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James Redford (filmmaker)
David James Redford was an American documentary filmmaker and environmentalist. He was the son of actor and director Robert Redford and historian Lola Van Wagenen.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. Known for his work in biographical and period films, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a British Academy Film Award, an Emmy Award, a Silver Bear and three Golden Globes. His films as a leading actor have grossed $7 billion worldwide, and he has been placed eight times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actors.
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
Bernie Sanders
United States Senator from Vermont
Steven Seagal
American actor, martial artist, and film producer
Sigourney Weaver
Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver is an American actress. Prolific in film since the late 1970s, she is known for her pioneering portrayals of action heroines in blockbusters and for her various roles in independent films. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award.
Jane Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda is also the recipient of various honorary awards including the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025.
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor. He achieved worldwide fame playing the lead role in four James Bond films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. Brosnan has also received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Nancy Astor (1982) and The Matador (2005).
Joan Baez
American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series The X-Files, socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film The House of Mirth (2000), DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall, sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama series The Crown. Among other honors, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has resided in London since 2002, after earlier years divided between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards,. He has also received various honors including the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and the Honorary César in 2019.
Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.
Emmy Rossum
American actress and singer-songwriter
Joaquin Phoenix
American actor
Frank Herbert
American writer (1920–1986)
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
Mark Ruffalo
Mark Alan Ruffalo is an American actor and producer who began his career in the late 1980s and first gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1996) and drama film You Can Count on Me (2000). He went on to star in the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Just like Heaven (2005), and the thrillers In the Cut (2003), Zodiac (2007), and Shutter Island (2010). He received a Tony Award nomination for his supporting role in the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! in 2006. Ruffalo has gained international recognition for playing Bruce Banner / Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the film The Avengers (2012).
Herbert Marcuse
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
Pete Seeger
American folk singer (1919–2014)
Jared Leto
Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor and musician. Known for his method acting in a variety of roles, he has received numerous accolades over a career spanning three decades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Additionally, he is recognized for his musicianship and eccentric stage persona as frontman of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez is an American actor and filmmaker. The son of actor Martin Sheen and the older brother of Charlie Sheen, he made his film debut with an uncredited role in Badlands (1973). He later received his first credited appearance with a supporting role in the coming-of-age film Tex (1982).
Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations. Harrelson has received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), and Best Supporting Actor for The Messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
Christopher Reeve
American actor (1952–2004)
Ted Kaczynski
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.
Ian Somerhalder
American actor (born 1978)
Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone is an American actress. She made her film debut in the thriller The Crush (1993), earning the 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and gained further prominence as a teen idol when she appeared in the music videos for Aerosmith's songs "Cryin'", "Amazing", and "Crazy". She went on to star as Cher Horowitz in the teen comedy film Clueless (1995), which earned her a multi-million-dollar deal with Columbia Pictures. In 1997, she portrayed Batgirl in the superhero film Batman & Robin.
Don Cheadle
American actor (born 1964)
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
Willie Nelson
American country musician (born 1933)
John Denver
American singer (1943–1997)
Gloria Stuart
American actress (1910–2010)
Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah is an American actress, director, and environmental activist. She has acted in comedic and dramatic roles in more than a hundred film and television productions since the 1970s.
River Phoenix
River Jude Phoenix was an American actor and musician. The older brother of actor Joaquin Phoenix, he was known as a teen actor before taking on leading roles in critically acclaimed films, becoming one of the preeminent acting talents of his generation. Phoenix's numerous accolades include the Volpi Cup and the Independent Spirit Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award.
Josh Hartnett
American actor and producer
Shailene Woodley
Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress. She first gained prominence for her starring role as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013). She then starred in the films The Descendants (2011), for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination, and The Spectacular Now (2013).
Chief Seattle
Duwamish chief
Margot Kidder
Canadian and American actress and activist (1948–2018)
Ralph Nader
American lawyer and activist (born 1934)
Murray Bookchin
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
Patricia Clarkson
American actress
Ted Danson
Edward Bridge Danson III is an American actor. He achieved stardom playing the lead character Sam Malone on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1982–1993), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. He was further Emmy-nominated for the FX legal drama Damages (2007–2010) and the NBC comedy The Good Place (2016–2020). He was the recipient of the 2025 Carol Burnett Award.
Jackson Browne
American singer-songwriter
Thomas Merton
priest and author (1915–1968)
Lewis Mumford
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
Amy Smart
American actress
Sylvia A. Earle
American oceanographer
Edward Abbey
American author and essayist (1927-1989)
Blythe Danner
American actress (born 1943)
Captain Beefheart
American musician and painter (1941-2010)
Dennis Kucinich
American politician (born 1946)
Bryan Danielson
American professional wrestler
Gary Snyder
American poet (born 1930)
Walton Goggins
Walton Sanders Goggins Jr. is an American actor. He has starred in various television series, including The Shield (2002–2008), Justified (2010–2015), Vice Principals (2016–2017), The Righteous Gemstones (2019–2025), Invincible (2021–present), Fallout (2024–present), and The White Lotus (2025). He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Justified and The White Lotus, and for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Fallout.
Edmund Muskie
American politician (1914–1996)
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
Henry Paulson
74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
Megan Boone
American actress
Daphne Zuniga
American actress
Dennis Weaver
American actor (1924–2006)
Julia Butterfly Hill
American environmental activist (born 1974)