28 Notable alumni of
University of Texas at Dallas
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The University of Texas at Dallas is 1602nd in the world, 569th in North America, and 536th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 28 notable alumni from the University of Texas at Dallas sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ross Ulbricht
- Occupations
- hackercomputer scientist
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Ross William Ulbricht is an American serving life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site operated as a hidden service on the Tor network and facilitated the sale of narcotics and other illegal products and services. Ulbricht ran the site under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts", after the fictional character from The Princess Bride.
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Aziz Sancar
- Occupations
- university teacherscientistbiochemistmolecular biologistgeneticist
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Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.
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Katrina Pierson
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Dallas
- In 2006 graduated with Bachelor of Science in biology
- Occupations
- political adviserpolitical campaign staffconsultant
- Biography
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Katrina Lanette Pierson is an American activist and communications consultant. She was the national spokesperson for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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Naveen Jindal
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
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Naveen Jindal is an Indian billionaire industrialist, philanthropist, and a former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Kurukshetra, Haryana in the 14th and 15th Lok Sabha. He currently serves as the Chairman of Jindal Steel and Power Limited and Chancellor of O. P. Jindal Global University.
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Austin Tindle
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United States - Occupations
- actorvoice actortelevision actor
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Austin Tindle is an American voice actor. He is best known for voicing the lead role of Ken Kaneki in the Tokyo Ghoul series, Kiyoshi Fujino in Prison School, Ayumu Aikawa in Is This a Zombie?, Yu Ishigami in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Accelerator in the A Certain Magical Index series, as well as its spinoffs A Certain Scientific Accelerator and A Certain Scientific Railgun S, Karma Akabane in Assassination Classroom, Shu Ouma in Guilty Crown, Tsukasa Yugi Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun, Vali Lucifer in High School DxD, Marco Bodt in Attack on Titan, Neito Monoma in My Hero Academia, Kenji Kazama in D-Frag!, Crowley Eusford in Seraph of the End and Leopold Vermillion in Black Clover.
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David Hanson
- Occupations
- sculptorinternational forum participantroboticistchief executive officer
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David Hanson Jr. is an American roboticist who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hanson Robotics, a Hong Kong-based robotics company founded in 2013.
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Merve Kavakcı
- Occupations
- diplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
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Merve Safa Kavakcı is a Turkish politician, who was elected as a Virtue Party (Turkish: Fazilet Partisi) deputy for Istanbul on 18 April 1999. She served as the Turkish ambassador to Malaysia from 2017 but was recalled to Ankara following the appointment of Emir Salim Yüksel as the Turkish Ambassador to Malaysia in June 2022.
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Michael C. Burgess
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Dallas
- In 2000 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- obstetriciangynaecologistphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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Michael Clifton Burgess is an American physician and politician representing Texas's 26th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. The district is anchored in Denton County, a suburban county north of Dallas and Fort Worth. He has held the position since 2003 and is a member of the Republican Party.
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Morgan Luttrell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Morgan Joe Luttrell is an American politician, businessman, and military veteran serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 8th congressional district since 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Alejandro Ramírez
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Álvarez is a Costa Rican-American chess Grandmaster and commentator. At the age of 15, he became the first Central American to achieve the title of Grandmaster and was the second youngest chess grandmaster in the world at the time. Born in Costa Rica, he represented Costa Rica before switching to the United States in 2011.
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James F. Reilly
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Dallas
- In 1995 graduated with doctorate in geosciences
- Graduated with master's degree in geosciences
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in geosciences
- Occupations
- directorastronautgeologistmilitary officer
- Biography
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James Francis Reilly II is an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, and honorary United States Marshal who served as the 17th Director of the United States Geological Survey from 2018 to 2021. He flew on three Space Shuttle missions: STS-89, STS-104 and STS-117.
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Ravza Kavakcı Kan
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ravza Kavakçı Kan is a Turkish politician, elected as the President of the Turkish Inter-Parliamentary Union Group for the 27th legislative term of Grand National Assembly of Turkey and is a member of the Committee on Digital Platforms that is newly established.
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Amon Simutowe
- Occupations
- chess player
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Amon Simutowe is a Zambian chess grandmaster. He is the first grandmaster from sub-Saharan Africa and the third black chess grandmaster in history, after Maurice Ashley and Pontus Carlsson. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Master of Science in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford.
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Yury Shulman
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Yuri Shulman is a Belarusian American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). He also goes by the alternate spelling of "Yury Shulman." He's married to the Woman International Master (WIM) Viktorija Ni.
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Angie Chen Button
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Angie Chen Button is a Certified Public Accountant and a retired marketing manager of Texas Instruments from Garland, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. Since 2009, she has represented District 112 in Dallas County.
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Conrad Holt
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Conrad William Holt is an American chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012.
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Alejandro Mendoza
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alejandro "Alex" Mendoza is an American former Marine, owner of a lawn care business and democratic socialist politician from Dallas, Texas, who was the vice presidential nominee of Socialist Party USA in the 2012 elections. Mendoza, of Texas, ran with Stewart Alexander of California for president. Mendoza is currently serving as the State Chair for the Socialist Party of Texas.
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Brandon Friedman
- Occupations
- writer
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Brandon Friedman is an American writer, entrepreneur and former Obama administration official. He was CEO of the McPherson Square Group before co-founding Rakkasan Tea Company in 2017. Previously, he served as the deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Bechara Choucair
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- researcherinternational forum participantcivil servant
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Bechara Choucair is a Lebanese-American physician and public health advisor who is the chief community health officer of Kaiser Permanente. He was the senior vice president of safety net and community health at Trinity Health and served as the commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health from 2009 to 2014.
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Sander Kaasjager
- Occupations
- professional gamer
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Sander Kaasjager, who plays under the pseudonym Vo0 (pronunciation: 'vu:), is a Dutch professional player of the first-person shooter games Painkiller, Quake II, Quake III, Quake 4, Quake Live and Quake Champions, as well as the MMORPG World of Warcraft. He has won the most titles and prize money from professional Painkiller tournaments out of all other players, having won over US$250,000.
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Magesh Chandran Panchanathan
- Occupations
- chess player
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Magesh Chandran Panchanathan is an Indian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006.
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Aron K. Barbey
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- researcherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Aron Keith Barbey is an American cognitive neuroscientist, who investigates the neural architecture of human intelligence and brain plasticity. Barbey is the Emanuel Donchin Professorial Scholar of Psychology and a Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois. He is director of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and founding director of the Center for Brain Plasticity at the Beckman Institute, where he leads the Intelligence, Learning, and Plasticity (ILP) Initiative.
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Duane Quam
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Duane Robert Quam II is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2011. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, Quam represents District 24A in southeast Minnesota, including the cities of Kasson and Byron, parts of Rochester, and parts of Dodge and Olmsted Counties. He is an engineer.
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Salman Bhojani
- Occupations
- lawyer
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Salman Bhojani is an American corporate lawyer and politician who is a former member of the City Council of Euless, Texas. He was the first Muslim American to hold elected office in Euless. In October 2021 Bhojani announced his candidacy for the Texas House of Representatives. He was elected to the Texas House in November 2022, becoming one of the first Muslims and South Asians elected to the Texas Legislature.
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Shelby Slawson
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Shelby Slawson is an American attorney, businesswoman, and politician. She has represented the 59th District in the Texas House of Representatives since 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Slawson is also an attorney and small business owner.
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Sandra Bond Chapman
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Dallas
- In 1986 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in neuroscience
- Occupations
- researcherspeech and language therapistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Sandra Bond Chapman is a cognitive neuroscientist, founder and chief director of the Center for Brain Health, Dee Wyly Distinguished Professor in Brain Health, and a professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas.
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Marcin Kamiński
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Marcin Kamiński is a Polish chess grandmaster.
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Kacper Drozdowski
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Kacper Drozdowski is a Polish chess player who holds the title of International Master.
