18 Notable alumni of
Wesleyan College
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Wesleyan College is 2437th in the world, 846th in North America, and 800th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Wesleyan 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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Soong May-ling
- Enrolled in Wesleyan College
- Studied in 1912-1913
- Occupations
- public figurepolitician
- Biography
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Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang (Chinese: 蔣夫人), was a Chinese political figure. The youngest of the Soong sisters, she married Chiang Kai-shek and played a prominent role in Chinese politics and foreign relations in the first half of the 20th century.
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Soong Ching-ling
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Soong Ch'ing-ling, Christian name Rosamonde or Rosamond, was a Chinese political figure. She was the wife of Sun Yat-sen, therefore known by Madame Sun Yat-sen and the "mother of modern China." A member of the Soong family, she and her family played a significant role in shaping the Republic of China. As a prominent leader of the left wing of the Kuomintang (KMT), she founded the Revolutionary Committee of the KMT. She entered the Communist government in 1949, and was the only female, non-Communist head of state of the People's Republic of China. She was named Honorary President of the People's Republic of China and admitted to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a few weeks before her death in 1981.
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John Pemberton
- Occupations
- inventorpharmaceutical industrybusinessperson
- Biography
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John Stith Pemberton was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. On May 8, 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold the rights to the drink shortly before his death in 1888.
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Soong Ai-ling
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Soong Ai-ling, legally Soong E-ling or Eling Soong, Christian name Nancy, was a Chinese businesswoman, the eldest of the Soong sisters and the wife of H. H. Kung (Kung Hsiang-Hsi), who was the richest man in the early 20th century Republic of China.
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Phaedra Parks
- Occupations
- lawyerreality television participant
- Biography
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Phaedra Creonta Parks is an American attorney, legal analyst, television personality, author, activist, and businesswoman.
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Lucille Soong
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Lucille Soong is a Chinese-American actress. In the 1960s she occasionally worked under the stage name Soong Ling. She is best known for her role as Jenny Huang in the television series Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020). She has appeared in films and television shows since 1959, and is the author of the autobiography Wild Orchid: From Beijing to La-La Land.
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Betty Cantrell
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Baciliky Andris "Betty" Maxwell is an American singer, actress, model, author, and beauty pageant titleholder from Warner Robins, Georgia, who was crowned Miss Georgia 2015. On September 13, 2015, she was crowned Miss America 2016 by Miss America 2015, Kira Kazantsev. She is the first Miss Georgia to be crowned Miss America since Neva Jane Langley, Miss America 1953.
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Toni Jennings
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Antoinette Jennings is an American politician who was the 16th lieutenant governor of Florida.
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Shivani Siroya
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Shivani Siroya is the founder and chief executive officer of Tala, a smartphone lending app. She founded the app in 2011 to offer instant credit scores to people in underrepresented markets such as Kenya, Tanzania, India, and the Philippines. The app also acts as a lender and has granted more than $225M in microloans as of 2018.
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James Beverly
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Theodore Beverly is an American politician from the state of Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, Beverly has represented the 143rd district in the Georgia House of Representatives since January 2013. He has served as Minority Leader since January 2021.
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Sara Branham
- Occupations
- microbiologistphysician
- Biography
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Sara Elizabeth Branham Matthews was an American microbiologist and physician best known for her research into the isolation and treatment of Neisseria meningitidis, a causative organism of meningitis.
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Barbara S. Pope
- Enrolled in Wesleyan College
- Studied in 1971
- Biography
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Barbara Spyridon Pope was United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) from 1989 to 1993. She came to prominence during the Tailhook scandal for her opposition to the initial investigation conducted by Rear Admiral Duvall M. Williams, Jr., which she felt was a whitewash.
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George W. Cole
- Occupations
- military personnelphysician
- Biography
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George W. Cole was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His wartime commands included the 2nd United States Colored Cavalry Regiment, and he attained the rank of major general by brevet. In 1867 Cole was accused of murder after he killed L. Harris Hiscock, a member of the New York State Assembly. Cole accused Hiscock of an affair with Mrs. Cole; his first trial ended with a hung jury, and he was acquitted at the second on the grounds of "momentary insanity".
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Richard S. Rust
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Richard Sutton Rust was an American Methodist preacher, abolitionist, educator, writer, lecturer, secretary of the Freedmen's Bureau, and founder of the Freedmen's Aid Society. He also helped found multiple educational institutions including his namesake Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, the oldest historically black United Methodist-related college.
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Viola Ross Napier
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Viola Ross Napier was one of the first two women, along with Bessie Kempton, to be elected into the House of Representatives in the U.S. state of Georgia following the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which gave women the right to vote. Napier was also the first female lawyer to argue in front of the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court. In 1993 she was posthumously inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement.
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Mary Ross Banks
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Mary Ross Banks was an American writer of the long nineteenth century. Her literary fame came to her suddenly and was the result of one book, Bright Days on the Old Plantation (Boston, 1882).
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Kathryn Stripling Byer
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Kathryn Stripling Byer, also called Kay Byer, was an American poet and teacher. She was named by Governor Mike Easley as the fifth North Carolina Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2009. She was the first woman to hold the position.
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Clare de Graffenried
- Occupations
- labor leaderinvestigator
- Biography
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Mary Clare de Graffenried was an American labor researcher and writer, who worked as an investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor beginning in 1888. She wrote a number of influential articles on the conditions of working-class people, particularly women and children, including the controversial 1891 essay "The Georgia Cracker in the Cotton Mill." Her work is notable for its early inclusion of scientific data as a basis for rhetorical argument in discussions of the American working class.
