10 Notable alumni of
Sonoma State University
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Sonoma State University is 2776th in the world, 960th in North America, and 907th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 10 notable alumni from Sonoma State University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Abdul Rahman Dahlan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Abdul Rahman bin Dahlan is a Malaysian politician. He is the former Minister in the Prime Minister's Department and the Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government. He had served as the Member of Parliament (MP) of Malaysia for the Kota Belud constituency in Sabah from 2008 to 2018. He is a member and Division Chief of Tuaran of the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) party, a component of Barisan Nasional (BN).
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Mike McGuire
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mike McGuire is an American politician currently serving as the 52nd President pro tempore of the California State Senate. He is a Democrat and represents the 2nd Senate district, which encompasses the North Coast region, from Marin County to Del Norte County.
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Cheryl Chase
- Occupations
- activistLGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Bo Laurent, better known by her pseudonym Cheryl Chase, is an American intersex activist and the founder of the Intersex Society of North America. She began using the names Bo Laurent and Cheryl Chase simultaneously in the 1990s and changed her name legally from Bonnie Sullivan to Bo Laurent in 1995.
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Marla Tellez
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorjournalistactor
- Biography
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Marla Christine Tellez is an American news anchor for KTTV-TV in Los Angeles, California.
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Jaylen Wells
- Years
- 2003-.. (age 22)
- Enrolled in Sonoma State University
- Studied business studies
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jaylen Wells is an American basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Sonoma State Seawolves and the Washington State Cougars.
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Kevin Danaher
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Kevin Danaher is an American author and anti-globalization activist. With his wife Medea Benjamin and activist Kirsten Irgens-Moller, he co-founded Global Exchange, a social justice and anti-globalization non-governmental organization based in San Francisco, California. He is the founder and executive co-producer of the Green Festivals and he is executive Director of the Global Citizen Center. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Fehlandt Lentini
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Fehlandt A. Lentini is a former American professional baseball player who last played as an outfielder with the Long Island Ducks. Lentini, an outfielder, has played with many different minor and independent league teams over his career, which began in 2001 with the Martinsville Astros of the rookie-level Appalachian League. He attended Sonoma State University and from there, was signed by the Houston Astros as an amateur free agent. In the Astros organization, he played with six different teams from 2001 to 2003. During the 2004 season, Lentini began his tenure in the independent league circuit, signing with the Kalamazoo Kings of the Frontier League. That season, was named a league all-star.
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Mitchell Waite
- Occupations
- computer scientistprogrammer
- Biography
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Mitchell Waite is an American computer programmer, author and publisher of a number of bestselling programming books along with mobile apps. He was one of the first people to write popular books about electronics and micro-processor-based systems, with his books encouraging the "rapid development of the Mac platform in the 1980s."
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David V. Brewer
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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David V. Brewer is an American lawyer and judge, who served as a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 2013 to 2017. He retired on June 30, 2017, and was succeeded by Rebecca Duncan.
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William McNamara
- Occupations
- horticulturist
- Biography
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William A. McNamara is an American horticulturist and expert in the field of plant conservation and the flora of Asia. Now retired, he was the President and Executive Director of Quarryhill Botanical Garden, a 25-acre wild woodland garden in Northern California's Sonoma Valley featuring wild-sourced plants from temperate East Asia. In 2017, he and Quarryhill Botanical Garden celebrated their 30th Anniversary. He retired from the Garden in October of 2019.
