25 Notable alumni of
Whittier College
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Whittier College is 1535th in the world, 542nd in North America, and 509th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Whittier 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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Richard Nixon
- Enrolled in Whittier College
- Studied in 1934
- Occupations
- autobiographerlawyerpoliticianmilitary officerstatesperson
- Biography
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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.
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Andrea Barber
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Andrea Laura Barber is an American actress. She is known for playing Kimmy Gibbler in the ABC sitcom Full House and the Netflix sequel series Fuller House.
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Geoff Stults
- Occupations
- film producerfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Geoff Stults is an American actor. His first regular roles on television included 7th Heaven, October Road, and Happy Town. He went on to star as Major Walter Sherman on The Finder, Sgt. Pete Hill on Enlisted, and Marco Strzalkowski on Guilty Party. He also played the recurring role of Mitch on seasons 1-3 of the hit Netflix series Grace and Frankie. His film roles include Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up, She's Out of My League, Only the Brave, and 12 Strong. As of April 2023, he has most recently been seen as Jake opposite Jennifer Garner in The Last Thing He Told Me.
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Ken Davitian
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Kenneth Davitian is an American actor, best known for his role as Borat's producer Azamat Bagatov in the 2006 comedy film Borat, and for his role as Shtarker in the 2008 action-comedy film Get Smart.
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James Adomian
- Occupations
- television actorcomedianactorstand-up comedianvoice actor
- Biography
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James Adomian is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and impressionist. He is best known for his work on Comedy Bang! Bang!, Chapo Trap House, Last Comic Standing, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson where he impersonated President George W. Bush until 2009, and for portraying Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Trump vs. Bernie tour. He voices Talking Ben in the Talking Tom and Friends animated series.
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Cassey Ho
- Enrolled in Whittier College
- Studied biology
- Occupations
- YouTubercoachtelevision producerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Cassey Ho Vinh is an American social media fitness entrepreneur with a YouTube channel and a website that sells fitness apparel. In 2013, she received a Shorty Award in the category of social fitness, and was listed in Time's third annual list of "The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet" in 2017.
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Cheryl Boone Isaacs
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Cheryl Boone Isaacs is an American film marketing and public relations executive. She represented the Public Relations Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), known for its annual Academy Awards (Oscars), on the AMPAS Board of Governors for 21 years, until 2013. On July 30, 2013 she was elected as the 35th president of AMPAS and on August 11, 2015 she was re-elected. Boone Isaacs was the first African American to hold this office, and the third woman (after Bette Davis and Fay Kanin). On November 16, 2021, it was announced that Boone Isaacs would serve as Founding Director of the Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, effective January 1, 2022.
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Gregory Salcido
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Gregory Salcido is a former Pico Rivera City Councilman who decided to not run for re-election in November 2020, a former candidate for Congress, and a former educator in Pico Rivera, California. Concurrently with his position as city councilman, Salcido served as mayor of Pico Rivera in 2002, 2010 and 2015. His derogatory comments about members of the United States armed forces, captured on video by one of his students, went viral in January 2018, leading to calls for his eventual dismissal as both teacher and city councilman in March 2018.
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Jamie Quirk
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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James Patrick Quirk is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball from 1975 to 1992. Quirk was a member of the world champion 1985 Kansas City Royals team.
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William F. House
- Occupations
- physicianinventor
- Biography
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William Fouts House was an American otologist, physician and medical researcher who developed and invented the cochlear implant. The cochlear implant is considered to be the first invention to restore not just the sense of hearing, but any of the absent five senses in humans. Dr. House also pioneered approaches to the lateral skull base for removal of tumors, and is considered "the Father of Neurotology".
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Brian S. Brown
- Biography
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Brian S. Brown is an American activist who is a co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), and has served as its president since 2010, having previously served as executive director. NOM is a non-profit political organization established in 2007 to work against legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. NOM's mission is "protecting marriage and the faith communities that sustain it".
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Tony Strickland
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony A. "Tony" Strickland is an American politician. He is a member of the Huntington Beach City Council and was mayor from 2022-2023. He is a former California State Senator who represented the 19th District from 2008–2012. Strickland is a member of the Republican Party and a former Assemblyman, representing the 37th District from 1998 until 2004. He is the President and CEO of Strong America, an advocacy group and PAC.
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Timo Liekoski
- Occupations
- futsal coachassociation football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Timo Liekoski is a Finnish soccer coach who managed teams in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League, American Indoor Soccer Association and Major League Soccer. He currently holds a variety of coaching positions with the Football Association of Finland.
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Harry Rimmer
- Years
- 1890-1952 (aged 62)
- Occupations
- pastorevangelist
- Biography
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Harry Rimmer was an American evangelist and creationist. He is most prominent as a defender of creationism in the United States, a fundamentalist leader and writer of anti-evolution publications.
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Geoff Shepard
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Geoffrey Carroll Shepard is an American lawyer, author and lecturer.
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Lorenzo D. Lewelling
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lorenzo Dow Lewelling was the 12th Governor of Kansas.
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Dario Anselmo
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dario Anselmo is an American politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He is nonpartisan-affiliated.
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Susie Atwood
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Susanne Jean Atwood is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in two events.
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Arturo C. Porzecanski
- Occupations
- economistwriter
- Biography
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Arturo C. Porzecanski is a Uruguayan-born economist who has spent his entire adult life in the United States.
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Robert D. Durham
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Robert Donald "Skip" Durham Jr. is a retired justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Previously, Durham was a judge for the Oregon Court of Appeals and a lawyer in private practice.
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Linda Vallejo
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Linda Vallejo is an American artist known for painting, sculpture and ceramics. Her work often addresses her Mexican-American ethnic identity within the context of American art and popular culture. The founder of the commercial art gallery Galería Las Américas, she is also an arts educator and has been involved in traditional Native American and Mexican rituals and ceremonies for many years.
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Wayne R. Grisham
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wayne Richard Grisham was a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives from California from 1979 to 1983.
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Ira C. Owens
- Enrolled in Whittier College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in international relations
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Ira Charles Owens was an officer in the United States Army. From October 1991 to February 1995, Owens, then a Lieutenant General, served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army.
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Lycia Trouton
- Occupations
- installation artist
- Biography
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Lycia Danielle Trouton is a Canadian artist.
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Frances Heussenstamm
- Occupations
- artistpsychologistsociologist
- Biography
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France Kovacs Heussenstamm was an American artist and psychologist. She was a professor of art and education at Columbia University, an associate professor at California State University, Los Angeles, and instructor at Sierra High School, Whittier, California. In sociology research, her experiment entitled, Bumper Stickers and the Cops, is widely referenced, as its findings continue to remain of controversy.
