37 Notable alumni of
Washington College
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Washington College is 2092nd in the world, 728th in North America, and 686th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from Washington 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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Linda Hamilton
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- television actorvoice actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress. Known for portraying tough, resilient characters, she made her film debut in 1979 before coming to prominence with her starring role as Sarah Connor in The Terminator (1984) and two of its sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). Hamilton is the recipient of various accolades, including two Saturn Awards, two MTV Movie Awards, one Satellite Award and one Romy Award, as well as nominations for three Golden Globes and a Primetime Emmy.
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Laura San Giacomo
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- television actorvoice actorfilm actoractor
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Laura San Giacomo is an American actress. She played Cynthia in the film Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Kit De Luca in the film Pretty Woman (1990), Crazy Cora in the film Quigley Down Under (1990), Nadine Cross in The Stand (1994), and Maya Gallo on the sitcom Just Shoot Me! (1997–2003). A BAFTA and two-time Golden Globe Award nominee, she played the regular role of Rhetta Rodriguez on the drama Saving Grace (2007–2010), and the recurring role of Dr. Grace Confalone on the drama NCIS (2016–2022).
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James M. Cain
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- film screenwriterwriterscreenwriterjournalistreporter
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James Mallahan Cain was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.
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Dean Skelos
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- politicianlawyer
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Dean George Skelos is an American former politician from Long Island, New York.
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Raph Koster
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- video game designerweb developerwritermusician
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Raphael "Raph" Koster is an American entrepreneur, game designer, and author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design. Koster is widely recognized for his work as the lead designer of Ultima Online and the creative director behind Star Wars Galaxies. From 2006 until 2013 he worked as the founder and president of Metaplace (previously operating as Areae and acquired by social gaming company Playdom in 2010, which was in turn acquired by Disney) producing a Facebook game platform.
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Bill Gertz
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- journalistreportercolumnist
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William D. Gertz is an American editor, columnist and reporter for The Washington Times. He is the author of eight books and writes a weekly column on the Pentagon and national security issues called "Inside the Ring". During the administration of Bill Clinton, Gertz was known for his stories exposing government secrets.
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Stephan Lewandowsky
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- psychologist
- Biography
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Stephan Lewandowsky is an Australian psychologist. He has worked in both the United States and Australia, and is currently based at the University of Bristol, UK, where he is the chair of cognitive psychology at the School of Psychological Science. His research, which originally pertained to computer simulations of people's decision-making processes, recently has focused on the public's understanding of science and why people often embrace beliefs that are sharply at odds with scientific evidence.
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Cassie Mackin
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- journalist
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Catherine Patricia "Cassie" Mackin was a pioneer woman journalist in United States television network broadcasting. In the early 1970s, she anchored a WRC-TV newscast and in 1972 became NBC's first female correspondent to serve as a floor reporter at the national political conventions. In 1976, she became the first woman to regularly anchor an evening network newscast alone.
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Barry Glassman
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- politician
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Barry Glassman is an American politician who served as the 7th county executive of Harford County, Maryland, from 2014 to 2022. He was previously a member of the Maryland State Senate, representing District 35 in Harford County, Maryland; he was appointed in 2008 to fill a vacancy, and subsequently was re-elected to the position in 2010. Glassman was originally elected to the Maryland House of Delegates, District 35A in 1998, along with Joanne S. Parrott, defeating incumbent Michael G. Comeau and winning the seat left vacant by James M. Harkins, who was elected as Harford County Executive. He was the Republican nominee for Comptroller of Maryland in the 2022 election, which he lost to state delegate Brooke Lierman.
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John Emory
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- priestjournalist
- Biography
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John Emory was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832. He is the namesake for Emory University and Emory & Henry College, both Methodist-affiliated American universities.
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William O. Baker
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- chemist
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William Oliver Baker was president of Bell Labs from 1973 to 1979 and advisor on scientific matters to five United States presidents.
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Robert K. Crane
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- chemistbiochemist
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Robert Kellogg Crane was an American biochemist best known for his discovery of sodium–glucose cotransport.
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Harris Whitbeck
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- presenterjournalist
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Harris Lee Whitbeck Cain is a Guatemalan journalist, author, and television personality.
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William E. Cameron
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- journalistlawyerpoliticianeditor
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William Evelyn Cameron was a Confederate soldier who became a Virginia lawyer, journalist, and politician. He served as the 39th Governor of Virginia from 1882–1886, elected as the candidate of the Readjuster Party headed by William Mahone.
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Bill Nicholson
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- baseball player
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William Beck "Swish" Nicholson was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1936), Chicago Cubs (1939–1948) and Philadelphia Phillies (1949–1953). A native of Chestertown, Maryland, where he attended Washington College, he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
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George W. Morgan
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- lawyerpoliticianmilitary officerdiplomat
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George Washington Morgan was an American soldier, lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He fought in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican–American War, and was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Morgan later served as a three-term reconstruction era United States Congressman from Ohio. He also served as the United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1858 to 1861, during the term of President James Buchanan.
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Louis L. Goldstein
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- politician
- Biography
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Louis Lazerus Goldstein was an American politician who served as comptroller, or chief financial officer, of Maryland for ten terms from 1959 to 1998. A popular politician and lifelong Democrat, he was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1938 and served three terms in the Maryland Senate before winning election as Comptroller. He ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 1964.
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Joseph M. Getty
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- politician
- Biography
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Joseph M. Getty is the former chief judge of the Supreme Court of Maryland. He was appointed as a judge of that court on June 27, 2016, by Governor Larry Hogan. Effective September 11, 2021, Hogan appointed him as chief judge to replace Mary Ellen Barbera as she reached the mandatory retirement age of 70, an age Getty himself reached after seven months. He was succeeded by Matthew J. Fader.
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Ralph Snyderman
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- business executive
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Ralph Snyderman is a Chancellor Emeritus at Duke University, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, and Executive Director of the Duke Center for Personalized Health Care. He served as chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine from 1989 to July 2004. Under his leadership, Duke University created the Duke University Health System to develop and operate a comprehensive health delivery system, and he was its founding President and Chief Executive Officer. DUHS, with its practice networks, ambulatory care centers, home health services, community hospitals, university hospital, and satellite collaborations demonstrated the power of academic medicine to deliver the best of care to broad communities. Snyderman helped lead the creation of the largest academic clinical research organization worldwide. During his tenure, Duke University Hospital was ranked 6th overall in the nation and its medical school ranked 4th. Snyderman is a leader in the conception and development of personalized health care, an evolving model of national health care delivery. He has articulated the need to move the current focus of health care from the treatment of disease-events to personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory care that is focused on the patient. As Senior Vice-President at Genentech, he led the development of powerful new molecular biology therapeutics. Ralph Snyderman was the recipient of the 2012 David E. Rogers Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges which recognized him as "The Father of Personalized Medicine." He is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (chair 2002-2003), Association of American Physicians (President 2003-2004), American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine.
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James A. Adkins
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- sociologist
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James A. Adkins is an American retired senior military officer and former cabinet-level official who served the adjutant general of Maryland and secretary of the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Edwards Davis
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- actorpastorplaywright
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Cader Edwards Davis was an American actor, producer, and playwright of vaudeville and the silent film era, known as a character actor. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was an ordained Christian minister and first achieved prominence as a sensational orator and lecturer, becoming known as the "poet-preacher" and the "Talmage of the West", before leaving the pulpit for an acting career. He wrote and starred in several original plays and vaudeville sketches, and appeared in over 50 films. In New York he was a president of the National Vaudeville Artists Association and the Green Room Club. In Hollywood he was a founder and president of the Masonic 233 Club. He was married to several actresses, including Adele Blood, who also appeared in some of his productions.
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Lucy Gwynne Branham
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- suffragist
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Lucy Gwynne Branham was an American suffragist associated with the National Women's Party.
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William J. Wallace
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- United States Naval Aviator
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William Jennings Wallace was a highly decorated aviation officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of lieutenant general. He is most noted for his service as commanding officer of MAG-22 at Midway and MAG-23 at Guadalcanal and the Air Defense Command during the Battle of Okinawa.
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Ezekiel F. Chambers
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Ezekiel Forman Chambers was an American politician.
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Thomas Veazey
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- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Ward Veazey was a Maryland politician that served in a variety of roles. The zenith of his career was being the 24th Governor of the state from 1836 to 1839, when he was selected to serve three consecutive one-year terms by the Maryland General Assembly. Veazey was the last Maryland governor to be elected in this fashion and also the last Whig Party member to serve as Maryland governor.
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William Holland Wilmer
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- Christian ministerclergyman
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William Holland Wilmer was an Episcopal priest, teacher and writer in Maryland and Virginia who served briefly as the eleventh president of the College of William and Mary.
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Robert Wright
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Robert Wright was an American politician and soldier who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
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John W. Crisfield
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- politicianlawyer
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John Woodland Crisfield was a U.S. Representative from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1847 to 1849 and the first district from 1861 to 1863. The city of Crisfield, Maryland, is named after him. Crisfield was a strong supporter of the Union during American Civil War, opposing moves towards Maryland's secession. However, Crisfield also supported the institution of slavery and worked to prevent its abolition in Maryland.
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Thomas Alan Goldsborough
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Thomas Alan Goldsborough was a United States representative from Maryland and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
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Charles Hopper Gibson
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- politicianlawyer
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Charles Hopper Gibson was a U. S. Senator from Maryland, serving from 1891–1897. He also served as a U.S. Congressman from 1885–1891.
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Edward F. C. Davis
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- 1847-1895 (aged 48)
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- engineer
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Edward F. C. Davis was an American mechanical engineer, and superintendent, known as President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1894–95. Davies died nearly 48 years old still presiding officer from an accident while riding his horse in the Central Park of New York City.
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William Murray Stone
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- Christian ministerpriest
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William Murray Stone, D.D. was an American Episcopal clergyman from Maryland. He was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland at Baltimore from 1830 until his death.
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Gilbert T. Rude
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- military officer
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Gilbert T. Rude was an officer in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey—one of the ancestor organizations of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- and the United States Navy. He served as Chief of the Division of Coastal Surveys in the Coast and Geodetic Survey. A NOAA ship was named for him.
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Mary Adele France
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- suffragetteteacher
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Mary Adele France, also known as M. Adele France, was the first president of St. Mary's Female Seminary Junior College, which is now a coeducational, four-year public honors college, known as St. Mary's College of Maryland. She is credited with expanding St. Mary's Female Seminary into a junior college. She was both the last principal of the seminary and the first president of the college.
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James Barroll Ricaud
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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James Barroll Ricaud was an American politician.
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James Paull
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- politician
- Biography
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James Paull was a prominent lawyer, politician and judge in Wheeling in what became West Virginia during his lifetime. Before the American Civil War, Paull represented Ohio County in the Virginia General Assembly as a Whig, then attended the First Wheeling Convention, which led to the area's secession from Virginia and creation of the state of West Virginia. During his final years, Paull served as a judge of the West Virginia Court of Appeals, having won election as a Democrat, from January 1, 1873, until his death on May 11, 1875.
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Samuel Davies Alexander
- Enrolled in Washington College
- Graduated with Doctor of Sacred Theology
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- authorministerclergyman
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Samuel Davies Alexander was a Presbyterian minister.
