90 Notable alumni of
University of Akron
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The University of Akron is 784th in the world, 290th in North America, and 269th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 90 notable alumni from the University of Akron sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Yvette Nicole Brown
- Occupations
- film actorvoice actortelevision actoractor
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Yvette Nicole Brown is an American actress. She starred as Shirley Bennett on the NBC sitcom Community, as Dani in the 2015 reboot of The Odd Couple on CBS, and as Dina Rose on the ABC sitcom The Mayor. Brown had a recurring role as Helen Dubois in Drake & Josh, and has had guest roles in television shows such as That '70s Show, The Office, Boston Legal, Chuck, The Soul Man, Mom, and Big Shot. In 2021, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role in A Black Lady Sketch Show.
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Meg Johnson
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- poetlecturer
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Meg Johnson is an American poet and lecturer. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Midwestern Gothic, Slipstream Magazine, Word Riot, Hobart, and many others. Her first collection of poems, Inappropriate Sleepover, was released in 2014, her second collection, The Crimes of Clara Turlington, was released in December 2015., and her third book, Without: Body, Name, Country is due to release in September 2020. She is also the current editor of the Dressing Room Poetry Journal.
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James Ingram
- Occupations
- composerrecord producersingersongwriterpianist
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James Edward Ingram was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He was a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song. After beginning his career in 1973, Ingram charted eight top 40 hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart from the early 1980s until the early 1990s, as well as thirteen top 40 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In addition, he charted 20 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart (including two number-ones). He had two number-one singles on the Hot 100: the first, a duet with fellow R&B artist Patti Austin, 1982's "Baby, Come to Me" topped the U.S. pop chart in 1983; "I Don't Have the Heart", which became his second number-one in 1990 was his only number-one as a solo artist.
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Dan Auerbach
- Occupations
- record producercomposerguitaristsinger
- Biography
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Daniel Quine Auerbach is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist and vocalist of The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. As a member of the group, Auerbach has recorded and co-produced twelve studio albums with his bandmate Patrick Carney. Auerbach has also released two solo albums, Keep It Hid (2009) and Waiting on a Song (2017), and formed a side project, the Arcs, which released the albums Yours, Dreamily, (2015) and Electrophonic Chronic (2023).
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Jason Taylor
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- basketball playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Jason Paul Taylor is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end and linebacker in the National Football League (NFL), spending the majority of his career with the Miami Dolphins. He is currently the defensive ends coach for the Miami Hurricanes. Over the course of his 15-year NFL career, Taylor played for the Dolphins for 13 years in three separate stints (1997–2007, 2009, 2011), and also played a season each for the Washington Redskins (2008) and the New York Jets (2010).
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Patrick Carney
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- multi-instrumentalistvocalistrecord producercomposerguitarist
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Patrick James Carney is an American musician and producer best known as the drummer of the Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio.
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Ara Parseghian
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- coachbasketball playerAmerican football player
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Ara Raoul Parseghian was an American football coach and player who coached the University of Notre Dame to national championships in 1966 and 1973. He is noted for bringing Notre Dame's Fighting Irish football program back from years of futility into national prominence in 1964 and is regarded alongside Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy as a part of the "Holy Trinity" of Notre Dame head coaches.
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Jack Lengyel
- Occupations
- American football player
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Jack Robert Lengyel is an American software executive and former college football coach, college lacrosse coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the College of Wooster from 1966 to 1970 and at Marshall University from 1971 until 1974, compiling a career college football record of 33–54. At Marshall, he took over the Thundering Herd football program after the Southern Airways Flight 932 plane crash that killed nearly the entire team in 1970. Lengyel was the athletic director at California State University, Fresno from 1983 to 1986, at the University of Missouri from 1986 to 1988, and at the United States Naval Academy from 1988 to 2001. He served as the interim athletic director at Temple University in 2002, at Eastern Kentucky University from 2002 to 2003, and at the University of Colorado Boulder from 2004 to 2005.
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George Wallace
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- screenwritertelevision actoractorcomedian
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George Henry Wallace is an American comedian and actor. Wallace has had supporting roles in a number of films, including 3 Strikes and the Coen Brothers film The Ladykillers (2004, as Sheriff Wyner). Wallace also appeared in Batman Forever (1995) as the Mayor of Gotham City. Other film credits include A Rage in Harlem (1991), The Wash (2001), Punchline (1988), Things Are Tough All Over (1982), Postcards from the Edge (1990), and Mr. Deeds (2002).
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Michael Morell
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianspyintelligence officer
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Michael Joseph Morell is an American former career intelligence analyst. He was the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2010 to 2013 and twice as its acting director, first in 2011 and then from 2012 to 2013. He is also a professor at the George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government.
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Shri Thanedar
- Enrolled in the University of Akron
- 1979-1982 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianauthor
- Biography
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Shri Thanedar is an Indian-American businessman, author, and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 13th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Thanedar served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023. He was also a candidate in the Democratic primary for Governor of Michigan in the 2018 election.
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Romeo Travis
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Romeo Travis is an American born naturalized Macedonian former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Akron.
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Dru Joyce
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Dru Joyce III is an American men's college basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach for the Duquesne Dukes. His coaching career began in 2019–20 with the Cleveland State Vikings after a 12-year professional playing career in Europe. He retired as the all-time assists leader in Germany's Basketball Bundesliga (since eclipsed). Joyce is a close friend of LeBron James and was his teammate at St. Vincent–St. Mary High School.
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Richie Laryea
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Richmond Mamah Laryea is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a right-back or midfielder for Major League Soccer club Toronto FC and the Canada national team.
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Wil Trapp
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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William Alexander Trapp is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defensive midfielder for Major League Soccer club Minnesota United.
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River Butcher
- Occupations
- entertainerstand-up comedianactorcomediantelevision actor
- Biography
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River Buddy Butcher is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, and podcast host. Butcher is best known for personal, observational comedy focused on his vegetarianism, feminism, love of baseball, and experiences as a queer person.
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Darren Mattocks
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Darren Dimitri Mattocks is a Jamaican professional footballer who last played as a forward for Phoenix Rising FC and the Jamaica national football team.
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Clayton Murphy
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- middle-distance runner
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Clayton Murphy is an American middle-distance runner. He won the bronze medal in the 800-meter run at the 2016 Olympic Games. He was the gold medalist in the 800-meter run at the 2015 Pan American Games. He ran collegiately for the University of Akron, before signing with Nike in June 2016 and joining the Nike Oregon Project.
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Lynne M. Tracy
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Lynne Marie Tracy is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Russia, serving since January 2023. She formerly served as the United States ambassador to Armenia from 2019 to 2022.
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Nick Kosir
- Enrolled in the University of Akron
- 2001-2005 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in communication studies
- Occupations
- weather presenterTikToker
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Nick Kosir is an American television meteorologist. He worked for WJZY Fox 46 in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is known for his dancing videos online, hitting 5 million followers on TikTok as of September 2022. Kosir signed on to join the Fox Weather channel which launched on October 25, 2021.
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Teal Bunbury
- Occupations
- association football player
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Teal Alexander Bunbury is a professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club Nashville SC. Born in Canada, he played for the United States national team.
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Neil Zaza
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- musicianguitarist
- Biography
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Neil Zaza is an American guitarist known for his instrumental rock compositions as well as his adaptation of classical works by Bach and Mozart into his own blend of neo-classical, melodic, guitar instrumentals.
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Steve Zakuani
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- association football player
- Biography
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Steve Zakuani is a Congolese former footballer. He was born in Zaire—now the Democratic Republic of the Congo—and grew up in London. After a successful college career, he played for the Seattle Sounders FC and the Portland Timbers.
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Betty Sutton
- Enrolled in the University of Akron
- In 1990 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politiciancity councillawyer
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Betty Sue Sutton is an American politician who currently serves as a Judge of Ohio's 9th District Court of Appeals. She previously served as a U.S. Representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district from 2007 to 2013. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Sutton lost her 2012 re-election campaign after she was redistricted to the 16th District, losing to fellow incumbent Jim Renacci in the Republican-leaning district.
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Michael Buckley
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- writerchildren's writer
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Michael William Buckley is an American children's author whose works include The Sisters Grimm, the N.E.R.D.S. book series, and Finn and the Intergalactic Lunchbox. He is also the co-creator of the animated TV series Robotomy.
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Dan Moldea
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- journalist
- Biography
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Dan E. Moldea is an American best-selling author and investigative journalist who has reported on organized crime and political corruption since 1974. He is the author of books about the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa, the contract killing of an Ohio businessman, the Mafia's penetration of Hollywood, its links to Ronald Reagan, and its influence on professional football, as well as works about the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, the O.J. Simpson murder case, the suicide of White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster, the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal and prosecution, and corruption in higher education via the student-loan program and for-profit colleges.
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Anthony Ampaipitakwong
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Anthony Petch Ampaipitakwong is a retired professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Born in the United States, he played for the Thailand national team.
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Riyad Mansour
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Riyad H. Mansour is a Palestinian-American diplomat and since 2005 has been the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations. Previous to Mansour's appointment to Permanent Observer, Mansour served as the Deputy Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations from 1983 to 1994. In 2005, President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas appointed him to succeed Nasser al-Qudwa as Permanent Observer for Palestine to the UN. Under Mansour, the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations changed from being an "entity" to being a "non-Member Observer State" on 29 November 2012.
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Adam Najem
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Adam Ahmad Najem is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder. Born in the United States, he played for the Afghanistan national team.
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John Loyer
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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John Foster Loyer is an American basketball coach.
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Dillon Serna
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Dillon Paul Serna is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career in Major League Soccer for Colorado Rapids and in the USL Championship for Sporting Kansas City II and Colorado Springs Switchbacks.
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Larry Shyatt
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Lawrence Alan Shyatt is an American basketball coach. He last served as an assistant coach of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Michael Johnson
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- American football playerAmerican football coachoffensive coordinatorcoach
- Biography
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Michael Eric Johnson is an American football coach and former quarterback, and current wide receivers coach for Syracuse. He was the interim head coach for the UCLA Bruins football team after serving as their offensive coordinator. Previously, he spent two years with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. Johnson was hired along with former offensive coordinator Jimmy Raye by San Francisco head coach Mike Singletary on February 6, 2009. Raye was fired on September 27, 2010, and Johnson was promoted. Beginning in 2014 he served for three seasons as head coach of The King's Academy Knights in Sunnyvale, California, before being hired as wide receiver coach by the University of Oregon in 2017.
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Dan Horrigan
- Enrolled in the University of Akron
- Studied pedagogy
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Dan Horrigan is an American politician and educator who served as the 62nd mayor of Akron, Ohio from November 3, 2015 to January 1, 2024. Horrigan previously served eight years as the Clerk of Summit County's Common Pleas Courts.
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Alice M. Batchelder
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- juristjudge
- Biography
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Alice M. Moore Batchelder is an American attorney and jurist. She is currently a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She served as chief judge from 2009 until 2014. She also was considered by President George W. Bush as a potential nominee for a United States Supreme Court seat that ultimately went to Justice Samuel Alito. Her husband William G. Batchelder was a former state Court of Appeals judge and a state legislator, who had served more than 30 years in the Ohio House of Representatives and served as Speaker of the House from 2011 until 2014.
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Daniel Richard Crissinger
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Daniel Richard Crissinger was an American banker and lawyer who served as the 3rd chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1923 to 1927. Crissinger previously served as the 14th comptroller of the Currency from 1921 to 1923.
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Kofi Sarkodie
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kofi Kwarteng Frempong Sarkodie is an American soccer player.
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Heather Scott
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Heather Scott is an American biologist, businesswoman, and politician serving as a Republican member of the Idaho House of Representatives from the 1st district. She has been a member of the Idaho House since 2014. She is part of the far-right faction of the Idaho Republican Party.
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Heather Lyke
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- athletic director
- Biography
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Heather Lyke is the former athletic director at the University of Pittsburgh. She was previously the athletic director and vice president at Eastern Michigan University, and has also served in administrative roles at Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati.
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Deborah L. Cook
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Deborah Louise Cook is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, based in Akron, Ohio. She served as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1995 to 2003.
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Nate Linhart
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Nathaniel Andrew Linhart is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Akron before playing professionally in Austria, Germany, Italy, Israel, Spain and Belgium.
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Mary Taylor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mary Taylor is an American businesswoman and politician who served as the 65th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019.
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Vernon Sykes
- Enrolled in the University of Akron
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in public administration theory
- Occupations
- politicianprofessor
- Biography
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Vernon Sykes is an American politician who served as the state Senator for the 28th district of the Ohio Senate from 2017 to 2024. The district included Akron, Barberton, Green, Portage Lakes, Sawyerwood, Lakemore and portions of Cuyahoga Falls, Mogadore and Tallmadge in Summit County.
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Tavia Galonski
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tavia Galonski is an American politician who served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023. A Democrat, she represented portions of Akron and Barberton in Summit County.
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Enrique Freeman
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Enrique Gabriel Freeman is an American basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Indiana Mad Ants of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Akron Zips.
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J. T. Brubaker
- Occupations
- professional baseball player
- Biography
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Jonathan Trey Brubaker is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Brubaker played college baseball for the Akron Zips. He was selected by the Pirates in the sixth round of the 2015 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut in 2020.
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Pete Lee
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sanford Edmund Lee is an American politician. He served in the Colorado Senate from the 11th district as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his tenure in the state senate he served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 18th district.
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Ben Zemanski
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Ben Zemanski is an American retired soccer player and current assistant coach for the Portland Pilots.
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Fred Pestello
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Fred P. Pestello is an American sociologist and administrator in higher education. He currently serves as the 33rd president of Saint Louis University (SLU) in St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to this, he was the 13th president of Le Moyne College, a post he had held since July 1, 2008.
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Mike Birkbeck
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Michael Laurence Birkbeck is a college baseball coach and former baseball pitcher. He is the pitching coach at Kent State University.
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Don Plusquellic
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Donald L. Plusquellic is the former mayor of Akron, Ohio. First elected in 1987, he became the 59th Mayor of Akron after previously serving 13 years on Akron City Council. Plusquellic has served his seventh term, making him the longest-serving mayor of the city. Plusquellic announced his resignation effective May 31, 2015, citing unfriendly coverage from the Akron Beacon Journal as his primary motivation.
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James S. Gwin
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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James Steven Gwin is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
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John R. Adams
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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John Randell Adams Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
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Demetrius Treadwell
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Demetrius "Tree" Treadwell is an American professional basketball player for the Maccabi Rehovot of the Liga Leumit. He played college basketball for the Akron Zips, before playing professionally in Argentina, Israel, and France. In 2017–18, he was the top rebounder in the Israel Basketball Premier League.
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J. D. Ford
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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J. D. Ford is an American politician, currently a member of the Indiana Senate. Elected in the 2018 elections, he represents Senate District 29 as a member of the United States Democratic Party. He earned a bachelor's degree from University of Akron in criminal justice and political science and a master's degree in education from Purdue University Northwest.
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Kenneth R. Cox
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kenneth R. Cox is an Ohio Democratic politician and a former member of the Ohio General Assembly.
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Emory Rounds
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Emory Arthur Rounds III is an American attorney and government ethics official who is a former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics. He was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve a five-year term.
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Niko De Vera
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Niko Antonio Berry De Vera is a Filipino professional football player who plays as a left back for USL League Two club PDX.
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Crystal Mackall
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicianacademicimmunologist
- Biography
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Crystal L. Mackall is an American physician and immunologist. She is currently the Ernest and Amelia Gallo Family Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Stanford University. She is the founding director of the Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy.
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Thomas C. Sawyer
- Enrolled in the University of Akron
- In 1968 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- In 1970 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Charles Sawyer was an American politician of the Democratic Party. During a career that spanned five decades, he represented his hometown of Akron, Ohio, across multiple levels of government. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983, the Mayor of Akron from 1984 to 1986, a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003, and a member of the Ohio Senate from 2007 to 2016.
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Patricia E. McQuistion
- Born in
- United States
- Biography
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Patricia E. McQuistion is a retired lieutenant general of the United States Army. She served as deputy commander and chief of staff for the United States Army Materiel Command from 2012 until her retirement in 2015.
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Kevin Jerome Everson
- Occupations
- film directorfilmmakervideo artist
- Biography
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Kevin Jerome Everson is an artist working in film, painting, sculpture, and photography. He was born in Mansfield, Ohio and currently resides in Virginia. He holds an MFA from Ohio University, and a BFA from the University of Akron, and is Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
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Gayle Manning
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Enrolled in the University of Akron
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- primary school teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Gayle Manning is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving since 2019. Formerly, she was a member of the Ohio Senate, serving the 13th district from 2011 to 2018. Manning also taught elementary school students in North Olmsted City Schools for 37 years, winning numerous awards and citations for her accomplishments in education. She was named Educator of the Year by the North Olmsted Council of PTA and received the Teacher in American Enterprise Award from the Ohio Council on Economic Education.
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Daniel Asua Wubah
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Daniel Asua Wubah is a Ghanaian-born American president of Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that he was the Provost at Washington and Lee University. In his private life, Wubah is a tribal king, Nana Ofosu Peko III, Safohene of Breman Traditional Area in Ghana. He is the first Ghanaian-born president of an American university.
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John Alfred Jarvey
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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John Alfred Jarvey is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
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Eric Stevenson
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Eric Stevenson is a retired American soccer player. He played professionally as a midfielder for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer and for FC Cincinnati in the United Soccer League.
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Jack L. Davis
- Occupations
- classical archaeologist
- Biography
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Jack L. Davis is Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and is a former director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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Daniel Utomi
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Uzodinma Utomi, better known as Daniel Utomi, is an American-born Nigerian professional basketball player. He played college basketball for USC and Akron.
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Louis Nanchoff
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Louis "Louie" Nanchoff is a retired soccer player. He spent three seasons in the North American Soccer League and seven seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League. Born in Yugoslavia, he represented the United States national team.
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Evelyn Lundberg Stratton
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Evelyn Lundberg Stratton is an American jurist. She was a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and is now an attorney with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease.
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Peter C. Economus
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Peter Constantine Economus is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
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Rick Rembielak
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Richard A. Rembielak is an American college baseball coach, who most recently served as the head coach of the Akron Zips from the 2012 through the 2015 season. As of the end of the 2014 season, his career head coaching record is 574–490–1.
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Hassan Niknafs
- Occupations
- academic administratormechanical engineer
- Biography
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Hassan Niknafs is an Iranian Azerbaijani mechanical engineer and academic administrator. He became president of Khazar University in 2015. Niknafs was dean of the school of engineering and applied sciences at Khazar University from 2013 to 2015.
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Sydney Blomquist
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Sydney Blomquist is an American professional soccer player from Bel Air, Maryland. She plays for SC Telstar in the women's Eredivisie.
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Art Ranney
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Arthur Fobare Ranney was a co-founder of the American Professional Football Association (later renamed the National Football League in 1922), as an owner of the Akron Pros, one of the league's charter teams. The Pros were renamed the Akron Indians in 1926.
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Jim Babka
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jim Babka is an American writer, activist, former radio talk-show host, and president of the Downsize DC Foundation.
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Rex M. Rogers
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Rex M. Rogers has served as President of SAT-7 USA since 2009, the American promotion and fundraising arm of SAT-7, a Christian satellite television ministry by and for the people of the Middle East and North Africa. SAT-7, based in Nicosia, Cyprus, supports quality, indigenous-produced programming on four channels in three languages, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish.
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Bill Compton
- Years
- 1945-2007 (aged 62)
- Biography
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William H. Compton, Jr. was a mental health advocate in California who attained national stature. After a mental health crisis in 1989, he became heavily involved in self-help and patients' rights advocacy issues. Between 1994 and 2007 he was the head of a large network of peer support groups.
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Thomas West
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas E. West is an American businessman and politician who served as the State Representative for the 49th District of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023. The district consisted of a portion of Stark County, including Canton and most of Massillon. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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John Bluem
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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John Bluem is an American former soccer defender and most recently a coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Bluem played professionally in the North American Soccer League. After retiring from playing, Bluem became a men's college soccer coach.
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Edith Claypole
- Occupations
- physiologistphysicianpathologist
- Biography
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Edith Jane Claypole was an English-American physiologist and pathologist.
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Morton W. Bloomfield
- Occupations
- writermedievalistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Morton W. Bloomfield was an American medievalist. He was the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of English at Harvard University. He is best known for his scholarly work, teaching and mentoring on Medieval literature, language, as well as contributions to intellectual history, literary criticism and theory. He also was one of the founders of the first U.S. national center for the humanities, the National Humanities Center.
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Shane Wiedt
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Shane Wiedt is an American soccer player who plays as a defender for Detroit City in the USL Championship.
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Conrad Earnest
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Conrad Earnest is a retired American soccer goalkeeper and well respected exercise physiologist. He spent two seasons in the American Soccer League.
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Victor Souto
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Victor Augusto Souto is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Atlantic City FC of the National Premier Soccer League.
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Mary E. Gladwin
- Occupations
- nurse
- Biography
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Mary Elizabeth Gladwin was an English-born American Red Cross nurse active in three wars. She was one of the first six American nurses to receive the Florence Nightingale Medal when it was awarded by the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1920.
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Richard Stockton
- Years
- 1932-1997 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- playwright
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Richard Franklin Stockton was an American playwright. He was the first American Playwright to receive a world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre, for his play Prisoner of the Crown, co-produced by Sir Alfred Drake. The play received its American premiere by the Repertory Company of the Virginia Museum Theater, under the title The Royal Rape of Ruari Macasmunde, with Keith Fowler in the title role and under Alfred Drake's direction. The play dramatizes the jury deliberations in the treason trial of Roger Casement.
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Mary Ann Scherr
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- dancergame designerfashion designeruniversity teacherjewelry designer
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Mary Ann Scherr was an American designer, metalsmith and educator. She was known for her jewellery design and industrial design, but she also worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, game designer, fashion and costume designer and silversmith.
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Samuel H. Bell
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- lawyerjudge
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Sam H. Bell was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
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George T. Thomas
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- lawyerpolitician
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George T. Thomas was a Republican politician from Ohio in the United States. He was Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1904 to 1905.
