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Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and businesswoman. Lopez is regarded as one of the most influential entertainers of her time, credited with breaking barriers for Latino Americans in Hollywood and helping propel the Latin pop movement in music. She is also known for her cultural impact through fashion, branding, and shifting mainstream beauty standards.

Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor, painter, and filmmaker. In a film career spanning more than fifty years, Stallone has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA Awards. Stallone is one of only two actors in history to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $7.5 billion worldwide.

Melania Trump
Melania Knauss Trump is a Slovenian and American former model serving as the first lady of the United States since 2025, a role she previously held from 2017 to 2021 as the third wife of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. She is the first naturalized citizen and the first non-native English speaker to become first lady; the second foreign-born first lady, after Louisa Adams; the second Roman Catholic first lady, after Jacqueline Kennedy; and the second to hold the position nonconsecutively, after Frances Cleveland.

Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of cinema. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
Al Capone
American gangster (1899–1947)
Rita Hayworth
American actress (1918–1987)

Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he is considered an icon of modern American liberalism in the 21st century.
James Cagney
American actor and dancer (1899–1986)

Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canadian and American actor, entrepreneur and film producer. Known for starring in comedic and superhero films, he was the world's second-highest-paid actor in 2020 and 2024. Reynolds has received numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as nominations for two Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. His films as a leading actor have grossed $6.6 billion worldwide.

Alec Baldwin
Alexander Rae Baldwin III is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his leading and supporting roles in a variety of genres, from comedy to drama. He has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and eight Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and Tony Award.

Spencer Tracy
American actor (1900–1967)
Claudette Colbert
American actress (1903–1996)
Anne Bancroft
American actress (1931–2005)

Barbara Stanwyck
American actress (1907–1990)

Cardi B
Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, known professionally as Cardi B, is an American rapper. Born and raised in New York City, she is known for her energetic rap flow and outspoken lyrics. Since launching her music career in 2016 and releasing her two mixtapes, Cardi B has been cited for her part in helping elevate the relevance of female rappers in popular music.
Thomas Pynchon
American novelist (born 1937)
Brooke Shields
American actress

Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez, known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. His work spans more than six decades of television and film, and his accolades include three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Actor Awards. In 1989, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
John Leguizamo
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)
Alyssa Milano
American actress (born 1972)
Kevin Kline
American actor (born 1947)

Mary Tyler Moore
American actress and television producer (1936-2017)
Joseph Campbell
American mythologist, writer and lecturer (1904–1987)
Sonia Sotomayor
US Supreme Court justice since 2009
Susan Hayward
American actress (1917–1975)
Moira Kelly
American actress (b. 1968)

Jimmy Kimmel
James Christian Kimmel is an American television host and comedian. He is best known as the host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which has aired on ABC since 2003. Kimmel has hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards three times, in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and the Academy Awards four times, in 2017, 2018, 2023, and 2024.
Patty Duke
American actress (1946–2016)
Vanessa Williams
American actress, singer and former Miss America (born 1963)
Jackie Gleason
American comedian and actor (1916–1987)
Buffalo Bill
American frontiersman and showman (1846–1917)
Marc Anthony
American singer (born 1968)

Maureen Stapleton
American actress (1925-2006)
Joe Satriani
American guitarist
Carroll Baker
American actress (born 1931)

Mary Higgins Clark
American author of suspense novels (1927–2020)

Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016
Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
Christine Baranski
American actress (born 1952)
Steve Vai
American guitarist

Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is an American author, diplomat, and attorney. She served as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 and ambassador to Australia from 2022 to 2024. Most of Kennedy's professional life has been in literature, law, politics, education reform, and charity. She is a member of the Kennedy family and the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Kevin James
American comedian and actor

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since 2025. A member of the prominent Kennedy family, he is a son of Senator and US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of US president John F. Kennedy and US senator Ted Kennedy.
Mary McDonnell
American actress
Lucky Luciano
Italian American mobster (1897–1962)
Charles Durning
American actor (1923-2012)
Pat Benatar
American singer

Carly Simon
American musician
John Gotti
American crime boss (1940–2002)

Mortimer J. Adler
American philosopher, author and educator (1902–2001)

Tommy Hilfiger
American fashion designer

Barbara Bach
American actress

Julia Gardiner Tyler
First Lady of the United States (1820–1889)
Ann Blyth
American actress

Wesley Clark
United States Army general and 2004 Democratic Party presidential candidate

Chazz Palminteri
American actor
Nestor Carbonell
American actor
June Lockhart
June Kathleen Lockhart was an American actress, beginning a film career in the 1930s and 1940s in films such as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St. Louis. She appeared primarily in 1950s and 1960s television and with performances on stage and in film. She became most widely known for her work on two television series, Lassie and Lost in Space, in which she played mother roles. Lockhart also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70). She was a two-time Emmy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner. With a career spanning nearly 90 years, Lockhart was one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Patrick McGoohan
Irish-American actor (1928–2009)

Jerry O'Connell
American actor