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Hugh Everett III
US physicist and discoverer of the relative-state interpretation of quantum mechanics
David D. Friedman
American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist
Mary McCarthy
American writer (1912–1989)
Beth Ditto
American singer
Robin Morgan
American feminist writer
Robert Sapolsky
American neuroendocrinology researcher (b. 1957)
John W. Campbell
American science fiction writer (1910–1971)
Will Wright
American video game designer and entrepreneur (born 1960)
Wil Wheaton
American actor and writer
Phil Anselmo
American heavy metal vocalist
Richard Lester
American film director
Carl Djerassi
American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright (1923–2015)
Denis O'Hare
American actor
Grote Reber
American pioneer of radio astronomy (1911–2002)
Mark Pellegrino
American actor (born 1965)
Maxwell Anderson
American playwright and writer (1888–1959)
Kathy Griffin
American actress and comedian
Barbara Ehrenreich
American writer and journalist (1941–2022)
Bernard Cornwell
British writer
Abbie Hoffman
American activist (1936–1989)
Fred Armisen
American comedian, actor and musician
Lorraine Hansberry
African-American playwright and author (1930-1965)
Percy Grainger
Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist (1882–1961)
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
Frank Knight
American economist (1885-1972)
Michael Lewis
American writer
Montel Vontavious Porter
American professional wrestler
Ted Chiang
American science fiction writer
Oscar Zariski
American mathematician (1899–1986)
Alex Honnold
Alexander J Honnold is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big wall climbing routes. Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a full route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park via the 880-metre (2,900 ft) route Freerider at grade 5.13a, the first-ever big-wall free-solo ascent at that grade, a climb described in The New York Times as "one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever".
Johann Most
German-American anarchist
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
Steve Albini
American record engineer and musician (1962–2024)
Amos Tversky
Israeli psychologist (1937–1996)
Wes Borland
American musician
John Romero
American video game designer
Halton Arp
astronomer from the United States (1927-2013)
Eric André
American comedian and actor
Dave Barry
American writer
Brian Tyler
American composer
Peter Buck
American musician; guitarist for R.E.M., songwriter, record producer
Amber Rose
American model and television personality
Samuel R. Delany
American author and literary critic (born 1942)
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Ann Lebowitz is an American author, public speaker, cultural critic, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Jerome Robbins, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, and the New York Dolls.
Herman Kahn
American futurist noted for his views on nature of thermonuclear war (1922–1983)
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American writer, journalist, and educator
Albert Ghiorso
American nuclear scientist
Ronnie Radke
American musician (born 1983)
Mike Mills
American musician; multi-instrumentalist for American alternative rock band R.E.M.
Allan Pinkerton
Scottish-American civil war detective and spy
Louis Calhern
American stage and screen actor (1895-1956)
Trixie Mattel
American drag queen
Ben Bova
American writer (1932–2020)
Wayne Static
American musician (1965–2014)
Richard E. Bellman
American mathematician (1920–1984)
Jonathan Haidt
American social psychologist (1963-)
Ernest Nagel
American philosopher (1901-1985)
Raul Hilberg
Austrian-born American political scientist and historian (1926–2007)
Madge Bellamy
American actress (1899–1990)
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator