100 Notable alumni of
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is 628th in the world, 233rd in North America, and 214th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Willem Dafoe
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Studied drama fiction
- Occupations
- film produceractormodelstage actorvoice actor
- Biography
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William James "Willem" Dafoe is an American actor. Known for his diverse roles in film, he is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. He has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers.
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Satya Nadella
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Graduated with Master of Science in computer science
- Occupations
- international forum participantchief executive officerelectrotechnicianbusinesspersonmanager
- Biography
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Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms.
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Golda Meir
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Golda Meir was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government and the first female head of government in the Middle East.
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Alberto Fujimori
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianagricultural engineer
- Biography
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Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto is a Peruvian former politician, professor and engineer who served as President of Peru from 28 July 1990 until 22 November 2000, though de facto leadership was reportedly held by Vladimiro Montesinos, the then head of the National Intelligence Service. Frequently described as a dictator, he remains a controversial figure in Peruvian politics. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses during his presidency but was released on 6 December 2023 following an order by the Constitutional Court of Peru.
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Trixie Mattel
- Occupations
- singer-songwritertelevision producerdrag queenactorpodcaster
- Biography
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Brian Michael Firkus, better known by the stage name Trixie Mattel, is an American drag queen, television personality, and singer-songwriter originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is known for her exaggerated, high-camp style and blend of comedy and acoustic pop. In 2015 she competed on the seventh season of the drag competition RuPaul's Drag Race, where she finished in 6th place. In 2018, she went on to win the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
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Andy Hurley
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Andrew John Hurley is an American musician. He is the drummer for the rock band Fall Out Boy. Prior to Fall Out Boy, Hurley played in several hardcore punk bands. He joined Fall Out Boy as the full-time drummer in 2003 and was in the band's lineup until its hiatus in 2009. Following that, he formed the heavy metal supergroup The Damned Things with Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman; the group went on hiatus after its debut album, Ironiclast (2010), due to band members focusing on their original bands' new album cycles. Hurley moved on to hardcore punk band Enabler which released a debut album and toured in 2012.
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Jack Kilby
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientistphysicistphotographerinventor
- Biography
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Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on 10 December 2000.
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Virginia Satir
- Occupations
- writerteacherpsychotherapistsocial workersocial and health care assistant
- Biography
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Virginia Satir was an American author, clinical social worker and psychotherapist, recognized for her approach to family therapy. Her pioneering work in the field of family reconstruction therapy honored her with the title "Mother of Family Therapy". Her most well-known books are Conjoint Family Therapy, 1964, Peoplemaking, 1972, and The New Peoplemaking, 1988.
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Steve Sisolak
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Science in business studies
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Stephen F. Sisolak is an American businessman and politician who served as the 30th governor of Nevada from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served on the Clark County Commission from 2009 to 2019 and on the Nevada Board of Regents from 1999 to 2008. Sisolak is the only Democrat in the 21st century to serve as or be elected Governor of Nevada
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Jim Risch
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Studied in 1961-1963
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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James Elroy Risch is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Idaho since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served as lieutenant governor of Idaho under governors Dirk Kempthorne and Butch Otter. He also served from May 2006 to January 2007 as the 31st governor of Idaho.
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Alan Kulwicki
- Occupations
- NASCAR team ownerracing automobile driver
- Biography
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Alan Dennis Kulwicki, nicknamed "Special K" and the "Polish Prince", was an American auto racing driver and team owner. He started racing at local short tracks in Wisconsin before moving up to regional stock car touring series. Kulwicki arrived at NASCAR, the highest and most expensive level of stock car racing in the United States, with no sponsor, a limited budget and only a racecar and a borrowed pickup truck. Despite starting with meager equipment and finances, he earned the 1986 NASCAR Rookie of the Year award over drivers racing for well-funded teams.
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Bruce Weber
- Occupations
- baseball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Bruce Brett Weber is a former men's basketball head coach at Kansas State University. Prior to his tenure at Kansas State, Weber was the head coach at Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois.
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Frank Caliendo
- Occupations
- comedianactorstand-up comediansingervoice actor
- Biography
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Frank Caliendo Jr. is an American comedian, actor, and impressionist best known for his impersonations on the Fox Network television series MADtv as well as being the in-house prognosticator for Fox NFL Sunday. In 2007 and 2008, he performed impersonations on his own show, Frank TV, which aired on TBS.
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Charlie Sykes
- Occupations
- journalistpodcasterwriterradio personality
- Biography
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Charles Jay Sykes is an American political commentator who was editor-in-chief of the website The Bulwark. From 1993 to 2016, Sykes hosted a conservative talk show on WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was also the editor of Right Wisconsin which was co-owned with WTMJ's then-parent company E. W. Scripps. Sykes is a frequent commentator on MSNBC.
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Pamela Britton
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractorsinger
- Biography
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Pamela Britton was an American actress, best known for appearing as Lorelei Brown in the television series My Favorite Martian (1963–1966) and for her female lead in the film noir classic D.O.A. (1950). Throughout her acting career, Britton appeared often on Broadway and in several Hollywood and television films.
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Mildred Harnack
- Occupations
- writerliterary critictranslatorresistance fighterliterary historian
- Biography
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Mildred Elizabeth Harnack was an American literary historian, translator, and member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime. After marrying Arvid Harnack, she moved to Germany in 1929, where she began her career as an academic. Mildred Harnack spent a year at the University of Jena and the University of Giessen working on her doctoral thesis. At Giessen, she witnessed the beginnings of Nazism. Mildred Harnack became an assistant lecturer in English and American literature at the University of Berlin in 1931.
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Chris Smith
- Occupations
- film directordirectorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Chris Smith is an American filmmaker. He directed American Movie, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.
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Daulton Varsho
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Daulton John Varsho is an American professional baseball outfielder and catcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2020 with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Dorothy Fuldheim
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Dorothy Fuldheim was an American journalist and anchor who spent the majority of her career at The Cleveland Press and WEWS-TV, both based in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Zuhdi Jasser
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- In 1988 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- internistmilitary officeractivistpunditjournalist
- Biography
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Zuhdi Jasser, also known as M. Zuhdi Jasser, and Mohamed Zuhdi Jasser is an American religious and political commentator and medical doctor specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology in Phoenix, Arizona. Jasser is a former lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, where he served as staff internist in the Office of the Attending Physician of the United States Congress. In 2003, with a group of American Muslims, Jasser founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) based in Phoenix, Arizona, and in 2004 he was one of the founders of the Center for Islamic Pluralism.
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Randy Bryce
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Randall John Bryce is an American ironworker, activist, and former political candidate. He was the Democratic Party nominee for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district in the 2018 midterm elections. Bryce has been nicknamed "IronStache" due to his former occupation and prominent mustache, a moniker which he adopted for his Twitter account.
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Laura Mersini-Houghton
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- In 2000 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- physicistcosmologisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Laura Mersini-Houghton is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a proponent of the multiverse hypothesis and the author of a theory for the origin of the universe that holds that our universe is one of many selected by quantum gravitational dynamics of matter and energy. She argues that anomalies in the current structure of the universe are best explained as the gravitational tug exerted by other universes.
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Demetrius Harris
- Occupations
- player of American footballbasketball player
- Biography
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Demetrius Harris is an American football tight end who is a free agent. He played college basketball at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, which has no college football program. He was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2013.
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Victor DeLorenzo
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- actorstage actor
- Biography
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Victor DeLorenzo is an American musician, actor and filmmaker who was the founding drummer for the folk-punk band Violent Femmes.
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Will Allen
- Occupations
- farmerAfrican-American environmentalistbasketball player
- Biography
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Will Allen is an American urban farmer based in Milwaukee and a retired professional basketball player.
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Eugenie Scott
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistanthropologist
- Biography
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Eugenie Carol Scott is an American physical anthropologist, a former university professor and educator who has been active in opposing the teaching of young Earth creationism and intelligent design in schools. She coined the term "Gish gallop" to describe a fallacious rhetorical technique of overwhelming an interlocutor with as many individually weak arguments as possible, in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole argument.
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Paa Kwesi Nduom
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Paa Kwesi Nduom or Papa Kwesi Nduom, is a Ghanaian business consultant, politician, and founding member of Ghana's Progressive People's Party. A three-time candidate for president, he was the member of parliament for the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem constituency and served as minister of state in the Kufuor government.
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Brad Schimel
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- prosecutor
- Biography
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Brad Schimel is an American lawyer, judge, and Republican politician. He was the 44th attorney general of Wisconsin, serving from 2015 to 2019. He was defeated seeking re-election in 2018, and was subsequently appointed a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, by Governor Scott Walker. Schimel is seeking election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the 2025 Spring election. He also previously served as district attorney of Waukesha County.
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Abner Mikva
- Occupations
- judgelawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianjurist
- Biography
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Abner Joseph Mikva was an American politician, federal judge, and legal scholar. He was a member of the Democratic Party. After serving in the Illinois House of Representatives, Mikva ran for congress in 1966 but lost the primary to incumbent congressman Barrett O'Hara. In 1968, Mikva defeated O'Hara. Mikva served in the United States House of Representatives representing Illinois's 2nd congressional district (1969–1973) and 10th congressional district (1975–1979). He was appointed as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President Jimmy Carter, serving from 1979 to 1994. He served as the White House Counsel from 1994 to 1995 during Bill Clinton's presidency. He was one of the few people in modern times to serve in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the Federal government.
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Jose Dalisay, Jr
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. is a Filipino writer. He has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction and screenwriting, including 16 Palanca Awards.
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Lena Taylor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lena C. Taylor is an American lawyer, judge, and former politician serving as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Milwaukee County, since January 2024. She previously served 19 years as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 4th State Senate district from 2005 to 2024, and was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for one term before that.
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Christine Boskoff
- Occupations
- mountaineer
- Biography
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Christine Boskoff was an American mountaineer.
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Chris Larson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher J. Larson is an American Democratic politician and a member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing southeast Milwaukee County since 2011. He was Senate minority leader from 2013 through 2014, and currently serves as Senate Democratic caucus chair.
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Jeff Halper
- Occupations
- human rights activistanthropologistuniversity teachernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Jeff Halper is an Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC). He is a Jewish Israeli.
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Martin J. Schreiber
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martin James Schreiber is an American politician, publisher, author, and lobbyist who served as the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1971 to 1977, and (following the resignation of Patrick Lucey) as the 39th Governor of Wisconsin from 1977 to 1979. Schreiber has become an advocate on issues related to Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
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Bill Carollo
- Occupations
- American football official
- Biography
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William F. Carollo is a former American football official who officiated National Football League (NFL) games from 1989 through 2008. He wore uniform number 63. Carollo officiated in two Super Bowls and eight conference championship games. After the 2008 season, he became the Coordinator of Football Officials for the Big Ten Conference and is currently Coordinator of Officials for the Collegiate Officiating Consortium (COC).
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Eric Genrich
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eric Genrich is an American politician who has served as the mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin, since 2019. Genrich previously represented Green Bay in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2013 until 2019.
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Robert J. Modrzejewski
- Occupations
- executive officer
- Biography
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Robert Joseph Modrzejewski is a retired United States Marine Corps officer who is a recipient of the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for conspicuous gallantry in the Vietnam War.
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Naima Adedapo
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Naima Adedapo is an American singer and dancer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Adedapo placed in the top 11 on the tenth season of American Idol.
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Steven Burd
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Steven A. Burd is an American businessman. He served as chairman, president and CEO of Safeway Inc. from October 26, 1992, to May 14, 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Tim Carpenter
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Timothy W. Carpenter is an American Democratic politician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has been a member of the Wisconsin Senate for more than 20 years, representing the Wisconsin's 3rd Senate district since 2003. His district comprises much of the south side of the city of Milwaukee. He previously served 18 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly (1985–2003).
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Peter W. Barca
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peter William Barca is an American Democratic politician and the current Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue in the administration of Governor Tony Evers. Barca is a lifelong resident of the Kenosha area.
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Henry Maier
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Henry Walter Maier was an American politician and the longest-serving mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, holding office from 1960 to 1988. A Democrat, Maier was a powerful and controversial figure, presiding over an era of economic and political turbulence for the city of Milwaukee.
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Alberta Darling
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alberta Darling is an American educator, politician and former member of the Wisconsin State Senate. She represented Wisconsin's 8th State Senate district from 1993 through 2022 as a Republican. Her constituency included many of the municipalities directly north and northwest of Milwaukee and part of the city of Milwaukee. She also served three years in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Before entering public office, she was a teacher and marketing director.
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Luis E. Arreaga
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Luis Edmundo Arreaga-Rodas is a Guatemalan American diplomat and government official who served as the United States Ambassador to Guatemala from 2017 to 2020. He previously served as United States Ambassador to Iceland from 2010 to 2013. In January 2016, he was appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In June 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Arreaga to become the United States Ambassador to Guatemala. This nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 3, 2017.
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez is a Mexican-American mathematician who was Regents Professor and Joaquín Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology at Arizona State University. Castillo-Chavez was founder and the Executive Director of the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI) and the Institute for Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science. For 2019, Castillo-Chavez was Provost Visiting Professor in the Applied Mathematics Division and Data Science Initiative at Brown University. Castillo-Chavez retired from Arizona State University at the end of spring 2020.
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David Crowley
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Studied in 2008-2012
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David C. Crowley is an American politician and the 7th County Executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He is the first African American to serve as the county's top official, and, at age 33, also the youngest. He previously represented Milwaukee as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, serving from January 2017 until June 2020.
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Jerry Kleczka
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Studied in 1961-1962
- Occupations
- politicianaccountant
- Biography
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Gerald Daniel Kleczka was an American politician and Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1984 to 2005, representing Wisconsin's 4th congressional district. The district included the city of Milwaukee.
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Brian E. Winski
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Biography
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Major General Brian Edward Winski is a decorated commander in the U.S. Army. He was appointed commander of the 101st Airborne Division in 2019 and succeeded by Major General Joseph P. McGee in 2021.
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JoCasta Zamarripa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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JoCasta Zamarripa is an American politician and former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. A Democrat, she represented the 8th assembly district for 10 years. She is now a member of the Milwaukee Common Council. Prior to winning elective office, Zamarripa worked as an outreach coordinator for Planned Parenthood.
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Mary Flanagan
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- university teacherartistelectronic literature writerpedagoguedesigner
- Biography
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Mary Flanagan is an American artist, author, educator, and designer. She pioneered the field of game research with her ideas on critical play and has written several books. She is the founding director of the research laboratory and design studio Tiltfactor Lab and the CEO of the board game company Resonym. Flanagan's work as an artist has been shown around the world and won the Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica in 2018.
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Miriam Ben-Shalom
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Miriam Ben-Shalom is an American educator, activist and former Staff Sergeant in the United States Army. After being discharged from the military for homosexuality in 1976, she successfully challenged her discharge in court and returned to military service in 1987—the first openly gay person to be reinstated after being discharged under the military's policy excluding homosexuals from military service. She served until 1990 when the Army succeeded in terminating her service after prolonged judicial proceedings.
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Denis Kitchen
- Occupations
- editorcomics artist
- Biography
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Denis Kitchen is an American underground cartoonist, publisher, author, agent, and the founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
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Lee Holloway
- Years
- 1946-2018 (aged 72)
- Occupations
- social worker
- Biography
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Lee Holloway was an American social worker and politician who served two terms as chairman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. From December 28, 2010 to February 4, 2011, Lee Holloway served as Acting County Executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
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Mike Reinfeldt
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Michael Ray Reinfeldt is an American former professional football player and executive in the National Football League (NFL). He attended the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and was the captain of the Panthers in their last season of varsity football in 1974. Reinfeldt played as a safety for eight seasons in the NFL with the Oakland Raiders in 1976 and with the Houston Oilers from 1976 to 1983. In 2007, he was named general manager of the NFL's Tennessee Titans. An All-Pro safety with the team from 1976 to 1983 in Houston, he re-joined the franchise after spending seven years with the Seattle Seahawks.
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Thomas Shannon
- Occupations
- artistinventor
- Biography
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Tom Shannon is an American artist and inventor.
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James Otteson
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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James R. Otteson is an American philosopher and political economist. He is the John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Formerly, he was the Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Business Ethics, Professor of Economics, and executive director of the Eudaimonia Institute at Wake Forest University. He is also a Senior Scholar at The Fund for American Studies in Washington, D.C., a Research Professor in the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom and in the Philosophy Department at the University of Arizona, a Visitor of Ralston College, a Research Fellow for the Independent Institute in California, a director of Ethics and Economics Education of New England, and a Senior Scholar at the Fraser Institute. He has taught previously at Yeshiva University, New York University, Georgetown University, and the University of Alabama.
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Keith Nosbusch
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Keith Nosbusch was the chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation Inc., one of the world largest industrial automation companies. He was appointed the company's CEO in 2004 and chairman in 2005. Before that, he worked as senior vice president and president of Rockwell Automation Control Systems.
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Jeanne W. Ross
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Jeanne Wenzel Ross is an American organizational theorist and principal research scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), specializes in Enterprise Architecture, ICT and Management. She is known for her work on IT governance, and Enterprise architecture.
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Allison Pottinger
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Allison Pottinger /ˈpɒtəndʒər/ is an American curler from Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She is best known as having played for Debbie McCormick in multiple Olympics and World Championships. McCormick left the team in 2010. She competed in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, in Vancouver, Canada. She was named USA female curling athlete of the year in 2008.
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Karen Sasahara
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Karen Hideko Sasahara is an American diplomat who served as consul general in Jerusalem until the US embassy spokesperson in Israel moved to Jerusalem, and the US consulate closed down. She has served as United States ambassador to Kuwait since November 2023.
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Leah Gilliam
- Occupations
- artistfilm directortelevision producer
- Biography
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L. Franklin Gilliam is an American filmmaker and media artist. Her work explores issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Gilliam was the director of projects and community catalyst at gamelab's Institute of Play and a visiting faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. They are currently vice president of strategy and innovation at Girls Who Code.
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Prakash Panangaden
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- In 1980 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Prakash Panangaden is an American/Canadian computer scientist noted for his research in programming language theory, concurrency theory, Markov processes and duality theory. Earlier he worked on quantum field theory in curved space-time and radiation from black holes. He is the founding Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation.
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Goran Kralj
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Goran Kralj is the lead singer and songwriter for The Gufs, a Milwaukee pop-rock band active from 1988 to 1999. The group released their follow-up in 2006 after a seven-year hiatus. Goran and his brother Dejan are graduates of Munster High School in Munster, Indiana. Goran lives in Chicago area and works in the restorative/aesthetic dental industry.
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Mary Lazich
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mary Lazich is an American Republican politician. She served five years in the Wisconsin State Assembly and 19 years in the State Senate, and was President of the Senate for her final session (2015–2016).
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Marina Dimitrijevic
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marina Dimitrijevic is an American politician from Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Common Council member for the 14th Aldermanic District, serving since 2020. Previously, Dimitrijevic served on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors from 2004 to 2020, including as board chairwoman from 2012 to 2015. A Democrat, Dimitrijevic has also worked as the executive director of the Wisconsin Working Families Party.
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Larry N. Vanderhoef
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Larry Neil Vanderhoef was an American biochemist and academic. He was the 5th chancellor of University of California, Davis.
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Hakob Karapents
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Studied in 1947-1949
- Occupations
- university teacherprose writer
- Biography
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Hakob Karapents, also known as Jack Karapetian, was a prolific Iranian-Armenian author born in 1925 in Tabriz, Iran.
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Andrés Mignucci
- Occupations
- architecturban planner
- Biography
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Andrés Mignucci Giannoni FAIA was a Puerto Rican architect and urbanist of Corsican ancestry. His work received recognition for its integration of the disciplines of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture in the creation of public spaces with a sense of place, human scale, and environmental responsibility. In 2005 Andrés Mignucci was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. In 2012, he was awarded the Henry Klumb Award by the Puerto Rico College of Architects. In 2019, Mignucci received the Distinguished Professor Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and was named Arts and Literary Arts Scholar in Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy.
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Clara Stanton Jones
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Clara Stanton Jones was the first African-American president of the American Library Association, serving as its acting president from April 11 to July 22 in 1976 and then its president from July 22, 1976, to 1977. Also, in 1970 she became the first African American and the first woman to serve as director of a major library system in America, as director of the Detroit Public Library.
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Lynne Rae Perkins
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriter
- Biography
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Lynne Rae Perkins is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
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Waswo X. Waswo
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Waswo X. Waswo, is a photographer and artist formerly most commonly associated with his chemical process sepia-toned photographs of India, but more recently with hand-colored portraits made at his studio in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Waswo’s first major book, India Poems: The Photographs, was in part a challenge to politically correct notions of the western artist's role in responding to Asia, and his work has been critiqued in the light of cultural theories that stem from Edward Said and his book Orientalism. He has also produced a large body of self-referential paintings in collaboration with traditionally trained Rajasthani miniaturists R. Vijay, Chirag & Shankar Kumawat, and Dalpat Jingar
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René Steinke
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Rene Steinke is an American novelist. She is the author of three novels: The Fires, Holy Skirts (2005), and Friendswood (2014). Holy Skirts, a novel based on the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, O: the Oprah Magazine, Bookforum, and elsewhere.
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Jeremy Novy
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- street artiststencil artistvisual artist
- Biography
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Jeremy Novy is an American street artist and stencil artist. He is best known for his stencils of koi fish and efforts in support of gay activism. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including SF Weekly, the Wisconsin Gazette and Missionlocal.org. In 2008, Novy was the recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts grant. Novy is California-based.
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Dawn Marie Sass
- Occupations
- politiciantreasurer
- Biography
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Dawn Marie Sass is an American politician who served as the 33rd State Treasurer of Wisconsin from 2007 to 2011. She was the third female Treasurer in Wisconsin's history.
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George H. Sutton
- Occupations
- cue sports player
- Biography
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George H. Sutton known as the "handless billiard player", was a carom billiards professional in the United States and Europe in the early 1900s. He was called a "billiard expert" and he competed with other notable billiard professionals such as Willie Hoppe. Sutton had no arms below the elbows, which made his ability to master the game even more remarkable.
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Angna Enters
- Occupations
- dancerpaintermime artistactorautobiographer
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Anita "Angna" Enters was an American dancer, mime, painter, writer, novelist and playwright. She studied at the Art Students League of New York and was a 1934 Guggenheim fellow. She wrote a novel and three autobiographies as well as the films Lost Angel (1943) and Tenth Avenue Angel (1948).
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Spencer Coggs
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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G. Spencer Coggs is an American public administrator and Democratic politician. He is the current Milwaukee City Treasurer, since April 2012. He previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin State Senate and 20 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Milwaukee's west side.
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Justin Jacobs
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- In 2005 graduated with Master of Science in mathematics
- Occupations
- statistician
- Biography
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Justin Wayne Jacobs is an American statistician, currently serving as the Senior Basketball Researcher with the Orlando Magic. Jacobs is a former applied research mathematician at the National Security Agency, and an independent sports analytics researcher. Noted for his research into geolocation, geospatial statistics and spatio-temporal statistics, Jacobs was awarded a National Intelligence Medallion from the ODNI in January 2014 by the Director of National Intelligence as well as the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) in April 2014 by President Barack Obama.
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Bill Milkowski
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- guitaristmusic criticradio personalityauthorjournalist
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Bill Milkowski is an American jazz critic, journalist, and biographer. Since the 1970s he has written thousands of articles for magazines and album liner notes. He has written for DownBeat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, The Absolute Sound, Paste, Jazzthing (in Germany) and Guitar Club (in Italy). He is the author of a biography of bassist Jaco Pastorius, a biography of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, an annotated history of jive music, a collection of interviews., and a biography of saxophonist-composer Michael Brecker.
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Frank A. Dudley
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Frank Alonzo Dudley was an American lawyer, politician, hotelier and business owner associated with Niagara Falls, New York. Dudley established the United Hotels Company of America and the "Lewiston Heights" neighborhood in Lewiston, New York.
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Jesse Glass
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- In 1988 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherpoet
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Jesse Glass is an American expatriate poet, artist and folklorist.
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Scott Yanoff
- Occupations
- Information Systems Technicianinformation technology instructorinformation systems technician
- Biography
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Scott Yanoff is an IT manager and web developer who was a key person in the early days of the internet, most notably for creating and maintaining the Yanoff List, an alphabetical list of internet sites.
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Don Gramenz
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Don Gramenz is an American former professional soccer player who played as a defender for Minnesota Thunder for eleven seasons, being named to the club's Hall of Fame. Gramenz played collegiately at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he was a team captain. In 2008, he served as the interim manager of the Minnesota Thunder, succeeding Amos Magee. Gramenz move into teaching after his soccer career and worked as an elementary school teacher for 11 years before eventually moving into a role as an elementary school principal in Bloomington, Minnesota.
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Michael Brown
- Occupations
- film producerfilm director
- Biography
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Michael Anthony Brown is an American television producer, documentary filmmaker, and progressive political activist. He is the director of Haunted State a documentary series on Amazon Amazon Prime Video and the documentary films Roller Life (2016), Haunted State: Whispers From History Past (2014) and Haunted State: Theatre of Shadows (2017).
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Thomas Vonier
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Thomas Vonier is an architect with a private practice based in Paris and Washington D.C. He is a senior partner in Chesapeake Strategies Ltd, advising organizations on innovations in the building, design, security, and urban sectors.
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Margaret A. Rykowski
- Occupations
- military officernurse
- Biography
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Margaret A. Rykowski is a rear admiral in the United States Navy Reserve and serves as Deputy Fleet Surgeon, United States Fleet Forces Command and Deputy Director, United States Navy Nurse Corps, Reserve Component.
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Eglė Staišiūnaitė
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Eglė Staišiūnaitė is a Lithuanian athlete who specialises in the 400 m hurdles.
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Eloise Anderson
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Eloise Anderson is an American politician and social worker who served as the Wisconsin Secretary of Children and Families from 2011 until 2019. Anderson has been an influential voice opposed to conventional welfare programs in the United States. Radio host Charlie Sykes has referred to Anderson as a "Conservative Warrior in Fight Against Poverty."
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Raquel Rutledge
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Raquel Rutledge is an Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative reporter working at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her investigations have uncovered government benefits fraud, public health, workplace safety issues, tax oversight failures, malfeasance in undercover federal law enforcement stings, life-threatening dangers of alcohol poisoning at resorts in Mexico, and a disproportionate fire risk faced by renters living in Milwaukee's most distressed neighborhoods.
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Tony Staskunas
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Anthony J. Staskunas is an American Democratic politician and lawyer.
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Bryan W. Simon
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Bryan W. Simon is a stage, film director and writer from Waukegan, Illinois. He directed his first professional stage play at 17, the regional tour of a children's show entitled Jack and The Wishing Beans, for the Roundtree Players.
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Antouman Jallow
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Antouman Jallow is a Swedish soccer player of Gambian heritage.
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Chad Dombrowski
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Chad Dombrowski is a retired American soccer player who spent six seasons in the USL First Division.
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Peggy Krusick
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Margaret Ann "Peggy" Krusick is a retired American Democratic politician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for nearly thirty years (1983–2013), representing southwest wards of the city of Milwaukee and neighboring areas. She lost her seat to a primary challenge after the 2011 redistricting.
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Russell Jacobus
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Russell Edward Jacobus was the seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac in The Episcopal Church. Jacobus was consecrated as bishop on 24 May 1994. Prior to becoming bishop, he served as Rector of St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Waukesha, Wisconsin. At the close of Diocesan convention on October 20, 2012, he announced his intention to retire one year hence, on October 31, 2013.
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Jan Serr
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Jan Serr is an American visual artist who produces a wide range of art including oil paintings, drawings, photographs and prints such as monotypes, lithographs, and etchings.
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Jerry Straka
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- storm chasermeteorologist
- Biography
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Jerry Michael Straka is an American atmospheric scientist with expertise microphysics of clouds, cloud modeling, and dynamics of severe convection in conjunction with weather radar. He was in leadership roles in both the VORTEX projects and subsequent field research focusing on tornadogenesis.
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Kyle Zenoni
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kyle Zenoni is a former American soccer player and current soccer coach who last played for Bolivian side La Paz F.C., after a switch from USL First Division club Minnesota Thunder. He is the head men's soccer coach of the UMass Lowell River Hawks.
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Greg Mahlberg
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Gregory John Mahlberg is an American former professional baseball catcher, manager and coach. He threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg).
