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Mandy Patinkin
Mandel Bruce Patinkin is an American actor and singer in musical theatre, television, and film. As a Broadway performer, he has collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Paul Muni
Austrian-born American stage and film actor (1895-1967)
Jeff Garlin
American comedian and actor
Jack Ruby
American nightclub operator who killed American presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
Rahm Emanuel
American politician (born 1959)
Jack Benny
American comedic entertainer (1894–1974)
Peter Jacobson
American film and television actor, born 1965
Shel Silverstein
American poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and children's writer (1930-1999)
Ted Levine
American actor (born 1957)
Jeremy Piven
American actor
Paul Adelstein
American actor and screenwriter
Jonathan Spector
American soccer player
Fisher Stevens
American actor, director, producer and writer (born 1963)
Fred Savage
American actor and director (born 1976)
Ike Barinholtz
American comedian and actor
D. B. Weiss
American writer and producer
Walter Koenig
American actor and screenwriter
JB Pritzker
Jay Robert Pritzker is an American politician, lawyer, and businessman serving since 2019 as the 43rd governor of Illinois. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Bob Balaban
American actor, director and producer
Gene Siskel
American film critic (1946–1999)
John M. Grunsfeld
American astronaut and astronomer
Ben Savage
American actor
Nina Paley
US animator, cartoonist and free culture activist
Shelley Berman
American comedian, actor, writer, and teacher (1925–2017)
Daniel Clowes
American cartoonist
Mark Lenard
American actor (1924–1996)
Lou Adler
American record producer, manager and director
Jackie Fields
American boxer (1908–1987)
Max Abramovitz
American architect (1908–2004)
Paul Frees
American actor (1920–1986)
Jim Fuchs
American discus thrower and shot putter (1927–2010)
Jay Pritzker
American businessman; uncle of J.B. Pritzker (1922–1999)
Leonard Chess
Polish-American record company executive (1917-1969)
Robert Smigel
American actor and comedian
Natasha Leggero
American actress and comedian
Daniel Aaron
American writer and academic who helped found the Library of America (1912–2016)
Sydney Lassick
actor (1922-2003)
Albert Schwartz
American swimmer (1907–1986)
Julius Rosenwald
American businessman (1862–1932)
William S. Paley
American television executive and art collector (1901-1990)
Donald Sterling
American business magnate
Barney Ross
United States Marine (1909–1967)
Abe Saperstein
American sports executive and basketball coach
Jerry Reinsdorf
American sports executive
Charles Levin
American actor (1949-2019)
Ari Emanuel
American businessman and CEO of Endeavor
Caroline Glick
American-Israeli journalist and author
Morey Amsterdam
American actor and comedian (1908–1996)
Alan Berg
American talk radio show host (1934–1984)
Bruce Davidson
American photographer (born 1933)
Shecky Greene
American comedian (1926–2023)
Amari Bailey
American basketball player
Danny Wolf
Israeli-American basketball player
Burt Baskin
American businessman (1913–1967)
Lessing J. Rosenwald
American businessman, collector and bibliophile (1891–1979)
Stuart E. Eizenstat
American politician (born 1943)
Michael Steven Ovitz
American talent agent
Jon Scheyer
American basketball player and coach
Hugo Friend
American judge (1882–1966)
Philip Erenberg
gymnast (1909-1992)