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Oprah Winfrey
American talk show host, actress, producer, and author (born 1954)
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.
Dale Carnegie
American writer and lecturer (1888-1955)
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).
Napoleon Hill
American author (1883-1970)
Robert Kiyosaki
American finance author and investor (born 1947)
Jane Seymour
British actress
Stephen Covey
American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker (1932-2012)
Tony Robbins
American author, professional speaker
Albert Ellis
American psychologist (1913–2007)
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies (1926-2004)
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra is an American author, New Age guru, and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. In the 1990s, Chopra, a physician by education, became a popular proponent of a pseudoscientific approach to well-being that includes yoga, meditation, and nutrition, among other New Age therapies.
Marianne Williamson
American author and politician
Scott Adams
Scott Adams was an American cartoonist, author, and conservative commentator. He was best known for the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, self-improvement, commentary, and satire.
Phil McGraw
American television personality (born 1950)
Suzanne Somers
American actress (1946–2023)
Marilyn vos Savant
American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
Norman Vincent Peale
American writer and minister (1898-1993)
Martin Seligman
American psychologist and writer
Zig Ziglar
American motivational speaker (1926-2012)
Louise Hay
American writer
Maria Shriver
First Lady of California from 2003 to 2011
David Duke
American white nationalist and politician
Wayne Dyer
American writer (1940-2015)
Virginia Satir
American psychotherapist & non-fiction author
Leo Buscaglia
American motivational speaker and writer (1924–1998)
John Gray
American family therapist, lecturer, and author (Born 1951)
Brené Brown
US writer and professor
Joseph Murphy
American writer (1898–1981)
Mark Manson
American author and blogger
Og Mandino
American author (1923–1996)
Robert Greene
American author
Master P
American rapper, actor and record executive
M. Scott Peck
American psychiatrist (1936–2005)
Joel Osteen
American preacher and author
A'ja Wilson
A'ja Riyadh Wilson is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Wilson is regarded by many as the best female basketball player of her generation, and is widely considered one of the greatest WNBA players ever.
Naomi Judd
American singer and actress (1946–2022)
Patrick Spencer Johnson
American writer
Joyce Meyer
American author
Richard Bandler
American author and trainer in the field of self-help
John Grinder
American linguist, developer of neuro-linguistic programming
David Allen
American productivity consultant and author
Dan Millman
American self help writer
Susan Cain
self-help writer
John C. Maxwell
American author, speaker and pastor
Sylvia Browne
American author, psychic and medium (1936-2013)
Florence Scovel Shinn
American writer, artist and book illustrator (1871–1940)
Orison Swett Marden
American writer (1848-1924)
Harry Browne
American writer and politician (1933–2006)
Wallace Wattles
American writer (1860–1911)
William Glasser
American psychiatrist (1925–2013)
Suze Orman
American author, television personality, motivational speaker, businesswoman, investor
Byron Katie
American spiritual writer
Abraham J. Twerski
American rabbi and psychiatrist (1930–2021)
Maxwell Maltz
American plastic surgeon, self-help author (1899 - 1975)
Stedman Graham
American educator and businessman
Cal Newport
American computer scientist, academic lecturer and writer
Julia Cameron
American author
William Clement Stone
American New Thought author (1902-2002)
Carol Queen
American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist