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Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
George Soros
George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of May 2025, he has a net worth of US$7.2 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. In 2020, Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net worth.
Edward Said
Palestinian-American professor (1935–2003)
John de Lancie
American actor (born 1948)
Charlie Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estévez, known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He is known as a leading man in film and television. Sheen has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Actor Awards. In 1994, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. Son of journalist and author Scott Young, Young embarked on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s. He then moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. His solo career, often backed by the band Crazy Horse, includes critically acclaimed albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), After the Gold Rush (1970), Harvest (1972), On the Beach (1974), and Rust Never Sleeps (1979). Young was also a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with whom he recorded the chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu.
Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer. He is the creator and star of the television series Family Guy and The Orville, and co-creator of the television series American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. He also co-wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in the films Ted, its sequel Ted 2, and A Million Ways to Die in the West.
Cesar Romero
American actor (1907–1994)
Donald Trump Jr.
Donald John Trump Jr., often nicknamed Don Jr., is an American businessman and activist. He is the eldest child of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and his first wife, Ivana Trump.
Steve Bannon
Stephen Kevin Bannon is an American media executive, political strategist, pundit and former investment banker. He served as the White House's chief strategist for the first seven months of President Donald Trump's first administration before Trump fired him. He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News. Since 2019, Bannon has hosted the War Room podcast.
Casey Kasem
American voice actor (1932–2014)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
American and British folk rock supergroup
Tony Goldwyn
American actor and director
Yasiin Bey
American rapper
Tom Regan
American philosopher (1938–2017)
Bradley Whitford
American actor (born 1959)
Shannon Leto
American drummer
Tom Lantos
U.S. Representative from California (1981–2008)
Tomo Milicevic
American musician
Ron Silver
American actor and activist (1946-2009)
Theodore Bikel
Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist (1924-2015)
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)
Michael Behe
American biochemist, author, and intelligent design advocate
Sally Struthers
Sally Anne Struthers is an American actress and activist. She is known for her portrayal of Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker on the sitcom All in the Family (1971–1978). For this role, Struthers received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Award nominations and five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two of which she won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
John Perkins
American author
Frederick Russell Burnham
father of scouting; military scout; soldier of fortune; oil man; writer; rancher (1861–1947)
Esther Rolle
actress (1920-1998)
Mark Webber
American actor
Sonja Sohn
American actress, activist (b. 1964)
Melanie Joy
American psychologist
David Banner
American rapper, record producer and actor from Mississippi
Maggie Rogers
American singer-songwriter
Will Geer
American actor and activist (1902–1978)
Joey Cheek
American speed skater
Michael O'Keefe
American actor
Ayşe Seitmuratova
Crimean Tatar civil rights activist
Christopher Lawford
American actor, author, activist (1955-2018)
David Horowitz
Neoconservative activist, writer
William Harrison Hays
American politician (1879–1954)
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American author (1947–2022)
Robert Thurman
American Buddhist writer and academic
Doris Stevens
American suffragist
Lona Cohen
American spy for the Soviet Union (1913–1992)
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Ghanaian-American filmmaker and producer (born 1984)
Brigitte Gabriel
Lebanese-American anti-Islam activist (1964-)
Richard Levins
Mathematical ecologist, university professor at Harvard School of Public Health, and political activist, who is best known for his work on evolution in changing environments and on metapopulations.
David Nolan
writer and politician (1943-2010)
Loung Ung
Cambodian-American academic
William Margold
American pornographic actor (1943-2017)
Eslanda Goode Robeson
American anthropologist, author, actor and civil rights activist (1895-1965)
Derek Humphry
British-American euthanasia activist (1930–2025)
Nancy Walker Bush
Sister of George H W Bush
Amy Carter
daughter of United States president Jimmy Carter
Kavita Ramdas
Indian/American activist
Ele Keats
American actress
Ananda Lewis
American television personality and activist
Roger Payne
American biologist (1935–2023)
Judy Kuhn
American actress and singer
Rikki Rockett
American drummer
Lionel Rogosin
American filmmaker (1924–2000)