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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.
Jennifer Aniston
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Garry Shandling
American comedian (1949–2016)
John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
Gary Snyder
American poet (born 1930)
Peter Coyote
American actor, voice artist, director, activist and narrator
Robert M. Pirsig
American writer and philosopher (1928–2017)
Peter Matthiessen
American novelist (1927–2014)
Chester Carlson
American physicist (1906-1968)
Anthony Ervin
American swimmer
Chris Kattan
American actor and comedian (born 1970)
Ocean Vuong
Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1988)
Shunryu Suzuki
Japanese Buddhist missionary (1904–1971)
Ruth Ozeki
American writer
Michael O'Keefe
American actor
Chris Sharma
American rock climber
Joanne Kyger
American poet (1934–2017)
Philip Whalen
American poet (1923–2002)
Philip Kapleau
Zen Buddhist teacher (1912–2004)
Natalie Goldberg
American writer
Jane Hirshfield
American poet
Richard Machowicz
host of the Discovery Channel and Military Channel show Future Weapons
Scott Shaw
American actor
Hakuun Yasutani
Japanese Buddhist monk (1885–1973)
Soyen Shaku
Japanese Zen Buddhist monk (1860–1919)
Tetsugen Bernard Glassman
American Buddhist monk
Joko Beck
US American Zen Teacher (1917–2011)
Taizan Maezumi
Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher (1931–1995)
Rob Mounsey
American musician, composer, and arranger
Shohaku Okumura
Japanese Buddhist monk
Albert Saijo
poet
Joseph Jarman
American jazz musician (1937–2019)
Nyogen Senzaki
Japanese Zen monk (1876-1958)
Chrisann Brennan
American painter
David Chadwick
Zen Buddhist writer, Shunryu Suzuki biographer
Reb Anderson
Zen teacher