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Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
Robert A. Millikan
American physicist (1868–1953)

Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)

Leon Cooper
American physicist (1930–2024)

Julian Schwinger
American theoretical physicist (1918–1994)

Kenneth Arrow
American economist (1921–2017)

John Howard Northrop
American biochemist (1891-1987)
Edward Sapir
American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939)

Joseph Heller
American writer
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)
Simon Kuznets
economist

Norman Foster Ramsey
American physicist (1915–2011)

Melvin Schwartz
American experimental physicist (1932-2006)

Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (born 1926)
Erica Jong
American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist (1939-2022)

Robert Fogel
American economist and historian (1926–2013)
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician (1917–2011)

Edward Calvin Kendall
American chemist (1886-1972)
Roger Zelazny
U.S. science fiction and fantasy writer and poet (1937–1995)
Nicholas Murray Butler
American philosopher, diplomat, and educator (1862-1947)
John Clauser
American physicist
Howard Zinn
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker (1922–2010)

Leo Strauss
History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)
Kate Millett
American writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934–2017)

Thomas Merton
priest and author (1915–1968)
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

E. L. Doctorow
novelist, editor, professor (1931-2015)
Alfred L. Kroeber
American anthropologist (1876–1960)

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

Robert Benton
American screenwriter and film director (1932–2025)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American artist, writer and activist (1919–2021)

John Kennedy Toole
American novelist (1937–1969)
William Goldman
American novelist, screenwriter and playwright (1931-2018)

Daniel Bell
American sociologist (1919–2011)
Wellington Koo
Diplomat and former President of the Republic of China

Jesse Douglas
American mathematician (1897–1965)

John Ashbery
poet from the United States of America (1927–2017)

Charles A. Beard
American historian (1874-1948)

Mark Eyskens
Belgian politician (born 1933)
William Barr
77th & 85th United States Attorney General (born 1950)

Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev
Soviet diplomat (1923-2005)

Frances Perkins
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945

James Blish
American science fiction and fantasy author (1921–1975)
Ernesto Samper
President of Colombia

Seymour Martin Lipset
American sociologist (1922–2006)

Jeane Kirkpatrick
American diplomat and Presidential advisor (1926-2006)
Arthur Golden
American novelist

Naomi Novik
American writer

Crystal Eastman
American lawyer and feminist

Robert Moses
American urban planner (1888–1981)
Harold Brown
U.S. Secretary of Defense (1927-2019)
Peter Straub
American novelist and poet (1943–2022)
Walter Block
Austrian School economist and prominent anarcho-capitalist
Xu Zhimo
Chinese poet (1897-1931)