100 Notable alumni of
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Virginia Commonwealth University is 630th in the world, 232nd in North America, and 213th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Virginia Commonwealth University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Boris Kodjoe
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorstage actormodeltelevision actor
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Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe is an Austrian-born German actor and former model, based in the United States. His breakthrough role was as sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food (2000-2004). His other notable television roles include Dr. Will Campbell on CBS's Code Black, Phil Miller on The Last Man on Earth, Robert Sullivan on Station 19, and a fictionalized version of himself on Real Husbands of Hollywood.
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David Baldacci
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- screenwriterpoet lawyerjuristlawyerwriter
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David Baldacci is an American novelist. An attorney by education, Baldacci writes mainly suspense novels and legal thrillers.
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Jay Pharoah
- Occupations
- actorcomediantelevision actor
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Jared Antonio Farrow, better known by his stage name Jay Pharoah, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2010 to 2016. In 2015, he was ranked the 55th greatest Saturday Night Live cast member by Rolling Stone magazine.
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Jason Butler Harner
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Jason Thomas Butler Harner is an American actor known for his role as FBI Special Agent Roy Petty in Ozark.
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Christopher Poole
- Occupations
- computer scientistentrepreneur
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Christopher Poole, also known online as moot, is an American Internet entrepreneur and developer. He founded the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003, when he was still a teenager; he served as the site's head administrator until January 2015. He also founded the online community Canvas, active from 2011 to 2014. Poole was hired by Google in 2016 to work on the Google+ social network and as a product manager. He left the company in 2021.
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Stephen Furst
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- voice actorscreenwritertelevision directorfilm actorfilm director
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Stephen Furst was an American actor. After gaining attention with his featured role as Kent "Flounder" Dorfman in the comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House and its spin-off television series Delta House, he went on to be a regular as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in the medical drama series St. Elsewhere from 1983 to 1988, and as Centauri diplomatic attaché Vir Cotto in the science fiction series Babylon 5 from 1994 to 1998. Other notable film roles included the college comedy Midnight Madness (1980), as a team leader in an all-night mystery game, the action thriller Silent Rage (1982), as deputy to a sheriff played by Chuck Norris, and the comedy The Dream Team (1989), as a good-natured psychiatric patient.
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Chad Coleman
- Occupations
- film actorvoice actortelevision actoractor
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Chad L. Coleman is an American actor. He is known for playing Dennis "Cutty" Wise on the HBO series The Wire (2004–08), Tyreese on the AMC series The Walking Dead (2012–15), Mingo on Roots (2016), Z on the FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2010–19), Fred Johnson on The Expanse (2015–20), Klyden on The Orville (2017–22), and Bruno Mannheim in Superman & Lois (2023–24). He also voiced Coach in the video game Left 4 Dead 2 (2009).
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Chris Adler
- Occupations
- drummermusician
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Christopher James Adler is an American musician, best known as the founder and longtime drummer of heavy metal band Lamb of God from 1994 to 2019, and Grammy Award winning member of Megadeth.
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Zachary Knighton
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- film produceractorfilm actortelevision directortelevision actor
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Zachary Andrew Knighton is an American actor, best known for starring as Dave Rose on the ABC comedy series Happy Endings from 2011 to 2013 and as Orville "Rick" Wright in the rebooted version of Magnum P.I. from 2018 to 2024. Other notable roles on television include starring roles on ABC's science fiction series FlashForward and in the FOX sitcoms Life on a Stick and Weird Loners.
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Tom Robbins
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- biographerautobiographernovelistwriterjournalist
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Thomas Eugene Robbins is an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy drama"). Tom Robbins has lived in La Conner, Washington since 1970, where he has written nine books. His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His latest work, published in 2014, is Tibetan Peach Pie, which is a self-declared "un-memoir".
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Larry Sanders
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Larry Sanders is an American professional basketball player. He played power forward for the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams before declaring himself eligible for the 2010 NBA draft and was selected 15th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks.
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Yasonna Laoly
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- politicianpolitical candidate
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Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly is the former Minister of Law and Human Rights of Indonesia, serving from 2019 to 2024. He was a member of the North Sumatra regional legislature from 1999 to 2003 and of the People's Consultative Assembly from 2004 to 2014. He is the first ethnic Nias to hold a cabinet position. He is one of the leaders on the central executive board of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.
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Troy Daniels
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Troy Daniels is an American professional basketball player who last played for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where in 2013, he set the Atlantic 10 Conference record for made three-point field goals in a single game.
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Bones Hyland
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Nah'Shon Lee "Bones" Hyland is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the VCU Rams before being drafted 26th overall in the 2021 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets.
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Brandon Wardell
- Occupations
- stand-up comedianactorcomedian
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Brandon Scott Wardell is an American comedian and writer.
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Rob Wittman
- Enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University
- In 2002 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
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Robert Joseph Wittman is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 1st congressional district since 2007. The district contains portions of the Richmond suburbs and Hampton Roads area, as well as the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Gerald Henderson
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Jerome McKinley "Gerald" Henderson Sr. is an American former professional basketball player. He was a combo guard who had a 13-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1979 until 1992. He played for the Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Pistons, and Houston Rockets. Henderson was born in Richmond, Virginia and attended Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Mo Alie-Cox
- Occupations
- basketball playerAmerican football player
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Mohamed Alie-Cox is an American professional football tight end for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college basketball at VCU. Despite not having played organized football since he was a freshman in high school, Alie-Cox signed as an undrafted free agent with the Colts in 2017.
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Briante Weber
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Brianté Weber is an American professional basketball player for Kuwait SC of the Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League. He played college basketball for the VCU Rams.
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Eric Maynor
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
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Eric Demarqua Maynor is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University. As a senior, he averaged 22.4 points, 6.2 assists, 3.6 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game in the 2008–09 season.
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Marc Jackson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Marc Anthony Jackson is an American former professional basketball player who played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2000 to 2007. He is a current television analyst of the Philadelphia 76ers for NBC Sports Philadelphia.
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Treveon Graham
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Treveon Dominique Graham is an American professional basketball player for the Taoyuan Pauian Pilots of the P. League+. He played college basketball for the VCU Rams.
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Mark Morton
- Occupations
- musicianguitarist
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Mark Duane Morton is an American musician who is the lead guitarist and one of the founding members of the groove metal band Lamb of God.
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Simon Diamond
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
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Patrick Joseph Michael Kenney is an American retired professional wrestler and baseball player, better known by his ring name, Simon Diamond. He is working for the National Wrestling Alliance as Director of Talent Relations. Diamond is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1998 to 2001.
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Alan Gross
- Occupations
- activist
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Alan Phillip Gross is a former United States government contractor employed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Tuffy Stone
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- restaurateurchef
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George "Tuffy" Stone is an American chef and competitor on the competitive barbecue circuit. He has appeared on the Destination America reality television show BBQ Pitmasters. He runs the team "Cool Smoke". His nickname is "The Professor".
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Caressa Cameron
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestant
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Caressa Venal Cameron-Jackson is an American beauty pageant titleholder and occasional singer from Fredericksburg, Virginia who was Miss Virginia 2009 and Miss America 2010. She is the eighth African American Miss America titleholder, the first Black Miss Virginia to be crowned Miss America.
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Matthew E. White
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- recording artistrecord producersingerguitaristsinger-songwriter
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Matthew E. White is an American singer, songwriter, producer and arranger. He has worked as a collaborator, producer, and arranger for acts including Bedouine, Natalie Prass, Cocoon, Foxygen, Justin Vernon, Hiss Golden Messenger, Sharon Van Etten, Ken Vandermark, Steven Bernstein, The Mountain Goats, Dan Croll and Slow Club. As a solo artist he has released two studio albums, Big Inner and Fresh Blood, and two collaboration albums, Gentlewoman, Ruby Man with Flo Morrissey and Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection with Lonnie Holley. White is also the founder and a co-owner of Spacebomb, originally conceived as a record label with a house band, and now a multi-disciplinary music company with a studio and offices in Richmond, Virginia.
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John Fenn
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
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John Bennett Fenn was an American professor of analytical chemistry who was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. He shared half of the award with Koichi Tanaka for their work in mass spectrometry. The other half went to Kurt Wüthrich. Fenn's contributions specifically related to the development of electrospray ionization, now a commonly used technique for large molecules and routine liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Early in his career, he studied the field of jet propulsion at Project SQUID and focused on molecular beams. He finished his career with more than 100 publications, including one book.
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Vince Williams Jr
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Vincent Terrill Williams Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the VCU Rams.
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Charles Vess
- Occupations
- artistcomics artistillustrator
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Charles Vess is an American fantasy artist and comics artist who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. His influences include British "Golden Age" book illustrator Arthur Rackham, Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, and comic-strip artist Hal Foster, among others. Vess has won several awards for his illustrations. Vess' studio, Green Man Press, is located in Abingdon, VA.
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Marcus Rediker
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- social historianuniversity teacher
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Marcus Buford Rediker is an American historian, writer, professor, and social activist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976 and attended the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study, earning a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in history. He taught at Georgetown University from 1982 to 1994 and is currently a Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Jairus Lyles
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jairus Lyles is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the UMBC Retrievers. He also competed for the VCU Rams in his freshman season but played a limited role before transferring. Prior to college, Lyles attended DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, where he was a three-star recruit. At UMBC, he earned all-conference honors for three consecutive years. He most notably led the Retrievers to a first-round victory over Virginia at the 2018 NCAA tournament, the first time a 16-seed defeated a 1-seed in men's tournament history.
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Michael Kaluta
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- artistcomics artistillustrator
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Michael William Kaluta, sometimes credited as Mike Kaluta or Michael Wm. Kaluta, is an American comics artist and writer best known for his acclaimed 1970s adaptation of the pulp magazine hero The Shadow with writer Dennis O'Neil. He is the godfather of comedian and gamemaster Brennan Lee Mulligan.
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Nancy McFarlane
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- pharmacistpolitician
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Nancy Pletcher McFarlane is an American pharmacist and politician. She served as the 61st mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. She was elected to lead the city in the 2011 election, and succeeded Charles Meeker, who had declined to run for re-election to another term. McFarlane is a political independent but ran with the endorsement of the local Democratic Party. She was re-elected for three further terms, in 2013, 2015, and 2017, but declined to run for re-election in 2019.
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Kevin Powers
- Occupations
- writernovelist
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Kevin Powers is an American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran.
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Sherman Hamilton
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Sherman Hamilton is a retired Canadian professional basketball player. Hamilton was a longtime member of the Canadian men's national basketball team. He is currently a basketball analyst for Sportsnet and NBA TV Canada.
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Sean Marshall
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Sean Christopher Marshall, nicknamed "Big Smooth", is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds.
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Teresita Fernández
- Enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University
- 1990-1992 graduated with Master of Fine Arts in art of sculpture
- Occupations
- photographerdraftspersoninstallation artistsculptor
- Biography
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Teresita Fernández is a New York-based visual artist best known for her public sculptures and unconventional use of materials. Her work is characterized by a reconsideration of landscape and issues of visibility. Fernández’s practice generates psychological topographies that prompt the subjective reshaping of spatial and historical awareness. Her experiential, large-scale works are often inspired by natural landscapes, investigating the historical, geological, and anthropological realms in flux. Her sculptures present optical illusions and evoke natural phenomena, land formations, and water.
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Yann Bonato
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Yann Jean Claude Bonato is a former professional basketball player from France, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with the senior French Men's National Team. He was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Sam Bass
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- artist
- Biography
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Samuel Mark Bass was an American motorsports artist known for being NASCAR's first officially licensed artist. A lifelong NASCAR fan, he began working on designing drivers' cars paint schemes with Bobby Allison in 1988. He later designed various paint schemes for drivers like Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt, and designed and painted dozens of Race program covers for races at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, and others.
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Justin Tillman
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Justin Tillman is an American professional basketball player for Nanterre 92 of the LNB Pro A. He played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
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Takuma Ito
- Occupations
- coach
- Biography
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Takuma Ito is the general manager of the Nagasaki Velca in the Japanese B.League. Ito is the former head coach of the Alvark Tokyo and the Nagsaki Velca.
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Steve Wilson
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- saxophonistjazz musician
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Steve Wilson is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, who is best known in the musical community as a flutist and an alto and soprano saxophonist. He also plays the clarinet and the piccolo. Wilson performs on many different instruments and has performed and recorded on over twenty-five albums. His interests include folk, jazz, classical, world music, and experimental music. Wilson is currently on the faculty of New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. He was elected as an American Champion by the National Flute Association. Wilson has maintained a busy career working as a session musician, and has contributed to many musicians of note both in the recording studios, but as a sideman on tours. Over the years he has participated in engagements with several musical ensembles, as well as his own solo efforts.
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Tic Price
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
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George "Tic" Price is an American college basketball coach. He last coached the Lamar Cardinals men's basketball team. From 2002 to 2007, he served as head coach at McNeese State. Prior to that, he served as head coach of Memphis and New Orleans. Price's daughter is Sports Illustrated model Chanel Iman, who married NFL wide receiver Sterling Shepard in 2017. He is married to the former Jamie Lynn Simms, and the couple has two children - son, Ryan, a college basketball coach who played for his father at McNeese, and daughter, Chanel. He has three granddaughters - Bella Grace Price, Cali Clay Shepard and Cassie Snow Shepard.
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Art Porter, Jr
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- saxophonistjazz musician
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Arthur Lee Porter Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist. He was the son of jazz musician Art Porter Sr. and the namesake of "The Art Porter Bill".
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Jamal Shuler
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jamal Shuler is an American professional basketball player who last played for Aris of the Greek Basket League. He played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) before playing professionally in Germany, France, Ukraine and Israel. Shuler was named EuroChallenge Final Four MVP in 2015.
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Marilyn Tavenner
- Occupations
- nurse
- Biography
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Marilyn Barbour Tavenner is an American government official and health-care executive who served as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, from 2011 to 2015.
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Will Sessoms
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politicianmayorchief executive officerbank officer
- Biography
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William Douglas Sessoms Jr. is an American politician and bank officer who served as the mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia from 2008 until his resignation in April, 2018. He was president and CEO of Towne Financial Services Group, a division of TowneBank of Hampton Roads, Virginia from 2011 to 2014.
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Scott Cross
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- basketball playerhead coachbasketball coach
- Biography
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Scott Michael Cross is an American college basketball coach who is currently head men's basketball coach at Troy. He is the former head men's basketball coach at the University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington), where he played college basketball.
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Marcus Santos-Silva
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Marcus Santos-Silva is an American professional basketball player for Saint-Quentin of the LNB Pro A. He previously played college basketball and college football for Texas Tech and VCU.
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Justin Wilson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Justin Marshall Wilson is an American politician who was the mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, from 2019 to 2025. Before that, he served on the Alexandria City Council, including a term as vice mayor from 2016 to 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party. On December 1, 2023, he announced that he would not seek re-election in 2024.
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Eric Stanley
- Occupations
- entrepreneurhedge fund managerviolinist
- Biography
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Eric Stanley is an American hedge fund manager, violinist, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Stay Inspired, a media company. Stanley is the co-founder of Stay Inspired Capital, a quantitative hedge fund. He and his fund are known to be quantitative investors, using trading algorithms and mathematical models to make investment gains from market inefficiencies.
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Teddy Okereafor
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Teddy Okereafor is a British professional basketball player. Okereafor played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University and Rider University. He is also a member of the Great Britain Men's National team.
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Schuyler van Valkenburg
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Schuyler Thomas VanValkenburg is an American teacher and politician. He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates representing the 72nd District on November 7, 2017, to replace retiring delegate Jimmie Massie. He defeated Republicans Eddie Whitlock and GayDonna Vandergriff in the 2017 and 2019 elections, respectively. In the 2023 state elections, VanValkenburg was elected over incumbent Siobhan Dunnavant in the newly redrawn 16th District. The race was considered highly competitive for control of the Virginia Senate.
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Jackson Miller
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jackson Hunter Miller is an American politician. In 2022, he was appointed by Governor Glenn Youngkin as the Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services. From 2006 to 2018, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates representing the 50th district, made up of the city of Manassas and part of Prince William County in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Republican Party, and was the House majority whip from 2012 to 2018. In the 2017 elections, Miller was defeated by Democratic socialist challenger Lee J. Carter in what was considered an upset.
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Juvonte Reddic
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Juvonte Reddic is an American professional basketball player for Ironi Kiryat Ata of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. A 6' 9" power forward, Reddic played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
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Norman Sisisky
- Enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University
- In 1949 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Norman Sisisky was an American businessman and politician who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia from 1983 until his death in 2001, representing the 4th District. He was a leader of the Blue Dog Coalition and one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress at the time.
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Terry Larrier
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Terry Elijah Larrier is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Santos del Potosí of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional. He played college basketball for the VCU Rams and the UConn Huskies.
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Vimael Machín
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Vimael Machín Soto is a Puerto Rican professional baseball infielder in the Baltimore Orioles organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics.
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Rosalyn Dance
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rosalyn Randolph Dance is an American politician, who served in the Senate of Virginia from 2014 until 2020. She was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2005 to 2014, was mayor of Petersburg, Virginia from 1992 to 2004, and is the Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Virginia Department of Elections. Dance is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Bradford Burgess
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Bradford Burgess is an American professional basketball player who last played for Liège Basket of the Pro Basketball League. Born in Midlothian, Virginia, Burgess played four seasons for the VCU Rams team, from 2008 till 2012. His jersey number 20 was retired by the Rams.
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Amaka Agugua-Hamilton
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Amaka Agugua-Hamilton is the current head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers women's basketball team.
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JeQuan Lewis
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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JeQuan Demonte Lewis is an American professional basketball player for Rostock Seawolves of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). He played college basketball for VCU.
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Kelly Thomasson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kelly Teal Thomasson Mercer is an American Democratic politician, who served as the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from April 2016 to January 2022. Initially appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe, she continued as Secretary under the administration of Governor Ralph Northam. Prior to her appointment as Secretary, Thomasson served as Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor McAuliffe.
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Cody Eppley
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Cody Allen Eppley is an American former professional baseball pitcher and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees.
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Tyron McCoy
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- basketball assistant coachbasketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Clement Tyron McCoy is an American professional basketball coach, and former professional basketball player. At a height of 6'5" (1.96 m) tall, he played at the shooting guard position.
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Rodney Robinson
- Occupations
- high-school teacher
- Biography
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Rodney Alexander Robinson is an American educator. After teaching for over a decade in middle and high schools in Richmond, Virginia, he became a social studies and history teacher for grades 6 through 12 at the Virgie Binford Education Center, located inside the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center. He was named Virginia Teacher of the Year in 2018 and National Teacher of the Year in 2019.
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Michael Hearst
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Michael Marcus Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, writer, and producer. He is best known for his solo albums Songs For Ice Cream Trucks, Songs For Unusual Creatures, Songs For Fearful Flyers, Songs For Unconventional Vehicles and Songs For Extraordinary People, as well as the children's books Unusual Creatures, Extraordinary People, Curious Constructions and Unconventional Vehicles. He has composed the music for a number of films including The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, Chicken People, To Be Takei, Magic Camp, and House of Suh. In 2014, he co-produced and co-directed Unusual Creatures, a ten-episode series for PBS Digital Studios. Hearst is also a founding member of the eclectic musical group One Ring Zero.
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Robert Q. Marston
- Enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University
- Graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Robert Quarles Marston was an American physician, research scientist, governmental appointee and university administrator. Marston was a native of Virginia, and, after earning his bachelor's, medical and research degrees, he became a research scientist and medical professor. He served as the dean of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, the director of the National Institutes of Health, and the president of the University of Florida.
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Ron Jirsa
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Ronald Howard Jirsa is an American college basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach at Eastern Kentucky. He was previously the head coach at Georgia and Marshall.
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Judith Godwin
- Occupations
- artistpainterdraftsperson
- Biography
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Judith Godwin was an American abstract painter, associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement.
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Paul DiPasquale
- Occupations
- artistsculptor
- Biography
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Paul DiPasquale is a sculptor living and working in Richmond, Virginia. He has designed several public sculptures in Virginia, including the Arthur Ashe Monument on Richmond's Monument Avenue and King Neptune on Virginia Beach's boardwalk.
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Samir Doughty
- Years
- 1997-.. (age 28)
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Samir Doughty is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the VCU Rams and the Auburn Tigers.
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Siri Mullinix
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Siri Lynn Mullinix is an American retired soccer goalkeeper who is an assistant coach for the Clemson Tigers women's soccer team. As keeper for the 2000 U.S. women's Olympic soccer team, she recorded two shutouts helping the team win the silver medal. In 2010, Mullinix was inducted into the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame.
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Darius Jones
- Occupations
- saxophonistrecord producer
- Biography
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Darius Jones is an American saxophonist, composer, and professor of African-American music.
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Mirta Martin
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Mirta Maria Martin is an American educator who is currently president of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. She was the president of Fairmont State University from 2018 to 2022 and the president of Fort Hays State University from 2014 to 2016. Prior to Fort Hays State, Martin served as the Dean of Virginia State University's Reginald F. Lewis School of Business, a position she held from August 1, 2009 until June 30, 2014.
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Tarfia Faizullah
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Tarfia Faizullah is a Bangladeshi American poet. Born in 1980, she was raised in West Texas. She traveled to Bangladesh in 2010 to interview survivors of rape by Pakistani soldiers during the 1971 Liberation War, the birangona. Seam, her first book, was a collection of poems that were inspired by the many interviews she had with the birangona; and won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards Her writing has also appeared widely in media across the US and abroad and has appeared in many journalistic media such as BuzzFeed. In 2016, Harvard Law School included Faizullah in their list of 50 Women Inspiring Change
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Darius Theus
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Darius Theus is an American former basketball player who currently is an assistant coach for VCU. He played collegiately for VCU. He played professionally in the Netherlands and Germany.
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Martina Šamadan
- Occupations
- beach volleyball playervolleyball player
- Biography
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Martina Šamadan is a Croatian volleyball player. She plays as middle blocker for Greek club Panathinaikos.
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Mark Shim
- Occupations
- saxophonistjazz musician
- Biography
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Mark Shim is a jazz tenor saxophonist.
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Anhayla
- Occupations
- music artistsongwriteractorcomposersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Anhayla Rene Stanley, better known by her stage name Anhayla, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She is known for covering popular R&B and hip hop songs presented on her YouTube channel, Anhaylarene. Anhayla was endorsed by Crafter guitars in 2013.
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Brandon Rozzell
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Brandon Rozzell is an American professional basketball player. In 2017 he won the Swedish championship with Luleå where he was named the Finals MVP. In 2016 he was named the Basketligaen Most Valuable Player.
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Susan Higginbotham
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Susan Higginbotham is an American historical fiction author and attorney. She has written on the Middle Ages and the Wars of the Roses. Her historical fiction deals especially with female figures.
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Matthew Delicâte
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Matthew Delicâte is an English former footballer who played for Richmond Kickers in the United Soccer League.
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Sylvia Harris
- Enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts in communication design
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- university teacherbusiness executivegraphic designerdesigner
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Sylvia Harris was an African-American graphic designer and design strategist. She has been considered a pioneer in the field of social impact design.
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Trudy Benson
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Trudy Benson is an American abstract painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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Howard Owen
- Occupations
- journalistnovelist
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Howard Owen is an American author. He is a writer of literary fiction, mystery, and thrillers. He was the winner of the 2012 Hammett Prize awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers.
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Ace Baldwin Jr
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Adrian Tyrone "Ace" Baldwin Jr. is an American college basketball player for the Penn State Nittany Lions of the Big Ten Conference. He previously played for the VCU Rams.
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Jon Pineda
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Jon Pineda is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist.
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Dietra Trent
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dietra Yvette Trent served as the Virginia Secretary of Education under Governor Terry McAuliffe. She previously served as Deputy Secretary of Education from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2016 and was elevated after Anne Holton's resignation as Secretary to campaign for her husband, Tim Kaine's vice presidential bid in 2016.
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Hayley Bowden
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Hayley Rose Bowden MNZM is a women's association footballer who has represented New Zealand at international level.
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Richard Move
- Occupations
- choreographer
- Biography
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Richard Move is an American choreographer, dancer, performing artist, director, and filmmaker. They are the Artistic Director of MoveOpolis! and Move- It! Productions. Move is known for their interest in Martha Graham and the ability to recreate her performances. They are a TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow and was named 1 of 12 TED Fellows who inspire by producing art that confronts social injustice, and provokes action. Move is Assistant Arts Professor at New York University in the Tisch School of the Arts’ Department of Dance. In 2018, Move was Artist in Residence at Pratt Institute and Monash University’s MADA Artist in Residence in Melbourne, Australia. From 2014 – 2019, Move served as Assistant Professor of Dance in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Queens College, CUNY and from 2012-2014, as Lecturer in Design at Yale School of Drama.
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Daryl Cobb
- Occupations
- authorchildren's writer
- Biography
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Daryl Cobb is an American author of children's books.
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Keyanna Conner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Keyanna Conner is an American politician. She served as the Virginia Secretary of Administration in the Cabinet of Governor Ralph Northam. She worked for Mark Warner's campaign and administration before joining Northam's cabinet.
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Jeff Ray Clark
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Jeff Ray Clark is an American economist specializing in public finance, public choice, and managerial economics. He is the Scott L. Probasco, Jr. Chair of Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
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Fred Sekyere
- Enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University
- 2006-2010 graduated with Bachelor of Science in criminal justice
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Fred Owusu Sekyere is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a midfielder. He currently serves as Director of Technical Training and Camps at the Richmond Kickers Youth Club.
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Todd Haymore
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Todd Patterson Haymore is an American civil servant who served as Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade in the administration of Governor Terry McAuliffe. He previously served as the Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry under Governor Bob McDonnell and Terry McAuliffe. Prior to these two posts, he served in then-Governor Tim Kaine's administration in the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
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Mia LaBerge
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Mia LaBerge is an American artist who painted the first Steinway Art Case Piano created to honor a university.
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Jens Fahrbring
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Jens Fahrbring is a Swedish professional golfer and European Tour player. He has won the Norwegian Challenge and the D+D Real Czech Challenge.
