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Jerome Powell
Jerome Hayden "Jay" Powell is an American central banker and attorney who has been the 16th chair of the Federal Reserve since 2018. He was previously both a lawyer and investment banker in the private sector before entering public service.
Jonathan Safran Foer
American novelist (born 1977)
David Card
Canadian economist and university teacher (born 1956)
Michael Porter
American engineer and economist
Elena Kagan
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010
Manjul Bhargava
Indo-Canadian mathematician
Dean Cain
American actor (born 1966)
Joshua Angrist
Israeli-American economist
Norman Finkelstein
American political scientist (born 1953)
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
Michael Freedman
Mathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q
Henry van Dyke
American diplomat (1852–1933)
Martin Seligman
American psychologist and writer
Frank Stella
American painter and printmaker (1936–2024)
John George Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President of Dartmouth College
Dana Scott
American mathematician and computer scientist
Jerry Fodor
American philosopher (1935–2017)
Jacob Bekenstein
Mexican-Israeli physicist
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Dennis Sullivan
American mathematician
Hugh Everett III
US physicist and discoverer of the relative-state interpretation of quantum mechanics
Akshay Venkatesh
Australian number theorist
Lyman Spitzer
American astronomer (1914–1997)
Jodi Picoult
American author
Allen Newell
American cognitive scientist (1927–1992)
Booth Tarkington
American novelist (1869–1946)
Stephen Cole Kleene
American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist (1909–1994)
John Tate
American mathematician (1925-2019)
John Tukey
American mathematician (1915-2000)
Fei-Fei Li
American computer scientist
Joseph Nye
American political scientist
Alan Sokal
American physicist and mathematician
Raymond Smullyan
American mathematician (1919–2017)
Jared Polis
American politician
Gita Gopinath
Indian-American economist
Avi Wigderson
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
Paul Volcker
American economist (1927-2019)
Peter Maxwell Davies
English composer and conductor (1934-2016)
Lex Barker
American actor (1919–1973)
James Forrestal
United States Navy officer and civil servant, Undersecretary of the Navy (1892-1949)
Cornel West
American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953)
Michael Lewis
American writer
Joshua Logan
American stage and film director and writer (1908-1988)
Greg Mankiw
American economist
John Stossel
American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist
John Tuzo Wilson
Canadian geologist (1908–1993)
Robert H. Dicke
American astronomer (1916–1997)
Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Saudi royal and foreign minister (1940–2015)
Mark A. Milley
American military personnel (born 1958)
Edmund Wilson
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
Margaret Geller
American astronomer
W. S. Merwin
American poet (1927–2019)
Richard E. Bellman
American mathematician (1920–1984)
Richard E. Stearns
American computer scientist
Oliver Ellsworth
chief justice of the United States from 1796 to 1800
Henry Lee III
American politician, governor, and representative (1756–1818)
Mark Feuerstein
American actor
Jim Lee
Korean American comics artist, writer and publisher
Juan Martín Maldacena
Argentine physicist
Edward Livingston
American jurist and statesman (1764-1836)