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Jody Allen
Jo Lynn "Jody" Allen is an American businesswoman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is the younger sister of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and served as the chief executive officer of his investment and project management company, Vulcan Inc., from its founding in 1986 until 2015. She is also the co-founder and president of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025; as of April 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$809 billion.
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)
Eric Schmidt
software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO
Anita Borg
American computer scientist (1949-2003)
Fei-Fei Li
American computer scientist
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
American philanthropist; founder of the Special Olympics; sister of John F. Kennedy (1921–2009)
Sargent Shriver
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915–2011)
George W. Romney
Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969
Reed Hastings
American entrepreneur and education philanthropist
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Allen Youngkin is an American politician and businessman who served as the 74th governor of Virginia from 2022 to 2026. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, where he became co-CEO in 2018.
Ann Veneman
Executive Director of UNICEF and United States Secretary of Agriculture
Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Ann Gilmour is an American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She was thrust into the national spotlight at age 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, held Smart captive for nine months and repeatedly raped and assaulted her until she was rescued by police officers on a street in Sandy, Utah.
Anthony Lake
American academic and diplomat
Barbara Bush
American health care activist; daughter of George W. Bush (born 1981)
Jon Hall
programmer and major contributor to the Linux project
Peter H. Raven
American botanist
Edgar Anderson
American botanist (1897-1969)
Fred Karger
American political consultant and activist
William Trelease
American botanist and entomologist (1857–1945)
Carol Bellamy
American politician
George Thomas Moore
American botanist (1871–1956)
Jennifer N. Pritzker
American billionaire
Frits Warmolt Went
Dutch botanist (1903-1990)
Henry Shaw
American philanthropist (1800-1889)
Vartan Gregorian
American academic administrator
William Campbell
American businessman and chairman (1940–2016)
Vanessa Bryant
Mexican-American philanthropist
Wendy Kopp
American nonprofit executive
Marie Newman
American politician (born 1964)
Howard W. French
American academic, journalist, author and photographer
James C. Greenwood
American politician (born 1951)
John Wood
founder and board co-chair of Room to Read (1964-)
Billy Tauzin
American politician
Jessica Jackley
American entrepreneur; co-founder of Kiva
Frank Pavone
American Roman Catholic anti-abortion leader and laicized priest (born 1959)
Richard Parsons
CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers (1948–2024)
Mira Ricardel
American businesswoman and politician
Kathleen Biden
former wife of Hunter Biden
Susan Molinari
American politician
Timothy Shriver
American non-profit executive
Gisele Barreto Fetterman
Second Lady of Pennsylvania from 2019 to 2023
Stephen J. Hemsley
American businessman
William Nafew Haskell Jr.
American military officer
Lulu Schwartz
American journalist, columnist and author
Paul Marx
American anti-abortion activist (1920–2010)
Yinka Faleti
nigerian-American politician
Michael Klosson
Diplomat; US Ambassador to Cyprus, 2002-05
Basil O'Connor
lawyer and Philanthropist (1892–1972)
Carl Sciortino
American politician
Nika King
American actor
Beverly LaHaye
American activist (1929–2024)
Darren Walker
American philanthropist; President of the Ford Foundation and corporate board member
Danni Washington
American activist, artist and presenter who campaigns for career, plastic-free oceans
Phil Radford
American environmentalist
Kenneth Bacon
American journalist
Susan Buffett
American activist (1932-2004)
Depelsha Thomas McGruder
Founder - Moms of Black Boys Utd.