100 Notable alumni of University at Buffalo

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University at Buffalo is ranked #152 in the world and #75 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University at Buffalo sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University at Buffalo won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Jeffrey White

1. Jeffrey White

1945-. (aged 81)
lawyer judge
Jeffrey Steven White is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Nick Perkins

2. Nick Perkins

1996-. (aged 30)
basketball player
Nicholas Brandon Perkins is an American basketball player for Atléticos de San Germán of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He played college basketball for the Buffalo Bulls.
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Van Miller

3. Van Miller

1927-2015 (aged 88)
sports commentator
Van Miller was an American radio and television sports announcer from Dunkirk, New York, where he began his career at Dunkirk radio station WFCB calling play-by-play for high school football games. In the 1950s, he moved to Buffalo where he became the chief play-by-play announcer for the Buffalo Bills Radio Network, the official radio broadcasting arm of the Buffalo Bills...
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S. J. Rozan

4. S. J. Rozan

1950-. (aged 76)
screenwriter novelist writer architect poet
S. J. Rozan is an American architect and writer of detective fiction and thrillers, based in New York City. She also co-writes a paranormal thriller series under the pseudonym Sam Cabot with Carlos Dews.
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Chuck Hammer

5. Chuck Hammer

composer
Chuck Hammer is an American guitarist and soundtrack composer, known for textural guitar work with Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Guitarchitecture. As an artist, Hammer is best known for his Guitarchitecture recordings, though he is also widely regarded as a leading New York City based soundtrack composer, having scored approximately 300 documentary films. He is currently developing a series of...
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Fern Mallis

6. Fern Mallis

1948-. (aged 78)
businessperson fashion designer
Fern Mallis is an American fashion director, who was the executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) from 1991 to 2001, and created 7th on Sixth productions or New York Fashion Week as it is known today. She was also senior vice president of IMG Fashion from 2001 to 2010. Mallis is currently president of her...
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C. J. Massinburg

7. C. J. Massinburg

1997-. (aged 29)
basketball player
Christian Jalon Massinburg is an American professional basketball player for Pallacanestro Brescia of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for the Buffalo Bulls. He was named the 2019 Mid-American Conference Player of the Year. He previously played for the Long Island Nets of the NBA G League and Limoges CSP of the LNB Pro A.
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Tom Toles

8. Tom Toles

1951-. (aged 75)
journalist cartoonist
Thomas Gregory Toles is a retired American political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His cartoons typically presented progressive viewpoints. Similar to Oliphant's use of his character Punk, Toles also tended to include a small doodle, usually a small caricature of himself at his desk, in the margin of his strip.
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George Whitney Calhoun

9. George Whitney Calhoun

1890-1963 (aged 73)
newspaper editor sports editor
George Whitney "Cal" Calhoun was an American newspaper editor and co-founder of the Green Bay Packers, a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After establishing the Packers in 1919 with Curly Lambeau, Calhoun served the team in various capacities for 44 years until his death in 1963.
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Sharon A. Hill

10. Sharon A. Hill

1970-. (aged 56)
geologist blogger science writer
Sharon A. Hill is an American science writer and speaker known for her research into the interaction between science and the public, focusing on education and media topics. Hill's research has dealt mainly with paranormal, pseudoscience, and strange natural phenomena and began at the University at Buffalo, where she performed her graduate work in this area. Hill attended Pennsylvania State...
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Lawrence A. Tabak

11. Lawrence A. Tabak

1951-. (aged 75)
dentist biomedical scientist
Lawrence A. Tabak is an American dentist and biomedical scientist serving as the principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health. He served as acting director from 2021 to 2023. Previously he was the director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research from 2000 to 2010.
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Bobby Shuttleworth

12. Bobby Shuttleworth

1987-. (aged 39)
association football player
Robert "Bobby" Shuttleworth is the current head coach of the women's soccer team at Texas A&M. He was an American former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper for multiple teams in MLS and USL Championship.
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Cam Lewis

13. Cam Lewis

1997-. (aged 29)
American football player
Cameron Lewis is an American professional football cornerback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2019. He played college football for the Buffalo Bulls.
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Bob Budiansky

14. Bob Budiansky

1954-. (aged 72)
penciller
Bob Budiansky is an American comic book writer, editor, and penciller, best known for his work on Marvel's Transformers comic. He also created the Marvel character Sleepwalker and wrote all 33 issues of that comic.
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Susan Howe

15. Susan Howe

1937-. (aged 89)
writer poet essayist critic
Susan Howe is an American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among other poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre (fiction, essay, prose and poetry). Many of Howe's books are layered with historical, mythical, and other references, often presented in an unorthodox format....
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Shannon Evans

16. Shannon Evans

1994-. (aged 32)
basketball player
Shannon Eugene Evans II is an American-Guinean basketball player for MoraBanc Andorra of the Liga ACB. He competed in college for Buffalo and Arizona State. His nickname is Shannito.
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Paul L. Friedman

17. Paul L. Friedman

1944-. (aged 82)
lawyer judge
Paul Lawrence Friedman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He serves as secretary of the American Law Institute.
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Stephanie Miner

18. Stephanie Miner

1970-. (aged 56)
lawyer politician
Stephanie Ann Miner is an American attorney, politician, and former Mayor of Syracuse, New York. Miner served as Mayor of Syracuse from 2010 to 2018, and is the first woman to have held that office. Prior to her mayoralty, she was a member of the Syracuse City Council. Miner co-chaired the New York State Democratic Party from 2012 to 2014....
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William Lawvere

19. William Lawvere

1937-2023 (aged 86)
university teacher mathematician philosopher
Francis William Lawvere was an American mathematician and philosopher known for his foundational work in category theory, topos theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He introduced algebraic theories as categories, developed the Elementary Theory of the Category of Sets (ETCS) as an alternative foundation of mathematics, founded categorical logic and co-founded the field of topos theory. A central theme of...
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Christopher Scolese

20. Christopher Scolese

1956-. (aged 70)
Christopher J. Scolese is an American engineer and intelligence official serving as the director of the National Reconnaissance Office. He was appointed the 19th director of the National Reconnaissance Office on August 1, 2019. Scolese was sworn into office on August 5, 2019.
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Drew Willy

21. Drew Willy

1986-. (aged 40)
Canadian football player American football player
Drew Michael Willy is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Buffalo Bulls and was signed by the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL) as an undrafted free agent in 2009. Willy was also a member of the Indianapolis Colts, Las Vegas Locomotives, New...
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Mitchell Watt

22. Mitchell Watt

1989-. (aged 37)
basketball player
Mitchell Watt is an American professional basketball player for Toyama Grouses of the B.League. He played college basketball for the University at Buffalo, where he was an All-American and Mid-American Conference (MAC) player of the year.
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Jake Schum

23. Jake Schum

1989-. (aged 37)
American football player
Jacob Schum is an American former professional football player who was a punter in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Buffalo Bulls. Schum was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2013. He has also been a member of the New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Green Bay Packers, and Tampa...
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Tom Hallion

24. Tom Hallion

1956-. (aged 70)
baseball umpire
Thomas Francis Hallion is an American retired Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the National League (NL) from 1985 to 1999 and in both major leagues from 2005 until 2022. He was promoted to crew chief in 2010. Hallion has worn number 20 during his MLB career. He resigned from the NL in 1999 as part of a failed...
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Steven Means

25. Steven Means

1990-. (aged 36)
American football player
Steven Means is an American former professional football linebacker. He was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the fifth round of the 2013 NFL draft. He played college football for the University at Buffalo.
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Branden Oliver

26. Branden Oliver

1991-. (aged 35)
American football player
Branden Steven Oliver is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the San Diego / Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Buffalo Bulls and signed with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2014. He played in the NFL for the Chargers and...
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Tom Murphy

27. Tom Murphy

1991-. (aged 35)
baseball player
Thomas James Murphy Jr. is an American professional baseball catcher who is a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Seattle Mariners, and San Francisco Giants. Prior to playing professionally, Murphy played college baseball for the University at Buffalo.
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Jay Beckenstein

28. Jay Beckenstein

1951-. (aged 75)
saxophonist jazz musician
Jay Barnet Beckenstein is an American saxophonist, composer, producer, and the co-founder of the band Spyro Gyra. He owned BearTracks Studios in Suffern, New York.
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Ellen S. Baker

29. Ellen S. Baker

1953-. (aged 73)
astronaut physician
Ellen Louise Shulman Baker is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. Baker is a veteran of three shuttle flights and logged more than 686 hours in space. Baker served as Chief of the Education/Medical Branch of the NASA Astronaut Office until her retirement in 2011 after more than 30 years of service to NASA.
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Martin Hägglund

30. Martin Hägglund

1976-. (aged 50)
university teacher literary scholar philosopher
Martin Hägglund is a Swedish philosopher and scholar of modernist literature. He is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is also a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, serving as a Junior Fellow from 2009 to 2012. Hägglund is the author of This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom (2019), Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf,...
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Surya Das

31. Surya Das

1950-. (aged 76)
writer
Surya Das is an American lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is a poet, chantmaster, spiritual activist, author of many popular works on Buddhism, meditation teacher and spokesperson for Buddhism in the West. He has been accused of sexual misconduct by several of his former students.
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Herbert A. Hauptman

32. Herbert A. Hauptman

1917-2011 (aged 94)
university teacher crystallographer philosopher mathematician chemist
Herbert Aaron Hauptman was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials. Today, Hauptman's direct methods, which he continued to improve and refine, are routinely used to solve complicated structures. It was...
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Robert Hass

33. Robert Hass

1941-. (aged 85)
literary critic poet writer translator university teacher
Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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Jane McAlevey

34. Jane McAlevey

1964-2024 (aged 60)
author sociologist university teacher trade unionist
Jane F. McAlevey was an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. She was a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and a columnist at The Nation.
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Jonathan Akpoborie

35. Jonathan Akpoborie

1968-. (aged 58)
association football player
Jonathan Akpoborie is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward and spent the majority of his playing career in Germany.
Jesse Cox

36. Jesse Cox

1981-. (aged 45)
television producer podcaster YouTuber teacher
Jesse Louis Cox is an American YouTube gaming personality, comedian, voice actor, media commentator and video game producer. He is the owner of the YouTube channel previously named OMFGcata, a gaming channel on which Cox posts most of his content. As of February 2024, the channel has over 1,000,000 subscribers.
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Karin Housley

37. Karin Housley

1964-. (aged 62)
politician
Karin Housley is an American politician serving since 2013 as a member of the Minnesota Senate, representing District 33. A Republican, she represents Forest Lake, Stillwater, and the surrounding St. Croix Valley. Housley was the party's nominee in Minnesota's 2018 United States Senate special election, which she lost to Tina Smith.
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Dave Weldon

38. Dave Weldon

1953-. (aged 73)
politician physician
David Joseph Weldon is an American physician and former politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 15th congressional district from 1995 to 2009. A practicing internal medicine doctor prior to entering public office, Weldon was active in Congress on issues related to space policy, veterans’ health, and biomedical research funding. He...
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Willie Nile

39. Willie Nile

1948-. (aged 78)
singer composer singer-songwriter pianist songwriter
Willie Nile is an American singer-songwriter.
Benjamin Radford

40. Benjamin Radford

1970-. (aged 56)
author podcaster journalist
Benjamin Radford is an American writer, investigator, and skeptic. He has authored, coauthored or contributed to over twenty books and written over a thousand articles and columns on a wide variety of topics including urban legends, unexplained mysteries, the paranormal, critical thinking, mass hysteria, and media literacy. His book, Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of...
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Jaret Patterson

41. Jaret Patterson

1999-. (aged 27)
American football player
Jaret Patterson is an American professional football running back for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Buffalo Bulls before signing with the Washington Commanders, then known as the Washington Football Team, as an undrafted free agent in 2021. Alongside Howard Griffith, Patterson holds the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision...
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Ira Flatow

42. Ira Flatow

1949-. (aged 77)
journalist radio personality
Ira Flatow is a radio and television journalist and author who hosts WNYC Studio's program Science Friday. On TV, he hosted the PBS children's science series Newton's Apple, a television science program for children and their families which won a Daytime Emmy Award. Later he hosted another PBS series, Big Ideas. He has published several books, the most recent titled...
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Roman Yampolskiy

43. Roman Yampolskiy

1979-. (aged 47)
computer scientist
Roman V. Yampolskiy is a computer scientist at the University of Louisville, mostly known for his work on AI safety and cybersecurity. He is the founder and as of 2012 director of Cyber Security Lab, in the department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Speed School of Engineering of the University of Louisville.
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Peter Weibel

44. Peter Weibel

1944-2023 (aged 79)
university teacher conceptual artist exhibition curator lecturer art theorist
Peter Weibel was an Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator, and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet, then later moved from the page to the screen within the sense of post-structuralist methodology. His work includes virtual reality and other digital art forms. From 1999 he was the director of the ZKM Center for Art and Media...
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Christopher Jacobs

45. Christopher Jacobs

1967-. (aged 59)
lawyer politician
Christopher Louis Jacobs is an American politician who represented New York's 27th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2020 to 2023. Jacobs served as the 62nd secretary of state of New York from April 2006 to January 2007. Beginning in 2012, he held the post of Erie County clerk, and he was a Republican member of...
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Ramon Santos

46. Ramon Santos

1941-. (aged 85)
composer musicologist
Ramón Pagayon Santos is a Filipino composer, ethnomusicologist, and educator known for being the Philippines' foremost living exponent of contemporary Filipino classical music, for work that expounds on "the aesthetic frameworks of Philippine and Southeast Asian artistic traditions," and for finding new uses of indigenous Philippine instruments. A University Professor Emeritus of the composition and theory department at the College...
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Sidney Farber

47. Sidney Farber

1903-1973 (aged 70)
pediatrician university teacher pathologist oncologist scientist
Sidney Farber was an American pediatric pathologist at Boston Children's Hospital. He is regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy for his work using folic acid antagonists to combat leukemia, which led to the development of other chemotherapeutic agents against other malignancies. Farber was also active in cancer research advocacy and fundraising, such as through his establishment of The Jimmy...
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Dave Hahn

48. Dave Hahn

1961-. (aged 65)
mountain guide
David Allen Hahn is an American mountaineer, ski patroller and journalist. In May 2013, he reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 15th time—at the time, this was the most summits for a non-Sherpa climber, according to Outside Magazine contributor and climber Alan Arnette. His record was surpassed by Kenton Cool in 2022. Among Hahn’s other notable accomplishments are...
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Liam McHugh

49. Liam McHugh

1977-. (aged 49)
sports commentator
Liam McHugh is an American television sportscaster. He is a studio host for the NHL on TNT. He previously worked on NBC Sports coverage of the NHL as well as Notre Dame Fighting Irish football and Sunday Night Football, as well as MLS Season Pass on Apple TV. He was also perhaps the face of NBCSN, anchoring much of its...
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Sharon Salzberg

50. Sharon Salzberg

1952-. (aged 74)
writer
Sharon Salzberg is an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice in the West. In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Her emphasis is on vipassanā (insight) and mettā (loving-kindness) methods, and she has been leading meditation retreats around the world for several decades.
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Wilfrid Sellars

51. Wilfrid Sellars

1912-1989 (aged 77)
university teacher philosopher
Wilfrid Stalker Sellars was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States". His work has had a profound impact in virtually all areas of analytic philosophy beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, including in epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy...
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James Starks

52. James Starks

1986-. (aged 40)
American football player
James Darell Starks is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Buffalo Bulls and was selected by the Packers in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL draft. He was a member of their Super Bowl XLV championship team...
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K. J. Osborn

53. K. J. Osborn

1997-. (aged 29)
American football player
Kendrick Ladell "K. J." Osborn Jr. is an American professional football wide receiver. He played college football for the Buffalo Bulls and Miami Hurricanes prior to being selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the fifth round of the 2020 NFL draft.
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Ishmael Reed

54. Ishmael Reed

1938-. (aged 88)
playwright journalist writer science fiction writer poet
Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best-known work is Mumbo Jumbo (1972), a sprawling and unorthodox novel set in 1920s New York. Reed's work represents neglected African and African-American perspectives.
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John Patterson

55. John Patterson

1940-2005 (aged 65)
film director director cinematographer actor television director
John Tiffin Patterson was a television director known for his work on drama series, who also made television films. He directed thirteen episodes of The Sopranos, including the first five season finales. Patterson was born in Buffalo, New York.
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Alan Zweibel

56. Alan Zweibel

1950-. (aged 76)
novelist film producer film director television actor actor
Alan Zweibel is an American writer, producer, director, comedian and actor whom The New York Times says has “earned a place in the pantheon of American pop culture." An original Saturday Night Live writer, Zweibel has won five Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work in television, which includes It's Garry Shandling's Show (co-creator and...
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Taylor Caldwell

57. Taylor Caldwell

1900-1985 (aged 85)
writer science fiction writer novelist journalist
Janet Miriam Caldwell was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her married name, J. Miriam Reback.
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Michael Caputo

58. Michael Caputo

1962-. (aged 64)
political adviser lobbyist politician
Michael Raymon Caputo is an American political strategist and lobbyist. In April 2020, Caputo was appointed as assistant secretary of public affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. He worked for the Reagan Administration with Oliver North, and later as director of media services on the campaign for President George H. W. Bush in...
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Brent Pry

59. Brent Pry

1970-. (aged 56)
American football player
Brenton James Pry is an American football coach who is the current defensive coordinator for Virginia Tech. He previously served as the head coach at Virginia Tech from 2022 until his firing during the 2025 season. Before that, he was the defensive coordinator at Penn State from 2016 to 2021. He played college football for the Buffalo Bulls.
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Michelle Goldberg

60. Michelle Goldberg

1975-. (aged 51)
blogger journalist opinion journalist writer
Michelle Goldberg is an American journalist and author, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. She has been a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, a columnist for The Daily Beast and Slate, and a senior writer for The Nation. Her books are Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (2006); The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and...
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Shep Gordon

61. Shep Gordon

1946-. (aged 80)
film producer
Shep E. Gordon is an American talent manager, Hollywood film agent, and producer. Gordon is featured in a 2013 documentary, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, which was directed by Mike Myers.
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Howard Kurtz

62. Howard Kurtz

1953-. (aged 73)
journalist writer
Howard Alan Kurtz is an American journalist and author and host of Media Buzz on Fox News. He is the former media writer for The Washington Post and the former Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast. He has written five books about the media. Kurtz left CNN and joined Fox News in 2013.
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Bram Cohen

63. Bram Cohen

1975-. (aged 51)
computer scientist mathematician blogger businessperson programmer
Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol in 2001, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon and organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting, was the co-author of Codeville and creator of...
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Peter Christopherson

64. Peter Christopherson

1955-2010 (aged 55)
graphic designer record producer director video artist photographer
Peter Martin Christopherson, also known as Sleazy, was an English musician, music video director, commercial artist, designer, and photographer. He was best known as a member of design agency Hipgnosis and a co-founder of the bands Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil. He also directed the Nine Inch Nails short musical horror film Broken (1993). After his relocation to Thailand...
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Max Grodénchik

65. Max Grodénchik

1952-. (aged 74)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Max Grodénchik, also known as Michael Grodénchik, is an American stage, film, and television actor, best known for his role as Rom, a recurring character on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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David Bellavia

66. David Bellavia

1975-. (aged 51)
soldier
David Gregory Bellavia is a former United States Army soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Second Battle of Fallujah. Bellavia has also received the Bronze Star Medal, two Army Commendation Medals, two Army Achievement Medals, and the New York State Conspicuous Service Cross. In 2005, Bellavia was inducted into the New York Veterans'...
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Brad Grey

67. Brad Grey

1957-2017 (aged 60)
screenwriter entrepreneur film producer executive producer television producer
Brad Alan Grey was an American television and film producer. He co-founded Brillstein-Grey Entertainment (now Brillstein Entertainment Partners), and afterwards became the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, a position he held from 2005 to 2017. Grey graduated from the University at Buffalo School of Management. Under Grey's leadership, Paramount finished No. 1 in global market share in 2011 and...
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Peter V. Brett

68. Peter V. Brett

1973-. (aged 53)
writer novelist
Peter V. Brett is an American fantasy novelist. He is the author of the Demon Cycle, whose first volume was published in the UK by HarperCollins's Voyager imprint in 2008 as The Painted Man and in the US by Del Rey Books as The Warded Man.
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Jeffrey Wigand

69. Jeffrey Wigand

1942-. (aged 84)
chemist biochemist consultant
Jeffrey Stephen Wigand is an American biochemist and tobacco industry whistleblower.
Ezekiel Jackson

70. Ezekiel Jackson

1978-. (aged 48)
personal trainer bodybuilder professional wrestler
Rycklon Edward Stephens is a Guyanese-American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE from 2007 to 2014 where he performed under the ring name Ezekiel Jackson, where he was the final ECW Champion under WWE's ECW brand, as well as a former WWE Intercontinental Champion.
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Samuel R. Delany

71. Samuel R. Delany

1942-. (aged 84)
literary critic journalist cartoonist science fiction writer writer
Samuel R. "Chip" Delany is an American writer and literary critic. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society.
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Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed

72. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed

1962-. (aged 64)
diplomat politician
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, commonly known as Farmaajo, is a Somali politician and diplomat who served as the 9th President of Somalia from 2017 to 2022 and as Prime Minister from 2010 to 2011. His presidency focused on combating corruption and rebuilding the Somali National Army as part of broader state-building efforts. Since 2012, he has been the founder and leader...
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Maury Chaykin

73. Maury Chaykin

1949-2010 (aged 61)
film actor actor television actor
Maury Alan Chaykin was an American-Canadian actor. Described as "one of the most recognizable faces in Canadian cinema," he was best known for his portrayal of Rex Stout's detective Nero Wolfe on the television series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002), as well as for his work as a character actor in many films and television programs.
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Terry Gross

74. Terry Gross

1951-. (aged 75)
television presenter teacher radio producer journalist radio personality
Terry Gross is an American journalist who is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed nationally by NPR. Since joining NPR in 1975, Gross has interviewed thousands of guests.
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Gregory Jarvis

75. Gregory Jarvis

1944-1986 (aged 42)
engineer astronaut payload specialist military officer
Gregory Bruce Jarvis was an American engineer and astronaut who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as payload specialist for Hughes Aircraft.
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Peter Riegert

76. Peter Riegert

1947-. (aged 79)
stage actor film director producer actor film producer
Peter Riegert is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Donald "Boon" Schoenstein in Animal House (1978), oil company executive "Mac" MacIntyre in Local Hero (1983), pickle store owner Sam Posner in Crossing Delancey (1988) and Lt. Mitch Kellaway in The Mask (1994). He directed the short film By Courier (2000), for which he was nominated...
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Winston Duke

77. Winston Duke

1986-. (aged 40)
film actor actor television actor
Winston Duke is a Tobagonian actor. Duke was born in Tobago and moved to Brooklyn, New York, United States, at age nine.
Khalil Mack

78. Khalil Mack

1991-. (aged 35)
American football player
Khalil Delshon Mack is an American professional football linebacker for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Buffalo Bulls and was selected by the Oakland Raiders with the fifth overall pick in the 2014 NFL draft.
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Chris Sacca

79. Chris Sacca

1975-. (aged 51)
entrepreneur investor
Christopher Sacca is an American venture investor, company advisor, entrepreneur, and lawyer. He is the proprietor of Lowercase Capital, a venture capital fund in the United States that has invested in seed and early-stage technology companies such as Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Twilio, and Kickstarter, investments that resulted in his placement as No. 2 on Forbes' Midas List: Top Tech Investors...
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Ron Silver

80. Ron Silver

1946-2009 (aged 63)
writer producer film producer film actor actor
Ronald Arthur Silver was an American actor, director, producer, radio host, and activist. As an actor, he portrayed Henry Kissinger, Alan Dershowitz and Angelo Dundee. He was awarded a Tony in 1988 for Best Actor for Speed-the-Plow, a satirical dissection of the American movie business, and was nominated for an Emmy for his recurring role as political strategist Bruno Gianelli...
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Elliott Sharp

81. Elliott Sharp

1951-. (aged 75)
saxophonist composer jazz guitarist guitarist performance artist
Elliott Sharp is an American contemporary classical composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, author, and visual artist.
Albert James Myer

82. Albert James Myer

1828-1880 (aged 52)
military officer
Albert James Myer was a surgeon and United States Army general. He is known as the father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, as its first chief signal officer just prior to the American Civil War, the inventor of wigwag signaling, and also as the father of the U.S. Weather Bureau.
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Robert Peter Gale

83. Robert Peter Gale

1945-. (aged 81)
university teacher internist hematologist oncologist physician
Robert Peter Gale is an American physician and medical researcher. He is known for research in leukemia and other bone marrow disorders (such as aplastic anemia).
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Daniel Barwick

84. Daniel Barwick

1968-. (aged 58)
businessperson
Daniel Workman Barwick is an American author, fundraiser, journalist, podcaster, higher education administrator, and teacher. He was the President of Independence Community College in Independence, Kansas from 2011 to 2019.
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Keith Rothfus

85. Keith Rothfus

1962-. (aged 64)
lawyer politician
Keith James Rothfus /ˈrɒθfəs/ is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. He succeeded Democratic Representative Mark Critz, whom he defeated in the 2012 election. Prior to serving in Congress, he worked as an attorney. After new congressional district maps were released by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court...
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Raven Baxter

86. Raven Baxter

molecular biologist educator science communicator
Raven Baxter is an American science communicator and STEM educator. Baxter began posting science education videos on social media under the username Raven the Science Maven in 2017.
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John Walsh

87. John Walsh

1960-. (aged 66)
politician military officer
John Edward Walsh is an American politician, real estate agent, and former military officer who served as the United States Senator from Montana from 2014 to 2015 and as the 34th Lieutenant Governor of Montana from 2013 to 2014 under Governor Steve Bullock. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a colonel in the Army National Guard,...
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Jeanine Pirro

88. Jeanine Pirro

1951-. (aged 75)
news presenter lawyer prosecutor judge politician
Jeanine Ferris Pirro is an American television host, lawyer, and author who is serving as the United States attorney for the District of Columbia since May 2025. Pirro is a former judge, prosecutor, and politician in the state of New York.
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Nick Gillespie

89. Nick Gillespie

1963-. (aged 63)
journalist pundit
Nicholas John Gillespie is an American libertarian journalist who was editor-in-chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008 and editor-in-chief of Reason.com and Reason TV from 2008 to 2017. Gillespie joined Reason's staff in 1993 as an assistant editor and ascended to the top slot in 2000. As of 2025, he is an editor-at-large at Reason.
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Lukas Foss

90. Lukas Foss

1922-2009 (aged 87)
conductor university teacher pianist classical composer composer
Lukas Foss was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor.
Donald Barthelme

91. Donald Barthelme

1931-1989 (aged 58)
children's writer novelist journalist philosopher reporter
Donald Barthelme Jr. was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of Fiction (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch),...
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Keith Buckley

92. Keith Buckley

1979-. (aged 47)
singer-songwriter singer
Keith Michael Buckley is an American singer, best known as the vocalist and lyricist of Many Eyes, the now defunct hardcore punk band Every Time I Die and the heavy metal supergroup The Damned Things. He is also a published author.
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Burton C. Andrus

93. Burton C. Andrus

1892-1977 (aged 85)
military personnel
Colonel Burton Curtis Andrus Sr. was a United States Army officer who served in World War II. He was an armor officer for most of his career and his most noted assignment was as the commandant of the Nuremberg Prison which housed the accused during the Nuremberg trials after the end of World War II in Europe.
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Li Yuan

94. Li Yuan

1951-. (aged 75)
writer screenwriter
Li Yuan, also known by his pen name Hsiao Yeh (Chinese: 小野; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sió-iá), is a Taiwanese novelist, screenwriter and politician who has been Minister of Culture since 2024.
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Lin Tzou-yien

95. Lin Tzou-yien

1948-. (aged 78)
politician
Lin Tzou-yien is a Taiwanese physician. He was the deputy Minister of Health and Welfare and served as acting Minister in October 2014 upon the resignation of Chiu Wen-ta. Upon the appointment of Chiang Been-huang, Lin returned to his previous post until he was promoted again to head the ministry as part of Lin Chuan's incoming cabinet, which took office...
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Wolf Blitzer

96. Wolf Blitzer

1948-. (aged 78)
television presenter program host journalist
Wolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network. He has been a host of The Situation Room, now formally known as The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown, since 2005. Since March 2025,...
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Robin Li

97. Robin Li

1968-. (aged 58)
entrepreneur computer scientist software engineer businessperson inventor
Robin Li Yanhong is a Chinese software engineer and billionaire internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Chinese multinational technology company Baidu. As of May 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$5.5 billion by Forbes.
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Alexander Vilenkin

98. Alexander Vilenkin

1949-. (aged 77)
university teacher physicist non-fiction writer
Alexander Vilenkin is the Leonard Jane Holmes Bernstein Professor of Evolutionary Science and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 260 publications.
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Silvia Federici

99. Silvia Federici

1942-. (aged 84)
women's rights activist social scientist university teacher activist author
Silvia Federici is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and Marxist feminist activist based in New York. She is considered one of the leading theoreticians in Marxist feminist theory, women's history, political philosophy, and the history and theory of the commons. Her most famous book, Caliban and the Witch (2004), has been translated into numerous languages and adopted in college courses.
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Chrysostomos L. Nikias

100. Chrysostomos L. Nikias

1952-. (aged 74)
engineer university teacher
Chrysostomos Loizos "Max" Nikias is a Cypriot-American academic, and served as the 11th University of Southern California president, a position he held from August 3, 2010, to August 7, 2018. He holds the Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology and the Humanities and is president emeritus of the university. He had been at USC since 1991, as a professor, director...
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