48 Notable alumni of
University of Hartford
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The University of Hartford is 1088th in the world, 397th in North America, and 372nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 notable alumni from the University of Hartford sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jack Swigert
- Occupations
- aerospace engineerpoliticianmilitary officerastronautaircraft pilot
- Biography
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John Leonard Swigert Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and politician. In April 1970, as command module pilot of Apollo 13, he became one of 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon. Ironically, due to the "slingshot" route around the Moon they chose to safely return to Earth, the Apollo 13 astronauts flew further away from Earth than any other astronauts before or since, though they had to abort the Moon landing.
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Marin Ireland
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Marin Ireland is an American actress. Known for her work in theatre and independent films, The New York Times deemed Ireland "one of the great drama queens of the New York stage". She has received nominations for an Independent Spirit Award and a Tony Award.
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Chip Taylor
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersongwriterrecord producersinger
- Biography
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Chip Taylor is an American songwriter and singer noted for writing "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing".
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Stephen Humphrey Bogart
- Occupations
- film actorwriterbiographeractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Stephen Humphrey Bogart is an American writer, producer, and businessman. He is the only son of actor Humphrey Bogart and actress Lauren Bacall, and authored three semi-autobiographical books about his family.
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Jeff Bagwell
- Occupations
- professional baseball player
- Biography
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Jeffrey Robert Bagwell is an American former professional baseball first baseman and coach who spent his entire 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) playing career with the Houston Astros.
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Mia Love
- Enrolled in the University of Hartford
- In 1997 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- flight attendantpoliticianoperator
- Biography
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Ludmya "Mia" Love is an American political commentator and former politician who served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 4th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. A Haitian American, she was the first black person elected to Congress from Utah, the first Haitian-American elected to Congress, and the first black woman elected to Congress as a Republican.
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Alex Briley
- Occupations
- vocalistsinger
- Biography
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Alexander Briley is an American singer who was the original "G.I." in the disco recording act Village People.
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Vin Baker
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Vinny Lamont Baker is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He appeared in four consecutive All-Star Games. As of 2018, Baker serves as an assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks.
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Javier Colon
- Occupations
- singermusiciansongwriter
- Biography
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Javier Colon is an American acoustic singer-songwriter. He has referred to his style of music as being "acoustic soul." He was a member of EmcQ and The Derek Trucks Band, and worked with many musicians before going solo. From 2002 to 2006, he was signed to Capitol Records, known as artist Javier. In 2006, however, the contract was terminated and Javier Colon became an independent artist with his own label, Javier Colon Music. In 2011, He was the winner of season 1 of American talent competition show on NBC, The Voice, receiving $100,000 and signing a recording contract with Universal Republic Records. Colon eventually decided to part ways with Universal Republic in 2012.
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Leo Brouwer
- Occupations
- composerconductorguitarist
- Biography
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Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer, conductor, and classical guitarist. He is a Member of Honour of the International Music Council.
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Richard Neal
- Enrolled in the University of Hartford
- In 1976 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Edmund Neal is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district since 1989. The district, numbered as the 2nd district from 1989 to 2013, includes Springfield, West Springfield, Pittsfield, Holyoke, Agawam, Chicopee and Westfield, and is much more rural than the rest of the state. A member of the Democratic Party, Neal has been the dean of Massachusetts's delegation to the United States House of Representatives since 2013, and he is also the dean of the New England House delegations.
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Francisco Flores
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez was a Salvadoran politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1 June 1999 to 1 June 2004 as a member of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). He previously served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from 1994 to 1999, having been president of the Assembly from 1997 to 1999.
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Mike Joy
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Michael Kinsey Joy is an American TV sports announcer, businessman, and former politician who currently serves as the lap-by-lap voice of Fox Sports' coverage of NASCAR. His color analysts are Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick. Counting 2023, Joy has been part of the live broadcast of 44 Daytona 500s (7 for the Motor Racing Network, 17 for CBS and 20 for FOX). He also serves as expert analyst for A&E Networks History Channel and FYI live TV coverage of collector car auctions.
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Sean Newcomb
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Sean William Newcomb is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball at the University of Hartford. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim selected Newcomb in the first round of the 2014 MLB draft, and traded him to the Atlanta Braves in 2015. He made his MLB debut in 2017 with the Braves, and has also played for the Chicago Cubs.
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Jerry Kelly
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Jerome Patrick Kelly is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions.
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Damion Lowe
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Damion Onandi Lowe is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a defender for the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer and the Jamaica national team.
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David Cordani
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- international forum participantbusinessperson
- Biography
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David Cordani is an American business executive. He has served as the President of Cigna HealthCare since 2005 and President and Chief Operating Officer of Cigna Corporation since 2008.
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Tracey Kelusky
- Occupations
- lacrosse player
- Biography
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Tracey Kelusky is a Canadian former lacrosse player and current head coach of Panther City LC. Kelusky played for the Columbus Landsharks, Montreal Express, Calgary Roughnecks, Buffalo Bandits and Philadelphia Wings. While with the Roughnecks, Kelusky was named captain and led them to titles in 2004 and 2009.
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Matt Bessette
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fighter
- Biography
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Matthew James Bessette is a retired American mixed martial artist currently competing in CES MMA where he is the reigning Featherweight Champion. A professional competitor since 2007, he has also competed for Bellator and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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Sonja Fuss
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Sonja Beate Fuss is a German football defender. She played for the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the Germany national team. She has played in the German Frauen-Bundesliga since 1992. In 2011, together with Inka Grings, she played for Swiss side, FC Zürich Frauen.
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Amir Bramly
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Amir Bramly is an Israeli investor and business man convicted of money laundering and fraud. He is the founder and former manager of Rubicon Business Group (in dissolution) and "Kela Fund" (in dissolution), and former partner in Hagshama fund. At the height of his career, Bramly controlled dozens of companies, and received intense media coverage both of his own dealings and as an interviewed expert.
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Dan Gaspar
- Occupations
- goalkeeper coachassociation football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Daniel Gaspar is a Portuguese-American football and goalkeeping coach who is an assistant coach for Hartford Athletic.
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Kenny Adeleke
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Andrew Kehinde "Kenny" Adeleke is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player who has played 12 seasons in the NBA, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. In 2006–07 he was the top rebounder in the Israel Basketball Premier League.
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Jack Hardy
- Years
- 1947-2011 (aged 64)
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterlyricistmusiciansinger
- Biography
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John Studebaker "Jack" Hardy was an American singer-songwriter and playwright based in Greenwich Village, who was influential as a writer, performer, and mentor in the North American and European folk music scenes for decades. He was cited as a major influence by Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, and others who emerged from that scene in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Hardy was the author of hundreds of songs, and toured for almost forty years. He was also the founding editor of Fast Folk Musical Magazine, a periodical famous within music circles for twenty years that shipped with a full album (and later, compact disc) in each issue, whose entire catalog is now part of the Smithsonian Folkways collection.
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Joxel García
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Joxel García is a Puerto Rican physician and a former four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. He served as the fourteenth Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from March 13, 2008, to January 20, 2009. He served as the Director of Health in the District of Columbia. He served as the Executive Director of the MD Anderson Cancer Control and Prevention Platform and Member of the Leadership Team of the MD Anderson Moon Shots program until May 2017 before joining American Express as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer.
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Pedro Segarra
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pedro E. Segarra is a Puerto Rican-American politician and lawyer who served as the 66th mayor of Hartford, Connecticut. Prior to becoming mayor, Segarra was president of Hartford's City Council. He succeeded former Mayor Eddie Perez who resigned after he was convicted by a state Superior Court jury of bribery and extortion in a political corruption case, though Perez' convictions eventually were reversed by the Connecticut Appellate Court. Segarra was sworn in as mayor on June 25, 2010, and won re-election on November 8, 2011. In 2015, Luke Bronin defeated Segarra for the Democratic mayoral nomination. He is Hartford's second mayor of Puerto Rican ancestry and the first openly gay mayor of the city. He is also the second openly gay mayor of an American state capital city (David Cicilline of neighboring Providence, Rhode Island was the first).
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Jim Ford
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directorscreenwriterstunt performeractor
- Biography
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Jim Ford is an American film and television actor, stuntman, screenwriter and film director. He wrote and directed the short films Reconnaissance (2007), Gotta Go (2008), Wiffle Ball (2008), Timmy Text Message (2009), and White Zin (2010).
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Steve Davis
- Occupations
- jazz musician
- Biography
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Steve Davis is an American jazz trombonist.
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Martin Nyaga Wambora
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martin Nyaga Wambora is a Kenyan politician. He is the first governor of Embu County in Kenya after winning on a TNA (The National Alliance) ticket in the Embu gubernatorial elections which was conducted in March 2013. He would later become the first Governor in Kenya to be impeached, not once but twice but he successfully challenged the impeachment later and was overwhelmingly Re-elected in 2017 winning his 2nd term in office. He was a former member of parliament for Runyenjes Constituency from 2003 to 2007. Prior to becoming the governor of Embu County, he served as the chairman of the board of Kenya Airports Authority and led to its winning of the two most prestigious airport industry awards in 2011.
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David Cullen
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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David Thompson Cullen is an American guitarist, composer, and arranger of various styles of guitar music, including classical, jazz, and world music. He is an artist in residence at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
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Annette Lemieux
- Occupations
- sculptorinstallation artistteacherphotographerconceptual artist
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Annette Lemieux is an American artist who emerged in the early 1980s along with the "picture theory" artists (David Salle, Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Richard Prince). Lemieux brought to the studio a discipline equally based on introspection, and the manifestations of an ideological minimalism. Process is a key component in the execution of her works over the past three decades, creating the lure to the confrontation of issues of social and historical urgency. Lemieux has been the recipient of awards from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Keiser Wilhelm Museum, Germany and an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Montserrat College of Art. Presently, in addition to her studio and exhibition schedule, she is a senior lecturer at Harvard University in the area of visual and environmental studies.
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Tina Podlodowski
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Biography
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Tina L. Podlodowski is an American businesswoman and politician who served as the chair of the Washington State Democratic Party for three terms. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as a member of the Seattle City Council and unsuccessfully ran for Secretary of State of Washington in 2016.
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Hayley Nolan
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Hayley Nolan is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Crystal Palace in the FA Women's Championship and the Republic of Ireland national team.
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Stass Shpanin
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Stass Shpanin is a Soviet born, American contemporary visual artist.
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Sharon Sutton
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Sharon Egretta Sutton, is an American architect, educator, visual artist, and author. Her work is focused on community-based participatory research and design. She is a professor emerita at the University of Washington. In 1984, she became the first African American woman to become a full professor in an accredited architectural degree program while teaching at the University of Michigan. She has also taught at Parsons School of Design, and Columbia University.
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Edward Dugmore
- Occupations
- artistpainter
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Edward Dugmore was an abstract expressionist painter with close ties to both the San Francisco and New York art worlds in the post-war era following World War II. Since 1950 he had more than two dozen solo exhibitions of his paintings in galleries across the United States. His paintings have been seen in hundreds of group exhibitions over the years.
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Larry Marder
- Occupations
- cartoonistpublishercomics artist
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Larry Marder is an American cartoonist and writer, best known as the creator of comic book Tales of the Beanworld, which began as an "essentially self-published title" in 1984. Beginning in 2009, Dark Horse Books began to reprint Tales of the Beanworld, in two volumes, and then went on to publish two more volumes of new Beanworld.
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Gary LaRocque
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Gary LaRocque is the director of player development for the St. Louis Cardinals, a Major League Baseball franchise. A graduate of the University of Hartford, he was an All-American shortstop. LaRocque began his professional baseball career when the Milwaukee Brewers selected him in the 14th round of the 1975 Major League Baseball Draft as a shortstop. He played Minor League Baseball for three seasons, managed for eight and has also served as a coach, regional professional scout, and scouting director.
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Katherine Hammack
- Enrolled in the University of Hartford
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Katherine Grace Hammack is the former United States Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations, Energy and Environment), having assumed office on June 28, 2010, and completing her appointment on January 20, 2017. She then returned to her previous employer, Ernst & Young LLP, as executive director in the Government and Public Sector Advisory practice.
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Corban Wroe
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Corban Joel Wroe is an Australian basketball player who last played for the Warwick Senators of the NBL1 West. He played four seasons of college basketball in the United States for the Hartford Hawks before spending two seasons as a development player with the Perth Wildcats of the National Basketball League (NBL). Early in his career, he was compared to fellow former Perth Wildcats guard Brad Robbins.
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Robert N. Davis
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Robert Nolan Davis is a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
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Peter C. Bjarkman
- Occupations
- sport historian
- Biography
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Peter C. Bjarkman was an American historian, freelance author, and commentator on the baseball played in Cuba after the 1959 Communist revolution. He provided regular internet commentary on Cuban League baseball as a contributing writer for LaVidaBaseball.com and as Senior Writer for the U.S.-based internet website BaseballdeCuba.com and appeared frequently on radio and television sports talk shows as an observer and analyst of the Cuban national sport. He also published more than three dozen books ranging in scope from Major League Baseball history and college and professional basketball history to sports biographies for young adult readers. In spring 2017 Bjarkman was honored with a SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) Henry Chadwick Award, the society's highest research recognition established in 2009, "to honor baseball's great researchers – historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists – for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America's present with its past".
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Phil Bowler
- Occupations
- jazz musician
- Biography
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Phillip Charles Bowler is an American jazz double-bassist and radio host.
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Ben Kopec
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Benjamin Nils Kopec, known better by his stage name, Ben Kopec, is an American-based musician and composer.
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Christopher Coutu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher D. Coutu is an American Army National Guard officer, who also served as a three-term municipal and state elected leader.
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P.J. Pacifico
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
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P.J. Pacifico is an American singer-songwriter. He has released a number of solo albums on Viper Records in the styles of rock, pop, hip hop and folk. He tours frequently and his music is generally in an introspective and emotional style.
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Jackalyne Pfannenstiel
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Jackalyne Pfannenstiel served as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment) from March 5, 2010. until her resignation in July 2012.
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Peter Sklar
- Biography
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Peter Seidman is a New York-based lecturer, educator and talent scout. The founder of the Seidman Academy, Seidman has lectured for the past forty years throughout North America on child development, education, and the arts.
