Notable Alumni of Virginia Commonwealth University [Sorted List]

1. Daryl Cobb

1961-. (aged 65)

author children's writer

Daryl Cobb is an American author of children's books.

2. Matthew Delicâte

1982-. (aged 44)

association football player

Matthew Delicâte is an English former footballer who played for Richmond Kickers in the United Soccer League.

3. Richard Move

2012-2014 (aged 2)

choreographer

Richard Move is an American choreographer, dancer, performing artist, director, and filmmaker. They are the Artistic Director of MoveOpolis! and Move- It! Productions. Move is known for their interest in Martha Graham and the ability to recreate her performances. They are a TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow and was named 1 of 12 TED Fellows who inspire by producing art that confronts...

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4. Hayley Bowden

1984-. (aged 42)

association football player

Hayley Rose Bowden MNZM is a women's association footballer who has represented New Zealand at international level.

5. Sylvia Harris

1953-2011 (aged 58)

business executive graphic designer designer university teacher

Sylvia Elizabeth Harris Singer was an African-American graphic designer and design strategist. She has been considered a pioneer in the field of social impact design. The Sylvia Harris Citizen Design Award was named in her memory by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

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6. Howard Owen

1949-. (aged 77)

journalist novelist

Howard Owen is an American author. He is a writer of literary fiction, mystery, and thrillers. He was the winner of the 2012 Hammett Prize awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers.

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7. Trudy Benson

1985-. (aged 41)

painter

Trudy Benson is an American abstract painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

8. Brandon Rozzell

1989-. (aged 37)

basketball player

Brandon Rozzell is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He is currently an assistant coach for the VCU Rams.

9. Anhayla

1988-. (aged 38)

actor composer singer-songwriter film producer guitarist

Anhayla Rene Stanley, better known by her stage name Anhayla, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She is known for covering popular R&B and hip hop songs presented on her YouTube channel, Anhaylarene. Anhayla was endorsed by Crafter guitars in 2013.

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10. Susan Higginbotham

novelist

Susan Higginbotham is an American historical fiction author and attorney. She has written on the Middle Ages and the Wars of the Roses. Her historical fiction deals especially with female figures.

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11. Mark Shim

1973-. (aged 53)

saxophonist jazz musician

Mark Shim is a jazz tenor saxophonist.

12. Darius Theus

1990-. (aged 36)

basketball player basketball coach

Darius Theus is an American former basketball player and coach who currently is an assistant coach for the Virginia Cavaliers of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). He previously coached at VCU, where he played collegiately. He played professionally in the Netherlands and Germany.

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13. Tarfia Faizullah

1980-. (aged 46)

poet writer

Tarfia Faizullah is a Bangladeshi American poet. Born in 1980, she was raised in West Texas. She traveled to Bangladesh in 2010 to interview survivors of rape by Pakistani soldiers during the 1971 Liberation War, the birangona. Seam, her first book, was a collection of poems that were inspired by the many interviews she had with the birangona; and won...

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14. Samir Doughty

1997-. (aged 29)

basketball player

Samir Doughty is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the VCU Rams and the Auburn Tigers.

15. Paul DiPasquale

artist sculptor

Paul DiPasquale is a sculptor living and working in Richmond, Virginia. He has designed several public sculptures in Virginia, including the Arthur Ashe Monument on Richmond's Monument Avenue and King Neptune on Virginia Beach's boardwalk.

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16. Siri Mullinix

1978-. (aged 48)

association football player association football coach

Siri Lynn Mullinix is an American retired soccer goalkeeper who is an assistant coach for the Clemson Tigers women's soccer team. As keeper for the 2000 U.S. women's Olympic soccer team, she recorded two shutouts helping the team win the silver medal. In 2010, Mullinix was inducted into the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame.

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17. Ace Baldwin Jr

2001-. (aged 25)

basketball player

Adrian Tyrone "Ace" Baldwin Jr. is an American basketball player for the Osceola Magic of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the VCU Rams and Penn State Nittany Lions.

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18. Ron Jirsa

1959-. (aged 67)

basketball coach

Ronald Howard Jirsa is an American college basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach at Eastern Kentucky. He was previously the head coach at Georgia and Marshall.

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19. Darius Jones

1979-. (aged 47)

saxophonist record producer

Darius Jones is an American saxophonist, composer, and professor of African-American music.

20. Cody Eppley

1985-. (aged 41)

baseball player

Cody Allen Eppley is an American former professional baseball pitcher and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees.

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21. Michael Hearst

1972-. (aged 54)

composer

Michael Marcus Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, writer, and producer. He is best known for his solo albums Songs For Ice Cream Trucks, Songs For Unusual Creatures, Songs For Fearful Flyers, Songs For Unconventional Vehicles and Songs For Extraordinary People, as well as the children's books Unusual Creatures, Extraordinary People, Curious Constructions and Unconventional Vehicles. He has composed the music...

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22. Tyron McCoy

1972-. (aged 54)

basketball assistant coach basketball player basketball coach

Clement Tyron McCoy is an American professional basketball coach, and former professional basketball player. At a height of 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), he played at the shooting guard position.

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23. JeQuan Lewis

1994-. (aged 32)

basketball player

JeQuan Demonte Lewis is an American professional basketball player for Igokea m:tel of the Bosnian League and the ABA League. He played college basketball for VCU.

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24. Kelly Thomasson

1979-. (aged 47)

politician

Kelly Teal Thomasson Mercer is an American Democratic politician, who served as the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from April 2016 to January 2022. Initially appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe, she continued as Secretary under the administration of Governor Ralph Northam. Prior to her appointment as Secretary, Thomasson served as Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor McAuliffe.

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25. Bradford Burgess

1990-. (aged 36)

basketball player

Bradford Burgess is an American professional basketball player who last played for Liège Basket of the Pro Basketball League. Born in Midlothian, Virginia, Burgess played four seasons for the VCU Rams team, from 2008 till 2012. His jersey number 20 was retired by the Rams.

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26. Terry Larrier

1995-. (aged 31)

basketball player

Terry Elijah Larrier is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Santos del Potosí of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional. He played college basketball for the VCU Rams and the UConn Huskies.

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27. Amaka Agugua-Hamilton

1983-. (aged 43)

basketball player basketball coach

Amaka Agugua-Hamilton Listen is the current head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers women's basketball team.

28. Juvonte Reddic

1992-. (aged 34)

basketball player

Juvonte Reddic is an American professional basketball player for Ironi Kiryat Ata of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. A 6' 9" power forward, Reddic played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).

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29. Norman Sisisky

1927-2001 (aged 74)

politician

Norman Sisisky was an American businessman and politician who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia from 1983 until his death in 2001, representing the 4th district. He was a leader of the Blue Dog Coalition and one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress at the time.

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30. Eric Stanley

1991-. (aged 35)

hedge fund manager

Eric Stanley is an American hedge fund manager, violinist, programmer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Stay Inspired, a media company. Stanley is the co-founder of Stay Inspired Capital, a quantitative hedge fund. He and his fund are known to be quantitative investors, using trading algorithms and mathematical models to make investment gains from market inefficiencies.

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31. Teddy Okereafor

1992-. (aged 34)

basketball player

Teddy Okereafor is a British professional basketball player. Okereafor played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University and Rider University. He is also a member of the Great Britain Men's National team.

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32. Vimael Machín

1993-. (aged 33)

baseball player

Vimael Machín Soto is a Puerto Rican professional baseball infielder in the Colorado Rockies organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and Baltimore Orioles.

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33. Jackson Miller

1967-. (aged 59)

politician

Jackson Hunter Miller is an American politician. In 2022, he was appointed by Governor Glenn Youngkin as the Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services. From 2006 to 2018, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates representing the 50th district, made up of the city of Manassas and part of Prince William County in the suburbs of Washington,...

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34. Marilyn Tavenner

1951-. (aged 75)

nurse

Marilyn Barbour Tavenner is an American government official and health-care executive who served as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, from 2011 to 2015.

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35. Will Sessoms

1954-. (aged 72)

mayor chief executive officer bank officer politician

William Douglas Sessoms Jr. is an American politician and bank officer who served as the mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia from 2008 until his resignation in April, 2018. He was president and CEO of Towne Financial Services Group, a division of TowneBank of Hampton Roads, Virginia from 2011 to 2014.

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36. Marcus Santos-Silva

1997-. (aged 29)

basketball player

Marcus Santos-Silva is an American professional basketball player for ERA Nymburk of the National Basketball League and the Champions League. He previously played college basketball and college football for Texas Tech and VCU.

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37. Justin Wilson

1979-. (aged 47)

politician

Justin Marshall Wilson is an American politician who was the mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, from 2019 to 2025. Before that, he served on the Alexandria City Council, including a term as vice mayor from 2016 to 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party. On December 1, 2023, he announced that he would not seek re-election in 2024.

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38. Art Porter, Jr

1961-1996 (aged 35)

saxophonist jazz musician

Arthur Lee Porter Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist. He was the son of jazz musician Art Porter Sr. and the namesake of "The Art Porter Bill".

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39. Tic Price

1955-. (aged 71)

basketball player basketball coach

George "Tic" Price is an American college basketball coach with four decades of experience. He last coached the Lamar Cardinals men's basketball team. From 2002 to 2007, he served as head coach at McNeese State. Prior to that, he served as head coach of Memphis and New Orleans.

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40. Scott Cross

1974-. (aged 52)

basketball player head coach basketball coach

Scott Michael Cross is an American college basketball coach who is currently head men's basketball coach at Troy. He is the former head men's basketball coach at the University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington), where he played college basketball.

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41. Jamal Shuler

1986-. (aged 40)

basketball player

Jamal Shuler is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) before playing professionally in Germany, France, Ukraine and Israel. Shuler was named EuroChallenge Final Four MVP in 2015.

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42. Rebekah McKendry

1979-. (aged 47)

podcaster film director

Rebekah McKendry is an American film director, producer, film journalist, and academic. She is best known for her work on Tales of Halloween (2015) and All the Creatures Were Stirring (2017).

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43. Steve Wilson

1964-. (aged 62)

baseball player

Steve Wilson is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, who is best known in the musical community as a flutist and an alto and soprano saxophonist. He also plays the clarinet and the piccolo. Wilson performs on many different instruments and has performed and recorded on over twenty-five albums. His interests include folk, jazz, classical, world music, and experimental music. Wilson is...

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44. Yann Bonato

1972-. (aged 54)

basketball player

Yann Jean Claude Bonato is a former professional basketball player from France, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with the senior French men's national team. He was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.

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45. Sam Bass

1961-2019 (aged 58)

artist

Samuel Mark Bass was an American motorsports artist known for being NASCAR's first officially licensed artist. A lifelong NASCAR fan, he began working on designing drivers' cars paint schemes with Bobby Allison in 1988. He later designed various paint schemes for drivers like Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt, and designed and painted dozens of Race program covers for races at...

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46. Takuma Ito

1982-. (aged 44)

coach

Takuma Ito is the general manager of the Nagasaki Velca in the Japanese B.League. Ito is the former head coach of the Alvark Tokyo and the Nagasaki Velca.

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47. Sherman Hamilton

1972-. (aged 54)

basketball player

Sherman Hamilton is a Canadian former professional basketball player. Hamilton was a longtime member of the Canadian men's national basketball team. He is currently a basketball analyst for Sportsnet and NBA TV Canada.

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48. Justin Tillman

1996-. (aged 30)

basketball player

Justin Earl Tillman is an American professional basketball player for Sabah BC of the Azerbaijan Basketball League. He played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).

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49. Teresita Fernández

1968-. (aged 58)

installation artist sculptor photographer draftsperson

Teresita Fernández is a New York-based visual artist best known for her public sculptures and unconventional use of materials. Her work is characterized by a reconsideration of landscape and issues of visibility. Fernández’s practice generates psychological topographies that prompt the subjective reshaping of spatial and historical awareness. Her experiential, large-scale works are often inspired by natural landscapes, investigating the historical,...

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50. Jairus Lyles

1995-. (aged 31)

basketball player

Jairus Lyles is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the UMBC Retrievers. He also competed for the VCU Rams in his freshman season but played a limited role before transferring. Prior to college, Lyles attended DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, where he was a three-star recruit. At UMBC, he earned all-conference honors for...

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51. Nancy McFarlane

1955-. (aged 71)

pharmacist politician

Nancy Pletcher McFarlane is an American pharmacist and politician. She served as the 61st mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. She was elected to lead the city in the 2011 election, and succeeded Charles Meeker, who had declined to run for re-election to another term. McFarlane is a political independent but ran with the endorsement of the local...

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52. Kevin Powers

1980-. (aged 46)

writer novelist

Kevin Powers is an American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran.

53. Sean Marshall

1982-. (aged 44)

baseball player

Sean Christopher Marshall, nicknamed "Big Smooth", is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds.

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54. Caressa Cameron

1987-. (aged 39)

model beauty pageant contestant

Caressa Venal Cameron-Jackson is an American beauty pageant titleholder and occasional singer from Fredericksburg, Virginia who was Miss Virginia 2009 and Miss America 2010. She is the eighth African American Miss America titleholder, the first Black Miss Virginia to be crowned Miss America.

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55. Matthew E. White

1982-. (aged 44)

singer guitarist singer-songwriter recording artist record producer

Matthew E. White is an American singer, songwriter, producer and arranger. He has worked as a collaborator, producer, and arranger for acts including Bedouine, Natalie Prass, Cocoon, Foxygen, Justin Vernon, Hiss Golden Messenger, Sharon Van Etten, Ken Vandermark, Steven Bernstein, The Mountain Goats, Dan Croll and Slow Club. As a solo artist he has released two studio albums, Big Inner...

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56. Charles Vess

1951-. (aged 75)

comics artist illustrator artist

Charles Vess is an American fantasy artist and comics artist who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. His influences include British "Golden Age" book illustrator Arthur Rackham, Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, and comic-strip artist Hal Foster, among others. Vess has won several awards for his illustrations. Vess' studio, Green Man Press, is located in...

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57. Marcus Rediker

1951-. (aged 75)

social historian university teacher

Marcus Buford Rediker is an American historian, writer, professor, and social activist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976 and attended the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study, earning a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in history. He taught at Georgetown University from 1982 to 1994 and is currently a Distinguished Professor of Atlantic...

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58. John Fenn

1917-2010 (aged 93)

university teacher chemist

John Bennett Fenn was an American professor of analytical chemistry who was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. He shared half of the award with Koichi Tanaka for their work in mass spectrometry. The other half went to Kurt Wüthrich. Fenn's contributions specifically related to the development of electrospray ionization, now a commonly used technique...

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59. Vince Williams Jr

2000-. (aged 26)

basketball player

Vincent Terrill Williams Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the VCU Rams.

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60. Simon Diamond

1968-. (aged 58)

professional wrestler

Patrick Joseph Michael Kenney is an American retired professional wrestler and baseball player, better known by his ring name, Simon Diamond. He is working for the National Wrestling Alliance as Director of Talent Relations. Diamond is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1998 to 2001.

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61. Alan Gross

1949-. (aged 77)

activist

Alan Phillip Gross is a former United States government contractor employed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

62. Tuffy Stone

restaurateur chef

George "Tuffy" Stone is an American chef and competitor on the competitive barbecue circuit. He has appeared on the Destination America reality television show BBQ Pitmasters. He runs the team "Cool Smoke". His nickname is "The Professor".

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63. Eric Maynor

1987-. (aged 39)

basketball player basketball coach

Eric Demarqua Maynor is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University. As a senior, he averaged 22.4 points, 6.2 assists, 3.6 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game in the 2008–09 season.

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64. Mark Morton

1972-. (aged 54)

musician guitarist

Mark Duane Morton is an American musician who is the lead guitarist and one of the founding members of the heavy metal band Lamb of God.

65. Marc Jackson

1975-. (aged 51)

basketball player

Marc Anthony Jackson is an American former professional basketball player who played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2000 to 2007. He is a current television analyst of the Philadelphia 76ers for NBC Sports Philadelphia.

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66. Treveon Graham

1993-. (aged 33)

basketball player

Treveon Dominique Graham is an American professional basketball player for the Taoyuan Pauian Pilots of the P. League+. He played college basketball for the VCU Rams.

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67. Mo Alie-Cox

1993-. (aged 33)

basketball player American football player

Mohamed Alie-Cox is an American professional football tight end for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college basketball at VCU. Despite not having played organized football since he was a freshman in high school, Alie-Cox signed as an undrafted free agent with the Indianapolis Colts in 2017, and has remained with the team for eight...

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68. Gerald Henderson

1956-. (aged 70)

basketball player

Jerome McKinley "Gerald" Henderson Sr. is an American former professional basketball player. He was a combo guard who had a 13-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1979 until 1992. He played for the Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Pistons, and Houston Rockets. Henderson was born in Richmond, Virginia and attended...

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69. Briante Weber

1992-. (aged 34)

basketball player

Brianté Alexander Weber is an American professional basketball player who last played for Dinamo Sassari of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for the VCU Rams.

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70. Bones Hyland

2000-. (aged 26)

basketball player

Nah'Shon Lee "Bones" Hyland is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the VCU Rams before being drafted 26th overall in the 2021 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets.

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71. Troy Daniels

1991-. (aged 35)

basketball player

Troy Daniels is an American professional basketball player who last played for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where in 2013, he set the Atlantic 10 Conference record for made three-point field goals in a single game.

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72. Brandon Wardell

1992-. (aged 34)

actor comedian stand-up comedian

Brandon Scott Wardell is an American comedian and writer.

73. Rob Wittman

1959-. (aged 67)

civil servant politician

Robert Joseph Wittman is an American politician and environmental health specialist serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 1st congressional district since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, his district contains portions of the Richmond suburbs and Hampton Roads area, as well as the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula.

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74. Larry Sanders

1988-. (aged 38)

basketball player

Larry Sanders is an American professional basketball player. He played power forward for the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams before declaring himself eligible for the 2010 NBA draft and was selected 15th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks.

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75. Yasonna Laoly

1953-. (aged 73)

politician political candidate

Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly is the former Minister of Law and Human Rights of Indonesia, serving from 2019 to 2024. He was a member of the North Sumatra regional legislature from 1999 to 2003 and of the People's Consultative Assembly from 2004 to 2014. He is the first ethnic Nias to hold a cabinet position. He is one of the leaders...

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76. Zachary Knighton

1978-. (aged 48)

television director television actor film producer actor film actor

Zachary Andrew Knighton is an American actor, best known for starring as Dave Rose on the ABC comedy series Happy Endings from 2011 to 2013 and as Orville "Rick" Wright in the rebooted version of Magnum P.I. from 2018 to 2024. Other notable roles on television include starring roles on ABC's science fiction series FlashForward and in the FOX sitcoms...

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77. César Manrique

1919-1992 (aged 73)

sculptor painter environmentalist

César Manrique Cabrera was a Spanish artist, sculptor and nature activist from Lanzarote. In his early career he was primarily a painter, influencing early Spanish informalism and abstract art. He is however primarily known for his architectural projects in Lanzarote, constructed from the 1960s to 1990s. These were designed to promote sustainable tourism, while respecting the natural landscape and character...

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78. Stephen Furst

1954-2017 (aged 63)

television director film actor film director television actor actor

Stephen Furst was an American actor, director and producer. After gaining attention with his featured role as Kent "Flounder" Dorfman in the comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House and its spin-off television series Delta House, he went on to be a regular as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in the medical drama series St. Elsewhere from 1983 to 1988, and as Centauri...

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79. Chad Coleman

1974-. (aged 52)

voice actor television actor actor film actor

Chad L. Coleman is an American actor. He is known for playing Dennis "Cutty" Wise on the HBO series The Wire (2004–08), Coach in the video game Left 4 Dead 2 (2009), Tyreese on the AMC series The Walking Dead (2012–15), Mingo on Roots (2016), Z on the FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2010–19), Fred Johnson on The...

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80. Chris Adler

1972-. (aged 54)

drummer musician

Christopher James Adler is an American musician, best known as a founding member and the longtime drummer of heavy metal band Lamb of God from 1994 to 2019.

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81. Jay Pharoah

1987-. (aged 39)

actor comedian television actor

Jared Antonio Farrow, better known by his stage name Jay Pharoah, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2010 to 2016. In 2015, he was ranked the 55th greatest Saturday Night Live cast member by Rolling Stone magazine. He also voiced characters such as Meena's...

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82. Jason Butler Harner

1970-. (aged 56)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Jason Thomas Butler Harner is an American actor known for his role as FBI Special Agent Roy Petty in Ozark.

83. Christopher Poole

1989-. (aged 37)

computer scientist entrepreneur

Christopher Poole, also known online as moot, is an American Internet entrepreneur and developer. He founded the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003 when he was a teenager and served as the site's head administrator until January 2015. He also founded the online community Canvas Networks, active from 2011 to 2014. Poole was hired by Google in 2016 to...

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84. Boris Kodjoe

1973-. (aged 53)

stage actor model television actor actor film actor

Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe is an Austrian/German, Ghanaian actor and former model, based in the United States. His breakthrough role was as sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food (2000-2004). His other notable television roles include Dr. Will Campbell on CBS's Code Black, Phil Miller on The Last Man on Earth, Robert Sullivan on Station...

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85. Rama Duwaji

1997-. (aged 29)

ceramicist illustrator animator

Rama Sawaf Duwaji is an American animator, illustrator, and ceramist. Throughout her career, her illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker and The Washington Post, as well as at Vice, the BBC, Apple, and Tate Modern.

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86. David Baldacci

1960-. (aged 66)

poet lawyer jurist lawyer writer novelist

David Baldacci is an American novelist. An attorney by education, Baldacci writes mainly suspense novels and legal thrillers. His novels are published in over 45 languages and published in over 80 countries, having sold over 130 million copies worldwide.

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87. Jeff Ray Clark

economist

Jeff Ray Clark is an American economist specializing in public finance, public choice, and managerial economics. He is the Scott L. Probasco, Jr. Chair of Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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88. Todd Haymore

1969-. (aged 57)

politician

Todd Patterson Haymore is an American civil servant who served as Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade in the administration of Governor Terry McAuliffe. He previously served as the Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry under Governor Bob McDonnell and Terry McAuliffe. Prior to these two posts, he served in then-Governor Tim Kaine's administration in the Virginia Department of Agriculture...

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89. Mirta Martin

1960-. (aged 66)

educator

Mirta Maria Martin is an American educator who is currently president of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. She was the president of Fairmont State University from 2018 to 2022 and the president of Fort Hays State University from 2014 to 2016. Prior to Fort Hays State, Martin served as the Dean of Virginia State University's Reginald F. Lewis School of...

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90. Schuyler van Valkenburg

1982-. (aged 44)

teacher politician

Schuyler Thomas VanValkenburg is an American teacher and politician. He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates representing the 72nd District on November 7, 2017, to replace retiring delegate Jimmie Massie. He defeated Republicans Eddie Whitlock and GayDonna Vandergriff in the 2017 and 2019 elections, respectively. In the 2023 state elections, VanValkenburg was elected over incumbent Siobhan Dunnavant in...

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91. Jon Pineda

1971-. (aged 55)

poet

Jon Pineda is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist.

92. Keyanna Conner

politician

Keyanna Conner is an American politician. She served as the Virginia Secretary of Administration in the Cabinet of Governor Ralph Northam. She worked for Mark Warner's campaign and administration before joining Northam's cabinet.

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93. Dietra Trent

1963-. (aged 63)

politician

Dietra Yvette Trent served as the Virginia Secretary of Education under Governor Terry McAuliffe. She previously served as Deputy Secretary of Education from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2016 and was elevated after Anne Holton's resignation as Secretary to campaign for her husband, Tim Kaine's vice presidential bid in 2016.

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94. Lamont Bagby

1976-. (aged 50)

politician

Lamont Bagby is an American politician of the Democratic Party. On November 3, 2015, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 74th district, which includes Charles City County, parts of Henrico County and the city of Richmond. Bagby serves as the Chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia and Chair of the bicameral Virginia Legislative Black...

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95. Rosalyn Dance

1948-. (aged 78)

politician

Rosalyn Randolph Dance is an American politician who served in the Senate of Virginia from 2014 until 2020. She was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2005 to 2014, was mayor of Petersburg, Virginia from 1992 to 2004, and is the Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Virginia Department of Elections. Dance is a member of the...

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96. Rodney Robinson

1978-. (aged 48)

secondary school teacher

Rodney Alexander Robinson is an American educator. After teaching for over a decade in middle and high schools in Richmond, Virginia, he became a social studies and history teacher for grades 6 through 12 at the Virgie Binford Education Center, located inside the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center. He was named Virginia Teacher of the Year in 2018 and National Teacher...

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97. Robert Q. Marston

1923-1999 (aged 76)

physician

Robert Quarles Marston was an American physician, research scientist, governmental appointee and university administrator. Marston was a native of Virginia, and, after earning his bachelor's, medical and research degrees, he became a research scientist and medical professor. He served as the dean of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, the director of the National Institutes of Health, and the...

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98. Judith Godwin

1930-2021 (aged 91)

painter draftsperson artist

Judith Godwin was an American abstract painter, associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement.

99. Tom Robbins

1932-2025 (aged 93)

biographer autobiographer novelist writer journalist

Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). Robbins had lived in La Conner, Washington, since 1970, where he wrote nine of his books. His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His last work, published in 2014, was...

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100. Martina Šamadan

1993-. (aged 33)

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Martina Šamadan is a Croatian volleyball player. She plays as middle blocker for Greek club Panathinaikos.