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bell hooks
American author and activist (1952–2021)

Tom Lantos
U.S. Representative from California (1981–2008)

Theodore Roszak
American social historian, social critic, writer (1933–2011)
Geoffrey Marcy
American astronomer
S. I. Hayakawa
Canadian-American academic and politician (1906–1992)
Mike Thompson
U.S. Representative from California
Bas van Fraassen
American philosopher
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
British writer
Erik Larson
American author and journalist
Théophile Obenga
Congolese academic and politician
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Vietnamese-US American post-colonial difference theorist, composer and filmmaker
Jozo Tomasevich
Croatian American historian (1908-1994)
Gerta Keller
American geologist and paleontologist
Wright Morris
American photographer and novelist (1910-1998)
Sally Miller Gearhart
American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist (1931–2021)

Arthur Asa Berger
American academic
Mel Stewart
actor, director, musician (1929-2002)
August Coppola
American academic, author, film executive, and advocate for the arts
Vartan Gregorian
American academic administrator
Roger Woodward
Australian classical pianist (born 1942)
Kim Addonizio
American poet, novelist
Harry D. Thiers
American mycologist (1919-2000)
Blanche Thebom
American opera singer (1915–2010)
Robert Bechtle
American painter (1932–2020)
Leonard Compagno
American shark ichthyologist (1943–2024)
Carleton Washburne
American superintendent of schools (1889-1968)

John Handy
American jazz musician
Sheldon Axler
American mathematician
Mariel Vázquez
Mexican mathematical biologist
Joseph McBride
American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator
Opal Palmer Adisa
American poet and academic (born 1954)
Frances Mayes
American university professor and writer
Rabab Abdulhadi
Palestinian-American professor, director of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (born 1955)
Jules Irving
American actor (1925-1979)
David Hoggan
American historian and Holocaust denier (1923–1988)
Saddeka Arebi
Anthropologist, author
Elana Dykewomon
American writer (1949–2022)

Bill Nichols
American historian

Roger Nixon
American composer (1921–2009)

Laszlo Varga
cellist, conductor, music pedagogue
Mark Harris
author (1922-2007)
Herbert Blau
American director and theoretician of performance (1926–2013)

John Gutmann
American photographer and painter (1905-1998)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
American novelist, short story writer, educator (1909–1971)
Patricia Locke
Native American educator and activist (1928-2001)
Ron Silliman
American poet
Carol Ruth Silver
Freedom Rider, member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, activist and attorney

Wayne Peterson
American composer (1927-2021)

Gilbert Herdt
American anthropologist (born 1949)
Gail Tsukiyama
American writer

Stacy Doris
poet who wrote in English and French
John Collier Jr.
American anthropologist and photographer (1913-1992)
Kent Bach
American philosopher
Dean H. Kenyon
American intelligence design advocate
H. Douglas Brown
American linguist
Nick Sousanis
American art critic
Irving Saraf
American film director, film producer, cinematographer and film editor
Philippe Bourgois
American anthropologist
Yemi Elebuibon
Nigerian writer and linguist

Adele Gerard Lewis Grant
American botanist (1881-1969)