49 Notable alumni of
Skidmore College
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Skidmore College is 920th in the world, 335th in North America, and 313th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 49 notable alumni from Skidmore College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jon Bernthal
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Jonathan Edward Bernthal is an American actor. Beginning his career in the early 2000s, he came to prominence for portraying Shane Walsh on the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2010–2012; 2018), where he was a starring cast member in the first two seasons. Bernthal achieved further recognition as Frank Castle / The Punisher in the second season of Daredevil (2016), a role he reprised in its spin-off series The Punisher (2017–2019) and the revival series Daredevil: Born Again (2025), all part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For his recurring role as Michael Berzatto in the series The Bear (2022–present), Bernthal won a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Lake Bell
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorstage actorfilm director
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Lake Siegel Bell is an American actress, screenwriter, and director. She has appeared in various television series, including Boston Legal (2004–2006), Surface (2005–2006), How to Make It in America (2010–2011), Childrens Hospital (2008–2016), and Bless This Mess (2019–2020) and in films including Over Her Dead Body (2008), What Happens in Vegas (2008), It's Complicated (2009), No Strings Attached (2011), Million Dollar Arm (2014), No Escape (2015), Man Up (2015), The Secret Life of Pets (2016), Shot Caller (2017), Home Again (2017), The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).
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Ariana Richards
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- film actorpaintertelevision actoractor
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Ariana Clarice Richards is an American painter and former actress. She is best known for her role as Lex Murphy in the blockbuster film Jurassic Park. Richards won several Young Artist Awards for her acting as a child, but as an adult has focused primarily on her art career.
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Kelly Curtis
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- film produceractorfilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Kelly Lee Curtis is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Magic Sticks (1987) and The Devil's Daughter (1991).
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Eddie Cahill
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Edmund Patrick Cahill is an American actor known for portraying "Miracle on Ice" goalie Jim Craig in the 2004 film Miracle, and for playing the roles of Tag Jones in Friends and Detective Don Flack in CSI: NY. He has had numerous roles in television, films, and theater. His most recent starring role was in 2016 as District Attorney Conner Wallace in Conviction.
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Michael Zegen
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- actortelevision actor
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Michael Zegen is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series Rescue Me (2004–2011), Boardwalk Empire (2011–2014), and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023).
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Rya Kihlstedt
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- actorfilm actorstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Rya Kihlstedt is an American actress. She starred in the 1997 comedy film Home Alone 3 as Alice Ribbons. Kihlstedt would go on to appear in the films Deep Impact (1998), Women in Trouble (2009) and The Atticus Institute (2015). On television, she had a recurring roles as Dr. Michelle Ross in the Showtime crime drama Dexter and as Marilyn Rhodes in the ABC musical drama Nashville. In 2015, Kihlstedt starred in the NBC miniseries Heroes Reborn, in 2022 in Superman & Lois as Ally Allston, as well as the Fourth Sister in Obi-Wan Kenobi, a role she later voiced in Tales of the Empire in 2024.
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Matt Hyson
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- teacherprofessional wrestler
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Matthew Jonathan Hyson is an American semi-retired professional wrestler best known for his tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as Spike Dudley. Prior to WWE, Hyson began performing as Spike Dudley in the 1990s with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW); the Spike Dudley character being a member of The Dudley Brothers. As part of a storyline, fellow members Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley betrayed the faction to form a separate Dudley Boyz tag team; resulting in Hyson and members being involved in a subsequent feud with the duo.
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Evan Dando
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- musiciansinger-songwriterguitaristsinger
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Evan Griffith Dando is an American musician and the frontman of the rock band the Lemonheads. He has also embarked on a solo career and collaborated on songs with various artists. In December 2015, Dando was inducted into the Boston Music Awards Hall of Fame.
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Molly Bernard
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Molly Bernard is an American actress. She is known for her portrayal of Lauren Heller in the comedy-drama television series Younger and of Dr. Elsa Curry in seasons 4 and 5 of Chicago Med.
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Tawny Little
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- television actoractorbeauty pageant contestantnews presentermodel
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Tawny Little, Miss America 1976 and Miss New York 1975, is an American television personality.
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Jane Roberts
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- children's writerpoetscience fiction writerwriterpsychic
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Dorothy Jane Roberts was an American author and poet, who claimed to be psychic and a spirit medium channeling a personality who called himself "Seth." Her publication of the Seth texts, known as the Seth Material, established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena.
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Arwa Damon
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- journalist
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Arwa Damon is an American journalist who was most recently a senior international correspondent for CNN, based in Istanbul. From 2003, she covered the Middle East as a freelance journalist, before joining CNN in 2006. She is also president and founder of INARA, a humanitarian organization that provides medical treatment to refugee children from Syria.
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Chris Fleming
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- YouTubertelevision producer
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Chris Fleming is an American comedian and actor best known for his YouTube series Gayle, in which he stars as the eponymous character Gayle Waters-Waters. In June 2019, Variety named Fleming one of its "10 Comics to Watch for 2019".
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Kristina Anapau
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- stage actoractortelevision actorfilm actorpianist
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Kristina Elizabeth Anapau Roper, better known as Kristina Anapau, is an American actress and writer. She is known for her roles as Maurella on the HBO series True Blood and as Galina in the 2010 film Black Swan. She also portrayed Cassidy Merteuil in Cruel Intentions 3.
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Céline Cousteau
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- environmentalistfilm directorfilm producerexplorerscreenwriter
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Céline S. Cousteau is a socio-environmental advocate and public figure. She is known for her work as a documentary film director, producer, explorer, artist, public speaker, brand ambassador, designer, author, and wellness workshop facilitator. She has been a panelist at the United Nations in New York, speaks on stage to audiences around the world, and has interviewed many prominent figures including President Lasso of Ecuador. She is the Founder/Director of CauseCentric Productions and previously Co-founder/ Chairman of the Board of the Outdoor Film Fellowship. She is the daughter of ocean explorer and filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau, and granddaughter of Jacques Cousteau.
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Webster Tarpley
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- conspiracy theoristwriterhistorianjournalistphilosopher
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Webster Griffin Tarpley is an American writer, political activist, and conspiracy theorist. A one-time follower of Lyndon LaRouche, Tarpley is known for his role in the 9/11 truth movement, believing 9/11 was a false flag operation.
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Nathan Barr
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- film score composermusiciancomposercellist
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Nathan Barr is an American film and television composer and musician. His television scores include True Blood, The Americans, Carnival Row, and The Great. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2020 for his work on the miniseries Hollywood.
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Cynthia Carroll
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- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- geologistbusiness executive
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Cynthia Blum Carroll is an American businesswoman. She was the chief executive officer of Anglo American, a British mining company, which, among other things, is the world's largest platinum producer.
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Brad Morris
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- screenwriteractorcomedian
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Brad Morris is an American actor and television writer. He starred in Playing House and had recurring roles on Cougar Town as Jerry from 2013 to 2015, for which he also wrote five episodes, Great News from 2017 to 2018, and Dice from 2016 to 2017.
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Kim Poor
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- painter
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Elizabeth Kimball de Albuquerque Poor is a Brazilian artist.
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BethAnn McLaughlin
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United States - Occupations
- researcherneurologist
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BethAnn McLaughlin is an American neuroscientist, activist, and hoaxer. She is a former assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University. Her research at Vanderbilt focused on neural stress responses and brain injury. After being denied tenure in 2017, she sought to have the decision overturned. The decision to deny tenure was upheld, and her employment at Vanderbilt ended in July 2019.
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J. Christopher Giancarlo
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- lawyer
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J. Christopher Giancarlo is an American attorney and former business executive who served as 13th chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Giancarlo was sworn in as a CFTC commissioner on June 16, 2014, for a term expiring on April 13, 2019. Starting on January 20, 2017, with President Donald Trump's inauguration, Giancarlo began serving as acting chair of the CFTC. In March 2017, the president nominated Giancarlo to be full-time chair of the commission. Giancarlo was confirmed as chairman of the commission by the United States Senate on August 3, 2017.
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Louise Fili
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- designertypographergraphic designer
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Louise Fili is an American graphic designer known for her use of typography. Her artistic inspiration comes from modernism and European art deco styles, as she blends historic typography with contemporary colors and compositions. Precuring her career in the publishing industry, Fili crafted nearly 2,000 book jackets during her time at Random House. Upon establishing her own design studio, she has averted her focus towards restaurant identity, food-related logos, and packaging.
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Lazer Lloyd
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- musician
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Lazer Lloyd is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Lloyd's music is a mix of acoustic and electric Americana, rock, folk, blues and psychedelic styles with lyrics touching on life, love, and struggle. He performs throughout the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Brazil, both in person and through social media.
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Skylar Kergil
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- 1991-.. (age 34)
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- singer-songwritertelevision producer
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Skylar Kergil is an American transgender YouTube personality and singer-songwriter.
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Cal Perry
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- journalist
- Biography
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Cal Perry is a former broadcast journalist who most recently worked for MSNBC. He previously worked at Voice of America in a senior role and briefly at Al Jazeera English. Before joining Al Jazeera, he worked for many years with CNN, mostly in the Middle East. During this time, he served as: Bureau Chief in Baghdad, Iraq (2005–2007), Bureau Chief in Beirut, Lebanon. From these bases, he also covered the wars in Lebanon (2006), Georgia (2008) and Pakistan (2008), plus the aftermath of the devastating cyclone in Bangladesh, in 2007. In 2022, he joined the Baltimore Orioles as senior vice president and chief content officer.
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Zach Gage
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- 1985-.. (age 40)
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- video game developerdesignerconceptual artist
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Zach Gage is an independent video game programmer and designer based in New York City. He is known for his iOS games, including SpellTower.
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Nick Petrangelo
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- poker player
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Nick Petrangelo is an American professional poker player from Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, who won two World Series of Poker bracelets.
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Sallie W. Chisholm
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- ecologistoceanographermarine biologistuniversity teacherbiologist
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Sallie Watson "Penny" Chisholm is an American biological oceanographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an expert in the ecology and evolution of ocean microbes. Her research focuses particularly on the most abundant marine phytoplankton, Prochlorococcus, that she discovered in the 1980s with Rob Olson and other collaborators. She has a TED talk about their discovery and importance called "The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet".
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Anne Wexler
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- lobbyistpolitician
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Anne Levy Wexler was an influential American Democratic political consultant, public policy advisor, and later the first woman to head a leading lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.
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Scott Jacoby
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- DJ producerrecord producersongwriter
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Scott Adam Jacoby is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, sound engineer, and recording artist. He is a Grammy Award winner, and has worked with numerous artists in various genres including Coldplay, Cory Henry, Fabolous, Jackie Evancho, Janelle Monáe, Jason Mraz, John Legend, José James, Kane, Laura Izibor, Maiysha, Naturally 7, Rachel Platten, Ronnie Spector, Sia, Stormzy, Vampire Weekend and Vanessa Hudgens. In 2007, he founded his own record label Eusonia Records, and also established Eusonia Studios.
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Helene Schneider
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- politician
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Helene Schneider is an American politician from the Democratic Party. She was the mayor of Santa Barbara, California from 2010 to 2018, and a 2016 candidate for California's 24th congressional district. She was first elected mayor in 2009, succeeding Marty Blum. She won reelection to a second term in 2013. Prior to serving in government, Schneider worked at Planned Parenthood as the director of human resources for the affiliate serving Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties.
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Mary Foote Henderson
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- writersuffragist
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Mary Foote Henderson was an American author, real estate developer, and social activist from the U.S. state of New York who was known as "The Empress of Sixteenth Street". Henderson was a notable supporter of women's suffrage, temperance and vegetarianism.
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Nancy Munoz
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- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Enrolled in Skidmore College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in nursing science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nancy Ann Foster Munoz, commonly known as Nancy Munoz, is an American Republican Party politician who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2009, where she represents the 21st Legislative District. She was appointed minority whip on July 18, 2017, and co-chair of the Republican Conference, alongside John DiMaio, on January 14, 2020.
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Laura Anne Gilman
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- writernovelistscience fiction writer
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Laura Anne Gilman is an American fantasy author.
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Kyle Carey
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- singer-songwritersingersongwriter
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Kyle Carey is a Celtic Americana musical artist who creates a synthesis of music called 'Gaelic Americana'.
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Diane Burko
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- photographerartistpainter
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Diane Burko is an American painter and photographer. She is based in Philadelphia and Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her work addresses landscape, climate change and environmental activism.
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Jardine Libaire
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- novelist
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Jardine Libaire is an American writer based in Austin, Texas. She is author of the novel White Fur.
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Karen Flaherty
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- nursemilitary officer
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Rear Admiral Karen Ann Flaherty assumed duties as the Deputy Surgeon General of Navy Medicine at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery as of August 6, 2010. Flaherty served as the 22nd Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps as well as the Deputy Chief, Wounded, Ill, and Injured at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery from 2009 to 2010.
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Wendy Benchley
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- environmentalist
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Winifred "Wendy" Benchley is a marine and environmental conservation advocate and former councilwoman from New Jersey. She is known for co-founding various environmental organizations and for being the wife of author Peter Benchley.
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Peter Nichols
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- writerjournalistsailor
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Peter Brayton Nichols is an American author. He is known for his bestsellers The Rocks (2015, a novel); A Voyage for Madmen (2001, nonfiction), which was a finalist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year; and Evolution's Captain, (2003, nonfiction). His novel Voyage to the North Star was a Book Of The Month Club main selection and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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Josh S. Cutler
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- politician
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Josh S. Cutler is an attorney and former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He represented the 6th Plymouth district of Massachusetts, which includes every precinct in the towns of Pembroke and Hanson, and precincts 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Duxbury. Cutler was elected on November, 6th 2012 becoming the first Democrat to hold the seat for the 6th Plymouth District dating back to the Reconstruction era.
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Ryan Cohan
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- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- composerbandleaderjazz musicianconductorpianist
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Ryan Cohan is a jazz pianist and composer. His style is a blend of world rhythms, traditional jazz, and classical.
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Hazel Stiebeling
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- nutritionist
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Hazel Katherine Stiebeling was an American nutritionist who pioneered the development of USDA programs for nutrition including USDA daily dietary allowances of vitamins and minerals.
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Eleanor Weinstock
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- politician
- Biography
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Eleanor Frank Weinstock was an American politician in the state of Florida.
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Amy Townsend-Small
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- environmental scientist
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Amy Townsend-Small is the director of the Environmental Studies Program as well as an associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geography at the University of Cincinnati.
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Ron Karr
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- writer
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Ron Karr is an American speaker, marketing consultant and author based in New Jersey. He was elected President of National Speakers Association for 2013–14 and he is the President of Karr Associates, Inc. Karr is a National Board Member of the NSA and a past president of the New York City Chapter of NSA. In 1995, the New York Tri-State Chapter presented him with the Golden Mike Award.
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Grace DeGennaro
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- painter
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Grace DeGennaro is an American artist. She is best known for watercolors and paintings that explore “ritual, geometry, and growth through repeated forms, serial patterns, and iconic forms like circles and diamonds.”
