Founded in 1961.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Basketball |
16-Apr-1947 |
|
NBA records for most minutes, most points |
| Peter Agre |
Biologist |
30-Jan-1949 |
|
Water channels of cell membranes |
| Edward Albee |
Playwright |
12-Mar-1928 |
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Stephen E. Ambrose |
Author |
10-Jan-1936 |
13-Oct-2002 |
Band of Brothers |
| Julie Andrews |
Singer |
1-Oct-1935 |
|
Mary Poppins |
| Maya Angelou |
Poet |
4-Apr-1928 |
28-May-2014 |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Philip Anschutz |
Business |
28-Dec-1939 |
|
Qwest billionaire |
| Roger Bannister |
Track and Field |
23-Mar-1929 |
|
First to run a four-minute mile |
| Mohamed El Baradei |
Government |
17-Jun-1942 |
|
UN International Atomic Energy Agency |
| Ehud Barak |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1942 |
|
Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001 |
| Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
|
Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
| Yogi Berra |
Baseball |
12-May-1925 |
22-Sep-2015 |
New York Yankee malapropist |
| Jeff Bezos |
Business |
12-Jan-1964 |
|
Founder of Amazon |
| Benazir Bhutto |
Head of State |
21-Jun-1953 |
27-Dec-2007 |
Former prime minister of Pakistan |
| Herbert W. Boyer |
Biologist |
10-Jul-1936 |
|
Recombinant DNA, first synthetic insulin |
| Sergey Brin |
Business |
21-Aug-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| Willie Brown |
Politician |
20-Mar-1934 |
|
Mayor of San Francisco, 1997-2004 |
| George H.W. Bush |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1924 |
|
41st US President, 1989-93 |
| James Cameron |
Film Director |
16-Aug-1954 |
|
Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar |
| Benjamin S. Carson |
Doctor |
18-Sep-1951 |
|
Pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins |
| Jimmy Carter |
Head of State |
1-Oct-1924 |
|
39th US President, 1977-81 |
| Steve Case |
Business |
21-Aug-1958 |
|
CEO of AOL, 1991-2001 |
| Johnny Cash |
Country Musician |
26-Feb-1932 |
12-Sep-2003 |
The Man in Black |
| Francis Collins |
Scientist |
14-Apr-1950 |
|
Human Genome Project |
| Denton Cooley |
Doctor |
22-Aug-1920 |
|
Pioneering heart surgeon |
| Francis Ford Coppola |
Film Director |
7-Apr-1939 |
|
The Godfather |
| Michael Crichton |
Novelist |
23-Oct-1942 |
4-Nov-2008 |
Jurassic Park |
| Sheryl Crow |
Singer |
11-Feb-1962 |
|
All I Wanna Do |
| Olivia de Havilland |
Actor |
1-Jul-1916 |
|
Gone With the Wind |
| Joan Didion |
Author |
5-Dec-1934 |
|
Slouching Toward Bethlehem |
| Sam Donaldson |
Journalist |
11-Mar-1934 |
|
ABC newscaster, sheep rancher |
| Rita Dove |
Poet |
28-Aug-1952 |
|
7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95 |
| Michael Eisner |
Business |
7-Mar-1942 |
|
CEO of Disney, 1984-2005 |
| Gertrude B. Elion |
Scientist |
23-Jan-1918 |
21-Feb-1999 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS |
| Larry Ellison |
Business |
17-Aug-1944 |
|
Founder of Oracle |
| Julius Erving |
Basketball |
22-Feb-1950 |
|
Forward, Philadelphia 76ers |
| Shelby Foote |
Author |
17-Nov-1916 |
27-Jun-2005 |
Shiloh |
| Milton Friedman |
Economist |
31-Jul-1912 |
16-Nov-2006 |
1976 Nobel Prize for Economics |
| Carlos Fuentes |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1928 |
15-May-2012 |
La muerte de Artemio Cruz |
| Bill Gates |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
| Frank Gehry |
Architect |
28-Feb-1929 |
|
Postmodern architect |
| Rudy Giuliani |
Politician |
28-May-1944 |
|
Mayor of New York City, 1994-2001 |
| Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Whoopi Goldberg |
Actor |
13-Nov-1955 |
|
Sister Act |
| Maurice Goldhaber |
Physicist |
18-Apr-1911 |
11-May-2011 |
Neutrons |
| Alberto Gonzales |
Government |
4-Aug-1955 |
|
US Attorney General, 2005-07 |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Historian |
4-Jan-1943 |
|
Team of Rivals |
| Mikhail Gorbachev |
Head of State |
2-Mar-1931 |
|
Final leader of the Soviet Union |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
| John Grisham |
Novelist |
8-Feb-1955 |
|
The Firm |
| David Halberstam |
Journalist |
10-Apr-1934 |
23-Apr-2007 |
The Powers That Be |
| Dorothy Hamill |
Figure Skating |
26-Jul-1956 |
|
Olympic figure skater, gold medal 1976 |
| Scott Hamilton |
Figure Skating |
28-Aug-1958 |
|
Olympic ice skater |
| Carlos Slim Helu |
Business |
28-Jan-1940 |
|
World's richest man, 2010 |
| Edmund Hillary |
Explorer |
20-Jul-1919 |
11-Jan-2008 |
First to summit Mt. Everest |
| David Ho |
Doctor |
3-Nov-1952 |
|
AIDS researcher |
| Susan Hockfield |
Educator |
24-Mar-1951 |
|
President of MIT |
| Ron Howard |
Actor |
1-Mar-1954 |
|
Richie Cunningham on Happy Days |
| John Hume |
Politician |
18-Jan-1937 |
|
Northern Ireland pol, Nobel recipient |
| Jeremy Irons |
Actor |
19-Sep-1948 |
|
Dead Ringers |
| John Irving |
Novelist |
2-Mar-1942 |
|
The World According to Garp |
| Donald Johanson |
Anthropologist |
28-Jun-1943 |
|
Discovered "Lucy" fossils |
| Philip Johnson |
Architect |
8-Jul-1906 |
25-Jan-2005 |
The Glass House |
| Chuck Jones |
Cartoonist |
21-Sep-1912 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Directed Bugs Bunny cartoons |
| James Earl Jones |
Actor |
17-Jan-1931 |
|
Voice of Darth Vader and CNN |
| Quincy Jones |
Music Producer |
14-Mar-1933 |
|
Musician, Composer, Producer |
| Hamid Karzai |
Head of State |
24-Dec-1957 |
|
President of Afghanistan |
| Anthony Kennedy |
Judge |
23-Jul-1936 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Jeong H. Kim |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
President of Bell Laboratories |
| James Kimsey |
Business |
1939 |
|
AOL's founding CEO |
| B. B. King |
Musician |
16-Sep-1925 |
14-May-2015 |
King of the Blues |
| Coretta Scott King |
Activist |
27-Apr-1927 |
30-Jan-2006 |
Widow of Dr. Martin Luther King |
| Larry King |
Talk Show Host |
19-Nov-1933 |
|
Larry King Live |
| Charles Kuralt |
TV Personality |
10-Sep-1934 |
4-Jul-1997 |
On the Road |
| Robert B. Laughlin |
Physicist |
1-Nov-1950 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
| John Lewis |
Politician |
21-Feb-1940 |
|
Congressman, Georgia 5th |
| Maya Lin |
Artist |
5-Oct-1959 |
|
Designed Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| Raymond Loewy |
Designer |
5-Nov-1893 |
14-Jul-1986 |
Father of industrial design |
| George Lucas |
Film Director |
14-May-1944 |
|
Creator of Star Wars |
| John D. MacArthur |
Philanthropist |
6-Mar-1897 |
6-Jan-1978 |
Philanthropist, MacArthur Foundation |
| Norman Mailer |
Author |
31-Jan-1923 |
10-Nov-2007 |
Armies of the Night |
| Wynton Marsalis |
Jazz Musician |
18-Oct-1961 |
|
Trumpeter |
| Ernst Mayr |
Biologist |
5-Jul-1904 |
3-Feb-2005 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| Willie Mays |
Baseball |
6-May-1931 |
|
Baseball Hall of Famer |
| Craig McCaw |
Business |
11-Aug-1949 |
|
Billionaire, Nextel |
| Frank McCourt |
Author |
19-Aug-1930 |
19-Jul-2009 |
Angela's Ashes |
| David McCullough |
Historian |
7-Jul-1933 |
|
The American Experience |
| James A. Michener |
Novelist |
3-Feb-1907 |
16-Oct-1997 |
South Pacific |
| Norm Mineta |
Politician |
12-Nov-1931 |
|
Congressman from California, 1975-95 |
| Marvin Minsky |
Scientist |
9-Aug-1927 |
|
Father of Artificial Intelligence |
| George J. Mitchell |
Politician |
20-Aug-1933 |
|
US Senator from Maine, 1980-95 |
| N. Scott Momaday |
Novelist |
27-Feb-1934 |
|
House Made of Dawn |
| Story Musgrave |
Astronaut |
19-Aug-1935 |
|
Spent 1281 hours in space |
| Ralph Nader |
Activist |
27-Feb-1934 |
|
Unsafe at Any Speed |
| Paul Nitze |
Diplomat |
16-Jan-1907 |
19-Oct-2004 |
US cold warrior |
| Antonia C. Novello |
Doctor |
23-Aug-1944 |
|
US Surgeon General, 1990-93 |
| Trevor Nunn |
Theater Director |
14-Jan-1940 |
|
Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968-86 |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
Author |
16-Jun-1938 |
|
Author of over 40 novels |
| Pierre M. Omidyar |
Business |
21-Jun-1967 |
|
Founder of eBay |
| Larry Page |
Business |
26-Mar-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| Roy H. Park |
Philanthropist |
15-Sep-1910 |
25-Oct-1993 |
Media mogul, Park Foundation |
| Rosa Parks |
Activist |
4-Feb-1913 |
24-Oct-2005 |
Wouldn't sit in the back of the bus |
| Linus Pauling |
Chemist |
28-Feb-1901 |
19-Aug-1994 |
Scientist and peacenik |
| Shimon Peres |
Head of State |
16-Aug-1923 |
|
President of Israel |
| Hy Peskin |
Photographer |
5-Nov-1915 |
2-Jun-2005 |
Sports photojournalist |
| William D. Phillips |
Physicist |
5-Nov-1948 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
| Colin Powell |
Government |
5-Apr-1937 |
|
US Secretary of State, 2001-05 |
| Dan Rather |
Journalist |
31-Oct-1931 |
|
Former CBS Anchorman |
| Catherine B. Reynolds |
Philanthropist |
c. 1957 |
|
Prominent benefactor |
| Sally Ride |
Astronaut |
26-May-1951 |
23-Jul-2012 |
First American woman in space |
| Sonny Rollins |
Jazz Musician |
7-Sep-1930 |
|
Tenor sax master |
| David M. Rubenstein |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Director of the Carlyle Group |
| Jonas Salk |
Scientist |
28-Oct-1914 |
23-Jun-1995 |
Discoverer of the first polio vaccine |
| Robert Schuller |
Religion |
16-Sep-1926 |
2-Apr-2015 |
World's most upbeat televangelist |
| Norman Schwarzkopf |
Military |
22-Aug-1934 |
27-Dec-2012 |
Leader in Persian Gulf War |
| Charles Simonyi |
Computer Programmer |
10-Sep-1948 |
|
Hungarian notation |
| Frederick W. Smith |
Business |
11-Aug-1944 |
|
Founder and CEO of Federal Express |
| Stephen Sondheim |
Composer |
22-Mar-1930 |
|
West Side Story |
| Martha Stewart |
Business |
3-Aug-1941 |
|
Professional housekeeper, insider trader |
| James Stockdale |
Military |
23-Dec-1923 |
5-Jul-2005 |
H. Ross Perot's would-be Vice President |
| Robert S. Strauss |
Diplomat |
19-Oct-1918 |
19-Mar-2014 |
US Ambassador to Russia, 1991-92 |
| Amy Tan |
Author |
19-Feb-1952 |
|
The Joy Luck Club |
| Julie Taymor |
Film Director |
15-Dec-1952 |
|
Across the Universe |
| Edward Teller |
Physicist |
15-Jan-1908 |
9-Sep-2003 |
Father of the Hydrogen Bomb |
| Twyla Tharp |
Dancer |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Choreographer |
| Desmond Tutu |
Religion |
7-Oct-1931 |
|
Archbishop of Cape Town |
| John Updike |
Novelist |
18-Mar-1932 |
27-Jan-2009 |
Rabbit, Run |
| Gore Vidal |
Author |
3-Oct-1925 |
31-Jul-2012 |
Visit to a Small Planet |
| Lech Walesa |
Head of State |
29-Sep-1943 |
|
Polish labor leader, president |
| Herschel Walker |
Football |
3-Mar-1962 |
|
NFL Running back, 1986-97 |
| Mike Wallace |
Journalist |
9-May-1918 |
7-Apr-2012 |
Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent |
| James Watson |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1928 |
|
Co-Discoverer of DNA |
| Andrew Weil |
Author |
8-Jun-1942 |
|
New age ethnopharmacologist |
| Sanford I. Weill |
Business |
16-Mar-1933 |
|
CEO of Citigroup, 1998-2003 |
| Ed Whitacre, Jr. |
Business |
4-Nov-1941 |
|
Chairman and CEO of General Motors, 2009-10 |
| Elie Wiesel |
Activist |
30-Sep-1928 |
|
Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist |
| Lenny Wilkens |
Basketball |
28-Oct-1937 |
|
Winningest coach in NBA history |
| Oprah Winfrey |
Talk Show Host |
29-Jan-1954 |
|
The Oprah Winfrey Show |
| Tom Wolfe |
Author |
2-Mar-1931 |
|
Bonfire of the Vanities |
| John Wooden |
Basketball |
14-Oct-1910 |
4-Jun-2010 |
Winningest-ever college basketball coach |
| Bob Woodward |
Journalist |
26-Mar-1943 |
|
Broke the Watergate story |
| Chuck Yeager |
Aviator |
13-Feb-1923 |
|
Test pilot, first to break speed of sound |
| Robert Zemeckis |
Film Director |
14-May-1952 |
|
Back To The Future |
| Ahmed H. Zewail |
Chemist |
26-Feb-1946 |
|
Femtochemistry |