20 Notable alumni of
University of Central Arkansas
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The University of Central Arkansas is 1557th in the world, 548th in North America, and 515th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from the University of Central Arkansas sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Scottie Pippen
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- actorbasketball player
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Scotty Maurice Pippen Sr., usually spelled Scottie Pippen, is an American former professional basketball player. He played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. Considered one of the greatest small forwards of all time, Pippen played an important role in transforming the Bulls into a championship team and popularizing the NBA around the world during the 1990s.
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Hiroyuki Nishimura
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- television personalitybusinessperson
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Hiroyuki Nishimura is a Japanese internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the most accessed Japanese message board, 2channel, and current administrator of 4chan. He is also a self-help author and TV personality. He is often known by his given name, hiroyuki (ひろゆき), which he uses, rendered intentionally in lowercase, both as a pen name and as a username.
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Charlie Strong
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- player of American footballhead coach
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Charles Rene Strong is an American football coach who was most recently the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at the University of Miami. He recently served as the assistant head coach and inside linebackers coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) in 2021 and also previously served as a defensive analyst at the University of Alabama in 2020.
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Gil Gerard
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractorfilm producervoice actor
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Gil Gerard is an American actor, whose roles include Captain William "Buck" Rogers in the 1979–81 television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
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Kris Allen
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- singer-songwritercomposerguitaristsingerviolinist
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Kristopher Neil Allen is an American singer, songwriter, and the winner of the eighth season of American Idol.
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Mike Norvell
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- player of American footballAmerican football coach
- Biography
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Michael Kelly Norvell is an American college football coach who is currently the head coach at Florida State. He has coached at Memphis, Arizona State, Pittsburgh, Tulsa, and Central Arkansas. He played wide receiver at the University of Central Arkansas from 2001 to 2005 and is the school's all-time receptions leader.
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Arthur Hunnicutt
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- actorstage actortelevision actor
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Arthur Lee Hunnicutt was an American actor known for his portrayal of old, wise, grizzled rural characters. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Big Sky (1952). He was also known for his role in the Western television series Sugarfoot (1957–1961).
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Julia Koch
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- philanthropist
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Julia Margaret Flesher Koch is an American socialite and philanthropist who is one of the richest women in the world. In the annual Forbes ranking for April 2023, she ranked second among the richest women in the world with a fortune of $59 billion. She inherited her fortune from her husband, David Koch, who died in 2019.
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Cody Rutledge Wilson
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- designerengineeractivistgun rights advocate
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Cody Rutledge Wilson is an American gun rights activist, and crypto-anarchist. He is a founder and director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and publishes open source gun designs, so-called "wiki weapons", suitable for 3D printing and digital manufacture. Defense Distributed gained international notoriety in 2013 when it published plans online for the Liberator, the first widely available functioning 3D-printed pistol.
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Jordan Howard
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- basketball player
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Jordan Isaiah Howard is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player for Monbus Obradoiro of the Spanish Liga ACB. He played college basketball for Central Arkansas. He has represented Puerto Rico on the men's national basketball team.
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Jonathan Davis
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- baseball player
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Jonathan Rayshad Davis is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Miami Marlins organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers and the Marlins.
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Mary L. Good
- Enrolled in the University of Central Arkansas
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacher
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Mary Lowe Good was an American inorganic chemist who worked academically, in industrial research and in government. Good contributed to the understanding of catalysts such as ruthenium which activate or speed up chemical reactions.
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Sheffield Nelson
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- lawyerattorney at lawpoliticianbusinessperson
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Edward Sheffield Nelson, known as Sheffield Nelson, is an American attorney, businessman and politician from the capital city of Little Rock, Arkansas. Originally a Democrat, Nelson in 1990 ran for governor of Arkansas as a Republican against then governor and future U.S. President Bill Clinton and in 1994 against another Democrat, the incumbent Governor Jim Guy Tucker.
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Dale Alford
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- university teacherpoliticianophthalmologist
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Thomas Dale Alford Sr. was an American ophthalmologist and politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas who served as a conservative Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from Little Rock from 1959 to 1963.
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Nate Bowie
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Nathan Ezell Bowie is an American basketball coach and former player.
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J. Cody Hiland
- Years
- 1970s
- Occupations
- lawyer
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James Cody Hiland is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court since 2023. He was appointed to the court by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. He served as the United States attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas from 2017 to 2020 after being appointed by President Donald Trump.
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Ken Collums
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- player of American footballhead coach
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Kenneth Layne Collums is an American college football coach and former player. He is the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach at the University of Central Arkansas, a position he has held since 2018. Collums served as the head football coach at Abilene Christian University from 2012 to 2016, compiling a record of 24–32. Prior to his promotion to head coach, for seven seasons he was the Wildcats' offensive coordinator. As a student-athlete, Collums was a four-year starting quarterback for the Central Arkansas, leading the Bears to the NAIA Division I Football Championship in 1991.
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Raymond Simon
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United States - Biography
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Raymond Joseph Simon is an American educator and the former United States Deputy Secretary of Education. Simon led the Office of the Deputy Secretary which served the administration of Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. Simon was nominated by U.S. President George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate on May 26, 2005. He was primarily focused on the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act that aims at reforming primary and secondary education. Simon had previously served as the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, which serves as the top official within the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.
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Benjamin Travis Laney
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Benjamin Travis Laney, Jr., was an American businessman who served as the 33rd governor of Arkansas from 1945 to 1949.
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Dewayne Pemberton
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- politician
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Dewayne Pemberton is a Republican member of the Oklahoma State Senate, representing the 9th district. He was initially elected in November 2016. He is a retired coach, teacher and education administrator.
