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Alan Alda

M*A*S*H, The Longest Ride, The Four Seasons, The West Wing, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Murder at 1600, The Glass House, The Seduction of Joe Tynan, The Moonshine War, The Big C

Edward Burnes

Saving Private Ryan, The Brothers McMullen, She's the One, Alex Cross, The Holiday

Brett Butler

Grace Under Fire, The Comedian, Bruno, Anger Management, Friday's Child

Chevy Chase

National Lampoon's Vacation, Caddyshack, Fletch, Three Amigos, Spies Like Us, Saturday Night Live, The Chevy Chase Show, Man of the House

John Cho

Harold & Kumar movies Selfie, Don't Make Me Go, Star Trek, Wish Dragon, Ghosted, They Listen, Big Fat Liar, American Pie 2, The Afterparty

Joan Cusack

The Addams Family, Sixteen Candles, Runaway Bride, Raising Helen, Toys, Toy Story, My Sister's Keeper

Matt Damon

Good Will Hunting, Jason Bourne, The Martian, Saving Private Ryan, We Bought a Zoo, The Legend of Bagger Vance, The Rainmaker, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Vin Disel

The Fast and the Furious, Riddick, Saving Private Ryan, The Pacifier, Pitch Black, A Man Apart, The Guardians of the Galaxy, Hitman

David Duchovny

The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Aquarius, Return to Me, Beethoven, The Joneses, Kalifornia, Red Shoe Diaries, The Lone Gunman, The Bubble, Zoolander, The Estate, Phantom, Things We Lost in the Fire

Lena Dunham

Girls, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, American Horror Story, This is 40, Don't Think Twice, Judy Blume Forever, The Fountain, Tokyo Project, Honeydew

Harrison Ford

Indiana Jones movies, Star Wars, The Age of Adaline, Air Force One, The Call of the Wild, Six Days, Seven Nights, Witness, 42, Sabrina, Regarding Henry, The Frisco Kid, Extraordinary Measures

Jodie Foster

The Silence of the Lambs, Contact, Panic Room, Anna and the King, Little Man Tate, The Color of Money, Sommersby, Maverick, Nim's Island, Flightplan, Bugsy Malone

James Franco

Spider-Man, The Interview, Why Him?, Pineapple Express, Oz the Great and Powerful, Eat, Pray, Love, True Story, Neighbors, City by the Sea, Wild Horses, Freaks and Geeks

Heather Graham

Boogie Nights, The Hangover, Scream, Bowfinger, Austin Powers movies, Say It Isn't So, Cake, Two Girls and a Guy, Baby on Board, Scrubs, Growing Pains, Scrubs, Portlandia

Jon Hamm

Mad Men, Top Gun: Maverick, Tag, Keeping Up with the Joneses, Beirut, The Morning Show, 30 Rock, Million Dollar Arm, Fargo, Minions, We Were Soldiers, Providence, Kissing Jessica Stein

Famke Janssen

Taken movies, X-Men, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Poison Rose, I Spy, Don't Say a Word, Endless, Turn the River, Nip/Tuck, The Blacklist, Ally McBeal, Melrose Place (Classic)

Tommy Lee Jones

Men in Black movies, The Fugitive, U.S. Marshals, Double Jeopardy, Man of The House, Space Cowboys, The Missing, Hope Springs, JFK, Rules of Engagement, Volcano, No Country for Old Men

Paul Newman

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Color of Money, Road to Perdition, The Mackintosh Man, The Prize, Lady L, Harry & Son, The Left Handed Gun, Cars, Cool Hand Luck, The Hustler

Gwyneth Paltrow

Iron Man, Shallow Hal, Seven, Great Expectations, Hook, Emma, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Avengers, Dogma, The Heartbreak Kid, Running WIth Scissors, The Pallbearer, Infamous

David Hyde Pierce

Frasier, Julie, Osmosis Jones, Sleepless in Seattle, A Bug's Life, Little Man Tate, The Fisher King, Crossing Delancey, The Simpsons, The Terminator, Bright Lights, Big City, The Outer Limits, Stingray Sam

Christopher Reeve

Superman movies, The Remains of the Day, Village of the Damned, Rear Window, Black Fox: The Price of Peace, Speechless, The Bostonians, Anna Karenina, Gray Lady Down, Nightmare in the Daylight

Susan Sarandon

Thelma & Louise, Tammy, The Witches of Eastwick, Bull Durham, Enchanted, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Anywhere But Here, Lorenzo's Oil, Arbitrage, Dead Man Walking, The Big Wedding

Fred Savage

The Wonder Years, Little Monsters, The Princess Bride, Modern Family, Daddy Day Camp, The Boy WHo Could Fly, Welcome to Mooseport, The Last Run, Runaway Ralph, The Rules of Attraction

Julia Stiles

10 Things I Hate About You, Jason Bourne, Save the Last Dance, The Prince & Me, Mona Lisa Smile, Silver Linings Playbook, Down to You, A Guy Thing, Wicked, The Devil's Own, Halftime

Emma Thompson

Nanny McPhee, Matilda the Musical, Sense and Sensibility, The Remains of the Day, Love Actually, Beauty and the Beast, Late NIght, Howards End, Much Ado About Nothing, Pride & Prejudice, King Lear

James Van Der Beek

Dawson's Creek, Varsity Blues, One Tree Hill, Texas Rangers, Scary Movie, What Would Diplo Do?, Ugly Betty, Stolen, Labor Day, Medium, Carters Get Rich, Bad Hair, Downsizing

Sigourney Weaver

Alien movies, Avatar movies, Galaxy Quest, Ghostbusters movies, Finding Dory, Working Girl, WALL-E, Dave, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Cabin int he Woods, Tadpole, Crazy on the Outside

Emma Watson

Harry Potter series, Little WOmen, The Circle, This is the End, Regression, The Tale of Despereaux, Ballet Shoes, The Red Pill, God's Creatures, Colonia, The Bling Ring

Reece Witherspoon

Legally Blonde movies, Big Little Lies, Wild, Sweet Home Alabama, Sing, Water for Elephants, Four Christmases, Gone Girl, Return to Lonesome Dove, Rendition, Where the Crawdads Sing

Renée Zellweger

The Bridget Jones's Diary movies, Jerry Maguire, Cold Mountain, Bee Movie, Down with Love, White Oleander, Nurse Betty, ONe True Thing, 8 Seconds, Monsters vs. Aliens, The Whole WIde World

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Dr. Sally Ride (1951 - 2012)

Dr. Ride joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space. She was also the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32. Dr. Ride earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature along with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Stanford University.

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Marty Shottenheimer (1943 - 2021)

Coached the Kansas City Chiefs, Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers and Washington Redskins

Joe Paterno (1926 - 2012)

Coached Penn State for 46 years, winning 409 games, member of the College Football Hall of Fame

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Cathy Guisewite

Created the comic strip Cathy, which enjoyed a 34-year run. Cathy focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships, and having a mother ("the four basic guilt groups").  Ms. Guisewite earned a Bachelor degree in English from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

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James Cameron

Aliens, They Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar

Martin Scorsese

Who's That Knocking at My Door, Mean Streets, Taxi Drive, Goodfellas, The Departed, Hugo

Kimberly Peirce

Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss, Carrie

Steven Spielberg

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Color Purple, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, Hook, Catch Me if You Can, War of the Worlds

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Carol Browner

Former Environmental Protection Act Director

Mario Cuomo

Former Governor of New York

Henry Paulson

Former President &CEO of GoldmanSachs and United States Secretary of the Treasury 2006 - 2009

Donald Regan

Former United States Chief of Staff 1985 - 1985 and Secretary of the Treasury 1981 - 1985

Clarence Thomas

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Pete Wilson

Former Governor of California 

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Russell Baker (1925 - 2019)

Growing Up, former New York Times columnist, PBS Masterpiece Theatre host 1992 - 2004

Dave Barry

Miami Herald humor columnist, humor and parody books and children's novels

Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Rodriguez

Diane Sawyer

ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, 60 Minutes

Helen Thomas (1920 - 2013)

White House Press Corps for ten presidents beginning with Kennedy and ending with Obama, United Press, United Press International for 57 years, Hearst Newspapers, First female member of the Gridiron Club

Bob Woodward

The Washington Post, original news reporting on the Watergate scandal 

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Michael Eisner

Disney CEO

A. Bartlett Giamatti

President, Yale University and Commissioner of Baseball

Kathryn Fuller

World Wildlife Fund Director

Michael Lynne

Chairman of New Line Cinema

Herb Scannell

President, Nickolodeon, MTV Networks

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Don Henley

Founding member of the Eagles, Witchy Woman, Desperado, Best of My Love, One of These Nights, Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane, The Last Resort, The Long Run, Get Over It, The Boys of Summer, All She Wants to Do Is Dance

Chris Isaak

Wicked Game, Blue Hotel, Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing, Somebody's Crying

Mark Knopfler

Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms, scores for Local Hero, The Princess Bride, Wag the Dog and Alamira

Kris Kristofferson

Me and Bobby McGee, For the Good Times, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down, Help Me Make It Through the Night, member of The Highwaymen

John Legend

All of Me, Green Light, You & I, Minefields, Beauty and the Beast, P.D.A., Who Do We Think We Are, Preach, Start a Fire, High Road

Randy Owen

One on One, Braid My Hair, Like I Never Broke Her Heart, Holding Everything, member of Alabama

Paul Simon

Member of Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence, Mrs. Robinson, America, The Boxer, Bridge over Troubled Water

Sting

Member of The Police, Every Breath You Take, If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, Fortress Around Your Hearth, participant of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

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Harold Varmus

Co-recipient of the 1989 Novel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the cellular origin of retroviroal oncogenes

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Garrison Keillor

Minnesota Public Radio show, A Prairie Home Companion 1974 - 2016

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Joy Behar

The View, The Joy Behar Show, Joy Behar: Say Anything!, Late  NIght Joy

Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

Designing WOmen, Evening Shade, M*A*S*H, Rhoda, One Day at a Time, Filthy Rich

Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962 - 1992

Ken Jennings

Record-setting Jeopardy winner, co-host of Jeopardy

Conan O’Brien

Late NIght with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend

Joan Rivers (1933 - 2014)

The Tonight Show, The Late Show with Joan Rivers, The Joan Rivers Show, Fashion Police, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best

Brandon Tartikoff (1949 - 1997)

Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Law & Order, ALF, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Sienfeld, The Golden Girls, Wings, Miami Vice, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Saved by the Bell, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, St. Elsewhere, Night Court

Grant Tinker

Chairman & CEO of NBC 1981 - 1986, co-found of MTM Enterprises, I Spy, Dr. Kildare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek, Get Smart

Barbara Walters (1929 - 2022)

Today, ABC Evening News, 20/20, The View

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Laura Bush

Established the annual National Book Festival, advanced women's causes through The Heart Truth and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organizations, author of Spoken from the Heart, Read All About It!, Goodreads, We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope, Our Great Big Backyard

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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, The Meaning of Liff, The Deeper Meaning of Liff, Last Chance to See

Houston A. Baker Jr.

The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism, The Trouble with Post-Blackness, Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era

T. Coraghessan Boyle (T.C.)

World's End, Water Music, Riven Rock, The Inner Circle, The Women, When the Killings Done

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)

First African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize

Received Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950 for Annie Allen

Winnie, Maud Martha, The Bean Eaters, Aloneness, Black Love, In Montgomery, and Other Poems

Tom Clancy (1947 - 2013)

The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Executive Orders

Sharon M. Draper

Hazelwood , Sassy, Jericho and Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs series, Cooper Sun, Double Dutch, Out of My Mind, Romiette and Julio, Drum Beats, Fire from the Rock, Blended

Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997)

Howl and Other Poems, Kaddish and Other Poems, Iron Horse

Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999)

Catch-22, Something Happened, Picture This, Closing Time

Carolivia Herron

Nappy Hair, Thereafter Johnnie, Always an Olivia, Asenath and the Origin of Nappy Hair, Little Georgia and the Apples, Peacesong DC

Gloria Jean Watkins (pen name - bell hooks) (1952 - 2021)

Ain't I a Woman?, Sisters of the Yam, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood, Salvation: Black People and Love, Happy to be Nappy, Homemade Love, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

David Henry Hwang

FOB, Golden Child, Yellow Face, M. Butterfly, Soft Power, The Great Helmsman, Face Value

Stephen King

The Green Mile, Cujo, Pet Sematary, The Shining, Carrie, The Stand, It, The Dark Tower Series, Thinner, Bag of Bones, Dreamcatcher

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake, The Lowland, Whereabouts, A Temporary Matter, The Third and Final Continent

Bobbie Ann Mason

In Country, Feather Crowns, An Atomic Romance, The Girl in the Blue Beret, Dear Ann

Arthur Miller

All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge

Toni Morrison (1931 - 2019)

The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Tar Baby, Sula, Love, God Help the Child

Joyce Carol Oates

WIth Shuddering Fall, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Blonde, Freaky Green Eyes, Black Water, Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

Suzan-Lori Parks

Girl 6, The Eyes Were Watching God, The Great Debaters, Topdog/Underdog, Getting Mother's Body, Native Son, The Sinner's Place, Porgy and Bess, Father Comes Home from the Wars

Alice Randall

The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, Rebel Yell, Ada's Rule: A Sexy Skinny Novel, The Diary of B.B. Bright, Possible Princess, Black Bottom Saints

Philip Roth (1933 - 2018)

Zuckerman Novels, Roth Novels and Memoirs, Kepesh Novels, Nemeses Novels

Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Theodor Geisel)

And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Horton Hatches an Egg, The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Green Eggs and Hamm

Cheryl Strayed

Torch, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pactific Crest Trail, Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, Saving Fish from Drowning, The Valley of Amazement, The Moon Lady

John Updike (1932 - 2009)

The Carpentered Hen, The Same Door, Rabbit Novels, Bech Books, The Witches of Eastwick, The Widows of Eastwick, The Scarlet Letter Trilogy, Golf Dreams

Eudora Welty (1909 - 2001)

The Optimist's Daughter, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, The Shoe Bird

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