10 Notable alumni of Columbus State University
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
Columbus State University is 2629st in the world, 1st in North America, and 681st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 10 notable alumni from Columbus 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 Columbus State University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Greg Frady
1962-. (aged 64)
baseball player
Greg Frady is an American college baseball coach. He was most recently the head coach of the Georgia State Panthers baseball team since the start of the 2007 season until the end of the 2019 season. He also served as general manager of the German National team. Frady was the head coach at North Florida Community College from 1990–1996. Before...
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2. Matthías Orri Sigurðarson
1994-. (aged 32)
basketball player
Matthías Orri Sigurðarson is an Icelandic basketball player, sports commentator and a former member of the Icelandic men's national basketball team.
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3. Cale Dodds
1988-. (aged 38)
singer-songwriter
Cale Dodds is an American country music artist and songwriter who is currently signed to Spirit Music Group.
4. Ty Harris
1991-. (aged 35)
basketball player
Tyron Jumord Harris is an American professional basketball player for Borac Banja Luka of the Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Second ABA League.
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5. Larry Wortzel
1947-. (aged 79)
author
soldier
military attaché
Larry M. Wortzel served nine terms as a commissioner on the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the United States Congress. A 32-year military veteran, he was a U.S. Army colonel, director of the Strategic Studies Institute of the United States Army War College, and vice president of The Heritage Foundation. He was a military attaché at the...
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6. Bob the Drag Queen
1986-. (aged 40)
television actor
drag queen
LGBTQ rights activist
television producer
podcaster
Christopher Delmar Caldwell, also known by his stage name Caldwell Tidicue and better known by his drag name Bob the Drag Queen, is an American drag queen, comedian, actor, activist, musician, author, and reality television personality. He is best known for winning season eight of RuPaul's Drag Race. As of 2020, he has more than one million followers on Instagram...
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7. Jason Rogers
1988-. (aged 38)
baseball player
Jason Douglas Rogers is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers.
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8. Ma Dong-seok
1971-. (aged 55)
film actor
actor
television actor
Lee Dong-seok, better known by the stage names Ma Dong-seok (마동석) and Don Lee, is a South Korean and American actor and film producer based in South Korea. He gained early recognition for his supporting roles in Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012) and The Neighbor (2012).
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9. Joni Ernst
1970-. (aged 56)
politician
military officer
Joni Kay Ernst is an American politician and retired military officer serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from Iowa. She is a member of the Republican Party.
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10. Rick Lowe
1961-. (aged 65)
artist
Rick Lowe is a Houston-based artist and community organizer, whose Project Row Houses is considered an important example of social-practice art. In 2014, he was among the 21 people awarded a MacArthur "genius" fellowship.
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