- Rod Smith
Rod Smith (born November 15, 1949) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. A Democrat, Smith was a member of the Florida Senate from Gainesville from 2001 until 2006. Smith lost the Democratic nomination for governor of Florida in the 2006 election, to Jim Davis. - Micah Owings
Micah Owings (born September 28, 1982 in Gainesville, Georgia) is a professional right-handed pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team. Owings made his major league debut on April 4th, 2007 against the Washington Nationals. He pitched five shutout innings, allowing only one hit, and striking out six. Originally brought up to fill a starter spot while Randy Johnson recovered from back surgery, management was very impressed by his performances. - Terry Jackson
Terrance Bernar Jackson (born on January 10, 1976 in Gainesville, Florida) is a running back in the NFL. He went to University of Florida. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 5th round (157th overall) in 1999 NFL Draft. He was waived by the 49ers in September 2006 and is currently a free agent. Jackson is a solid interior runner, and has surprising quickness and power when he gets through the line. - Karen Thurman
Karen L. Thurman is a former U.S. Representative from Florida. She is a Democrat. She was born on January 12, 1951 in Rapid City, South Dakota, but has spent most of her life in Florida. She received her Associate's Degree from Santa Fe Community College in Starke, Florida in 1970 and her Bachelor's degree in education from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1973. Thurman was first elected to public office in 1974, … - Ron Blair
Ron Blair (born Ronald Edward Blair, September 16 1948, in San Diego) was the original bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. He was the band's bass guitarist from 1976 to 1981. In 2002 he returned to the group after a 21-year hiatus, replacing his own replacement, the late Howie Epstein. His father was a Navy man so the family relocated every few years throughout the U.S. as well as within Japan and Hong Kong. - Stan Lynch
Stanley "Stan" Lynch is an American songwriter and record producer. He was the original drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for 18 years until his departure in 1994. Lynch was born in the U.S. city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Gainesville, Florida, in the early 1960s. He began playing music since he was a small child. As a teenager growing up near Gainesville, Fla., Lynch determined that he would find a way to make a living with music. - Buddy Alexander
Stewart Murray "Buddy" Alexander (born February 20, 1953) is the head golf coach at the University of Florida at Gainesville. He has also coached at LSU and Georgia Southern. Alexander was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. His father Skip was a PGA Tour player. As the head men's and women's golf coach at LSU, Alexander recorded two SEC team team titles and two SEC individual titles. In 28 years as a head coach, his teams have produced 13 NCAA Top Ten appearances. - John Capel
John Capel (born November 27, 1978 in Brooksville, Florida, United States of America) is a sprint athlete. John attended the University of Florida in Gainesville and played for their american football team the Gators but left there in 2000 to concentrate on his athletics career. John's major athletic highlight came in winning the 200 m gold medal at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, Paris, France. - Jill Craybas
Jill Craybas (born July 4, 1974, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American professional tennis player. Before entering the professional ranks in 1996, she attended and graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville, and was the 1996 NCAA Singles Champion. Her major was telecommunications and she has said in interviews that she hopes to enter this field (film or TV production) when her playing days are over. She credits all her achievements to her longtime coach, … - Fuller Warren
Fuller Warren (October 3, 1905 - September 23, 1973) was the 30th governor of the U.S. state of Florida. Born in Blountstown, Florida, he attended the University of Florida in Gainesville and was a member of the Tau Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity. While attending the university, he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives at the age of 21 in 1927. Following graduation, he moved to Jacksonville, Florida and began practicing law. - Rodney J. Bartlett
Rodney J. Bartlett was born March 31, 1944 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He is Graduate Research Professor of Chemistry and Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He has made particular contributions to coupled cluster theory, including CCSD, full CCSDT and full CCSDTQ (1992). He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. - Maya Rudolph
Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972, in Gainesville, Florida) is an American actress and comedian, currently best known as a cast member of NBC's "Saturday Night Live." - Donald Justice
Donald Justice (born in Miami, Florida, August 12, 1925 - died in Iowa City, Iowa, August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. He was for many years on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the nation's first graduate program in creative writing. He also taught at Syracuse University, the University of California at Irvine, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Florida in Gainesville. - Allison Miller
Allison Miller is a actress, born in Rome, Italy, who grew up in Lexington, Kentucky; State College, Pennsylvania and Tallahassee, Florida where she attended Leon High School and graduated from The Maclay School and attended the University of Florida in Gainesville. Miller got her acting start at Tallahassee's Young Actors Theatre. - Gregory Ulmer
Gregory L. Ulmer has been a professor at the University of Florida (Gainesville), Department of English since 1985, and is Professor of Electronic Languages and Cybermedia at the European Graduate School (Saas-Fee, Switzerland), where he teaches an Intensive Summer Seminar. - Ngo Dong
O Sensei Ngo Đong is chiefly known as the founder and grandmaster of international school of Cuong Nhu Oriental Martial Arts. From 1961 to 1971 he served as professor of biology at the Hue University, Vietnam, during which time he founded the Cuong Nhu style of martial arts. After the devastating 1968 Tet offensive, Grandmaster Dong organized a civil defense organization, the People's Self-Defense Forces of Hue, … - Rod Cameron
Born Nathan Roderick Cox (b. in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on December 7, 1910 - d. in Gainesville, Georgia on December 21, 1983), Rod Cameron was a movie actor whose movie career stretched from the 1930s to the 1970s. Though made several horror, war, action and sci-fi movies, the lanky Canadian is best remembered for western movies. Cameron started out as a stuntman and bit player for Paramount Pictures. - Michael C. Thomas
Michael C. Thomas is an American entomologist who is co-author of the book series "American Beetles". Born in Miami, Florida, Thomas graduated from the University of South Florida in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts, followed by a Master of Science degree in Entomology from the University of Florida in 1981. Thomas has also received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida. - Alec Wilder
Alec Wilder (born Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder in Rochester, New York, February 16, 1907; d. Gainesville, Florida, December 24, 1980) was an American composer. His family was prominent in Rochester; a downtown building (at the "Four Corners") bears the family's name. As a young boy, he travelled to New York City with his mother and stayed at the Algonquin Hotel. It would later be his home for the last 40 or so years of his life. - Marce
Marce (1974 -) is a singer/songwriter, born Marcela Pineros in Bogotá, Colombia. Marce is the second of four children born to filmmaker Antonio Jose Pineros and Reiki Master Maria Torres. She wrote her first song at age 9. Raised to be a nomad, Marce developed a diverse world view. Her commitment to social activism led her to pursue a degree in Women's Studies. Marce graduated Summa Cum Laude from Florida International University in 2002. - Lutz Altepost
Lutz Altepost (born 6 October 1981 in Emsdetten) is a German flatwater canoer and former world champion. At the 1999 Junior World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, he won two gold medals with Germany's four-man kayak (K4) crew (500m and 1000m). As a senior he has established himself among the elite K1 500m paddlers in international competitions but has yet to win an individual gold medal. In 2002 he finished sixteenth at the Seville world championships. - Ben Fouhy
Ben Fouhy (born 4 March, 1979, Taumarunui) is New Zealand's top flatwater canoer. In 2003 he became individual kayak (K1) 1000m world champion at Gainesville, USA. This was the first time a New Zealander had won canoeing's blue riband event since their heyday of the 1980's. He won a silver medal in the K1 1000m at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Fouhy had a disappointing world championships in 2005, finishing off the podium for the first time. - Henrik Nilsson
Henrik Nilson is a Swedish flatwater canoer and reigning Olympic K-2 1000m kayak champion. Nilsson represented Sweden at the 1996 Olympics as a member of the K-4 1000m kayak crew which placed seventh in the final. His first international medal came at the 1997 World Championships in Dartmouth, Canada, where he won the K2 200m bronze medal with partner Henrik Andersson. His greatest triumphs however came with partner Markus Oscarsson. - Chris Bachelder
Chris Bachelder (born 1971) is an American writer, e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern" and "The Believer". Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia. He attended Virginia Tech (BA, 1992) and the University of Florida at Gainesville (MFA, 2002). Bachelder has taught fiction writing and literature courses at Colorado College (Assistant Professor), … - Mark Merklein
"' (born June 28, 1972 in Freeport) is a retired professional tennis player from the Bahamas. Merklein turned professional in 1994 and won four doubles titles during his career. On July 7, 1997, he reached his highest singles ranking of World Number 160 and reached his highest doubles ranking on January 12, 2004, when he became World Number 37"'. He currently resides in Gainesville, Florida in the United States. - Rafael Vidal
Rafael Antonio Vidal Castro (January 6, 1964 - February 12, 2005) was a Venezuelan swimmer and sports commentator. He was a native of Caracas, Venezuela. At age 19, Vidal became the first Venezuelan swimmer to win an Olympic medal in the 200m butterfly competition in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Although he was the smallest man in the pool at 5-foot-6, Vidal was well ahead of West Germany's 6-foot-7 Michael Gross at the finish. - David Cal
David Cal Figueroa (born October 10, 1982 in Cangas, Galicia, Spain) is a Spanish flatwater canoer. He specialises in the Canadian canoe C1 event. Cal was a junior world championship bronze medallist in Zagreb in 1999 (C1 1000m). The following year he became European C1 500m junior champion at Boulogne, France in 2000. He also won the C1 1000m bronze medal. He was a reserve at the Sydney Olympics. At the 2002 European under-23 championships in Zagreb, Croatia, … - Lexie Kaye
Lexie Kaye is an American on-air personality at WSRV-FM in Atlanta, GA. - Sam Fogarino
Samuel Fogarino (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 9 1968) is the drummer of New York City-based band Interpol. He has played in bands The Holy Terrors, Gus, The Wahoos, Napoleon Solo, The Ton-ups and The Last Night. Fogarino began to play the drums at the age of 13. In the early 1990s Fogarino played with the South Florida act, The Holy Terrors as part of a music scene that also produced Marilyn Manson (band), Jack Off Jill, Saigon Kick and The Mavericks. - Attila Buday
Attila Buday (born June 28, 1974 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Canadian flatwater canoeist. He is a student at the University of Toronto. He finished in 7th at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the C2 1000m event, partnering his younger brother Tamas. Four years later, in Athens Olympics they again reached the final, this time coming eighth in the C2 500m. The pair have won three C2 1000m silver medals in world championships: in 2002 at Seville, Spain in 2003 at Gainesville, USA, … - Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell (born 17 February 1942) is an American ecologist on the faculty of the University of Georgia. He is author and proponent of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography (UNTB), which seeks to explain the diversity and relative abundance of species in ecological communities. Dr. Hubbell is also a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama. Stephen Hubbell was born in Gainesville, Florida. - John McNair
John Alexander McNair (June 8, 1800 - August 12, 1861) was a teacher and congressman representing Pennsylvania's fifth district. Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he taught school and worked as principal of Loller Academy in Hatboro, Pennsylvania in 1825. He established a boys school in the village of Abington, Pennsylvania. He served as clerk of the courts of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1848 and moved to Norristown, Pennsylvania. - T. Frederick Davis
Thomas Frederick Davis was born in Chatham, Virginia on April 24, 1877. He was the son of Horatio Davis, a prominent Virginian lawyer who moved his family to Gainesville, Florida in 1886 (and later served as mayor from 1908 to 1909). T. Frederick grew up in Gainesville and attended East Florida Seminary. He then joined the National Weather Bureau and worked in Galveston, Texas, Jacksonville, Florida, and Curaçao in the West Indies. - Noah Davis
Noah Davis (September 10, 1818 - March 20, 1902) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, he moved with his parents to Albion, Orleans County, New York in 1825. He attended the common schools and Lima Seminary in Buffalo. He studied law in Lewiston, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Gainesville and Buffalo. He returned to Albion in February 1844, where he continued the practice of law until May 1858. - Vadzim Makhneu
Vadzim Makhneu or Vadim Makhnev (Вадим Махневborn December 21, 1979 in Minsk, is a Belarusian flatwater canoer. He is a current (2005) world champion and Olympic medallist. Makhneu never represented Belarus as a junior but won four European championship gold medals for his country at under-23 level as a member of the four-man (K4) kayak crew. - Marián Ostrčil
Marián Ostrčil is an athlete from Slovakia. He competes in flatwater canoeing. In 1998, in Nyköping, Sweden, he became European junior champion in the individual Canadian canoe (C-1) 500m. In 2002 he won the European under-23 championship in Zagreb, Croatia in the same event. In 2003 he reached the 200m final at the senior World Championships at Gainesville, USA, finishing in sixth place. - Len Turner
Len Turner is an Emmy Award-winning news anchor and reporter who has appeared regularly on American local television stations since 1994. He is the weekend evening anchor and a reporter for News 12 New Jersey, a 24-hour all news channel reaching 1.8 million homes in the western suburbs of New York City. From 2005-2006, he was a reporter for WTXF, the Fox Broadcasting station in Philadelphia. - Silviu Simioncencu
Silviu Simioncencu is a Romanian flatwater canoer and three-time world champion in the Canadian canoe events. He won his first major title at the European championships in 2002, winning the C2 1000m final with Florin Popescu. In 2003 they became world champions at Gainesville, USA. Simioncencu was also a member of Romania's C4 500m crew which crossed the line second but was later awarded the gold medal after Russian Sergey Ulegin failed a drugs test. - Aslyn
Aslyn (b. 1980) is an American singer and songwriter originally from Gainesville, Florida. She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She has toured with Ryan Cabrera, Ari Hest, The Click Five, Chris Isaak, and Better than Ezra. Her debut album appeared on the Capitol Records label, produced by Guy Chambers (Kylie Minogue, Delta Goodrem) and Eric Valentine. In 2005, she released her debut album titled "Lemon Love". - Tamas Buday Jr.
Tamas Buday Jr. (born April 23, 1976 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Canadian flatwater canoeist. Partnering his brother Attila in the two-man sprint canoe, he finished seventh at the 2000 Olympics in the C2 1000 m event and eighth at Athens 2004 in the C2 500m The pair have won three C2 1000m silver medals in world championships: in 2002 at Seville, Spain in 2003 at Gainesville, USA, and in 2006 at Szeged, Hungary.
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