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Gene Wilder
American actor (1933–2016)
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
George F. Kennan
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005)

Robert Bloch
American fiction writer (1917–1994)

William Rehnquist
chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005 (1924–2005)

Neale Donald Walsch
American writer
Timothy M. Dolan
American Catholic cardinal, Archibishop of New York (1950–)
Peter Straub
American novelist and poet (1943–2022)
Jerry Zucker
American director and producer
Chris Gardner
American businessman and motivational speaker
Jack Finney
American novelist and short story writer (1911–1995)
Tom Laughlin
American actor and political activist (1931-2013)

Dan Harmon
American screenwriter
Cordwainer Smith
American author (1913–1966)
Ronald Inglehart
American political scientist (1934–2021)
Stanley G. Weinbaum
American writer (1902-1935)
John Ridley
American writer and director
Jeremy Scahill
American journalist
George Tillman, Jr.
American film director
Ayad Akhtar
American actor and playwright
Joseph Anthony
American actor and director (1912-1993)
Abraham J. Twerski
American rabbi and psychiatrist (1930–2021)
Mildred Harnack
American-German literary historian, professor, translator; Resistance fighter and anti-Nazi activist, who was executed during WWII in Germany
Richard Schickel
American film scholar (1933–2017)
Fabian Bruskewitz
Catholic bishop

Dickey Chapelle
American photographer (1919–1965)
John Leonard Watson
American chess player (1951-)
Iceberg Slim
American writer and pimp (1918-1992)

James Tynion IV
American comic book writer

Steve de Shazer
American psychotherapist
Matt Koehl
American neo-Nazi politician and marine (1935-2014)
Rembert Weakland
American archbishop

Theodore Wharton
American film director (1875-1931)
Marguerite Henry
American writer

Mathilde Franziska Anneke
German feminist (1817–1884)
Donn F. Draeger
martial artist (1922–1982)
Lou Sullivan
American author and activist
Jack Ritchie
American writer (1922–1983)
Fritz Anneke
German-American political activist, Union Army Civil War colonel, journalist

Elizabeth Jordan
American journalist (1865–1947)
George L. Kelling
American criminologist (1935-2019)
Paul Samuel Reinsch
American diplomat (1869–1923)
Joseph McBride
American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator
Walter Wangerin, Jr.
American writer
Newton N. Minow
United States attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

Charles Soule
American comic book writer, novelist, musician, and attorney (1974-)
Daniel Hoan
American mayor and writer (1881-1961)
David D. Levine
American science fiction writer
Sylvia Fein
American painter (1919–2024)
Earl F. Ziemke
American historian

Marcus Raskin
American social critic (1934–2017)
Dan Davies
American actor, writer, producer (born 1965)

Bertell Ollman
American political scientist
Chase Osborn
American politician and publisher (1860-1949)
Horace Gregory
American poet (1898-1982)
Niels Mueller
American film director, producer and screenwriter
Elizabeth Gordon Fox
American nurse

Will Ryder
American film director
Henry Maier
American politician (1918-1994)

Jane Gallop
American academic