13 Notable alumni of
Warren Wilson College
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Warren Wilson College is 2496th in the world, 855th in North America, and 808th 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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- film editorfilm actorfilm producerfilm directortelevision presenter
- Biography
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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 has collaborated with fellow actor Seth Rogen on multiple projects, including Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), The Interview (2014), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Franco's performance in 127 Hours (2010) earned a Best Actor nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards.
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Lewis Pullman
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Lewis James Pullman is an American actor. The son of actor Bill Pullman, he made his film debut opposite his father in The Ballad of Lefty Brown. For his performance as Miles Miller in the neo-noir thriller film Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), Pullman was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Pullman subsequently had supporting roles in films such as The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), Them That Follow (2019), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), and Riff Raff (2024), as well as lead roles in Press Play (2022), The Starling Girl (2023), 'Salem's Lot, and Skincare (both 2024). He gained international recognition for his role as Robert "Bob" Reynolds / The Sentry / The Void in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thunderbolts* (2025) and is set to reprise the role in Avengers: Doomsday (2026).
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Duncan Trussell
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- actortelevision actorvoice 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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- screenwriternovelistwriterscience fiction writerfantasy author
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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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Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Enrolled in Warren Wilson College
- In 2010 graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- teacherpoet
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Reginald Dwayne Betts is an American poet, legal scholar, educator and prison reform advocate. At age 16 he committed an armed carjacking, was prosecuted as an adult, and was sentenced to nine years in prison. He started reading and writing poetry during his incarceration. After his release, Betts earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School. He served on President Barack Obama’s Coordinating Council of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He founded Freedom Reads, an organization that gives incarcerated people access to books. In September 2021, Betts was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
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David Wilcox
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- singerguitaristsinger-songwriter
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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
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- radio personalitynovelistpodcastercomediantelevision producer
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Sara Benincasa is an American comedian and author.
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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 playerbasketball coach
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Donaldas Kairys is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player.
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Rayna Gellert
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- singerguitaristfiddlermulti-instrumentalistsongwriter
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Rayna Gellert is an American fiddler, acoustic guitarist, singer, and songwriter specializing in old-time music.
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Fran Wilde
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- bloggerscience fiction writer
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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. 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
- Occupations
- poetwriter
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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.
