Kenwood Academy alumni

The list Kenwood Academy alumni includes Da Brat, R. Kelly, LisaRaye McCoy, Chaka Khan and Mandy Patinkin. The list consists of 20 members.

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Da Brat

American rapper (born 1974)

Overview: Shawntae Harris (born April 14, 1974), better known by her stage name Da Brat, is an American rapper and actress from Chicago, Illinois. Beginning her career in 1992, her debut album Funkdafied (1994) ...

Date of birth: 14 April 1974

Age: 51

Nationality: American

Occupation: Rapper

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Jesseca Dupart (Married)

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LGBT singers from the United States 352T

21st-century American women singers 2,630T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T
2.

R. Kelly

American, Singer

Overview: Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967) is an American former singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is credited with prolific commercial success in R&B, hip hop, and pop music recordings, ...

Date of birth: 8 January 1967

Age: 58

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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American musicians with disabilities 308T

Singers with disabilities 124T

Cult leaders 127T
3.

LisaRaye McCoy

American actress

Overview: LisaRaye McCoy (born September 23, 1967), known as LisaRaye, is an American actres. She is best known for portraying Diana "Diamond" Armstrong in the 1998 film The Players Club, Neesee James on the UPN/The ...

Date of birth: 23 September 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Spouses of prime ministers 14T

American women fashion designers 421T

20th-century African-American women 4,459T
4.

Chaka Khan

American singer (born 1953)

Overview: Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer and songwriter. Her career has spanned nearly five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead ...

Date of birth: 23 March 1953

Age: 72

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Singer-songwriters from Illinois 249T

21st-century African-American women singers 525T

20th-century African-American women singers 739T
5.

Mandy Patinkin

American actor and singer (born 1952)

Overview: Mandel Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer.

Date of birth: 25 November 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Kathryn Grody (Married)

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Patinkin family 5T

Broadway actors 482T

Corneal transplant recipients 1T
6.

Marcellas Reynolds

American television personality

Overview: Marcellas Reynolds is an American actor, fashion stylist, entertainment reporter and TV host. His television appearances include World Report (CNN), The Tyra Banks Show, Style Network's How Do I look ...

Date of birth: 11 November 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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African-American male models 54T

Male actors from Chicago, Illinois 564T

Fashion stylists 107T
7.

Quincy Black

American football player

Overview: Quincy Booker Black (born February 28, 1984), is a former American football linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. He attended the University of New Mexico.

Date of birth: 28 February 1984

Age: 41

Nationality: American

Occupation: Football (American)

Gender: Male

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Harper Hawks football players 3T

Players of American football from Illinois 1,126T

Sportspeople from Chicago, Illinois 1,984T
8.

Erica Watson

American actress and writer

Overview: Erica Faye Watson (February 26, 1973 – February 27, 2021) was an American actress, comedian and writer. She is best known for her roles in Precious and Chi-Raq.

Date of birth: 26 February 1973

Date of death: 27 February 2021

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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2021 deaths 14,318T

Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica 6T

20th-century African-American women 4,552T
9.

Chip E.

American musician

Overview: Irwin Larry Eberhart II, better known known by his stage name Chip E. (born 1966), is an American DJ and record producer.

Date of birth: 15 March 1966

Age: 59

Nationality: American

Occupation: Disc Jockey

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DJs from Chicago 22T

St. Ignatius College Prep alumni 40T

Remixers 960T
10.

Nazr Mohammed

American basketball player

Overview: Nazr Tahiru Mohammed ( NAH-zee; born September 5, 1977) is an American retired professional basketball player who had a journeyman career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing for eight ...

Date of birth: 5 September 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: American

Occupation: Basketball

Gender: Male

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Basketball players from Chicago 210T

American men's basketball players 12,045T

Basketball players at the 1998 NCAA Division I Men's Final Four 25T
11.

Jesse Saunders

American musician

Overview: Jesse Saunders (born March 10, 1962) is an American DJ, record producer, film producer and entrepreneur. He is one of the pioneers of house music, often cited as "the originator of house music" by critics ...

Date of birth: 10 March 1962

Age: 63

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

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African-American musicians 1,672T

House musicians 152T

Musicians from Chicago, Illinois 895T
12.

Juliana Stratton

American politician (born 1965)

Overview: Juliana Stratton (née Wiggins; born September 8, 1965) is an American lawyer and politician, serving as the 48th lieutenant governor of Illinois since 2019. She previously served as a Democratic member ...

Date of birth: 8 September 1965

Age: 59

Occupation: Politician

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21st-century American women politicians 3,139T

African-American state legislators in Illinois 66T

African-American people in Illinois politics 64T
13.

Jacqueline Stewart

American professor of cinema studies

Overview: Jacqueline Najuma Stewart is a University of Chicago professor of cinema studies and director of the nonprofit arts organization, Black Cinema House. She has published on the history of African Americans ...

Date of birth: 1 February 1970

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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University of Chicago faculty 1,291T

University of Chicago alumni 3,212T

Stanford University alumni 3,535T
14.

Karen Lewis (labor leader)

American labor leader

Overview: Karen Lewis (née Jennings; July 20, 1953) is an American educator and labor leader who served as president of the Chicago Teachers Union, local 1 of the American Federation of Teachers. She is a former ...

Date of birth: 26 June 1953

Date of death: 7 February 2021

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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Converts to Judaism from Lutheranism 4T

2021 deaths 4,274T

Schoolteachers from Illinois 59T
15.

Kerrie Holley

Research computer scientist

Overview: Kerrie Lamont Holley (born September 7, 1954) is an American software architect, author, researcher, consultant, and inventor and UnitedHealth Group, Optum Technology's first Technical Fellow. Holley is ...

Date of birth: 7 September 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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21st-century American inventors 222T

20th-century American inventors 1,114T

21st-century American engineers 416T
16.

Derrius Quarles

Social entrepreneur and human rights activist

Overview: Derrius Quarles is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, digital marketer, and foster youth advocate. Born on the south side of Chicago (1990), he is the Co-Founder of BREAUX ...

Occupation: Activist

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University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education alumni 26T

African-American writers 887T

African-American businesspeople 452T
17.

Andrew Patner

American journalist

Overview: Andrew Patner (December 17, 1959 – February 3, 2015) was an American Chicago-based journalist, broadcaster, critic, and interviewer. From 1998 until his death in 2015 he served as Critic-at-Large for WFMT ...

Date of birth: 17 December 1959

Date of death: 3 February 2015

Age: 55 (age at death)

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2015 deaths 9,624T

LGBT people from Illinois 229T

Chicago Sun-Times people 83T
18.

Prashant Bhargava

American film director

Overview: Prashant Bhargava (January 12, 1973 – May 15, 2015) was an Indian-American filmmaker and designer. He died of a heart attack from a history of heart trouble. Bhargava's short film Sangam, described ...

Date of birth: 12 January 1973

Date of death: 16 May 2015

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Film Director

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American film directors of Indian descent 28T

2015 deaths 9,624T

Artists from Chicago, Illinois 577T
19.

Latasha Thomas

Chicago local politician

Overview: Latasha R. Thomas (born May 2, 1965) is an American politician and former alderman of the 17th Ward of the City of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Thomas was appointed to the position of alderman by ...

Date of birth: 2 May 1965

Age: 60

Occupation: Attorney

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Women city councillors in Illinois 46T

Women city councillors in the United States 493T

DePaul University College of Law alumni 98T
20.

William Upski Wimsatt

American writer

Overview: William Wimsatt (born 1972) is an author and political activist. He is the founder of the League of Young Voters, co-founder of Generational Alliance, and the author of three books including Bomb the ...

Date of birth: 1972

Age: 52

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

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American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

American male writers 5,949T

University of Chicago Laboratory Schools alumni 76T