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John Updike
American novelist, poet (1932–2009)
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher

Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, and writer. He is best known for having hosted late-night talk shows, beginning with Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–2009) and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009–2010) on the NBC television network, and Conan (2010–2021) on the cable channel TBS. Before his hosting career, O'Brien was a writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1988 to 1991, and the Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1991 to 1993. He has hosted the podcast series Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend since 2018, and starred in the 2024 travel show Conan O'Brien Must Go on HBO Max.
William Randolph Hearst
American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)
John Reed
American journalist, poet, and communist activist

Walter Isaacson
American author, journalist and professor (born 1952)

Lawrence O'Donnell
American television presenter

B. J. Novak
American actor

Robert Benchley
American writer and actor (1889-1945)

Justin Hurwitz
American composer and screenwriter

Colin Jost
Colin Kelly Jost is an American comedian, writer, and actor. He has been a staff writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2005, and co-anchor of Weekend Update since 2014. He also served as one of the show's co-head writers from 2012 to 2015 and later came back as one of the show's head writers in 2017 until 2022 alongside Michael Che.

Carter Burwell
American film composer (born 1954)
William Gaddis
American novelist (1922–1998)
Earl Derr Biggers
American novelist and playwright (1884–1933)
Elliot Richardson
American lawyer and politician (1920-1999)
Francis Biddle
United States federal judge (1886-1968)
Cass Sunstein
American legal scholar, writer, blogger (b. 1954)

John P. Marquand
American writer (1893–1960)

David X. Cohen
American television writer (born 1966)

Robert E. Sherwood
American writer (1896–1955)
Richard Sears
American tennis player (1861-1943)

Dan Mintz
American actor, comedian and writer

Al Jean
American television writer and producer (born 1961)
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1933-2003)
Owen Wister
American writer (1860–1938)

Fred Gwynne
American actor and writer (1926–1993)

Nicholas Stoller
British-American filmmaker

Etan Cohen
Israeli–American filmmaker

Mike Reiss
American screenwriter
Richard Appel
American writer and producer (born 1963)

Greg Daniels
American writer, producer, and director

Michael Schur
American television producer and writer

Philip Dunne
American writer, producer, director (1908-1992)
Tom Werner
American television producer and businessman

Bill Oakley
American writer and producer

Lauren MacMullan
animation director

Chase Sui Wonders
American actress, director and screenwriter, model
Kevin Curran
television writer (1957–2016)

George Plimpton
American writer (1927–2003)
Henry N. Cobb
American architect (1926–2020)
James Murdoch
British media executive (born 1972)

Jeff Martin
American television producer and writer.

George Meyer
American producer and writer
Fuller Albright
endocrinologist (1900-1969)

Douglas C. Kenney
American writer, co-founder and editor of National Lampoon (1946-1980)

Andrew Weil
US physician and writer; alternative medicine advocate

Jon Vitti
American television and film writer

Geneva Robertson-Dworet
American screenwriter
Peter Ivers
American musician (1946-1983)
Ken Keeler
American television writer and producer
Curtis Guild
43rd Governor of Massachusetts (1860-1915)

Aaron Ehasz
American television writer and producer

Simon Rich
American humorist, novelist, and television writer
Herbert Eustis Winlock
American egyptologist, museum director (1884-1950)
Edward Streeter
American novelist and journalist (1891–1976)
Sterling E. Lanier
American writer (1927–2007)
John Berendt
American writer
William White Howells
American anthropologist (1908-2005)
George Howe
American architect and educator (1886–1955)
Ernest Thayer
American author and poet (1863–1940)