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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth focused on US involvement in World War II. A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt served in the New York State Senate from 1911 to 1913 and as the 44th governor of New York from 1929 to 1932.
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
Marlene Dietrich
German and American actress and singer (1901–1992)
Harry S. Truman
president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A General of the Army, Eisenhower was the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. His successful leadership in Operation Torch (1942–1943) and Operation Overlord was pivotal to the Allied victory in World War II.
Eleanor Roosevelt
American diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1884–1962)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
Emma Goldman
Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
Ray Bradbury
American author and screenwriter (1920–2012)
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
Sinclair Lewis
American writer and playwright (1885–1951)
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
Frank Zappa
American musician (1940–1993)
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
Herbert Marcuse
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
Frank Capra
Italian-born American film director (1897–1991)
Christopher Hitchens
English American author and journalist (1949–2011)
Thomas Pynchon
American novelist (born 1937)
Dr. Seuss
American children's author and cartoonist (1904–1991)
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.
Matt Groening
American cartoonist (born 1954)
Dorothy Parker
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)
Henry A. Wallace
American politician (1888–1965); Vice President of the United States from 1941 to 1945
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Max Horkheimer
German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
Gloria Stuart
American actress (1910–2010)
Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter (1912–1967)
Jack Kirby
American comic book artist (1917–1994)
Talcott Parsons
American sociologist (1902 – 1979)
Thorstein Veblen
American economist and sociologist (1857–1929)
Edward G. Robinson
Romanian-American actor (1893-1973)
Lee de Forest
American inventor (1873–1961)
Paul Robeson
American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
Murray Bookchin
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
Lucky Luciano
Italian American mobster (1897–1962)
Timothy Snyder
American historian (born 1969)
Frederik Pohl
American science fiction writer and editor (1919–2013)
Lewis Mumford
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
Tom Morello
American guitarist and musician
Lillian Hellman
American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984)
Lenny Bruce
American comedian and social critic (1925–1966)
Zack de la Rocha
American singer, rapper and activist (born 1970)
Robert H. Jackson
US Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954 (1892–1954)
Ben Ferencz
American lawyer and pacifist born in Romania (Great Romania Kingdom)
Meyer Lansky
American gangster
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
American politician (1891–1967)
Walter Winchell
American gossip journalist (1897-1972)
Abbie Hoffman
American activist (1936–1989)
Jack Warner
American film executive (1892–1978)
Robert Rossen
American screenwriter, film director, and producer (1908-1966)
Lucy Parsons
American communist anarchist labor organizer (1853–1942)
Michael Parenti
American academic (1933–2026)
Smedley Butler
United States Marine Corps general, two time Medal of Honor recipient, activist, lecturer, official, and writer (1881-1940)
Chris Hedges
American journalist
Clare Boothe Luce
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
Dorothy Thompson
American journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
Brad Wilk
American drummer
Saul Alinsky
American community organizer and writer (1909–1972)