University of Alabama people

The list University of Alabama people includes Derrick Thomas, Bart Starr, Caitlin Brunell, Julia Tutwiler and Dwight Stephenson. The list consists of 27 members and 7 sublists.

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University of Alabama

Public university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.

Alabama people

Southeastern culture people of Native Americans

University of Alabama alumni
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University of Alabama faculty
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Presidents of the University of Alabama
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University of Alabama staff
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- G. Lindsey Davis
- Gayle Dean Wardlow

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Derrick Thomas

American football player (1967–2000)

Overview: Derrick Vincent Thomas (January 1, 1967 – February 8, 2000), nicknamed D.T., was an American football linebacker and defensive end who played for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League ...

Date of birth: 1 January 1967

Date of death: 7 February 2000

Age: 33 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Football (American)

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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Players of American football from Miami 348T

South Miami Senior High School alumni 5T

Sportspeople from Miami, Florida 690T
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Bart Starr

American football player, coach, and executive (1934–2019)

Overview: Bryan Bartlett Starr (January 9, 1934 – May 26, 2019) was an American professional football quarterback and head coach for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college ...

Date of birth: 9 January 1934

Date of death: 26 May 2019

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Football (American)

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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National High School Hall of Fame inductees 176T

2019 deaths 9,204T

Green Bay Packers general managers 13T
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Caitlin Brunell

Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2008

Overview: Caitlin Brunell (born May 17, 1992 in Seattle, Washington) from Great Falls, Virginia won the Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2008 title in August 2007. In 2014, she was crowned Miss Alabama and represented ...

Date of birth: 1 May 1992

Age: 33

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

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People from Great Falls, Virginia 44T

Miss Alabama winners 22T

Miss America 2015 delegates 16T
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Julia Tutwiler

American writer

Overview: Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (August 15, 1841 – March 24, 1916) was an advocate for education and prison reform in Alabama. She served as co-principal of the Livingston Female Academy, and then the first (and ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1841

Date of death: 24 March 1916

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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A Woman of the Century 883T

19th-century American women writers 1,226T

19th-century American poets 589T
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Luisa Blanco

Colombian, Gymnastics

Overview: Luisa Fernanda Blanco Saavedra (born November 18, 2001) is a Colombian-American artistic gymnast. She competes for the Alabama Crimson Tide gymnastic team and is the 2021 NCAA Champion on the balance beam ...

Date of birth: 18 November 2001

Age: 23

Nationality: Colombian

Occupation: Gymnastics

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Gymnasts at the 2024 Summer Olympics 318T

Gymnasts at the 2023 Pan American Games 86T

Colombian people of Honduran descent 14T
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Dwight Stephenson

American football player (born 1957)

Overview: Dwight Eugene Stephenson (born November 20, 1957) is an American former professional football player who was a center for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL) from 1980 to 1987. He ...

Date of birth: 20 November 1957

Age: 67

Nationality: American

Occupation: Football (American)

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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African-American players of American football 3,100T

People from Murfreesboro, North Carolina 9T

Players of American football from North Carolina 645T
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Hugo Black

U.S. Supreme Court justice

Overview: Hugo Lafayette Black (February 27, 1886 – September 25, 1971) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as a U.S. Senator from 1927 to 1937 and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ...

Date of birth: 27 February 1886

Date of death: 25 September 1971

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Attorney

Gender: Male

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Democratic Party United States senators from Alabama 7T

Military personnel from Birmingham, Alabama 40T

Politicians from Birmingham, Alabama 78T
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Amelia Gayle Gorgas

Librarian

Overview: Amelia Gayle Gorgas (June 1, 1826 – January 3, 1913) was librarian and postmaster of the University of Alabama for 25 years until her retirement at the age of eighty in 1907. She expanded the library from ...

Date of birth: 1 June 1826

Date of death: 3 January 1913

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Librarian

Gender: Female

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American women librarians 446T

Women librarians 627T

People from Greensboro, Alabama 26T
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Leroy Cook

American football player

Overview: Leroy Cook (born November 9, 1952 in Abbeville, Alabama) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at the University of ...

Date of birth: 9 November 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: American

Occupation: Football (American)

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

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People from Abbeville, Alabama 8T

Players of American football from Alabama 830T

Dallas Cowboys players 1,647T
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Edward Earl Carnes

American judge

Overview: Edward Earl Carnes (born June 3, 1950) is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Date of birth: 30 June 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Attorney

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21st-century American judges 2,223T

20th-century American judges 4,697T

20th-century American lawyers 5,617T
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Frederick Palmer Whiddon

Founder of the University of South Alabama

Overview: Frederick Palmer Whiddon (March 2, 1930 - May 1, 2002) was the founder and long-time president of the University of South Alabama, the first four-year state-supported university in Mobile, Alabama.

Date of birth: 2 March 1930

Date of death: 1 May 2002

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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Presidents of the University of South Alabama 2T

Athens State University people 3T

University of South Alabama 3T
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V. Lane Rawlins

American academic

Overview: V. Lane Rawlins (born November 30, 1937) was the President of the University of North Texas for nearly four years starting in May 2010. He retired in February 2014 as President Emeritus. He is the former ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1937

Age: 87

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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Latter Day Saints from Alabama 8T

Latter Day Saints from Tennessee 19T

Latter Day Saints from Washington (state) 45T
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Robert J. Van de Graaff

American physicist (1901–1967)

Overview: Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (December 20, 1901 – January 16, 1967) was an American physicist, noted for his design and construction of high-voltage Van de Graaff generators. He taught at Princeton Un ...

Date of birth: 20 December 1901

Date of death: 16 January 1967

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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American scientific instrument makers 23T

20th-century American physicists 853T

Scientific instrument makers 208T
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Todd Bramble

American soccer coach

Overview: Todd Bramble is an American soccer coach. He is currently the head coach of the George Mason women's soccer team.

Date of birth: 5 April 1967

Age: 58

Occupation: Soccer

Gender: Male

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Francis Bugbee

American politician

Overview: Francis Bugbee (February 18, 1794 – April 21, 1877) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician.

Date of birth: 18 February 1794

Date of death: 21 April 1877

Age: 83 (age at death)

Occupation: Attorney

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John Fruhmorgen

American footballer

Overview: John Fruhmorgen (born September 28, 1965) was an American football Player in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins and in The World Football League, London Monarchs. Fruhmorgen attended ...

Date of birth: 28 September 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: American

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Sportspeople from Buffalo, New York 308T

London Monarchs players 81T

Miami Dolphins players 1,736T
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Cleo Thomas

Overview: Cleo Thomas was president of the Student Government Association at the University of Alabama in 1976. Thomas is one of only seven candidates to have ever won the SGA presidency without the support of 'The ...

Nationality: American

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William M. Hadley

American teacher

Overview: William Moore (Bill) Hadley (March 21, 1917 – June 29, 1992) is credited as being one of the primary early proponents of the middle school movement in the United States, and one of the first such schools ...

Date of birth: 21 March 1917

Date of death: 29 June 1992

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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Schoolteachers from Alabama 14T

20th-century American educators 1,254T

American schoolteachers 1,436T
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Charles L. Bestor

American composer

Overview: Charles Lemon Bestor (December 21, 1924, New York City – January 16, 2016, Amherst, Massachusetts) was an American composer of contemporary classical music, professor, and administrator.

Date of birth: 21 December 1924

Date of death: 16 January 2016

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

21st-century American male musicians 4,997T

Classical musicians from New York (state) 382T
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Joe McCorquodale

American politician

Overview: Joseph Charles McCorquodale, Jr. (December 2, 1920 – April 17, 2017) was a United States politician from Alabama, who served as the Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives and unsuccessfully ran ...

Date of birth: 2 December 1920

Date of death: 17 April 2017

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

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Politicians from Mobile, Alabama 49T

Military personnel from Mobile, Alabama 35T

United States Army personnel of World War II 4,472T