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| Jeff Prucher |
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Wittenberg University | 1990 | 1994 | Bachelor of Arts | English Literature | Religion | |||
| Dan Milbrath |
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University of Michigan | 1987 | 1991 | Bachelor of Arts | Psychology | ||||
| Dan Milbrath |
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University of Texas at Austin | 1994 | 1996 | MBA | Marketing | ||||
| Santiago Calatrava |
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Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Valencian Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of...
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | 1975 | Civil Engineering | |||||
| Kurt Vonnegut |
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007; pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction including Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of...
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Cornell University | 1941 | 1943 | Chemistry | ||||
| Kurt Vonnegut |
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007; pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction including Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of...
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Butler University | |||||||
| Kurt Vonnegut |
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007; pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction including Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of...
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University of Chicago | Master's degree | Anthropology | |||||
| Richard Morris Hunt |
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Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture. Hunt was, according to design critic Paul Goldberger writing in The New York...
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École des Beaux-Arts | |||||||
| Maren Jensen |
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Maren Kawehilani Jensen (September 23, 1956, Arcadia, California) is an American actress best known for portraying Athena in the 1970s television series Battlestar Galactica.
Jensen was born in Glendale, California. Her father was a physician, while...
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Herbert Hoover High School | 1971 | 1974 | |||||
| Patrick Macnee |
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Patrick Macnee (born 6 February 1922) is an English actor, best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the series The Avengers.
Macnee, the older of two sons (he has a younger brother, James), was born Daniel Patrick Macnee in...
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Eton College | |||||||
| Tom Cruise |
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (pronounced /ˈtɒməs ˈkruːz ˈmeɪpɒθər/; born July 3, 1962), better known by his screen name of Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He...
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Johnson State College | |||||||
| Egon Schiele |
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Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) (German pronunciation: [ˈʃiːlə], approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century.
Schiele's work is noted for...
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Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | 1906 | 1909 | Fine art | ||||
| Jon Bridgman |
Jon Bridgman is an American historian and a professor emeritus of the University of Washington.
Bridgman, a graduate of Stanford University, who received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1961 spent his entire teaching career at the...
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Stanford University | 1961 | Ph.D. | ||||||
| Jon Erpenbach |
Jon B. Erpenbach (born January 28, 1961) is an American politician.
Erpenbach, who is a member of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, has been serving since 1998 as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate. He represents the state's twenty-seventh...
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University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh | 1979 | 1981 | None | |||||
| Franchot Tone |
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Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor.
He was born Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the president of the Carborundum Company, and his wife,...
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Cornell University | |||||||
| Danny Hillis |
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William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1978 | Bachelor of Science | Mathematics | ||||
| Samuel L. Jackson |
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Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21 1948) is an American film and television actor. After Jackson became involved with the Civil Rights Movement, he moved on to acting in theater at Morehouse College, and then, films. He had several small roles,...
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Morehouse College | Bachelor of Arts | Drama | |||||
| Denzel Washington |
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Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and film producer. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such...
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Fordham University | Bachelor of Arts | Journalism | |||||
| Clare Selgin Wolfowitz |
Clare Selgin Wolfowitz (born November 1945) is an expert on Indonesian anthropology. She currently works at the IRIS center at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Governance Institutions Group, primarily on its projects in Indonesia and...
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Cornell University | ||||||||
| Niall Mellon |
Niall Mellon was born in 1967 is an Irish entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Niall Mellon Township Trust to provide homes to impoverished communities in South Africa's townships.
Mellon grew up in Ballyroan in South County Dublin. After...
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Dublin Institute of Technology | Ph.D. | |||||||
| Jacob Wolfowitz |
Jacob Wolfowitz, Ph.D. (March 19, 1910–July 16, 1981, age 71) was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul...
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New York University | 1942 | Ph.D. | Mathematics | |||||
| Niall O'Higgins |
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University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin | Sep 2001 | May 2006 | Bachelor of Arts International | Computing Science | ||||
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| David Hillis |
David Mark Hillis (born December 21, 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a prominent American evolutionary biologist. He is best known for his studies of...
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University of Kansas | Ph.D. | |||||||
| Carl Sagan |
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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for...
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University of Chicago | 1955 | Bachelor of Science | Physics | ||||
| Carl Sagan |
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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for...
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Rahway High School | 1951 | ||||||
| Carl Sagan |
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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for...
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University of Chicago | 1956 | Master of Science | Physics | ||||
| Carl Sagan |
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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for...
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University of Chicago | 1960 | Ph.D. | Astrophysics | ||||
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| Chris Maden |
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Chris Maden is a data analyst, Libertarian politician, and martial arts instructor. He lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Chris was employed by Metaweb Technologies, Inc., makers of Freebase.com, from 2005 until 2009; his career since college has...
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Wintonbury School | Sep 1977 | Jun 1981 | |||||
| Chris Maden |
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Chris Maden is a data analyst, Libertarian politician, and martial arts instructor. He lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Chris was employed by Metaweb Technologies, Inc., makers of Freebase.com, from 2005 until 2009; his career since college has...
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Laurel School | Sep 1981 | Jun 1982 | |||||
| Chris Maden |
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Chris Maden is a data analyst, Libertarian politician, and martial arts instructor. He lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Chris was employed by Metaweb Technologies, Inc., makers of Freebase.com, from 2005 until 2009; his career since college has...
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Carmen Arace Middle School | Aug 1982 | Jun 1985 | |||||
| Chris Maden |
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Chris Maden is a data analyst, Libertarian politician, and martial arts instructor. He lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Chris was employed by Metaweb Technologies, Inc., makers of Freebase.com, from 2005 until 2009; his career since college has...
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Bloomfield Junior High School | Aug 1985 | Jun 1986 | |||||
| Chris Maden |
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Chris Maden is a data analyst, Libertarian politician, and martial arts instructor. He lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Chris was employed by Metaweb Technologies, Inc., makers of Freebase.com, from 2005 until 2009; his career since college has...
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Bloomfield High School | Aug 1986 | Jun 1990 | High School Diploma | ||||
| Chris Maden |
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Chris Maden is a data analyst, Libertarian politician, and martial arts instructor. He lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Chris was employed by Metaweb Technologies, Inc., makers of Freebase.com, from 2005 until 2009; his career since college has...
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Brown University | Sep 1990 | May 1994 | Bachelor of Science | Electrical engineering | |||
| Anika Noni Rose |
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Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress.
Rose was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut to Claudia and John Rose, Jr., a corporate counsel for the city of Hartford. In her freshman year in high school,...
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Bloomfield High School | Aug 1986 | Jun 1990 | |||||
| Nykesha Sales |
Nykesha Simone Sales (born May 10, 1976 in Bloomfield, Connecticut) was a professional basketball player in the WNBA, most recently for the Connecticut Sun. Her primary position is the small forward. Her second position is shooting guard. In 1999...
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Bloomfield High School | Jun 1994 | |||||||
| Dwight Freeney |
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Dwight Jason Freeney (born February 28, 1980 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American football defensive end who currently plays for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was drafted in the 1st round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He...
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Bloomfield High School | Jun 1998 | ||||||
| Lise Meitner |
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Lise Meitner (7 or 17 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-born, later Swedish physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.
Lise Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her...
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University of Vienna | 1901 | 1905 | Physics | ||||
| John Lindsay |
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John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician,lawyer and broadcaster who was a U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S. President and regular guest host of Good Morning America substituting...
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Yale College | 1944 | Bachelor's degree | |||||
| John Lindsay |
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John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician,lawyer and broadcaster who was a U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S. President and regular guest host of Good Morning America substituting...
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Yale Law School | 1948 | Law degree | |||||
| John Lindsay |
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John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician,lawyer and broadcaster who was a U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S. President and regular guest host of Good Morning America substituting...
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St. Paul's School | |||||||
| Robert Cook |
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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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Yale University | 1989 | 1993 | Bachelor of Science | Computing Science | |||
| Jon Cryer |
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Jonathan Niven "Jon" Cryer (born April 16, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer. He is the son of actress/singer Gretchen Cryer. He made his motion picture debut by starring in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair, but...
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Bronx High School of Science | 1983 | High School Diploma | |||||
| Jon Busch |
Jon Busch (born August 18, 1976 in Queens, New York) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer. He was named MLS Goalkeeper of the Year in 2008.
Busch played at Guilderland High School in Guilderland,...
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Guilderland High School | ||||||||
| Jon Heder |
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Jonathan Joseph "Jon" Heder (born October 26, 1977) is an American actor, filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for playing the title character of the 2004 comedy film Napoleon Dynamite. He has also acted in the films The Benchwarmers, School...
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South Salem High School | 1996 | High School Diploma | |||||
| Jon Heder |
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Jonathan Joseph "Jon" Heder (born October 26, 1977) is an American actor, filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for playing the title character of the 2004 comedy film Napoleon Dynamite. He has also acted in the films The Benchwarmers, School...
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Brigham Young University | 2003 | ||||||
| Jon Gruden |
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Jon David Gruden (born August 17, 1963 in Sandusky, Ohio) is a former American football head coach, most recently with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. Prior to taking over as coach of Tampa Bay, he was the head coach of the Oakland Raiders for...
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University of Dayton | Communications | ||||||
| Jon Conway |
Jon Conway (born May 6, 1977 in Media, Pennsylvania) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer.
Conway played for powerhouse youth soccer club F.C Delco, and played four years of college soccer at Rutgers...
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Rutgers University | ||||||||
| Jon Jerde |
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Jon Jerde (b.1940) is an American architect based in Venice, California, Founder & Chairman of The Jerde Partnership, a design architecture and urban planning firm that pioneered the concept of placemaking and "experience architecture;" and has...
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University of Southern California | Architecture | ||||||
| Jon Runyan |
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Jon Daniel Runyan (born November 27, 1973 in Flint, Michigan) is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Houston Oilers in the fourth round of the 1996 NFL Draft. He played college football at...
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Carman-Ainsworth High School | High School Diploma | ||||||
| Jon Runyan |
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Jon Daniel Runyan (born November 27, 1973 in Flint, Michigan) is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Houston Oilers in the fourth round of the 1996 NFL Draft. He played college football at...
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University of Michigan-Flint | |||||||
| Jon Miller |
Jonathan Miller (born October 11, 1951) is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. He is currently employed as a play-by-play announcer by the San Francisco Giants and ESPN.
Born in San Francisco,...
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College of San Mateo | ||||||||
| Jon Wefald |
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Jon Michael Wefald (b. November 24, 1937, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American educator and the twelfth President of Kansas State University.
Wefald was born in Minneapolis and moved, at age six, with his family to Minot, North Dakota. After...
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Pacific Lutheran University | 1959 | Bachelor of Arts | History | ||||
| Jon Wefald |
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Jon Michael Wefald (b. November 24, 1937, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American educator and the twelfth President of Kansas State University.
Wefald was born in Minneapolis and moved, at age six, with his family to Minot, North Dakota. After...
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Washington State University | 1961 | Master's degree | Political Science | ||||
| Tina Fey |
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Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Writers Guild of America Awards....
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University of Virginia | 1992 | Bachelor's degree | Drama | ||||
| Jimmy Greene | Bloomfield High School | |||||||||
| Eero Saarinen |
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Eero Saarinen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈeːro ˈsaːrinen]) (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and product designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple,...
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Yale University | 1934 | Architecture | |||||
| Tim O'Reilly |
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Tim O'Reilly (Irish: Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh) (born June 6, 1954) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a supporter of the free software and open source movements. He is widely credited with coining the term Web 2.0.
O...
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Harvard College | 1975 | Bachelor of Arts | Classics | ||||
| Robert A. M. Stern |
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Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, (born May 23, 1939) is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.
His work is generally classified as postmodern, though a more useful...
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Columbia University | 1960 | Bachelor's degree | |||||
| Robert A. M. Stern |
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Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, (born May 23, 1939) is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.
His work is generally classified as postmodern, though a more useful...
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Yale University | 1965 | Master's degree | Architecture | ||||
| Kurt Gödel |
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Kurt Gödel (German pronunciation: [kʊɐ̯t ˈɡøːdl̩]; April 28, 1906, Brno – January 14, 1978, Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian-American logician, mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel made an...
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University of Vienna | Ph.D. | Mathematics | |||||
