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Melinda French Gates
Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she attended Duke University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics and an MBA. She joined Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product developer. In the same year, she began dating the company's co-founder and then-chief executive Bill Gates, whom she married in 1994 and divorced in 2021. They have three children together.
Charles Hard Townes
20th-century American physicist
Robert Coleman Richardson
American physicist
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers
Ricardo Lagos
Chilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006
Sylvia A. Earle
American oceanographer
Jared Harris
British actor
Anne Tyler
American novelist
Ken Jeong
South Korean-American stand-up comedian and actor
Kaitlyn Maher
American actress
John W. Campbell
American science fiction writer (1910–1971)
Ibtihaj Muhammad
American fencer
Arkady Dvorkovich
Russian economist
Shelley Moore Capito
United States Senator from West Virginia
Henry Hartsfield
American astronaut (1933–2014)
Jack Coleman
American actor and screenwriter
Sara Danius
Swedish academic
Russell Kirk
American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and writer (1918–1994)
Martin Dempsey
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
John Cocke
American computer scientist (1925-2002)
Eric Ken Shinseki
retired United States Army four-star general, seventh United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Edmund M. Clarke
American computer scientist (1945–2020)
Richard Spencer
American white supremacist (born 1978)
Steven Pressfield
American screenwriter and novelist (1943-)
Randall Wallace
American filmmaker
Jessica Springsteen
American show jumping rider
Quinn
Canadian soccer player (born 1995)
Paul Farmer
American anthropologist, 1959-2022
Walter Rudin
American mathematician (1921-2010)
Jeff Zients
American businessman and politician (born 1966), 31th White House Chief of Staff
Gilbert Kaplan
American businessman and amateur conductor (1941–2016)
Eric Greitens
American politician
Jayne Brook
American actress
Juanita M. Kreps
United States Secretary of Commerce (1921-2010)
MatPat
Matthew Robert Patrick (born November 15, 1986), known professionally as MatPat, is an American internet personality, political advisor, and former YouTuber.
Ryan Carnes
American actor
Bradley Byrne
U.S. Representative
Creed Taylor
American record producer (1929–2022)
George M. Church
geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist
Michael Tomasello
American developmental psychologist
Rebecca Ward
American fencer
Bob Krueger
American politician (1935–2022)
Robert Yeoman
American cinematographer
Peter Turchin
Russian-American complexity scientist
Eddy Cue
American businessman
Bob Inglis
former U.S. congressman
Bill H. Gross
American finance and investment writer
Sean Flynn
American photojournalist
Les Brown
American bandleader (1912–2001)
Richard Zimler
American-Portuguese writer
Belle Knox
American pornographic actress
Dan Lipinski
American politician
Bob Wise
American politician (born 1948)
Robin M. Canup
American astrophysicist
David Rubenstein
American businessman (born 1949)
Henry Hyde
American member of the United States House of Representatives (1924–2007)
Scott Peters
American politician
Peter Maas
American journalist and author (1929-2001)
Eleanor Smeal
American activist
Justin Fairfax
Justin Edward Fairfax was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second African American to be elected to statewide office in Virginia, after Douglas Wilder. In 2019, he faced sexual assault allegations dating to 2000 and 2004, resulting in his departure from his law firm and calls for his resignation as lieutenant governor. He served out the remainder of his term.