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Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring magazine heavyweight title from 1964 to 1970, was the undisputed champion from 1974 to 1978, and was the WBA and Ring heavyweight champion from 1978 to 1979. In 1999, he was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC.
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African American revolutionary and Black nationalist leader who rose from a background of poverty, family disruption, and criminal activity to a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. He discovered the religious organization the Nation of Islam while in prison and served as its spokesperson from 1952 until 1964. He was also a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the African American community. A controversial figure accused of preaching violence, Malcolm X is also a celebrated figure with Black people and Muslims worldwide for his pursuit of racial justice.
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
Oliver Stone
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1946)
Ivanka Trump
Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump is an American businesswoman. She is the second child of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and his first wife, Ivana Trump. Ivanka was a presidential advisor in her father's first administration (2017–2021).
John Michael Talbot
American Roman Catholic singer-songwriter
Anna Kendrick
American actress (born 1985)
Henry A. Wallace
American politician (1888–1965); Vice President of the United States from 1941 to 1945
Wes Craven
American filmmaker (1939–2015)
Marcus Garvey
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)
Kirstie Alley
American actress (1951–2022)
Lana Turner
American actress (1921–1995)
Jeb Bush
Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007
Hank Aaron
American baseball player (1934–2021)
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
Eleanor Parker
American actress (1922-2013)
Ike Turner
American musician (1931–2007)
Queen Noor of Jordan
Queen and Queen Dowager of Jordan; philanthropist and activist
James Newton Howard
American composer and music producer (born 1951)
Thomas Merton
priest and author (1915–1968)
Kate Capshaw
American actress who converted to Judaism
Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura is an American politician, Vietnam veteran, actor, and retired professional wrestler. After achieving fame in the World Wrestling Federation, he served as the 38th governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was elected governor with the Reform Party and is the party's only candidate to win a major government office.
Michael Shermer
American science writer
Amar'e Stoudemire
American basketball player
David Koresh
American religious sect leader of Branch Davidians (1959-1993)
Louis Farrakhan
controversial leader of Nation of Islam
Gladys Knight
American singer (born 1944)
Q380036
American physician (1852–1943)
Amina Wadud
American Islamic scholar
Bart D. Ehrman
American biblical scholar (born 1955)
John Stossel
American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist
Sam Brownback
American politician and 46th Governor of Kansas (born 1956)
Morgan Spurlock
American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer (1970-2024)
Jonathan Jackson
American actor
Walter Kaufmann
German-American philosopher (1921–1980)
Eugenie Scott
American anthropologist
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
Reza Aslan
Iranian-American author, commentator
Nell Carter
American actress and singer (1948–2003)
William Hardy McNeill
Canadian historian and writer (1917–2016)
André Carson
American politician (born 1974)
Richard Carrier
American historian and philosopher
Dan Barker
American atheist activist
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
American newspaper publisher
Betty Shabazz
American educator and wife of Malcolm X (1934–1997)
Suzanne Bonamici
American politician
David Bentley Hart
American author, theologian, and philosopher
Walter B. Jones
American politician (1943–2019)
William G. Dever
American archaeologist
Adam Yahiye Gadahn
American Al-Qaeda member (1978–2015)
Matt Dillahunty
American atheist activist (born 1969)
Syreeta Wright
American singer-songwriter (1946–2004)
Jonathan A.C. Brown
American scholar of Islamic studies (born 1977)
Edward Eggleston
Novelist, historian, clergyman (1837–1902)
Rahman Ali
American former heavyweight boxer
Suhaib Webb
American Muslim scholar
Michael Huffington
American politician
Robert Hayden
American writer and academic (1913–1980)
Elizabeth Bruenig
American journalist