100 Notable alumni of
University of San Francisco
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The University of San Francisco is 387th in the world, 156th in North America, and 146th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of San Francisco sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Bill Russell
- Occupations
- coachactorhigh jumperbasketball coachbasketball player
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William Felton Russell was an American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1956 to 1969. He was the centerpiece of the Celtics dynasty that won 11 NBA championships during his 13-year career. Russell is widely considered to be one of the greatest basketball players of all time.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle
- Enrolled in the University of San Francisco
- In 1994 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- modellawyerjournalisttelevision personality
- Biography
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Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle is an American television news personality and former prosecutor in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She served as an advisor and led the fundraising division of President Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.
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Pablo Schreiber
- Occupations
- film produceractorfilm actorstage actortelevision actor
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Pablo Tell Schreiber is a Canadian-American actor. He is best known for his stage work and for portraying Nick Sobotka on The Wire (2003, 2008), William Lewis on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2013–2014), Mad Sweeney on the Starz series American Gods (2017–2020), and as George "Pornstache" Mendez on Orange Is the New Black (2013–2017), for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He starred as the Master Chief in the Paramount+ live-action series Halo (2022–2024) which is based on the franchise of the same name.
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Suzanne Somers
- Occupations
- singerwriterautobiographerfilm producerbusinessperson
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Suzanne Marie Somers was an American actress, author, and businesswoman. She played the television roles of Chrissy Snow on Three's Company (1977–1981) and Carol Foster Lambert on Step by Step (1991–1998).
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Ime Udoka
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Ime Sunday Udoka is a Nigerian-American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in the United States, he represented the Nigeria national team during his playing career. After retiring as a player, Udoka served as an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs, Philadelphia 76ers, and Brooklyn Nets before becoming the head coach of the Boston Celtics, whom he led to the 2022 NBA Finals. After Udoka was suspended for the entire 2022–23 season for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a Celtics female employee, he was hired by the Rockets in April 2023.
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John Paul Getty Jr
- Occupations
- businesspersonbibliophilephilanthropist
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Sir Paul Getty KBE, known widely as John Paul Getty Jr., was a British-American philanthropist and book collector. He was the third of five sons born to J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), one of the richest men in the world at the time. His mother was J. Paul Getty's fourth wife, Ann Rork. The Getty family's wealth was the result of the oil business founded by George Franklin Getty. One of his sons, Mark Getty, co-founded the visual media company Getty Images.
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London Breed
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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London Nicole Breed is an American politician who served as the 45th mayor of San Francisco from 2018 to 2025. She was supervisor for District 5 and was president of the Board of Supervisors from 2015 to 2018.
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Gordon Getty
- Occupations
- businesspersonlibrettistfinancierclassical composercomposer
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Gordon Peter Getty is an American businessman and classical music composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father's fourth wife. When his father died in 1976, Gordon assumed control of Getty's US$ 2 billion trust. His net worth was $2.1 billion in September 2020, making him number 391 on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans.
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Sinqua Walls
- Occupations
- television actoractorbasketball player
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Sinqua Walls is an American actor known for appearing in Friday Night Lights, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, American Soul, and White Men Can't Jump.
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Ty Segall
- Occupations
- guitaristsinger-songwritersinger
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Ty Garrett Segall is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his solo career, during which he has released fifteen studio albums alongside various EPs, singles, and collaborative albums. Segall is also a member of the bands Fuzz, Broken Bat, the CIA, GØGGS, Wasted Shirt and Freckle. He is a former member of the Traditional Fools, Epsilons, Party Fowl, Sic Alps, and the Perverts.
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Richard Egan
- Occupations
- film actoruniversity teacheractor
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Richard Egan was an American actor. After beginning his career in 1949, he subsequently won a Golden Globe Award for his performances in the films The Glory Brigade (1953) and The Kid from Left Field (1953). He went on to star in many films such as Underwater! (1955), Seven Cities of Gold (1955), The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956), Love Me Tender (1956), Tension at Table Rock (1956), A Summer Place (1959), Esther and the King (1960) and The 300 Spartans (1962).
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Terry Riley
- Occupations
- film score composercomposerpianistprintmaker
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Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became notable for its innovative use of repetition, tape music techniques, improvisation, and delay systems. His best known works are the 1964 composition In C and the 1969 album A Rainbow in Curved Air, both considered landmarks of minimalism and important influences on experimental music, rock, and contemporary electronic music. Subsequent works such as Shri Camel (1980) explored just intonation.
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Michael Franti
- Occupations
- singerguitaristcomposerrapperpeace activist
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Michael Franti is an American singer, songwriter, musician, poet, activist, documentarian, and rapper. Known for his participation in many musical projects, most with a political and social emphasis, including the Beatnigs and the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. He is the creator and lead vocalist of Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band which blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock. He is also an outspoken supporter for a wide spectrum of peace and social justice issues; he is especially an advocate for peace in the Middle East.
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Alejandro Toledo
- Enrolled in the University of San Francisco
- Studied business management and economy
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistlecturer
- Biography
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Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a Peruvian former politician who served as President of Peru, from 2001 to 2006. He gained international prominence after leading the opposition against president Alberto Fujimori, who held the presidency from 1990 to 2000. On 21 October 2024 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for taking $35 million dollars in bribes to award the Brazilian company Odebrecht with a highway contract.
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Bill Cartwright
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
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James William Cartwright is an American former professional basketball player and a former coach. A 7'1" (2.16 m) center, he played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls and Seattle SuperSonics, helping the Bulls capture consecutive championships in the 1991, 1992 and 1993 seasons. He attended Elk Grove High School in Elk Grove, California, and played college basketball at the University of San Francisco. Following his playing career, he served as the head coach of the Chicago Bulls, the Osaka Evessa of the bj League and the Mexico men's national basketball team as well as an assistant coach for several years in the NBA.
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Pat Brown
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco, and he was later elected attorney general of California in 1950, before becoming the state's governor after the 1958 election.
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Pete Rozelle
- Occupations
- commissionerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle was an American professional football executive. Rozelle served as the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) for nearly thirty years, from January 1960 until his retirement in November 1989. He became the youngest commissioner in NFL history at the age of just 33. He is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world.
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Jerry Baldwin
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- winegrowerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Gerald Baldwin is an American businessman. He and two other entrepreneurs, Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl, founded Starbucks in Seattle, in 1971. He is a Sonoma Valley vintner, and co-founder of J. Baldwin Wines.
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Joe Rosenthal
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- photographerwar photographerphotojournalistjournalist
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Joseph John Rosenthal was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war, and was replicated as the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.
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Vernon Chatman
- Occupations
- television producervoice actorscreenwritertelevision directormusician
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Vernon Chatman is an American screenwriter, producer, director, voice actor, stand-up comedian, musician, and a member of PFFR, an art collective based in Brooklyn, New York City. He created the television series Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel, The Heart, She Holler and The Shivering Truth. He also produces, voices characters, and writes for South Park.
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Pierre Salinger
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- writerjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Pierre Emil George Salinger was an American journalist, author and politician. He served as the ninth press secretary for United States presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and as campaign manager for the 1968 Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign.
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John Cox
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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John Arthur Cox IV is a Venezuelan-American professional basketball player. He is 1.96 metres (6 ft 5 in) tall, and he weighs 89 kg (196 lb).
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Chung Eui-sun
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Chung Eui-sun, also spelled Euisun Chung, is a South Korean billionaire business magnate. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Hyundai Motor Group and the only son and "heir apparent" of Hyundai Motor Group honorary chairman Chung Mong-koo.
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John Grinder
- Occupations
- psychologistuniversity teacherwriterphilosopherlinguist
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John Thomas Grinder Jr. is an American linguist, writer, management consultant, trainer and speaker. Grinder is credited with co-creating the pseudoscience known as neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) with Richard Bandler. He is co-director of Quantum Leap Inc., a management consulting firm founded by his partner Carmen Bostic St. Clair in 1987 (Grinder joined in 1989). Grinder and Bostic St. Clair also run workshops and seminars on NLP internationally.
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Pacita Abad
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Pacita Barsana Abad was a Filipino-born American Ivatan visual artist. Her more than 30-year painting career began when she traveled to the United States to undertake graduate studies in Spain. She exhibited her work in over 200 museums, galleries and other venues, including 75 solo shows, around the world. Abad's work is now in public, corporate and private art collections in over 70 countries.
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Bill Schuette
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- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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William Duncan Schuette is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 53rd attorney general of Michigan from 2011 to 2019. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Senate in 1990 and for Governor of Michigan in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
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K. C. Jones
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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K.C. Jones was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is best known for his association with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA), with whom he won 11 of his 12 NBA championships (eight as a player, two as an assistant coach, and two as a head coach). As a player, he is tied for third for most NBA championships in a career, and is one of three NBA players with an 8–0 record in NBA Finals series. He is the only African-American coach other than Bill Russell to have won multiple NBA championships, and one of eight players to ever achieve the basketball Triple Crown. Jones was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1989.
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Thea Beckman
- Enrolled in the University of San Francisco
- Studied psychology
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Theodora Beckmann, better known by her pen name Thea Beckman, was a Dutch author of children's books.
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Gino Marchetti
- Occupations
- businesspersonAmerican football player
- Biography
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Gino John Marchetti was an American professional football player who was a defensive end and offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played in 1952 for the Dallas Texans and from 1953 to 1966 for the Baltimore Colts.
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Charles J. Chaput
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- Catholic bishoparchbishopCatholic priesttheologianpsychologist
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Charles Joseph Chaput OFMCap is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the ninth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, serving from 2011 until 2020. He previously served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Denver in Colorado (1997–2011) and bishop of the Diocese of Rapid City in South Dakota (1988–1997). Chaput was the first archbishop of Philadelphia in 100 years who was not named a cardinal.
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Prince Alexander of Serbia
- Biography
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Alexander Karageorgevitch, also known as Prince Alexander of Serbia and Yugoslavia or Prince Aleksandar III Karađorđević, is a member of the House of Karađorđević, the former ruling family of the defunct Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He is the third and youngest grandchild of the last Yugoslav king, Peter II.
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Alyssa Nakken
- Occupations
- coach
- Biography
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Alyssa Michelle Nakken is an American professional baseball coach for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). She is the first female full-time coach in MLB history, and the first to coach on the field during a major league game. In 2014 she was an analytical intern for the San Francisco Giants during the postseason, winning a World Series ring. She attended California State University, Sacramento, where she played college softball.
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Paul Otellini
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Paul Stevens Otellini was an American businessman who served as president and CEO of Intel. He was also on the board of directors of Google.
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Danielle Outlaw
- Enrolled in the University of San Francisco
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Danielle Outlaw is an American former law enforcement officer. She served as commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department in Philadelphia from 2020 to 2023, chief of police of the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon from 2017 to 2019, and deputy chief of the Oakland Police Department in California from 2013 to 2017.
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Bradley Zimmer
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Bradley Clarke Zimmer is an American professional baseball center fielder who is a free agent. He attended the University of San Francisco, and played college baseball for the San Francisco Dons baseball team. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the first round of the 2014 MLB draft and made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with them in 2017. He has also played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies and Toronto Blue Jays.
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Aaron Poreda
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Aaron Anderman Poreda is an American former professional baseball pitcher.
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Stuart Milk
- Occupations
- social activistLGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Lawrence Stuart Milk is an American LGBT human rights activist and political speaker. The nephew of civil rights leader Harvey Milk, he is the co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation. He has engaged in domestic and international activism, including work with LGBT movements in Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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Martin Jenkins
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- judgeAmerican football playerlawyer
- Biography
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Martin Joseph Jenkins is an American attorney and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. He was previously a justice of the California Court of Appeal for the First District, located in San Francisco, and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Sala Burton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sala Burton was a Polish-born American politician who served as a United States Representative from California from 1983 until her death from colon cancer in Washington, D. C., in 1987.
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Vicky Nguyen
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Vicky Nguyen is a Vietnamese-born American investigative journalist working with NBC News in New York City. Nguyen joined NBC News in April 2019 as the Investigative and Consumer correspondent. Her reporting has been seen on The Today Show, 3rd Hour Today, Nightly News with Lester Holt, NBC News Now and MSNBC.
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Jon Fisher
- Occupations
- entrepreneureconomistwriter
- Biography
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Jon Fisher is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. As of 2021, Fisher is the CEO and a co-founder of software company ViciNFT. As a co-founding CEO, Fisher built multiple companies including Bharosa—which produced the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager and sold to Oracle Corporation for a reported $50 million in 2007, NetClerk—now part of Roper Technologies, AutoReach—now part of AutoNation, and CrowdOptic.
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Ross Mirkarimi
- Occupations
- peace activistpolitician
- Biography
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Rostam Mirkarimi is an American politician and the former sheriff of San Francisco. Prior to being sheriff, he served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, where he represented District 5.
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Ollie Matson
- Occupations
- sprinterathletics competitorAmerican football player
- Biography
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Ollie Genoa Matson II was an American Olympic medal winning sprinter and professional football player. He played as a halfback and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL) from 1952 to 1966 for the Chicago Cardinals and the Los Angeles Rams. He played college football for the San Francisco Dons and was selected by the Cardinals in the first round (third overall) of the 1952 NFL draft.
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Weijian Shan
- Occupations
- business executivejournalisteconomist
- Biography
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Weijian Shan is a Chinese economist, businessman, and author based in Hong Kong. He is the Executive Chairman of PAG, a leading alternative investment firm focused on the Asia Pacific region. He currently serves as a Trustee of The British Museum and as an independent director of Alibaba Group.
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David Vann
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teachernovelist
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David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for The New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!.
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Barbara Hammer
- Occupations
- video artistartistautobiographerfilm producerfilmmaker
- Biography
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Barbara Jean Hammer was an American feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. She is known for being one of the pioneers of the lesbian film genre, and her career spanned over 50 years. Hammer is known for having created experimental films dealing with women's issues such as gender roles, lesbian relationships, coping with aging, and family life. She resided in New York City and Kerhonkson, New York, and taught each summer at the European Graduate School.
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Olivier Weber
- Occupations
- film directorjournalistdiplomatbiographerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Olivier Weber is a French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Iraq. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and today ambassador of France at large. Weber has won several national and international awards of literature and journalism, in particular for his stories on Afghanistan and for his books on wars. His novels, travels writing books and essays have been translated in a dozen of languages.
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Kevin Mullin
- Enrolled in the University of San Francisco
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Kevin Mullin is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 15th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the California State Assembly from the 22nd district, which encompasses most of the San Francisco Peninsula region, from 2012 to 2022.
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Ron Turner
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Ronald David Turner is a former American football coach and player.
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Sylvia Luke
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sylvia Jung Luke is an American attorney and politician who is serving as the 16th lieutenant governor of Hawaii. She served as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives for 24 years, from 1998 until her election as lieutenant governor in 2022. She is the first Korean American politician ever elected to a statewide office in the United States.
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Frank Jordan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Francis Michael Jordan is an American politician and former police chief, who served as mayor of San Francisco from 1992 to 1996. He is a Democrat.
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Angelo Caloiaro
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Angelo Dominik Caloiaro is an American-Italian professional basketball player for Osaka Evessa of the B.League. He played college basketball for the University San Francisco before playing professionally in Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Turkey and Israel. Standing at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m), he plays at the power forward and small forward positions.
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Kyle Zimmer
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kyle Joseph Zimmer is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals from 2019 to 2021. The Royals selected Zimmer in the first round of the 2012 MLB draft.
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Gil McDougald
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Gilbert James McDougald was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) infielder who played for the New York Yankees from 1951 through 1960.
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Kevin Starr
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Kevin Owen Starr was an American historian and California's state librarian, best known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "Americans and the California Dream."
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James D. Phelan
- Enrolled in the University of San Francisco
- Studied in 1881
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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James Duval Phelan was an American politician, civic leader, and banker. He served as nonpartisan Mayor of San Francisco from 1897 to 1902. As mayor he advocated municipally run utilities and tried to protect his constituents from the monopolistic practices of the trusts. He represented California in the United States Senate from 1915 to 1921 as a Democrat. Phelan was a progressive supporter of the policies of Woodrow Wilson and was a leader in the movement to restrict Japanese and Chinese immigration to the United States.
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Lateefah Simon
- Enrolled in the University of San Francisco
- In 2022 graduated with Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- politicianactivist
- Biography
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Lateefah Aaliyah Simon is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for California's 12th congressional district since January 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first member of congress known to be congenital blind in both eyes, and the first Muslim member from California and outside of the Midwestern U.S.
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Dossie Easton
- Occupations
- psychotherapistpoetwomen's rights activistsex educatorfamily therapist
- Biography
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Dorothy "Dossie" Easton, who has also written under the name Scarlet Woman, is an American author and family therapist based in San Francisco, California.
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Marjorie Scardino
- Occupations
- businesspersonjournalistlawyer
- Biography
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Dame Marjorie Scardino is an American-born British business executive. She is the former CEO of Pearson PLC. Scardino became a trustee of Oxfam during her tenure at Pearson.
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Angela Alioto
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Angela Mia Alioto Veronese is an American attorney and politician. She is the daughter of Joseph L. Alioto, the 36th mayor of San Francisco. A member of the Democratic Party, she served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1989 to 1997.
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Dick Stanfel
- Occupations
- American football coachAmerican football player
- Biography
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Richard Anthony Stanfel was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a guard, and his college and professional career spanned more than 50 years from 1948 to 1998. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2016. He was also named to the NFL 1950s All-Decade Team.
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Heather Fong
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- chief of police
- Biography
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Heather Jeanne Fong is an American security official and the former chief of police for San Francisco, California, United States from 2004 to 2009. She is the first woman to lead the San Francisco Police Department, and the first Asian American woman to head a major metropolitan city police force. She is also the second Asian American police chief in SFPD history, the other being Fred Lau.
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Jay Leiderman
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Jason Scott "Jay" Leiderman was an American criminal defense lawyer based in Ventura, California. The Atlantic Magazine called Leiderman the "Hacktivist's Advocate" for his work defending hacker-activists accused of computer crimes, or so-called "Hacktivism" especially people associated with Anonymous. BuzzFeed called Leiderman "The Maserati-Driving Deadhead Lawyer Who Stands Between Hackers And Prison" and stated he was "A medical marijuana and criminal defense lawyer from Southern California has made himself into the country's leading defender of hackers."
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Marie Alvarado-Gil
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marie Issa Alvarado-Gil is an American educator and politician who represents California's 4th State Senate district in the California State Senate, following her election in 2022. Elected as a member of the Democratic Party, she joined the Republican Party on in August 2024.
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Lynn Woolsey
- Enrolled in the University of San Francisco
- In 1980 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politicianinstructorteacher
- Biography
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Lynn Carol Woolsey is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from California from 1993 to 2013. She was a member of the Democratic Party and represented California's 6th congressional district.
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Ruth Parasol
- Occupations
- lawyerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Ruth Monicka Parasol is an American businesswoman and lawyer who founded PartyGaming in 1997. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 for US$8.46 billion. It was then a record valuation and the largest online poker room.
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Saundra Brown Armstrong
- Enrolled in the University of San Francisco
- In 1977 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- judgejournalistlawyer
- Biography
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Saundra Brown Armstrong is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Jamaree Bouyea
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jamaree Ray-Shaun Bouyea is an American professional basketball player for the Austin Spurs of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the San Francisco Dons.
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Leo T. McCarthy
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Leo Tarcissus McCarthy was an American politician and businessman. He served as the 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California from 1983 to 1995.
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Frankie Ferrari
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Frankie Ferrari is an American coach for the San Francisco Dons and former player. He played college basketball for San Francisco and professionally in Europe and the NBA G League.
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Jean-Charles Boisset
- Enrolled in the University of San Francisco
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- businesspersonwine merchantwinegrower
- Biography
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Jean-Charles Boisset is a French vintner and the proprietor of the Boisset Collection, which operates 28 wineries in California, France, and Canada.
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Phil Smith
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Philip Arnold Smith was an American professional basketball player who played for 9 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for various teams, including the Golden State Warriors, San Diego Clippers and Seattle SuperSonics. Smith played college basketball for the San Francisco Dons.
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John L. Burton
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Lowell Burton is an American politician who served in both the California State Assembly and the United States House of Representatives. He was a member of the Democratic Party and represented California's 5th and 6th congressional districts.
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Carlos Menchaca
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carlos Menchaca is an American politician who served as a member of the New York City Council for the 38th district. He is a Democrat. His district included the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Sunset Park, Red Hook, Greenwood Heights, and portions of Borough Park, Dyker Heights, and Windsor Terrace. In October 2020, Menchaca declared his candidacy in the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary, but suspended his campaign in March 2021, three months before the primary.
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Steven J. Lopes
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Steven Joseph Lopes is an American Catholic prelate. He is the bishop and ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, a community for clergy and laypeople who celebrate according to the Anglican Use within the Catholic Church.
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R. O. Kwon
- Born in
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South Korea - Occupations
- university teachernovelist
- Biography
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R. O. Kwon, also known as Reese Okyong Kwon, is a South Korean and American author. In 2018, she published her nationally bestselling debut novel The Incendiaries with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Her nationally bestselling second novel, Exhibit, was published in 2024 with Riverhead Books.
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Bill Monning
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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William Wheeler Monning is an American politician who was elected to the California State Senate in 2012. A Democrat, he served in the 17th Senate District which encompasses the Central Coast. Monning was reelected to the Senate in 2016 for a second and final term ending in November, 2020. Education, the environment and public health are areas of particular interest to Monning.
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Ricardo Bordallo
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- politician
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Ricardo Jerome "Ricky" Bordallo was an American politician and businessman, who served two terms as the second and fourth governor of Guam with Lieutenant Governor Rudy Sablan from 1975 to 1979, and with Lieutenant Governor Edward Diego Reyes from 1983 to 1987. A member of the Democratic Party of Guam, Bordallo previously served as a Senator in the Guam Legislature from 1957 to 1971.
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Clint Catalyst
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- writermodeljournalistactor
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Clint Catalyst is the nom de plume of Clinton Green, an American author, actor, spoken word performer, and stylist. He has covered music, fashion, LGBT issues, and popular culture for magazines including LA Weekly, Frontiers, Out, Surface and Swindle.
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Suzy Loftus
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- lawyer
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Suzanne Theresa Loftus is an American attorney who served as interim San Francisco district attorney, nominated by Mayor London Breed after the resignation of George Gascón. Loftus ran in the 2019 San Francisco District Attorney election, losing narrowly to criminal justice reform advocate Chesa Boudin.
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Warren Hinckle
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- journalist
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Warren James Hinckle III was an American political journalist based in San Francisco. Hinckle is remembered for his tenure as editor of Ramparts magazine, turning a sleepy publication aimed at a liberal Roman Catholic audience into a major galvanizing force of American radicalism during the Vietnam War era. He also helped create Gonzo journalism by first pairing Hunter S. Thompson with illustrator Ralph Steadman.
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Ann E. Todd
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- film actortelevision actorteacheractor
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Ann Todd was an American child actress. She was credited in four films as Ann E. Todd. As an adult, she became a music reference librarian at University of California, Berkeley.
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Ming Chin
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- lawyerjudge
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Ming William Chin is an American attorney and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, serving from March 1, 1996 to August 31, 2020.
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Art Larsen
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- tennis player
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Arthur David "Art" or "Tappy" Larsen was a U.S. tennis player in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Rob Valentino
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Rob Valentino is an American soccer coach and former soccer player, who was most recently the interim head coach at Major League Soccer side Atlanta United FC.
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Ed Brown
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- American football player
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Charles Edward Brown was an American professional football player who was a quarterback and punter in the National Football League (NFL).
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Sverre Krogh Sundbø
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- poker playertelevision presentersports commentator
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Sverre Krogh Sundbø is a Norwegian television presenter and sports commentator. He is also a former poker player who won the European Poker Championship title in London in 2005. Krogh Sundbø is currently presenting several sports broadcasts both in Norway and abroad, and was recently the studio anchor for the Olympic Games on Eurosport Norway. He has previously presented shows ranging from reality to travel and game shows. Krogh Sundbø is the son of singer Hanne Krogh, is married to stylist and media profile Cecilie Krogh, and is the brother of actress Amalie Krogh. In his teenage years, he was a skilled bandy and football player for IF Ready.
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Eric Ueland
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Eric M. Ueland is an American political advisor and government official in the first Trump administration. He served as the acting Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights from 2020 to 2021 and previously as the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs in 2020.
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Emily Rose Epstein
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- drummer
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Emily Rose Epstein is an American drummer. She is best known for her collaborations with the garage rock musicians Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin. She was a former member of Segall's live band, and a former member of Cronin's. She met Segall at the University of San Francisco.
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John E. Cunningham
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- businesspersonpolitician
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John Edward "Jack" Cunningham III is an American former politician who served as a Republican U.S. Representative from Washington's seventh district for one term from 1977 to 1979.
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Richard Morefield
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- military personnel
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Richard Henry Morefield was an American diplomat who served in the United States Foreign Service. He was one of the 66 staff members at the American embassy in Tehran who were taken captive by a militant Islamist student group called the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line on November 4, 1979, in what became known as the Iran hostage crisis. He was one of 52 Americans who were held as a hostage for 444 days, until negotiations for the remaining captives being held hostage were concluded with the signing of the Algiers Accords on January 19, 1981, with their release coming the following day.
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Hsiao Uan-u
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- politician
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Hsiao Uan-u is a Taiwanese politician.
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Mary Jane Theis
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
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- judge
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Mary Jane Theis is a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court for the First Judicial District in Cook County. In 2022, she became chief justice after the retirement of then-chief justice Anne M. Burke.
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Deborah King
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- lawyerwriter
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Deborah King is an American author, speaker and attorney. She is the founder and CEO of the Deborah King Center and the author of four books including New York Times best-selling Be Your Own Shaman.
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Susan C. Lee
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- politician
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Susan Clair Lee is an American politician. She has served as the 72nd Maryland Secretary of State since 2023. She was a member of the Maryland State Senate from 2015 to 2023, and of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2002 to 2015. She represented District 16, covering parts of Montgomery County, and was the first Asian American elected to the Maryland State Senate, as well as the first Asian American woman and first Chinese American elected to the Maryland legislature.
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Alfred Chuang
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- businesspersonchief executive officer
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Alfred S. Chuang is an American business technology executive and venture capitalist. He is the former CEO of BEA Systems. In 2020, he founded Race Capital, a venture fund.
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Mary Hayashi
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- politician
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Mary Hayashi is a Korean-American healthcare advocate and California Democratic politician, who represented 18th Assembly District in the California State Legislature. Hayashi was elected to the California State Assembly in November 2006 and served six years.
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Neill Sheridan
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- baseball player
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Neill Rawlins Sheridan, nicknamed "Wild Horse," was an American professional baseball player whose 12-season career (1943–1954) largely took place in the minor leagues. An outfielder by trade, he saw his only Major League service for the 1948 Boston Red Sox, appearing for a cup of coffee (only two games played) — one as a pinch hitter and one as a pinch runner. Born in Sacramento, California, Sheridan threw and batted right-handed; he stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 195 pounds (88 kg).
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Paul Fong
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- politician
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Paul J. Fong is an American politician. He is a former Democratic California State Assembly member from the 28th district.
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Dan Kalb
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- politician
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Dan Kalb is an American politician who represented District 1 on the Oakland City Council from January 7, 2013 to January 6, 2025.
