93 Notable alumni of
University of California - Riverside
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The University of California - Riverside is 654th in the world, 241st in North America, and 222nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 93 notable alumni from the University of California - Riverside sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sung Kang
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Sung-Ho Kang is an American actor. His first major role was as Han Lue in the Fast & Furious franchise, a character he first portrayed in Better Luck Tomorrow (2002). Kang also played John Mak in the television series Power.
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Jamie Chung
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- actortelevision actorscreenwritermodelfilm actor
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Jamie Jilynn Chung is an American actress and former reality television personality. She began her career in 2004 as a cast member on the MTV reality series The Real World: San Diego and subsequently through her appearances on its spin-off series, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II. She is regarded by many as the Real World alumna with the most successful media career.
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Charlyne Yi
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- voice actorscreenwriterfilm score composerfilm producerfilm actor
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Charlyne Amanda Yi is an American actor, comedian, musician, and writer, known for their role as Dr. Chi Park in the Fox medical drama House (2011–2012), and for providing the voices of the Rubies in the Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe (2015–2018) and its epilogue series Steven Universe Future (2019–2020), Chloe Park in We Bare Bears (2015–2019), Alice in Summer Camp Island (2018–2023), Mai in Next Gen (2018), and Larry in StuGo (2025–present).
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John W. Henry
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- NASCAR team ownerfinancierjournalistbusinessperson
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John William Henry II is an American businessman and the founder of John W. Henry & Company, an investment management firm. He is the principal owner of Liverpool Football Club, the Boston Red Sox, the Pittsburgh Penguins, The Boston Globe, and co-owner of RFK Racing. As of October 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth to be US$6 billion.
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Joe Kelly
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- baseball player
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Joseph William Kelly Jr. is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox. He played college baseball for the UC Riverside Highlanders. He has served as both a starter and a reliever. The Cardinals drafted Kelly in the third round of the 2009 MLB draft. Listed at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) and 190 pounds (86 kg), Kelly throws and bats right-handed. He won the World Series in 2018 and 2020 with the Red Sox and Dodgers, respectively. He was also a member of the Dodgers for the 2024 World Series after being traded from the White Sox during the 2024 regular season, but did not make an appearance during the 2024 postseason or World Series. Kelly has gained publicity for his comical repertoire, such as dancing in the outfield during practice, disguising himself while interviewing the unwitting rapper Nelly, engaging in a lengthy staredown with Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Scott Van Slyke before a 2013 National League Championship Series game, and wearing a charro jacket to the White House. In 2020, Kelly's mocking of Carlos Correa complaining about a near hit by pitch became a popular online meme.
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Lauren Tewes
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- television actorvoice actorstage actoractor
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Cynthia Lauren Tewes is an American actress. She played Julie McCoy on the television anthology series The Love Boat, which originally aired on ABC from 1977 to 1986.
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Elizabeth George
- Occupations
- writernovelist
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Susan Elizabeth George is an American writer of mystery novels set in Great Britain.
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Stephen Bishop
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- television actoractorbaseball player
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Stephen C. Bishop is an American actor and former baseball player. He was a regular cast member in the television series Being Mary Jane (2013–15), Imposters (2017–18) and Run the World (2021–23). Bishop also appeared in films Friday Night Lights (2004), Moneyball (2011), 'Til Death Do Us Part (2017) and Fatal Affair (2020).
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Patrick Seitz
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- casting directorvoice actorbloggerteacherstage actor
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David Patrick Seitz is an American voice actor, ADR director and script writer best known for portraying Dio Brando in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. He has provided voices for English versions of Japanese anime and video games, including over 100 projects since his initial foray into the voice-over industry in 2000 with the Amazing Nurse Nanako OVA.
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Ryan Holiday
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- marketerwritermanagerentrepreneur
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Ryan Holiday is an American marketer, author, businessman and podcaster, notable for marketing Stoic philosophy in the form of books.
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Tam O'Shaughnessy
- Enrolled in the University of California - Riverside
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in school psychology
- Occupations
- psychologistwriterbusinesspersonchildren's writerscience writer
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Tam Elizabeth O'Shaughnessy is an American children's science writer, associate professor emeritus of school psychology, and former professional tennis player. She co-founded the science education company Sally Ride Science together with her life partner, astronaut Sally Ride – the first American woman and third woman in space. The company was relaunched as a nonprofit entity, Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego, on October 1, 2015. O'Shaughnessy serves as executive director.
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Shin Koyamada
- Occupations
- taekwondo athletekaratekafilm actortelevision producertelevision actor
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Shin Koyamada is a Japanese actor, producer, philanthropist, and martial artist. He is best known to the international audience for his co-starring roles in The Last Samurai (2003) as Nobutada and the Disney's Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006) as Shen.
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Kaiji Tang
- Occupations
- television actorpodcastervoice actor
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Kaiji Tang, also known as Kaiji Von Tang, is a Chinese-born voice actor who is based in Los Angeles, California.
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Fatima Farheen Mirza
- Enrolled in the University of California - Riverside
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Fatima Farheen Mirza Ahmed is an American novelist best known for her novel A Place for Us (2018), which was a New York Times Best Seller. She was also honored by the National Book Award Foundation as a "5 Under 35" Honoree in 2020.
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Sirikitiya Jensen
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- historiandesignercurator
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Than Phu Ying Sirikitiya Jensen, or Sirikitiya Mai Jensen (Thai: สิริกิตติยา ใหม่ เจนเสน; RTGS: Sirikittiya Mai Chensen), born Mai Jensen (Thai: ใหม่ เจนเซน), is a granddaughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and a niece of King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand. She is a daughter of Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya (King Bhumibol's eldest daughter) and her American former husband Peter Ladd Jensen. She is also known by her birth name and nickname as Khun Mai.
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Joanna Cameron
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- actorfilm actorfilm directormodeltelevision actor
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Patricia Kara Cameron, sometimes credited as JoAnna Cameron, was an American actress and model, perhaps best known for her portrayal of the title role on Isis, a 1970s children's television series, which was later rebroadcast as The Secrets of Isis.
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Mark Takano
- Enrolled in the University of California - Riverside
- In 2010 graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
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Mark Allan Takano is an American politician and academic who has served in the United States House of Representatives since 2013, representing California's 41st congressional district from 2013 to 2023 and the 39th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Takano became the first gay person of Asian descent in Congress upon taking office.
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Billy Collins
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- university teacherscholar of Englishwriterpoet
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William James Collins is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As of 2020, he is a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
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Patricia Ja Lee
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- film actorvoice actortelevision actoractor
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Patricia Ja Lee is a former American actress. She is best known for her roles of Cassie Chan, the Pink Ranger on the television series Power Rangers Turbo and Power Rangers in Space, and as the voice and motion capture actress for Jill Valentine in numerous entries in the Resident Evil franchise of video games. She also portrayed Haruhi Suzumiya in the first season of ASOS Brigade, a series of live-action videos to promote the show.
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Aaron Long
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Aaron Ray Long is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center-back for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC.
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Adah Almutairi
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- inventorpharmaceutical chemistacademicscientistentrepreneur
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Adah Almutairi is a scientist and professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her work focuses on nanomedicine, nanotechnology, chemistry and polymer science.
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Daniel Kish
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Daniel Kish is an American expert in human echolocation and the President of World Access for the Blind (WAFTB), a California-registered nonprofit organization founded by Kish in 2000 to facilitate "the self-directed achievement of people with all forms of blindness" and increase public awareness about their strengths and capabilities. Kish and his organization have taught a form of echolocation to at least 500 blind children around the world.
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Gary McCord
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Gary Dennis McCord is an American professional golfer, commentator and author.
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Brendon Villegas
- Occupations
- television personalityreality television participantresearcher
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Brendon Josef Villegas is an American television personality and reality show contestant. Villegas appeared in two seasons each of the American edition of the television series Big Brother and The Amazing Race.
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Troy Percival
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Troy Eugene Percival is an American baseball coach and former professional baseball pitcher. He gained fame as a closer. He is currently the manager of the Idaho Falls Chukars of the Pioneer League. During a 14-year baseball career spanning from 1995 to 2009, he pitched for four Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, primarily with the California/Anaheim Angels. He was an integral part of that franchise's 2002 World Series championship team.
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Paul Cook
- Enrolled in the University of California - Riverside
- In 2000 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachermilitary officer
- Biography
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Paul Joseph Cook is an American politician serving as a San Bernardino County Supervisor since 2020, previously serving as the U.S. representative for California's 8th congressional district from 2013 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party, Cook also served on the Yucca Valley Town Council from 1998 to 2006 and represented the 65th district in the California State Assembly from 2006 to 2012.
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Matt Andriese
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Matthew Lee Andriese is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Angels, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners, and Miami Marlins. He has also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants.
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David So
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- actorcomedianYouTuberrestaurateurfilm actor
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David So is an American comedian, YouTuber, actor, entrepreneur, podcast host and musician. He is known for his comedy videos on YouTube. As of January 2020, his main channel David So (formerly DavidSoComedy) has amassed over 1.45 million subscribers and over 310 million views.
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Richard R. Schrock
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- university teacherchemist
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Richard Royce Schrock is an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized for his contributions to the olefin metathesis reaction used in organic chemistry.
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Gary North
- Enrolled in the University of California - Riverside
- In 1972 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in economic history
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerhistorianeconomic historiantheologianreligious writer
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Gary Kilgore North was an American writer, Austrian School economic historian, and leading figure in the Christian reconstructionist movement. North authored or coauthored over fifty books on topics including Reformed Protestant theology, economics, and history. He was an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute.
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Anthony Rendon
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- politician
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Anthony Rendon is an American politician who served as the 70th speaker of the California State Assembly from 2016 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the second-longest serving speaker in California history and the longest-serving speaker to serve his first term after the adoption of California's term limits. From 2022 to 2024, he represented the 62nd district, located in the southeastern part of Los Angeles County, including the cities of South Gate, Lynwood, and Paramount. He previously represented the 63rd district from 2012 to 2022.
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Tim D. White
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- archaeologistanthropologistprehistorianuniversity teacherresearcher
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Tim D. White is an American paleoanthropologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for leading the team which discovered Ardi, the type specimen of Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old likely human ancestor. Prior to that discovery, his early career was notable for his work on Lucy as Australopithecus afarensis with discoverer Donald Johanson.
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Brendan Steele
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Brendan Dean Steele is an American professional golfer. He played predominantly on the PGA Tour, where he had three tournament victories, prior to joining LIV Golf in 2023.
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Holly J. Mitchell
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- actorpolitician
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Holly J. Mitchell is an American politician currently serving as a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
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Jack Sarfatti
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- physicisttheoretical physicist
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Jack Sarfatti is an American theoretical physicist. Working largely outside academia, most of Sarfatti's publications revolve around quantum physics and consciousness.
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Marc Rzepczynski
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Marc Walter Rzepczynski, nicknamed "Scrabble", is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics, Washington Nationals, and Seattle Mariners.
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Adam Tsuei
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Adam Tsuei is an entrepreneur, film producer, and director. He was the former president of Sony Music Entertainment in the Greater China Region and Group Managing Director of BMG Music Entertainment Pan China. He introduced and popularized super idols as Jay Chou, Leehom Wang, F4 and Jolin Tsai, and as a result, is considered one of the most powerful behind-the-scenes masters in the entertainment industry.
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Stefanie Schaeffer
- Occupations
- lawyerbusinessperson
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Stefanie Schaeffer is an American defense attorney and television presenter from California. She was the winner of The Apprentice: Los Angeles, the sixth season of the reality show The Apprentice. She is currently the host of Know Your Rights TV, a news and legal webisodic.
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Shakina Nayfack
- Occupations
- LGBTQ rights activistactortelevision actor
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Shakina Nayfack is an American actress and transgender activist. She is most notable for her series regular role as Lola, a "trans-truther", on the second and third seasons of the Hulu television program Difficult People, on which she was also a writing consultant. In 2020, she became the first trans person to have a starring role on a major network comedy show, Connecting.
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Ram Sewak Sharma
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- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Ram Sewak Sharma is a retired Indian bureaucrat and former civil servant. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur), where he teaches Technology and Policy. He also serves as the non-executive Chairperson of Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), a non-profit organisation aimed at fostering digital commerce.
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Michael Huerta
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- politician
- Biography
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Michael Peter Huerta is an American government official who served as the 17th Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration from 2013 to 2018. He was also acting U.S. secretary of transportation under President Donald Trump for 11 days in 2017 until the Senate confirmed the appointment of Elaine Chao to the position.
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Bradley Garrett
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- photographergeographeracademic
- Biography
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Bradley Garrett is an American researcher of social geography and cultural geography, writer, and photographer. Garrett lives in Morongo Valley, California, on a 5-acre ranch once owned by western movie star Rory Calhoun. He also has a "bug out" cabin in Big Bear Lake, California that was featured in an episode of 60 Minutes.
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Muhammed Al-Jasser
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
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Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser is a Saudi economist who is currently the chairman of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) group former advisor at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia and chairman of the General Authority for Competition. He served as minister of economy and planning between 2011 and 2015. He also previously served as governor and board chairman of the Saudi Arabian Central Bank (SAMA) between 2009 and 2011. Prior to that, he served as executive director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) between 1990 and 1995.
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Rob Brantly
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Robert Jacob Brantly is an American professional baseball catcher in the Miami Marlins organization. The Detroit Tigers drafted Brantly in the third round of the 2010 MLB draft. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, and Tampa Bay Rays. Before beginning his professional career, Brantly played college baseball for the UC Riverside Highlanders.
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Frank Bidart
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Frank Bidart is an American academic and poet, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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Charles E. Young
- Enrolled in the University of California - Riverside
- In 1955 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Charles Edward Young, nicknamed Chuck Young, was an American university administrator and professor. A native of California, Young led the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for 29 years as chancellor and the University of Florida for more than four years as president.
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Quinley Quezada
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Quinley Mirielle Campomanes Quezada-Keča is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for PFF Women's League club Manila Digger and the Philippines national team.
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Sabrina Cervantes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sabrina Cervantes is an American politician who has served a member of the California State Senate since 2024, representing the 31st district. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2016 to 2024, representing the 58th Assembly district, which encompasses the northwestern Riverside County city of Jurupa Valley and portions of the cities of Corona, Eastvale, and Riverside, as well as the San Bernardino County city of Grand Terrace.
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David Horvitz
- Occupations
- artistphotographerfilmmakerconceptual artistvideo artist
- Biography
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David Horvitz is an American artist who uses art books, photography, performance art, and mail art as media for his work. He is known for his work in the virtual sphere. Horvitz is a graduate from Bard College.
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Gloria Romero
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gloria J. Romero is a former California state senator from 2001 until 2010 and was the Democratic majority leader of the California State Senate from 2005 until 2008. She was the first woman to hold that leadership position. In 2024, she joined the Republican Party.
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Bud Pierce
- Occupations
- oncologistphysician
- Biography
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William C. "Bud" Pierce is an American physician and politician. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Oregon in the 2016 special election.
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Chong So-ra
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Jung So-ra, also known as Sora Jung in the Western media, is a South Korean model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Korea 2010 and represented her country in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant.
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Lisa Kekaula
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Lisa Kekaula is the lead singer of American "rock 'n' soul" band The Bellrays.
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Matthew Haughey
- Occupations
- webmasterbloggerweb developerprogrammer
- Biography
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Matthew Haughey is an American programmer, web designer, and blogger. He is best known as the founder of the community weblog MetaFilter, where he is called mathowie.
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Jim Wood
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James "Jim" David Wood Jr is an American politician who served as Speaker pro Tempore of the California State Assembly from 2023 to 2024. He is a Democrat who represented the 2nd Assembly District, which encompasses all of Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties, plus northern and coastal Sonoma County, including the northern half of Santa Rosa.
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Nakul Dev Mahajan
- Occupations
- choreographer
- Biography
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Nakul Dev Mahajan is an Indian-American Bollywood dancer and choreographer best known for his choreography on So You Think You Can Dance. He is the founder and artistic director of NDM Bollywood Dance Productions and Studios, a Bollywood dance company based in Artesia, California. Mahajan has served as a talent show judge for reality television productions. His dance choreography is prominent in the Disney Junior animated series Mira, Royal Detective.
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Jose Medina
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jose Medina is an American educator and politician who served in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat who represented the 61st Assembly District, which encompassed parts of northwestern Riverside County and includes the cities of Riverside, Moreno Valley, Perris and Mead Valley.
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Brandon Rosser
- Years
- 1996-.. (age 29)
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Brandon Arnell Ganuelas-Rosser is a Filipino-American basketball player for the TNT Tropang Giga of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
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David C. Geary
- Enrolled in the University of California - Riverside
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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David Cyril Geary is an American cognitive developmental and evolutionary psychologist with interests in mathematical learning and sex differences. He is currently a Curators’ Professor and Thomas Jefferson Fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
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Ronald E. Neumann
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Ronald Eldredge Neumann is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Afghanistan (2005–2007), Bahrain (2001–2004) and Algeria (1994–1997). He is the son of former ambassador Robert G. Neumann and traveled extensively after college in Afghanistan while his father was ambassador there. Only one other father-and-son pair, John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, have served as ambassadors to the same country; both Adamses served as ministers to Britain. He pronounces his last name Newmann (without the Germanic neu) and his name is sometimes seen spelled that way.
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V. Manuel Perez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Victor Manuel Pérez is an American politician who sat in the California State Assembly as a Democrat. On May 9, 2017, California Governor Jerry Brown appointed him to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, replacing the late John J. Benoit.
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Randall Hyde
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- software developer
- Biography
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Randall Hyde is best known as the author of The Art of Assembly Language, a popular book on assembly language programming. He created the Lisa assembler in the late 1970s and developed the High Level Assembly (HLA) language.
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Nayomi Munaweera
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan American writer and author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, which won Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region in 2013, and What Lies Between Us, which won the Sri Lankan National Book Award for best English novel and the Godage Award.
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Michael A. Ramos
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael Anthony "Mike" Ramos is an American attorney. He was the 35th district attorney of San Bernardino County, California. He was first elected in 2002 and is the first Hispanic district attorney elected in San Bernardino County. He was defeated June 2018 by Jason Anderson, a former prosecutor and Ontario, California council member.
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Rigoberto González
- Occupations
- journalistpoet
- Biography
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Rigoberto González is an American writer and book critic. He is an editor and author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and bilingual children's books, and self-identifies in his writing as a gay Chicano. His most recent project is Latino Poetry, a Library of America anthology, which gathers verse that spans from the 17th century to the present day. His memoir What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. He is the 2015 recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle, the 2020 recipient of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and the 2024 recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Roger Hernández
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Roger Hernández is an American former politician who served in the California State Assembly, representing the 48th district.
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Arthur Mendoza
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- stage actoractor
- Biography
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Arthur Mendoza is an American acting coach. He has taught in Los Angeles for 10 years and has worked with such talents as Khandi Alexander, Sasha Barrese, and John Jopson. He has performed in film and Our House and the film Deep Cover.
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Chris Smith
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Christopher Michael Smith is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current pitching coach in the Oakland Athletics organization. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, and Oakland Athletics. He is a 1999 graduate of Hesperia High School in Hesperia, California, and attended the University of California, Riverside.
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Mark Chelgren
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eric Mark Chelgren is an American politician who served in the Iowa Senate. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to the Iowa Senate in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. He represented District 41.
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Rod Pacheco
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rodric Anthony Pacheco, more commonly known as Rod Pacheco, is an American politician, formerly a District Attorney from 2007 to 2011 in Riverside County, California.
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Laura Beeman
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Laura Lynne Beeman is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head women's basketball coach at the University of Hawaii.
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Julie Furuta-Toy
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Julie Furuta-Toy is a former U.S. Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea. Following an initial announcement by President Barack Obama on June 18, 2015, Ambassador Furuta-Toy was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 22, 2015, and subsequently sworn in on November 24, 2015. She arrived in Malabo to take up her duties on January 7, 2016. Prior to her arrival in Equatorial Guinea, Ms. Furuta-Toy served as both Deputy Chief of Mission and chargé d'affaires at the Embassy of the United States, Oslo, (2012-2015). Her lengthy tenure as chargé d'affaires stemmed from delays related to the nomination and confirmation of a new ambassador to Norway by the United States Senate.
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Pedram Salimpour
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- writerphysician
- Biography
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Pedram Salimpour is an Iranian-American physician-scientist, author, professor, entrepreneur and business executive. He is the co-founder of CareNex Health Services (now part of Anthem, Champion Health Enterprises, and Plymouth Health, the latter of which previously owned Alvarado Hospital in San Diego. He has served on numerous boards and is the youngest president in the history of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, a title he has held since 2014. Salimpour is also the first two-time recipient of the American College of Physicians' Research Award. As a keynote speaker he delivered the commencement address to the University of California, Riverside's 2008 graduating class, and gave the keynote address at the 2012 annual colloquium for the Whitehead Institute at MIT in 2012.
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Berta Gardner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alberta Gardner is an American politician in the U.S. state of Alaska. She served as a Democratic member of the Alaska Legislature for fourteen years, from 2005 to 2019. Serving in both houses, the House and Senate, she represented midtown Anchorage. She was the Senate's minority leader for the last four years of her tenure.
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Raymond L. Orbach
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Raymond Lee Orbach is an American physicist and administrator. He served as Under Secretary for Science in the United States Department of Energy from 2006 until 2009, when he was replaced by Steven E. Koonin. Until his resignation in December 2012, Orbach was director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Orbach continues to do research as a tenured professor in the Cockrell Family Dean's Chair for Engineering Excellence at the University of Texas.
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Peter H. Lin
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Peter Lin is an American vascular surgeon, medical researcher, specializing in minimally invasive endovascular treatment of vascular disease. He has published extensively in the area of vascular surgery and endovascular surgery.
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Anthea M. Hartig
- Occupations
- preservationist
- Biography
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Anthea M. Hartig is an American historian and museum administrator who is the director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian trustees appointed Hartig as director beginning in 2019, succeeding John Gray. She is the museum's first female director.
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Mark Contreras
- Years
- 1995-.. (age 30)
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Mark Anthony Contreras is an American professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent. Contreras played college baseball at the University of California, Riverside. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins.
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Ruben Barrales
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ruben Barrales is the former Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush, and was also the Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. He then served as the CEO of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. He is currently the President and CEO of GROW Elect, a political action committee that recruits, endorses, trains, and funds Latino Republican candidates for public office. He also serves on the board of directors for the Public Policy Institute of California. Barrales has also run as a candidate for the state government post of California State Controller.
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Gabriela Jauregui
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Gabriela Jauregui is a Mexican writer, poet and critic.
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Clive Matson
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Clive Matson is an American direct expression lyric poet and creative writing teacher.
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Ruben Quesada
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Ruben Quesada is an American poet and critic. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is the winner of the 2023 Barrow Street Editors Prize.
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Daniel Stange
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Daniel Adam Stange is a former professional baseball pitcher. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
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Gary Allan Polis
- Occupations
- arachnologistecologist
- Biography
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Gary Allan Polis was an arachnologist and the world's leading expert on scorpions.
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Todd D. Little
- Enrolled in the University of California - Riverside
- 1983-1988 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologist
- Biography
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Todd D. Little is a professor of Educational Psychology in the Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics concentration in Educational Psychology at Texas Tech University.
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Ching-In Chen
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- university teacherwriteracademicpoet
- Biography
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Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American poet and multi-genre writer.
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John W. Lathrop
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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John W. Lathrop was a brigadier general in the California Army National Guard who served as the commanding general of Train, Advise, and Assist Command South. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of California, Riverside, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Service and Political Science. He was commissioned through the Claremont College Reserve Officer Training Program where he received an appointment into the Active Component. During his more than 32 years of active and reserve service he has held command and staff positions across the Army, Reserves, and Joint Community in Korea, the United States, and Southwest Asia. He assumed his current assignment in October, 2017. He retired from service on December 31, 2018.
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Forrest S. Mosten
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Forrest "Woody" Steven Mosten is an American lawyer and author. Mosten has been practicing law in Los Angeles since 1972, additionally serves clients in San Diego and Orange County, and accepts mediation engagement throughout the world online. A former litigator, he is a full-time peacemaker and never takes a case to court, often working in an interdisciplinary team with a triage approach. Mosten has spoken at conferences and trains lawyers and litigators, and taught as an adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Law, from 2002 to 2022.
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Glen Pettigrove
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Glen Allan Pettigrove is an American philosopher and Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He is known for his expertise on philosophy of emotions.
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Katherine Jones
- Occupations
- biologistbiochemist
- Biography
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Katherine A. Jones is a professor of regulatory biology and the Edwin K. Hunter Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. She uses proteomics to study transcription elongation and molecular biology to understand protein coordination. Jones identified elongation factors, a class of proteins which are important in viral gene expression.
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Eilika Weber-Ban
- Enrolled in the University of California - Riverside
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Eilika Weber-Ban is a German biochemist. Her research considers protein degradation pathways. She was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2021.
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Terry A. Yonkers
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Terry Arthur Yonkers is a former United States Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations, Environment & Logistics), holding that office from May 7, 2010 to March 2, 2013.
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Janine Joseph
- Born in
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Philippines - Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Janine Joseph is a Filipino-American poet and author.
