- Todd Dodge
Todd Dodge (born July 21, 1963) is an American football coach, currently serving as the head coach at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas for the North Texas Mean Green. Previously, Dodge was the head coach at Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas. - Ed Soph
Ed Soph is a professional drummer and an educator currently residing in Denton, TX. He toured with Woody Herman, Clark Terry, and Stan Kenton and lived in New York City, NY, for many years before returning to his alma mater, The University of North Texas, to become an Associate Professor in Jazz Studies. - Lynn Seaton
Lynn was born in Tulsa , Oklahoma , July 18, 1957. He began studying classical guitar at age seven, switching to string bass at age nine. While studying music at the University of Oklahoma , he began working the clubs around the state. In September of 1980, Lynn relocated to Cincinnati , Ohio to join the Steve Schmidt Trio and the Blue Wisp Big Band. - Johnny Jones
Johnny Jones is the head men's basketball coach at the University of North Texas. He previously served as the interim head coach at the University of Memphis. - Darrell Dickey
Darrell Dickey was the head coach of the North Texas Mean Green football team from 1998 to 2006. After building a team with an established defense, he coached the Mean Green to 4 straight Sun Belt championships from 2001 to 2004, establishing North Texas as one of the elite programs in the Sun Belt. However, that success, was followed by failure, because in 2005 and 2006, UNT won a total of 5 games. - Anshel Brusilow
Anshel Brusilow (born Anshel Brusilovsky on 14 August, 1928) is an American conductor. Anshel Brusilow began his violin study at the age of five and entered the Curtis Institute of Music when he was eleven. He attended the Philadelphia Musical Academy and at sixteen was the youngest conducting student ever accepted by Pierre Monteux. A 4th prize winner of the prestigious Jacques Thibaud Marguerite Long Violin Competition in 1949, … - J. Baird Callicott
Baird Callicott is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas. He was Vice President and then President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics from 1994 to 2000. He was a professor of Philosophy and Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 1969 to 1995 where he taught the world's first course in environmental ethics in 1971. - Don Henley
Donald Hugh "Don" Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) is an American rock musician who is the drummer and one of the lead singers and songwriters of the band Eagles. He has since become a successful solo artist and has played a founding role in several environmental and political causes. - Jim Riggs
Jim Riggs is a saxophonist and professor at the University of North Texas. He was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1941. Riggs performs regularly with the Dallas and Fort Worth Symphonies. A recording artist himself, he has instructed many prominent alumni of the Jazz Studies program of UNT. - Jane Nelson
Jane Gray Nelson (born 5 October 1941) is the second highest ranking Republican in the Texas Senate and serves as Chairman of the Health & Human Services Committee. Senator Nelson is a former public school teacher who represents District 12 which includes parts of Denton and Tarrant Counties. Prior to serving on the Texas state Senate, she served two terms on the State Board of Education, leading the fight to correct more than 2,000 errors in school history textbooks. - Patrick Cobbs
Patrick Cobbs (born January 31, 1983 in Shawnee, Oklahoma) is an American football running back who currently plays for the Miami Dolphins. He was originally signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played collegiately at North Texas. - Earl Harvin
Earl Harvin is a drummer and percussionist from New York who has lived in Texas and Los Angeles and is now living in Berlin, Germany. Harvin has led the Texas and Los Angeles-based Earl Harvin Trio with Fred Hamilton and Dave Palmer. In Texas Harvin studied at the University of North Texas and performed, or recorded with artists including James Clay, Ten Hands and Billy Goat. He has since performed, or recorded with MC 900 Foot Jesus, Seal, The The, The Psychedelic Furs, … - Steve Jackson
Steve Jackson (full name: Stephen Craig Jackson) is a set theorist at University of North Texas. Much of his most notable work has involved the descriptive set-theoretic consequences of the axiom of determinacy. - Steve Turre
Steve Turre (born September 12, 1948 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an internationally renowned trombonist, recording artist, arranger, and educator. In 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2006 he won the "Down Beat" Reader's Poll for best trombonist. He was raised in San Francisco, California by Mexican American parents, and at first studied violin. However he switched to trombone at age ten and later studied at University of North Texas. In 1968 he played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, … - Johnny Quinn
Johnny Quinn (born November 6, 1983 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American football wide receiver who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played collegiately at North Texas. - Hayden Fry
John Hayden Fry (born February 28, 1929) was an NCAA Division I-A college football coach from 1962-1998 at SMU, North Texas, and the University of Iowa. He compiled a record of 232 wins, 178 losses, and 10 ties during his 37 year career as a head coach and has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. - Dave Pietro
Dave Pietro(born in Southborough, Massachusetts) is a jazz saxophonist who plays alto saxophone. He started playing at age 11 and was first recorded with his school's band by Clark Terry. He received his bachelor's in music from the University of North Texas and toured with their band. He went on to be lead alto saxophonist for Toshiko Akiyoshi's Jazz Orchestra from 1994 to 2003. His latest CD is in the Brazilian jazz genre. - Hannibal
Hannibal (born Marvin Peterson in Smithville, Texas, United States, November 11, 1948; formerly Hannibal Lokumbe and Hannibal Marvin Peterson) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He attended North Texas State University from 1967 to 1969, then moved to New York in 1970. Hannibal has performed with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Gil Evans, Elvin Jones, Roswell Rudd, Makanda Ken McIntyre, Deidre Murray, Pharoah Sanders, … - Butch Rovan
Joseph Butch Rovan, the composer and performer of electronic music, is the co-director of the Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments at Brown University, where he is a faculty member of the Department of Music. At Brown, he also co-directs the the Ph.D. program in Computer Music and Multimedia. Prior to joining the faculty at Brown, he was director of the Center for [Experimental Music] and Intermedia at the University of North Texas, … - Fisher Tull
Fisher A. (Aubrey) Tull (b. Waco, Texas, September 24, 1934; d. August 23, 1994, Huntsville, Texas) was an American composer, arranger, educator, administrator, and trumpeter. He attended public schools in Waco, Texas and eventually earned three degrees from the University of North Texas: a B.M. in music education (1956), a M.M. in music theory (1957), and a Ph.D. in music composition (1965). He studied trumpet with John Haynie and composition with Samuel Adler. - Gregg Bissonette
Gregg Bissonette, (born June 9, 1959, Detroit, Michigan) is an American drummer. Gregg was born in a family of musicians. His father Bud Bissonette plays drums, his mom Phyllis plays piano and vibraphone, and brother Matt Bissonette plays bass guitar. Gregg started learning to play the drums at age 5 from his father. - Jeff Coffin
Jeff Coffin is an American jazz horn player. He is most known as a saxophonist but also plays clarinet and flute. After attending the University of New Hampshire and the University of North Texas, Coffin entered the Nashville music scene in 1991. He studied under Joe Lovano, later playing with Van Morrison at the Montreux Festival in Switzerland. He has been a member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since March 1997, … - Phyllis George
Phyllis George (b. 25 June 1949 in Denton, Texas) is an American businesswoman. She is a former Miss Texas and Miss America of 1971. George attended the University of North Texas until crowned Miss Texas in 1971. At that time, Texas Christian University awarded scholarships to Miss Texas honorees. As a result, Phyllis left UNT and enrolled at TCU for several weeks until winning the Miss America crown later that fall. She is a member of Zeta Tau Alpha women's fraternity. - Peter Weller
Peter Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor, director and lecturer. - George Dunham
George Wayne Dunham, Jr. is a member of the "Dunham & Miller" morning show, heard 5:30-10:00 AM on sports radio KTCK 1310 AM "The Ticket" in Dallas, Texas. He is widely considered to be the station's signature host. He broadcasts alongside long-time friend Craig "Junior" Miller and yuck monkey Gordon Keith. In addition, he is the public address announcer for the Dallas Cowboys and calls play-by-play for the University of North Texas football and basketball teams,, … - Abner Haynes
Abner Haynes was a college and professional football player in the United States. A graduate of North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas) in 1960 he chose to play for the Dallas Texans and led the American Football League in rushing attempts, yards, and TDs in the league’s first year. Haynes helped launch the AFL in 1960, when he was the fledgling league's first Player of the Year, and its first Rookie of the Year. - Jerry Moore
Jerry Moore is the current head football coach at Appalachian State University, filling the position since 1989. Moore has had a winning record in 15 out of the last 16 seasons. He led the Mountaineers to the NCAA Division I-AA national football championship in 2005. This was the first national championship for any collegiate football team in the state of North Carolina. Moore and the Mountaineers repeated as champions in 2006, … - Matt Chamberlain
Matt Chamberlain (born April 17, 1967 in San Pedro, California) is one of the world's most widely-heard session drummers. Chamberlain began playing drums at the age of 2. He received his first set of drums at age 15, and studied with David Garibaldi, Murray Spivack, Chuck Flores, and Greg Bissonette before being awarded a scholarship to study at North Texas State University three years later. - Adel Al-Jubeir
Adel A. Al-Jubeir, His Excellency Adel A. Al-Jubeir (born February 1, 1962) is the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, and a former foreign policy advisor to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. He is a well-known representative of the Kingdom in the West, particularly the United States. - Zack Hexum
Zack Hexum is a Los Angeles based singer-songwriter. Hexum lists his influences as including Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren, and Jeff Buckley. Hexum plays both guitar and saxophone. Hexum’s debut, "The Story So Far", was released in 2004 on What Have You Records, the imprint of brother Nick Hexum’s (311) label. The Story So Far was produced by Don Gehman (R.E.M., Bruce Hornsby, John Mellencamp, Pat Green). - Brian Waters
Brian Demond Waters (born February 18, 1977 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American football guard for the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL. He attended the University of North Texas. - Tic Price
Tic Price is a college basketball coach. He currently serves as an assistant at the University of North Texas under Johnny Jones. From 2002 to 2007, he served as head coach at McNeese State University. Prior to that, he served as head coach of the University of Memphis and the University of New Orleans. He stepped down at Memphis because of an inappropriate relationship with a student. - Dan Malone
Dan Malone is a United States journalist and a Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative reporting. Malone currently works for the "Fort Worth Weekly", an alternative newspaper. Malone worked as a reporter for the "Corpus Christi Caller-Times" and the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram" before joining "The Dallas Morning News" in 1985. In 2002, he joined the staff of the "Fort Worth Weekly". - Rogers Cadenhead
Rogers Cadenhead (b. April 13, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is a computer book author and web publisher who sits on the RSS Advisory Board, a group that assists developers in using the RSS 2.0 specification. He graduated from the University of North Texas in 1991 and Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas in 1985. - Dolf de Roos
Dolf de Roos is a real estate investment speaker and author with investment interests on three continents. He is the chairman of Property Ventures Ltd, a public real estate investment company, Director of Landmark Pacific Holdings Pty Ltd and a Founder and Director of Best Choice Holdings, LLC. He has written nine books on real estate, which have appeared on best seller lists in five countries, including the New York Times bestseller "Real Estate Riches". - John Love
John Louis Love (born February 24, 1944 in Linden, Texas) was an American football wide receiver in the NFL for the Washington Redskins and the Los Angeles Rams. He played college football for the University of North Texas. - Odus Mitchell
Odus Mitchell was a highly successful football coach, both at the high school, and collegiate levels. In 42 years of coaching, at all levels, he compiled a 289-129-7 record. In his 21 years as a high school coach, he coached at Slaton, Childress, Pampa, and Marshall, compiling a 165-44-8 record. From 1946 to 1966, he was the head football coach at North Texas. His highly successful career there gave him a 122-85-9 record there. - Dmitri
The Most Reverend Dmitri (Royster) is the current archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of the South and ruling bishop of the Mexican Exarchate. As Archbishop of Dallas and the South, his territory covers fourteen states in the United States – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. - Heather Harmon
Heather Harmon is an amateur pornographic actress. She and her husband Jim own and operate the website "IDeepthroat.com", which depicts their sexual escapades, with strong emphasis on Heather's deepthroating skills. After receiving positive feedback from posting some of their explicit pictures to an online message group, the couple launched their website in 2000, making them, with Wifey's World, an early pioneer in commercial, real-life couple pornography. - Tim Jankovich
Tim Jankovich is the head basketball coach at Illinois State University. He was an assistant basketball coach at Kansas for four years, and has also served under current Kansas head coach Bill Self at Illinois. He's also served as an assistant coach at Colorado State, Oklahoma State, Texas, and Vanderbilt. He played college basketball at Kansas State.
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