100 Notable alumni of
University of South Florida
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The University of South Florida is 488th in the world, 184th in North America, and 170th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of South Florida sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Hulk Hogan
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Terry Gene Bollea, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, was an American professional wrestler and media personality. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and globally most recognized wrestling stars of all time, Hogan won multiple championships worldwide, most notably being a six-time WWF/E Champion. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Hogan also competed in promotions such as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), the American Wrestling Association (AWA), and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).
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Mark Consuelos
- Occupations
- television actorfilm produceractorfilm actor
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Mark Andrew Consuelos is an American actor and talk show host. He rose to prominence as a television actor on the ABC soap opera All My Children for his portrayal of Mateo Santos (1995–2002, 2010), and subsequently as Hiram Lodge on The CW drama Riverdale (2017–2023). Consuelos currently co-hosts the daytime talk show Live with Kelly and Mark with his wife Kelly Ripa.
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Lauren Hutton
- Occupations
- modeltelevision actorfilm produceractorfilm actor
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Lauren Hutton is an American model and actress. Born and raised in the southern United States, Hutton relocated to New York City in her early adulthood to begin a modeling career. Though she was initially dismissed by agents for a signature gap in her teeth, Hutton signed a modeling contract with Revlon in 1973, which at the time was the biggest contract in the history of the modeling industry.
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Aasif Mandvi
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- screenwriterstage actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Aasif Hakim Mandviwala, known professionally as Aasif Mandvi, is a British actor. He was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2006 to 2017. Mandvi's other television work includes the HBO comedy series The Brink and the CBS/Paramount+ psychological drama Evil. His film roles include playing Mr. Aziz in Spider-Man 2 and Commander Zhao in The Last Airbender. His stage work includes appearing on Broadway as Ali Hakim in Oklahoma! and in productions of Disgraced (2012), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013.
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Gallagher
- Occupations
- comedianactor
- Biography
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Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr., known simply as Gallagher, was an American comedian who became one of the most recognizable comedic performers of the 1980s for his prop-based and observational style. His signature routine involved the "Sledge-O-Matic", a large mallet-like tool which he used to smash various items, most notably watermelons. For more than 30 years, he played between 100 and 200 shows a year, destroying tens of thousands of melons.
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Tony La Russa
- Occupations
- lawyerbaseball player
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Anthony La Russa Jr. is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and manager. His Major League Baseball (MLB) career has spanned from 1963 to 2022, in several roles. He is the former manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago White Sox. In 35 seasons as a manager, La Russa guided his teams to three World Series titles, six league championships, and 13 division titles. His managerial total of 2,884 MLB wins is second only to Connie Mack's.
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Neven Subotić
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Neven Subotić is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he played for the Serbia national team.
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Roderick Strong
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Christopher Lindsey, better known by his ring name Roderick Strong, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Paragon stable. He also performs in AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH).
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Omos
- Occupations
- basketball playerprofessional wrestler
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Tolulope "Jordan" Omogbehin is a Nigerian professional wrestler and former college basketball player. He is signed to WWE, where he performs in its sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide under the ring name Omos.
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John Kirby
- Enrolled in the University of South Florida
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- government spokespersonnaval officer
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John F. Kirby is a retired United States Navy rear admiral, serving as director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics starting November 2025.
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Philip DeFranco
- Occupations
- television producerYouTuberbusinesspersonvlogger
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Philip James DeFranco, commonly known by his online nickname PhillyD, and formerly known as sxephil, is an American media host and YouTube personality. He is best known for The Philip DeFranco Show, a news commentary show centered on current events in politics and pop culture.
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Mark Meadows
- Enrolled in the University of South Florida
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- directorbusiness executivepolitician
- Biography
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Mark Randall Meadows is an American politician who served as the 29th White House chief of staff from 2020 to 2021 under the Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2013 to 2020. During his legislative tenure, Meadows chaired the Freedom Caucus from 2017 to 2019. He was considered one of Donald Trump's closest allies in the House of Representatives before his appointment as chief of staff.
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Lobo
- Occupations
- composersinger-songwritersingerrecord producer
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Roland Kent LaVoie, better known by his stage name Lobo (which is Spanish for wolf), is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", "I'd Love You to Want Me", and "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend". These three songs, along with "Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love", gave Lobo four chart toppers on the Easy Listening/Hot Adult Contemporary chart.
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Grace Byers
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actor
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Grace Byers is a Caymanian-American actress. She starred as Anika Calhoun in the Fox music-industry drama series, Empire from 2015 to 2018. In 2021, she began starring as Quinn Joseph in the Amazon Prime Video comedy series, Harlem. In 2022, Byers played a leading role in the comedy horror film, The Blackening.
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Drake Hogestyn
- Occupations
- baseball playeractor
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Donald Drake Hogestyn was an American actor best known for his long-running role as John Black on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives.
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Christiane Endler
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Claudia Christiane Endler Mutinelli is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Première Ligue club Lyon. She has previously played for Colo-Colo, Valencia, Paris Saint-Germain, and the University of South Florida.
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Dom Dwyer
- Occupations
- association football player
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Dominic James Dwyer is a professional soccer player who plays as a forward for EFL League One club Mansfield Town. Born in England, he played for the United States national team.
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Elayne Boosler
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterfilm director
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Elayne Boosler is an American comedian, writer, and actress.
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Matthew Cox
- Occupations
- impostor
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Matthew Bevan Cox is an American former mortgage broker, admitted mortgage fraudster, con man, and true crime author who has written several stories paralleling his real life crimes.
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Stephen Blackehart
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
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Stephen T. Blackehart is an American character actor, author, and producer.
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Tamsen Fadal
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenter
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Tamsen Fadal is an American journalist, writer, and menopause advocate. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller How To Menopause, Reclaim Your Health, Take Charge of Your Life and Feel Even Better Than Before. She is co-producer and executive producer of two documentary films The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause. and The M Factor 2: Before the Pause, focused on Perimenopause. https://themfactorfilm.com/ She is also the founder of the social media #PostYourPatch movement to normalize conversations around hormone therapy.
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Mario Díaz-Balart
- Occupations
- marketing executivepolitician
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Mario Rafael Díaz-Balart y Caballero is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2002, and his district includes much of northwestern Miami-Dade County, including Hialeah, and much of the northern portion of the Everglades.
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J. Michelle Childs
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
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Julianna Michelle Childs is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina from 2010 to 2022 and a judge of the South Carolina Circuit Court from 2006 to 2010.
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YesJulz
- Occupations
- television producerInternet celebrity
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Julieanna Marie Goddard, known professionally as YesJulz, is an American social media personality, talent manager, and entrepreneur.
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Zach LeDay
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Zachary Vincent LeDay is an American-born naturalized Azerbaijani professional basketball player player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the University of South Florida and Virginia Tech. At a height of 2.02 m (6'7 1⁄2") tall, and a weight of 107 kg (235 lbs.), LeDay primarily plays at the power forward position.
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Lionel
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- radio personalityconspiracy theoristtrial lawyer
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Michael William Lebron, better known as Lionel, is an American syndicated radio, television and YouTube legal and media analyst. He currently hosts the syndicated late-night radio show The Other Side of Midnight from WABC.
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Julia Letlow
- Enrolled in the University of South Florida
- In 2012 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- academic administratorpolitician
- Biography
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Julia Janelle Letlow is an American politician and academic administrator serving as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 5th congressional district since 2021. Letlow is the first Republican woman to represent Louisiana in the House.
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John Chiang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Chiang is an American politician who served as the 33rd Treasurer of California from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 31st Controller of California from 2007 to 2015 and on the California State Board of Equalization from 1997 to 2007.
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Derrick Sharp
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Derrick Lanorris Sharp is an American-Israeli former professional basketball player. At a height of 1.85 metres (6 feet 1 inch) tall, he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions.
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B. J. Daniels
- Occupations
- basketball playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Bruce E. Daniels Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback and wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the seventh round of the 2013 NFL draft after playing college football for the South Florida Bulls. He played quarterback for South Florida as a four-year starter. He won Super Bowl XLVIII with the Seattle Seahawks over the Denver Broncos.
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Demi Stokes
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Demi Lee Courtney Stokes is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Women's Super League 2 club Newcastle United. She previously played for Manchester City in the Women's Super League.
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Chucky Atkins
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Kenneth Lavon "Chucky" Atkins is an American former professional basketball player who played for nine different NBA teams throughout his career.
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Wakanohō Toshinori
- Occupations
- rikishiamateur wrestler
- Biography
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Wakanohō Toshinori is a retired Russian sumo wrestler. His highest rank was maegashira 1. He became the first active wrestler to be dismissed from sumo, after being arrested for possession of cannabis in August 2008. He has also played college football at the University of South Florida, Webber International University, and Warner University. As of July 2014, he lives in Florida.
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Steve Jay
- Occupations
- musicianguitarist
- Biography
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Eugene Stephen Jay is an American bassist, best known for working with "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Aaron Fechter
- Occupations
- entrepreneurinventor
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Aaron Fechter is an American mechanical engineer and entrepreneur who owns and operates Creative Engineering, Inc. (CEI). He is best known as the creator of the Rock-afire Explosion, an animatronic show featuring a variety of characters created primarily for Showbiz Pizza Place restaurants throughout the 1980s. A fallout between Showbiz and CEI, along with the chain's dwindling revenue, led to the show's decline and eventual removal by the early 1990s.
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Nicole Johnson
- Occupations
- spokespersonbeauty pageant contestantmodel
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Nicole Johnson is an American beauty queen, author, public health professional and activist. Crowned Miss America 1999 and Miss Virginia 1998, she became the first Miss America with diabetes and the first contestant to publicize the use of an insulin pump. She now advocates for diabetes research, treatment, and education, having been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1993.
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Jeff Cunningham
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jeff Cunningham is a former professional soccer player who played as a forward. He is Major League Soccer's third-all-time leader in regular-season goals scored with 134. Born in Jamaica, Cunningham initially played for the country of his birth before switching to the United States for which he played for the rest of his international career.
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Ross Spano
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vincent Ross Spano is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative from Florida's 15th congressional district. The district stretches from Lakeland to the northeastern suburbs of Tampa. A Republican, he was first elected to Congress in the 2018 elections. He ran for reelection in the 2020 election but was defeated in the Republican primary.
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Jimmy Herget
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jimmy Matthew Herget is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Cincinnati Reds, Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Angels, and Atlanta Braves.
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Joe Gruters
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joseph Ryan Gruters is an American politician and accountant who has served as the 67th chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) since 2025. He has been a member of the Florida Senate since 2018 and formerly the treasurer of the RNC. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2016 to 2018 and was the chair of the Florida Republican Party from 2019 to 2023. He became chair of the national party during the summer meeting of the party on August 22, 2025.
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Dave Eiland
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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David William Eiland is an American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher for ten Major League Baseball seasons. Eiland played college baseball for the University of Florida and the University of South Florida, and thereafter, played professionally for the New York Yankees, San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He has also been a pitching coach for the New York Yankees, the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals.
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Malik Fitts
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Malik Jahmal Fitts is an American professional basketball player for Boulazac Basket Dordogne of the LNB Élite. He played college basketball for the South Florida Bulls and the Saint Mary's Gaels.
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Ben Sweat
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Benjamin Sweat is an American former professional soccer player who played as a left-back.
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Gil Kerlikowske
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Gil Kerlikowske is a former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He assumed office on March 6, 2014 and retired January 20, 2017. He also served as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy between 2009 and 2014.
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Austin Adams
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Austin Lance Adams is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals, Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Oakland Athletics.
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Richard King
- Occupations
- sound designersound editor
- Biography
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Richard King is an American film sound designer and editor who has worked on over 70 films. A native of Tampa, Florida, he graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in painting and film. He has won Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing for the films Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017) and the Academy Award for Best Sound for Dune: Part Two (2024). He was also nominated for War of the Worlds (2005), Interstellar (2014), Oppenheimer (2023), and Maestro (2023). He has won BAFTA awards for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017), and Dune: Part Two (2024). He has won eight MPSE awards for Best Sound Editing & Design, as well as the MPSE Career Achievement Award (2016).
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Lurlene McDaniel
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writer
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Lurlene McDaniel is an American author who has written more than 70 young adult books. She is well known for writing about young adults struggling with mortality and chronic illness, a career that began as a therapeutic way to deal with the trauma when her son, then 3, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Her characters have grappled with cancer, diabetes, organ failure, and the deaths of loved ones through disease or suicide. She is a graduate of the University of South Florida - Tampa and currently resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Matthew López
- Occupations
- writerfilm directordramaturgetheatrical director
- Biography
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Matthew López is an American playwright, director and screenwriter. His play The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry, premiered at London's Young Vic in 2018, where it was called "the most important American play of the century." It transferred to the West End later that year, and opened on Broadway in 2019. The Inheritance is the most honored American play in a generation, sweeping the "Best Play" awards in both London and New York including the Tony Award, Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award, Evening Standard Award, London Critics Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, WhatsOnStage Award, and the Southbank Sky Arts Award.
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Solomon Jones
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Solomon Jones III is an American former professional basketball player. He is 6'10" and weighs 235 lb, playing the power forward and center positions. He played his college basketball at Daytona State College for two seasons (2002–2004) and then at the University of South Florida for another two seasons (2004–2006). He was then selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 33rd overall pick in the 2006 NBA draft.
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Regina Lombardo
- Biography
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Regina Lombardo is an American law enforcement official previously serving as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Kawika Mitchell
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Kawika Uilani Mitchell is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Florida Bulls. Mitchell was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round in 2003. Mitchell also played for the New York Giants, Buffalo Bills and New Orleans Saints.
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S. J. Green
- Occupations
- Canadian football playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Solomon H. Green III is an American former professional football wide receiver who played for 13 years in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is a three-time Grey Cup champion, having won in 2009 and 2010 with the Montreal Alouettes and in 2017 with the Toronto Argonauts. He is also a two-time CFL All-Star and an eight-time CFL East All-Star. He was also a member of the New York Jets, Seattle Dragons, and Tampa Bay Vipers. Green played college football at South Florida.
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Emilio T. González
- Biography
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Emilio Tomás González is a partner and senior advisor to the Executive Committee at Ducenta Squared Asset Management. He was also a Republican candidate in the 2025 Miami mayoral election.
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Evelyne Viens
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Evelyne Viens is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Serie A club AS Roma and the Canada national team. She played college soccer at the University of South Florida.
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Cristina Ferral
- Enrolled in the University of South Florida
- 2014-2016 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Cristina del Carmen Ferral Montalván is a Mexican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga MX Femenil club Guadalajara on loan from Tigres UANL, and the Mexico women's national team.
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Pam Iorio
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pamela Dorothy Iorio is an American politician and author, who served as mayor of Tampa, Florida from 2003 to 2011.
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Jeanne Kalogridis
- Occupations
- novelistscience fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Jeanne Kalogridis, also known by the pseudonym J.M. Dillard (born 1954), is an American writer of historical, science and horror fiction.
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Kevin Quackenbush
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Kevin Robert Quackenbush is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, and Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Chris Sprowls
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher Joseph Sprowls is an American attorney and Republican politician from Florida. He served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives for the 2020–22 legislative term and represented the 65th District, which included Clearwater, Dunedin, and Tarpon Springs in northern Pinellas County, from 2014–22.
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Jeff Attinella
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jeff Attinella is an American former professional soccer player who previously played as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club Portland Timbers.
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Saraju Mohanty
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Saraju Mohanty is an Indian-American professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the director of the Smart Electronic Systems Laboratory, at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Mohanty received a Glorious India Award – Rich and Famous NRIs of America in 2017 for his contributions to the discipline. Mohanty is a researcher in the areas of "smart electronics for smart cities/villages", "smart healthcare", "application-Specific things for efficient edge computing", and "methodologies for digital and mixed-signal hardware". He has made significant research contributions to security by design for electronic systems, hardware-assisted security (HAS) and protection, high-level synthesis of digital signal processing (DSP) hardware, and mixed-signal integrated circuit computer-aided design and electronic design automation. Mohanty has been the editor-in-chief (EiC) of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine during 2016-2021. He has held the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Very Large Scale Integration during 2014-2018. He holds 4 US patents in the areas of his research, and has published 500 research articles and 5 books. He is ranked among top 2% faculty around the world in Computer Science and Engineering discipline as per the standardized citation metric adopted by the Public Library of Science Biology journal.
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Dallas Jaye
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Dallas Jeffrey Jaye is a soccer coach and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper. Born in the United States, he represented Guam internationally.
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Freddy Hall
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Frederick Michael George Hall was a Bermudian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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John Egbunu
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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John Onuche Egbunu Listen is a Nigerian professional basketball player for the Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus of the Korean Basketball League (KBL). Standing 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m), Egbunu plays the center position. In his first professional season, he played for the Long Island Nets in the NBA G League. He played center collegiately for the University of South Florida and the University of Florida.
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David A. Wolfe
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 75)
- Enrolled in the University of South Florida
- 1975-1980 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcherpsychologistwriter
- Biography
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David Allen Wolfe is an academic, psychologist and author specializing in issues of child abuse, domestic violence, children and youth. His work includes the promotion of healthy relationships through school programs, with a major focus on the prevention of child abuse and neglect, bullying, dating violence, unsafe sex, substance abuse and other consequences of unhealthy relationships.
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Carlos Tosca
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Carlos Tosca is a Cuban former professional baseball manager and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB).
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Russell Prescott
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Russell Edward Prescott is an American businessman and politician who served on the New Hampshire Executive Council, representing the 3rd district from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Prescott served in the New Hampshire Senate from 2000 to 2004 and again from 2010 to 2016, representing districts in Rockingham County.
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Dale S. Fischer
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Dale Susan Fischer is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
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Catrin Nilsmark
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Catrin Maria Nilsmark is a Swedish professional golfer who played on both the United States–based LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour. She appeared for Europe at the Solheim Cup five times and captained the winning team in 2003.
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Diego Restrepo
- Occupations
- association football playergoalkeeper coach
- Biography
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Diego Alejandro Restrepo Garcia is a Colombian-American soccer coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. Currently, he is the Goalkeeping coach for Manchester City Women, a member of the Barclays Super League. Additionally, he is the Goalkeeper coach of the Welsh Senior Women’s National Team.
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Olivia Chance
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Olivia Juliet Bridget Chance is a New Zealand footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a left winger for Kolbotn IL the New Zealand at international level. She formerly played for Breiðablik of the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild, Everton and Bristol City of the English FA WSL, Sheffield United of the English FA Women's Championship, and Brisbane Roar of the Australian W-League.
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H. Lee Moffitt
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Houston Lee Moffitt is an American politician and attorney. He served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives from 1982 to 1984.
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Kissy Simmons
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- stage actoractor
- Biography
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Kissy Simmons is an American actress. "Kissy" is short for Kissimmee, the Floridian city near Orlando about 80 miles from Floral City where she was born. She is best known for playing Nala in the Broadway production of The Lion King and as of 2011 is reprising the role in the Las Vegas production at Mandalay Bay beginning May 5, 2009.
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Bernardo Añor Jr
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Bernardo Añor Acosta is a Venezuelan footballer who plays as a defender or a midfielder.
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Trudi Carter
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Trudi Sudan Carter is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga MX Femenil club León and the Jamaica women's national team.
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Danny Burgess
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Wright Burgess Jr. is an American politician who currently serves as a Florida State Senator from District 20, which includes parts of Tampa, Thonotosassa, New Tampa, and Zephyrhills. He previously served as the executive director of the Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs, as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, and as the mayor of Zephyrhills.
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Michael S. Devany
- Years
- 20th Century
- Biography
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Michael S. Devany is a former vice admiral in the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps who last served as the Deputy Under Secretary for Operations at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from January 2, 2014 to April 2016. He previously served as director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps from August 13, 2012 to January 1, 2014, succeeding RADM Jonathan W. Bailey. As deputy under secretary for operations, he was NOAA’s chief operating officer. VADM Devany was responsible for the day-to-day management of NOAA’s national and international operations for oceanic and atmospheric services, research, and coastal and marine stewardship. He is a key advisor to the under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere/NOAA administrator on NOAA program and policy issues. Devany was the first NOAA Corps officer to achieve the rank of vice admiral since VADM Henry A. Karo in 1965, and the second NOAA Corps officer overall. Devany retired from NOAA in April 2016 after over 30 years of combined uniformed service.
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Yohance Marshall
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Yohance Marshall is a Trinidadian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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Rick Barrio Dill
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- guitarist
- Biography
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Rick Barrio Dill is an American musician. He has performed, engineered and produced under the names Rick Dill, Keylow D, RBD and Rick Barrio Dill. Currently, he is an active member of the band Vintage Trouble. He has also been a member of 2nd Day Crush and The Ty Taylor Review. Barrio Dill is also a frequent freelance contributing writer for Recording Magazine. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Roberto Cid Subervi
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Roberto Cid Subervi is a Dominican–American tennis player.
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Anthony Wallace
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Anthony Wallace is an American soccer player who plays as a left back and midfielder.
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Jaquira Díaz
- Occupations
- writermusic critic
- Biography
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Jaquira Díaz is a Puerto Rican fiction writer, essayist, journalist, cultural critic, and professor. She is the author of Ordinary Girls, which received a Whiting Award in Nonfiction, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Finalist. She has written for The Atlantic, Time, The Best American Essays, Tin House, The Sun, The Fader, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Longreads,. She was an editor at the Kenyon Review and a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2022, she held the Mina Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University's MFA program and a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has taught creative writing at Colorado State University's MFA program, Randolph College's low-residency MFA program, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kenyon College. Díaz lives in New York and is an assistant professor of writing at Columbia University.
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John Velis
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Christopher Velis is an American state legislator and Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate since 2020. He previously represented the 2nd Hampden and Hampshire district, which includes his hometown of Westfield, and currently represents the Hampden and Hampshire district after the 2020 census. Prior his election to the state senate, Velis was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2014 to 2020.
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Adam C. Johnson
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- cookfurniture makerhousehusband
- Biography
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Adam Christian Johnson, also known as "Podium Guy", "Lectern Guy", and "Via Getty", is an American man who took part in the United States Capitol attack on January 6, 2021. A photograph of Johnson carrying then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lectern became a prominent image of the attack.
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James Buchanan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Vernon Buchanan is an American politician in the state of Florida. A Republican, he is a member of the Florida House of Representatives representing the state's 74th district, which includes part of Sarasota County.
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Kelley Eskridge
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writernovelistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kelley Eskridge is an American writer of fiction, non-fiction and screenplays. Her work is generally regarded as speculative fiction and is associated with the more literary edge of the category, as well as with the category of slipstream fiction.
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Kurt S. Browning
- Biography
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Kurt S. Browning is an American politician, who served Secretary of State of Florida and Superintendent of Schools for Pasco County, Florida. First elected as a member of the Democratic Party in 1980, he became a Republican in 2002.
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Javontae Hawkins
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Javontae Aaron Hawkins is an American professional basketball player for Spartak Subotica of the Serbian League (KLS) and the ABA League. He played his first two years of college basketball with the South Florida Bulls. Hawkins later played also with Eastern Kentucky and Fordham before going undrafted in the 2017 NBA draft.
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Jim Wilkes
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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James Lewis Wilkes, II is an American lawyer. Born in Tampa, Florida, he is known for his advocacy on behalf of nursing home residents who have been victims of abuse.
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Guy P. Harrison
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Guy P. Harrison is an American author of bestselling books. He writes about science, critical thinking, history, race, and nature.
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Daniel Ravicher
- Occupations
- patent attorney
- Biography
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Daniel "Dan" Ravicher serves as executive director of the Public Patent Foundation. In 1997 he graduated magna cum laude with University Honors from the University of South Florida with a B.S.C.E., and earned a J.D. in 2000 from the University of Virginia School of Law where he was a Franklin O’Blechman Scholar, a Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award recipient, and an Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology.
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Shawn Harrison
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shawn Edward Harrison is a Republican politician and a former member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 63rd District, which includes northern Tampa, Pebble Creek, Lake Magdalene, University, and Carrollwood in northern Hillsborough County, from 2014 to 2018. Harrison previously represented the 60th District from 2010 to 2012.
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Sebastien Thuriere
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Sébastien Thurière is a Haitian footballer who last played as a midfielder for Penang in Malaysia Premier League.
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Toarlyn Fitzpatrick
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Toarlyn Lavon Fitzpatrick, nicknamed Fitz, is an American professional basketball player for Rapid București of the Liga Națională.
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Stephen Nicholas
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Stephen Leron Nicholas is an American professional football coach and former player who is the defensive quality control coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played seven seasons in the NFL as a linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons.
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Nicole McClure
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Nicole Althea McClure is an American-born Jamaican footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Jamaica women's national team.
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Kalup Linzy
- Occupations
- photographertelevision producer
- Biography
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Kalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist who currently lives and works in Tulsa, OK. His performances are characterized by their low-tech quality and themes of community, socializing, family, the church, sexuality and homosexuality.
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Jordyn Listro
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jordyn Nicole Listro DiMarco is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Tampa Bay Sun FC of the USL Super League. She played college soccer for the South Florida Bulls and played in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) for the Kansas City Current and Orlando Pride.
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Ronda Storms
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ronda R. Storms is an American politician representing her adopted home state of Florida. Affiliated with the Republican Party, she represented the 10th District in the Florida Senate from 2006 to 2012. She decided not to run in 2012 for the new 24th District.
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Nadine Smith
- Enrolled in the University of South Florida
- 1984-1987 studied communication studies
- Occupations
- LGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Nadine Smith is an LGBT activist and has been the executive director of Equality Florida since its inception in 1997 and serves as a legislative lobbyist, living in Tallahassee during session. In 1986, Smith served on the founding board of the International Gay and Lesbian Organization. Smith has been recognized as a national leader by organizations including: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Task Force of Florida, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum.
