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Dec 26, 1964 | Long Beach | Berkeley College |
Robert Cook is co-founder and SVP Platform Partnerships at Metaweb. You can find out more about him at his Freebase user page.
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| x Jordana Brewster |
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Apr 26, 1980 | Panama City | Berkeley College |
Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is a Brazilian-American actress, perhaps best known for her roles in The Fast and the Furious, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The Faculty, D.E.B.S., Annapolis, Chuck, and most recently Fast &...
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| x Fareed Zakaria |
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Jan 20, 1964 | Mumbai | Berkeley College |
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (pronounced /fəˈriːd zəˈkɑriə/) born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS.
Zakaria is a frequent commentator and author about issues related to international...
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| x David Lempert | Feb 12, 1959 | The Bronx | Trumbull College |
David Howard Lempert (February 12, 1959), is an anthropologist, author, social entrepreneur/NGO head, legal scholar/lawyer, and international development consultant.
Though his work crosses many fields, he is known primarily as an educational...
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| x Sharon Isbin | Aug 7, 1956 | St. Louis Park | Trumbull College |
Sharon Isbin (born August 7, 1956 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota) is an American guitarist, recording artist, concertizer, and the founder of the Guitar Department at the Juilliard School.
Sharon Isbin was born in Minneapolis and began her guitar...
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| x Dana Milbank | Apr 27, 1968 | Trumbull College |
Dana Timothy Milbank (born 27 April 1968) is an American political reporter and columnist for The Washington Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and...
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| x Oliver Stone |
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Sep 15, 1946 | New York City | Trumbull College |
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his...
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| x Allison Silverman |
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Trumbull College |
Allison Silverman is an American comedy writer from Gainesville, Florida. She was formerly the head writer and executive producer for The Colbert Report.
Silverman graduated from Buchholz High School, in Gainesville, Florida in 1990 and Yale...
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| x Ron Livingston |
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Jun 5, 1967 | Cedar Rapids | Trumbull College |
Ronald Joseph "Ron" Livingston (born June 5, 1967) is an American film and television actor. His roles include a disaffected corporate employee in the film Office Space, a sardonic writer in a short-term relationship with Carrie Bradshaw in the TV...
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| x Anderson Cooper |
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Jun 3, 1967 | New York City | Trumbull College |
Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American journalist, author, and television personality. He currently works as the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City...
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| x L. Paul Bremer |
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Sep 30, 1941 | Hartford | Ezra Stiles College |
Lewis Paul Bremer III (born September 30, 1941), also nicknamed Jerry Bremer, is an American diplomat. He is most notable for being the U.S. Administrator of Iraq charged with overseeing the reconstruction of Iraq. In his role as head of the...
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| x Edward Norton |
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Aug 18, 1969 | Boston | Ezra Stiles College |
Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American film actor, screenwriter and director. In 1996, his supporting role in the courtroom drama Primal Fear garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. A year...
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| x Lloyd Kaufman |
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Dec 30, 1945 | New York City | Ezra Stiles College |
Lloyd Kaufman (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films,...
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| x Robert Blair Kaiser | 1930 | Ezra Stiles College |
Robert Blair Kaiser (born 1930) is an American author and journalist, best known for his writing on the Catholic Church.
As a correspondent for Time Magazine, he won the Overseas Press Club's Ed Cunningham Award in 1962 for the "best magazine...
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| x Sheldon Whitehouse |
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Oct 20, 1955 | New York City | Ezra Stiles College |
Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is the Junior Senator from the state of Rhode Island. A Democrat, he previously served as United States Attorney (1994–1998) and state Attorney General for Rhode Island. He is a descendent of William...
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| x Mitchell Kapor |
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Nov 1, 1950 | Brooklyn | Ezra Stiles College |
Mitchell David Kapor (born November 1, 1950) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3.
Kapor was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended public schools on Long Island in Freeport, New York, where he graduated...
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| x Bob Woodward |
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Mar 26, 1943 | Geneva | Ezra Stiles College |
Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is regarded as one of America's preeminent investigative reporters and non-fiction authors. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter, and is currently an associate editor of...
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| x Dan Froomkin | Ezra Stiles College |
Dan Froomkin is a journalist whose column (also termed a blog on the site) for the online version of The Washington Post is now entitled White House Watch and published on washingtonpost.com, as hosted by Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. On June...
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| x Mark Linn-Baker |
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Jun 17, 1954 | St. Louis | Ezra Stiles College |
Mark Linn-Baker (born June 17, 1954) is an American actor and director famous for his role as Larry Appleton on the television sitcom, Perfect Strangers.
Graduating from Yale University with an MFA in Drama in 1979, Linn-Baker found most of his...
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| x David Gergen |
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May 9, 1942 | Ezra Stiles College |
Commentator, editor, teacher, public servant, best-selling author and adviser to presidents – for 30 years, David Gergen has been an active participant in American national life. He served as director of communications for President Reagan and held...
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| x Stone Phillips | Dec 2, 1954 | Silliman College |
Stone Stockton Phillips (born December 2, 1954, Texas City, Texas) is the former co-anchor of Dateline NBC, a newsmagazine TV show. He has also worked as a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News and Today and as a substitute moderator on Meet the...
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| x David Hyde Pierce |
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Apr 3, 1959 | Saratoga Springs | Silliman College |
David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier.
Pierce was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, the youngest child of Laura Marie (née Hughes...
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| x Elizabeth Kostova |
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Dec 26, 1964 | New London | Silliman College |
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.
Elizabeth Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. She received her undergraduate degree...
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| x Jim Jeffords |
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May 11, 1934 | Rutland City | Silliman College |
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (born May 11, 1934) is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent.
Jeffords was born in Rutland, Vermont, the son of Marion Hausman and Olin...
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| x Ben Greenman |
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1969 | Silliman College |
Ben Greenman (born 1969) is an American writer and magazine editor.
Greenman was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami Palmetto High School and then Yale University where he worked on the Yale Herald. After Yale,...
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| x Daniel Yergin |
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Feb 6, 1947 | Los Angeles | Silliman College |
Daniel H. Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy. It was acquired by IHS Energy in 2004....
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| x Evan Wolfson |
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Feb 4, 1957 | Brooklyn | Silliman College |
Evan Wolfson (b. February 4, 1957) is an American civil rights attorney and advocate. He is the founder and executive director of Freedom to Marry, a national non-profit organization that advocates legalization of same-sex marriage. Wolfson authored...
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| x Strobe Talbott |
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Apr 25, 1946 | Dayton | Silliman College |
Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946) is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy...
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| x Joshua Spanogle |
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Branford College |
Joshua Spanogle is a physician and a novelist. He graduated from Yale University and Stanford Medical School. He has written the bestselling medico-science thrillers Isolation Ward (2006) and Flawless (2007). Spanogle has worked in medical ethics,...
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| x Samantha Power |
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Sep 21, 1970 | Dungarvan | Davenport College |
Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970, in Ireland) is an Irish American journalist, writer, academic, and government official. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of...
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| x William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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Nov 24, 1925 | New York City | Davenport College |
William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966...
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| x David McCullough |
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Jul 7, 1933 | Pittsburgh | Davenport College |
David Gaub McCullough (mə-kŭl'ə) (born July 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American author, narrator, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of...
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| x Thornton Wilder |
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Apr 17, 1897 | Madison | Davenport College |
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. His best known work is his play Our Town.
Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and was the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a U.S. diplomat, and Isabella...
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| x Garry Trudeau |
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Jul 21, 1948 | New York City | Davenport College |
Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.
Trudeau was born in New York City, the son of Jean Douglas (née Moore) and Francis Berger Trudeau. He is the great-grandson...
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| x George W. Bush |
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Jul 6, 1946 | New Haven | Davenport College |
George Walker Bush ( /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈwɔːkər ˈbʊʃ/ (help·info); born July 6, 1946) was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Bush is the eldest son of George H. W. Bush (the 41st...
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| x Sarah Lyall | Davenport College |
Sarah Lambert Lyall is an American-born English journalist, who currently works as London correspondent for The New York Times.
Lyall is a graduate of Philips Exeter Academy, class of 1981 and of Yale University.
Lyall has been married to the author...
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| x George H. W. Bush |
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Jun 12, 1924 | Milton | Davenport College |
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989-1993). He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.
Bush was born in...
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| x Michael Gerber | Jun 14, 1969 | Davenport College |
Michael Gerber (born June 14, 1969) is the author of the Barry Trotter series, million-selling parodies of the Harry Potter books. Before becoming a novelist, Gerber contributed humor to The New Yorker, Saturday Night Live, and many other venues.
In...
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| x Sherrod Brown |
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Nov 9, 1952 | Mansfield | Davenport College |
Sherrod Campbell Brown (born November 9, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from the state of Ohio, and a member of the Democratic Party. Before his election to the Senate in 2006, Brown served as a member of the House of Representatives from...
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| x Jefferson Mays | Jun 8, 1965 | Connecticut | Davenport College |
Jefferson Mays (born Lewis Jefferson Mays; June 8, 1965) is an American theatre and film actor.
A Connecticut native, Mays trained at Yale College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University of California, San Diego, where he...
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| x Nicholas F. Brady |
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Apr 11, 1930 | New York City | Jonathan Edwards College |
Nicholas Frederick Brady (born April 11, 1930, in New York City) was United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and is also known for articulating the Brady Plan in March 1989.
The son of Eliot...
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| x Murray Gell-Mann |
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Sep 15, 1929 | Manhattan | Jonathan Edwards College |
Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.
He formulated the quark model of hadronic resonances, and identified the SU(3)...
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| x Wilbur Ross | Jonathan Edwards College |
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. is an American investor known for restructuring failed companies in industries such as steel, coal, telecommunications, foreign investment and textiles. He specializes in leveraged buyouts and distressed businesses. In 2005,...
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| x John Kerry |
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Dec 11, 1943 | Aurora | Jonathan Edwards College |
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, he was defeated by 34 electoral votes...
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| x Allan Heinberg | Jun 29, 1967 | Morse College |
Allan Heinberg (b. June 29, 1967) is an American film screenwriter, who wrote Young Avengers for Marvel Comics, and has been a writer and producer on The Naked Truth, Party of Five, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., and currently Grey's...
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| x Douglas A. Warner III |
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Jun 9, 1946 | Cincinnati | Morse College |
Following graduation from Yale University in 1968, Mr. Warner joined Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York (in the mid 80s they returned to the name J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated). He was elected president and a...
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| x Sada Jacobson | Feb 14, 1983 | Dunwoody | Morse College |
Sada Molly Jacobson (born February 14, 1983 in Dunwoody, Georgia) is an American fencer. She is the 2008 Olympic Individual Sabre silver medalist and 2004 Olympic Individual Sabre bronze medalist.
Jacobson is a daughter of David Jacobson, a member...
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| x Bronson Pinchot |
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May 20, 1959 | New York City | Morse College |
Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American actor.
Pinchot was born in New York City, New York, the son of Rosina (née Asta), a typist, and Henry Poncharavsky, a bookbinder. His father, who was born in New York and raised in Paris, was...
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| x Jennifer Beals |
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Dec 19, 1963 | Chicago | Morse College |
Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American film actress and former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the lesbian-themed Showtime drama series The L Word....
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| x Joe Lieberman |
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Feb 24, 1942 | Stamford | Morse College |
Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. First elected to the Senate in 1988, Lieberman was elected to a fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 United States presidential...
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| x George Pataki |
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Jun 24, 1945 | Peekskill | Pierson College |
George Elmer Pataki (born June 24, 1945) is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York serving three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006. He is a member of the Republican Party and was seen as a...
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| x Howard Dean |
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Nov 17, 1948 | New York City | Pierson College |
Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He served six terms as Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination. He was the...
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| x Gene Siskel |
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Jan 26, 1946 | Chicago | Pierson College |
Eugene "Gene" Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946–February 20, 1999) was an American film critic. Alongside colleague Roger Ebert, he pioneered the classic review show Siskel & Ebert at the Movies.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Siskel attended Culver...
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| x Richard H. Brodhead | 1947 | Pierson College |
Richard Halleck Brodhead (born 1947) currently serves as the ninth president of Duke University and is a scholar of 19th-century American literature.
Brodhead was born in 1947 in Dayton, Ohio. His family moved to Fairfield, Connecticut when he was...
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| x Jeffrey Bewkes |
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May 25, 1952 | Paterson | Pierson College |
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes (born 25 May 1952 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American media executive. He has served as CEO of Time Warner since January 1, 2008 and as President since December 2005. On January 1, 2009 he became Chairman of the Board in...
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| x Tony Knowles |
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Jan 1, 1943 | Tulsa | Pierson College |
Anthony Carroll Knowles (born January 1, 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American Democratic politician and businessman who served as Governor of Alaska from December 1994 to December 2002. Barred from seeking a third consecutive term as governor in...
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| x Jeffrey Loria | 1940 | Manhattan | Pierson College |
Jeffrey H. Loria is an art dealer and is owner of the Florida Marlins. Born November 20, 1940 and raised in Manhattan, Loria took an early interest in baseball, attending his first New York Yankees game in the late 1940s. Loria attended New York...
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