection is exhibited.
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Cheri Beasley
- Enrolled in Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- In 1988 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Cheri Lynn Beasley is an American attorney and jurist who served as the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2019 to 2020 as well as an associate justice from 2012 to 2019. She was defeated by Paul Martin Newby in 2020. Beasley previously served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and as a district court judge in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
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George McPhee
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- ice hockey playergeneral manager
- Biography
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George McPhee is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player who is the president of hockey operations for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). McPhee served as the general manager of the Washington Capitals and has also served as alternate governor, vice president and special assistant to the general manager of the New York Islanders. As a player, McPhee won the Hobey Baker Award in 1982 as the best college ice hockey player, later playing for the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils.
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Cappie Pondexter
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Cappie Marie Pondexter is an American former professional basketball player. She was born in Oceanside, California and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Pondexter is known for her scrappy play, quick crossovers and midrange jumpshot. In 2011, she was voted in by fans as one of the Top 15 players in Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) history. She was inducted in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2025.
