New York University faculty

Russian-American poet (1940-1996)

Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)

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".

Nigerian writer (born 1934)

Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)

American inventor and painter (1791–1872)

James Edward Franco is an American actor and filmmaker. He has starred in numerous films, including Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat Pray Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He has collaborated with fellow actor Seth Rogen on multiple projects, including Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), The Interview (2014), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Franco's performance in 127 Hours (2010) earned a Best Actor nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards.

Austrian-American economist (1881–1973)

American business consultant (1909–2005)

American illusionist

American economist (born 1953)

Australian moral philosopher (born 1946)

Russian economist (1906-1999)

Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher

American actress (born 1954)

American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)

American physicist, chemist and botanical collector (1896 - 1986)

US Supreme Court justice since 2009

French Algerian writer and film director (1936-2015)

english novelist, essayist and short story writer (born 1975)

American writer

Israeli scientist

Jewish-German pharmacologist

american developmental psychologist & academic

American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment (1933–2024)

American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)

American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)

German art historian (1892–1968)

American computer scientist (1932–2020)

British anthropologist (1921–2007)

American philosopher

American psychologist and scholar

American physician and astronomer (1837–1882)

German-American sex therapist

American legal philosopher (1931-2013)

American novelist (born 1977)

Russian and French mathematician and academic

American political scientist (born 1953)

American music journalist (born 1942)

Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist

British-American academic (1811-1882)

former mayor of New York City (1924-2013)

American professor, author, and consultant (1900-1993)

Israeli poet (1924-2000)

British-American historian (1948–2010)

American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist

Austrian economist (1902–1977)

Spanish biochemist (1938-2019)

American physicist and mathematician

Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist (1882–1961)

German American mathematician (1888-1972)

Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)

American actress

British philosopher (1942–2017)

American sociologist and academic

American economist

Nigerian writer

American lawyer and diplomat

Jewish-American poet (1928-2015)