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Margaret Mead
American anthropologist (1901-1978)
Joan Rivers
American comedian, actress, and television host (1933–2014)

Kesha
Kesha Rose Sebert (born March 1, 1987), formerly stylized as Ke$ha, is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter. She has earned two number-one albums on the US Billboard 200 with Animal (2010) and Rainbow (2017), and the top-ten records Warrior (2012) and High Road (2020). She attained ten top-ten singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, including "Tik Tok", "Right Round" with Flo Rida, "My First Kiss" with 3OH!3, "Blah Blah Blah", "Your Love Is My Drug", "Take It Off", "We R Who We R", "Blow", "Die Young", and "Timber" with Pitbull. Her 2009 single "Tik Tok" was the best-selling digital single
Jhumpa Lahiri
American author of Indian origin (born 1967)
Greta Gerwig
American actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)
Erica Jong
American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short story writer (1921–1995)
Martha Stewart
American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)

Lee Remick
American actress (1935-1991)
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
Cynthia Nixon
American actress and politician

Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter
Gracie Abrams
American singer-songwriter (born 1999)
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
Jane Wyatt
American actress (1910–2006)
Park Yeon-mi
North Korean defector and conservative activist

Jeane Kirkpatrick
American diplomat and Presidential advisor (1926-2006)
Edwidge Danticat
Novelist, short story writer, memoirist
Chelsea Peretti
American comedian and actress
Isra Hirsi
American environmental activist (born 2003)
Twyla Tharp
American dancer and choreographer
Judith Jarvis Thomson
American philosopher (1929-2020)
Aline MacMahon
actress (1899-1991)
Virginia Hall
American spy with the British Special Operations Executive (1906-1982)
Christy Carlson Romano
American actress
Anna Schwartz
American economist (1915–2012)
Helen Gahagan Douglas
American actress and politician (1900–1980)
Ottessa Moshfegh
American author and novelist
Vinessa Shaw
American actress
Jill Eikenberry
American actress
Carol S. Dweck
American psychologist
Fatima Bhutto
Pakistani writer

Lionel Shriver
American writer
Sprague Grayden
American actress
Frankie Shaw
American actress, writer, directress and comedian
Ellen Kushner
American writer
Ellen Willis
American writer
Nancy Dupree
American archaeologist (1927–2017)

Peggy McCay
American actress (1927-2018)
Jaqueline Barton
American chemist
Rebecca Goldstein
American novelist, short story writer, biographer, philosopher (b. 1950)
Judith Miller
American journalist (b.1948)
Ntozake Shange
African American writer and performance artist (1948-2018)

Mary Antin
American memoirist (1881–1949)
Sigrid Nunez
American writer (1951-)
Grace Lee Boggs
American social activist and feminist (1915-2015)
Jamie Babbit
American director, producer, and screenwriter
June Jordan
American poet, essayist, playwright, feminist, bisexual activist
Henrietta Hill Swope
American astronomer (1902–1980)
Kelly McCreary
American actress
Ann Brashares
American children's writer
Lisa Brenner
American actress

Zuzanna Szadkowski
American actress
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist (1875-1941)
Mozhan Marnò
American actress
Katharine Way
American physicist
Leslie Stefanson
American actress
Leora Dana
American actress (1923–1983)