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Calvin Coolidge
president of the United States from 1923 to 1929
Dan Brown
American novelist
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Prince of Monaco (born 1958)
Joseph E. Stiglitz
American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Uhuru Kenyatta
4th President of Republic of Kenya (2013–2022)
Giorgos Papandreou
Greek politician, president of the Socialist International
Henry Way Kendall
American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
Burgess Meredith
American actor (1907–1997)
Talcott Parsons
American sociologist (1902 – 1979)
Edmund Phelps
American economist
Antonis Samaras
Prime Minister of Greece (2012–2015)
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist and chronobiologist
Harold E. Varmus
American scientist
Jeffrey Wright
American actor (born 1965)
David O. Russell
American film director, screenwriter and producer
David Suzuki
Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist
Henry Ward Beecher
American clergyman and activist (1813–1887)
Melvil Dewey
American librarian (1851–1931)
Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben is an American writer of mystery and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. Twelve of his novels have been adapted for film and television.
Daniel Goleman
American psychologist & journalist
Carl Woese
American microbiologist
John Bates Clark
American neoclassical economist (1847–1938)
Robert Lansing
American politician (1864-1928)
Stephen Cole Kleene
American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist (1909–1994)
Chris Coons
American lawyer and politician (born 1963)
Stephen Collins
American actor
Rob Cohen
American film director and producer
Hamish Linklater
American actor
Richard Wilbur
American poet (1921-2017)
Jim Steinman
American composer, lyricist and record producer (1947–2021)
Francisco Flores
President of El Salvador (1959-2016)
Scott Turow
American writer
Harlan F. Stone
chief justice of the United States from 1941 to 1946
William H. Webster
American attorney and jurist, former Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (1924–2025)
Raymond Smith Dugan
American astronomer (1878–1940)
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
American astronaut
Dave Freudenthal
American politician
John J. McCloy
American lawyer and banker (1895-1989)
Lauren Groff
American writer
Ken Howard
American actor (1944–2016)
Robert A. Parker
American astronaut
Alfred Romer
American paleontologist (1894-1973)
Larry Miller
American actor and comedian
Bruce Fairchild Barton
American author, politician and advertising executive (1886-1967)
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
Rob Brown
American actor
James Merrill
American poet (1926–1995)
Stavros Lambrinidis
Greek politician
Thomas Eagleton
American politician (1929–2007)
Julie Powell
American blogger
James Ewing
American pathologist (1866–1943)
Charles Drew
American surgeon and medical researcher (1904–1950)
Kanzō Uchimura
Japanese writer (1861–1930)
Dwight Morrow
American politician (1873–1931)
Susannah Grant
American film director and screenwriter
Caroline Thompson
American writer
John M. Deutch
American physical chemist and civil servant
William Smith Clark
American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacher (1826 – 1886)
Aubrey Dollar
American actress