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Bernie Sanders
United States Senator from Vermont
James Franco
James Edward Franco is an American actor and filmmaker. He has starred in numerous films, including Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat Pray Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He has collaborated with fellow actor Seth Rogen on multiple projects, including Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), The Interview (2014), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Franco's performance in 127 Hours (2010) earned a Best Actor nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards.
Stanley Cohen
American biochemist
Shirley Chisholm
first black woman elected to the United States Congress (1924-2005)
Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist (1933–1984)
Philip Zimbardo
American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment (1933–2024)
Frank McCourt
Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
Daniel Keyes
American author
Irwin Shaw
American writer (1913–1984)
Saul Bass
American graphic designer and filmmaker (1920–1996)
Paul Cohen
American mathematician
Gata Kamsky
American chess player
Barbara Boxer
American politician, United States Senator from California
Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.
Paul Mazursky
American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor (1930-2014)
Al Sharpton
American Baptist minister, activist and talk show host
Steve Schirripa
American actor
Jimmy Smits
American actor (born 1955)
Meir Kahane
Rabbi, writer and far right American-Israeli politician (1932–1990)
Dominic Chianese
American actor, animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist
Israel Kirzner
American economist
Richard E. Bellman
American mathematician (1920–1984)
Raul Hilberg
Austrian-born American political scientist and historian (1926–2007)
Donald Kagan
American historian (1932-2021)
Necro
American rapper
Walter Block
Austrian School economist and prominent anarcho-capitalist
Paul Beatty
American writer
Sara Shepard
American author
Linda Sarsour
Palestinian-American political activist
Frank Serpico
NYPD officer, whistleblower
Seymour Benzer
American geneticist (1921–2007)
Malachi Throne
American actor (1928-2013)
Dennis Prager
American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator
Ocean Vuong
Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1988)
Sharon Jones
American soul funk singer from NYC
William Tenn
British-American science fiction author (1920–2010)
Richard Portnow
American actor
Mike Garson
American musician
Henry Spira
American activist (1927-1998)
Robert Kerman
American actor (1947-2018)
Esther M. Conwell
American physicist
Lucy Shapiro
American developmental biologist
Nancy Lynch
American computer scientist
Marvin Kaplan
American actor (1927-2016)
Julian B. Rotter
American psychologist (1916–2014)
Martha Rosler
American video artist (born 1943)
Beverly Pepper
American artist (1922-2020)
Roya Hakakian
Iranian American author
Judith Love Cohen
American aerospace engineer (1933–2016)
Harold C. Schonberg
American writer (1915–2003)
Herb Edelman
American actor (1933-1996)
Annie Baker
American author and playwright
Aki Aleong
Trinidadian-American actor
Bhikkhu Bodhi
American Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar (born 1944)
Oren Moverman
film director, screenwriter, and former journalist (born 1966)
Frank Harary
American mathematician (1921–2005)
Stanley Ellin
American novelist and short story writer (1916–1986)
Gloria Naylor
American writer (1950–2016)
Jonathan Akpoborie
Nigerian footballer
Don Lemon
Don Renaldo Lemon-Clark is an American television journalist best known for being a host on CNN from 2014 until 2023. He anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist. Lemon worked as a news correspondent for NBC on its programming, such as Today and NBC Nightly News.