27 Notable alumni of Bridgewater State University
Updated: June 16, 2026 EliteDegrees
Bridgewater State University is ranked #2,131 in the world and #536 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from Bridgewater State University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Bridgewater State University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Helen Tibbo
1955-. (aged 71)
archivist
Helen Ruth Tibbo is an American archivist, professor and author writing about digital preservation in the archival profession. At the University of North Carolina, she created and directed the first American master's degree on digital curation. She is a past President of the Society of American Archivists
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2. John C. Bradford
1940-. (aged 86)
politician
John C. Bradford is an American carpenter and politician who represented 10th Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. Before becoming a state representative, Bradford served on the Town of Rochester Finance Committee from 1983 to 1984.
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3. Kathleen Teahan
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
Kathleen M. Teahan is an American politician. She represented the 7th Plymouth District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1997 to 2007. She resides in Whitman.
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4. David B. Sullivan
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
David B. Sullivan was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 6th Bristol District. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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5. William G. Vinal
1881-1976 (aged 95)
naturalist
teacher
William Gould Vinal was an American naturalist, nature educator, and conservationist who was a faculty at Massachusetts State College—now known as the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He wrote numerous books and papers on nature and outdoors education. He has been called the Father of Nature Recreation. He also served as a college football coach while teaching at Marshall College—now known...
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6. John C. Klimm
1955-. (aged 71)
politician
John C. Klimm is an American municipal administrator and politician.
7. Joan Menard
1935-. (aged 91)
politician
Joan M. Menard is a retired American politician who also served as the vice president for work force development, lifelong learning, grant development and external affairs at Bristol Community College.
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8. Stephen Canessa
1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Stephen R. Canessa was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 12th Bristol District. He resigned to accept the position of executive director for government affairs at the Southcoast Health Systems. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party.
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9. Frank Palmer Speare
1869-1954 (aged 85)
educator
Frank Palmer Speare was the first president of Northeastern University, serving from 1898 to 1940. He began the evening program at the Boston YMCA that later became Northeastern. As founding president, he oversaw the launching of the university's evening law school, the now-defunct automobile school, the evening polytechnic schools, the school of commerce and finance, and the co-operative engineering school.
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10. Edward M. Lambert, Jr
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
Edward M. Lambert Jr. is an American politician and government official who currently served as vice chancellor for government relations and public affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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11. James H. Fagan
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
James H. "Jim" Fagan is an American attorney and politician who represented the 3rd Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011.
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12. Ruth Dixon Turner
1914-2000 (aged 86)
academic
marine biologist
biologist
university teacher
editor
Ruth Dixon Turner was a pioneering U.S. marine biologist and malacologist. She was the world's expert on Teredinidae or shipworms, a taxonomic family of wood-boring bivalve mollusks which severely damage wooden marine installations.
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13. Patricia Haddad
1950-. (aged 76)
teacher
politician
Patricia A. Haddad is an American politician who represents the 5th Bristol district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and formerly served as Speaker pro Tempore of the House.
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14. Warren G. Phillips
1954-. (aged 72)
teacher
Warren G. Phillips is an American science teacher who was inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame in 2010.
15. Jason Schappert
1988-. (aged 38)
writer
Jason Schappert is an American pilot and entrepreneur. Schappert is a CFII and ATP rated pilot, founder of MzeroA.com, and author of eight aviation flight training books. Schappert was named AOPA's Top Collegiate Flight Instructor in 2008, Outstanding Flight Instructor of 2014 and 2015, has amassed over 8000 hours of in-flight instruction since learning how to fly, and produces MzeroA.com's...
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16. Robert Correia
1939-2021 (aged 82)
teacher
politician
Robert Correia was an American politician who represented the 12th and 7th Bristol Districts in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1977 to 2008 and served as the 41st Mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts from 2008 to 2010. He ran for re-election as Mayor in 2009 but finished third in the mayoral preliminary behind City Councilor Cathy Ann Viveiros and...
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17. Kathy Delaney-Smith
1955-. (aged 71)
basketball coach
Kathy Delaney-Smith is an American former college basketball coach. She retired at the end of the 2021–22 season after 40 seasons as head coach of the women's basketball team at Harvard University. At the time of her retirement, she was the longest-tenured women's head coach at a single school in NCAA Division I. With Harvard, Delaney-Smith had her 600th win...
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18. Gayle McLaughlin
1952-. (aged 74)
peace activist
politician
Gayle McLaughlin is an American politician from Richmond, California. She was first elected to the Richmond City Council in 2004 when she was a member of the Green Party of California. She won two consecutive four-year terms as the city's mayor in 2006 and 2010. After reaching the mayoral term limit, she was reelected to the City Council in 2014....
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19. Barbara Stevens
1954-. (aged 72)
basketball coach
Barbara Stevens is the former head coach of the Bentley University women's basketball team. Stevens had previously served as head basketball coach for Clark University and Massachusetts. Stevens was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. She was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020.
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20. Donovan Dijak
1987-. (aged 39)
professional wrestler
Christopher James Dijak is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to Major League Wrestling (MLW), where he performs under the ring name Donovan Dijak and is currently one-half of the MLW World Tag Team Champions with Bishop Dyer in their first reign. He also appears in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and on the independent circuit.
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21. Isawa Shūji
1851-1917 (aged 66)
teacher
politician
Isawa Shūji was a Japanese educator of the Meiji period.
22. Barry Clifford
1945-. (aged 81)
archaeologist
explorer
anthropologist
Barry Clifford is an American underwater archaeological explorer.
23. Robert Stack
1919-2003 (aged 84)
actor
television actor
character actor
film actor
voice actor
Robert Stack was an American actor and television host. Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over forty feature films. He starred in the ABC television series The Untouchables (1959–1963), for which he won the 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series, and later hosted/narrated the true-crime series Unsolved Mysteries...
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24. Mark Goddard
1936-2023 (aged 87)
screenwriter
television actor
stage actor
film actor
Mark Goddard was an American actor who starred in a number of television programs. He is probably best known for portraying Major Don West in the CBS series Lost in Space (1965–1968). He also played Detective Sgt. Chris Ballard, in The Detectives, starring Robert Taylor.
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25. Jeff Corwin
1967-. (aged 59)
ecologist
film actor
actor
television writer
television presenter
Jeffrey Corwin is an American biologist and wildlife conservationist, known for hosting Disney Channel's Going Wild with Jeff Corwin, The Jeff Corwin Experience on Animal Planet, ABC's Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin/Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin and Wildlife Nation with Jeff Corwin.
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26. Jeffrey Donovan
1968-. (aged 58)
actor
television actor
television director
film actor
stage actor
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Michael Westen in the television series Burn Notice, and has appeared in films such as Sicario and its sequel, Wrath of Man, Shot Caller, Hitch, Believe in Me, Changeling, and Come Early Morning. He played Robert F. Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar (2011) and his...
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27. Peter Koutoujian
1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Peter John Koutoujian is an American politician who is the current Sheriff of Middlesex County, Massachusetts and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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