13 Notable alumni of
Warren Wilson College
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Warren Wilson College is 2529th in the world, 888th in North America, and 840th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Warren Wilson 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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James Franco
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- screenwriterwriterfilm produceractortelevision presenter
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James Edward Franco is an American actor and filmmaker. He has starred in numerous films, including Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat Pray Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He is known for his collaborations with fellow actor Seth Rogen, having appeared in eight films and one television series with him, examples being Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Lewis Pullman
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- film actoractor
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Lewis James Pullman is an American actor. A son of actor Bill Pullman, he began his acting career with the film The Ballad of Lefty Brown, starring his father. His subsequent film credits include The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). On television, he has played Major Major Major Major in Catch-22 (2019) and starred in Outer Range (2022) and Lessons in Chemistry (2023). For playing a chemist in the last of these, he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Awards and Independent Spirit Awards.
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Duncan Trussell
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- actorvoice actortelevision actor
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Charles Duncan Trussell is an American actor and stand-up comic, known for his podcast The Duncan Trussell Family Hour. He appeared on and co-created the 2020 Netflix series The Midnight Gospel, and starred alongside Joe Rogan in the SYFY series Joe Rogan Questions Everything.
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David Weber
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- science fiction authorwriterscreenwriterfantasy authorscience fiction writer
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David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written several science-fiction and fantasy books series, the best known of which is the Honor Harrington science-fiction series. His first novel, which he worked on with Steve White, sold in 1989 to Baen Books. Baen remains Weber's major publisher.
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David Wilcox
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- singersinger-songwriterguitarist
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David Patrick Wilcox is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter guitarist. He has been active in the music business since the late 1980s.
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Sara Benincasa
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- 1980-.. (age 44)
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- comedianpodcasternovelistradio personalityblogger
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Sara Benincasa is an American comedian and author.
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Katie Spotz
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- 1987-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- ocean rower
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Katie Spotz is an American adventurer who became the youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, departing from Dakar, Senegal on January 3, 2010, and landing in Guyana on March 14, 2010. She was the first person to have swum the entire length of the Allegheny River in New York state and Pennsylvania.
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David Wroblewski
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- novelist
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David Wroblewski is an American novelist whose first novel was The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.
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Donaldas Kairys
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- basketball coachbasketball player
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Donaldas Kairys is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player.
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Rayna Gellert
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- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- fiddlersinger
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Rayna Gellert is an American fiddler, acoustic guitarist, singer, and songwriter specializing in old-time music. She grew up in Elkhart, in northern Indiana, formerly lived in Asheville, North Carolina, and is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father is the traditional fiddler, banjo player, and singer Dan Gellert. Originally a classically trained violinist, she took up the old-time fiddle in 1994, when she moved to North Carolina to attend Warren Wilson College. She received a bachelor's degree from Warren Wilson College.
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Fran Wilde
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- science fiction writerblogger
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Fran Wilde is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and blogger. Her debut novel, Updraft, was nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award, and won the 2016 Andre Norton Award and the 2016 Compton Crook Award. Her debut middle grade novel, Riverland, won the 2019 Andre Norton Award, was named an NPR Best Book of 2019 and was a Lodestar Finalist. Wilde is the first person to win two Andre Norton Awards for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Nature, Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, and elsewhere. Her fiction explores themes of social class, disability, disruptive technology, and empowerment against a backdrop of engineering and artisan culture.
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Matthew Olzmann
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United States - Occupations
- writer
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Matthew Olzmann is a poet, author, and essayist.
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Dilruba Ahmed
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- writerpoet
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Dilruba Ahmed is an American writer, educator, and poet of Bangladeshi descent. Her work was selected by Major Jackson for The Best American Poetry 2019.
