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Herbie Hancock
American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)
Thomas Cech
American chemist, biochemistry professor
Robert Noyce
American businessman and engineer (1927–1990)
John Garang
Sudanese politician and revolutionary leader (1945–2005)
Florin Cîțu
69th Prime Minister of Romania (2020-2021)
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
Peter Coyote
American actor, voice artist, director, activist and narrator
Kumail Nanjiani
Kumail Ali Nanjiani is a Pakistani and American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter. His accolades include a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and two Emmy Awards. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Harry Hopkins
American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce, assistant to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1890-1946)
Walter Koenig
American actor and screenwriter
Sen Katayama
Japanese journalist (1859–1933)
Emily Bergl
British actress
John Bell Hatcher
American paleontologist (1861–1904)
Tom Cole
American politician
Benjamin Barber
Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University (1939–2017)
Joe Walsh
American politician (born 1961)
Martha Cooper
American photographer
James Norman Hall
American author (1887–1951)
Henry Carter Adams
U.S. economist and Professor of Political Economy and finance at the University of Michigan (1851-1921)
George A. Wilson
American politician (1884-1953)
Fred Hersch
American jazz pianist
Hallie Flanagan
American theatrical producer (1890-1969)
Dana Ulery
American computer scientist
Oliver Ellsworth Buckley
American electrical engineer (1887–1959)
Charles A. Rawson
American politician (1867-1936)
James Wilson
Scotland-born United States politician (1835-1920)
Theodore E. Burton
American politician (1851–1929)
William S. Kenyon
American politician (1869–1933)
Jay Clark
sport shooter
Amy Clampitt
American poet (1920-1994)
Ian Roberts
American actor and comedian
Roberta Smith
American art critic
William A. Noyes
American chemist (1857–1941)
Nathaniel Borenstein
American computer scientist
Bruce Friedrich
American food company founder
Eleonore Stump
American philosopher
Pat Irwin
American musician
Zander Cannon
American comics writer and artist
Joseph N. Welch
American lawyer
Christine Thorburn
American cyclist
Chase Strangio
American lawyer and transgender rights activist
Alan Wheat
American politician
Joseph Lyman
Union Army officer, lawyer and politician (1840-1890)
George Moose
American diplomat
Gary Giddins
American director and writer
Albert Shaw
American journalist (1857-1947)
Tom Railsback
American politician (1932-2020)
Cha Liang-Chao
Chinese educator and philanthropist
Donald Hayworth
American politician (1898-1982)
Edward Hirsch
American poet
Jesse Macy
American political scientist (1842-1919)
Christopher Williams
American visual artist and photographer (born 1956)
Otha Wearin
American politician (1903-1990)
Samuel Hoyt Elbert
Hawaiian and Polynesian linguist (1907-1997)
Marshall Poe
American writer, historian, university faculty member
Alexi Zentner
Canadian / American short story writer, and novelist
Mary Sue Coleman
American businesswoman, university president
Mary Anthony
American choreographer, modern dancer, and dance teacher (1916–2014)
Paul Patterson
neuroscientist (1943-2014)
Wallace Loh
American academic administrator