100 Notable alumni of
University of California - Irvine
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The University of California - Irvine is 330th in the world, 139th in North America, and 132nd 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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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Nazanin Boniadi is a British-American actress and activist. Born in Tehran and raised in London, she attended university in the United States, where she landed her first major acting role as Leyla Mir in the soap opera 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 first season of the fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022).
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David Benioff
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- film producermanufacturershowrunnertelevision producerfilm screenwriter
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David Friedman, known professionally as David Benioff, is an American novelist, screenwriter, 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), The Kite Runner (2007), City of Thieves (2008), co-wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and Gemini Man (2019).
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Coco Lee
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- dancerrecord producercomposeractorfilm actor
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CoCo Lee was a Chinese-American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was one of the best-selling artists in Asia and is widely regarded as a significant figure and a diva. Her career began in 1993 in Hong Kong, and she gained early fame in Taiwan through a series of successful albums, establishing herself as an icon. She released 18 studio albums, 2 live records, and 5 compilations.
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Jon Lovitz
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- film actorcomedianstage actortelevision actoractor
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Jonathan Michael Lovitz is an American actor and comedian. He 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.
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Bob Gunton
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- actortelevision actorfilm actormilitary personnelvoice 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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- executive producercomposerdirectorfilm producertelevision producer
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Joseph McGinty Nichol, known professionally as McG, is an American film director, film producer, and former record producer.
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Greg Louganis
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- platform divercompetitive divercoachautobiographer
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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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Mike Powell
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- athletics competitor
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Michael Anthony Powell is an American former track and field athlete, the holder of the long jump world record, and a two-time world champion as well as two-time Olympic silver medalist in the event. His world record of 8.95 m ( 29 ft 4+1⁄4 in) was set on August 30, 1991.
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Michael Chabon
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- children's writercolumnistwritertelevision produceressayist
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Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year 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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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 principal owner of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
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James LeGros
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- actor
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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
- Occupations
- writernovelist
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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 2009.
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Erin Gruwell
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- pedagogueteacherwriter
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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 the 2019 PBS documentary Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart are based on her story.
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Grace Byers
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Grace Byers is a Caymanian-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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Kelly Lin
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- film directormodeltelevision actoractorfilm 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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Richard Ford
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- screenwriternovelistshort story writerwriterauthor
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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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Mamadou N'Diaye
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- basketball player
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Mamadou N'Diaye is a Senegalese former professional basketball player. 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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Puma Shen
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- 2011-2017 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- writersocial activistuniversity teacherpolitician
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Shen Pao-yang, also known by his English name Puma Shen, is a Taiwanese criminologist, lawyer, and politician. As a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he was elected to the Legislative Yuan and became a member on 1 February 2024. His areas of focus include human rights, criminal policy, youth issues, and information warfare.
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Cecily Adams
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- film directorcasting directortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Cecily April Adams was an American actress.
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Phil Tippett
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- film produceranimatorfilm director
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Phil Tippett is an American animator, visual effects supervisor and producer, and filmmaker. Over his career, he has assisted Industrial Light & Magic and DreamWorks, and in 1984 formed his own company, Tippett Studio.
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Arye Gross
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- television actorfilm directoractorfilm actor
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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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Lee Yen-hsiu
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- politician
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Lee Yen-hsiu is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), she was elected to represent Taipei City Constituency IV in the Legislative Yuan in 2016 and 2024.
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Patrick Sabongui
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- stunt performertelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Patrick Sabongui is a Canadian actor, stunt performer, and drama teacher. He is known for playing David Singh in The Flash.
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Lilan Bowden
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Alice Lilan Bowden is an American actress. 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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Karen Lorre
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- television actormodelwriterPlayboy Playmateactor
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Karen R. Lorre is an American actress, model, and author.
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Neal Shusterman
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- screenwriternovelistwriterscience fiction writerchildren's 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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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 teacherphysicianpolitician
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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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Tokimonsta
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- record producerdisc jockeycomposer
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Jennifer Lee, known professionally as Tokimonsta (stylized 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 published a number of official remixes, a few being Beck, Duran Duran, Olafur Arnalds, Disclosure, Sia, the Squid Game theme, and Odesza.
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Xanthe Huynh
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- voice actoractor
- Biography
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Xanthe Huynh is an American voice actress known for her voice work in English dubs of anime series. Her most well known roles include Haru Okumura in Persona 5, Ui Hirasawa in K-On!, Altina Orion in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, Alluka Zoldyck in Hunter × Hunter, Yuna in Yuki Yuna is a Hero, Hanayo Koizumi in Love Live!, Marianne in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Takina Inoue in Lycoris Recoil, Meiko "Menma" Honma in Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, and Sachi in Sword Art Online.
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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 Los Angeles Dodgers organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels, and Colorado Rockies.
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Kyra Zagorsky
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- television actorfilm directoractorfilm 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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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Jennifer Lin Colella is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her work in musical theatre.
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Fuslie
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- chess playeronline streamerYouTuber
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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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Roy Fielding
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- In 2000 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in computer science
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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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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Danny Sullivan
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- racing automobile driverFormula One 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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Jackie Lacey
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- lawyer
- Biography
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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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David Smith
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- beach volleyball playervolleyball player
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David Smith is an American professional volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for Ślepsk Malow Suwałki and the U.S. national team. Smith was a bronze medalist at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, Paris 2024 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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- beach volleyball playervolleyball player
- Biography
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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 both the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and the European Champion title in 2015.
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David MacMillan
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- university teacherchemist
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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 67)
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- In 1981 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistsocial scientist
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Robin Dale Hanson is an American economist and author. He is associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a former research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Hanson 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. He also proposed the Great Filter hypothesis.
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Natalie Pack
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- modelbeauty pageant contestant
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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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Kelly Fremon Craig
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- Studied English studies
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriterfilm 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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Danzy Senna
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- university teachernovelistwriter
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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 American identity, including Caucasia (1998), Symptomatic (2003), New People (2017), and most recently Colored Television (2024). 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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Steve Franks
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- television directormusicianfilm producershowrunnerfilm director
- Biography
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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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Darren Fells
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- basketball playerAmerican football player
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Darren Andre Fells is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He did not play college football, instead playing college basketball for the UC Irvine Anteaters. Prior to his NFL career, Fells played professional basketball in several countries and was then signed by the Seattle Seahawks in 2013. He has also played for the Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Frederick Reines
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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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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Rob Pardo
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- Studied in 1993-1996
- Occupations
- entrepreneurgame designer
- Biography
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Rob Pardo is an American video game designer who is the founder of Bonfire Studios. He previously served as Chief Creative Officer of Blizzard Entertainment until resigning in 2014 after nearly 17 years with the company.
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Tonantzin Carmelo
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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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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Geoffrey R. Pyatt
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Geoffrey Ross Pyatt is a United States diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources from 2022 to 2025. 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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Minae Noji
- Occupations
- voice actoractor
- Biography
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Minae Noji is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Karai in the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, Dr. Kelly Lee on General Hospital and has also been the voice behind Azami in the popular video game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.
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Janet Nguyen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Janet Q. Nguyen is an American politician serving on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, representing the First District, since December 4, 2024. She previously held the same office from 2007 to 2014. A Republican, she served in the California State Senate from 2014 to 2018 and 2022 to 2024 and the California State Assembly from 2020 to 2022.
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Beth Malone
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- actorsingerstage actor
- Biography
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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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Nevada Barr
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- basketball playersports commentator
- Biography
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Thomas Byron Tolbert Jr. 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, ABC and NBA on ESPN.
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Ben Brode
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- video game designer
- Biography
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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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Joseph Vincent
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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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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Brian Keefe
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Brian J. Keefe is an American professional basketball coach who is the head coach of the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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F. Sherwood Rowland
- Occupations
- authorchemistenvironmental chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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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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Ferial Govashiri
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- secretary
- Biography
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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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Chelsea Cain
- Occupations
- novelistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Chelsea Snow Cain is an American novelist. Her debut novel, "Heartsick", won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. She is best known for her Archie Sheridan-Gretchen Lowell series of thrillers, which feature a Portland homicide detective with a troubled past.
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Irwin Rose
- Occupations
- biologistbiochemistchemistuniversity teacher
- 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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Polly Matzinger
- Occupations
- biologistimmunologist
- 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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Glen David Gold
- Occupations
- novelistscreenwriter
- 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 of and authority on comics and graphic novels, particularly the works of Jack Kirby and other architects of the Marvel Universe.
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Pedro Domingos
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pedro Domingos is a Professor Emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. He is a researcher in machine learning known for Markov logic network enabling uncertain inference.
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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 AV Alta FC in USL League One.
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Kiki Wong
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- guitarist
- Biography
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Kiki Wong is an American musician known for being the touring guitarist of alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. In the 2010s she performed with artists such as Taylor Swift and Usher, and was a member of girl band Nylon Pink. She also played in She Demons, put together by Jerry Only of Misfits, and Vigil of War, a band started by DragonForce bassist Alicia Vigil.
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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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Jawad A. Salehi
- Occupations
- engineerscientist
- 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 named 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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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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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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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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Reza Jahangiri
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- 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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Paul Mockapetris
- Enrolled in the University of California - Irvine
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- computer scientistscientistprogrammerpatent inventor
- 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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Kem Nunn
- Occupations
- novelistscreenwriterwriter
- 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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Joshua Ferris
- Occupations
- novelistshort story writerwriter
- Biography
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Joshua Ferris is an American author best known for his debut novel Then We Came to the End (2007). The novel is a comedy about the American workplace, is narrated in the first-person plural, and is set in a fictitious Chicago ad agency facing challenges 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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Joslyn Davis
- Occupations
- YouTubertelevision producer
- 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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Kiana Palacios
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kiana Angélica Palacios Hernández is a professional footballer who plays as a 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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Savitree Suttichanond
- Occupations
- singeractor
- 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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William K. Black
- Occupations
- lawyereconomist
- 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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Arnnon Geshuri
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- psychologistbusiness executive
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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. 2023-24 he was the Chief People Officer at Teladoc Health. Starting mid-2024, he is the Chief People Officer at Snowflake Inc.. In January 2016, he briefly served on the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees before stepping down under pressure.
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Lisa Lutz
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- novelistscreenwriterwriter
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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
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- writerentrepreneurjournalist
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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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Ai
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- university teacherpoetwriter
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Florence 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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T. Jefferson Parker
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- novelistscreenwriterwriter
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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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Diane Harkey
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- politicianbanker
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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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Luke Nelson
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- basketball player
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Luke Isaiah Nelson is a British basketball player for the Anwil Włocławek of the Polish Basketball League (PLK). 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. Nelson is a point guard.
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Marshall Rose
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- software engineer
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Marshall Toufic Rose is an American network protocol and software engineer, author, and speaker who has contributed to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet, and Internet and network applications. More specifically, he has specialized in network management, distributed systems management, applications management, email, the ISO Development Environment (ISODE), and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
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Héctor Tobar
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- novelistwriterjournalist
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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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Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami
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- 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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James Luna
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- photographervisual artist
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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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Peter M. Rhee
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- 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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Laura Yeager
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- military personnel
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Major General Laura L. Yeager is an active 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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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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Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
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- biographerWikimedianevent producerhealth administratorco-founder
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Dame Rosie Gojich Stephenson-Goodknight is an American Wikipedia editor, known on the site under the pseudonym Rosiestep, who is noted for her actions addressing 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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Van Tran
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- lawyerpolitician
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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 was the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected official was the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected official in U.S. history along with Hubert Vo until Joseph Cao was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 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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Steve Scott
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- middle-distance runner
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Steve Scott is an American former track athlete who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. Track & Field News ranked Scott #1 in the U.S. on ten occasions, and eleven times during his career he was ranked in the top ten in the world by T&FN. Scott is also regarded as the founder of speed golf in 1979.
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Charles M. Falco
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- 1948-.. (age 78)
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- engineerphysicistuniversity teacherphotographer
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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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David Goodsell
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistscientific illustratormolecular biologistbiochemist
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David S. Goodsell is an American scientific illustrator and biologist who 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.
