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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its list of the greatest female screen legends.
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.
Charlie Kirk
Charles James Kirk was an American right-wing political activist, entrepreneur, and media personality. He co‑founded the conservative student organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA) in 2012 and served as its executive director until his assassination in 2025. A key ally of Donald Trump, he became one of the most prominent voices of the MAGA movement within the Republican Party, publishing several books and hosting The Charlie Kirk Show.
George Cukor
American film director and producer (1899–1983)
Edward Albee
American playwright (1928–2016)
Ralph Nader
American lawyer and activist (born 1934)
Henry L. Stimson
United States Secretary of War (1867-1950)
Anita Borg
American computer scientist (1949-2003)
Dwight Filley Davis Sr.
American politician and tennis player (1879–1945)
Alvin York
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1887-1964)
William J. Donovan
U.S. Army soldier during WWII, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat, head of the OSS (1883-1959)
Juliette Gordon Low
founder of the Girl Scouts (1860–1927)
Keir Dullea
American actor
Saul Alinsky
American community organizer and writer (1909–1972)
Robert Bacon
American diplomat, secretary of state, ambassador to France, etc. (1860-1919)
Felix Adler
German-American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer (1851-1933)
Melanie Joy
American psychologist
Patricia Kennedy Lawford
American socialite (1924-2006); younger sister of John F. Kennedy
Tom Steyer
Thomas Fahr Steyer is an American businessman, philanthropist, and environmentalist. He is the founder of Farallon Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, as well as NextGen America, a progressive political action committee, and Galvanize Climate Solutions, a climate change-centered investment firm. A member of the Democratic Party, he unsuccessfully ran for the party's nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election.
Henry Spira
American activist (1927-1998)
Van Jones
American environmental advocate and civil rights activist
Bill Bright
American evangelist (1921–2003)
Katie Eder
American activist
Samuel Adler
American composer and conductor
Amanda Nguyen
founder and CEO of Rise
Michael Shellenberger
American writer and environmental policy advocate
Shmuley Boteach
American Orthodox rabbi and writer
William Alcott
American physician and author (1798-1859)
Chude Pam Allen
American civil rights and women's liberation movement activist, founder of New York Radical Women
Cynthia Germanotta
American philanthropist
Luke Lea
American politician, born 1879 (1879–1945)
Isabel Andreu de Aguilar
Puerto Rican writer, educator, activist, and philanthropist
Paul Zukofsky
American violinist (1943-2017)
Jacqueline Ceballos
American activist
Charles W. Whittlesey
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1884-1921)
Stewart Edward White
American novelist, writer (1873–1946)
Matthew VanDyke
American journalist
A. Piatt Andrew
American politician (1873-1936)
Eli Erlick
American activist and writer
Kathleen Biden
former wife of Hunter Biden
Glen MacDonough
American writer (1870-1924)
William Conant Church
Union United States Army officer (1836-1917)
Márton Szipál
Hungarian photographer (1924-2016)
Rosetta Douglass
African-American teacher and activist
Abigail Hopper Gibbons
American abolitionist, reformer, activist and Civil War nurse (1801-1893)
Shaesta Waiz
airplane pilot
Sol Libsohn
American photographer (1914-2001)
Amara Majeed
Muslim American activist and author
Cari Tuna
American philanthropist (born 1985)
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English-American minister, activist, journalist, author, and politician (1827–1941)
Carrie Stevens Walter
American educator and poet
Eric Fisher Wood
American engineer
Malik Rahim
American housing activist and cofounder of the Common Ground Project
Robert Porterfield
American actor and director (1905-1971)
Sigmund Livingston
Attorney, founder of the Anti-Defamation League
John Nolen
American landscape architect (1869–1937)
Alice Birney
American educator (1858-1907)
Jamie Kalven
American journalist
John C. Babcock
American rower (1836-1908)
Jacy Reese Anthis
American social scientist