100 Notable alumni of
University of Texas at Austin
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The University of Texas at Austin is 36th in the world, 18th in North America, and 18th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Texas at Austin sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 2 individuals affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Matthew McConaughey
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- film producerfilm actortelevision actoractortelevision producer
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Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor. He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). After a number of supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). His career progressed with lead roles in the science fiction film Contact (1997), the historical drama Amistad (1997), and the war film U-571 (2000).
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Kevin Durant
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- Studied in 2006-2007
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Kevin Wayne Durant, also known by his initials KD, is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Slim Reaper", he is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players and one of the greatest scorers of all time. Durant has won two NBA championships, is the only male to win four Olympic gold medals, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, two NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Awards, two NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Awards, four NBA scoring titles, and the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He has been named to 11 All-NBA teams (including six First Teams) and selected 16 times as an NBA All-Star. In 2021, Durant was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. He ranks sixth among NBA career scoring leaders.
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Renée Zellweger
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- voice actormanufactureractorfilm actor
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Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
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Ethan Hawke
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- stage actortelevision actorwritercomics writerfilm actor
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Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, author, and filmmaker. Over a four-decade career on both stage and screen, he has become known for his versatility across a wide range of roles and acclaimed collaborations with director Richard Linklater. Prolific in both independent films and blockbusters, Hawke has received numerous accolades including a Daytime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and a Tony Award.
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Owen Wilson
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- voice actoractorcomediantelevision actorwriter
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Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor and screenwriter. He has frequently worked with filmmaker Wes Anderson, with whom he has shared writing and acting credits on the films Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)—the latter received a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He has also appeared in Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021).
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Wes Anderson
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- film directormanufacturerdirectoractoranimator
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Wesley Wales Anderson is an American filmmaker. His films are known for themes of grief, loss of innocence, and dysfunctional families. Due to his films' eccentricity, distinctive visual and narrative styles, and frequent use of ensemble casts, critics have described Anderson as an auteur. Three of his films appeared in BBC Culture's 2016 poll of the greatest films since 2000.
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Jayne Mansfield
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- singerstage actortelevision actorPlayboy Playmatefilm actor
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Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, Playboy Playmate, singer, and sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was known for her numerous publicity stunts, her buxom figure, and her personal life. Her film career was short-lived, but she won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe Award. Mansfield gained a reputation as Hollywood's "smartest dumb blonde".
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Jon Hamm
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- voice actoractortelevision actordirectorwaiter
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Jonathan Daniel Hamm is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Don Draper in the period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), for which he won numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Farrah Fawcett
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- stage actorartistactormodelfilm producer
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Farrah Fawcett was an American actress. A four-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she played a starring role in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels.
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Glen Powell
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- film producerfilm actortelevision actoractorstunt performer
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Glen Thomas Powell Jr. is an American actor. He began his career with small roles on television and in films including Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) and Fast Food Nation (2006). Powell acted in the action film The Expendables 3 (2014), the comedy-horror series Scream Queens (2015–2016), the teen comedy Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), the historical romance The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) and the romantic comedy Set It Up (2018). He also portrayed astronaut John Glenn in Hidden Figures (2016) and aviator Tom Hudner in Devotion (2022). He is the co-creator, producer and star of the comedy series, Chad Powers (2025).
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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- astrophysicistscience communicator
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.
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Tristan Thompson
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- basketball player
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Tristan Trevor James Thompson is a Canadian professional basketball player who has played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Throughout his career, he has played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings, Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls, and Los Angeles Lakers. He won an NBA championship with the Cavaliers in 2016. Thompson played one season of college basketball for the Texas Longhorns before being selected by the Cavaliers as the fourth overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. He has also represented Canada in international competitions.
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Eli Wallach
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
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- stage actormilitary officeractorautobiographerfilm producer
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Eli Herschel Wallach was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City. Known for his character actor roles, his entertainment career spanned over six decades. He received a BAFTA Award, a Tony Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He also was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1988 and received the Academy Honorary Award in 2010.
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Robert Rodriguez
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- production designerwritercamera operatorfilm actorcinematographer
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Robert Anthony Rodriguez is an American filmmaker, composer, actor, chef and visual effects supervisor. He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of Texas. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2.6 million ($5.5 million in 2023 dollars) against a budget of $7,000 ($14,937 in 2023 dollars). The film spawned two sequels known collectively as the Mexico Trilogy: Desperado (1995) and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003).
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F. Murray Abraham
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- stage actortelevision actorcharacter actoractorfilm actor
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F. Murray Abraham is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award, four Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. He came to prominence for his portrayal of Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984) for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Scottie Scheffler
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- golfer
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Scott Alexander Scheffler is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is currently ranked world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, a position he has held for over 175 weeks. He has won four major championships.
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Jeb Bush
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in Latin American studies
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- governorbankerpoliticianwriterbookbinder
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John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He was the second son of former president George H. W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, and a younger brother of former president George W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, he was an unsuccessful candidate for president of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries.
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Greg Abbott
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
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Gregory Wayne Abbott is an American politician, attorney, and jurist who has served since 2015 as the 48th governor of Texas. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2002 to 2015 as the 50th attorney general of Texas and from 1996 to 2001 as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court. As of 2025, Abbott is the longest-serving incumbent governor in the United States.
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Rip Torn
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- film producerfilm actorstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. was an American actor whose career spanned roughly 60 years. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Marsh Turner in Cross Creek (1983). Torn's portrayal of Artie the producer on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998) received six Emmy Award nominations, winning in 1996. Torn was also known for his roles as Judas Iscariot in King of Kings (1961), Thomas J. Finley, Jr. in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), Dr. Nathan Bryce in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bob Diamond in Defending Your Life (1991), Zeus in Hercules (1997), Zed in the Men in Black franchise (1997, 2002), Jim Brody in Freddy Got Fingered (2001), Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), and Louis XV in Marie Antoinette (2006).
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Jordan Spieth
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- golfer
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Jordan Alexander Spieth is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour and former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking. He is a three-time major winner and the 2015 FedEx Cup champion.
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Marcia Gay Harden
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- In 1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Rex Tillerson
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in civil engineering
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- politicianengineermerchantbusinesspersoncivil engineer
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Rex Wayne Tillerson is an American energy executive and former diplomat who served as the 69th United States secretary of state from 2017 to 2018 in the first administration of Donald Trump. From 2006 to 2016, he was chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of ExxonMobil.
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Stacey Abrams
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- 1995-1998 graduated with Master of Public Affairs in public policy studies
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- voting rights activistentrepreneurjuristlawyerpolitician
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Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression, in 2018. Her efforts have been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia, including in the 2020 presidential election, when Joe Biden narrowly won the state, and in Georgia's 2020–21 regularly scheduled and special U.S. Senate elections, which gave Democrats control of the Senate.
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Laura Bush
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- HIV/AIDS activistwriterautobiographerchildren's writerpresident
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Laura Lane Welch Bush is an American educator who was the first lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 as the wife of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. Bush was also the first lady of Texas from 1995 to 2000 when her husband was governor.
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Jenna Bush Hager
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- correspondentteacherpoliticianwriterchildren's writer
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Jenna Welch Bush Hager is an American news personality, author, and journalist. She is the co-host of Today with Jenna & Sheinelle, the fourth hour of NBC's morning news program, Today. Hager and her fraternal twin sister, Barbara, are the daughters of the 43rd U.S. president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush. Hager is also a granddaughter of the 41st U.S. president George H. W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, great-granddaughter of former U.S. senator Prescott Bush, niece of former Florida governor Jeb Bush, and first cousin of former land commissioner of Texas George P. Bush.
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Mark Duplass
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- showrunneractortelevision actorfilm actorfilm producer
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Mark David Duplass is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and musician. With his brother Jay Duplass, he started the film production company Duplass Brothers Productions in 1996, for which they wrote and directed The Puffy Chair (2005), Baghead (2008), Cyrus (2010), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012).
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Arch Manning
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- Studied in 2023
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- American football player
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Archibald Charles Manning is an American college football quarterback for the Texas Longhorns. He is a member of the Manning family of renowned football players.
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Scoot McNairy
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- television actorfilm produceractorfilm actor
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John "Scoot" McNairy is an American actor. He is known for his roles in films such as Monsters (2010), Argo, Killing Them Softly (both 2012), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Lyle, Lyle Crocodile (2022), Speak No Evil, and Nightbitch (both 2024).
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Lady Bird Johnson
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson was the first lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969, as the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. She had previously been Second Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, when her husband was vice president under President John F. Kennedy.
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Roger Clemens
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- baseball player
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William Roger Clemens, nicknamed "Rocket", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees and also played for the Toronto Blue Jays and Houston Astros. He was one of the most dominant pitchers in major league history, tallying 354 wins, a 3.12 earned run average (ERA), and 4,672 strikeouts, the third-most all time. An 11-time MLB All-Star and two-time World Series champion, Clemens won seven Cy Young Awards, more than any other pitcher in history. Clemens was known for his fierce competitive nature and hard-throwing pitching style, which he used to intimidate batters.
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Trevante Rhodes
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- television actorathletics competitoractorfilm actor
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Trevante Nemour Rhodes is an American actor. He won several accolades and achieved recognition in 2016 for his performance as "Black" (Adult Chiron) in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight. He has since starred in The Predator (2018), Bird Box (2018), and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). In his youth, he was an accomplished track and field sprinter, winning a gold medal at the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in 2009.
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Krista Allen
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- erotic photography modelmodeltelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Krista Allen is an American actress and model. Allen is known for playing soap opera roles, including Billie Reed on Days of Our Lives (1996–1999) and Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful (2021–2023), earning a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for the latter.
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Kyle Shanahan
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- American football coachAmerican football player
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Kyle Michael Shanahan is an American professional football coach who is the head coach for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He came to prominence as the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons, whose offense in 2016 led the league in points scored and helped the team reach Super Bowl LI. Shanahan became the head coach of the 49ers the following season, leading the team to three division titles, five postseason appearances, four NFC Championship Game appearances, and two Super Bowl appearances (LIV and LVIII).
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Bruce McGill
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- voice actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Bruce Travis McGill is an American actor. He worked with director Michael Mann in the films The Insider (1999), Ali (2001), and Collateral (2004). McGill's other notable film roles include Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day in John Landis's Animal House, and Sheriff Dean Farley in My Cousin Vinny.
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Kevin Alejandro
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- television actordirectoractorfilm actor
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Kevin Michael Alejandro is an American actor and director. He has worked in TV since 2003, with some film credits.
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Felicia Day
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- film directorwriteractorfilm actorscreenwriter
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Kathryn Felicia Day is an American actress, singer, writer, and web series creator. She is the creator and star of the web series The Guild (2007–2013), a show loosely based on her life as a gamer. She also wrote and starred in the Dragon Age web series Dragon Age: Redemption (2011). She is a founder of the online media company Geek & Sundry, best known for hosting the show Critical Role between 2015 and 2019. Day was a member of the board of directors of the International Academy of Web Television from December 2009 until August 2012.
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Walter Cronkite
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- journalistnews presenter
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Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. Cronkite received numerous honors including two Peabody Awards, a George Polk Award, an Emmy Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Lindsey Morgan
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- television actortelevision directoractorfilm actor
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Lindsey Marie Morgan is an American actress. She is known for playing Raven Reyes in the CW science fiction drama series The 100 (2014–2020) and Micki Ramirez in the action crime drama series Walker (2021–2022).
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Peri Gilpin
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- voice actoractor
- Biography
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Peri Gilpin is an American actress who portrayed Roz Doyle in the NBC sitcom Frasier and Kim Keeler in the ABC Family drama series Make It or Break It.
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Allen Ludden
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- television personalityfilm actorgame show hostactorsinger
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Allen Ellsworth Ludden was an American television personality, actor, singer, emcee, and game show host. He hosted various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1980.
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Mary Lou Retton
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- artistic gymnast
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Mary Lou Retton is an American retired gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the individual all-around competition, as well as two silver medals and two bronze medals, which earned her the Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year award.
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LaMarcus Aldridge
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- basketball player
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LaMarcus Nurae Aldridge is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for two seasons with the Texas Longhorns. Aldridge was selected second overall in the 2006 NBA draft. After spending nine seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, he signed with the San Antonio Spurs in 2015. In March 2021, he signed with the Brooklyn Nets after the Spurs bought out his contract. He retired after two weeks due to an irregular heartbeat, but returned to the Nets the following season after receiving medical clearance.
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Michael Dell
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- businesspersonentrepreneurfinancierphilanthropistinvestor
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Michael Saul Dell is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world's largest technology infrastructure companies.
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Brené Brown
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- essayistscientistwriterpodcastersocial worker
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Casandra Brené Brown is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin.
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P. J. Tucker
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- basketball player
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Anthony Leon "P.J." Tucker Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Regarded as a reliable perimeter defender all throughout his career, Tucker won an NBA championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2021. He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns. Outside his NBA career, he was also the 2008 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP, and Israeli Basketball Premier League Finals MVP and also won championships overseas in the Israeli Super League in 2008 with the Hapoel Holon, the German League and the German Cup in 2012 with Brose Bamberg.
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Colt McCoy
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- American football player
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Daniel "Colt" McCoy is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns, winning several awards and honors as a senior in 2009 and ranking second all-time in games won by an FBS quarterback. McCoy was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the third round of the 2010 NFL draft and was also a member of the San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, New York Giants, and Arizona Cardinals, primarily being used as a backup.
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Ricky Williams
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- baseball playerAmerican football playerCanadian football player
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Errick Miron, known professionally as Ricky Williams, is an American former professional football running back who played for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and one season in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
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William H. McRaven
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- military officer
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William Harry McRaven is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who served as the ninth commander of the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) from August 8, 2011 to August 28, 2014. From 2015 to 2018, he was the chancellor of The University of Texas System.
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John Hillerman
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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John Benedict Hillerman was an American actor best known for his starring role as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on the television series Magnum, P.I. that aired from 1980 to 1988. For his role as Higgins, Hillerman earned five Golden Globe nominations, winning in 1981, and four Emmy nominations, winning in 1987. He retired from acting in 1999.
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John Owen Brennan
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- In 1980 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- intelligence analystcivil servantintelligence officer
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John Owen Brennan is an American former intelligence officer who served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from March 2013 to January 2017. He served as chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. president Barack Obama, with the title Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President. Previously, he advised Obama on foreign policy and intelligence issues during his 2008 presidential campaign and presidential transition.
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George P. Bush
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- politicianteacherlawyerbusinesspersonmilitary officer
- Biography
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George Prescott Bush is an American politician and attorney who served as the commissioner of the Texas General Land Office from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Bush unsuccessfully campaigned for the party's nomination in the 2022 Texas Attorney General election.
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J. M. Coetzee
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- university teachernovelistlinguistessayistwriter
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John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
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Lois Chiles
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- modeltelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Lois Cleveland Chiles is an American actress and former fashion model known for her role as Holly Goodhead in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979), and as a hit-and-run driver in Creepshow 2 (1987). Other screen credits include The Way We Were (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974), Death on the Nile (1978), Broadcast News (1987), and the television role of Holly Harwood on Dallas (1982–1983).
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Jay Duplass
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- cinematographerfilm editorfilm screenwriterfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Lawrence Jay Duplass Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, and author widely known for his films The Puffy Chair (2005), Cyrus (2010), and Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), made in collaboration with his younger brother, Mark Duplass.
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Mitch Pileggi
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- voice actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Mitchell Pileggi is an American actor. He played Horace Pinker in Shocker, Walter Skinner on The X-Files, Colonel Steven Caldwell on Stargate Atlantis, Ernest Darby in Sons of Anarchy, and Harris Ryland in the TNT revival of Dallas (2012–2014).
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Paul Alexander
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- In 1984 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerwriter
- Biography
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Paul Richard Alexander was an American paralytic polio survivor, attorney and author. After contracting polio in 1952 at the age of six, he spent the remainder and vast majority of his life in an iron lung, and is currently recognized as the person to have spent the longest period of time occupying one at almost 72 years. Decades following his disablement, Alexander earned a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor at the University of Texas at Austin, and was admitted to the bar in 1986. He self-published a memoir in 2020 and, late in life, built a following on TikTok.
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Ann Richards
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- politician
- Biography
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Dorothy Ann Richards was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards was the second female governor of Texas (the first being Miriam A. Ferguson), and was frequently noted in the media for her outspoken feminism and her one-liners.
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Pat Hingle
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- stage actortelevision actorcharacter actoractorfilm actor
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Martin Patterson Hingle was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films. His first film was On the Waterfront in 1954. He often played tough authority figures. Hingle was a close friend of Clint Eastwood and appeared in the Eastwood films Hang 'Em High, The Gauntlet, and Sudden Impact. He also portrayed Commissioner Gordon in the Batman film franchise from 1989 to 1997.
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Tiya Sircar
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- dancertelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Tiya Sircar is an American actress, known for her role as "Real Eleanor"/Vicky in The Good Place (2016–2020). She also provided the voice for Sabine Wren in Disney XD's Star Wars Rebels (2014–2018), played Rooni Schuman in ABC's Alex, Inc. (2018) and co-starred in The Internship (2013).
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Kathryn Crosby
- Occupations
- actorsingervoice actor
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Olive Kathryn Crosby was an American actress and singer who performed in films, primarily under the stage name Kathryn Grant. She married Bing Crosby in 1957 and subsequently appeared on television with him and hosted a talk show, The Kathryn Crosby Show, on which he occasionally appeared, before returning to acting after his death.
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Fess Parker
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- television actorstage actorsingerfilm actor
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Fess Elisha Parker Jr. was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of the title characters in the Walt Disney television miniseries Davy Crockett (1954–55; ABC) and the television series Daniel Boone (1964–70; NBC).
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Mostafa Chamran
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- military officerpoliticianphysicist
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Mostafa Chamran Save'ei was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla fighter who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran and a member of parliament as well as the commander of paramilitary volunteers in Iran–Iraq War, known as "Irregular Warfare Headquarters". He was killed during the Iran–Iraq War.
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Avery Bradley
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Avery Antonio Bradley Jr. is an American former professional basketball player who is the vice president of player development for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns before being drafted 19th overall by the Boston Celtics in the 2010 NBA draft. With the Celtics, Bradley was twice recognized as an NBA All-Defensive Team member. He also played for the Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, Houston Rockets, and Los Angeles Lakers.
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Robert Rauschenberg
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- assemblage artistperformance artistjewelry designervisual artistpainter
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Milton Ernest "Robert" or "Bob" Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg was primarily a painter and a sculptor, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking and performance.
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Karl Rove
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- political adviserjournalistlobbyistpolitician
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Karl Christian Rove is an American Republican political consultant, policy advisor, and lobbyist. He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration until his resignation on August 31, 2007. He has also headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Rove was one of the architects of the Iraq War.
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Valerie Mahaffey
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Valerie Mahaffey was a Canadian-American actress. She began her career starring in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors (1979–81), for which in 1980 she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
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Ryan Piers Williams
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- actorscreenwriterfilm director
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Ryan Piers Williams is an American actor, director, and writer.
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Tex Ritter
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- singertelevision actorfilm actorsongwriterstage actor
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Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter was an American country music singer and actor. He was the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John Ritter, grandsons Jason Ritter and Tyler Ritter). He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Pita Limjaroenrat
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- singerpoliticianmodelwriterbusinessperson
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Pita Limjaroenrat, nicknamed Tim (Thai: ทิม, RTGS: Thim), is a Thai businessman and former politician who served as Leader of the Move Forward Party, the de facto successor to the dissolved Future Forward Party, from 2020 to 2023, and then as the advisory chair of the party from 2023 to 2024. He was also a member of the House of Representatives from 2019 to 2024.
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Guy Ecker
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- actortelevision actor
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Guy Frederick Ecker is an American actor.
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Jamaal Charles
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- athletics competitorAmerican football player
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Jamaal RaShaad Jones Charles is an American former professional football player who was a running back for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns, where he won the 2006 Rose Bowl, and was selected by the Chiefs in the third round of the 2008 NFL draft.
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Billy Miller
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in marketing
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
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William John Miller II was an American actor. He was recognized for his work on American soap operas, including his award-winning work as Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless and his dual portrayals of Jason Morgan and Drew Cain on General Hospital.
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Mohamed Bamba
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- basketball player
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Mohamed Fakaba Bamba is an Ivorian-American professional basketball player for the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns. He was highly regarded by scouts due to his 7 ft 10 in (2.39 m) wingspan and shooting ability. He attended Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, New Hampshire, and Westtown School in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and was considered one of the top high school prospects for the class of 2017.
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John B. Goodenough
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- inventorphysicistmeteorologistuniversity teacher
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John Bannister Goodenough was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with identifying the Goodenough–Kanamori rules of the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, with developing materials for computer random-access magnetic memory and with inventing cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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Noël Wells
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- musicianscreenwriterfilm directorcomedianactor
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Noël Kristi Wells is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer. She is known for her television roles as Rachel Silva in the Netflix comedy-drama Master of None (2015–2017), as the voice of Kelsey Pokoly in the Cartoon Network animated television series Craig of the Creek (2018–2025), as the voice of Ensign D'Vana Tendi in the Paramount+ animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020–2024), and her brief tenure as a featured player on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live during its 39th season between 2013 and 2014. She also wrote, directed, and starred in the film Mr. Roosevelt (2017). She has also ventured into music; her debut album It's So Nice! was released in 2019.
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Quinn Ewers
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- Studied in 2022
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Quinn Tucker Ewers is an American professional football quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and Texas Longhorns. Ewers was selected by the Dolphins in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL draft.
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Ashley Estes Kavanaugh
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- secretary
- Biography
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Ashley Estes Kavanaugh is an American public official and former political aide. She is married to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Jarrett Allen
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- basketball player
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Jarrett Allen is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns and was selected 22nd overall by the Brooklyn Nets in the 2017 NBA draft. In January 2021, he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers as part of the four-team blockbuster James Harden trade. In February 2022, Allen was named to his first NBA All-Star Game.
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Gunnar Hansen
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- film actorscreenwriternon-fiction writer
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Gunnar Milton Hansen was an Icelandic-born American actor and author. He played the deranged cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
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Marquise Goodwin
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- athletics competitorAmerican football player
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Marquise Derell Goodwin Sr. is an American former professional football wide receiver. He also is an Olympian who competed in the long jump in track and field. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns.
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Marilyn Burns
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Marilyn Burns was an American actress. Burns is known for portraying survivor Sally Hardesty in Tobe Hooper's influential horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which established her as an early final girl and scream queen. In 2025, the film was her first to be inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
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Bianna Golodryga
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- presenternews presenterjournalist
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Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga is a Soviet-born American news anchor and journalist. She currently co-anchors One World with Zain Asher on CNN International. She previously served as a senior global affairs analyst at CNN, and as news and finance anchor at Yahoo! News. Golodryga also co-anchored the weekend edition of Good Morning America and co-hosted CBS This Morning.
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Ryan Crouser
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- athletics competitor
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Ryan Crouser is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put and discus. He specializes in the shot put, in which he is the only three-time Olympic gold medalist, having won in Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Paris, and also a three-time outdoor World Champion. He holds the world record in the shot put, both indoors and outdoors. He set the outdoor world record at 23.56 meters in May 2023, improving upon his previous record of 23.37 m from July 2021. He has held the indoor record of 22.82 m since January 2021.
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Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
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- politician
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Lynda Bird Johnson Robb is the elder daughter of the 36th U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson and former first lady Lady Bird Johnson. She served as chairwoman of the Board of Reading is Fundamental, the nation's largest children's literacy organization, as well as chairwoman of the President's Advisory Committee for Women. She is a magazine editor who served as First Lady of Virginia from 1982 to 1986, and as Second Lady of Virginia from 1978 to 1982. She is the oldest living child of a U.S. president, following the death of John Eisenhower on December 21, 2013. She serves as a vice president of the Society of Presidential Descendants.
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Myles Turner
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Myles Christian Turner is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season for the Texas Longhorns before being selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 11th overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft. Turner spent 10 seasons with the Pacers, reaching the 2025 NBA Finals in his final year with the team. Standing at 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m), Turner plays the center position. He has led the league in blocks twice in his career.
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Ramsey Clark
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- peace activistlawyerpolitician
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William Ramsey Clark was an American lawyer, activist, and federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously, he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965.
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Dina Powell
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in humanities
- Occupations
- diplomatbankerpolitician
- Biography
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Dina Powell, also known as Dina Powell McCormick is an Egyptian-American financial executive, philanthropist, and political advisor, best known for having been the United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to President Donald Trump.
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Jaxson Hayes
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jaxson Reed Hayes is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns.
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Rachel Lindsay
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in kinesiology
- Occupations
- television presenterlawyersports team owner
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Rachel Lynn Lindsay is an American media personality, attorney and podcaster. She is best known for her role as a contestant on the twenty-first season of ABC's The Bachelor and as the lead of its spinoff, The Bachelorette, in its thirteenth season. She was the first African-American lead in The Bachelor franchise. She was a correspondent for Extra from 2020 to 2023, and is a co-host of the Higher Learning podcast alongside Van Lathan on The Ringer platform. Lindsay was also a partial owner of the FCF Shoulda Been Stars Indoor Football Team.
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Cory Joseph
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Cory Ephram Joseph is a Canadian professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He plays the point guard position and was previously the captain of the Canadian national team.
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Christopher Rich
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- actor
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Christopher Rich Wilson is an American actor, best known for his roles on Murphy Brown, Reba, and Boston Legal.
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James Talarico
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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James Dell Talarico is an American politician, Presbyterian seminarian, and former public school teacher serving since 2018 as a member of the Texas House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, Talarico has been called a "rising star" among Texas Democrats.
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Tara Davis-Woodhall
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- long jumperathletics competitor
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Tara Davis-Woodhall is an American track and field athlete. She won a gold medal in women's long jump at the 2024 Summer Olympics and also a silver medal at the 2023 World Championships. In 2017, she set the American junior women's record in the indoor long jump, and placed 6th in the women's long jump final at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Richard Garriott
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- programmergame designervideo game directorengineervideo game developer
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Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut.
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C. Wright Mills
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- university teachersociologist
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Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills published widely in both popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, and The Sociological Imagination. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post–World War II society, and he advocated public and political engagement over disinterested observation. One of Mills's biographers, Daniel Geary, writes that Mills's writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s era." It was Mills who popularized the term "New Left" in the U.S., in a 1960 open letter "Letter to the New Left".
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Daniel Gibson
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Daniel Hiram "Boobie" Gibson is an American former professional basketball player. He was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the 2006 NBA draft and played seven seasons for them.
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Alan Bean
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- paintermilitary flight engineermilitary officertest pilotaircraft pilot
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Alan LaVern Bean was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, NASA astronaut and painter. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3, and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
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James Lankford
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin
- In 1990 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politiciandirector
- Biography
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James Paul Lankford is an American Southern Baptist minister and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oklahoma, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Oklahoma's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015.
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Fernando Belaúnde Terry
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- university teacherarchitectpolitician
- Biography
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Fernando Sergio Marcelo Marcos Belaúnde Terry was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru (1963–1968 and 1980–1985). Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected in 1980 after twelve years of military rule.
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Rob Thomas
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- screenwriterwriterchildren's writertelevision producerteacher
- Biography
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Robert James Thomas is an American author, producer, director and screenwriter. He created the television series Veronica Mars (2004–2007, 2019), co-developed 90210 (2008–2013), and co-created Party Down (2009–2010, 2023) and iZombie (2015–2019).
