- Drew Carey
Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American actor and comedian recognizable by his crew cut and black-rimmed glasses. After making a name for himself in stand-up comedy he eventually gained popularity starring on his own self-titled sitcom, "The Drew Carey Show", and serving as host on the U.S. version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?". - Allison Krause
Allison Krause (April 23, 1951 - May 4, 1970) was a student at Kent State University, Ohio when she was shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard in the Kent State shootings, while protesting the Vietnam war. The Guardsmen opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing four of them, at an average distance of about 106 meters (345 feet). Krause was shot in the back at about 105 meters (343 feet) fatally wounding her. - Jeffrey Miller
Jeffrey Glenn Miller (March 28, 1950 - May 4, 1970) was a student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio when he was shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings while protesting the Vietnam War. At the time of his death, Miller had recently transferred to Kent State from Michigan State University. Of the four students killed at Kent State that day, Miller was standing closest to the Guardsmen. - Antonio Gates
Antonio Gates (born June 18, 1980 in Detroit, Michigan) is a football tight end for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL. He's listed as 6 feet, 4 inches tall, and 260 pounds. Gates wears the number 85. - Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950, in Akron, Ohio) is an American musician, composer, singer, and painter. - Arsenio Hall
Arsenio Hall (February 12, 1955) is an American comedian, talk show host, and actor. He is best known for his talk show The Arsenio Hall Show and stint as host of Star Search. The son of a Baptist minister, Hall performed as a magician when he was a child. Hall attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was on the speech team with future actress Nancy Cartwright and future news anchor Leon Harris. He then transferred to Kent State University. - Gary Pinkel
Gary Pinkel (born April 27, 1952) is the head football coach at the University of Missouri. Pinkel, who has been coaching at Missouri since the 2001 football season, previously coached at the University of Toledo, where he experienced success in the Mid-American Conference, winning a conference championship with the Rockets in 1995. Pinkel's record at Mizzou is 37-34, and his conference record is 20-28. Gary Pinkel graduated from Kenmore High School in Akron, Ohio, … - Lou Holtz
Louis Leo Holtz (born on January 6, 1937 in Follansbee, West Virginia) is a former NCAA football head coach, and is currently an author and a motivational speaker who has spoken to the likes of Fortune 500 companies on topics such as the importance of teamwork and goal setting. Holtz grew up in nearby East Liverpool, Ohio, and graduated from East Liverpool High School. He attended and graduated from Kent State University, … - Sandra Scheuer
Sandra Lee Scheuer (pronounced as, August 11, 1949 - May 4, 1970) was a student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, when she was killed by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings. Scheuer, born in Youngstown, Ohio, was an honors student in speech therapy. She did not take part in the Vietnam War protests that preceded the shootings. She was shot through the throat with an M-1 rifle from a distance of 130 yards (119 meters) while walking between classes. - Joe Walsh
Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American guitarist and rock musician. He has served stints in two successful bands, James Gang and Eagles. He has also experienced success as a solo artist. - Bob Lewis
Robert Curtis Lewis (b. March 4 1947, Akron, Ohio), founding member (along with Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh) of the new wave band Devo. Lewis played basketball briefly for Bobby Knight at Cuyahoga Falls High School, was a National Merit Scholar at Kent State University, and the first student at the university to earn a degree in anthropology, graduating shortly after the Kent State shootings on May 4 1970. - Thurman Munson
Thurman Lee Munson was an American catcher in Major League Baseball who played with the New York Yankees from 1969 to 1979. Munson was killed at age 32 while trying to land his personal airplane. - Alan Canfora
Alan Canfora (b. 1949) was a student at Kent State University, Ohio, when he was shot and wounded in the right wrist by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 while protesting the invasion of Cambodia. It is estimated that Canfora was 225 feet away from the Guardsman who shot him with a military issue M1 Garand. Canfora suffered a through and through gunshot wound with entry and exit wounds. - William Knox Schroeder
William Knox Schroeder (July 20, 1950 - May 4, 1970) was a student at Kent State University, Ohio, when he was killed by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings. Schroeder was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. At age 17, Schroeder applied for the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarship. He received the Academic Achievement award from both the Colorado School of Mines and from Kent State University, where he was a psychology student. - Steve Stone
Steven Michael Stone (born July 14, 1947 in Euclid, Ohio) is a former American Major League Baseball player and current sportscaster. He also authored the 1999 book "Where's Harry?" with Barry Rozner of the Chicago Tribune, which was extremely popular, especially with Cub fans and Chicagoans. He was one of the best Jewish pitchers in major league history, 3rd career-wise in wins (107) and strikeouts (1,065), behind Ken Holtzman and Sandy Koufax, … - Nick Saban
Nick Lou Saban (born October 31, 1951 in Fairmont, West Virginia) is an American college football coach and the current head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Saban took the Alabama position after coaching the Miami Dolphins for two years and previously coaching Alabama's SEC Western division rival, LSU. Saban's eight-year contract for a total of $32 million made him the highest paid college football coach in the United States. - Jack Lambert
John Harold "Jack" Lambert (July 8, 1952, Mantua, Ohio, United States) is a former NFL linebacker in American football. He played football with Kent State, winning two-year All-Mid-American Conference linebacker honors. He won four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers and established himself as one of the best linebackers in the history of the NFL. - Gerald Casale
Gerald Casale (born Gerald Pizzute, July 28 1948) is the Bass Guitar/Synth Player, a vocalist, and one of the founding members (along with Mark Mothersbaugh and Bob Lewis) of the new wave band Devo. With Mothersbaugh, who he met at Kent State University, Casale co-wrote most of Devo's material (including the hit Whip It), designed Devo's distinctive attire (including the Energy Dome, plastic pompadours and yellow radiation suits) over the years with Mothersbaugh, … - Brad Warner
Brad Warner is a Zen Buddhist priest, ordained in the Sōtō school by Gudo Wafu Nishijima. He is also a published author, musician, film maker, and blogger. He began practicing Zen under Ohio-based teacher Tim McCarthy in the early 1980s while also playing bass guitar for the hardcore punk band 0DFx (also known as Zero Defex), and by the time he moved to Tokyo in 1994 to work for Tsuburaya Productions, … - Michael D. Capellas
Michael D. Capellas was the President and CEO of MCI Inc.. He grew up in Warren, Ohio, and obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Kent State University in 1976. Before joining MCI, he was the CEO of Compaq. His business career has also covered management positions at Schlumberger Limited, SAP, and Oracle. Michael has accepted the position of CEO of First Data Corporation. He officially starts once the KKR deal is closed with First Data. - Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton (born Michael John Douglas on September 9, 1951) is an American actor best known for his early comedic roles in films such as "Night Shift", and "Beetlejuice", and his portrayal of Batman in the two Tim Burton directed films. - Bertice Berry
Dr. Bertice Berry (b. 1960) is an American sociologist, author, lecturer, and educator. Berry grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated magna cum laude from Jacksonville University in Florida, and earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Kent State University in Ohio, at the age of 26. She later worked as an entertainer, lecturer, and comedian. She was the host co-executive producer of her own nationally syndicated talk show, "The Bertice Berry Show", from 1993 to 1994. - Gene Michael
Eugene Richard Michael (born June 2, 1938 in Kent, Ohio) is a former player, manager and executive in Major League Baseball. Michael earned the nickname "Stick" due to his skinny frame. After finishing high school, he went to Kent State University. After being drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1959, Michael spent 10 seasons in the major leagues playing mostly at shortstop. He spent only one year with the Pirates, his first season in the majors (1966). - John van Benschoten
John Wesley Van Benschoten (Born April 14, 1980 in San Diego, California) is a Major League Baseball player. A starting pitcher who bats and throws from the right side, Van Benschoten is 6'4" tall and weighs 217 pounds. Grew up playing baseball at Milford High School in Milford Ohio. John has one sister, Lyndsey. - Carl E. Walz
EXPERIENCE: From 1979 to 1982, Walz was responsible for analysis of radioactive samples from the Atomic Energy Detection System at the 1155th Technical Operations Squadron, McClellan Air Force Base, California. The subsequent year was spent in study as a Flight Test Engineer at the USAF Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California. - David Sedaris
David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist and radio contributor. Much of his humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, Greek heritage, various jobs, education, drug use, homosexuality and his life as an expatriate in France with his partner, Hugh. - John Filo
John Paul Filo (Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania) photographed the 1971 Pulitzer Prize winning photo of a 14-year-old runaway girl (Mary Ann Vecchio), crying while kneeling over the body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings. At the time, Filo was a photojournalism student at Kent State University. - Stephen R. Donaldson
Stephen R. Donaldson was born on the 13th May 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, James, was a medical missionary and his mother, Ruth, a prosthetist (a person skilled in making or fitting prosthetic devices). Donaldson spent the years between the ages of 3 and 16 living in India where his father was working as an orthopaedic surgeon. Donaldson was educated at the College of Wooster and the Kent State University, being awarded a Bachelor's and Master's degree respectively. - Dustin Hermanson
Dustin Michael Hermanson (born December 21, 1972 in Springfield, Ohio) is a right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. On Sunday, April 1st, 2007 Hermanson was released by the Cincinnati Reds after struggling in his attempt to become the team's closing pitcher. After being selected in the 1st round of the 1994 amateur draft by, and playing for, the San Diego Padres, he bounced around the majors, playing for the Montreal Expos, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, … - G. William Domhoff
G. William (Bill) Domhoff (born August 6, 1936) is a Research Professor in psychology and sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is best known for his controversial 1960s bestseller, "Who Rules America?", which argued that the country was dominated by the elite classes, both politically and economically. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of George William and Helen S. (Cornet) Domhoff. - Chrissie Hynde
Christine Ellen Hynde (born September 7, 1951 in Akron, Ohio) is an American rock musician, best known as the leader of the band The Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and the only constant member of the band throughout its history. __TOC_ - Ben Curtis
Ben Curtis (born May 26, 1977) is an American golfer who was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in Ostrander, Ohio. His family runs the Mill Creek Golf Club, also in Ostrander. Curtis is a graduate of Buckeye Valley High School and Kent State University, where he was a star on the golf team. - Matt Guerrier
Matthew Olson Guerrier (born August 2, 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a major league relief pitcher, currently on the 40-man roster for the Minnesota Twins. He attended college at Kent State University and made his Major League debut on June 17, 2004. - Tom Batiuk
Tom Batiuk (born 1947 in Akron, Ohio) is an American comic strip creator. His best-known comic strip is "Funky Winkerbean". Batiuk attended Kent State University, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in painting. He went on to teach art in junior high school. He put his experiences to use in his gag-a-day "Funky Winkerbean", which first appeared in print in 1972. With the success of the strip, he abandoned his teaching career, … - C. J. Prentiss
C. J. Prentiss is an American politician of the Democratic party who served in the Ohio State Senate from 2000 until 2007. During the 126th Ohio General Assembly, she served as Minority Leader. She earned a bachelor of arts degree and a masters degree in education from Cleveland State University. She holds a post-graduate certificate in Administration from Kent State University. - Ken Hammond
Kenneth J. Hammond is an associate professor of history at New Mexico State University. Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University from 1967 to 1970. He later returned to Kent to complete his degree in Political Science, then studied foreign language at the Beijing Foreign Languages Normal School in Beijing. Hammond received an M.A. in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. - Joshua Seth
Joshua Seth Freedman (born December 17, 1970) was born in Kent, Ohio and attended NYU film school. He has voiced several anime characters and is sometimes credited as "Jeremiah Freedman". In 2005, he became the announcer of "Kids WB's Aftertoons Show" block and "Saturdays: Unleashed" block. He also works as a comedy hypnotist and magician. - Liam Lynch
Liam Lynch (born September 5, 1970) is a musician, puppeteer, and director. He co-created, co-wrote, played the music for, directed, and produced the MTV's "Sifl and Olly Show". Lynch also made the album "Fake Songs", released in 2002, produced by his own company, 111 Productions. This album featured the song "United States of Whatever", which charted in the Top 10 in the United Kingdom and Australia. - Dick Goddard
Dick Goddard (born February 24, 1931) is a meteorologist, author, cartoonist, and animal activist from Cleveland, Ohio. His lengthy career, hosting of special public events, and affection for animals has made him a popular figure in Northeast Ohio. Goddard began his weather career while taking classes on meteorology during a stint with the United States Air Force in the early 1950s. - Brannon Braga
Brannon Braga (born August 14 1965, in Bozeman, Montana) is an American television producer and screenwriter who is mostly known for his work on the Star Trek series since 1990. He is credited as one of the co-creators and executive producers of "Star Trek: Enterprise" and was a producer of the short-lived alien invasion drama "Threshold". Braga received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Kent State University Stark in 2005.
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