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Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Thomas Jefferson
president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)

Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, as the commander of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot and university professor.
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

Thomas Paine
American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)

Sidney Poitier
Bahamian and American actor and diplomat (1927–2022)

Matthew Perry
Matthew Langford Perry was an American and Canadian actor. He gained international fame for starring as Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom Friends (1994–2004). Perry also appeared on Ally McBeal (2002) and received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in The West Wing (2003) and The Ron Clark Story (2006). He played a leading role in the NBC series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–2007), and also became known for his leading film roles in Fools Rush In (1997), Almost Heroes (1998), Three to Tango (1999), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Serving Sara (2002), The Whole Ten Yards (2004), and 17 Again (2009).
Edward O. Wilson
American biologist, naturalist, and writer (1929–2021)

Walter Kohn
American physicist (1923–2016)
Martin Gardner
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)

Bill Hicks
American comedian (1961–1994)
Lysander Spooner
American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)
Ethan Allen
American general, writer and philosopher (1738–1789)
Brett Gurewitz
American guitarist and record producer
Isabel Paterson
author and editor (1886–1961)
Ritchie Torres
American politician (born 1988)
Michael Ian Black
American actor and writer
Thomas Godfrey
American optician and inventor (1704-1749)
Edward Bancroft
British naturalist and chemist (1745-1821) (1745 in New-Style dating)
Cornelius Harnett
American politician (1723-1781)

Thomas Young
American revolutionary
Bernard Haisch
American astrophysicist
Elihu Palmer
American philosopher