30 Notable alumni of
University of Evansville
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The University of Evansville is 1275th in the world, 459th in North America, and 431st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 notable alumni from the University of Evansville sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Rami Malek
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- television actorfilm actoractorfilm producervoice actor
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Rami Said Malek is an American actor. He is known for portraying computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and as Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), for which he won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first actor of Egyptian heritage to win in that category. Time magazine named Malek one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
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Kelli Giddish
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Kelli Marie Giddish is an American television, stage, and film actress. She is best known for her portrayal of NYPD Detective Amanda Rollins in the NBC crime-drama television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2011–2023). Giddish previously played Di Henry on the ABC soap opera All My Children (2005–2007), Dr. Kate McGinn in the Fox crime-drama series Past Life (2010), and Annie Nolan Frost in the NBC crime-drama series Chase (2010–2011).
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Jack McBrayer
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- television actorvoice actorfilm actorcomedian
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Jack McBrayer is an American actor and comedian. He gained national exposure for his portrayal of characters on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and as Kenneth Parcell in 30 Rock. For his role in 30 Rock he was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards. He has also had many voice acting roles. During his time at The Walt Disney Company, he voiced the character Fix-It Felix in the 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph and later its 2018 sequel, as well as the title character Wander in Wander Over Yonder. McBrayer has recurring roles in Phineas and Ferb, Puppy Dog Pals, Amphibia, The Middle and in the Netflix series Big Mouth. He appeared in The Big Bang Theory on the Season 10 premiere episode as Penny’s older brother, Randall. He also appeared on the Odd Squad Movie (2016) as Weird Tom.
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Carrie Preston
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- television actorfilm directorstage actorfilm actorfilm producer
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Carrie Preston is an American actress known for her work on the television series True Blood, Person of Interest, Crowded, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and Claws. Preston received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Elsbeth Tascioni on CBS's drama series The Good Wife and The Good Fight. For her work on The Good Wife, Preston received two nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, winning once. She is set to reprise the role in her own series Elsbeth in 2024.
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Ron Glass
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- television actorvoice actorfilm actoractor
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Ronald Earle Glass was an American actor. He was known for his roles as literary Det. Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller (1975–1982), and as the spiritual shepherd, Shepherd Book, in the science fiction series Firefly (2002) and its sequel film Serenity (2005).
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Rutina Wesley
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- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
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Rutina Wesley is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Tara Thornton on the HBO television series True Blood, and Nova Bordelon on OWN’s Queen Sugar.
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Jerry Sloan
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- basketball coachbasketball player
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Gerald Eugene Sloan was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) before beginning a 30-year coaching career, 23 of which were spent as head coach of the Utah Jazz (1988–2011). NBA commissioner David Stern referred to Sloan as "one of the greatest and most respected coaches in NBA history". Sloan was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Chris Mack
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
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Christopher Lee Mack is an American college basketball coach and the former head coach at the University of Louisville and Xavier University.
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Lennon Parham
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- voice actortelevision produceractortelevision actorpodcaster
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Lennon Parham is an American actress and improvisational comedian from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. With frequent collaborator Jessica St. Clair, she created and co-starred in NBC's Best Friends Forever and USA Network's Playing House. She also co-starred in the CBS sitcom Accidentally on Purpose from 2009 to 2010. More recently, she has appeared in the Max series Minx.
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David Weir
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- association football managerassociation football player
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David Gillespie Weir is a Scottish football coach and former professional player who is the technical director of Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion.
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William Wesley Peters
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- architectengineer
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William Wesley Peters was an American architect and engineer, apprentice to and protégé of his father-in-law Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Kyle Freeland
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- baseball player
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Kyle Richard Freeland is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball at Evansville and was drafted by the Rockies with the eighth pick in the first round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft.
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Andy Benes
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- baseball player
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Andrew Charles Benes is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most prominently as a member of the San Diego Padres. With the Padres, he was named to the National League All-Star team in 1993 and led the league in strikeouts in 1994. He also played for the Seattle Mariners, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks. His brother Alan Benes also pitched in the major leagues, and was his teammate in 1996–97 and 2000–01.
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Vance Hartke
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- politicianwriterlawyer
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Rupert Vance Hartke was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 until 1977. Hartke won election to the Senate after serving as the mayor of Evansville, Indiana. In the Senate, he supported the Great Society and became a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War. Hartke ran for president in the 1972 Democratic primaries but withdrew after the first set of primaries. He left the Senate after being defeated in his 1976 re-election campaign by Richard Lugar.
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Madhu Rye
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- novelistessayistplaywright
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Madhu Rye is a Gujarati playwright, novelist and story writer. Born in Gujarat and educated at Calcutta, he started writing in the 1960s and became known for his stories and plays. His experience at the University of Hawaii introduced him to experimental writing and improvisations as writing aid, which later led to a movement against absurd theatre. He moved to the US in 1974 and has lived there since. He chiefly wrote novels, short stories and plays. His plays were successful and have been adapted into several languages and media. He has adapted his novels into plays and some plays into novels. The most notable is Kimball Ravenswood, which was loosely adapted into a Hindi TV series Mr. Yogi, and a Hindi film, What's Your Rashee? (2009).
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Dru Smith
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- basketball player
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Dru Smith is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Evansville Purple Aces and the Missouri Tigers.
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Adam Alexander
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- journalist
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Adam Alexander is a television announcer with Fox Sports. He currently is the play-by-play announcer for Fox's NASCAR Xfinity Series coverage and a host of NASCAR Race Hub. He previously was the play-by-play for NASCAR on TNT from 2010 to 2014 and prior to that was a pit reporter for TNT, NASCAR on Speed and Motor Racing Network. He also has called college football and college basketball games for Fox.
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Jamey Carroll
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- baseball player
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Jamey Blake Carroll is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals. He was primarily a second baseman but also spent some time at third base and shortstop.
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Lloyd Winnecke
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- television journalistpoliticianbusiness executive
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Lloyd Winnecke is an American politician and businessman serving as the 34th mayor of Evansville, Indiana. He was elected in November 2011 and his four-year term began January 1, 2012. In November 2015, Winnecke was re-elected for a second term, and, in November 2019, he was elected to a third term.
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Jaylon Brown
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- basketball player
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Jaylon Brown is an American professional basketball player for Pınar Karşıyaka of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the Basketball Champions League (BCL). He played college basketball at Evansville (2013–2017). As a senior, he led the Missouri Valley Conference in scoring with 20.9 points per game and was named to the MVC All-Tournament Team.
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Stephen Plunkett
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- actorstage actor
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Stephen Plunkett is an American actor. He is best known for his performances in the NBC series, Rise, and John Magary's The Mend, which premiered at the 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival.
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Jim Michaels
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- television producer
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Jim Michaels is an American television producer. He is the son of Anna Mae and Robert Michaels and was raised in the Chicago suburbs of Des Plaines and Arlington Heights, Illinois. Michaels graduated from John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights and attended the University of Evansville, graduating with a degree in business. Michaels started and ran the in-house computer graphics department at MCA/Universal Studios.
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H. Joel Deckard
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- politician
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Huey Joel Deckard was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1979 to 1983.
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Debasish Dutta
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- mechanical engineer
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Debasish "Deba" Dutta is an American mechanical engineer and higher education administrator. He is currently senior advisor to the president of the University of Illinois system.
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Artūrs Štālbergs
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
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Artūrs Štālbergs is a Latvian professional basketball coach for BK Liepājas Lauvas. He is also a former player.
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Marcus Wilson
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- songwriterbasketball player
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Marcus Dwayne Wilson is a retired professional basketball player, who played his career in Europe, South America and the United States. Since retiring from professional basketball, he has gone on to be a college basketball coach, public speaker and philanthropic non profit business leader.
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John B. Conaway
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- military officer
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Lieutenant General John B. Conaway is a retired United States Air Force officer who served as Chief of the National Guard Bureau from 1990 to 1993.
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Richard Harbert Smith
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- aerospace engineerengineer
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Richard Harbert Smith was a professor and researcher of aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from 1929 to 1945.
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J. Jeff Hays
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- politician
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John Jefferson "Jeff" Hays was an American politician. Hays was a progressive democrat and long-time member of the Indiana House of Representatives serving from 1970 until his retirement in 1996.
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George A. Speckert
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- conductor
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George A Speckert is an American composer, music educator, school principal, author, violist and teacher for film music and media.
