100 Notable alumni of
University of California - Irvine
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The University of California - Irvine is 321st in the world, 138th in North America, and 131st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of California - Irvine sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 3 individuals affiliated with the University of California - Irvine won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.
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Nazanin Boniadi
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Nazanin Boniadi is a British actress and activist. Born in Tehran and raised in London, she went to university in the United States, where she landed her first major acting role as Leyla Mir in the medical drama General Hospital (2007–2009) and its spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift (2007). Since then, Boniadi has played Nora in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2011), Fara Sherazi in the spy thriller series Homeland (2013–2014), Esther in the historical drama film Ben-Hur (2016), Clare Quayle in the sci-fi thriller series Counterpart (2017–2018), Zahra Kashani in the action thriller film Hotel Mumbai (2018), and Bronwyn in the fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–present).
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David Benioff
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- novelisttelevision directorfilm screenwritertelevision producershowrunner
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David Friedman, known professionally as David Benioff, is an American writer and producer. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known for co-creating Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire. He also wrote 25th Hour (2002), Troy (2004), City of Thieves (2008) and co-wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).
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Coco Lee
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- musicianfilm actoractorcomposerrecord producer
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Ferren "Coco" Lee was a Chinese-American singer and songwriter. She was raised in Hong Kong and the United States. Lee began her career in Hong Kong before expanding to Taiwan and internationally. She released 18 studio albums, two live albums, and five compilation albums.
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Jon Lovitz
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- stage actorcomedianfilm actordub actorvoice actor
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Jonathan Michael Lovitz is an American actor and comedian. Lovitz is best known for his tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990 for which he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Outside of SNL, he starred as Jay Sherman in The Critic (1994–1995) and has played various roles on The Simpsons (1991–).
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Bob Gunton
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- film actortelevision actoractorstage actorvoice actor
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Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. is an American character actor of stage and screen. He is known for playing strict authoritarian characters, including Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison drama The Shawshank Redemption, Chief George Earle in 1993's Demolition Man, Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in Patch Adams, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Argo. He also played Leland Owlsley in the Daredevil television series, Secretary of Defense Ethan Kanin in 24, and Noah Taylor in Desperate Housewives.
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McG
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- directorcomposerexecutive producerrecord producerfilm director
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Joseph McGinty Nichol, known professionally as McG, is an American director, producer, and former record producer.
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Greg Louganis
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- coachcompetitive diverplatform diverautobiographer
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Gregory Efthimios Louganis is an American Olympic diver who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics on the springboard and platform. He is the only man and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games. He has been called both "the greatest American diver" and "probably the greatest diver in history".
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Michael Chabon
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- science fiction writerwritertelevision producercolumnistscreenwriter
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Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.
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Mike Powell
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- athletics competitor
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Michael Anthony Powell is an American former track and field athlete, and the holder of the long jump world record. He is a two-time world champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist in this event. His world record of 8.95 m ( 29 ft 4+1⁄4 in) has stood since 1991.
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Joe Lacob
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- businessperson
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Joseph Steven Lacob is an American business executive who was a partner at Kleiner Perkins and is the majority owner of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Erin Gruwell
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- pedagoguewriterteacher
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Erin Gruwell is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which led to the publication of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (1999). The 2007 film Freedom Writers and 2019 PBS documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart, are based on her story.
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James LeGros
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- television actorstunt performerfilm actoractor
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James Le Gros is an American actor. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his role in Living in Oblivion.
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Alice Sebold
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- In 1998 graduated with Master of Fine Arts
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- novelistwriter
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Alice Sebold is an American author. She is known for her novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and a memoir, Lucky. The Lovely Bones was on The New York Times Best Seller list and was adapted into a film by the same name in 2010. Her memoir, Lucky, sold over a million copies and describes her experience in her first year at Syracuse University, when she was raped. Anthony Broadwater, who was incorrectly identified as the perpetrator by Sebold, spent 16 years in prison. He was exonerated in 2021, after a judge overturned the original conviction. Consequently, the publisher of Lucky announced that the book would no longer be distributed.
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Grace Byers
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- film actorstage actor
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Grace Byers is an American actress. She starred as Anika Calhoun in the Fox music-industry drama series, Empire from 2015 to 2018. In 2021, she began starring as Quinn Joseph in the Amazon Prime Video comedy series, Harlem. In 2022, Byers played a leading role in the comedy horror film, The Blackening.
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Richard Ford
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- novelistauthorwriterscreenwriter
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Richard Ford is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe.
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Kelly Lin
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- film actormodeltelevision actor
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Kelly Lin or Lin Hsi-Lei is a Taiwanese actress and model who has appeared mainly in Hong Kong films.
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Mamadou N'Diaye
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- basketball player
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Mamadou N'Diaye is a Senegalese professional basketball player who last played for Correcaminos UAT Victoria of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). He played college basketball for UC Irvine, where he was the tallest basketball player at the NCAA Division I level, standing at 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m).
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Cecily Adams
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- television actorcasting directorfilm directorfilm actoractor
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Cecily April Adams was an American actress, casting director, and lyricist.
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Arye Gross
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- film directortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Arye Gross is an American actor, who has appeared on a variety of television shows in numerous roles, most notably Adam Greene in the ABC sitcom Ellen.
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Karen Lorre
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- Playboy Playmatewritermodeltelevision actoractor
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Karen Lorre is an American actress, model, and author.
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Lee Yen-hsiu
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- politician
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Li Yanxiu, also known as Lee Yen-hsiu, is a Taiwanese politician from the Kuomintang. She was elected to represent Taipei City Constituency IV on the Legislative Yuan in 2016 and 2024.
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Neal Shusterman
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- writernovelistscreenwriterchildren's writerscience fiction writer
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Neal Shusterman is an American writer of young-adult fiction. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book Challenger Deep and his novel, Scythe, was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book.
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TOKiMONSTA
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- record producercomposerdisc jockey
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Jennifer Lee, known professionally as Tokimonsta, is an American record producer and DJ based in Los Angeles. She has collaborated with artists such as Anderson.Paak, Earthgang, Isaiah Rashad, Selah Sue, and ZHU. Additionally, she has done a number of official remixes, a few being Beck, Duran Duran, Olafur Arnalds, Disclosure, Sia, the Netflix show Squid Game and Odesza.
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C. David Baker
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- politicianbasketball player
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Carl David Baker is a former American football executive and politician. He was President and CEO of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio from 2014 to 2021.
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Lilan Bowden
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Alice Lilan Bowden is an American actress, filmmaker, and comedian. She is best known for her roles as Rebecca "Bex" Mack in Andi Mack and Amber Kang in the Netflix series Murderville.
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Ami Bera
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- In 1987 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- In 1991 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
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- university teacherpoliticianphysician
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Amerish Babulal "Ami" Bera is an American physician and politician who has been serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California since 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party and represents California's 6th congressional district, which is in Sacramento County.
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Kyra Zagorsky
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Kyra Zagorsky is an American film and television actress. She has acted in the TV series Helix, the film The Pastor's Wife and season eight of the TV series Supernatural.
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Jenn Colella
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Jenn Colella is an American actress and singer. She began her career as a comedian and then branched out into musical theater. In her New York debut in Urban Cowboy, she earned a 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. More recently, she landed a Tony Award nomination, and won the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and three regional theater awards for her portrayal of Annette/Beverley Bass in Come from Away. She received a Grammy Award in January 2018 for her role for the Dear Evan Hansen original cast album. See: Awards and nominations
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Keston Hiura
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- baseball player
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Keston Wee Hing Natsuo Hiura is an American professional baseball first baseman and second baseman in the Detroit Tigers organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Xanthe Huynh
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- actorvoice actor
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Xanthe Huynh is an American voice actress known for her voicework in English dubs of anime series. Her most well known roles include Ui Hirasawa in K-On!, Sachi in Sword Art Online, Yuna in Yuki Yuna is a Hero, Hanayo Koizumi in Love Live!, Alluka Zoldyck in Hunter × Hunter, Haru Okumura in Persona 5, Marianne in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Meiko "Menma" Honma in Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, and Altina Orion in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II.
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Roy Fielding
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- In 2000 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in computer science
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- engineercomputer scientist
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Roy Thomas Fielding is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and the originator of the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. He is an authority on computer network architecture and co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project.
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Jackie Lacey
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- lawyer
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Jacquelyn Phillips Lacey is an American politician who served as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County from December 3, 2012 to December 7, 2020. Lacey Was the first woman, and first African-American, to serve as LA District Attorney since the office was created in 1850.
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Danny Sullivan
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- Formula One driverracing automobile driver
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Daniel John Sullivan III, better known as Danny Sullivan, is an American former racing driver. He earned 17 wins in the CART Indy Car World Series, including the 1985 Indianapolis 500. Sullivan won the 1988 CART Championship, and placed third in points in 1986. Sullivan also scored a victory in IROC. He competed in the 1983 Formula One season with Tyrrell, scoring 2 championship points.
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Fuslie
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- Twitch streamer
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Leslie Ann Fu, better known as fuslie, is an American live streamer, YouTuber and musician. She is a content creator for the gaming organization and lifestyle brand 100 Thieves.
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David Smith
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- volleyball playerbeach volleyball player
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David Smith is an American professional volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle and the U.S. national team. Smith was a bronze medalist at the Olympic Games Rio 2016 and the 2018 World Championship; the 2015 World Cup winner and a three–time Champions League winner (2021, 2022, 2023) with ZAKSA.
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Kévin Tillie
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- volleyball playerbeach volleyball player
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Kévin Peter Patrice Tillie is a French professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Projekt Warsaw and the France national team. Tillie won a gold medal in the men's tournament at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, and the European Champion title in 2015.
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Darren Fells
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- player of American footballbasketball player
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Darren Andre Fells is an American football tight end who is a free agent. He did not play college football, instead playing college basketball at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to his NFL career, Fells played professional basketball in several countries and was then signed by the Seattle Seahawks. He has also played for the Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, and Houston Texans, and is the brother of former NFL tight end Daniel Fells.
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Natalie Pack
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- beauty pageant contestantmodel
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Natalie Ann Pack is an American fashion model and real estate agent who held the title of Miss California USA 2012. She is also known for competing on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 12.
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David MacMillan
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Sir David William Cross MacMillan is a Scottish chemist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, where he was also the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2010 to 2015. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis". MacMillan used his share of the $1.14 million prize to establish the May and Billy MacMillan Foundation.
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Robin Hanson
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- In 1981 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
- Occupations
- university teachersocial scientisteconomist
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Robin Dale Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is known for his work on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the Foresight Institute's Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP project. He invented market scoring rules like LMSR (Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule) used by prediction markets such as Consensus Point (where Hanson is Chief Scientist), and has conducted research on signalling.
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Kelly Fremon Craig
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Kelly Fremon Craig is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. She is known for writing and directing the 2016 coming-of-age dramedy The Edge of Seventeen and the 2023 adaptation of Judy Blume's classic middle-grade novel, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
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Rob Pardo
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- Studied in 1993-1996
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- game designerentrepreneur
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Rob Pardo is an American video game designer. He is the former Chief Creative Officer at Blizzard Entertainment, resigning on July 3, 2014. Previously he was the Executive Vice President of game design at Blizzard Entertainment, and prior to that the lead designer of World of Warcraft. In 2006, he was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Frederick Reines
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- university teacherphysicist
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Frederick Reines was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties."
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Steve Franks
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- showrunnerfilm producermusiciantelevision directorscreenwriter
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Steve Franks is an American screenwriter, director and musician based in Orange County, California. He is best known as the creator of the USA Network original series Psych.
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Beth Malone
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- singeractorstage actor
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Elizabeth Ann "Beth" Malone is an American actress and singer known for her work in Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theatre. She originated the role of Alison Bechdel in the musical Fun Home, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
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Geoffrey R. Pyatt
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Geoffrey Ross Pyatt is a United States diplomat serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources. He was previously United States Ambassador to Greece and Ukraine. Pyatt's career in the U.S. State Department has led to posts in Asia, Europe, and Central America.
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Nevada Barr
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- novelistwriter
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Nevada Barr is an American author of mystery fiction. She is known for her Anna Pigeon series, which is primarily set in a series of national parks and other protected areas of the United States.
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Tom Tolbert
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- sports commentatorbasketball player
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Byron Thomas Tolbert is an American sports broadcaster and former professional basketball player. He played a total of seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After retiring from basketball, Tolbert became a radio show co-host on KNBR in San Francisco and NBA commentator for the television networks NBC, ESPN, and ABC.
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Joseph Vincent
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Joseph Vincent Encarnacion, better known as Joseph Vincent, is a Filipino-American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Joseph has been twice featured on NBC’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show and has performed at well-known Los Angeles venues, such as The House of Blues, The Knitting Factory, Roxy Theatre, El Rey Theatre, The Troubadour, among international venues in Australia, Singapore, and Canada.
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Janet Nguyen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Janet Q. Nguyen is an American politician who serves in the California State Senate. A Republican, she represents the 36th district, which includes coastal Orange County, Little Saigon, and parts of Los Angeles County. She previously was a member of the State Senate for the old 34th district from 2014 to 2018, before narrowly losing reelection to Tom Umberg.
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Ferial Govashiri
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- secretary
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Ferial Govashiri is an Iranian-American political aide who served as the Personal Secretary to U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House from May 2014 through January 20, 2017. Govashiri is currently Chief of Staff to the Chief Content Officer at Netflix.
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Tonantzin Carmelo
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- actor
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Tonantzin Carmelo is an American actress. She is known for her acting roles in film, TV and stage productions including in the Steven Spielberg miniseries, Into the West, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Television Movie or Miniseries.
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F. Sherwood Rowland
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- authoruniversity teacherchemist
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Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.
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Chelsea Cain
- Occupations
- novelistjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Chelsea Snow Cain is an American writer of novels and columns.
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Irwin Rose
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- biochemistbiologistuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Irwin Allan Rose was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
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Ben Brode
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- video game designer
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Ben Brode is an American video game designer. He was the game director and public face of Hearthstone until 2018 when he left to found his own game studio, Second Dinner, where he is now Chief Development Officer.
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Puma Shen
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- 2011-2017 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- social activistwriterpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Puma Shen, also named Shen Pao-yang (Chinese: 沈伯洋; pinyin: Shěn Bóyáng), is a Taiwanese scholar, lawyer, and educator, affiliated with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as a political figure. He assumed the position of Legislator on 1 February 2024. His areas of focus include human rights, criminal policy, youth issues, and information warfare.
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Polly Matzinger
- Occupations
- immunologistbiologist
- Biography
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Polly Celine Eveline Matzinger is a French-born immunologist who proposed the danger model theory of how the immune system works.
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Miguel Ibarra
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Ibarra Andrade is an American professional soccer player who plays for Charlotte Independence in the USL League One.
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Étienne Wenger
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Étienne Charles Wenger is an educational theorist and practitioner, best known for his formulation (with Jean Lave) of the theory of situated cognition and his more recent work in the field of communities of practice.
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Reza Jahangiri
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Reza Jahangiri is an American entrepreneur. He is the CEO of American Advisors Group (AAG) and past co-chair of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA). He was also senior publisher for The Reverse Review until it was sold to HousingWire in 2018.
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Glen David Gold
- Occupations
- screenwriternovelist
- Biography
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Glen David Gold is an American novelist, memoirist and screenwriter. Known for his bestselling novels exploring the roles of entertainment and popular culture in historical America, he has also published a critically acclaimed memoir and worked extensively in a broad range of media, including comics, television and podcasting. Gold is also a collector and authority on comics and graphic novels, particularly the works of Jack Kirby and other architects of the Marvel Universe.
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Kevin Magee
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Kevin Dornell Magee, was an American basketball player who played most of his professional career for Maccabi Tel Aviv. He played at the power forward and center positions. Magee played college basketball for the UCI Irvine Anteaters, earning All-American honors in both seasons. In 1993–94, he led the Israel Basketball Premier League in rebounds.
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Kem Nunn
- Occupations
- novelistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kem Nunn is a third-generation Californian novelist, surfer, and magazine and television writer who lives in southern California. He has been described as "the inventor of surf-noir" for his novels' dark themes, political overtones, and surf settings. He is the author of six novels, including his 1984 seminal debut surf novel Tapping the Source, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Tapping The Source inspired the 1991 movie Point Break, and its 2015 remake. Nunn's novel, Tijuana Straights, received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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Paul Mockapetris
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- scientistcomputer scientistpatent inventorprogrammer
- Biography
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Paul V. Mockapetris is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).
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Joshua Ferris
- Occupations
- novelistwritershort story writer
- Biography
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Joshua Ferris is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel Then We Came to the End. The book is a comedy about the American workplace, told in the first-person plural. It takes place in a fictitious Chicago ad agency experiencing a downturn at the end of the 1990s Internet boom.
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Tim Donnelly
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Timothy Michael Donnelly is an American Republican politician who was a member of the California State Assembly, representing the 59th and 33rd districts. Before his election to the Assembly in November 2010, Donnelly was a small businessman. He resides in Twin Peaks, California. On January 22, 2013, Donnelly announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for Governor of California in the 2014 election. He placed third in the open primary, behind incumbent governor Jerry Brown and investment banker Neel Kashkari, who contested the election in November 2014.
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Savitree Suttichanond
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Savitree Suttichanond is a Thai singer best known for competing in the 5th season of reality talent show True Visions's Academy Fantasia. She is now completing her role as a contestant on the show, which includes performing in a nationwide concert tour in late August to September 2008.
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Jawad A. Salehi
- Occupations
- scientistengineer
- Biography
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Jawad A. Salehi, IEEE Fellow & Optica Fellow, born in Kazemain (Kadhimiya), Iraq, on December 22, 1956, is an Iranian electrical and computer engineer, pioneer of optical code division multiple access (CDMA) and a highly cited researcher. He is also a board member of Academy of Sciences of Iran and a fellow of Islamic World Academy of Sciences. He was also elected as a member of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame (چهرههای ماندگار) in Electrical Engineering, October 2010.
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Byeong Sam Jeon
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Byeong Sam Jeon is an internationally recognized South Korean artist who lives in Seoul and New York. One of his large-scale art installations is CD PROJECT that turned an abandoned old tobacco factory into a shiny dream factory through decorating the 180 meter-long and 32 meter-high outer wall of the factory building with the total 489,440 flattering compact discs collected by 27,912 people from 288 organizations in 31 cities of 9 countries. The total number of the CDs installed was counted by the official Guinness World Records, and announced as the 'Largest Display of Compact Discs'. His works and sketch/prototypes of the giant installations have sold for substantial sums of money by the galleries and private collectors.
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William K. Black
- Occupations
- economistlawyer
- Biography
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William Kurt Black is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud.
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Joslyn Davis
- Occupations
- television producerYouTuber
- Biography
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Joslyn Davis is an American former on-air host and producer for ClevverTV, a brand formerly owned and operated by Defy Media. She now appears in YouTube videos produced by Shared Media alongside her friend Lily Marston.
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Satya Rhodes-Conway
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- 1996-2000 graduated with Master of Science in ecology
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Satya Rhodes-Conway is an American politician and the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin. She was first elected in 2019 and was re-elected in 2023. She previously served on the Madison Common Council between 2007 and 2013. She is the first out lesbian elected as a mayor in Wisconsin, and only the second woman to become mayor of Madison.
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Danzy Senna
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Danzy Senna is an American novelist and essayist. She is the author of six books and numerous essays about race, gender and motherhood, including Caucasia, Symptomatic, and New People (2017), named by Time Magazine as one of the Top Ten Novels of the year. In July 2024 she will publish a novel entitled Colored Television. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vogue and The New York Times. She is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.
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Arnnon Geshuri
- Occupations
- business executivepsychologist
- Biography
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Arnnon Geshuri is an American corporate executive. He was vice president of human resources at Tesla, Inc. from 2009 until 2017, senior director of human resources and staffing at Google from 2004 to 2009, and vice president of people operations and director of global staffing at E-Trade Financial Corporation circa 2002. In 2023 he is Chief People Officer at Teladoc Health.
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Lisa Lutz
- Occupations
- novelistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Lisa Lutz is an American author. She began her career writing screenplays for Hollywood. One of her rejected screenplays became the basis for a popular series of novels about a family of private investigators, the Spellmans. She is a 2020 recipient of an Alex Award.
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Danny Sullivan
- Occupations
- journalistentrepreneurwriter
- Biography
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Danny Sullivan is an American technologist, journalist, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Search Engine Watch in 1997, one of the earliest online publications about search engine marketing. He also launched Search Engine Strategies, one of the earliest search marketing trade shows. After selling both companies in 2006, he co-founded Search Engine Land, another search marketing publication. In 2017, he joined Google as an adviser at the search division of the company.
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Diane Harkey
- Occupations
- bankerpolitician
- Biography
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Diane Lynn Harkey is an American politician who served as a member of the California State Board of Equalization, representing its fourth district from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously elected to the Dana Point City Council (2004–2008), including a stint as Mayor of Dana Point (2007–2008), as well as the California State Assembly (2008–2014). She was a Republican candidate for California's 49th congressional district seat in the 2018 election, losing to Democrat Mike Levin.
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T. Jefferson Parker
- Occupations
- novelistwriterscreenwriter
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T. Jefferson Parker is an American novelist. Parker's books are police procedurals set in Southern California.
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Ai
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpoet
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Ai Ogawa was an American poet and educator who won the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and Selected Poems. Ai is known for her mastery of the dramatic monologue as a poetic form, as well as for taking on dark, controversial topics in her work. About writing in the dramatic monologue form, she's said: "I want to take the narrative 'persona' poem as far as I can, and I've never been one to do things in halves. All the way or nothing. I won't abandon that desire."
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Héctor Tobar
- Occupations
- novelistjournalistwriter
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Héctor Tobar is a Los Angeles author, novelist, and journalist, whose work examines the evolving and interdependent relationship between Latin America, Latino immigrants, and the United States. In 2023, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.
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Do Hoang Diem
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Do Hoang Diem is the former chairman of the pro-democracy party Việt Tân. He is a prominent leader in the Vietnamese democracy movement.
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James Luna
- Occupations
- visual artistphotographer
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James Luna was a Puyukitchum, Ipai, and Mexican-American performance artist, photographer and multimedia installation artist. His work is best known for challenging the ways in which conventional museum exhibitions depict Native Americans. With recurring themes of multiculturalism, alcoholism, and colonialism, his work was often comedic and theatrical in nature. In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Kiana Palacios
- Occupations
- association football player
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Kiana Angélica Palacios Hernández is a professional footballer who plays as forward for Liga MX Femenil side Club América. Born and raised in the United States to Mexican parents, she caps for the Mexico women's national team.
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Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami
- Occupations
- poet
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Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami, also known as Dr. Thoudam Damodara Singh and by the honorific Sripada (Śrīpāda), was a Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual leader, chemist, writer about religion and science, and poet. In 1971 he received spiritual initiation from A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. A few years later he became one of the religious leaders of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (also known as the Hare Krishna Movement).
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Luke Nelson
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- basketball player
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Luke Isaiah Nelson is a British basketball player for the London Lions of the British Basketball League (BBL). He also represents the Great Britain national team in international competitions. He played American college basketball for UC Irvine, where he was named the 2017 Big West Conference Player of the Year.
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Amber Neben
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- sport cyclist
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Amber Leone Neben is an American racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team Cogeas–Mettler–Look. Neben won the UCI world time trial championship in 2008 and 2016 as well as the U.S. national road race championship in 2003 and 2017.
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Laura Yeager
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- military personnel
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Major General Laura L. Yeager is a retired officer in the United States Army National Guard. She became the commander of the National Guard's 40th Infantry Division on June 29, 2019 and served in that role until May 15, 2022. She is the first woman to command a United States Army infantry division.
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Peter M. Rhee
- Occupations
- surgeon
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Peter Meong Rhee is an American surgeon, medical professor, and military veteran. During his 24 years in the United States Navy, Rhee served as a battlefield casualty physician in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Charles M. Falco
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- physicistengineerphotographeruniversity teacher
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Charles M. Falco is an American experimental physicist and an expert on the magnetic and optical properties of thin film materials.
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Van Tran
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Van Thai Tran is a Vietnamese American attorney and politician in California, formerly serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County. Tran and Texas State Representative Hubert Vo were the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected officials in U.S. history until Joseph Cao was elected to the United States House of Representatives in December 2008. Tran took office one month before Vo did, making him the first Vietnamese American to serve in a state legislature. He served in the Assembly as Assistant Republican Leader.
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David Goodsell
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
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- biologistuniversity teacherbiochemistmolecular biologistscientific illustrator
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David S. Goodsell, is an associate professor at the Scripps Research Institute and research professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is especially known for his watercolor paintings of cell interiors.
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Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
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- Wikimedianbiographerhealth administrator
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Dame Rosie Gojich Stephenson-Goodknight, known on Wikipedia as Rosiestep, is an American Wikipedia editor who is noted for her attempts to address gender bias in the encyclopedia by running a project to increase the quantity and quality of women's biographies. She has contributed thousands of new articles.
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Steve Scott
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- middle-distance runner
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Steve Scott is an American former track athlete and one of the greatest mile runners in American history. The silver medalist in the 1500 meters at the inaugural IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki in 1983, Scott owns the U.S. indoor record in the 2000 meters (4:58.6-1981). He held the American outdoor mile record for more than 26 years and also is the former American indoor record holder in the same event. Track & Field News ranked Scott #1 in the U.S. on 10 occasions, and 11 times during his career he was ranked in the top ten in the world by T&FN. Additionally, he participated for the US team at the 1984 Olympics. He finished 5th in the 1500 meter run at the 1988 Olympics held in Korea. Scott was also an Olympian on the 1980 Olympics team which was not allowed to go to Moscow. He ran the sub four-minute mile on 136 occasions in his career, more than any other runner in history.
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Daniel M. Russell
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- computer scientist
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Daniel M. Russell is an American computer scientist.
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Justin Hartfield
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- entrepreneur
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Justin Hartfield is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist from Orange County, California. He is a co-founder and general partner at the Ghost Group venture capital firm and was the CEO at WeedMaps before stepping down in 2016 to pursue other ventures.
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Andreas Gal
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- In 2006 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- engineercomputer scientist
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Andreas Gal is former chief technology officer at Mozilla. He is most notable for his work on several open source projects and Mozilla technologies.
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Mark Keam
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- politicianbusiness executivelawyer
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Mark Lee Keam is a Korean American lawyer. He is a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates in the United States. A Democrat, Keam represented the 35th District, which encompassed a portion of Fairfax County, including the town of Vienna, Virginia, where he resides. He resigned his seat on September 6, 2022, to take a position in the Biden administration.
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Brad Evans
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- association football player
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Bradley Ray Evans is an American retired professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He is now a color commentator for radio broadcasts of Seattle Sounders FC matches.
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Kevin Nadal
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- university teacherwriterpsychologist
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Kevin Nadal is an author, activist, comedian, and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a researcher and expert on the effects of microaggressions on racial/ethnic minorities and LGBTQ people.
