100 Notable alumni of
University of South Florida
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The University of South Florida is 471st in the world, 185th in North America, and 171st 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, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is widely regarded as the most recognized wrestling star worldwide, the most popular wrestler of the 1980s, and as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time.
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Mark Consuelos
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractorfilm producer
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Mark Andrew Consuelos is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Mateo Santos on the ABC soap opera All My Children (1995–2002, 2010) and as Hiram Lodge on The CW drama Riverdale (2017–2023).
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Lauren Hutton
- Occupations
- television actormodelfilm actorfilm producer
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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
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
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Aasif Hakim Mandviwala, known professionally as Aasif Mandvi, is a British-American actor, comedian and author. 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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Neven Subotić
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Neven Subotić is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
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Tony La Russa
- Occupations
- baseball playerlawyer
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Anthony La Russa Jr. is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and manager. His 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 33 years as a manager, La Russa guided his teams to three World Series titles, six league championships, and 13 division titles. His managerial total of 2,902 MLB wins is second only to Connie Mack's.
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Gallagher
- Occupations
- actorcomedian
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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 and observational routine that included the signature act of smashing a watermelon on stage with a wooden sledgehammer. For more than 30 years, he played between 100 and 200 shows a year, destroying tens of thousands of melons with the sledgehammer he called the "Sledge-O-Matic". This last sketch was meant to poke fun at infomercials who peddled similarly inane products and whose popularity apexed in the late 1970s/early '80s before waning during the '90s.
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Roderick Strong
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Christopher Lindsey is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Roderick Strong, and is a member of the Undisputed Kingdom stable.
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Philip DeFranco
- Occupations
- YouTubertelevision producervideo bloggerbusinessperson
- Biography
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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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John Kirby
- Enrolled in the University of South Florida
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- naval officerspokesperson
- Biography
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John F. Kirby is a retired United States Navy rear admiral serving as Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House since late May 2022. He previously served as Pentagon Press Secretary for the first year and a half of the Biden administration, and worked as a military and diplomatic analyst for CNN from 2017 to 2021. He served in the Obama administration as the spokesperson for the United States Department of State from 2015 to 2017.
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Omos
- Occupations
- professional wrestlerbasketball player
- Biography
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Tolulope "Jordan" Omogbehin is a Nigerian professional wrestler and former college basketball player. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs under the ring name Omos and is the tallest wrestler on WWE's active roster. He is managed by MVP and they are designated as "free agents", allowing them to appear on both the Raw and SmackDown brands.
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Lobo
- Occupations
- singer-songwritercomposerrecord producersinger
- Biography
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Roland Kent LaVoie, better known by his stage name Lobo (which is a Spanish word 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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Mark Meadows
- Enrolled in the University of South Florida
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- business executiveinternational forum participantpoliticiandirector
- 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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Grace Byers
- Occupations
- film actorstage actor
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Grace Byers is an 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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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 Division 1 Féminine 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
- Biography
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Dominic James Dwyer is a professional soccer player who plays as a forward. Born in England, he played for the United States national team.
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Elayne Boosler
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Elayne Boosler is an American comedian, writer, and actress.
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Stephen Blackehart
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Stephen T. Blackehart is an American character actor, author, and producer.
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Tamsen Fadal
- Occupations
- news presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Tamsen Fadal is an American journalist, menopause advocate and author of The New Single: Finding, Fixing and Falling Back In Love With Yourself. She is the host and executive producer of The Broadway Show.
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Drake Hogestyn
- Occupations
- television actoractor
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Donald Drake Hogestyn is 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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Mario Díaz-Balart
- Occupations
- marketing executivepoliticianinternational forum participant
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Mario Rafael Díaz-Balart Caballero is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district. A Republican, he was elected in 2002, and his district includes much of southwestern Miami-Dade County, including Hialeah, and much of the northern portion of the Everglades.
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Matthew Cox
- Occupations
- impostor
- Biography
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Matthew Bevan "Matt" Cox is an American former mortgage broker and admitted mortgage fraudster. Cox, also a true crime author, wrote an unpublished manuscript entitled The Associates in which the main character traveled the country to perpetrate a mortgage fraud scheme similar to the one Cox ran.
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J. Michelle Childs
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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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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Lionel
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- trial lawyerconspiracy theoristradio personality
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Michael William Lebron, better known as Lionel, is an American syndicated radio, television and YouTube legal and media analyst. He is known as a leading promoter of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory.
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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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Zach LeDay
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Zachary Vincent LeDay is an American professional basketball player for Partizan Mozzart Bet of the Serbian League, the Adriatic League 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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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 Manchester City and the England national team. She previously played for Sunderland in the English FA Women's Premier League.
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Julia Letlow
- Enrolled in the University of South Florida
- In 2012 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- politicianacademic administrator
- 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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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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YesJulz
- Occupations
- Internet celebritytelevision producer
- Biography
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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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Derrick Sharp
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- 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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Wakanohō Toshinori
- Occupations
- amateur wrestlerrikishi
- 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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Nicole Johnson
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestantspokesperson
- Biography
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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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Steve Jay
- Occupations
- guitaristmusician
- Biography
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Eugene Stephen Jay is an American bassist, best known for working with "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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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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Jeff Cunningham
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jeff Cunningham is an American 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.
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Aaron Fechter
- Occupations
- inventorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Aaron Fechter is an American engineering entrepreneur, voice actor, singer, and musician who owns and operates Creative Engineering, Inc. (CEI). He is best known as the creator of The Rock-afire Explosion (RAE), 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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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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Ben Sweat
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Benjamin Sweat is an American 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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Jimmy Herget
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jimmy Matthew Herget is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Cincinnati Reds and Texas Rangers.
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Malik Fitts
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Malik Jahmal Fitts is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Charge of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the South Florida Bulls and the Saint Mary's Gaels.
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Lurlene McDaniel
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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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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Austin Adams
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Austin Lance Adams is an American professional baseball pitcher in the New York Mets organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals, Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Mark Chung
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Mark Chung is an American former professional soccer player who played ten seasons in Major League Soccer. He also earned twenty-four caps, scoring two goals, with the US national team.
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S. J. Green
- Occupations
- player of American footballCanadian football player
- Biography
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Solomon H. Green III is a former American football wide receiver. He was signed by the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes through the negotiation list process in 2007 and played with the Alouettes for 10 seasons (from 2007 to 2016) before spending the next three seasons with the Toronto Argonauts. Green was previously a member of the New York Jets (NFL). Green played college football at South Florida.
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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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Richard King
- Occupations
- sound editorsound designer
- 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), and Dunkirk (2017). He was also nominated for War of the Worlds (2005), and Interstellar (2014). He has won Bafta awards for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Inception (2010), and Dunkirk (2017) and four MPSE awards for Best Sound Effects Editing & Design, as well as the MPSE Career Achievement Award (2016).
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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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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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Kawika Mitchell
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Kawika Uilani Mitchell is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He played college football at University of South Florida. Mitchell was drafted 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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Jeanne Kalogridis
- Occupations
- science fiction writernovelistwriter
- 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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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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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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David A. Wolfe
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Enrolled in the University of South Florida
- 1975-1980 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcherwriterpsychologist
- 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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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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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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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 450 research articles and 5 books.
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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. He is currently an assistant coach for the Saint Mary's Gaels men's soccer team. Born in the United States, he represented Guam internationally.
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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 Tigres UANL and the Mexico women's national team.
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Carlos Tosca
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Carlos Tosca is a Cuban current Field Coach for the GCL Orioles. He is a former Major League and minor league baseball manager.
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Joe Gruters
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joe Gruters was the Chairman of the Florida Republican Party from 2018 to 2022, and is a member of the Florida Senate representing the 22nd District, which consists of Sarasota County and part of Charlotte County. He was previously a member of the Florida House of Representatives. Earlier in his career, Gruters worked on the campaign of U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan as campaign manager and was vice chairman of the Republican Party of Florida and chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota.
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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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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.
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Diego Restrepo
- Occupations
- goalkeeper coachassociation football player
- Biography
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Diego Alejandro Restrepo Garcia is a soccer coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. Currently, he is the Head of Goalkeeping for D.C. United, a Major League Soccer franchise.
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Bernardo Añor
- 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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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 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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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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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 Roma and the Canada national team. She played college soccer at the University of South Florida.
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Dale S. Fischer
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Dale Susan Fischer is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. She was nominated by President George W. Bush, and received her commission in 2003.
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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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Kissy Simmons
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- actorstage actor
- 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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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, a minority-owned and operated fixed income firm.
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H. Lee Moffitt
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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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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John Egbunu
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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John Egbunu is a Nigerian-born American basketball player who last played for LDLC ASVEL of the French LNB Pro A and the EuroLeague. Standing 6'10" (2.08 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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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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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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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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Kelley Eskridge
- Occupations
- novelistscience fiction writerwriterscreenwriter
- 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 Republican politician and former Secretary of State of Florida. He currently serves as Superintendent of Schools for Pasco County, Florida.
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Guy P. Harrison
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- 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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Stephen Nicholas
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Stephen Leron Nicholas is an American football coach and former linebacker who is the defensive quality control coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL Draft and played for the team for seven seasons. He played college football at South Florida.
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John Velis
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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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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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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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 Northern Irish club Sion Swifts and the Jamaica women's national team.
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Jaquira Díaz
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- music criticwriter
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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, and other places. 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 with her spouse, British writer Lars Horn, and is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University.
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Kalup Linzy
- Occupations
- television producerphotographer
- Biography
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Kalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist who currently lives and works in Tulsa, OK. His performance are characterized by their low-tech quality, themes of community, socializing, family, the church, sexuality and homosexuality.
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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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Tony Zappone
- Occupations
- journalistphotographer
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Tony Zappone, became at age 16 the youngest credentialed journalist to lend press coverage to a major national political convention. He was also the youngest contributor of evidence (his photographs) during the Warren Commission hearings into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He began his career in journalism at age 14 as a freelance photographer with The Tampa Tribune, now the Tampa Bay Times, paid at the rate of three dollars per news photo used.
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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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Javontae Hawkins
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Javontae Hawkins Sr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for Telekom Baskets Bonn of the German Basketball Bundesliga and the international Basketball Champions 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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Terrence Samuel
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Terrence Hooper Samuel is an American former basketball player. He transferred from the University of Connecticut. He subsequently transferred to Penn State before transferring to USF for his final season.
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Matthew López
- Occupations
- film directorwritertheatrical directordramaturge
- Biography
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Matthew López is an American playwright, director and screenwriter.
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Ed Baird
- Occupations
- explorer
- Biography
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Phillip Edward "Ed" Baird is an American sailor. He was a coach of the 1995 America's Cup-winning Team New Zealand and a helmsman for the 2007 America's Cup-winning Alinghi syndicate.
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Angie Drobnic Holan
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Angie Drobnic Holan is the director of the International Fact-Checking Network and editor for PolitiFact and was part of the Pulitzer Prize winning team of journalists noted for their fact-checking of the 2008 presidential elections in the United States.
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Marcus Epps
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Roderick Marcus Epps is an American soccer player who currently plays as a winger for Hartford Athletic in the USL Championship.
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Juliana Nogueira
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Juliana de Souza Nogueira is a Brazilian female volleyball player. She is part of the Brazil women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix.
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Shlomo Sawilowsky
- Occupations
- statistician
- Biography
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Shlomo S. Sawilowsky was a professor of educational statistics and Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he has received teaching, mentoring, and research awards.
