52 Notable alumni of
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is 1268th in the world, 453rd in North America, and 425th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 52 notable alumni from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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DaBaby
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- songwriterrappersingercollector
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Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, known professionally as DaBaby (formerly Baby Jesus), is an American rapper. After releasing several mixtapes between 2014 and 2018, he signed with Interscope Records in January 2019 in a joint venture with the North Carolina–based record label, South Coast Music Group. His debut studio album, Baby on Baby (2019), spawned the single "Suge", which peaked within the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 a month after its release.
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Emily V. Gordon
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- film producerscreenwriter
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Emily V. Gordon is an American writer, producer and podcast host. She co-wrote the 2017 romantic comedy film The Big Sick, based on her relationship with her husband and frequent collaborator, comic Kumail Nanjiani. Gordon and Nanjiani won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for The Big Sick; they were also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, among many other nominations.
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Mark Robinson
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- politician
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Mark Keith Robinson is an American politician who served as the 35th lieutenant governor of North Carolina from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 2024 North Carolina gubernatorial election. He is North Carolina's first Black lieutenant governor and was the first Black major party nominee for governor.
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Chris Chalk
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Christopher Eugene Chalk is an American actor. He is most well-known for his role as Lucius Fox in Fox American drama series Gotham, and is also known for co-starring alongside Matthew Rhys in the HBO drama series Perry Mason.
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Virginia Foxx
- Enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- In 1985 graduated with Doctor of Education
- Occupations
- deanpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Virginia Ann Foxx is an American educator, businesswoman, and politician serving as the U.S. representative from North Carolina's 5th congressional district since 2005. A member of the Republican Party, Foxx has served as chair of the House Rules Committee since 2025 and is the only woman leading a committee in the 119th Congress. She also served as Secretary of the House Republican Conference from 2013 to 2017. She was the ranking member of the House Committee on Education and Labor from 2019 to 2023 and served as the committee's chair from 2017 to 2019 and from 2023 to 2025. Foxx's district encompasses much of the northwestern portion of the state, including most of the city of Greensboro. Since January 2025, Foxx has been the dean of North Carolina's congressional delegation.
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Kyle Hines
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- basketball player
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Kyle Terrel Hines is an American former professional basketball player. He played at the power forward and center positions.
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Brian Huskey
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- screenwriteractortelevision actor
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Brian Huskey is an American character actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his roles in comedy programs such as People of Earth, Childrens Hospital, Veep, and Another Period. He also provides the voice of Regular Sized Rudy on the animated comedy Bob's Burgers.
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Lauren Holt
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- film actortelevision actoractorcomedian
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Lauren Elizabeth Holt is an American actress and comedian. She began her career with the Upright Citizens Brigade, an improv and sketch comedy troupe in Los Angeles. In 2020, Holt, alongside Andrew Dismukes and Punkie Johnson, was hired to join the cast of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live as a featured player, appearing during the show's 46th season between 2020 and 2021. Holt left Saturday Night Live after one season and went on to appear in the 2022 film Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm and the 2023 films Pastacolypse and Barbie.
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Tyler Barnhardt
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- actortelevision actor
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Tyler Davis Barnhardt is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Matthew Roe in the American period drama television series Underground and Charlie St. George in the American teen drama streaming television series 13 Reasons Why. Barnhardt had a supporting role in the 2022 American comedy film Senior Year.
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Ricky Hickman
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Richard Marciano Hickman, Jr. is an American-born naturalized Georgian former professional basketball player. He represented the Georgian national basketball team in international competitions. Standing at 6 ft 2.5 in (1.89 m), he played at the shooting guard and point guard positions. Hickman helped lead Maccabi Tel Aviv to a EuroLeague title in 2014, earning an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in the process.
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Nido Qubein
- Occupations
- motivational speaker
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Nido Qubein is a Lebanese American businessman. He has been the president of High Point University since 2005. He previously served as Chairman of the Great Harvest Bread Company and sat on the board of several companies, including Truist Financial.
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Samwell
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- singer-songwriteractor
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Samuel Johnson, better known by his stage name Samwell, is an American entertainer whose 2007 video "What What " made him an Internet celebrity.
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Beth Leavel
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- stage actorsingeractor
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Beth Leavel is an American stage and screen actress and singer.
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Kay Yow
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- basketball coach
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Sandra Kay Yow was an American basketball coach. She was the head coach of the NC State Wolfpack women's basketball team from 1975 to 2009. A member of the Naismith Hall of Fame, she had more than 700 career wins. She also coached the U.S. women's basketball team to an Olympic gold medal in 1988 despite having been diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987. In 2000, Yow was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2009, she was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame.
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Kelly Link
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- writerscience fiction writerchildren's writernovelist
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Kelly Link is an American editor and writer. Mainly known as an author of short stories, she published her first novel, The Book of Love in 2024. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and literary fiction. Among other honors, she has won a Hugo Award, three Nebula Awards, and a World Fantasy Award for her fiction, and she was one of the recipients of the 2018 MacArthur "Genius" Grant.
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DeLana Harvick
- Occupations
- NASCAR team owner
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DeLana Lynn Harvick is a former co-owner and manager of Kevin Harvick Incorporated, a racing team in NASCAR's Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series. It was announced in September 2011 KHI was being sold to Richard Childress, owner of Richard Childress Racing. She is married to NASCAR Cup Series driver Kevin Harvick.
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Dale Folwell
- Occupations
- politician
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Dale Robbins Folwell is an American politician who served as the North Carolina State Treasurer from 2017 to 2025. A Republican from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Folwell spent four terms in North Carolina House of Representatives, including a term as speaker pro tempore from 2011 to 2013. He was head of the state's Division of Employment Security in the administration of Governor Pat McCrory from 2013 to 2015. He was elected State Treasurer in the 2016 election, taking office on January 1, 2017. Folwell was reelected to a second term in 2020, defeating Democratic challenger Ronnie Chatterji. In 2024 he mounted an unsuccessful campaign to be elected governor.
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Bill Gardner
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- politician
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Bill Gardner is an American politician who was the New Hampshire Secretary of State from 1976 to 2022. In that role, he was in charge of the department that oversees all general elections, primary elections, voter registration and recounts within the state, including the New Hampshire primary. His tenure is the longest of any secretary of state in U.S. history. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Carol Mann
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- golfer
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Carol Mann was an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1961 and won two major championships and 38 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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Julianna Baggott
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- poetessayistuniversity teachernovelistwriter
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Julianna Baggott is a novelist, essayist, and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's College of Motion Picture Arts. She is a 2013 recipient of the Alex Awards.
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Claudia Emerson
- Occupations
- poetwriter
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Claudia Emerson was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife, and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008.
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Ada Fisher
- Enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Studied in 1970
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
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Ada M. Fisher was an American physician from Salisbury, North Carolina, and a frequent Republican candidate for office. She challenged incumbent Mel Watt in North Carolina's 12th Congressional district in 2004 and 2006. Fisher said that she would like to be the first black Republican female elected to Congress; however, Mia Love actually became the first black Republican female elected to Congress.
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Marcia Jones
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- artistprofessor
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Marcia Jones is an American professor and contemporary artist, known for her multimedia and large-scale installation works.
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Kent Anderson
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- crime fiction writernovelistscreenwriter
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Kent Anderson is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, former police officer and former university professor born in North Carolina. He has written novels, various articles and scenarios.
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Mikko Koivisto
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Mikko Koivisto is a Finnish basketball player. He currently plays for Salon Vilpas of the Korisliiga and for the Finnish national basketball team. In high school at Holy Cross he won the VISSA (Virginia Independent Schools Althetes Association) division 3 state championship in 05. He started his professional career in 2003–04; later he played collegiate for the UNC Greensboro Spartans for four seasons. In 2010, he returned to professional basketball again.
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Trevis Simpson
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Trevis JeMar Simpson is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Camille Dungy
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- writerpoetclimate activist
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Camille T. Dungy is an American poet and professor.
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Andy Cabic
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- singer-songwriter
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Andy Cabic is a folk rock singer-songwriter, and lead member of the band Vetiver.
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Becky Morgan
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- golfer
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Becky Morgan is a Welsh professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour but is also a member of the Ladies European Tour.
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Kelly Cherry
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- writernovelistpoet
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Kelly Cherry was an American novelist, poet, essayist, professor, and literary critic and a former Poet Laureate of Virginia (2010–2012). She was the author of more than 30 books, including the poetry collections Songs for a Soviet Composer, Death and Transfiguration, Rising Venus and The Retreats of Thought. Her short fiction was reprinted in The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South, and won a number of awards.
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Ronnie Burrell
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
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Ronnie Burrell is an American former professional basketball player who is an assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers.
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Brian Moehler
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- baseball player
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Brian Merritt Moehler is an American former starting pitcher.
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Sigurður Ragnar Eyjólfsson
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Sigurður "Siggi" Ragnar Eyjólfsson is an Icelandic football manager and former player who played as a striker. From 2007 until 2013, he served as the head coach of the Iceland women's national team, guiding them to the 2009 and 2013 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship.
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James Brochin
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- politician
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James Brochin is an American politician who was a member of the Maryland Senate representing the 42nd district in Baltimore County from 2003 to 2019. He unsuccessfully ran for Baltimore County Executive in 2018, placing second behind former state delegate Johnny Olszewski in the Democratic primary by a margin of 17 votes.
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Scott Jones
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- association football player
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Scott Lyman Jones is a Puerto Rican international footballer.
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Bayard Wootten
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- photographerartist
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Mary Bayard Morgan Wootten was an American photographer. She named Pepsi Cola and created its logo for her neighbor Caleb Bradham, who invented the drink. Wootten was the first woman in the National Guard. She opened six photographic studios,and raised two children after her husband left her for the Gold rush. The Wootten-Moulton museum will be opening in New Bern North Carolina soon in an historic home on East Front Street by Anthony Lilly and Ashley Norman. https://nyti.ms/2FrDvgB
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Mark Janicello
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- opera singerjournalistpaintersingertelevision actor
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Mark Janicello is an American singer, actor, writer, producer and author. He is known for playing Elvis Presley in two musicals that toured Europe, after gaining attention by winning the KFC Musical Feast, a USA-wide competition sponsored by Kentucky Fried Chicken. He also created, wrote, and acted in The Finellis Movie which he then adapted into a musical.
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John Faircloth
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- politicianpolice officer
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Joseph Aubrey "John" Faircloth Jr. is a former Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. He represented the 62nd district (and its preceding 61st district) from 2011 to 2024. The district covers parts of western Guilford County.
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Bonnie Angelo
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- journalisthistorian
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Veronica Estelle "Bonnie" Angelo was an American journalist and author. She was known for being the author of First Mothers. During her more than a quarter-century with Time, she served as a Washington correspondent from 1967–78, reported on the White House and covered newsmakers and events across America and the world.
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Ty Outlaw
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- basketball player
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Tyrone Khalil Outlaw is a former American professional basketball player who last played for the Wisconsin Herd of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Virginia Tech Hokies, the Lee College Runnin' Rebels and the UNC Greensboro Spartans.
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Michael Garrett
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- politician
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Michael Kennedy Garrett is a Democratic member of the North Carolina State Senate, representing the 27th district. He was elected in 2018, defeating Republican incumbent Trudy Wade.
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Jessie Rae Scott
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- politician
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Jessie Rae Scott was an American politician who served as the First Lady of North Carolina from 1969 to 1973 through her marriage to North Carolina Governor Robert W. Scott.
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Wanda Kay Brown
- Enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- In 1983 graduated with Master of Library Science
- Occupations
- librarian
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Wanda Kay Brown is an American librarian, who was the president of the American Library Association for the 2019–2020 term. She is the director of the C. G. O'Kelly Library at Winston-Salem State University and a leader in state and national library associations. She is the first American Library Association president who is a library director at one of the nation's historically black colleges and universities. She is twice president of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association in 2006-2008 and 2024-2026.
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Keith Lee Morris
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- novelist
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Keith Lee Morris is an American author who has published three novels, The Greyhound God, The Dart League King (Tin House Books, 2008) and Traveler's Rest (Little, Brown and Company, 2016) as well as two collections of short stories, The Best Seats in the House and Other Stories (University of Nevada Press, 2004) and Call It What You Want (Tin House Books, 2010). His work has been published in A Public Space, Tin House, The Southern Review, Ninth Letter, Story Quarterly, The New England Review, The Cincinnati Review, and The Georgia Review.
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Brad Barkley
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- writer
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Brad Barkley, a native of North Carolina, is the author of the novel, Money, Love, a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection and a "BookSense 76" choice. Money, Love was named one of the best books of 2000 by the Washington Post and the Library Journal. Brad was named one of the “Breakthrough Writers You Need To Know” by Book Magazine. His novel Alison's Automotive Repair Manual (St. Martin’s) was also a "BookSense 76" selection. He has published two collections of short stories, Circle View (SMU Press) and Another Perfect Catastrophe (St. Martin’s). His short fiction has appeared in nearly thirty magazines, including Southern Review, Georgia Review, the Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Book Magazine, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, which twice awarded him the Emily Balch Prize for Best Fiction. His work has been anthologized in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2002. His first YA novel, Scrambled Eggs At Midnight, co-authored with Heather Hepler, was published in May 2006 by Penguin, and was a summer 2006 “Booksense 76” choice. His second YA novel, Dream Factory, published in spring 2007, was also “BookSense 76” selection, a Library Guild “Book of the Month, pick” and was voted the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters “Best Young Adult Book” for 2007. Their most recent title, Jars of Glass, was recently published by Dutton-Penguin. He has received four Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of the novels Money, Love (Norton) and Alison's Automotive Repair Manual (St. Martins), as well as two short-story collections and three Young Adult novels. His short fiction has appeared in such magazines as Glimmer Train, the Southern Review, and The Oxford American.
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Jerry Tolley
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- head coachAmerican football coach
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Jerry Russell Tolley is a former American football coach, educator, and politician. He served as the head football coach at Elon University from 1977 to 1981, compiling a record of 49–11–2. His 1980 and 1981 teams were both crowned NAIA national champions. He graduated from East Carolina University with a master's degree in education in 1966. He also received his Ph.D from University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1982.
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David Epley
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United States - Biography
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David Epley, popularly known as Doktor Kaboom, is a German/American science communicator, stage actor, and comedian. His interactive stage shows have been featured in venues like The Kennedy Center and The Orpheum Theater, and Epley has appeared on television programs like “Fox News”, "New Day Northwest," and a number of local television affiliates. His home experiment ideas have also been featured in magazines like Parents. Epley is a U.S. Army veteran and was a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician for 5 years.
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James Barnhill
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- artist
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James Barnhill, is an American artist and sculptor, best known for his commissioned statues and public monuments. He currently lives and works in Greensboro, North Carolina, and is an art professor at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. His sculpture work spans more than three decades.
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Jeff Reynolds
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
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Jeffrey Lee Reynolds is an American college basketball coach. He is a special assistant basketball coach under Brad Brownell at Clemson. Reynolds served as the head men's basketball coach at North Carolina Wesleyan College in 1985–96, Wingate University from 1997 to 2000, and the United States Air Force Academy from 2007 to 2012.
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Marge Burns
- Years
- 1925-2009 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Marjorie "Marge" Burns was an American and former collegiate and professional golfer. A graduate of Woman's College UNC in 1948, Burns went on to win the North Carolina Amateur Championship an unprecedented ten times and won the Teague Award as the outstanding amateur athlete in the Carolinas five times.
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Kathryn Stripling Byer
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- poetwriter
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Kathryn Stripling Byer, also called Kay Byer, was an American poet and teacher. She was named by Governor Mike Easley as the fifth North Carolina Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2009. She was the first woman to hold the position.
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Mildred Inez Caroon Bailey
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- military officer
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Mildred Inez Bailey was a United States Army officer, who served as the eighth director of the Women's Army Corps from August 1971 until July 1975. She was the third woman in United States Army to reach the rank of brigadier general.
