In 1980, Kapor left his counseling career to attend the Master's of Science in Management program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, but did not graduate.

Ron Rivera, currently coach of the NFL's Carolina Panthers and former linebacker for the Chicago Bears, was a 1980 graduate of Seaside High School.

The first Canadian Earth Day was held on Thursday, September 11, 1980, and was organized by Paul D. Tinari, then a graduate student in Engineering Physics / Solar Engineering at Queen's University.

It is particularly noted for its openness to multidisciplinary research and, in 1980, was the first Swedish university to introduce interdisciplinary thematic research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a cross-subject, interdisciplinary perspective in graduate schools for PhD students.

Upon his graduation in 1980, he became the first black enlisted marine to complete and graduate both the Academy Prep School and Annapolis.

In addition to Goldsworthy and Masterton, the Stars have retired the number 7 of Minnesota native, University of Minnesota graduate and 1980 Olympic hero Neal Broten, C, 1981-93.

He is a 1980 graduate of Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and the University of Seville in Spain.

Lansky was a 23-year-old graduate student in 1980 when he took a leave of absence from McGill University and issued a public appeal for unwanted and discarded Yiddish books.

A graduate of Pomona College, Menand attended Harvard Law School for one year ( 1973-1974 ) before he left to earn a Ph. D. in English from Columbia University in 1980.

After his discharge in 1970, Sergeant Wright attended graduate school on the GI Bill, ultimately earning his Ph. D. in history from the College of William and Mary in 1980.

A graduate of the University of South Carolina ( 1962 ), Cole worked as a manager for Ford Motor Company until becoming an auto dealer in 1980.

A 1980 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley Dawson's first professional acting job was in a Broadway production of A Chorus Line.

He is a recipient of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council post graduate scholarship in 1980, two Ontario graduate scholarships, one in 1981 and the other in 1982, and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council postdoctoral fellowship in 1983.

Reginald Gardiner ( 27 February 1903 – 7 July 1980 ) was an English-born actor in film and television and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Britain.

From 1980 to 1988 Dr. Kurtz was Director of the Computer and Information Systems program at Dartmouth, a ground-breaking multidisciplinary graduate program to develop IS leaders for industry.

Cleave held graduate research, research phycologist, and research engineer assignments in the Ecology Center and the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University from September 1971 to June 1980.

Known for his close relations with politicians of all political parties, the arts graduate first contested the Lok Sabha polls from Mumbai South constituency in 1980 but lost to the Janata Party's Ratansingh Rajda though, in the subsequent election, Deora defeated BJP's Jayawantiben Mehta by a huge margin.

He's a distinguished graduate of the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School 1980.

A graduate of Santa Monica High in 1980, He is currently starring as the regular character " Grumpy ( Leroy )" on the hit ABC television series " Once Upon a Time ( TV series )".

, a graduate of Meiji University, a photographer for United Press International, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1968, for a photograph depicting the Vietnam War .< ref > UPI History: Milestones ( 1961 – 1980 )

J. P. introduced himself to the speaker, Bill Kaplan, a 1980 Harvard MBA graduate who had run a successful blackjack team based in Las Vegas for three years previously.

He went on to graduate magna cum laude from Tufts University in 1980, with degrees in history and political science.

He also attended graduate school at the University of Houston from 1978 to 1980, and received a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1980.

* Daigo Saito ( born 1980 ), Japanese professional drifting driver

* 1980 – Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1980 – Teddy Hart, Canadian professional wrestler

* Leon ( wrestler ), ( born 1980 ), Japanese professional wrestler

Martina Hingis ( born 30 September 1980 ) is a Swiss former professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1.

* 1980 – Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler

* 1980 – Josh Mathews, American professional wrestling personality

* 1980 – Trent Acid, American professional wrestler ( d. 2010 )

* 1980 – Mercedes Martinez, American professional wrestler

* Venus Williams ( born 1980 ), professional tennis player

* Amariah Farrow ( born 1980 ), professional football player in the Canadian Football League

* Dino Meneghin ( born 1950 ), professional basketball player for Ignis Varese and silver medalist at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

The WFL also arguably had an impact on locations of other professional football teams: from the NFL, Hawaii hosted the Pro Bowl from 1980 through 2009, Jacksonville got the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1995, Charlotte received the Carolina Panthers in the same year, and Houston's expansion franchise, the Texans, revived the name of the WFL team in 2002.

* Sergio García ( born 1980 ), professional golfer

Marvelous Marvin Hagler ( born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler in Newark, New Jersey, May 23, 1954 ) is a retired American professional boxer who was Undisputed World Middleweight Champion from 1980 to 1987.

* Orlando Jordan ( born 1980 ), American professional wrestler

* Ryouji Sai ( born 1980 ), Japanese professional wrestler

* Rajai Davis ( 1980 -) is a professional baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays.

The team disbanded after the 1979 season, but the Detroit Auto Kings would play the 1980 season in the North American Softball League ( NASL ), before ceasing play and ending professional softball played in East Detroit.

* Garrett Stafford ( b. 1980 ), American professional hockey player

* Al Harrington ( born 1980 ), professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA's Denver Nuggets.

* Dahntay Jones ( born 1980 ), professional basketball player, currently playing for the Sacramento Kings.

* Maksim Chmerkovskiy ( born 1980 ), professional dancer on the TV show Dancing with the Stars.

His last films were both loosely based on true stories: Tom Horn, a Western adventure about a former Army scout turned professional gunman who worked for the big cattle ranchers, hunting down rustlers, and who was later hanged for murder in the shooting death of a sheepherder, and then The Hunter, an urban action movie about a modern-day bounty hunter, both released in 1980.