100 Notable alumni of
University of North Texas
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The University of North Texas is 349th in the world, 146th in North America, and 138th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of North Texas sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Meat Loaf
- Occupations
- singeractorrock musicianrecord producerguitarist
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Michael Lee Aday, better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor. He was known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell album trilogy—Bat Out of Hell (1977), Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993), and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006)—has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. The first album stayed on the charts for over nine years and is one of the best-selling albums in history, still selling an estimated 200,000 copies annually as of 2016.
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Stone Cold Steve Austin
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- film actoractorprofessional wrestlerpodcastervoice actor
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Steve Austin, better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American media personality, actor, producer and retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, as an ambassador. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he was integral to the development and success of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE) during the Attitude Era, an industry boom period in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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Roy Orbison
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- composersongwritersingerguitaristsinger-songwriter
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Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's music is mostly in the rock music genre and his most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late 1980s. He was nicknamed "The Caruso of Rock" and "The Big O". Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability at a time when most male rock-and-roll performers projected strength. He performed with minimal motion and in black clothes, matching his dyed black hair and dark sunglasses.
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Norah Jones
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- film actorpianistactorjazz guitaristsinger-songwriter
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Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has won several awards for her music and, as of 2023, had sold more than 53 million records worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000s decade. She has won ten Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th on Billboard magazine's artists of the '00s decade chart.
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Don Henley
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- drummersingerguitaristcomposersinger-songwriter
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Donald Hugh Henley is an American musician who is a founding member of the rock band Eagles, for whom he is the drummer and co-lead vocalist, as well as its sole continuous member. Henley sang the lead vocals on Eagles songs such as "Witchy Woman", "Desperado", "Best of My Love", "One of These Nights", "Hotel California", "Life in the Fast Lane", "Victim of Love", "The Last Resort", "The Long Run", and "Get Over It".
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Thomas Sadoski
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Thomas Christian Sadoski is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Don Keefer in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012-14) and as Matt Short in the CBS sitcom Life in Pieces (2015-19).
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Kevin Von Erich
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- professional wrestlerAmerican football player
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Kevin Ross Adkisson is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Kevin Von Erich. A member of the Von Erich family, Adkisson is best known for his appearances with his father's World Class Championship Wrestling promotion. He is a former world champion in professional wrestling, having once held the WCWA World Heavyweight Championship.
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Thomas Haden Church
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- radio personalityscreenwriteractorfilm producercomedian
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Thomas Haden Church is an American actor. After starring in the 1990s sitcom Wings and playing the lead for two seasons in Ned & Stacey (1995–1997), Church became known for his film work, including his role of Lyle van de Groot in George of the Jungle (1997), his Academy Award–nominated performance in Sideways (2004), his role as the Marvel Comics villain Sandman in the superhero films Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), as well as his starring roles in Over the Hedge (2006), Smart People (2008), Easy A (2010), We Bought a Zoo (2011), Max (2015), and Hellboy (2019). He also made his directorial debut with Rolling Kansas (2003). In 2023, he starred as antagonist Agent Stone in the post-apocalyptic action comedy series Twisted Metal.
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Peter Weller
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- directorart historianteacherfilm actorfilm director
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Peter Francis Weller is an American actor and television director.
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Maren Morris
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- recording artistsinger-songwritermusicianrecord producerlyricist
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Maren Larae Morris is an American singer and songwriter. Rooted in the country genre, her music blends in elements of pop, and R&B. Morris has won multiple accolades including a Grammy Award, an American Music Award, five Country Music Association Awards, and five Academy of Country Music Awards.
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Anne Rice
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- writernovelistscreenwriter
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Anne Rice was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known for writing The Vampire Chronicles. She later adapted the first volume in the series into a commercially successful eponymous film, Interview with the Vampire (1994).
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Pat Boone
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- voice actorrecording artistsinger-songwritercomposerfilm actor
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Patrick Charles Eugene Boone is an American singer, composer, actor, author, television personality, radio host and philanthropist. During his recording career, he sold nearly 50 million records and had 38 Top 40 hits; he also appeared in various Hollywood films.
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David Von Erich
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- professional wrestleramateur wrestlerbasketball player
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David Alan Adkisson was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name David Von Erich. A member of the Von Erich family, Von Erich is best known for his appearances with World Class Championship Wrestling, the Dallas, Texas-based professional wrestling promotion owned by his father, Fritz Von Erich.
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Joan Blondell
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- actorfilm actorstage actormodelbeauty pageant contestant
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Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years.
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Adel al-Jubeir
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- diplomatpolitician
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Adel al-Jubeir is a Saudi diplomat serving as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs since 2018. He also serves as a Member of the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia and has been the Climate Affairs Envoy since 2022. Notably, he is the second non-royal to hold the office of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, succeeding Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel. Previously, al-Jubeir was the Saudi Ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2015 and a foreign policy advisor to King Abdullah.
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Lecrae
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- music executiverapperentrepreneurrecord producersongwriter
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Lecrae Devaughn Moore is an American Christian rapper and singer-songwriter/dancer. Since having began his career in 2004, he has released ten studio albums and three mixtapes as a solo artist, as well as three studio albums as a lead member of the hip hop group 116 Clique.
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Christopher Sabat
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- voice actoractor
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Christopher Robin Sabat is an American voice actor. Some of his prominent roles in animations and anime include Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Shenron, and various characters in Dragon Ball, Roronoa Zoro, One Piece, All Might in My Hero Academia, Daisuke Jigen in Lupin the Third, Dr. Arthur Watts in RWBY, and Baek Yoon-ho in Solo leveling.
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Ann Sheridan
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Clara Lou "Ann" Sheridan was an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in the films San Quentin (1937) with Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, City for Conquest (1940) with Cagney and Elia Kazan, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) with Bette Davis, Kings Row (1942) with Ronald Reagan, Nora Prentiss (1947), and I Was a Male War Bride (1949) with Cary Grant.
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Phyllis George
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- businesspersonactorsports commentatormodelbeauty pageant contestant
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Phyllis Ann George was an American businesswoman, actress, and sportscaster. In 1975, George was hired as a reporter and co-host of the CBS Sports pre-show The NFL Today, becoming one of the first women to hold an on-air position in national televised sports broadcasting. She also served as the First Lady of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983.
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Larry McMurtry
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- screenwriterbusinesspersonopinion journalistwriterhistorian
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Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins). He was also a prominent book collector and bookseller.
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R'Bonney Gabriel
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- modelbeauty pageant contestant
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R'Bonney Nola Gabriel is an American fashion designer & beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2022, becoming the ninth competitor from the US to win the title, as well as the oldest entrant. She previously won Miss USA 2022.
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John Hagee
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- evangelistpastortheologianwritersaxophonist
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John Charles Hagee is an American pastor and televangelist. He founded John Hagee Ministries, which telecasts to the United States and Canada. He is also the founder and chairman of the Christian Zionist organization Christians United for Israel, the largest Zionist organization in America.
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Erin Cummings
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Erin Cummings is an American actress and online film pundit. She has appeared in the television series, Charmed, Dante's Cove, The Bold and the Beautiful, Cold Case, Dollhouse, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, and Detroit 1-8-7.
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Sean Schemmel
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- musicianscreenwritervoice actorstage actor
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Sean Schemmel is an American voice actor, ADR director, and screenwriter known chiefly for his work in cartoons, anime, and video games. His most notable role is the teen and adult voice of Son Goku in the Funimation dub of the Dragon Ball franchise.
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Joe Greene
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- film actorAmerican football playertelevision actoractor
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Charles Edward Greene, better known as "Mean" Joe Greene, is an American former professional football defensive tackle who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 to 1981. A recipient of two NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards, five first-team All-Pro selections, and ten Pro Bowl appearances, Greene is widely considered to be one of the greatest defensive linemen to play in the NFL. He was noted for his leadership, fierce competitiveness, and intimidating style of play for which he earned his nickname.
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Sue Ane Langdon
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Sue Ane Langdon is an American actress. She has appeared in dozens of television series and had featured roles in films such as A Guide for the Married Man and The Cheyenne Social Club, both directed by Gene Kelly, as well as The Rounders opposite Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford and two Elvis Presley movies, Roustabout and Frankie and Johnny.
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Mickey Jones
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- film actormusiciantelevision actoractor
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Mickey Jones was an American musician and actor. He played drums with acts such as Trini Lopez and Bob Dylan, with whom he played on his 1966 world tour. He became a founding member of The First Edition with singer Kenny Rogers, and played on all of their albums. Overall, Jones played on 17 gold records from his musical career of over two decades.
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Cara Santa Maria
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- science communicatorjournalistbiologisttelevision producerneuroscientist
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Cara Louise Santa Maria is an American science communicator. She hosts the podcast Talk Nerdy and co-hosts The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast, and was a co-host of TechKnow on Al Jazeera America.
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James Hampton
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- screenwritertelevision actortelevision directoractor
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James Wade Hampton was an American actor, television director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his TV roles such as Private Hannibal Shirley Dobbs on F Troop (1965–1967), Leroy B. Simpson on The Doris Day Show (1968–1969), Love, American Style (1969–1974), and his movie roles such as "Caretaker" in The Longest Yard (1974), a role which garnered him a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, as Howard Clemmons in Hawmps! (1976), Harold Howard in Teen Wolf (1985), and its sequel, Teen Wolf Too (1987), and as Jerry Woolridge in Sling Blade (1996).
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Gregg Bissonette
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- drummerjazz musiciansession musician
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Gregg Bissonette is an American jazz and rock drummer and vocalist. He is the brother of bassist Matt Bissonette, with whom he frequently collaborates. Bissonette is known for playing and recording many different styles of music. That experience led to him winning the 2023 Modern Drummer readers poll for best “All Around” drummer and also winning their 2015 category of best “Studio” drummer. He has played on albums by dozens of recording artists, including David Lee Roth's first three solo albums and has toured as part of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band since 2008.
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Lawrence B. Jones
- Enrolled in the University of North Texas
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice and political science
- Occupations
- television presenterpunditradio personality
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Lawrence Billy Jones III is an American libertarian political commentator, author and a current co-host of the weekday edition of Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel. He served as host of Lawrence Jones Cross Country from 2022–2023. Jones, 32, is the youngest Black American to co-host on a cable news network.
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Bill Moyers
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- journalist
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Bill Moyers is an American journalist and political commentator. Under the Johnson administration he served from 1965 to 1967 as the eleventh White House Press Secretary. He was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, from 1967 to 1974. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs, and has won many awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media.
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Jake Pavelka
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- aircraft pilotactorAmerican football playermodelmilitary flight engineer
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Jacob Lynn "Jake" Pavelka is an American television personality, pilot, actor, and model who appeared on six reality TV programs, most notably The Bachelor. He is also the CEO of the company "Rhino Removal".
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Brina Palencia
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- television actorvoice actorstage actorfilm director
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Brina Palencia is an American voice and television actress. She has voiced a number of English-language versions of characters featured in anime.
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Justin Briner
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- voice actor
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Justin Briner is an American voice actor. He has provided voices for English-language versions of anime films and television series. He is best known for his role as Izuku "Deku" Midoriya in My Hero Academia.
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Kyle Hebert
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- podcasterdisc jockeyvoice actor
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Kyle Henry Hebert is an American voice actor known for his work in anime and video game series, such as the teenage/adult Gohan and the narrator in the Funimation dub of the Dragon Ball series, Sōsuke Aizen in Bleach, Ryu in the Street Fighter video game series, Kiba Inuzuka in Naruto, Kamina in Gurren Lagann, Ryuji Suguro in Blue Exorcist, Noriaki Kakyoin in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Dribble and Dr. Crygor in WarioWare Gold, and Big the Cat in Sonic the Hedgehog.
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David Hungate
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- bassistmusician
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David Hungate is an American retired bass guitarist noted as a member of the Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1976 to 1982 and again from 2014 to 2015, and the son of judge William L. Hungate. Along with most of his Toto bandmates, Hungate did sessions on a number of hit albums of the 1970s, including Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees and Alice Cooper's From the Inside.
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Lyle Mays
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- recording artistorganistjazz musicianpianistcomposer
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Lyle David Mays was an American jazz pianist, composer, and member of the Pat Metheny Group. Metheny and Mays composed and arranged nearly all of the group's music, for which Mays won eleven Grammy Awards.
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Clint Lorance
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- military personnel
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Clint Allen Lorance is a former United States Army officer who is known for having been convicted and pardoned for war crimes related to the killing of two Afghan civilians.
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Lou Marini
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- musicianfilm score composercomposerrecord producerclarinetist
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Louis Eugene Marini Jr., known as "Blue Lou" Marini, is an American saxophonist, arranger, and composer. He is best known for his work in jazz, rock, blues, and soul music, as well as his association with The Blues Brothers.
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Aaron Dismuke
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- screenwritervoice actortelevision actoractor
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Aaron Mitchell Dismuke is an American voice actor, ADR director and script writer. He is known for his role as Alphonse Elric in the English dub of the first Fullmetal Alchemist television series, whom he voiced when he was 12 years old. He is also known for his directorial work for the English dubs of Nanbaka, Shomin Sample, Tsugumomo, Cheer Boys!!, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Black Clover, Dr. Stone and Luck & Logic.
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Alexis Tipton
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 36)
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorsingertelevision actorvoice actor
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Alexis Tipton is an American voice actress and ADR director. She has provided voices for English-language versions of anime series, films and video games. Some of her roles include Sun Seto in My Bride Is a Mermaid, Musubi in Sekirei, Yomi Isayama in Ga-Rei: Zero, Mizuki Himeji in Baka and Test, Millianna in Fairy Tail, Moka Akashiya in Rosario + Vampire, Saya Kisaragi in Blood-C, Rika Shiguma in Haganai, Honey in Space Dandy, Mina Carolina in Attack on Titan, Kurumi Tokisaki in Date A Live, Kofuku in Noragami, Lupusregina Beta in Overlord, Kid Trunks in Dragon Ball Super, Mei Hatsume in My Hero Academia, and Kaguya Shinomiya in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War.
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Christopher Young
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- composermusic educatorfilm score composer
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Christopher Young is an American composer of film and television scores.
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Ray Wylie Hubbard
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- musiciansingersongwriter
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Ray Wylie Hubbard is an American singer and songwriter.
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Carmen Cusack
- Occupations
- singeractor
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Carmen Cusack is an American musical theater actress and singer. She is known for playing Elphaba in the Chicago, North American Tour, and Melbourne productions of the musical Wicked and for originating the roles of Alice Murphy and Clare Boothe Luce in the Broadway musicals Bright Star and Flying Over Sunset, respectively.
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Mark Matejka
- Occupations
- guitarist
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Vincent Mark "Sparky" Matejka, is an American rock guitarist. He joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 2006, replacing Hughie Thomasson who had left to reform Outlaws. He first played with the band on their Christmas Time Again album in 2000 and was credited with guitar and vocals.
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John Abercrombie
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- recording artistguitaristcomposerjazz musicianmandolinist
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John Laird Abercrombie was an American jazz guitarist. His work explored jazz fusion, free jazz, and avant-garde jazz. Abercrombie studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He was known for his understated style and his work with organ trios.
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William Basinski
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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William James Basinski is an American avant-garde composer based in Los Angeles, California. He is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist.
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Jim Marrs
- Occupations
- conspiracy theoristwriternon-fiction writerjournalistufologist
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James Farrell Marrs Jr. was an American newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author of books and articles on a wide range of alleged cover-ups and conspiracies. Marrs was a prominent figure in the JFK assassination conspiracy theories community and his 1989 book Crossfire was a source for Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK. He subsequently wrote books asserting the existence of government conspiracies regarding aliens, 9/11, telepathy, and secret societies. He began his career as a news reporter in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metroplex and taught a class on the assassination of John F. Kennedy at University of Texas at Arlington for 30 years. Marrs was a member of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
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Tom Malone
- Occupations
- jazz musicianmusiciansaxophonist
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Thomas "Bones" Malone is an American jazz musician, arranger, and producer. As his nickname implies, he specializes on the trombone but he also plays saxophone, trumpet, tuba, flute, and bass guitar. He has been a member of the Blues Brothers, Saturday Night Live Band, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and the CBS Orchestra, the house band for the Late Show with David Letterman.
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Robert Longo
- Occupations
- photographerdraftspersonfilm directorgraphic artistdirector
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Robert Longo is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician.
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David Hanson
- Occupations
- sculptorchief executive officerroboticist
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David Hanson Jr. is an American roboticist who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hanson Robotics, a Hong Kong–based robotics company founded in 2013.
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Larry Pine
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Larry Pine is an American actor.
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Trina Nishimura
- Occupations
- voice actor
- Biography
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Trina Marie Nishimura is an American voice actress. She is most known for voicing Nadie in El Cazador de la Bruja, Mikasa Ackerman in Attack on Titan, Kyoka Jiro in My Hero Academia, Kurisu Makise in Steins;Gate and Etie in Fire Emblem Engage.
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Michael League
- Occupations
- composerguitarist
- Biography
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Michael League is an American composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the bandleader of instrumental band Snarky Puppy and the international music ensemble Bokanté. He also founded the band Forq with keyboardist Henry Hey, and is also an owner and founder of the record label GroundUP Music. League has won five Grammy Awards.
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Herb Ellis
- Occupations
- jazz guitaristjazz musicianguitarist
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Mitchell Herbert Ellis was an American jazz guitarist. During the 1950s, he was in a trio with pianist Oscar Peterson.
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Jeff Coffin
- Occupations
- composerbandleaderconductorjazz musician
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Jeff Stanley Coffin is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator. He is a three-time Grammy Award winner as a member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, with whom he performed from 1997 until 2010. In July 2008, Coffin began touring with Dave Matthews Band and joined the group in 2009 following the death of founding member LeRoi Moore. He also leads his group Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet.
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Dean Parks
- Occupations
- composersession musicianguitarist
- Biography
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Weldon Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas. Parks has one Grammy nomination.
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Bob Dorough
- Occupations
- record producerjazz musiciansingersongwriterpianist
- Biography
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Robert Lrod Dorough was an American bebop and cool jazz vocalist, pianist, and composer. He became famous as the composer and performer of songs in the TV series Schoolhouse Rock!, as well as for his work with Miles Davis, Blossom Dearie, and others.
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Michael C. Burgess
- Enrolled in the University of North Texas
- In 1972 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- In 1976 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- politicianphysiciangynecologistobstetrician
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Michael Clifton Burgess is an American physician and politician who represented Texas's 26th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2025. The district is anchored in Denton County, a suburban county north of Dallas and Fort Worth. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Joseph L. Lengyel
- Occupations
- military leader
- Biography
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Joseph Lauren Lengyel is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who last served as the 28th chief of the National Guard Bureau from August 2016 to August 2020. As chief, he was responsible for ensuring that nearly 460,000 Army National Guard and Air National Guard personnel are accessible, capable and ready to protect the homeland and to provide combat capabilities to the United States Army and the United States Air Force. Lengyel is a command pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours primarily in the F-16.
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Fernando Paulsen
- Enrolled in the University of North Texas
- In 1979 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Fernando José Paulsen Silva is a Chilean radio journalist, television presenter, columnist, sports and political commentator.
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Matt Bissonette
- Occupations
- bassistmusician
- Biography
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Matt Bissonette is an American bass player and vocalist. According to Guitar 9, an online musicianship magazine, he has played bass and other stringed instruments on at least 22 albums, with music styles ranging from jazz, jazz fusion, progressive metal and instrumental rock. Bissonette has played bass with performers such as David Lee Roth (1987–1992), Jeff Lynne and ELO (2001), Ringo Starr (2003–2005), Elton John (2012–2023). He is the brother of drummer Gregg Bissonette.
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Jason Sutter
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Jason Sutter is an American musician and drummer based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently the drummer for Cher.
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Jim Hightower
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistradio personality
- Biography
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James Allen Hightower is an American syndicated columnist, progressive political activist, and author.
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Michael Milhoan
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Michael Milhoan is an American actor. Best known as Dante Pacino in Something So Right (1996-1998).
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Dewey Redman
- Occupations
- composerjazz musicianmusicianclarinetistsaxophonist
- Biography
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Walter Dewey Redman was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett.
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Leila Rahimi
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- news presenter
- Biography
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Leila Rahimi is an American television sports anchor and reporter.
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Shara Nova
- Occupations
- musiciancomposerpianistsinger
- Biography
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Shara Nova is the lead singer and songwriter for My Brightest Diamond. As a composer she is most recognized for her choral compositions and the baroque chamber opera "You Us We All". New music composers Sarah Kirkland Snider, David Lang, Steve Mackey and Bryce Dessner have composed pieces for Nova's voice. She has recorded as a guest vocalist with David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Jedi Mind Tricks, The Blind Boys of Alabama and Stateless as well as extensive collaborations with visual artists Matthew Ritchie and Matthew Barney. She was formerly the frontwoman of AwRY. On March 3, 2016, Shara legally changed her last name from Worden to Nova after divorcing her husband, to whom she had been married most of her adult life.
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Scott Kurtz
- Occupations
- comics artistcartoonist
- Biography
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Scott R. Kurtz is an American webcomic artist. Known for creating the daily online comic-strip PvP, Kurtz is among the first professional webcomic creators.
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Steve Turre
- Occupations
- music educatorjazz musician
- Biography
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Stephen Johnson Turre is an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer of using seashells as instruments, a composer, arranger, and educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. For sixty-one years, Turre has been active in jazz, rock, and Latin jazz – in live venues, recording studios, television, and cinema production.
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Michael Daugherty
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusicologistteacher
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Michael Kevin Daugherty is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American composer, pianist, and teacher. He is influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism. Daugherty's notable works include his Superman comic book-inspired Metropolis Symphony for Orchestra (1988–93), Dead Elvis for Solo Bassoon and Chamber Ensemble (1993), Jackie O (1997), Niagara Falls for Symphonic Band (1997), UFO for Solo Percussion and Orchestra (1999) and for Symphonic Band (2000), Bells for Stokowski from Philadelphia Stories for Orchestra (2001) and for Symphonic Band (2002), Fire and Blood for Solo Violin and Orchestra (2003) inspired by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Time Machine for Three Conductors and Orchestra (2003), Ghost Ranch for Orchestra (2005), Deus ex Machina for Piano and Orchestra (2007), Labyrinth of Love for Soprano and Chamber Winds (2012), American Gothic for Orchestra (2013), and Tales of Hemingway for Cello and Orchestra (2015). Daugherty has been described by The Times (London) as "a master icon maker" with a "maverick imagination, fearless structural sense and meticulous ear."
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David Ono
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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David Ono is a Japanese American filmmaker and news anchor for KABC-TV Channel 7 in Los Angeles, California. He is the co-anchor for ABC7 Eyewitness News at 4 and 6 p.m. with Ellen Leyva. He also fills in for co-anchor Marc Brown at 5 and 11 P.M.
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Craig Robertson
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Craig Robertson is a former American football linebacker. He was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2011. Robertson played college football at North Texas.
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Taher Masri
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatcivil servant
- Biography
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Taher Nashat al-Masri is a Jordanian politician who served as the 28th Prime Minister of Jordan from 19 June 1991 to 21 November 1991. He opposed the invasion of Iraq but reportedly wanted the Americans to stay in Iraq and keep it "out of the hands of the fundamentalists".
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Greg Edmonson
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Greg Edmonson is an American music composer for television and movies. He is primarily known for composing the soundtrack to the television series Firefly. He is also the composer for the first three games in the Uncharted video game series, and for a number of episodes of the American animated sitcom King of the Hill.
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Susan Wakarura Kihika
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Susan Wakarura Kihika is a Kenyan lawyer, politician, and the first female governor of Nakuru County. She was also among the seven female Governors that were elected in the 9 August 2022 Kenyan general election against a total 44 male governors, marking significant progress from the three female governors that had been elected in the 2017 elections.
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Jon Button
- Occupations
- double-bassist
- Biography
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Jon Button is an American bass player based in Los Angeles, California. Button has played on commercial, film and television scores and toured with a number of well-known artists. He plays both electric and upright string bass.
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Ari Hoenig
- Occupations
- drummerjazz musician
- Biography
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Ari Hoenig is an American jazz drummer, composer, and educator.
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Mason Fine
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Mason Fine is an American professional football quarterback who is a free agent. He most recently played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at North Texas.
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Billy Harper
- Occupations
- jazz musicianmusic educatorsaxophonist
- Biography
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Billy Harper is an American jazz saxophonist, "one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists" with a distinctively stern, hard-as-nails sound on his instrument.
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Sara Hickman
- Occupations
- guitaristsingersongwriter
- Biography
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Sara Hickman is an American singer, songwriter, and artist.
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Zach Woodlee
- Occupations
- choreographer
- Biography
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Zach Woodlee is an American choreographer and dancer. He was choreographer and co-producer of the TV series Glee. He has choreographed many other films such as Hairspray and Bedtime Stories.
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Sarah M. Broom
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Sarah Monique Broom is an American writer. Her first book, The Yellow House (2019), received the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
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Patricia Racette
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Patricia Lynn Racette is an American operatic soprano. A winner of the Richard Tucker Award in 1998, she has been a regular presence at major opera houses internationally. Racette has enjoyed long-term partnerships with the San Francisco Opera, where she has been a regular performer since 1989, and with the Metropolitan Opera, where she has performed since 1995. Also active on the concert stage, Racette has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She also received the award for Best Opera Recording for her performance in the Los Angeles Opera's production of The Ghosts of Versailles at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.
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Jane Nelson
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Jane Gray Nelson is an American businesswoman who sits on the board of her husbands company and former school teacher (1973-1978) who serves as the Secretary of State of Texas since 2023. She was a Texas state senator who represented Texas Senate District 12. She was elected to the Senate in 1992 after serving two two-year terms (1988–1992) on the Texas State Board of Education. In 2023, Governor Greg Abbott appointed Nelson to succeed John B. Scott as Secretary of State. She was sworn in to that office on Saturday, January 7.
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Everette Harp
- Occupations
- saxophonistjazz musician
- Biography
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Everette Harp is an American jazz saxophonist who has recorded for Blue Note, Capitol and Shanachie Records. His album Jazz Funk Soul, a collaboration with Chuck Loeb and Jeff Lorber, received his first nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album at 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
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Fareed Haque
- Occupations
- jazz guitaristjazz musicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Fareed Haque is an American jazz guitarist, based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Marvin Peterson
- Occupations
- composerjazz musiciantrumpeter
- Biography
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Hannibal Lokumbe is an American composer and jazz trumpeter.
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Kristopher Carter
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Kristopher Lee Carter is an American composer. He grew up in San Angelo, Texas and lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Steven Fromholz
- Occupations
- songwriter
- Biography
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Steven John Fromholz was an American singer-songwriter who was selected as the Poet Laureate of Texas for 2007.
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Earl Harvin
- Occupations
- drummer
- Biography
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Earl Harvin is an American drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist who has lived in Dallas, Texas and Los Angeles and is now residing in Berlin, Germany.
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Dennis Irwin
- Occupations
- jazz musician
- Biography
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Dennis Irwin was an American jazz double bassist. He toured and recorded with John Scofield and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra among others, and played on over 500 albums.
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John Giannini
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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John Manfredo Giannini is an American college basketball coach, Director of Athletics at Rowan University, and college basketball analyst for NBC Sports and other networks. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Rowan University from 1989 to 1996, the University of Maine from 1996 to 2004, and La Salle University from 2004 to 2018. Giannini led Rowan to an NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament championship in 1996 and led La Salle to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in 2013. Giannini amassed more than 500 victories in his collegiate coaching career.
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John Bernard Riley
- Occupations
- jazz musicianmusic educatorpercussionistmusiciandrummer
- Biography
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John Bernard Riley is an American jazz drummer and educator. He has performed with Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, John Scofield, Bob Mintzer, Gary Peacock, Mike Stern, Joe Lovano, Franck Amsallem, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, John Patitucci, and Bob Berg.
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Genie Chance
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Genie Chance was an American journalist, radio broadcaster, and Alaska state politician. She is most well-known for her coverage of the 1964 Alaska earthquake, which netted her numerous journalism awards, and for her contributions to Alaska legislation.
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Jim Rotondi
- Occupations
- pedagoguemusicianconductorjazz musician
- Biography
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James Robert Rotondi was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, educator, and conductor.
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Emilia Schatz
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 46)
- Enrolled in the University of North Texas
- 1999-2001 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in computer science
- Occupations
- web developergame designer
- Biography
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Emilia Schatz is an American video game designer best known for her work at Naughty Dog. She studied computer science at the University of North Texas, where she later worked before searching for work in the video game industry. She was hired at Terminal Reality, where she worked as a level scripter on Re-Mission, as a level designer on BlowOut and BloodRayne 2, and as a senior game designer on Ghostbusters: The Video Game. She was hired at Naughty Dog in 2009, and began working early in development on Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, for which she designed several levels. She assisted with the development of The Last of Us.
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Pamela Rodríguez
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Pamela Rodríguez-Arnaiz Amianto is a Peruvian singer, a two-time Latin Grammy nominee. Her musical approach explores diverse genres such as pop, art rock, contemporary Peruvian music, and jazz. Her songs deal with social issues, the freedom of the human being and of women, and intimate themes.
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Thomas Morgan
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Thomas Morgan is an American jazz bassist.
