100 Notable alumni of
Vassar College
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Vassar College is 204th in the world, 86th in North America, and 83rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Vassar College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Anne Hathaway
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorsingerfilm actorvoice actor
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Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide, and she appeared on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2009. She was among the world's highest-paid actresses in 2015.
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Meryl Streep
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- In 1971 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actorfilm producervoice actortelevision producer
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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress. Known for her versatility and accent adaptability, she has been described as "the best actress of her generation". She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and a record 33 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning eight.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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- socialitewritermodelliterary editorjournalist
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Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Kennedy Onassis was an American writer, book editor, and socialite who served as the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of President John F. Kennedy. A popular first lady, she endeared the American public with her devotion to her family, dedication to the historic preservation of the White House, the campaigns she led to preserve and restore historic landmarks and architecture along with her interest in American history, culture and arts. During her lifetime, she was regarded as an international icon for her unique fashion choices, and her work as a cultural ambassador of the United States made her very popular globally.
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Jane Fonda
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- autobiographerwritertelevision actoractormodel
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Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Recognized as a film icon, Fonda is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
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Anthony Bourdain
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- travelerwriterchefnovelistcook
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Anthony Michael Bourdain was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian. He starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition.
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Lisa Kudrow
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in biology
- Occupations
- voice actortelevision produceractortelevision actorscreenwriter
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Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress. She rose to international fame for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the American television sitcom Friends, which aired from 1994 to 2004. The series earned her Primetime Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite, American Comedy and TV Guide awards. Phoebe has since been named one of the greatest television characters of all time and is considered to be Kudrow's breakout role, spawning her successful film career.
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Troian Bellisario
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm producer
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Troian Avery Bellisario is an American actress. A graduate of the University of Southern California, in 2010, she received her breakthrough role as Spencer Hastings in the Freeform drama series Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017), for which she received worldwide recognition and multiple awards and nominations.
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Justin Long
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- stage actorfilm actorscreenwritervoice actordirector
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Justin Jacob Long is an American actor. He is known for his film roles, particularly in comedy and horror films, notably appearing in Jeepers Creepers (2001), Dodgeball (2004), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), Accepted (2006), Idiocracy (2006), Dreamland (2006), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), Drag Me to Hell (2009), Alpha and Omega (2010), The Wave (2019), and Barbarian (2022), as well as voicing Alvin Seville in the live-action Alvin and the Chipmunks film series. He is also known for his television appearances in Ed (2000–2004) and F Is for Family (2015–2021). He appeared with John Hodgman in TV commercials for Apple's "Get a Mac" campaign (2006–2009), and as himself in Intel's "Go PC" campaign.
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Mark Ronson
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- guitaristrecord producersingermusiciansongwriter
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Mark Daniel Ronson is a British-born DJ, record producer, songwriter, and remixer. He has received eight Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year for Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black (2006) and two for Record of the Year singles "Rehab" and "Uptown Funk". He received an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award for co-writing "Shallow" (performed by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper) for the film A Star Is Born (2018). In 2023, Ronson co-produced the soundtrack for the fantasy comedy film Barbie, on which he also composed and co-wrote several songs with his production partner Andrew Wyatt. The soundtrack received 11 Grammy nominations, with Ronson winning the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, and he received his second Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. Throughout his career, he's produced for Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Adele, Duran Duran, Miley Cyrus, and Queens of the Stone Age.
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Noah Baumbach
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm screenwriter
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Noah Baumbach is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for making comedies set in New York City and his works are inspired by writer-directors such as Woody Allen and Whit Stillman. His frequent collaborators include Wes Anderson, Adam Driver, and his wife, Greta Gerwig.
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Grace Hopper
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- 1924-1928 graduated with bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics
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- university teachernaval officercomputer scientistphysicistmathematician
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Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended by others to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.
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Joe Hill
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- comics writerwriteractorillustratorexecutive producer
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Joseph Hillström King, better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American writer. His work includes the novels Heart-Shaped Box (2007), Horns (2010), NOS4A2 (2013), and The Fireman (2016); the short story collections 20th Century Ghosts (2005) and Strange Weather (2017); and the comic book series Locke & Key (2008–2013). He has won awards including Bram Stoker Awards, British Fantasy Awards, and an Eisner Award.
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Jean Tatlock
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- physicianpsychiatrist
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Jean Frances Tatlock was an American psychiatrist. She was a member of the Communist Party USA before it was banned and criminalized in the 1950s and was a reporter and writer for the party's publication Western Worker. She is also known for her romantic relationship with J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
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Mike D
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- percussionistrapperscreenwriterrecord producersinger
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Michael Louis Diamond, better known as Mike D, is an American rapper, musician, and music producer. He is a founding member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys.
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Jason Blum
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- financierinternational forum participantchief executive officerfilm producer
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Jason Ferus Blum is an American film and television producer. He is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, which produced the horror franchises Paranormal Activity (2007–2021), Insidious (2010–2023), and The Purge (2013–2021). Blum also produced Sinister (2012), Oculus (2013), Whiplash (2014), The Gallows (2015), The Gift (2015), Hush (2016), Split (2016), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Get Out (2017), Happy Death Day (2017), Upgrade (2018), Halloween (2018), Us (2019), The Invisible Man (2020), Freaky (2020), The Black Phone (2021), M3GAN (2022) and Five Nights at Freddy's (2023).
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Katharine Graham
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- publishereditorbusinesspersonwriterart collector
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Katharine Meyer Graham was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was the first 20th century female publisher of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board of the Associated Press.
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Kerri Green
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- film actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Kerri Green is an American actress, best known for her roles in The Goonies, Summer Rental (1985), and Lucas (1986). She also co-wrote and directed the film Bellyfruit (1999).
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Hope Davis
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Hope Davis is an American actress. She is known for her performances on stage and screen earning various awards and nominations including a Tony Award nomination, three Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and two Golden Globe Award nominations.
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Alicia Goranson
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- film actortelevision actor
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Alicia Linda "Lecy" Goranson is an American actress. She plays Becky Conner in the television sitcoms Roseanne, which debuted in 1988, and The Conners. She has also had supporting roles in the films How to Make an American Quilt (1996), Boys Don't Cry (1999), and The Extra Man (2010).
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Jon Tenney
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Jonathan Frederick Tenney is an American actor. He played Special Agent Fritz Howard in TNT's The Closer and continued in its spinoff Major Crimes.
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Sakina Jaffrey
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Sakina Jaffrey is an American actress.
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Marguerite Moreau
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Marguerite Moreau is an American actress. She is known for her role as Jesse Reeves in the fantasy horror film Queen of the Damned, Katie in the comedy Wet Hot American Summer, and her role as Connie in The Mighty Ducks series of films. She has also made appearances on the popular television series Smallville, Lost, Cupid and The O.C.
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Andrew Zimmern
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- writerYouTuberinternational forum participantcheftelevision presenter
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Andrew Scott Zimmern is an American chef, restaurateur, television and radio personality, director, producer, businessman, food critic, and author. Zimmern is the co-creator, host, and consulting producer of the Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods America, Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations, Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, Dining with Death, The Zimmern List, and Andrew Zimmern's Driven by Food, as well as the Food Network series The Big Food Truck Tip. For his work on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, he was presented the James Beard Foundation Award four times: in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2017. Zimmern hosts a cooking webseries on YouTube, Andrew Zimmern Cooks. His show, What's Eating America, premiered on MSNBC in 2020.
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Linda Fairstein
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- novelistlawyer
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Linda Fairstein is an American author, attorney, and former New York City prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children. She was the head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1976 until 2002.
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Elisabeth Murdoch
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- businessperson
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Elisabeth Murdoch is an Australian-born British and American media executive based in the United Kingdom. She was a non-executive chairperson of Shine Group, the UK-based TV programme production company she founded in 2001, until the company's parent 21st Century Fox merged its Shine division with Apollo Global Management's Endemol and Core Media production houses, specializing in reality TV, in 2015.
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Alysia Reiner
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Alysia Reiner is an American actress. She is best known for playing Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series Orange Is the New Black, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as part of the ensemble cast.
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Stacy London
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- television presenterwardrobe stylistauthorpersonal stylistjournalist
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Stacy London is an American stylist, fashion consultant, author, and magazine editor. She is known primarily for her time as co-host on What Not to Wear, a reality television program that featured wardrobe and appearance makeovers.
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Neil Strauss
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- music journalistwriterbiographer
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Neil Darrow Strauss, also known by the pen names Style and Chris Powles, is an American author, journalist and ghostwriter. He is best known for his book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, in which he describes his experiences in the seduction community in an effort to become a "pickup artist." He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also wrote regularly for The New York Times.
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Michael Wolff
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- opinion journalistbiographerauthorbusinesspersonjournalist
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Michael Wolff is an American journalist, as well as a columnist and contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ. He has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mirror Award, and has authored seven books, including Burn Rate (1998) about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News (2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co-founded the news aggregation website Newser and is a former editor of Adweek.
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Mary Pinchot Meyer
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- painterartistsocialite
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Mary Eno Pinchot Meyer was an American painter who lived in Washington D.C. She was married to Cord Meyer from 1945 to 1958, and became involved romantically with President John F. Kennedy after her divorce from Meyer.
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Elizabeth Bishop
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- 1929-1934 studied English literature
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- writeruniversity teacheressayistpoettranslator
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Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Dwight Garner argued in 2018 that she was perhaps "the most purely gifted poet of the 20th century".
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Sasha Velour
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- costume designerdrag queenillustratoractor
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Alexander "Sasha" Hedges Steinberg, known professionally as Sasha Velour, is an American drag queen, artist, actor, and stage and television producer, based in Brooklyn, New York. Velour is known for winning the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, her drag revue NightGowns, and her one-queen theatrical work, Smoke & Mirrors.
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Frances Sternhagen
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Frances Hussey Sternhagen was an American actress. Sternhagen was known as a character actress who appeared on- and off-Broadway, in movies, and on television for over six decades. She received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award and a Saturn Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Ethan Slater
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- Studied in 2014
- Occupations
- actorsingertypesetter
- Biography
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Ethan Samuel Slater is an American actor, singer, writer, and composer known for his role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical of the same name, for which he received a Tony Award nomination and won a Drama Desk Award in 2018. During his career he has also acted in musicals directed by Kathleen Marshall, Barry Levinson, John Tartaglia, Bartlett Sher, and John Doyle.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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- writerlibrettistpoettranslatorplaywright
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Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of her prose and hackwork verse under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.
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Ken Levine
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- Studied art
- Occupations
- creative directorscreenwritergame designer
- Biography
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Kenneth M. Levine is an American game developer. He is the creative director and co-founder of Ghost Story Games (formerly known as Irrational Games). He led the creation of the BioShock series, and is also known for his work on Thief: The Dark Project and System Shock 2.
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Ruth Benedict
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- Studied in 1909
- Occupations
- anthropologist
- Biography
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Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
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Vera Rubin
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- physicistastronomerscientist
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Vera Florence Cooper Rubin was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves. By identifying the galaxy rotation problem, her work provided evidence for the existence of dark matter. These results were later confirmed over subsequent decades.
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Jessi Klein
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- television actorscreenwritertelevision produceractor
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Jessi Ruth Klein is an American writer, actress and stand-up comedian from New York City. Klein has regularly appeared on shows such as The Showbiz Show with David Spade and VH1's Best Week Ever and has performed stand-up on Comedy Central's Premium Blend. She provided commentary for CNN in the debates of the 2004 presidential election. A self-proclaimed "geek", Klein has appeared on the television specials for My Coolest Years: Geeks on VH1 and Rise of the Geeks on E!. Klein also provided the voice of Lucy in the animated pilot for Adult Swim's Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil.
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Ōyama Sutematsu
- Occupations
- nurseteacher
- Biography
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Princess Ōyama Sutematsu, born Yamakawa Sakiko (山川 咲子), was a prominent figure in the Meiji era, and the first Japanese woman to receive a college degree. She was born into a traditional samurai household which supported the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War. As a child, she survived the monthlong siege known as the Battle of Aizu in 1868, and lived briefly as a refugee.
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Angela Goethals
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Angela Bethany Goethals is an American film, television and stage actress. Goethals made her acting debut in the Broadway production of Coastal Disturbances in 1987, and later played the sister of Macaulay Culkin's character in Home Alone (1990). Throughout the 1990s, Goethals went on to star in several independent films and television shows, including a leading role on the sitcom Phenom (1993), as well as a small role in Jerry Maguire (1996).
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Brooke Hayward
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Brooke Hayward is an American actress. Her memoir, Haywire was a best-seller.
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Dan Bucatinsky
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm producer
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Daniel Bucatinsky is an American actor, writer and producer, best known for his role as James Novak in the Shonda Rhimes drama series Scandal, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2013. In 2014, Bucatinsky starred on NBC's Marry Me, as well as the revived HBO series The Comeback, which he also executive produced.
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Victoria Legrand
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Victoria Garance Alixe Legrand is a French-American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter and keyboardist of the dream pop duo Beach House.
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Rachael Yamagata
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterpianistsingercomposerlyricist
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Rachael Amanda Yamagata is an American singer-songwriter and pianist from Arlington, Virginia. She began her musical career with the band Bumpus before becoming a solo artist and releasing five EPs and four studio albums. Her songs have appeared on numerous television shows and she has collaborated with Jason Mraz, Rhett Miller, Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams, Toots and the Maytals and Ray Lamontagne.
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Mary McCarthy
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- novelistcriticautobiographerwriterscreenwriter
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Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959. She was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome. In 1973, she delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature? The same year she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She won the National Medal for Literature and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984. McCarthy held honorary degrees from Bard, Bowdoin, Colby, Smith College, Syracuse University, the University of Maine at Orono, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Hull.
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Greg Rucka
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- comics artistnovelistwriterscreenwriter
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Gregory Rucka is an American writer known for the series of novels starring his character Atticus Kodiak, the creator-owned comic book series Whiteout, Queen & Country, Stumptown and Lazarus, as well as lengthy runs on such titles as Detective Comics, Wonder Woman and Gotham Central for DC Comics, and Elektra, Wolverine and The Punisher for Marvel. He has written a substantial amount of supplemental material for a number of DC Comics' line-wide and inter-title crossovers, including "No Man's Land", "Infinite Crisis" and "New Krypton".
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Jonás Cuarón
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm actorfilm editor
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Jonás Cuarón Elizondo is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and cinematographer. He is the son of the Academy Award-winner Alfonso Cuarón and the latter's first wife, Mariana Elizondo.
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Jean Webster
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- writerhumoristjournalistplaywrightscreenwriter
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Jean Webster was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster, an American author whose books include Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English studies
- Occupations
- civil rights advocateprofessorlawyer
- Biography
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Sherrilyn Ifill is an American lawyer and the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at Howard University. She is a law professor and former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She was the Legal Defense Fund's seventh president since Thurgood Marshall founded the organization in 1940. Ifill is a nationally recognized expert on voting rights and judicial selection. In 2021, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual Time 100 list.
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Scott Westerfeld
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- novelistchildren's writerscience fiction writerwriter
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Scott David Westerfeld is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known as the author of the Uglies and the Leviathan series.
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Marc Thiessen
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- In 1989 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- speechwritercolumnistauthorlobbyistjournalist
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Marc Alexander Thiessen is an American conservative author, political appointee, and weekly columnist for The Washington Post. Thiessen served as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009 and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from 2001 to 2006.
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Maria Mitchell
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- writeruniversity teacherastronomernaturalistlibrarian
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Maria Mitchell was an American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator. In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI (modern designation C/1847 T1) that was later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor. She won a gold medal prize for her discovery, which was presented to her by King Christian VIII of Denmark in 1848. Mitchell was the first internationally known woman to work as both a professional astronomer and a professor of astronomy after accepting a position at Vassar College in 1865. She was also the first woman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Betsy McCaughey
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- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Elizabeth Helen McCaughey, is an American politician who was the lieutenant governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for governor after Pataki dropped her from his 1998 ticket, and she ended up on the ballot under the Liberal Party line. In August 2016 the Donald Trump presidential campaign announced that she had joined the campaign as an economic adviser.
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Elizabeth Bentley
- Occupations
- spydouble agent
- Biography
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Elizabeth Terrill Bentley was an American NKVD spymaster, who was recruited from within the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She served the Soviet Union as the primary handler of multiple highly placed moles within both the United States Federal Government and the Office of Strategic Services from 1938 to 1945. She defected by contacting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and debriefing about her espionage activities.
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Caterina Fake
- Occupations
- entrepreneurcomputer scientist
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Caterina Fake is an American entrepreneur and businesswoman. She co-founded the websites Flickr in 2004 and Hunch in 2007. Fake has been a trustee for nonprofit organizations and was the chairwoman of Etsy. For her role in creating Flickr, Fake was listed in Time magazine's Time 100, and she has been recognized within Silicon Valley for her work as an angel investor.
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Matt Newton
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Matthew Newton is an American actor, filmmaker and acting coach.
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Hung Huang
- Occupations
- autobiographeractor
- Biography
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Hung Huang is an American-Chinese television host, author, actress, blogger, media figure, and the publisher of the fashion magazine iLook.
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Jane Smiley
- Occupations
- writernovelistscreenwriterliterary criticjournalist
- Biography
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Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
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Ernst Krenek
- Occupations
- musicologistuniversity teachercomposerwritermusic journalist
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Ernst Heinrich Krenek was an Austrian, later American, composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now (1939), a study of Johannes Ockeghem (1953), and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music (1974). Krenek wrote two pieces using the pseudonym Thornton Winsloe.
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Sophia Takal
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Sophia Takal is an American actress, writer and director, perhaps best known for her work in independent features such as All the Light in the Sky, Supporting Characters and Gabi on the Roof in July. Filmmaker magazine named Takal one of the "25 New Faces of Film" in 2011. She directed and co-wrote the 2019 remake of the 1974 horror film Black Christmas.
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Rick Lazio
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- In 1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Enrico Anthony Lazio is an American attorney and former four-term U.S. Representative from the State of New York. A Long Island native, Lazio became well-known during his bid for U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election; he was defeated by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Lazio also ran unsuccessfully for the 2010 New York State Republican Party gubernatorial nomination.
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Lucy Burns
- Occupations
- suffragistteacher
- Biography
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Lucy Burns was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and the United Kingdom, who joined the militant suffragettes. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party.
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Tarun Tahiliani
- Born in
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India - Occupations
- fashion designer
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Tarun Tahiliani is a noted Indian fashion designer. With his wife Sailaja 'Sal' Tahiliani, he co-founded the multi-designer boutique Ensemble in 1987, and Tahiliani Design studio in 1990. Based in Delhi, he is best known for his ability to infuse Indian craftsmanship and textile heritage with tailored silhouette. His signature is to combine traditional aesthetics with modern design. Over the years, he also became known for his bridalwear.
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Lilli Cooper
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Lilli Cooper is an American actress and singer.
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Uryū Shigeko
- Occupations
- pianisteducator
- Biography
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Baroness Uryū Shigeko, was a Japanese educator, one of the first two Japanese women to attend a college, and one of the first piano teachers in Japan.
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Ellen Swallow Richards
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistchemistwriterenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition.
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Michael Kimmel
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Michael Scott Kimmel is an American retired sociologist specializing in gender studies. He was Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University in New York and is the founder and editor of the academic journal Men and Masculinities. Kimmel is a spokesman of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) and a longtime feminist. In 2013, he founded the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University, where he is Executive Director. In 2018 he was publicly accused of sexual harassment. He filed for retirement while Title IX charges were pending; no charges were subsequently filed.
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Inez Milholland
- Occupations
- lawyerpeace activistsuffragistjurist
- Biography
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Inez Milholland Boissevain was a leading American suffragist, lawyer, and peace activist.
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E. Lockhart
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- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Emily Jenkins, who sometimes uses the pen name E. Lockhart, is an American writer of children's picture books, young-adult novels, and adult fiction. She is known best for the Ruby Oliver quartet (which begins with The Boyfriend List), The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and We Were Liars.
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Alexandra Ripley
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- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Alexandra Ripley was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), written as a sequel to Gone with the Wind. Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed? (1972). Charleston (1981), her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston (1984), The Time Returns (1985), and New Orleans Legacy (1987).
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Linda Nochlin
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacherart theoristauthorart historian
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Linda Nochlin was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer. As a prominent feminist art historian, she became well known for her pioneering 1971 article "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" published by ARTnews.
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Anita Florence Hemmings
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Anita Florence Hemmings was known as the first African American woman to graduate from Vassar College. As she was of both African and European ancestry, she passed as white for socioeconomic benefits. After graduation, Hemmings became a librarian at the Boston Public Library.
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Margaret Floy Washburn
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- psychologist
- Biography
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Margaret Floy Washburn, was a leading American psychologist in the early 20th century, was best known for her experimental work in animal behavior and motor theory development. She was the first woman to be granted a PhD in psychology (1894); the second woman, after Mary Whiton Calkins, to serve as president of the American Psychological Association (1921); and the first woman elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Washburn as the 88th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Garcia, James J. Gibson, David Rumelhart, Louis Leon Thurstone, and Robert S. Woodworth.
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Joan Quigley
- Occupations
- astrologer
- Biography
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Joan Ceciel Quigley, of San Francisco, California was an astrologer best known for her astrological advice to the Reagan White House in the 1980s. Quigley was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Jon Fisher
- Occupations
- entrepreneurwritereconomist
- Biography
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Jon Fisher is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and writer.
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Urvashi Vaid
- Occupations
- authorwriteractivist
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Urvashi Vaid was an Indian-born American LGBT rights activist, lawyer, and writer. An expert in gender and sexuality law, she was a consultant in attaining specific goals of social justice. She held a series of roles at the National LGBTQ Task Force, serving as executive director from 1989-1992 — the first woman of color to lead a national gay-and-lesbian organization. She is the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (1995) and Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics (2012).
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Crystal Eastman
- Occupations
- peace activistlawyerwritersuffragistjournalist
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Crystal Catherine Eastman was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She was a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, a co-founder and co-editor with her brother Max Eastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-founder in 1920 of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 2000, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.
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Shana Alexander
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Shana Alexander was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes in the late 1970s with conservative James J. Kilpatrick.
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Bernadine Healy
- Occupations
- university teachercardiologist
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Bernadine Patricia Healy was an American cardiologist and the first female director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Sam Endicott
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Samuel Bingham Endicott is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor and director. He is best known as the lead vocalist of The Bravery with whom he recorded three studio albums.
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Meghan Daum
- Occupations
- novelistjournalist
- Biography
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Meghan Elizabeth Daum is an American author, essayist, podcaster, and journalist.
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Ellen Churchill Semple
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- geopolitical analystgeographerwriteruniversity teacher
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Ellen Churchill Semple was an American geographer and the first female president of the Association of American Geographers. She contributed significantly to the early development of the discipline of geography in the United States, particularly studies of human geography. She is most closely associated with work in anthropogeography and environmentalism, and the debate about "environmental determinism".
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Wesley Strick
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Wesley Strick is an American screenwriter who has written such films as Arachnophobia, Batman Returns and Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. Since 2015, Strick has worked as a writer/executive producer on The Man in the High Castle.
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Pauline Newman
- Occupations
- chemistjudge
- Biography
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Pauline Newman is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has been called "the heroine of the patent system", "the Federal Circuit's most prolific dissenter", and "the greatest ally to inventors with respect to [calling out] the ignorance of the CAFC, district courts, and at times even the Supreme Court". Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore commented of Newman that "many of her dissents have later gone on to become the law—either the en banc law from our court or spoken on high from the Supremes".
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Alexa Meade
- Occupations
- painterinstallation artist
- Biography
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Alexa Meade is an American installation artist best known for her portraits painted directly onto the human body and inanimate objects in a way that collapses depth and makes her models appear two-dimensional when photographed. What remains is "a photo of a painting of a person, and the real person hidden somewhere underneath." She takes a classical concept – trompe-l'œil, the art of making a two-dimensional representational painting look like a real three-dimensional space – and does the opposite, making real life appear to be a painting.
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Suzanne Massie
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Suzanne Massie is an American scholar of Russian history who played an important role in the relations between Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union in the final years of the Cold War. She was granted Russian citizenship in December 2021.
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Eugenia del Pino
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Eugenia María del Pino Veintimilla is a developmental biologist at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador (Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador) in Quito. She was the first Ecuadorian citizen to be elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences (2006). She was awarded the 2019 Prize of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology for her strong contributions to research in Ecuador, and in general to promoting Developmental Biology in Latin America.
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Elizabeth Eisenstein
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein was an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th-century France. She is well known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in media between the era of 'manuscript culture' and that of 'print culture', as well as the role of the printing press in effecting broad cultural change in Western civilization.
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Nancy Harkness Love
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
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Nancy Harkness Love, born Hannah Lincoln Harkness, was an American pilot and airplane commander during World War II. She earned her pilot's license at age 16. She worked as a test pilot and air racer in the 1930s. During World War II she convinced Colonel William H. Tunner of the U.S. Army Air Forces to look to set up a group of female pilots to ferry aircraft from factories to air bases. This proposal was eventually approved as the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. Love commanded this unit and later all ferrying operations in the newly formed Women Airforce Service Pilots. She was awarded the Air Medal for her work during the war and was appointed lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force Reserve in 1948.
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Michael Portnoy
- Enrolled in Vassar College
- In 1993 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature
- Occupations
- actormusicianperformance artist
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Michael Portnoy is an American visual artist, filmmaker, choreographer and performance artist. He calls himself a "Director of Behavior". He has been described in Art in America as "one of the most interesting performance artists anywhere", and by Artforum as "the great Absurdist".
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Lizzy Plapinger
- Occupations
- singer
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Elizabeth "Lizzy" Plapinger, known professionally as LPX when performing as a solo artist, is the lead vocalist of indie pop duo MS MR and co-owner of boutique record label Neon Gold Records.
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Malinda Kathleen Reese
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- YouTubersingeractorInternet celebritymusical theatre actor
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Malinda Kathleen Reese is an American internet personality, singer-songwriter and stage actress. She is best known for her Irish music covers on Tiktok (2 Million+ Followers), as well as Twisted Translations on YouTube, in which she previously created songs and performances from song lyrics and other texts that have been translated through multiple languages and back into English using Google Translate; in that guise, she has over one million subscribers. Currently, she releases original music and vlogs on her main channel, MALINDA. Her debut is a 2018 EP, Love Letter. In addition, she has performed in numerous theatre plays in the Washington, D.C., area, including playing Girl in the musical Once, for which she won a Helen Hayes Award in 2020.
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Emily Kunstler
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- film directordocumentary filmmaker
- Biography
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Emily Kunstler is an American documentary filmmaker. Kunstler grew up in New York City's West Village neighborhood.
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Katherine Center
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- novelist
- Biography
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Katherine Sherar Pannill Center is an American author of contemporary fiction.
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Philip Kitcher
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
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Philip Stuart Kitcher is a British philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He specialises in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of literature, and more recently pragmatism.
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Sau Lan Wu
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Sau Lan Wu is a Chinese American particle physicist and the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She made important contributions towards the discovery of the J/psi particle, which provided experimental evidence for the existence of the charm quark, and the gluon, the vector boson of the strong force in the Standard Model of physics. Recently, her team located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), using data collected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), was part of the international effort in the discovery of a boson consistent with the Higgs boson.
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Alice Huyler Ramsey
- Occupations
- driver
- Biography
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Alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States from coast to coast, a feat she completed on August 7, 1909.
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Chip Reid
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- writer
- Biography
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Charles Henry "Chip" Reid Jr. is an American broadcast journalist. He was named CBS News National correspondent in June 2011. Prior to his current position, he was the Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News. He assumed that position on January 5, 2009.
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Martha Rivers Ingram
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Martha Robinson Rivers Ingram is an American billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist. In 1995, Ingram succeeded her late husband as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Ingram Industries, one of America's largest privately-held companies. She is the co-author of three books, including two biographies and a history of the performing arts in Nashville, Tennessee.
