22 Notable alumni of
Wheaton College - Massachusetts
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Wheaton College - Massachusetts is 1816th in the world, 632nd in North America, and 595th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 22 notable alumni from Wheaton College - Massachusetts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Catherine Keener
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Massachusetts
- Studied in 1983
- Occupations
- film produceractorfilm actortelevision actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Catherine Ann Keener is an American actress. She has portrayed disgruntled and melancholic yet sympathetic women in independent films, as well as supporting roles in studio films. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for Being John Malkovich (1999) and for her portrayal of author Harper Lee in Capote (2005). Her performance as Gertrude Baniszewski in An American Crime (2007) earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Her other accolades include nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
- Occupations
- monarch
- Biography
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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck is the King of Bhutan. His reign began in 2006 after his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, a year that marked 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan.
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Lesley Stahl
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Massachusetts
- Studied in 1963
- Occupations
- journalistprogram host
- Biography
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Lesley Rene Stahl is an American television journalist. She has spent most of her career with CBS News, where she began as a producer in 1971. Since 1991, she has reported for CBS's 60 Minutes. She is known for her news and television investigations and award-winning foreign reporting. For her body of work she has earned various journalism awards including a Lifetime Achievement News and Documentary Emmy Award in 2003 for overall excellence in reporting.
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Callie Thorne
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Callie Thorne is an American actress known for her role as Dr. Dani Santino on the USA Network series Necessary Roughness. She is also known for past work such as her roles on Homicide: Life on the Street as Detective Laura Ballard, a role she held for two seasons, and the movie Homicide: The Movie, as well as for playing Sheila Keefe on Rescue Me and Elena McNulty in The Wire.
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Christine Todd Whitman
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Christine Temple Whitman is an American politician and author who served as the 50th governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001 and as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. As of 2024, Whitman is the only woman to have served as governor of New Jersey.
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Nick Fradiani
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Nicholas James Fradiani IV is an American singer from Guilford, Connecticut. He rose to regional attention as the lead singer of pop/rock band Beach Avenue when they won the Battle of the Bands at Mohegan Sun in 2011. He gained national recognition in 2014 when he competed on the ninth season of the reality talent show America's Got Talent, although he only made it to "Judgment Week".
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Sally Bedell Smith
- Occupations
- editorbiographerwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Sarah Bedell Smith is an American journalist and biographer. She was a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a reporter for The New York Times and Time. She focuses on biographies of members of the British royal family.
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Gabe Amo
- Enrolled in Wheaton College - Massachusetts
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gabriel Felix Kofi Amo is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district.
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Barbara Richardson
- Occupations
- First Lady
- Biography
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Barbara Richardson is the former First Lady of New Mexico and widow of Bill Richardson, the 9th United States Secretary of Energy.
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Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
- Occupations
- art collector
- Biography
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Patricia "Patty" Phelps de Cisneros is a Venezuelan-born Dominican art collector and philanthropist who focuses on Latin American modernist and contemporary art from Brazil, Venezuela, and the Río de la Plata region of Argentina and Uruguay. Since the 1970s Cisneros has supported education and the arts, with a particular focus on Latin America. Along with her husband, Gustavo A. Cisneros, she founded the New York City and Caracas-based Fundación Cisneros. In the 1990s the Fundación's primary art-related program became the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. In 2016, Cisneros donated 102 modern and contemporary artworks from the 1940s to 1990s to the Museum of Modern Art, establishing the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America at MoMA.
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Amanda Urban
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- literary agent
- Biography
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Amanda "Binky" Urban is an American literary agent and partner at ICM Partners.
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Ron Corning
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Ron Corning is an American television host. For 8 years he was the morning anchor at the ABC affiliate WFAA in Dallas, Texas. He co-anchored the station's morning newscast, Daybreak, and was the solo anchor of Midday, the station's one-hour noon newscast.
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Ann Ronell
- Occupations
- screenwritercomposersongwriterjazz musician
- Biography
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Ann Ronell was an American composer and lyricist. She was best known for the standards "Willow Weep for Me" (1932) and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" (1933).
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Mary Ellen Avery
- Occupations
- physicianuniversity teacherpediatrician
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Mary Ellen Avery, also known as Mel, was an American pediatrician. In the 1950s, Avery's pioneering research efforts helped lead to the discovery of the main cause of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in premature babies: her identification of surfactant led to the development of replacement therapy for premature infants and has been credited with saving over 830,000 lives. Her childhood, mentors, drive, and education inspired Avery to be the visionary that she was. In 1991 President George H.W. Bush conferred the National Medal of Science on Avery for her work on RDS.
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Catherine Filene Shouse
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Catherine Filene Shouse was an American researcher and philanthropist. She graduated in 1918 from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She worked for the Women's Division of the U.S. Employment Service of the Department of Labor, and was the first woman appointed to the Democratic National Committee in 1925. She was also the editor of the Woman's National Democratic Committee's Bulletin (1929–32), and the first woman to chair the Federal Prison for Women Board.
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Robie Harris
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writer
- Biography
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Robie Harris was an American author. She wrote more than 30 children's books, including the frequently challenged It's Perfectly Normal (1994) and It's so Amazing (1999).
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Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln
- Occupations
- writerchef
- Biography
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Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln was an influential Boston cooking teacher and cookbook author. She used Mrs. D.A. Lincoln as her professional name during her husband's lifetime and in her published works; after his death, she used Mary J. Lincoln. Considered one of the pioneers of the Domestic Science movement in the United States, she was among the first to address the scientific and nutritional basis of food preparation.
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Gale Rossides
- Biography
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Gale D. Rossides is the former acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration from January 2009 until June 2010.
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Margaret Joy Tibbetts
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Margaret Joy Tibbetts was an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer, she was the United States Ambassador to Norway from 1964 to 1969 under President Lyndon Johnson. She attended Gould Academy, Wheaton College in Massachusetts and her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. She was awarded an honorary degree from Bates College in 1962 and Bowdoin College in 1973.
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Emily Susan Hartwell
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Emily Susan Hartwell was a Congregational Christian educational missionary and philanthropist in Fuzhou, China under the American Board of Foreign Missions.
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Marion Naifeh
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Marion Carolyn Naifeh was an American author and educator who, with her husband, the late diplomat George Naifeh, represented the United States in diplomatic missions in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia over nearly three decades. As an author, Naifeh published three books. Her 2003 publication, The Last Missionary in China, was described by noted Harvard University sinologist Ezra Vogel as "a touching, well-written, well-researched account of the life and times of a missionary who died in China in 1951 after 34 years there, by his daughter. Objective, nuanced, broad-gauged" Naifeh's 2016 book, Foreign Service, chronicles her family's life in the U.S. diplomatic corps during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Also in 2016, she published Finding my Mother: The Red Box, a memoir of her mother.
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Estelle M. H. Merrill
- Occupations
- newspaper editorjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Estelle M. H. Merrill was an American journalist and editor of the long nineteenth century. She lectured on various subjects, especially on educational and sociological questions, and was well-known as a leader and speaker in the club world. Merrill was a charter member of the New England Woman's Press Association and was the editor of the New England Kitchen Magazine.
