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Woodrow Wilson
president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (1856–1924)
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
Michelle Obama
lawyer and former First Lady of the United States (2009-2017)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
Dani Rodrik
Turkish economist and publicist (born 1957)
Eugene O'Neill
American playwright (1888–1953)
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
Stanisław Lem
Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
John Bardeen
American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)
Donald Rumsfeld
American politician and diplomat (1932–2021)
Arthur Holly Compton
American physicist (1892–1962)
Edward Said
Palestinian-American professor (1935–2003)
Syngman Rhee
President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
Clinton Davisson
American physicist (1881-1958)
John Rawls
American political philosopher (1921–2002)
Aaron Burr
vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, lived (1756–1836)
David Duchovny
American actor and writer
Maria Ressa
Filipino journalist
Brooke Shields
American actress
Frank Wilczek
American theoretical physicist
Robert Hofstadter
American physicist and Nobel laureate (1915-1990)
Wentworth Miller
American and British actor
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
Gary Becker
American economist (1930-2014)
Thornton Wilder
American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
Jim Peebles
Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist (1926–2022)
George F. Kennan
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005)
Edwin McMillan
American physicist (1907-1991)
Sonia Sotomayor
US Supreme Court justice since 2009
Richard Smalley
American chemist (1943–2005)
Robert Nozick
American political philosopher (1938–2002)
Adlai Stevenson II
American politician and diplomat (1900–1965); 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 (1900–1965)
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
Pete Hegseth
Peter Brian Hegseth is an American government official and former television personality who has served since 2025 as the 29th United States secretary of defense.
John Foster Dulles
United States Secretary of State (1888-1959)
Robert Mueller
Robert Swan Mueller III was an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.
Alonzo Church
American mathematician and logician (1903–1995)
Terence Tao
Australian-American mathematician
George M. Dallas
vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (1792–1864)
James Baker
American lawyer and statesman (born 1930)
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Peruvian politician and economist; Prime Minister (2005–06), President (2016–18)
Harlow Shapley
American astronomer (1885-1972)
Oliver Hart
British-born American economist
George Shultz
American politician (1920–2021)
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer (1877–1957)
Michael E. Brown
American planetary astronomer
Meg Whitman
American business executive
Mary E. Brunkow
American molecular biologist and immunologist
Michael Spence
American economist (born 1943)
Allen W. Dulles
first civilian and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
James Heckman
American economist
John Milnor
American mathematician
Kim Kyu-sik
Korean politician and academic (1881-1950)
Lee Iacocca
American businessman (1924–2019)
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist