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Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her image reinventions and versatility across the entertainment industry, she is an influential figure in popular music. With estimated sales of 124 million records, she is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Publications such as Billboard and Rolling Stone have ranked her among the greatest artists in history.
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

Anne Hathaway
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide. She was among the world's highest-paid actresses in 2015.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-American writer (1904–1991)
Lauren Bacall
American actress (1924–2014)

Miles Davis
American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)
Jack Kerouac
American writer (1922–1969)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)
Isidor Isaac Rabi
American physicist (1898–1988)

Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. Known for his blend of slapstick humor and sharp wit, Stiller rose to fame through comedies such as There's Something About Mary (1998), Zoolander (2001), and Tropic Thunder (2008). Stiller is also known for his work in franchises such as the Meet the Parents films (2000–present), the Madagascar franchise (2005–2012), and the Night at the Museum films (2006–2014). His films have grossed more than $2.6 billion in Canada and the United States, with an average of $79 million per film. His awards and honors include an Emmy Award, a Directors Guild of America Award, a Britannia Award and a Teen Choice Award.

Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez is an American actor and filmmaker. The son of actor Martin Sheen and the older brother of Charlie Sheen, he made his film debut with an uncredited role in Badlands (1973). He later received his first credited appearance with a supporting role in the coming-of-age film Tex (1982).

David Duchovny
American actor and writer
Harry Belafonte
American singer, actor and civil rights activist (1927–2023)
Dorothy Parker
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)
Nora Ephron
American film director and writer (1941–2012)
Kevin Bacon
American actor (born 1958)
Jerry Seinfeld
American comedian and actor

Mike Nichols
American director and comedian (1931–2014)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)
Roy Lichtenstein
American pop artist (1923–1997)
Christiane Amanpour
English-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent
Ray Manzarek
American keyboardist (1939–2013)
Carmelo Anthony
American basketball player

Téa Leoni
American actress and film producer

Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter
Jordan Peele
American actor, comedian and filmmaker (born 1979)
Mark Ronson
British and American record producer (born 1975)

Fiona Apple
American musician (born 1977)

Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the crime drama The Closer (2005–2012), for which she won a Golden Globe in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010. She also starred in the 1992 TV film Miss Rose White, which won an Emmy Award. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the 1995 film Something to Talk About. Sedgwick's other film credits include Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Cameron Crowe's Singles (1992). She also had a recurring role as Chief Madeline Wuntch on the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Stephen Sondheim
American composer and lyricist (1930–2021)

Charles Evans Hughes
American jurist; Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941 (1862–1948)

Anne Revere
American actress (1903-1990)
Henry Winkler
American actor

Sara Teasdale
American writer and poet (1884–1933)

Howard Stern
American radio and television personality (born 1954)
Lily Rabe
American actress (born 1982)
César Pelli
Argentine-American architect (1926–2019)

Pamela Adlon
Pamela Adlon is an American actress, writer, and director. She is known for voicing Bobby Hill in the animated comedy series King of the Hill, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award. She also voiced Baloo in Jungle Cubs (1996–1998), the title role in the Pajama Sam video game series (1996–2001), Lucky in 101 Dalmatians: The Series (1997–1998), Margaret "Moose" Pearson in Pepper Ann (1997–2001), Ashley Spinelli in Recess (1997–2001), Otto Osworth in Time Squad (2001–2003), Vidia in the Tinker Bell franchise and Brigette Murphy in Milo Murphy's Law (2016–2019), among numerous others.

Regis Philbin
American television personality (1931–2020)
Avril Haines
7th Director of National Intelligence
Leopold Auer
Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (1845–1930)
Nathanael West
American writer and screenwriter (1903–1940)

Zero Mostel
American actor (1915-1977)

Héctor Elizondo
American actor

Bob Balaban
American actor, director and producer
John Perry Barlow
American poet and essayist (1947–2018)

Martha Plimpton
Martha Plimpton is an American actress. She started her career as a teen actress in film before transitioning to adult roles on stage and screen. She has received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for three Tony Awards. Her feature-film debut was a supporting role in the political thriller Rollover (1981), and she rose to prominence in the adventure film The Goonies (1985). She later took roles in The Mosquito Coast (1986), Shy People (1987), Running on Empty (1988), Parenthood (1989), Samantha (1991), Beautiful Girls (1996), Small Town Murder Songs (2011), Frozen 2 (2019), and Mass (2021). She is a member of the Carradine family.

Bram Cohen
American programmer, creator of BitTorrent protocol
Larry Storch
American actor (1923–2022)
Lily Pons
American opera singer and actress (1898-1976)
Jennifer Rush
American pop singer
Edward Lasker
German-American chess player (1885-1981)
David Karp
American web developer and entrepreneur
Ezra Koenig
American rock musician
Robert Evans
American film producer (1930–2019)
Tovah Feldshuh
American actress
Gavin Creel
American actor and singer (1976–2024)
Isidor Straus
retailing magnate victim of the Titanic sinking (1845–1912)
Peter Yarrow
American singer and songwriter (1938–2025)
Catherine Burns
American actress and writer (1945-2019)