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Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
William Howard Taft
27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
Louise Glück
U.S. poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright (1930–2017)
Sheldon Glashow
American theoretical physicist
Jhumpa Lahiri
American author of Indian origin (born 1967)
Roger Scruton
English conservative philosopher and writer (1944–2020)
Lynn Margulis
American evolutionary biologist (1938–2011)
Howard Zinn
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker (1922–2010)

Anne Sexton
American poet (1928–1974)

John Cheever
American novelist and short story writer (1912-1982)

John Barth
American writer (1930–2024)

Peter L. Berger
American sociologist (1929–2017)

David McClelland
American psychologist (1917–1998)
Jaakko Hintikka
Finnish philosopher and logician

Richard Yates
Novelist, short story writer (1926-1992)
Fredrik Barth
Norwegian social anthropologist (1928–2016)
Ha Jin
author and poet
Seyla Benhabib
Turkish-American philosopher and political scientist (born 1950)
Whitney Smith
founder of vexillology, the study of flags (1940–2016)
Alexander Esenin-Volpin
Russian-American mathematician (1924-2016)
Robert Pinsky
American poet, editor, literary critic, academic (born 1940)
Norman Naimark
Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies, Stanford University
Michael Martin
American philosopher (1932-2015)
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
American nuclear physicist (1926–2012)
William J. Bennett
American pundit (1943-)
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist, paleontologist (1838-1902)
Leonid Levin
Soviet-American mathematician and computer scientist
Edward Fredkin
American physicist and computer scientist, a pioneer of digital physics (1934–2023)
Maurine Neuberger
US Senator from Oregon (1907–2000)
Jill Lepore
American historian (b. 1966)
Hans Kornberg
British biochemist (1928-2019)
Renata Adler
American author, journalist and film critic
Devaki Jain
Indian economist
Malcolm Knowles
Adult educator (1913–1997)
J. Bradford DeLong
American economist

Max Jammer
Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics (1915-2010)
Jean Berko Gleason
American psycholinguist
Amir Aczel
lecturer (1950-2015)
Vitaly Korotich
Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian poet and journalist
Thomas Bohrer
American rower
Kenneth Setton
American medieval historian (1914-1995)

Stephen Kinzer
American historian, journalist and writer

Robert Epstein
American psychologist

Robert M. Schoch
American geologist

Anna Marguerite McCann
American art historian and archaeologist (1933–2017)
George V. Higgins
American novelist, lawyer, journalist, professor

David Carr
American journalist
Andrew Bacevich
United States Army officer
H. Eugene Stanley
American physicist
Nicholas Maw
British composer (1935–2009)
Georg Joos
German physicist (1894–1959)
Nancy Kopell
American mathematician and professor at Boston University
James J. Collins
American professor of biomedical engineering
Borden Parker Bowne
American philosopher (1847–1910)
Theodoros Antoniou
Greek composer and conductor (1935-2018)
Terrence Deacon
American anthropologist
Shang-Hua Teng
Chinese-American computer scientist (b.1964)
Bernard Rands
British-born American composer