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This were the first Summer Olympic Games for Aden, Hassan, Abdillahi, and Moussa.
Salah competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Hoche Yaya Aden competed in the men's 1500 meters, where he finished twelfth in his heat.
He did not go onto the next round.
The medals went to Kenya, Great Britain and East Germany.
Ismael Hassan competed in the men's 5000 meters, where he finished fourteenth in his heat.
The medals went to Kenya, West Germany, and East Germany.
Yu Darvish (born 16 August 1986) is a Japanese professional baseball starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball.
Darvish previously played in MLB for the Texas Rangers and the Los Angeles Dodgers and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.
In international play, Darvish pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team.
In his first MLB season, Darvish finished third in the American League (AL) Rookie of the Year balloting.
The next season, he finished second in the AL Cy Young Award vote as he led the Major Leagues in strikeouts with 277 and finished fourth in the AL in earned run average (ERA) at 2.83.
On 6 April 2014, Darvish reached the 500 strikeout mark in fewer innings pitched than any starting pitcher in MLB history.
is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
He previously played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Aoki is one of only six players, alongside Ichiro Suzuki, Matt Murton, Alex Ramirez, Tsuyoshi Nishioka, and Shogo Akiyama, to amass 200 or more hits in a single season in Japanese professional baseball, and the only individual to do so in two separate seasons.
He played in the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics as well as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and represented Japan in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
is a Japanese professional baseball starting pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB).
From 2007 through 2013, he played for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) Pacific League.
Tanaka was posted by the Eagles after the 2013 season to be signed by an American team; he agreed to terms with the New York Yankees and signed a seven-year, $155 million contract, the fifth-largest deal ever given to a pitcher at the time.
Tanaka was the Eagles' first-round pick in the 2006 NPB amateur player draft.
From 2012 to 2013, he won 26 consecutive decisions, which set a new NPB record.
is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher.
He played for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), as well as the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB).
A right-handed pitcher, Uehara has an MLB career strikeout rate of 10.7 K/9 innings and a walk rate of 1.5 BB/9 (through the 2017 season).
Through the 2017 season, his career 7.33 K/BB is the best in MLB history for a player with at least 100 innings pitched.
He won the 2013 ALCS MVP Award, and closed the final game of the 2013 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
With his World Series win, he became one of sixteen players in history to have won both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic.
Kenta Maeda (born April 11, 1988) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
He previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
He won the 2010 Eiji Sawamura Award with a record of 15–8 and a 2.21 ERA, with 174 strikeouts in 215 and 2/3 innings, and six complete games with two shutouts.
He also became the youngest pitcher in Japanese baseball history to achieve the pitching Triple Crown in the same year.
He won the Sawamura Award for the second time in 2015.
is a Japanese baseball player.
He is a left-handed starting pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants.
He also played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
Sugiuchi was the Eiji Sawamura Award winner in 2005.
He pitched in the 2000 Sydney and 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics.
Champa Chakma (born: 1 January 1992) is a women Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for the Bangladesh national women's cricket team.
She is a left-hand batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler.
Bangladesh women's national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Bangladesh in international women's cricket.
They made their international debut when they played, and won, two matches against Thailand in July 2007 before participating in and winning the 2007 ACC Women's Tournament.
Bangladesh were granted One-Day International (ODI) status in 2011 after finishing fifth in the 2011 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
They played subsequently qualified for the 2014 ICC Women's World Twenty20, making their first appearance at a top-level women's international tournament.
Jahanara Alam (born: 1 April 1993) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for the Bangladesh national women's cricket team.
She is a right-arm medium fast bowler and right-handed batswoman.
Lata Mondal (born: 16 January 1993) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for the Bangladesh national women's cricket team.
She is a right handed bat.
Rolland Harve Golden (November 8, 1931 – July 1, 2019) was an American visual artist.
Golden was known mainly for his realism, abstract realism and "Borderline-Surrealisterm".
He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who in American Art and Marquis Who's Who in the World.
His works mainly focused on the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
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Folsom is a village in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.
The population was 716 at the 2010 census.
It is part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Villages in Louisiana
Tyler Wayne Skaggs (July 13, 1991 – July 1, 2019) was an American professional baseball pitcher.
He was born in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, but raised in Santa Monica, California.
Skaggs played for the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2012 to 2013 and for the Los Angeles Angels in 2014 and again from 2016 until his death in 2019.
Skaggs was found dead at his hotel room in Southlake, Texas on July 1, 2019 at the age of 27.
No foul play is suspected and the cause of death has not been revealed.
Southlake is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States with minor areas extending into Denton County Southlake is a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth.
As of the 2010 census it had a population of 26,575.
Lee Edwards (born 1932) is an American conservative political writer and historian.
He thought at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
He was a historian of the conservative movement in America and of the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.
Robert James Ellicott  (born 15 April 1927) is an Australian lawyer, politician and judge.
He was born in Moree, New South Wales.
Ellicott was one of only six politicians to have been in both the Parliament of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia.
He was elected as the Liberal member for the Division of Wentworth in the 1974 election.
He was Attorney-General in the Fraser Ministry from 1975 to 1977.
Marcin Wodziński (born 30 May 1966) is a professor in the city of Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland.
Professor Wodziński a historian who studies the history of the Jews in Poland.
Wodziński was born and raised in the city of Świdnica.
As a historian, Wodziński, has studied the history of the Hasidic Judaism in Poland.
Professor Wodziński considers Hasidic Judaism to be one of Poland's most important religious movements.
Research on Hasidic Jews
Professor Wodziński is the first scholar to perform a complete study on Hasidic Jewish communities.
His study required him to collect and catalog all Hasidic community phone books.
This effort allowed him to estimate the size of the current Hasidic Jewish population.
Professor Wodziński found that there are around 750,000 Hasidic Jews in the world today, with most living in the United States and in Israel.
John Cain (26 April 1931 – 23 December 2019) was an Australian politician.
Cain was the 41st Premier of Victoria, in office from 1982 to 1990 as leader of the Labor Party.
His father was John Cain, the 34th Premier of Victoria.
Cain died on 23 December 2019 at a Melbourne hospital, aged 88.
He had a massive stroke on 10 December.
Barrie John Unsworth (born 16 April 1934) is an Australian politician.
He represented the Labor Party in the Parliament of New South Wales from 1978 to 1991.
He was the 36th Premier from July 1986 to March 1988.
Unsworth was born in Dubbo, New South Wales.
Raymond Steele Hall (born 30 November 1928) is an Australian politician.
He was the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970.
He also was a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977, and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996.
Felicia: The Political Memoirs of Don Dunstan, D. Dunstan (1981), MacMillan, South Melbourne.
The Flinders history of South Australia.
Political history, ed.
D. Jaensch, 1986, Wakefield Press, Netley, South Australia.
Playford's South Australia : essays on the history of South Australia, 1933–1968, ed.
B. O'Neil, J. Raftery & K. Round.
1996, Association of Professional Historians, Adelaide.
Inkheart is a book made in 2003 and has a film based on its content.
It has many characters such as six main characters: Meggie, Mo, Dustfinger, Elinor, Capricorn and Basta.
It has many parts to it.
Its author is Cornelia Funke.
DuckDuckGo is a search engine made by Gabriel Weinberg.
It stresses that it does not collect information about users like Google does, and keeps data private.
It headquarters is in Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States.
As of March 2020, it received 56,256,596 searches every day.
Popular sovereignty is the idea that the power of a state and its government are created and sustained by the permission of its people.
They give their permission through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who is the source of all political power.
It is very similar to a social contract, with philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Americans created their Revolution and government on popular sovereignty.
In the 1850s Popular sovereignty in the United States meant a very controversial way to deal with slavery in the territories.
This was pushed by senator Stephen A. Douglas.
It meant that people living in a territory would be the ones to decide if slavery would be allowed.
It led to fighting in Bleeding Kansas.
This was because abolitionists (people who didn't want slavery) and pro-slavery people came to the Kansas territory in order to decide the elections.
links it to Jacksonian Democracy
The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as The American National Red Cross, is a humanitarian group that gives emergency assistance, disaster relief, and teaches people how to prepare for disasters in the United States.
It is the official US group related to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the United States movement to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Clara Barton (1821–1912) created the American chapter after learning of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland.
In 1869, she went to Europe and became involved with the International Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian War.
She wanted to bring the group to America.
Clara Barton's House: Home of the American Red Cross, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan
American Red Cross Motor Service uniform, the 1940s, in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database
American Red Cross Nurse's Aide uniform, the 1940s, in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database
Red Cross posters from World War I from the Elisabeth Ball Collection
Records of the American National Red Cross, 1881–2008  at the National Archives and Records Administration
Woodson was born on a farm in Albemarle County, Virginia.
Both of his parents died by the time he was 7 years old.
Woodson was chosen to be secretary of the Kansas Territory by President Franklin Pierce on June 29, 1854.
He took the oath of office in Washington, DC on September 28.
He made $2,000 per year.
He agreed with people who wanted to make Kansas a slave state.
He agreed with what the pro-slavery people in the territory wanted.
While Governor Andrew Reeder was away from the territory, Woodson became acting governor.
He signed the first laws passed by the territorial legislature.
Even though this first territorial legislature was seen as real by the federal government, free-staters called the laws "bogus laws".
Woodson spent his last years in Parker, Kansas.
He was visiting Claremore, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) when he died in 1894.
Woodson County, Kansas was named for him in 1855.
It was the only county named for a Kansas territorial politician.
This changed in 1889 when Davis County's name changed to Geary County.
The Kansas Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Kansas.
The chair of the Kansas Democratic Party is Vicki Hiatt.
The Kansas Democratic Party has not been able to send a U.S. Senator to Washington since 1939.
This is a record that no other state party in the United States has been able to beat.
Kansas Democrats have not controlled the Kansas Senate since 1917.
The Kansas Republican Party is the state political party in Kansas of the United States Republican Party.
The Kansas Republican Party was created in May 1859.
It has been the main political party of Kansas ever since.
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy.
The goal is to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while the enemy is going through or running away from a place.
Any useful things that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, for example food sources, water supplies, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the local people themselves.
The Dissected Till Plains are physiographic parts of the Central Lowlands province.
In turn, those are part of the Interior Plains physiographic part of the United States.
They are in southern and western Iowa, northeastern Kansas, the southwestern corner of Minnesota, northern Missouri, eastern Nebraska, and southeastern South Dakota.
The Dissected Till Plains were created by pre-Wisconsin glaciers during the Pre-Illinoian Stage.
Glacial scouring and deposition by the Laurentide ice sheet and the later accumulation of loess during the Wisconsin Stage created the rolling hills and good, healthy dirt in the region.
The list of University of Kansas people includes notable alumni and faculty of the University of Kansas.
It is in Lawrence, Kansas.
Frank Rowland (1956–64), awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Vernon Smith (M.A. in economics 1952), awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Politics, government and education
Juan Manuel Santos, Former President of Colombia, elected in 2010; Nobel Peace Prize winner (2016)
William H. Avery (1934), 37th governor of Kansas (1965–1967)
Sheila C. Bair, former Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Kay Barnes, Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri (1999–2007)
Carol A. Beier, Kansas Supreme Court Justice
Robert Frederick Bennett, 39th governor of Kansas (1975–1979)
George L. Brown, first African-American elected lieutenant governor and first African-American elected to statewide office in Colorado
Sam Brownback, United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom; former Governor of Kansas; former U.S Senator for Kansas; former U.S. Representative for the Second District of Kansas; former Secretary of Agriculture, Kansas
Thomas W. Butcher, president of Kansas State Teachers College (Emporia State University) (1913–1943)
Francisco Santos Calderón, 9th vice president of Colombia
Arthur Linton Corbin (1894), professor at Yale Law School and scholar of contract law
Jonathan M. Davis, 22nd governor of Kansas
George Docking (1925), 35th governor of Kansas (1957–1961)
Robert Docking (1948), 38th governor of Kansas (1967–1975)
Bob Dole, former U.S. Senate majority leader and Senator from Kansas (1969–1996), presidential and vice-presidential nominee, played football and basketball while attending.
Jerry Elliott, Kansas jurist
Sam C. Ford, the 12th governor of Montana
Thomas Frank, author, What's the Matter with Kansas?
Frederick Funston, attended 1885–1888, US Army general, recipient of Medal of Honor
John B. Gage (1907), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri (1940–1946)
Robert L. Gernon (BS 1966), Kansas Supreme Court Justice
Arthur Harkins (BA 1959, PhD 1968), UMN Graduate Certificate in Innovation Studies
Jane Dee Hull (1957), 24th governor of Arizona (1997–2003)
Todd Ames Hunter (BA 1975), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Corpus Christi, 1989–1997; attorney since 2009
John E. Jacobs, interim president of Emporia State in 1953; Director of Special Education for the Kansas State Department of Education, 1953–1957
Dusty Johnson, former South Dakota PUC Commissioner and chief of staff to the Governor of South Dakota
Lee A. Johnson (BS 1964), Kansas Supreme Court Justice
Nancy Landon Kassebaum (1954), first female U.S. senator (1979–1997) elected without having been preceded in office by her husband
Kenton Keith, U.S. ambassador to Qatar (1992–1995)
Marisa Kelly (BA 1986), political scientist and President of Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts
Joan F. Kessler, Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge
Phill Kline (JD 1987), former Attorney General of Kansas (2003–2006), District Attorney of Johnson County (2007–2008)
Ron Kuby, civil rights attorney
Alf Landon (1908), 26th governor of Kansas (1933–1937) and Republican nominee in the 1936 presidential election
Delano Lewis, former National Public Radio CEO and ambassador to South Africa
Caroline Lucas, first Member of Parliament (UK) elected as a Green Party of England and Wales candidate
Deane Waldo Malott (1921), former Chancellor of KU and 6th president of Cornell University (1951–1963)
David McClain, President, University of Hawaii
John H. McClendon, African-American studies scholar at Michigan State University
Merritt C. Mechem, 5th governor of the State of New Mexico (1921–1923)
Kenneth Megill, philosopher, trade unionist, social activist, records and knowledge manager
Alexander C. Mitchell (1889), Kansas Board of Regents, State House and Representative to the Sixty-second US Congress
Dennis Moore, U.S. Congressman for Kansas District 3 (1999–2011)
Franklin David Murphy (B.S. 1936), Chancellor of the University of Kansas and Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles
Lawton Nuss (BA 1975, JD 1982), Kansas Supreme Court Justice
Frank D. Parent, California municipal court judge
William C. Perry (1922), Chief Justice Oregon Supreme Court
Eric Rosen, Kansas Supreme Court Justice
Jim Ryun, former U.S. Congressman Kansas District 2 (1997–2007), three-time U.S. Olympic runner and silver medalist
Mike Schreiner (BA '92), Leader of the Green Party of Ontario 2009–present
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services under Obama, 44th governor of Kansas (2003–2009)
Michael Shonrock – former president of Emporia State University; now president of Lindenwood University
Sam V. Stewart, Montana Supreme Court Justice and the sixth governor of Montana
David Stras, Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and Donald Trump's nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Walter R. Stubbs, 18th governor of Kansas
Deanell Reece Tacha (BA 1968), former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2001–present)
Rosalie E. Wahl (1946), first woman appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court
Bob Whittaker, U.S. Representative from Kansas
Kevin Yoder, U.S. Representative from Kansas District 3 (2011–2019)
Shombi Sharp, United Nations Resident Coordinator (Ambassador), Republic of Armenia (2018–)
Media and the arts
Gina Adams, Ojibwe-American cross-media artist and activist
Wendall Anschutz, bachelors and masters in communications, long time KCTV news anchor
Sanora Babb, novelist, best known for An Owl on Every Post and Whose Names Are Unknown
Scott Bakula, actor, star of Quantum Leap and Star Trek: Enterprise
James Barnes, professor and award-winning composer
Etta Moten Barnett, actress and singer, the first black artist to perform at the White House
Liliana V. Blum, Mexican writer
Danni Boatwright, former Miss Teen USA and Miss USA contestant, winner of Survivor: Guatemala
Kara Brock, television and film actress
Terry Bryant, journalist; sports and weather anchor, KMPH FOX 26, Fresno, California
Igor Buketoff, conductor
Trai Byers, actor, star of Empire
Christina Chang, television actress
Jan Chiapusso, piano pedagogue
Evan S. Connell, novelist, best known for Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge
Steve Doocy, Fox News anchor, New York Times bestselling author
Bob Dotson, documentarian and NBC reporter, four-time Emmy Award winner
Bill Downs, CBS and ABC News correspondent and one of the original Murrow Boys
Robert Ebendorf, international metalsmith and jeweler who uses found objects in his artwork
C. L. Edson, newspaper columnist, humorist, and poet
Gillian Flynn, writer, novel Gone Girl
Heidi Gardner, comedian, Saturday Night Live
Kori Gardner, vocalist, organist, and pianist in Mates of State; writer of Band on the Diaper Run
Frances Ginsberg, opera singer
Nikki Glaser, comedian
Cara Gorges, Miss Kansas USA 2007, controversial 2nd runner-up in Miss USA pageant
Moses Gunn, actor, TV mini-series Roots
Sherman Halsey, music video director, producer and artist manager
Ann Hamilton (BFA 1979), sculptor, installation artist and 1993 MacArthur Fellow recipient
Jason Hammel, musician, member of Mates of State
Kevin Harlan, broadcaster for CBS and TNT sports
Herk Harvey, award-winning director of over 400 industrial and educational short films and cult film Carnival of Souls
Scott Heim, novelist
Kevin Helliker, Chicago bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Caroline Henderson, teacher, farmer, author
Bob Holtzman, ESPN bureau-reporter for SportsCenter
William Inge, Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning author and playwright
Don Johnson, actor, co-star of Miami Vice and Nash Bridges
Tim Joyce, television journalist, writer, meteorologist
Tom Kane (BA 1985), voice actor, best known roles: Yoda, Admiral Ackbar, Academy Awards announcer, voice of The Walt Disney Parks and Monorail, Professor Utonium...
Jay Karnes, television actor, most notably from The Shield
John Kessel, Nebula Award-winning author, editor, professor of creative writing
George E Kimball III, author, poet
Terry Kiser, actor who portrayed the title character of the comedy Weekend at Bernie's
Bill Kurtis, television journalist and producer, host of A&E shows including American Justice and Cold Case Files
Neil LaBute, filmmaker/screenwriter, wrote and directed In the Company of Men, nominated for Palme D'Or for Nurse Betty
Wayne Lamb, Broadway dancer, choreographer and Professor Emeritus at Purdue University
Margaret Larkin, writer, poet, singer-songwriter, theater personality, researcher, and union activist
Jack Lembeck, painter and sculptor
Keith Loneker, NFL player, St. Louis Rams and Atlanta Falcons; actor, Leatherheads, Superbad, Lakeview Terrace
Laura Moriarty, novelist
Robert Morris, contemporary sculptor and painter (transferred to Reed College)
Rob Neyer, baseball author and columnist for ESPN.com
Sara Paretsky, novelist, best known for her frequent protagonist V.I. Warshawski
Mandy Patinkin, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor and singer (Yentl, The Princess Bride; TV's Criminal Minds)
Artur Pizarro, concert pianist
Maurice Prather, motion picture and still photographer and film director
Unique Priscilla, Indonesian-born actress and model
Betsy Randle, actress best known as the mother on Boy Meets World
Rob Riggle, comedian, The Daily Show correspondent and former Saturday Night Live cast member
Melissa Rooker, Director of Development of Malpaso Productions
Aaron S. Rosenberg, author and game designer
Paul Rudd, actor from TV's Friends, Clueless, The Cider House Rules, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and Ant-Man
Dan Ryckert, video game journalist
Heidi Schwegler, artist
Devin Scillian, television journalist and children's author
Gary Mark Smith, artist, author, master global street photographer
William Stafford (BA 1937), poet and pacifist, winner of the National Book Award for Travelling Through the Dark
Oscar S. Stauffer (1910), founder of Stauffer Communications
Craig Stevens, film, television and stage actor; star of the detective series Peter Gunn, 1958–1961
Mimi Thebo (BA 1985), Carnegie-nominated children's author
Laurence Traiger, composer
Kari Wahlgren (BA 1999), voice actor
Dee Wallace, actress (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Howling)
Catherine Warren, Miss Illinois USA 2006
William Allen White, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
Frank Wilcox, actor (attended for one year before transferring to St. Benedict's College)
Ron Fadlon, artist and activist
Henry K. Beecher (BA 1926, MA 1927), anesthesiologist, medical ethicist, and investigator of the placebo effect
Jon Davies (BS 1980), meteorologist, expert on severe thunderstorm environments and forecasting
Paul R. Ehrlich (MA/PhD 1957), entomologist, researcher and author of The Population Bomb, and 1990 MacArthur Fellow recipient
Joe Engle (BS 1955), former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Air Force colonel
Ronald E. Evans (BS 1956), former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Navy captain
Robert M. Haralick (BA 1964, BS 1966, MS 1967, PhD 1969), Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Steve Hawley (BA 1973), former NASA director and astronaut; Professor of Physics and Astronomy at KU
Erasmus Haworth, founder of the Kansas Geological Survey
David Hillis, evolutionary biologist and 1999 MacArthur Fellow recipient
Wes Jackson (MA 1960), environmental historian and founder of the Land Institute, a 1992 MacArthur Fellow recipient
Bill James, baseball sabermetrician; author of The Bill James Baseball Abstract, starting in 1977; named to the Time 100 in 2006
Richard F. Johnston, ornithologist and author, onetime curator of the Natural History Museum
William T. Kane, physicist in field of fiber optics
Joseph W. Kennedy (MA 1937), co-discoverer of the element plutonium
Thomas Kunz (PhD 1971), researcher notable for insights into bat ecology
Warren P. Mason (B.Sc 1927), electrical engineer and physicist, founder of the field of distributed element circuits
Brian McClendon (BSEE 1986), VP of Engineering for Google Earth, formerly Keyhole, Inc.
Elmer McCollum, co-discoverer of Vitamin A
Nariman Mehta, pharmacologist, developer of the antidepressant and smoking cessation drug bupropion
Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer, "father" of the Aegis Combat System and namesake of the USS Wayne E. Meyer naval destroyer
Douglas Shane (BS 1982), director of flight operations for SpaceShipOne, which made the first privately funded human spaceflight
Vernon L. Smith (M.A. in economics 1952), awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Kathryn Stephenson (MD 1941), first American woman board-certified plastic surgeon
Walter Sutton, pioneer of cellular biology and genetics, physician, inventor
George Tiller (BS 1963, MD 1967), physician, abortion provider, pro-choice advocate
Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discoverer of the dwarf planet Pluto
Kent Whealy, co-founder of the Seed Savers Exchange; 1988 MacArthur Fellow recipient
Bud Adams, CEO of Adams Resources, owner of the Tennessee Titans until his death
Kenneth S. "Boots" Adams (1921), former President and CEO of Phillips 66 Petroleum Company
Kjell Almskog, Norwegian businessman; former chief executive officer of Kværner and many other companies
Philip Anschutz (1961), billionaire, founder of Qwest
Sue Anschutz-Rodgers (1955), cattle ranch owner and philanthropist
Cynthia Carroll, CEO of Anglo American, one of the world’s largest independent mining companies
Linda Z. Cook (1980), executive director of Shell Gas & Power, part of Royal Dutch Shell
David Dillon, Chairman and CEO, Kroger Co.
Robert Eaton, former CEO of Chrysler Corporation
Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple
Robert Kaplan, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, former Vice Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group
Lou Montulli, co-founder of Netscape
Alan Mulally (BS/MS), President and CEO of Ford Motor Company
Christopher A. Sinclair (1971), Chairman and CEO of Mattel; former CEO of Pepsi-Cola Co.
Harry F. Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Oil Corporation
Charles E. Spahr (1934), former CEO of Standard Oil of Ohio
Kenneth A. Spencer (1926), Spencer Chemical Company founder whose philanthropies to KU include the Kenneth Spencer Research Library and the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art
David Wittig (1977), former President and CEO of Westar Energy
Cheryl Womack, founder of insurance company for National Association of Independent Truckers, who donated the money for Arrocha Ballpark on the KU campus
Honorary alumni
Donald J. Hall, Sr.,
Chairman of the Board and former President and CEO of Hallmark Cards
Chester Nez, WWII veteran and the last living of the 29 Navajo Code Talkers
Raj Bhala, distinguished Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law
Jan Chiapusso, Dutch-born pianist and pedagogue
J C D Clark, Ph.D., Cambridge University; Professor of History, History of Political Thought, 17th and 18th-century Britain, History of Religion
Anthony Corbeill, classics professor and writer specializing in political humor, Roman gesture, and grammatical gender
Loren Eiseley, anthropology professor from 1937 to 1944
Michael S. Engel, distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Entomology; expert on fossil insects
Bryant C. Freeman, founded the Institute of Haitian studies at KU, was given the protocol rank of major general with the U.N. peacekeeping force, and has published dictionaries in the language.
James Gunn, Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and creative writing professor
Steve Hawley, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, former astronaut and director of flight crew operations of Johnson Space Center
Kij Johnson, creative writing professor, Nebula-winning fantasy author
Kermit E Krantz MD, LittD (deceased 2007), University distinguished Professor; Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; developed the Marshall–Marchetti–Krantz (MMK) surgical procedure; invented the expandable tampon
Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972), known for his topological fixed-point theorem
Stanley Lombardo, classics professor and translator of classical works into English, including the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid
Adrian Melott, Professor of Physics and Astronomy; astrophysicist and astrobiologist, researched the large-scale structure of the Universe and mass extinctions
Charles D. Michener; former chairman of KU Entomology Department, ex-director of the Snow Entomological Museum; distinguished Professor Emeritus
Richard Moore, distinguished Professor emeritus
Jan Roskam, emeritus professor of aerospace engineering, author of eleven books on airplane design and flight dynamics
Susan Scholz, Harper Faculty Fellow
Kevin Willmott, associate professor of theater and film; writer and director of the film C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, won Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (along with Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, and Charlie Wachtel) for BlacKkKlansman
Donald Worster, distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, considered one of the founders of the field of environmental history
Athletes and coaches
For athletes and coaches, see the relevant section in Kansas Jayhawks
Bob Allison, All-Star outfielder of the Washington Senators and Minnesota Twins, 1959 American League Rookie of the Year
Jeff Berblinger, former Major League Baseball player
Brett Bochy.
former Major League Baseball pitcher
Mike Getto, Head Baseball Coach, All-American in football, Head Coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers team in 1942
Tom Gorzelanny, former Major League Baseball pitcher
Travis Metcalf, former Major League Baseball player
Steve Renko, major league pitcher, winner of 136 games for seven different teams
Rob Thomson, major league coach for the Philadelphia Phillies
Mike Zagurski, major league pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks
TJ Walz, minor league pitcher for the Oakland A’s
Cole Aldrich, 2010 All-American, 11th pick in the 2010 NBA draft, Oklahoma City Thunder
Phog Allen, head basketball coach; won three national championships, 10th winningest coach in college basketball history and #1 winningest when he retired, also had brief stints as the head football coach and head baseball coach
Darrell Arthur, 2008 National Champions, 27th pick of 2008 NBA draft, Memphis Grizzlies
Nick Bradford, basketball player 1997–2000, played professionally in Iceland, France, and Romania
Bill Bridges, All-American, 1975 NBA Championship with Golden State Warriors
Mario Chalmers, 2007 Big 12 Co-Defensive Player of the Year, 2008 National Champions, MOP of 2008 Championship Game, 34th pick of 2008 NBA draft, Miami Heat, 2012 and 2013 NBA Finals Champion with the Miami Heat, currently an NBA free agent
Wilt Chamberlain, two-time All-American, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer and NBA all-time leader for career rebounds and most points in a single game with 100 points
Sherron Collins, 2010 All-American, NBA player for Charlotte Bobcats, currently with Windsor Express
Nick Collison, All-American, NBA player for the Oklahoma City Thunder also known as "Mr. USA Basketball" for representing the country in international basketball
Cheick Diallo, NBA player for the New Orleans Pelicans.
Joel Embiid, NBA player for the Philadelphia 76ers
Drew Gooden, All-American, 4th pick 2002 NBA draft, Basketball America Player of the Year 2002, Milwaukee Bucks
Xavier Henry, All Big 12 honorable mention, 12th pick in the 2010 NBA draft, Memphis Grizzlies
Kirk Hinrich, All-American, NBA player with the Chicago Bulls
Josh Jackson, 4th pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, NBA player for the Phoenix Suns
Tom Kivisto (basketball), played on 1971 and 1974 Final Four Teams
Raef LaFrentz, All-American, NBA player with the Portland Trail Blazers
Keith Langford, professional basketball player (with Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Clyde Lovellette, All-American; first basketball player in history to play on NCAA, Olympic, and NBA championship squads; three NBA Finals titles and 1952 Olympic gold medal and NCAA Champion
Danny Manning, basketball player and coach; two-time All-American, 1988 recipient of the Naismith and Wooden Awards, Big 8 Player of the Decade for the 1980s, two-time NBA all-star
Frank Mason III, NBA player for the Sacramento Kings
Ben McLemore, 7th pick of 2013 NBA draft, Sacramento Kings
Ralph Miller, former men's basketball coach at Oregon State University, the University of Iowa, and Wichita State University, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Marcus Morris, All-American basketball player, fourteenth pick in the 2011 NBA draft, Houston Rockets
Markieff Morris, thirteenth pick of the 2011 NBA draft, Phoenix Suns
James Naismith, inventor of basketball
Gregory Donovan Ostertag, NBA Utah Jazz 1995–2012, retired
Paul Pierce, All-American, NBA All-Star, 2008 NBA Finals Champion and NBA Finals MVP with the Boston Celtics, now on the Los Angeles Clippers
Scot Pollard, NBA, free agent
Thomas Robinson, NBA player for the Sacramento Kings
Dave Robisch, two-time All-American, 13 seasons in the ABA and NBA
Adolph Rupp, former men's basketball coach at the University of Kentucky and the third winningest coach in the sport; two-time Helms National Championship team member at KU
Brandon Rush, two-time All-American, MVP of the 2008 Big 12 Tournament, 2008 National Champions, 13th pick of 2008 NBA draft, Indiana Pacers, 2015 NBA Finals Champion as a member of the Golden State Warriors
Wayne Selden Jr., NBA player for Memphis Grizzlies
Wayne Simien, two-time All-American, 2005 Big 12 Player of the Year
Dean Smith, basketball coach at the University of North Carolina; third winningest coach in the sport; 1952 NCAA Basketball title at KU
Tyshawn Taylor, NBA player for the Brooklyn Nets
Mark Turgeon, former player and current head coach for University of Maryland, formerly at Wichita State and Texas A&M
Darnell Valentine, All-American, three-time Academic All-American, 16th pick in 1981 NBA draft, 10 years in NBA
Jacque Vaughn, head coach of Orlando Magic, two-time All-American, and 27th pick in 1997 NBA draft
Jo Jo White, All-American, 1968 gold medal Mexico City Olympics, named the most valuable player of the 1976 NBA Finals, seven-time NBA All-Star with Boston Celtics
Lynette Woodard, four-time All-American at KU; major college basketball's career women's scoring leader; first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters; Olympic women's basketball gold medalist
Julian Wright, All-American, 13th pick of 2007 NBA draft, Toronto Raptors
Andrew Wiggins, first pick in the 2014 NBA draft, 2015 NBA Rookie of the Year, current Minnesota Timberwolves player
Gilbert Brown, NFL nose tackle for Super Bowl XXXI Champion Green Bay Packers; 11 seasons in NFL
Jon Cornish, CFL running back for the Calgary Stampeders; 2013 CFL season Most Outstanding Player and Most Outstanding Canadian; 2012 CFL season Most Outstanding Canadian; played in and won the 96th Grey Cup
Nolan Cromwell, All-American; in 1976 set NCAA rushing record for a quarterback; 1980 NFC Defensive Player of the Year; four-time pro bowl selection in 11 years with the Los Angeles Rams
J.P. Darche, former NFL long-snapper for the Seattle Seahawks and Kansas City Chiefs, graduated from the KU Medical School in 2014 following his retirement from football (played football at and received undergraduate degree from McGill University in Canada)
Dick Davis, American Football League champion with the 1962 Dallas Texans
Jack Del Rio, former NFL linebacker and coach Did not play football at Kansas, attended and graduated from the school while playing for the Kansas City Chiefs
Bobby Douglass, KU and NFL quarterback; led 9–1 Jayhawks to Orange Bowl in 1968; All-American 1968, drafted 2nd round by Chicago Bears in 1969, retired 1978
Mike Getto, Head Baseball Coach, All-American in Football, Head Coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1942
John Hadl, two-time All-American, once as halfback and once as quarterback; KU Football Player of the Century; NFL quarterback 1962–1977
Chris Harris Jr., cornerback for Denver Broncos; Super Bowl 50 champion; two-time Pro Bowler
James Holt, 2008 Insight Bowl defensive MVP; signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2009
Ron Jessie, former NFL Pro Bowl wide receiver
Mike Johnson, NFL player
Rod Jones, Aloha Bowl Champion 1995, National Football League 1996–2002, Cincinnati Bengals, St. Louis Rams, Washington Redskins
Curtis McClinton, played in Super Bowl IV with the Kansas City Chiefs; sixth-leading rusher in franchise history; MVP
Monte Merkel, NFL guard
Tyler Patmon, NFL cornerback, graduated from Kansas but did not finish college football career at Kansas.
Elvis Patterson, former NFL cornerback, two-time Super Bowl champion (XXI, XXVIII)
Willie Pless, star football linebacker in the Canadian Football League; NCAA and Big 8 record holder for tackles with 633 (in only 3 years); 11-time All-Pro and 5-time Defensive Player of the Year in CFL
John Riggins, Super Bowl XVII MVP; Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
Gale Sayers, All-American, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back
Laverne Smith, NFL running back, Pittsburgh Steelers
Dana Stubblefield, NFL all-pro defensive end; drafted in the first round of the 1993 NFL Draft, 26th overall, by the San Francisco 49ers; NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year; four-time All-Pro selection (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997); NFL Defensive Player of the Year 1997
Darrell Stuckey, NFL safety, San Diego Chargers
Aqib Talib, 2008 Orange Bowl MVP; first round NFL draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Broderick Thompson, former NFL offensive lineman
John E. Zook, defensive end, KU (1966–1968), NFL (1969–1979); KU All-Time team, All-American 1968, 2nd-Team All-Pro 1973, 2nd-Team All-NFC 1972 & 1973, 1973 Pro Bowl; missed only three games in ten years before final pro season
Matt Gogel, professional golfer on the PGA Tour; winner of the 2002 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on the PGA Tour
Gary Woodland, professional golfer on the PGA Tour; winner of the 2011 Transitions Championship at Innisbrook, the 2013 Reno Tahoe Open, the 2018 Waste Management Phoenix Open on the PGA Tour, and the 2019 U.S. Open
Bill Alley, javelin, Olympian and US record holder
Glenn Cunningham, former world record holder in 1500m and the mile, silver medal in 1936 Olympics in 1500m
Bill Dotson, former distance runner; broke four minute mile on both indoor and outdoor tracks
Billy Mills, the only US Olympic 10,000m gold medal winner; former world record holder
Bill Nieder, shot put; won silver at the 1956 Summer Olympics and gold in 1960 Summer Olympics; set three shot put world records
Al Oerter, All-American, four consecutive gold medals in olympic discus throw; two-time world record holder
Jim Ryun, former U.S. congressman; three-time Olympic runner and silver medalist; held world records in the 880, 1,500m, and indoor and outdoor miles
Wes Santee, middle distance runner, Olympian
Athletic directors
Kent Weiser, current athletic director at Emporia State University; former women's golf coach at Kansas
The Immortals was a book by James E. Gunn.
It was released in 1964.
It takes place in Lawrence, Kansas.
It was used as inspiration for the 1970 TV series The Immortal.
Lüterkofen-Ichertswil is a municipality of the Bucheggberg district in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
It was created in 1961 from the merger of the two independent municipalities of Lüterkofen and Ichertswil.
Seewen is a municipality of the district Dorneck in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
Baslerweiher is a pond above the village.
Himmelried is a municipality of the district of Thierstein in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
Samuel Jefferson Jones (April 16, 1827  December 10, 1883) was a pro-slavery man who was the Douglas County sheriff in Kansas Territory from late 1855 until early 1857.
He helped create the territorial capital of Lecompton.
He was an important person in the "Bleeding Kansas" conflict.
In 1858, he moved to La Mesilla, New Mexico Territory.
In September 1858, he was chosen to be the collector of customs at Paso del Norte (now Ciudad Juárez).
In New Mexico, he was involved with the promotion of Mowry City.
When that town's future failed, he bought a ranch near La Mesilla and died there in 1883.
His grave was later returned to Lecompton in 2013.
Élie Brousse (28 August 1921 – 2 July 2019) was a French rugby league player.
He played as a second-row.
He played for Roanne, Marseille and Lyon Villeurbanne in the French Rugby League Championship.
He played for the French national team 31 times between 1946 and 1953.
He was born in Bages, Aude.
William Thomas Molloy  (July 27, 1940 – July 2, 2019) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
He was the Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan.
He was the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan from 2018 until his death in 2019.
His appointment as Lieutenant Governor was made by Governor General of Canada Julie Payette.
Molloy was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
In May 2019, Molloy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
He died on July 2, 2019 from the disease in Saskatoon at the age of 78.
Gladys Berejiklian (born 22 September 1970) is an Armenian Australian politician.
She was the 45th Premier of New South Wales from 23 January 2019 until 5 October 2021.
She is the Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party.
She has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 2003, representing the seat of Willoughby.
Berejiklian was born in Sydney.
Supervillains, sometimes called supercriminals, are fictional characters generally appearing in comic books and in superhero movies as antagonists of superheroes.
A Supervillain normally has powers that make him or her a threat that only a superhero can stop.
A lot of Supervillains are enemies of specific superheroes.
For example, the Supervillain Lex Luthor is an enemy of Superman, The Joker is an enemy of Batman, and the Green Goblin is an enemy of Spider-Man.
Daniel Michael Andrews (born 6 July 1972) is an Australian politician.
He is the 48th Premier of Victoria since 2014.
He has been the leader of the Victorian branch of the Labor Party since 2010.
From 2010 to 2014, Andrews was Leader of the Opposition in that state.
A night game, also called a nighter, is a sports game that happens at night.
Depending on the sport, this can be done either with floodlights or with the usual low-light conditions.
The term "night game" is typically used only for sports usually held outdoors.
Although indoor sports often happen at night, these events are have lights regardless of the time of day they happen.
Homecoming is the tradition of welcoming back former students and members.
It also can be about celebrating an organization's existence.
It is a tradition in many high schools, colleges, and churches in the United States.
It does not exist in Canada.
The tradition of homecoming has its start in alumni football games at colleges and universities since the 19th century.
Many schools including Baylor, Southwestern, Illinois, and Missouri have said that they held the first modern homecoming.
William Edward Felix Hodgman (born 20 April 1969) is an Australian politician.
He was the 45th Premier of Tasmania from 31 March 2014 to 20 January 2020.
He was a member for the Division of Franklin in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 2002 to 2020.
In March 2018, he became the longest-serving leader in the history of the Tasmanian Liberals.
The Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory is the head of government of the Australian Capital Territory.
The leader of the party with the largest representation of seats in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly.
List of Chief Ministers
Andrew James Barr (born 29 April 1973) is an Australian politician.
He is the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory since December 2014.
He has been a Labor Party member for the seat of Molonglo in the ACT Legislative Assembly since 5 April 2006.
Chief Ministers of the Australian Capital Territory
Gary John Joseph Humphries  (born 6 July 1958) is an Australian politician.
He is the Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
He was a member of the Australian Senate representing the Australian Capital Territory for the Liberal Party of Australia from 2003 to 2013.
Since 31 August, following the 2016 election, the Chief Minister is Michael Gunner of the Labor Party.
List of Chief Ministers of the Northern Territory
The Kansas Jayhawks football program is the college football program of the University of Kansas.
The program is in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
The team competes in the Big 12 Conference.
The head coach is Les Miles.
He became the coach after the 2018 season.
It was created in 1890.
This makes it one of the oldest college football teams in the United States.
Along with Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Washington University in St. Louis, Kansas was a charter member of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1907.
This became the Big Eight Conference.
The Big Eight became the Big 12 in 1996.
Kansas is the only original member of the MVIAA that is still part of the Big 12.
Michael Patrick Francis Gunner (born 6 January 1976) is an Australian politician.
He is the 11th and current Chief Minister of the Northern Territory since 31 August 2016.
He is a Labor member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 2008.
Gunner was elected leader of Labor in the Northern Territory and Leader of the Opposition, in April 2015.
He led Labor to a landslide victory in the 2016 Northern Territory election.
He was sworn in on 31 August, becoming the first Chief Minister to have been born in the Northern Territory.
David Binder (February 22, 1931 – June 30, 2019) was an American journalist, author and lecturer.
He worked in Washington, D.C. and Berlin.
He was a journalist for The New York Times from 1961 to 2004.
He reported on political events related to the Cold War on Eastern and Western Europe, the Soviet Union, the United States, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
He served was a foreign correspondent in 1961 in Berlin.