100 Notable alumni of
University of California - Santa Barbara
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The University of California - Santa Barbara is 218th in the world, 95th in North America, and 92nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of California - Santa Barbara sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 5 individuals affiliated with the University of California - Santa Barbara won Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics.
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Michael Douglas
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- television actorfilm actoractorfilm producerproducer
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Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
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Gwyneth Paltrow
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- In 1990 studied art history
- Occupations
- screenwritermusicianfilm actorbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Benjamin Bratt
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- television actorfilm actoractorfilm producervoice actor
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Benjamin Bratt is an American actor who has worked in film and on television. He is most known for playing Paco Aguilar in Blood In, Blood Out. He has also had supporting film roles in the 1990s in Demolition Man (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), and The River Wild (1994). From 1995 to 1999, he starred as New York City Police Department (NYPD) Detective Rey Curtis on the NBC drama series Law & Order.
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Steve Aoki
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- disc jockeyclub DJactorrecord producer
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Steven Hiroyuki Aoki is an American DJ and music producer. In 2012, Pollstar designated Aoki as the highest-grossing electronic dance music artist in North America from tours.
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Alison Eastwood
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- film actormodelfilm producerfashion designerfilm director
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Alison Eastwood is an American film director and actress.
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Jack Johnson
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- In 1997 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in film studies
- Occupations
- surfermanufacturermusicianguitaristcomposer
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Jack Hody Johnson is an American singer-songwriter, primarily in the soft rock and acoustic pop genres. Johnson has reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart with his albums Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George in 2006, Sleep Through the Static in 2008, To the Sea in 2010 and From Here to Now to You in 2013. His album In Between Dreams peaked at number two on the chart in 2005 and again in 2013.
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Aja Naomi King
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Aja Naomi King is an American actress. She began her career in guest-starring roles on television, and starred as Cassandra Kopelson in short-lived The CW medical comedy-drama, Emily Owens, M.D. (2012–13). She also has starred in the films Four (2012) and Reversion (2015).
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Jerry Trainor
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- television actorvoice actorfilm actoractor
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Gerald William Trainor is an American actor and musician. He is known for playing Spencer Shay in the teen sitcom iCarly and its revival series of the same name, winning three Kids' Choice Awards for his performances. He also appeared in Drake & Josh as "Crazy" Steve and T.U.F.F. Puppy as Dudley Puppy, for which he received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. Since 2004, Trainor has worked primarily on the Nickelodeon network. Outside of this, he has had recurring and guest roles on young adult-oriented shows on the Disney Channel and Netflix as well as in more mature shows like Crossing Jordan and 2 Broke Girls.
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Katy Tur
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- journalisttelevision presenterwriterstorm chaser
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Katherine Bear Tur is an American author and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for NBC News. Tur is an anchor for MSNBC, where since 2021 she has hosted Katy Tur Reports. She has also reported for the NBC news platforms Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, and WNBC-TV, and for The Weather Channel.
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Charissa Thompson
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- sports commentatortelevision presenter
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Charissa Jean Thompson is an American television host and sportscaster working for Fox Sports and Amazon Prime Video. Previously, Thompson worked for ESPN, Versus, as well as for GSN and the Big Ten Network. She was the co-host of SportsNation along with Marcellus Wiley until her departure from ESPN for Fox Sports in June 2013. She became the host of Fox Sports Live on the new Fox Sports 1 network when it debuted on August 17, 2013 (the first day of Fox Sports 1). She also was one of the American hosts of Ultimate Beastmaster. From 2014 to 2017, Thompson was a co-host on the syndicated entertainment news show Extra.
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Edi Gathegi
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Edi Mūe Gathegi is a Kenyan-American actor. He appeared as a recurring character, Dr. Jeffrey Cole (aka "Big Love"), in the television series House, as Cheese in the 2007 film Gone Baby Gone, Laurent in the films Twilight and its sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and as Darwin in X-Men: First Class. Gathegi also featured in the AMC series Into the Badlands as Baron Jacobee. He has also been a recurring character in the NBC television series The Blacklist as Matias Solomon, an operative for a covert organization. Gathegi reprised the role in the 2016–2017 season crime thriller, The Blacklist: Redemption. He has also played a leading role in Startup, a television drama series on Crackle. Since 2022, Gathegi has played engineer and entrepreneur Dev Ayesa in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind.
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Robby Krieger
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- singer-songwritercomposersongwriterguitarist
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Robert Alan Krieger is an American guitarist and founding member of the rock band the Doors. Krieger wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors' songs, including the hits "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", "Touch Me", and "Love Her Madly". When the Doors disbanded following the death of lead singer Jim Morrison, Krieger continued to perform and record with other musicians including former Doors bandmates John Densmore and Ray Manzarek.
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Harris Faulkner
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in social communication
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalistnews presenter
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Harris Kimberley Faulkner is an American conservative newscaster and television host who joined the Fox News Channel in 2005. She anchors The Faulkner Focus, a daily daytime show, and hosts Outnumbered. Additionally, she hosts her own primetime political franchise called Town Hall America with Harris Faulkner. She has received six Emmy Awards, including the 2005 Upper Midwest Emmy Awards for Best Newscaster (nominee) and Best News Special (recipient).
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Reza Aslan
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- religious studies scholaruniversity teacherwriterTrekkieopinion journalist
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Reza Aslan is an Iranian-American scholar of sociology of religion, writer, and television host. A convert to evangelical Christianity from Shia Islam as a youth, Aslan eventually reverted to Islam but continued to write about Christianity. He has written four books on religion: No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, God: A Human History and in 2022 An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville.
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Andrew Schulz
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- comedianactortelevision actor
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Andrew Cameron Schulz is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster. In addition to his stand-up, he is known for his work on MTV2's Guy Code and its two spinoffs, the Flagrant podcast with Akaash Singh, and The Brilliant Idiots podcast. Schulz's first Netflix special, Schulz Saves America, premiered on December 17, 2020. As an actor, he has appeared in IFC's Benders and the Amazon original series Sneaky Pete.
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Robert Ballard
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Science in geology and chemistry
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- naval officernon-fiction writergeologistfilm directoracademic
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Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is best known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew.
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Jose M. Hernandez
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- astronautbusinesspersonengineer
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José Moreno Hernández is a Mexican-American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He currently serves as a Regent of the University of California.
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Harvey Levin
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- reporterlawyertelevision producer
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Harvey Robert Levin is an American television producer, legal analyst, journalist, and former lawyer. He founded the celebrity news website TMZ in 2005, and later briefly served as the host of OBJECTified (2016–present), which aired on the Fox News Channel.
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Moshe Kasher
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- television actorpodcasterscreenwriteractorcomedian
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Mark Moshe Kasher is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in the Los Angeles area. He is the author of the 2012 memoir Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16. In 2009, iTunes named Kasher "Best New Comic" and his comedy album Everyone You Know Is Going to Die, and Then You Are! was ranked one of the top 20 comedy albums on iTunes that same year. He was also named "Comic to Watch in 2010" by Punchline Magazine.
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Barbara Rush
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Barbara Rush is a retired American actress. In 1954, Rush won the Golden Globe Award as most promising female newcomer for her role in the 1953 American science-fiction film It Came from Outer Space. Later in her career, Rush became a regular performer in the television series Peyton Place, and appeared in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other programs, including the soap opera All My Children and family drama 7th Heaven, as well as starring in films, including The Young Philadelphians, The Young Lions, Robin and the 7 Hoods, and Hombre.
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Lo Bosworth
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- writerfilm actoractorentrepreneur
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Lauren Ogilvie "Lo" Bosworth is an American former reality television personality, founder and CEO of Love Wellness, and author. Bosworth rose to prominence as a cast member of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and The Hills, which documented the lives of her and her friends.
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Shuji Nakamura
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- physicistinventorengineerprofessor
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Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-American electronic engineer and inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. Nakamura specializes in the field of semiconductor technology, and he is a professor of materials science at the College of Engineering of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
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Ron Wyden
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- Studied in 1967-1969
- Occupations
- politicianbasketball player
- Biography
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Ronald Lee Wyden is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oregon, a seat he has held since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until 1996. He is the dean of Oregon's congressional delegation and chairs the Senate Finance Committee.
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Chanel Miller
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in literature
- Occupations
- architectural draftspersonvisual artistwritermuralist
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Chanel Miller is an American writer and artist based in San Francisco, California and New York City. She was known anonymously after she was sexually assaulted on the campus of Stanford University in January 2015 by Brock Allen Turner. The following year, her victim impact statement at his sentencing hearing went viral after it was published online by BuzzFeed, being read 11 million times within four days. Miller was referred to as "Emily Doe" in court documents and media reports until September 2019, when she relinquished her anonymity and released her memoir Know My Name: A Memoir. The book won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiographies and was named in several national book lists of the year. She is credited with sparking national discussion in the United States about the treatment of sexual assault cases and victims by college campuses and court systems. She is also a public speaker.
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Gregg Araki
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- film editordirectorcinematographerscreenwriterfilm producer
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Gregg Araki is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his heavy involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. His film Kaboom (2010) was the first winner of the Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm.
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Richard Serra
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- In 1961 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- sculptorartistdrawerpaintertelevision producer
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Richard Serra is an American artist known for his large-scale sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings. Serra's sculptures are notable for their material quality and exploration of the relationship between the viewer, the work, and the site. Since the mid-1960s, Serra has worked to radicalize and extend the definition of sculpture beginning with his early experiments with rubber, neon, and lead, to his large-scale steel works.
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Joseph C. Wilson
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- In 1972 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- diplomatwriterpolitical adviserwhistleblowerbusinessperson
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Joseph Charles Wilson IV was an American diplomat who was best known for his 2002 trip to Niger to investigate allegations that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium; his New York Times op-ed piece, "What I Didn't Find in Africa"; and the subsequent leaking by the Bush/Cheney administration of information pertaining to the identity of his wife Valerie Plame as a CIA officer. He also served as the CEO of a consulting firm he founded, JC Wilson International Ventures, and as the vice chairman of Jarch Capital, LLC.
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Kevin de León
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- politician
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Kevin Alexander Leon, known professionally as Kevin de León and colloquially as KDL, is an American politician serving as the Los Angeles City Council member for District 14 since 2020. A member of the Democratic Party, he was defeated in the 2018 United States Senate election in California against incumbent Senator Dianne Feinstein and came in third place in the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election.
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Gabe Vincent
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- basketball player
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Gabriel Nnamdi Vincent is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Nigerian national basketball team. He played college basketball for the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos.
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Don Hertzfeldt
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- Studied in 1998
- Occupations
- film directorfilmmakerwriterscreenwriterdirector
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Don Hertzfeldt is an American animator, writer, and independent filmmaker. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee who is best known for the animated films It's Such a Beautiful Day, the World of Tomorrow series, and Rejected. In 2014, his work appeared on The Simpsons. Eight of his short films have competed at the Sundance Film Festival, a festival record. He is also the only filmmaker to have won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize for Short Film twice.
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Beverly Archer
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- actorfilm actorscreenwriter
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Beverly Archer is an American actress and writer who is perhaps best known for her television roles as Iola Boylen on Mama's Family and as Gunnery Sgt. Alva Bricker on Major Dad.
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Alie Ward
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- television actorpodcastertelevision presenterscience communicatorjournalist
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Alison Ann "Alie" Ward is an American writer, actress, and television and podcast host. Born in California, Ward graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in cinema. In 2016, she won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing Special Class for the CBS series Innovation Nation. In 2022, the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards named her podcast Ologies “Best Science Podcast”, and the Webby Awards honored Ward as “Best Podcast Host.”
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Josh Elliott
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- actorsports commentatornews presenter
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Josh Elliott is an American television journalist who most recently worked for CBS News. He has previously worked as the news anchor for ABC's Good Morning America, a sports anchor for NBC Sports and Today, and was a co-anchor for the live telecast of ESPN's morning edition of SportsCenter.
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Faisal bin Fahd
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- politician
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Faisal bin Fahd Al Saud was the president of Youth Welfare in Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1999 and a member of House of Saud.
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Jack Bannon
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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John James Bannon was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Art Donovan on Lou Grant, a role he played for the duration of the series, from 1977 to 1982.
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James Nunnally
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- basketball player
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James William Nunnally is an American professional basketball player for Partizan Mozzart Bet of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the Adriatic league and the EuroLeague.
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Jenna Lee
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- presenterjournalistcolumnist
- Biography
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Jennifer Anne "Jenna" Lee is an American journalist and former anchor on the Fox News, where she co-hosted Happening Now with Jon Scott. Lee had previously co-anchored Fox Business' early-morning business news program, Fox Business Morning, with Connell McShane.
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Michael Young
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Michael Brian Young is an American former professional baseball infielder who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Since 2014, Young has worked in the Rangers’ front office as a Special Assistant to the General Manager. Originally a second baseman, the versatile Young was a five-time All-Star at shortstop, once at third base, and once as a combination designated hitter / utility infielder. He was the 2005 American League (AL) batting champion.
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Forrest Galante
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- biologisttelevision personality
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Forrest Galante is an American outdoor adventurer, television personality, and conservationist. He works in the field of wildlife biology, specializing in the exploration of animals on the brink of extinction. He is the host of the television shows Extinct or Alive on Animal Planet and "Mysterious Creatures with Forrest Galante," as well as multiple Shark Week shows.
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David Woodard
- Occupations
- composerwriterconductor
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David James Woodard is an American conductor and writer.
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Harry Glicken
- Years
- 1958-1991 (aged 33)
- Occupations
- geologistvolcanologist
- Biography
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Harry Glicken was an American volcanologist. He researched Mount St. Helens in the United States before and after its 1980 eruption, and was very distraught about the death of volcanologist David A. Johnston, who was Glicken's mentor and supervisor in Spring 1980 at Mount St. Helens. Glicken was initially assigned to the USGS observation post in the weeks leading up to the eruption but was called away the night before the eruption.
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Amy Gumenick
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Amy Jaclyn Gumenick is a Swedish-American actress, best known for her roles as Natalee Holloway in the television film of the same name (2009) and its sequel, as the young Mary Winchester in Supernatural (2008–10), as Carrie Cutter / Cupid in Arrow (2014–2019) and as Philomena Cheer in Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17).
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Grady Booch
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- computer scientistengineersoftware developer
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Grady Booch is an American software engineer, best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language (UML) with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh. He is recognized internationally for his innovative work in software architecture, software engineering, and collaborative development environments.
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Jason Lezak
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- swimmer
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Jason Edward Lezak is an American former competitive swimmer and swimming executive. As a swimmer, Lezak specialized in the 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle races. His pro career lasted for nearly fifteen years, spanning four Olympic games and eight Olympic medals.
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Carol Greider
- Occupations
- biochemistbiologistgeneticistmolecular biologist
- Biography
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Carolyn Widney Greider is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. She joined the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Distinguished Professor in the department of molecular, cell, and developmental biology in October 2020.
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Skip Schumaker
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jared Michael "Skip" Schumaker is an American former professional baseball player, former coach and current manager of the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was an outfielder and second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Cincinnati Reds. He previously served as a bench coach for the Cardinals and San Diego Padres.
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Jared Huffman
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- In 1986 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerbeach volleyball playervolleyball playerpolitician
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Jared William Huffman is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Huffman represented the 6th district in the California State Assembly from 2006 to 2012. He chaired the Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee and the Assembly Environmental Caucus. He was elected to Congress in 2012 with more than 70% of the vote, defeating Republican nominee Dan Roberts. His congressional district covers the North Coast from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border.
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Carla Simón
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Carla Simón Pipó is a Spanish film director. Both her 2017 debut feature Summer 1993 (Catalan: Estiu 1993) and her second feature, Alcarràs (which won the Golden Bear at the 72nd Berlinale, the first Catalan-language film to do so), were submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to represent Spain for Best International Feature Film at the 90th and 95th Academy Awards, respectively.
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Walter Kohn
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherphysicist
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Walter Kohn was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials. In particular, Kohn played the leading role in the development of density functional theory, which made it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density (rather than the many-body wavefunction). This computational simplification led to more accurate calculations on complex systems as well as many new insights, and it has become an essential tool for materials science, condensed-phase physics, and the chemical physics of atoms and molecules.
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Joseph M. Acaba
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- In 1990 graduated with bachelor's degree in geology
- Occupations
- hydrogeologistastronautteacher
- Biography
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Joseph Michael Acabá is an American educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut. In May 2004 he became the first person of Puerto Rican heritage to be named as a NASA astronaut candidate, when he was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Training Group 19. He completed his training on February 10, 2006, and was assigned to STS-119, which flew from March 15 to 28, 2009, to deliver the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station.
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Alan Williams
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Alan Travis Williams is an American professional basketball player for the South East Melbourne Phoenix of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for UC Santa Barbara before beginning his professional career with the Qingdao DoubleStar Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association in 2015.
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Ellen Hopkins
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriter
- Biography
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Ellen Louise Hopkins is a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience.
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Salud Carbajal
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- In 1990 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Salud Ortiz Carbajal is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 24th congressional district since 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and his district covers Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara.
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Mykel Hawke
- Occupations
- actorwritersoldier
- Biography
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Mykel Hawke is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, author, and television and film personality. He is perhaps best known for the television programs he created on Discovery Channel called Man, Woman, Wild and One Man Army. He left Discovery to work on two new programs: Lost Survivors for Travel Channel and Elite Tactical Unit for Outdoor Channel.
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Herbert Kroemer
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Herbert Kroemer is a German-American physicist who, along with Zhores Alferov, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for "developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics". Kroemer is professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, having received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Göttingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot electron effects in the then-new transistor. His research into transistors was a stepping stone to the later development of mobile phone technologies.
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Milan St. Protić
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- Studied in 1982
- In 1987 graduated with Doctor of Science
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Milan St. Protić is a Serbian historian, politician and diplomat who served as the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the United States, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. He was also the Mayor of Belgrade in 2000/01.
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Michael Boxall
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Michael Joseph Boxall is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a defender for Major League Soccer club Minnesota United and the New Zealand national football team.
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Kazu Kibuishi
- Occupations
- writercomics artistgraphic artistanimatorillustrator
- Biography
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Kazuhiro "Kazu" Kibuishi is a Japanese-born American graphic novel author and illustrator. He is best known for being the creator and editor of the comic anthology Flight and for creating the webcomic Copper. He is also the author and illustrator of the Amulet series.
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Carol Folt
- Occupations
- biologistdeanscientistecologistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Carol Lynn Folt is an American academic administrator who is the 12th president of the University of Southern California. She is also the first female president in the university’s 142-year history. She assumed her duties on July 1, 2019. She was previously the 11th chancellor, and the 29th chief executive, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first woman to hold the post. Prior to that, she was provost (chief academic officer) and interim president of Dartmouth College. On January 14, 2019, she announced her resignation as UNC chancellor.
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Alexei Filippenko
- Occupations
- physicistastronomerastrophysicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1984, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow. He was a postdoctoral Miller Fellow at Berkeley from 1984 to 1986 and was appointed to Berkeley's faculty in 1986. In 1996 and 2005, he a Miller Research Professor, and he is currently a Senior Miller Fellow. His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths, as well as on black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the expansion of the Universe.
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Bruce Allen
- Occupations
- physicistastronomerastrophysicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Bruce Allen is an American physicist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover Germany and leader of the Einstein@Home project for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. He is also a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the initiator / project leader of smartmontools hard disk utility.
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Leroy Chiao
- Occupations
- entrepreneuruniversity teacherastronautengineermotivational speaker
- Biography
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Leroy Chiao is an American chemical engineer, retired NASA astronaut, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and engineering consultant. Chiao flew on three Space Shuttle flights, and was the commander of Expedition 10, where he lived on board the International Space Station from October 13, 2004 to April 24, 2005. He is also a co-author and researcher for the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity project.
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Edward Feser
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Edward Charles Feser is an American Catholic philosopher. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California.
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Tony Cárdenas
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- In 1986 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianreal estate agentinsurance broker
- Biography
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Antonio Cárdenas is an American politician who has served as the United States representative for California's 29th congressional district since January 2013.
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Yau-Man Chan
- Occupations
- reality television participanttable tennis player
- Biography
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Yau-Man Chan is a Malaysian table tennis player, technology executive, and reality television participant. He was the fourth-place finisher in the reality television series Survivor: Fiji. He returned to the show in Survivor: Micronesia, where he was the third contestant to be ousted. He was born in Hong Kong to ethnic Chinese parents and raised in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
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Dillon Tate
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Dillon Michael Tate is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Texas Rangers selected Tate in the first round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft and traded him to the New York Yankees during the 2016 season. He was traded to the Orioles close to the 2018 trade deadline. He made his MLB debut in 2019.
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Chris Pontius
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Christopher Richard Pontius is an American former professional soccer player.
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Alan J. Heeger
- Occupations
- physicistengineeruniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Alan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.
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Matt Welch
- Occupations
- punditjournalistblogger
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Matthew Lee Welch is an American blogger, journalist, author, and libertarian political pundit.
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Barbara Bodine
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- diplomat
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Barbara K. Bodine is an American academic and former diplomat. Bodine formerly directed the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI) and lectured at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She currently serves as Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.
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Finn E. Kydland
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- scientisteconomistuniversity teacherprofessor
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Finn Erling Kydland is a Norwegian economist known for his contributions to business cycle theory. He is the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds the Richard P. Simmons Distinguished Professorship at the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his PhD, and a part-time position at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). Kydland was a co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, with Edward C. Prescott, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."
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Wayne Isham
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- film directormusic video director
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Wayne Isham is an American film director and music video director who has directed films and music videos of many popular artists.
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Larry Dierker
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- baseball player
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Lawrence Edward Dierker is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher, manager, and broadcaster. During a 14-year baseball career as a pitcher, he pitched from 1964 to 1977 for the Houston Colt.45s/Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Ryan Spilborghs
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Ryan Adam Rene Jean Spilborghs is an American baseball broadcaster for AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain & SiriusXM's MLB Network Radio, and a former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Saitama Seibu Lions.
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Lois Capps
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- Studied in 1990
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- bureaucratprofessornursepoliticiannurse educator
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Lois Ragnhild Capps is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for California's 24th congressional district from 1998 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 22nd District from 1998 to 2003 and the 23rd from 2003 to 2013, includes all of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties and a portion of Ventura County.
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Mark di Suvero
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- video artistsculptorprintmakerartist
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Marco Polo di Suvero, better known as Mark di Suvero, is an abstract expressionist sculptor and 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient.
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Cynthia Breazeal
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- international forum participantengineer
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Cynthia Breazeal is an American robotics scientist and entrepreneur. She is a former chief scientist and chief experience officer of Jibo, a company she co-founded in 2012 that developed personal assistant robots. Currently, she is a professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the director of the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab. Her most recent work has focused on the theme of living everyday life in the presence of AI, and gradually gaining insight into the long-term impacts of social robots.
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Robert Duggan
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- 1944-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Robert W. Duggan is an American billionaire, entrepreneur, philanthropist, biotech executive, health care executive, educator, and human rights activist. He is the former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Pharmacyclics and was previously CEO of surgical systems maker Computer Motion from 1997 to 2003. Bob is the majority shareholder and is on the boards of directors of Pulse Biosciences and Summit Therapeutics, where he is also CEO.
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James Paul Gee
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- linguist
- Biography
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James Gee is a retired American researcher who has worked in psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, and literacy. Gee most recently held the position as the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, originally appointed there in the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education. Gee has previously been a faculty affiliate of the Games, Learning, and Society group at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is a member of the National Academy of Education.
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Chade-Meng Tan
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Chade-Meng Tan, known informally as Meng, is an author, philanthropist, motivator, and former software engineer. He was previously employed at Google and greeted celebrities who visited the Google campus. He retired from Google as its "Jolly Good Fellow" at the age of 45. He co-founded the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, along with Marc Lesser, and is co-chair of One Billion Acts of Peace, which was nominated eight times for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also an adjunct professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in the National University of Singapore, and a graduate from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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Dacher Keltner
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- university teacherpsychologistinternational forum participant
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Dacher Joseph Keltner is a Mexican-born American professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, who directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab. He is also the founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, host of the podcast The Science of Happiness, and chief scientific advisor of Hume AI.
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Rob Friend
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- association football player
- Biography
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Robert Douglas Friend is a Canadian former professional soccer player, who played as a forward, and CEO of Pacific FC.
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Adam Gray
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- politician
- Biography
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Adam C. Gray is an American politician who served in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat who represented the 21st Assembly district, encompassing all of Merced County and portions of Stanislaus County. He was a candidate in the 2022 election for California's 13th congressional district, narrowly losing in the general election to Republican John Duarte.
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Peidong Yang
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- chemistuniversity teacherphysicist
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Peidong Yang is a Chinese–American chemist, material scientist, and businessman. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley (since 1999) and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Materials Science. His research group studies the synthesis of nanomaterials and their electronic and optical properties. He is also a Department Head at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Deputy Director of the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS). He is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, an American Chemical Society Journal.
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Yngve Slyngstad
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- chief executive officerinternational forum participanteconomist
- Biography
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Yngve Slyngstad is the former CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) which is the part of the Norwegian Central Bank that is responsible for managing The Government Pension Fund - Global. In 2021 he was appointed as the CEO and senior partner of Aker Asset Management (AAM).
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Soledad Puértolas
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- writer
- Biography
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Soledad Puértolas Villanueva is a Spanish writer, and on 28 January 2010 was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.
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Benjamin H. Bratton
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- designeruniversity teachersociologist
- Biography
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Benjamin H. Bratton is an American Philosopher of Technology known for his work spanning social theory, computer science, design, artificial intelligence, and for his writing on the geopolitical implications of what he terms "planetary scale computation".
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Lindsay Taylor
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- basketball coachbasketball player
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Lindsay Corine Taylor is an American former professional basketball player. She played in the WNBA, KBSL, LFB, WKBL, Polish Women's League, WCBA, and Angola Women's Basketball League. A very experienced player, she also played professionally overseas in 13 basketball seasons. Standing 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) tall she usually played the center position (normally the tallest player on the team).
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Delaine Eastin
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- politician
- Biography
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Delaine Andree Eastin is an American politician and educator from California. A professor by education, she was the first and only woman to date to be elected California State Superintendent of Public Instruction (1995–2003) under Governors Pete Wilson and Gray Davis. Eastin represented parts of Alameda County and Santa Clara County in the California State Assembly between 1986 and 1994. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Dan Kennedy
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Daniel Hoffard Kennedy is an American former professional soccer player who played as goalkeeper.
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Jordan Maron
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- Minecraft YouTuber
- Biography
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Jordan Maron, known online as CaptainSparklez, is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer mainly known for his Minecraft videos. As of January 2024, his main YouTube channel has over 11.4 million subscribers.
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Marc Grossman
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Marc Isaiah Grossman is an American former diplomat and government official. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was most recently the United States Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and is currently a Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group, a business strategic advisory firm headed by former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, and a Vice Chair of the German Marshall Fund board of trustees.
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Viral B. Shah
- Born in
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India - Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- In 2007 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in computational science
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Viral B Shah is a world renowned computer scientist, best known for being a co-creator of the Julia programming language. He was also actively involved in the initial design of the Aadhaar project in India which provides a 12-digit unique identity number to each Indian resident based on their biometric and demographic data. Based on his experiences implementing Aadhaar and other complex technology projects in government, he co-authored the book Rebooting India with Nandan Nilekani.
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Denis Dutton
- Enrolled in the University of California - Santa Barbara
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Denis Laurence Dutton was an American philosopher of art, web entrepreneur, and media activist. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was also a co-founder and co-editor of the websites Arts & Letters Daily, ClimateDebateDaily.com, and cybereditions.com.
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Norris Cochran
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- politician
- Biography
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Norris Whitehouse Cochran IV is an American government official who served as the acting United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from January to March 2021, having also served in this role previously in 2017. He serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Budget, and was Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources in the United States Department of Health and Human Services throughout most of the Trump administration.
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Dante Di Loreto
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- television actorfilm actorexecutive producerfilm producertelevision producer
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Dante Di Loreto is an American film and television producer most notable for executive producing Glee and American Horror Story. He is a two-time Primetime Emmy Award winner and for his work on Temple Grandin and The Normal Heart. He has also won a Daytime Emmy Award for his work on My Louisiana Sky. DiLoreto was the President of Ryan Murphy Television; and the President of Television at Chernin Entertainment. and now he's the president of US Scripted Entertainment for Fremantle.
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Dick Tuck
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Richard Gregory Tuck was an American political consultant, campaign strategist, advance man, and political prankster.
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Blair Hull
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- politician
- Biography
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Blair Hull is an American businessman, investor, and Democratic politician.
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Thomas Gilovich
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- university teacherwriterpsychologist
- Biography
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Thomas Dashiff Gilovich an American psychologist who is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He has conducted research in social psychology, decision making, behavioral economics, and has written popular books on these subjects. Gilovich has collaborated with Daniel Kahneman, Richard Nisbett, Lee Ross and Amos Tversky. His articles in peer-reviewed journals on subjects such as cognitive biases have been widely cited. In addition, Gilovich has been quoted in the media on subjects ranging from the effect of purchases on happiness to people's most common regrets, to perceptions of people and social groups. Gilovich is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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Roger Hedgecock
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- politicianradio personality
- Biography
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Roger Allan Hedgecock is an American politician and conservative talk radio host, who served as 30th mayor of San Diego between May 1983 and December 1985. His show is syndicated by Radio America.
