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List Of University Of Nevada, Las Vegas Alumni
This is a list of encyclopedic people associated with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the United States of America. Academics Arts and entertainment Athletics Baseball Basketball Football Golf * Chad Campbell (b. 1974), golfer * Charley Hoffman (b. 1976), golfer * Skip Kendall (b. 1964), golfer * Ryan Moore (b. 1982), golfer * Chris Riley (b. 1973), golfer * Adam Scott (b. 1980), golfer Soccer * Rod Dyachenko (b. 1983), soccer player, currently with Samut Songkhram F.C. * Lamar Neagle (b. 1987), soccer player, currently with Seattle Sounders FC * Jennifer Ruiz (b. 1983), soccer player, formerly with Seattle Reign FC OL Reign is an American professional women's soccer team based in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Bill and Teresa Predmore in 2012 as Seattle Reign FC, it was one of eight inaugural members of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). In 2020, ... and currently head coach of the UNLV women's soccer team Politics Other References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. It includes the Shadow Lane Campus, just east of the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, which houses both School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. UNLV's law school, the William S. Boyd School of Law, is the only law school in the state. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation, UNLV spent $83 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 165th in the nation. History The first college classes, which eventually became the classes of UNLV, were offered as the southern regional extension division of the University of Nevada, in 1959 in a classroom at Las Vegas High School. In 1955, State Senator Mahlon Brown "sponsored the legislation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Davis (writer)
Dan "Tito" Davis (born 1953) is an American writer. Davis was a fugitive from US authorities between 1994 and 2007, when he was renditioned back to the US from Venezuela. He is the author of the book ''Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitive''. Education and early life Dan Davis was born in South Dakota. He was on the wrestling team in high school and became a professional horse jockey afterwards. Davis began selling legal ephedrine pills (white crosses) in 1972, starting with Black Hills State College, before transferring to University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he supplied legal ephedrine pills to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. He spent five years in prison during the 1980s for tax fraud. Fugitive years In 1998 Davis was indicted on state and federal charges, including conspiracy to distribute methamphetamines and marijuana, with additional narcotics charges from 1994—which Davis claims were the result of a friend of his framing him with two pounds of meth. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Laws
Charlotte Anne Laws (Born May 11, 1960) is an American author, talk show host, animal rights advocate, anti-revenge porn activist, former Los Angeles politician, and actress (under the stage name Missy Laws). Laws is a former BBC News contributor and was a weekly commentator on KNBC-TV's ''The Filter with Fred Roggin'' from 2009 to 2013. She was also a co-host on the Internet show ''Every Way Woman'' from 2008 - 2013 and hosted a local television show called ''Uncommon Sense'' from October 2007 to September 2010. Laws is a former member of the Greater Valley Glen Council in the neighborhood of Valley Glen, Los Angeles, California. She was termed out of office in 2012, after serving four two-year terms. In May 2006, Laws was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to serve on the city's 912 Commission, also known as the Neighborhood Council Review Commission. Laws is the founder and president of two organizations: the Directors of Animal Welfare (DAW) and the League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Row Records
Death Row Records is an American record label that was founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, and Dick Griffey. The label became a sensation by releasing multi-platinum hip-hop albums by West Coast-based artists such as Dr. Dre (''The Chronic''), Snoop Dogg (''Doggystyle'', ''Tha Doggfather''), Tha Dogg Pound (''Dogg Food''), and 2Pac (''All Eyez on Me'', The Don Killuminati: 7 Day Theory) during the 1990s. At its peak, Death Row was making over US$100 million a year. By the late 1990s, the label began to decline after the death of its star artist, 2Pac, imprisonment of Suge Knight, and the departures of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. Although Death Row was enjoying financial success, it was embroiled in controversies, lawsuits, and violence by its artists and associates. Death Row Records filed for bankruptcy in 2006 and was auctioned to WIDEawake Entertainment for $18 million on January 15, 2009. The owner of WIDEawake bankrupted in 2012 and the label was then sold to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suge Knight
Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. (; born April 19, 1965) is a American former music executive, convicted felon, and the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Knight is considered a central figure in gangsta rap's commercial success in the 1990s.Travis L. Gosa, "The fifth element: Knowledge", in Justin A. Williams, ed., ''The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop'' (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015)p 56 This feat is attributed to the record label's first two album releases: Dr. Dre's ''The Chronic'' in 1992 and Snoop Dogg's ''Doggystyle'' in 1993. In 1995, Tupac Shakur began serving a prison sentence of up to four and a half years. Knight struck a deal with Shakur that October, paying his bail and freeing him from prison pending an appeal of his conviction, while signing him to Death Row Records. In 1996, the label released Shakur's greatest commercial success, ''All Eyez on Me''. That September, after departing a Mike Tyson boxing match in Las Vegas, a group tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Kimmel
James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host and executive producer of ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC on January 26, 2003, at Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, California; and on April 1, 2019, at a secondary home, the Zappos Theater on the Las Vegas Strip. Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and the Academy Awards in 2017 and 2018. Before hosting ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', Kimmel was the co-host of Comedy Central's '' The Man Show'' and ''Win Ben Stein's Money''. Kimmel has also produced such shows as ''Crank Yankers'', ''Sports Show with Norm Macdonald'', and ''The Andy Milonakis Show''. In 2018, ''Time'' named him as one of " The World's 100 Most Influential People". Kimmel is the longest-working of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, following Conan O’Brien’s retirement from hosting a late-nigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsay Hartley
Lindsay Hartley (born Lindsay Nicole Korman; April 17, 1978) is an American actress. She first came to attention with three long-running soap opera roles: Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald on ''Passions'', Cara Castillo on ''All My Children'', and Arianna Hernandez on ''Days of Our Lives''. Since leaving soap operas, Korman has appeared in a number of made for television films on the Lifetime network. Early life Born in Palm Springs, California, Korman is of Jewish, Greek, and Italian origin. Korman was a national pre-teen talent winner of the Young Miss America Beauty Pageant. Singing since age eleven, Korman won a role in the Broadway production of ''Grease'' at age eighteen. Then she was lead vocalist in the Las Vegas Sands Hotel afternoon show ''Viva Las Vegas'' as well as the lead role of Maria in the Civic Light Opera's ''West Side Story'' in Austin, Texas. Additionally, Korman has won several national vocal competitions, including The Los Angeles Philharmonic's Award-Vocal/Opera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Hart
Jane Esther Hamilton (born October 27, 1956) is an American former pornographic actress and current adult film director who performed under the stage name Veronica Hart during the 1980s. She is sometimes credited as Jane Hamilton, V. Hart, Veronica Heart, Victoria Holt, Randee Styles or just Veronica. Hart is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. Director Paul Thomas Anderson has called her "the Meryl Streep of porn." Early life Hart was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She graduated from high school at age 16 and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas at age 19 in 1976 with a degree in theatrical arts. After school she worked in England before returning to the United States and moving to New York City. Career Hart appeared in pornographic films from 1980 until 1982 and is best known for her performances in ''Amanda by Night'', ''Wanda Whips Wall Street'', ''Roommates'' and ''A Scent of Heather''. She would often portray "stylish native New Yorker" characters in her films. Aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashlyn Gere
Ashlyn Gere is an American pornographic film actress who has also performed in mainstream film and television, including appearances on the science fiction television series ''The X-Files'' and '' Space: Above and Beyond''. Gere is an inductee into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. Early life and education Gere graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a degree in Theatre Arts and Communications. Career In the 1980s, Gere was billed as Kim McKamy in several B movie appearances such as '' Evil Laugh'' (1986) and ''Creepozoids'' (1987). She also worked as a body double in the films ''Basic Instinct'' (1992) and ''Indecent Proposal'' (1993). As a pornographic film actress, Gere was one of the most popular stars of the 1990s, according to ''Complex''. She was nominated for and won several major adult industry awards such as the FOXE, XRCO, and AVN Awards. In the latter half of the 90s, she slowed down on her adult video work and mainly toured as an exotic dancer. Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (also known as the LVMPD or Metro) is a combined city and county law enforcement agency for the City of Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada, United States. It is headed by the Sheriff of Clark County, who is publicly elected every four years. Sheriff Joe Lombardo has headed the department since January 5, 2015. The sheriff is the only elected head law enforcement officer within the county, and, as such, the department is not under the direct control of its jurisdictional cities, Clark County, or the State of Nevada. Metro is the largest law enforcement agency in Nevada, and in 2009, was one of the largest police agencies in the United States according to Uniform Crime Reporting by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. History The Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) was formed on July 1, 1969, by merging the Las Vegas Police Department with the Clark County Sheriff's Department. Metro serves the city limits of Las Vegas and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Gauthier
Debra Gauthier is a former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant who chronicled in a book her 21-year police career as a woman on a predominantly male police force. Education Gauthier graduated with a bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1979 and a master's in public administration in 1990 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Career She joined the Las Vegas police force in 1980 as the first woman in the department to be placed on street patrol. In 1986, she arrested Mafia lieutenant Herbert Blitzstein during a multi-agency task force called “Operation Chutzpah.” She implemented the department's first bicycle patrol unit, which she oversaw as a sergeant. Afterward, in 1994, she was promoted to lieutenant. She appeared as a cast member on Fox's TV series '' Cops'' while still a bike patrol sergeant. Gauthier claimed discrimination against the department while working in what she claimed was a male-dominated environment under unsafe conditions. After she was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Fieri
Guy Ramsay Fieri (, ; ''né'' Ferry; born January 22, 1968) is an American restaurateur, author, and an Emmy Award winning television presenter. He co-owns three restaurants in California, licenses his name to restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas, and Pittsburgh, and is known for hosting various television series on the Food Network. By 2010, ''The New York Times'' reported that Fieri had become the "face of the network", bringing an "element of rowdy, mass-market culture to American food television" and that his "prime-time shows attract more male viewers than any others on the network". Early life Fieri was born Guy Ramsay Ferry on January 22, 1968, in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Penelope Anne (née Price) and Lewis James Ferry. He grew up in Ferndale in rural Humboldt County, California. During high school, he was a foreign exchange student in France, where he developed his interest in food and cooking. Fieri attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and graduated wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
