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Melanie McGuire
Melanie Lyn McGuire is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering her husband on April 28, 2004, in what media dubbed the "Suitcase Murder". She was sentenced to life in prison, on July 19, 2007, and is serving her sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey. She will not be eligible for parole until she is 101 years old.
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
James Gandolfini
American actor (1961–2013)
Selman Abraham Waksman
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
Sebastian Stan
Romanian-born American-raised actor
Paul Wesley
American actor (born 1982)
Roy Scheider
American actor (1932–2008)
Calista Flockhart
Calista Kay Flockhart is an American actress best known as the title character on Ally McBeal (1997–2002), for which she won a Golden Globe Award in 1998 and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series three times. She is also known for portraying Kitty Walker on Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011), and Cat Grant on Supergirl (2015–2021). In film, she is known for her performances in The Birdcage (1996), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), and Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000). Flockhart has been married to actor Harrison Ford since 2010.
Garret Hobart
vice president of the United States from 1897 to 1899
Kristin Davis
American actress (born 1965)
Jane Krakowski
American actress and singer, comedian
Junot Díaz
author
John DiMaggio
American actor
Asia Carrera
American pornographic actress
Amiri Baraka
African-American writer (1934–2014)
Wade Williams
American actor
Brandon Flynn
American actor
Mike Colter
American actor
David Stern
Commissioner of the National Basketball Association (1942–2020)
Joanna Angel
American pornographic actress and director
James Blish
American science fiction and fantasy author (1921–1975)
David Bryan
American keyboardist
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
George William Hill
American astronomer and mathematician (1838–1914)
Aaron Stanford
American actor (born 1976)
Holly Black
American children's fiction writer
Avery Brooks
American actor and director
Kim Min-seok
South Korean politician
Keir Dullea
American actor
Sheryl Lee Ralph
American actress and singer
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
American lawyer and politician (1817–1885)
Hasan Piker
Hasan Doğan Piker, known online by the name HasanAbi, is an American Twitch streamer, influencer, and left-wing political commentator. His content primarily consists of political and social commentary and media consumption. As of 2026, Piker's Twitch channel ranks among the platform's most-subscribed. Piker has been described as one of the biggest voices on the U.S. left. He began streaming on Twitch in March 2018, while working at The Young Turks (TYT).
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
American collaborate screenwriters
Larry James
Athletics competitor, 400 metres runner
Rudy Rucker
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher (born 1946)
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
South African politician (1937-2009)
Stanton T. Friedman
American ufologist (1934–2019)
Lester Russell Brown
American environmental analyst
Stanley Norman Cohen
American geneticist
David Rittenhouse
American astronomer (*1732 – †1796)
Ramy Youssef
American stand-up comedian
Janet Evanovich
American novelist
Tom Pelphrey
Thomas Joseph Pelphrey is an American actor. He is known for playing the roles of Jonathan Randall on the CBS television series Guiding Light, Mick Dante on As the World Turns, Kurt Bunker on Banshee, Ward Meachum on Iron Fist, Ben Davis on Ozark, Perry Abbott on Outer Range, Don Crowder on Love & Death, Robbie Prendergrast on Task, Joe Mankiewicz in David Fincher's film Mank, and Jason Derek Brown in the true crime film American Murderer. For Ozark, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
James Tupper
Canadian actor
Terry Hart
American astronaut
Mario Runco, Jr.
American astronaut
Robert Pinsky
American poet, editor, literary critic, academic (born 1940)
Jonathan Carroll
American fiction writer
Cathy Young
Russian-American writer
Arkady Martine
American science fiction author and historian (born 1985)
Robert Caro
American journalist and author
Natalie Morales
American journalist
Jessica Valenti
US feminist author and blogger
Nel Noddings
American philosopher (1929–2022)
Alexander Berzin
American scholar of Tibetan Buddhism (born 1944)
Molly Price
American actress
Kurt Sutter
American television director
Joyce Kilmer
American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier (1886–1918)
Robert J. Cenker
American astronaut
Jerome Kagan
American psychologist (1929–2021)