100 Notable alumni of
Tulane University of Louisiana
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The Tulane University of Louisiana is 225th in the world, 98th in North America, and 95th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Tulane University of Louisiana sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Shannon Lee
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- taekwondo athletefilm actorstunt performeractorfilm producer
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Shannon Emery Lee Keasler is an American actress, businesswoman, singer, and martial artist. She is the only living child of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee and retired martial arts teacher Linda Lee Cadwell, and is the younger sister of actor Brandon Lee. Through Bruce Lee she is a granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-chuen.
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Ashley Biden
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- Studied in 2000-2004
- Occupations
- philanthropistfashion designerbusinesspersonactivistsocial worker
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Ashley Blazer Biden is an American social worker, activist, philanthropist, and fashion designer. She served as the executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019. Prior to her administrative role at the center, Biden worked in the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families. She founded the fashion company Livelihood, which partners with the online retailer Gilt Groupe to raise money for community programs focused on eliminating income inequality in the United States, launching it at New York Fashion Week in 2017. Biden's parents are President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden.
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Newt Gingrich
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- In 1968 graduated with Master of Arts
- In 1971 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- historianwriterteacherpoliticiannovelist
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Newton Leroy Gingrich is an American politician and author who served as the 50th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999. In 2012, Gingrich unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.
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Huey Long
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- politicianlawyer
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Huey Pierce Long Jr., nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascistic demagogue.
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Andrew Breitbart
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- journalistpublisherediting staffconspiracy theorist
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Andrew James Breitbart was an American conservative journalist and political commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost.
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Karen Grassle
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Karen Grassle is an American actress, known for her role as Caroline Ingalls in the NBC television drama series Little House on the Prairie.
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Paul Michael Glaser
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- film actorfilm producerscreenwriterdirectoractor
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Paul Michael Glaser is an American actor, director, and writer whose career has spanned five decades. He made his acting debut in the television series Love is a many Splendored Thing and went onto have acting appearing roles in The Waltons, The Streets of San Francisco, and Kojak. Glaser rose to prominence for his portrayal as "Detective Dave Starsky" in the 1970s television series, Starsky & Hutch and went onto write and direct five episodes for the show. Following the show's success, he ventured into directing for other series including Miami Vice, Judging Amy, and Las Vegas.
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Anthony Jeselnik
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- television producercomedianscreenwritertelevision writerstand-up comedian
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Anthony Jeselnik is an American comedian, writer, actor, and producer. He is known for his dark comedy style, which emphasizes ironic misdirection, non sequiturs, biting insults, an arrogant demeanor, and a stage persona that frequently takes amoral or psychopathic stances.
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Amy Carter
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- Studied art history
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Amy Lynn Carter is the daughter of the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter. Carter entered the limelight as a child when she lived in the White House during the Carter presidency.
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Matthew Labyorteaux
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- television actorvoice actorfilm actoractor
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Matthew Charles Labyorteaux is an American film, television and voice actor. In many of his credits, his last name is spelled as "Laborteaux". He is also credited as Matthew Charles for his work in animation.
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Lauren Hutton
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- television actormodelfilm actorfilm producer
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Lauren Hutton is an American model and actress. Born and raised in the southern United States, Hutton relocated to New York City in her early adulthood to begin a modeling career. Though she was initially dismissed by agents for a signature gap in her teeth, Hutton signed a modeling contract with Revlon in 1973, which at the time was the biggest contract in the history of the modeling industry.
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Neil Bush
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- businesspersonmerchantinternational forum participantentrepreneur
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Neil Mallon Bush is an American businessman and investor. He is the fourth of six children of former President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush (née Pierce). His five siblings are George W. Bush, Jeb Bush; a former governor of Florida; the late Pauline Robinson Bush; Marvin Bush; and Dorothy Bush Koch.
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D. B. Sweeney
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- voice actoractorfilm directorstage actortelevision actor
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Daniel Bernard Sweeney is an American actor known for his roles as Jackie Willow in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Lt. Phil Lowenthal in Memphis Belle (1990), and Travis Walton in Fire in the Sky (1993). He also starred in films such as The Cutting Edge (1992), Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988), Dinosaur (2000), and Brother Bear (2003).
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N. K. Jemisin
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- science fiction writernovelistwriter
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Nora Keita Jemisin is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim. She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award. The three books of her Broken Earth series made her the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, as well as the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy. She won a fourth Hugo Award, for Best Novelette, in 2020 for Emergency Skin. Jemisin was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant in 2020.
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Jim Garrison
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- writerlawyerjudgefilm actordistrict attorney
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James Carothers Garrison was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973 and later a Federal Judge for appeals. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the prosecution of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw to that effect in 1969, which ended in Shaw's acquittal. He wrote three published books, one of which became a prime source for Oliver Stone's film JFK in 1991, in which Garrison was portrayed by actor Kevin Costner, while Garrison himself also made a cameo appearance as Earl Warren.
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Paul Morphy
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- chess theoreticianchess player
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Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master.
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Enrique Murciano
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Enrique Ricardo Murciano is an American actor. He is known for his role as FBI agent Danny Taylor in the CBS mystery drama series Without a Trace from 2002 to 2009.
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David Filo
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- entrepreneurcomputer scientist
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David Robert Filo is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.
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Ricardo Salinas Pliego
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- international forum participantentrepreneur
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Ricardo Benjamín Salinas Pliego is a Mexican businessman, founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, a corporate conglomerate with interests in telecommunications, media, financial services, and retail.
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Ian Bremmer
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- 1989-1989 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in international relations
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistbusinesspersonpolitical scientistinternational forum participant
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Ian Arthur Bremmer is an American political scientist, author, and entrepreneur focused on global political risk. He is the founder and president of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm. He is also a founder of GZERO Media, a digital media firm.
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John Kennedy Toole
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- novelistwriterprofessorscreenwriterjournalist
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John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981; he also wrote The Neon Bible. Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy, Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime. Due in part to these failures, he suffered from paranoia and depression, dying by suicide at the age of 31.
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Ray Nagin
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- local politicianbusinessperson
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Clarence Raymond Joseph Nagin Jr. is an American former politician who was the 60th Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 2002 to 2010. A Democrat, Nagin became internationally known in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Luther Strange
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerbasketball player
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Luther Johnson Strange III is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Alabama from 2017 to 2018. He was appointed to fill that position after it was vacated by Sen. Jeff Sessions upon Sessions's confirmation as U.S. Attorney General.
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Christian LeBlanc
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- actormodeltelevision actor
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Christian Jules LeBlanc is an American actor, best known for his role as Michael Baldwin on The Young and the Restless.
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David Vitter
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- politicianlobbyistlawyer
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David Bruce Vitter is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator from Louisiana from 2005 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Vitter served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 1999 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005.
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James H. Clark
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- computer scientistbusinesspersonengineer
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James Henry Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Netscape, myCFO, and Healtheon. His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for the fast rendering of three-dimensional computer images.
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Timothy Sykes
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- day traderentrepreneur
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Timothy Sykes is a penny stock trader who earned $1.65 million from a $12,415 Bar mitzvah gift through day trading while in college.
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Bryan Batt
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- television actoractor
- Biography
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Bryan Batt is an American actor best known for his role in the AMC series Mad Men as Salvatore Romano, the closeted art director for the Sterling Cooper agency. Primarily a theater actor, he has had a number of starring roles in movies and television as well. His performance in the musical adaptation of Saturday Night Fever earned him one of New York City's more unusual honors, a caricature at Sardi's.
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Victoria Reggie Kennedy
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Victoria Anne Kennedy is an American diplomat, attorney, and activist who has served as the United States Ambassador to Austria since 2022. She is the widow and the second wife of longtime U.S. senator Ted Kennedy.
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Michael Ellis DeBakey
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- university teachersurgeoncardiac surgeon
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Michael Ellis DeBakey was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades.
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Cedric Richmond
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- politicianlawyer
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Cedric Levan Richmond is an American attorney, politician, and political advisor who is serving as senior advisor to the Democratic National Committee. Richmond was previously a senior advisor to the president and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement in the Biden administration. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2021. His district included most of New Orleans.
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Pedro Pierluisi
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- politicianlawyer
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Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer currently serving as governor of Puerto Rico since 2021. He has previously served as secretary of justice, resident commissioner, acting secretary of state, de facto governor of Puerto Rico and as private attorney for Puerto Rico's fiscal oversight board under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act.
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Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- Studied in 1935
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. was an American Democratic Party politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the House majority leader and a member of the Warren Commission.
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Howard Baker
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Howard Henry Baker Jr. was an American politician, diplomat and photographer who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. During his tenure, he rose to the rank of Senate Minority Leader and then Senate Majority Leader. A member of the Republican Party, Baker was the first Republican to be elected to the US Senate in Tennessee since the Reconstruction era.
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David H. Berger
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- military personnel
- Biography
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David Hilberry Berger is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as the 38th commandant of the Marine Corps from 2019 to 2023.
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Adam Laxalt
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Adam Paul Laxalt is an American attorney and politician who served as the 33rd Nevada Attorney General from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's unsuccessful nominee for governor of Nevada in 2018 and for the U.S. Senate in 2022.
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Alfred Ford
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- patron of the artsentrepreneurbusinessperson
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Alfred Brush Ford, also known as Ambarish Das (IAST: Ambarīśa Dāsa), is an American businessman and the great-grandson of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.
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Douglas G. Hurley
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- astronautengineermilitary officer
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Douglas Gerald Hurley is an American engineer, former Marine Corps pilot and former NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle missions STS-127 (July 2009) and STS-135 (July 2011), the final flight of the Space Shuttle program. He launched into space for the third time as commander of Crew Dragon Demo-2, the first crewed spaceflight from American soil since STS-135 and became, together with Bob Behnken, the first astronaut in history launching aboard a commercial orbital spacecraft. He was also the first Marine to fly the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet. His call sign is "Chunky", and he was sometimes referred to by this name on the communication loops.
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Benmont Tench
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- pianistsongwritermusiciankeyboardistcomposer
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Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III is an American musician and singer, and a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
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Les Crane
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- radio personalityactortelevision presenteraircraft pilotmilitary officer
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Les Crane was a radio announcer and television talk show host, a pioneer in interactive broadcasting who also scored a spoken word hit with his 1971 recording of the poem Desiderata, winning a "Best Spoken Word" Grammy. He was the first network television personality to compete with Johnny Carson after Carson became a fixture of late-night television.
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Lawrence Wright
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- writernovelistscreenwriterplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Lawrence Wright is an American writer and journalist, who is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Wright is also known for his work with documentarian Alex Gibney who directed film versions of Wright's one man show My Trip to Al-Qaeda and his book Going Clear. His 2020 novel, The End of October, a thriller about a pandemic, was released in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, to generally positive reviews.
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Ed Nelson
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- television actorfilm actoractorproducer
- Biography
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Edwin Stafford Nelson was an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Michael Rossi in the television series Peyton Place.
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Luis Guillermo Solís
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- historianpoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera is a Costa Rican politician and educator who was the 47th President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018. He is a member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC).
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Tim Wise
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- writer
- Biography
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Timothy Jacob Wise is an American activist and writer on the topic of race. He is a consultant who provides anti-racism lectures to institutions.
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Linton Johnson
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Linton Johnson III is an American professional basketball player. He is married to a woman from Caserta, and has Italian citizenship.
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Edward Douglass White
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Edward Douglass White Jr. was an American politician and jurist. White, a native of Louisiana, was a U.S. Supreme Court justice for 27 years, first as an associate justice from 1894 to 1910, then as the ninth chief justice from 1910 until his death in 1921. White is known for siding with the Supreme Court majority in Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the legality of state segregation.
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Doug Ellin
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- directorscreenwriterfilm producershowrunnerfilm director
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Douglas Reed Ellin is an American podcaster, screenwriter and film and TV director, known best for creating the HBO television series Entourage. Ellin also served as executive producer, director, head writer and supporting actor for the series, and wrote, directed and produced its 2015 film adaptation. He attended Tulane University.
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Dominik Koepfer
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- tennis player
- Biography
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Dominik Koepfer, also spelled Köpfer, is a German professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 50 on 10 May 2021, and a doubles ranking of No. 92 on 14 February 2022. He played college tennis at Tulane University.
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Quincy Davis
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Quincy Spencer Davis III is a Taiwanese professional basketball player who plays for the New Taipei Kings of the P. League+. He renounced his U.S. citizenship in June 2013 to naturalize in Taiwan so that he could play for the Chinese Taipei national team in international competition.
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Andrew Friedman
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- baseball playerbaseball manager
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Andrew Friedman is an American baseball executive. He is currently the president of baseball operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. He previously served as the general manager for MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays, where Sporting News named him Executive of the Year in 2008. That year, for the first time in franchise history, the Rays both qualified for the playoffs and played in the World Series. In Los Angeles, as of 2020, Friedman and the Dodgers have won a World Series, three pennants, and seven division titles since he took the job after the 2014 season. Baseball America called the Dodgers the model franchise in the sport under Friedman’s tenure as President.
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Lisa P. Jackson
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- engineerinternational forum participantpoliticianchemist
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Lisa Perez Jackson is an American chemical engineer who served as the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2009 to 2013. She was the first African American to hold that position.
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Henry Hobson Richardson
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- architect
- Biography
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Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture".
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Shalanda Young
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- 1999-2001 graduated with Master of Health Administration in health administration
- Occupations
- politicianpolicy advisor
- Biography
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Shalanda Delores Young is an American political advisor who is the current director of the Office of Management and Budget, previously serving in an acting capacity from March 24, 2021, through March 17, 2022 concurrently as deputy director. She previously worked for the United States House Committee on Appropriations as its staff director.
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Lindy Boggs
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs was a politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as United States Ambassador to the Holy See. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana. She was also a permanent chairwoman of the 1976 Democratic National Convention, which met in New York City to nominate the Carter-Mondale ticket. She was the first woman to preside over a major party convention.
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Earl Long
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Earl Kemp Long was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Louisiana for nine years (1939–1940, 1948–1952, and 1956–1960). A member of the Democratic Party, he held the same position that his brother, Huey Long, held years earlier (1928–1932).
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Jessica Valenti
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- writeropinion journalistediting staffbloggerjournalist
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Jessica Valenti is an American feminist writer. She was the co-founder of the blog Feministing, which she wrote for from 2004 to 2011. Valenti is the author of five books: Full Frontal Feminism (2007), He's a Stud, She's a Slut (2008), The Purity Myth (2009), Why Have Kids? (2012), and Sex Object: A Memoir (2016). She also co-edited the books Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (2008), and Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World (2020). Between 2014 and 2018, Valenti was a columnist for The Guardian. She currently runs the Abortion, Every Day newsletter on Substack. The Washington Post described her as "one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation".
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Darnell Mooney
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Darnell Mooney is an American football wide receiver for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Tulane.
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Howard Scott Warshaw
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- designerengineercomputer scientistprogrammer
- Biography
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Howard Scott Warshaw, also known as HSW, is an American psychotherapist and former game designer. He worked at Atari, Inc. in the early 1980s, where he designed and programmed the Atari 2600 games Yars' Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
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Taylor Rochestie
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Taylor Campbell Rochestie is an American-born naturalized Montenegrin professional basketball player for the Tianjin Pioneers of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He also represents the senior Montenegrin national basketball team internationally. Standing at a height of 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), he plays at the point guard position.
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Regina Benjamin
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- physiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Regina Marcia Benjamin is an American physician and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Benjamin previously directed a nonprofit primary care medical clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and served on the board of trustees for the Morehouse School of Medicine.
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Zachary Richard
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- film actorsinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Ralph Zachary Richard is an American singer-songwriter and poet. His music is a combination of Cajun and Zydeco musical styles.
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Ian Terry
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- engineerreality television participant
- Biography
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Ian Patrick Terry is the winner of the American reality television show Big Brother 14 in 2012 and competed in Big Brother: All Stars in 2020. and a contestant of Reality GameMasters in 2013.
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Bob Livingston
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- In 1967 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlobbyistlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. is an American lobbyist and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999. A Republican, he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a position he declined following revelations of an extramarital affair. He served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999 and as the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995 to 1999. During his final years in Congress, Livingston was a strong supporter of Bill Clinton's impeachment. He is currently a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist. Livingston's memoir, The Windmill Chaser: Triumphs and Less in American Politics, was published in September 2018.
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Howard K. Smith
- Occupations
- television presenternews presenteractorwar correspondentjournalist
- Biography
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Howard Kingsbury Smith was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator, and film actor. He was one of the original members of the team of war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys.
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Sammis Reyes
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- Studied in 2016-2018
- Occupations
- player of American footballbasketball player
- Biography
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Sammis Daniel Reyes Martel is a Chilean-born former professional American football tight end. He was the first player from Chile to play in the NFL. Reyes grew up playing basketball as a youth member of the Chile national team before moving to the United States on an athletic scholarship at 14. He played college basketball at Hawaii, Palm Beach State, Tulane, and Loyola–New Orleans, graduating with a Master of Business Administration degree with the latter.
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Evan Farmer
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- television actorvoice actoractorsinger
- Biography
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Evan Ragland Farmer, Jr. is an American business owner, television host, radio host, actor, musician, designer/customizer, and author. He is best known for his lead role as Jerry O'Keefe in the MTV Film and follow-up television series 2gether, and as host and carpenter within the home-makeover television genre including Emmy-nominated While You Were Out (TLC), Freestyle (HGTV), and Door Knockers (DIY).
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Francis George
- Occupations
- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Francis Eugene George was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the eighth Archbishop of Chicago in Illinois (1997–2014) and previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Yakima and Archbishop of Portland.
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Les Blank
- Occupations
- film directordocumentary filmmakerdirectorfilm producerdocumentarian
- Biography
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Les Blank was an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians.
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Gabriela Alemán
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Gabriela Alemán is a Brazilan-born Ecuadorian writer and educator, whose work has been translated into multiple languages.
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Timothy Griffin
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneurlawyer
- Biography
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John Timothy Griffin is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 57th attorney general of Arkansas. He previously served as the 20th lieutenant governor of Arkansas, from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas between 2006 and 2007 and U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015. Griffin defeated Democrat John Burkhalter for lieutenant governor in 2014 and served under Governor Asa Hutchinson. In summer 2020, Griffin announced his candidacy for the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election, but withdrew from the race in February 2021 to run for Arkansas Attorney General instead.
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Joan Halifax
- Occupations
- anthropologistwriterreligious writeractivist
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Joan Jiko Halifax is an American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community which she founded in 1990. Halifax-roshi has received Dharma transmission from both Bernard Glassman and Thich Nhat Hanh, and previously studied with the Korean master Seung Sahn. In the 1970s she collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband Stanislav Grof, in addition to other collaborative efforts with Joseph Campbell and Alan Lomax. She is founder of the Ojai Foundation in California, which she led from 1979 to 1989. As a socially engaged Buddhist, Halifax has done extensive work with the dying through her Project on Being with Dying (which she founded). She is on the board of directors of the Mind and Life Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the relationship of science and Buddhism.
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Fred Crane
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- actorhotel managerstage actortelevision actorplayer of American football
- Biography
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Herman Frederick Crane, was an American film and television actor and radio announcer. He is probably best known for his role as Brent Tarleton in the 1939 film, Gone with the Wind, speaking the opening lines in the movie during the opening scene with Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Stuart Tarleton (George Reeves).
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Bob Wise
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. is an American politician who served as the 33rd Governor of West Virginia from 2001 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Wise also served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2001. In 2005 Wise became the president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, a nonprofit organization that focuses on reforming the nation's high schools. In 2015, North Carolina State University honored Wise with the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation's Friday Medal which recognizes significant, distinguished and enduring contributions to education through advocating innovation, advancing education and imparting inspiration.
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Tommy Mason
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Thomas Cyril Mason was an American football running back in the National Football League (NFL).
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Walter Nixon
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Walter Louis Nixon Jr. is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi who in 1989 was impeached by the House of Representatives and removed from office by the Senate. Because Nixon's impeachment was for perjury, the case was cited as a precedent in the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton.
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Micah Owings
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Micah Burton Owings is an American former professional baseball player who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cincinnati Reds and San Diego Padres between 2007 and 2012. During his career, Owings was used as a pitcher and an occasional pinch-hitter; he also played outfielder in the minor leagues. While playing for the Diamondbacks in 2007, he was honored with a Silver Slugger Award as the top-hitting pitcher.
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Wiley Nickel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Wilmarth "Wiley" Nickel III is an American attorney and Democratic politician serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 13th congressional district since 2023.
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William L. Armstrong
- Occupations
- bankerpolitician
- Biography
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William Lester Armstrong Jr. was an American businessman, administrator, and politician. He was a member of the Republican Party and served as a United States representative and Senator from Colorado.
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Melvin Frazier
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Melvin Jamon Frazier Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Delaware Blue Coats of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Tulane Green Wave.
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Cameron Reynolds
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Cameron Reynolds is an American professional basketball player for Promitheas Patras of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. He played college basketball for the Tulane Green Wave.
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Warren Lichtenstein
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Warren G. Lichtenstein is an American businessman and philanthropist. Lichtenstein is founder and executive chairman of Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (NYSE:SPLP), a global diversified holding company. He founded the company in 1990 at the age of 24 after beginning his career as an analyst at Para Partners, L.P. and then serving as an acquisition analyst at Ballantrae Partners, L.P. Over the past 25 years Steel Partners has grown from a private investment fund, with two employees and assets of $600,000, into Steel Partners Holdings L.P., a company with a combined revenue of more than $3.6 billion that through its holdings employs 13,500 people in 155 plants and facilities in 20 countries.
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Tyjae Spears
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- Studied in 2019
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Tyjae Armon Spears is an American football running back for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Tulane.
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Shirley Ann Grau
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- In 1950 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- novelistwritershort story writer
- Biography
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Shirley Ann Grau was an American writer. Born in New Orleans, she lived part of her childhood in Montgomery, Alabama. Her novels are set primarily in the Deep South and explore issues of race and gender. In 1965 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her novel The Keepers of the House, set in a fictional Alabama town.
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Florian Cajori
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacherhistorian of mathematics
- Biography
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Florian Cajori was a Swiss-American historian of mathematics.
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Edward Hallowell
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- psychiatrist
- Biography
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Edward McKey Hallowell is an American psychiatrist, speaker, New York Times best-selling author and podcast host. He specializes in ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and is the founder of the Hallowell ADHD Centers. Hallowell is the author of 20 books, including the Distraction series, co-authored with Dr. John Ratey.
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Rob Segedin
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Robert Mitchell Segedin is an American former professional baseball player. He played first base, third base and outfield in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2016 and 2017.
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Sergio Rossetti Morosini
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- Biography
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Sergio Rossetti Morosini is a Contemporary Brazilian-American Scholar, artist and author of Venetian extraction who served as Brazil's Cultural attaché in New Orleans and is also dedicated to preserving the Atlantic Forest and restoring the art in stone of New York City Landmarks.
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John Wilbanks
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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John Wilbanks is a Senior Fellow at the Datasphere Initiative, former Head of Data at Biogen Digital Health, former Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks, and Executive Director at Science Commons. He served as a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and at FasterCures. He is known for his work on informed consent, open science and research networks. Wilbanks led a We the People petition supporting the free access of taxpayer-funded research data, which gained over 65,000 signatures. In February 2013, the White House responded, detailing a plan to freely publicize taxpayer-funded research data.
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Dave Treen
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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David Conner Treen Sr. was an American politician and attorney from Louisiana. A member of the Republican Party, Treen served as U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 1973 to 1980 and the 51st governor of Louisiana from 1980 to 1984. Treen was the first Republican elected to either office since Reconstruction.
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Karen DeSalvo
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Karen Bollinger DeSalvo is an American business executive, physician and public health expert. She has been Google’s chief health officer since 2019. Previously, she served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and Director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
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Kenneth McClintock
- Occupations
- Amway distributorpolitician
- Biography
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Kenneth Davison McClintock-Hernández is a politician who served as the twenty-second Secretary of State of Puerto Rico, one of the four longest serving in that post. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s National Hispanic Leadership Council in 2008, he co-chaired her successful Puerto Rico primary campaign that year and served as the Thirteenth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico until December 31, 2008. He chaired Luis Fortuño’s Incoming Committee on Government Transition in 2008 and the Outgoing Committee on Government Transition in 2012, the only Puerto Rican to serve in both capacities. He was sworn into office as secretary of state on January 2, 2009, by Chief Justice Federico Hernández Denton, fulfilling the role of lieutenant governor (first-in-line of succession) in the islands. He was appointed by Governor Pedro Pierluisi as a member of the Civil Rights Commission (Puerto Rico) on February 8, 2024, a nomination pending Senate confirmation.
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Ruth R. Benerito
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- In 1938 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- chemistinventor
- Biography
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Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito was an American chemist and inventor known for her work related to the textile industry, notably including the development of wash-and-wear cotton fabrics. She held 55 patents.
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Jake Rogers
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jacob Ray Rogers is an American professional baseball catcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2019.
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Gene Taylor
- Enrolled in the Tulane University of Louisiana
- In 1976 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gary Eugene Taylor is an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 2011 and previously a member of the Mississippi Senate from 1983 to 1989. He was defeated for re-election in 2010 by State Representative Steven Palazzo. In 2014, he changed his long-time membership from the Democratic Party, becoming a Republican. The same year, he ran for election against Palazzo to return to the House of Representatives. Securing only 43 percent of the vote, Taylor lost in the primary.
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Song Sang-Hyun
- Occupations
- university teacherjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Song Sang-hyun is a South Korean lawyer and former President of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Francis T. Nicholls
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls was an American attorney, politician, judge, and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served two terms as the 28th Governor of Louisiana, first from 1876 to 1880 after the Reconstruction era ended and from 1888 to 1892.
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Murphy J. Foster
- Occupations
- lawyerbusinesspersonpoliticianentrepreneur
- Biography
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Murphy James Foster was the 31st Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana, an office he held for two terms from 1892 to 1900. Foster supported the Louisiana Constitution of 1898, which effectively disfranchised the black majority, who were mostly Republicans. This led to Louisiana becoming a one-party Democratic state for several generations and excluding African Americans from the political system.
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Kevin Yorn
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Kevin Brett Yorn is an American entertainment attorney and investor. He co-founded Yorn Barnes Levine Entertainment Law Firm where he is managing partner.
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Valerie E. Caproni
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Valerie Elaine Caproni is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Sanford Panitch
- Born in
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United States - Biography
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Sanford Panitch is an American film industry executive. Appointed president of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group in October 2019, he served previously as president of Columbia Pictures. Earlier in his career, he founded Fox International Productions, a division of 21st Century Fox.
