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Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer, and narrator. In a career spanning six decades, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. He was honored with the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018. In a 2022 readers' poll by Empire, he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.
Steve Fossett
American businessman, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer
Katherine Rawls
American swimmer, diver, Olympic silver medalist, aviator (1917-1982)
Michael A. Baker
American astronaut
Cornelia Fort
American aviator
John S. Bull
U.S. Navy test pilot, engineer and astronaut (1934–2008)
Frank Maxwell Andrews
United States Army general (1884–1943)

Bob Hoover
American test pilot and aerobatics legend (1922-2016)
Evelyn Bryan Johnson
American aviator (1909-2012)
Kiffin Yates Rockwell
American World War I flying ace