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Physicist who reshaped our picture of space, time, and light.

Chemist who fermented acetone for the war — and became Israel’s first president.

Writer and witness who insisted the world remember.

Songwriter who gave America some of its most durable popular music.

Physicist who led Los Alamos and then argued for a grown-up nuclear policy.

The Cleveland teenagers who created Superman.

Physician who made an injectable polio vaccine — and refused to patent it.

Physician who discovered the ABO blood groups and made transfusion safe.

Physicist who imagined the nuclear chain reaction — and then tried to govern it.

Physicist who explained nuclear fission and refused to build a bomb.

The first Jewish justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and a craftsman of privacy law.

Painter who floated violinists, lovers, and shtetl memory through modern color.

Lawyer who coined the word genocide and drafted a convention against it.

Physical chemist whose X-ray images made the double helix visible.

The Mattel co-founder who put Barbie into the world.

Writer and editor who helped turn superheroes into a modern American mythology.

American filmmaker (born 1961)

American screenwriter and producer (1927–2008)

Sanitary engineer who helped make municipal water chlorination standard.

American politician (1910-1999)

Intelligence scholar who ran a Pentagon shop in the run-up to the Iraq War.

Crystallographer who mapped the ribosome — the cell’s protein factory.

American singer

Washington organizer behind a run of District ballot wins.

Singer with a theatrical roar who took American Idol to the charts and the Queen catalog on the road.

Product executive who became the public face of Instagram.

Saturday Night Live comic who built a film company out of a goofy, loyal American voice.

California senator and former House Intelligence chair, once a federal prosecutor.

Hungarian-American film producer (1873–1976)

American actor

Polish film director and screenwriter

American film producer

Swiss-American lyricist (1891–1945)

EC Comics artist who edited Mad for nearly three decades.

Mad's Fold-in inventor and its longest-running contributor.

French musical theatre lyricist and librettist

American actor, filmmaker (1934–2023)

Princeton macroeconomist who served as Fed vice chair and a Clinton economic adviser.

Harvard law professor who made the unpopular client a public art form.

Long-serving Federal Reserve chair whose name became shorthand for the modern central bank.

Long Beach professor-turned-lawmaker who spent a decade in the House.

American composer (born 1949)

Veterinarian who became Pfizer's chairman and CEO.

American writer (1908–1985)

American film producer and screenwriter (1930–2024)

Virologist who made the oral polio vaccine the world could swallow.

Cuban-born lawyer who led Homeland Security from 2021 to 2025.

American composer (1910–1991)

British film director (1893–1956)

Franco-Polish musician (1897-1986)

Hungarian art director (1906-1993)

New York representative who became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

British screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet (1911-1985)

American composer (1900-1970)

American screenwriter (born 1936)

American actress

Founding director of the Congressional Budget Office and later a Fed vice chair.

American sculptor and filmmaker (1907–1999)

American screenwriter (1927–2019)

Political theorist who gave Penn its longest presidency, then served in Berlin.

American film producer and business executive (born 1958)

Stand-up and actress who turned a Comedy Central hour into a writer’s room of her own.

Ukrainian-American filmmaker (1902–1974)

German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)

Writer who treated pornography as a political system, not entertainment.

NBC’s chief foreign-affairs correspondent and a Washington institution.

English and American actor (born 1983)

Documentary filmmaker who puts Jewish history on American television.

News executive who led NBC News and MSNBC through several turbulent cycles.

American film producer

Executive who built Amazon Web Services and then succeeded Jeff Bezos as CEO.

Michigan congressman, union organizer, and heir to a family of Detroit lawmakers.

CDC physician who served as principal deputy director and assistant surgeon general.

Biotech entrepreneur who cofounded 23andMe and put a spit tube in the consumer’s hand.

French actress (1932–2024)

Chef and traveler who turned kitchen truth and world appetite into a public language.

Career diplomat who served as the 71st U.S. secretary of state.

Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator and film score composer (b. 1962)

Chief legal correspondent and host of The Beat, an attorney on weeknight television.

Art historian who helped build the feminist art world in Los Angeles.

screenwriter, television producer, television writer (1914-1971)

American actor, writer and producer

Cartoonist of Maus, the book that made a Holocaust story into literature and comics at once.

Home Depot cofounder who later built an Atlanta sports empire with the same retailer’s energy.

Economist who chaired the Federal Reserve and later served as ambassador to West Germany.

Swiss film producer

American lyricist and Hollywood film producer (1894-1973)

Canadian-American director (1923-2016)

American playwright, theatre director and screenwriter (1917–2011)

Playwright of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.

American producer and director (1922–2010)

The family name on the masthead of The New York Times across four publishers.

American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (1910-2004)

First woman to serve as U.S. director of national intelligence.

Novelist who built a popular philosophy out of two long books.

Educator who founded Paideia, a European institute for Jewish studies in Sweden.

American filmmaker and anthropologist

American singer and actress (born 1942)

American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer

American songwriter and musician

Physician who identified the hepatitis B virus and helped make a vaccine.

The young civilian who wrote women’s rights into Japan’s postwar constitution.

Congresswoman who made hats, volume, and women’s power a New York brand.

Princeton economist who led the Fed through the 2008 crisis and later shared a Nobel Prize.

American writer, director, and producer (1894–1964)

Commentator who cofounded The Daily Wire and built a daily show into a conservative franchise.

Maryland lawmaker who spent fifty-eight years in elected office without a loss.

screenwriter, producer, foley artist, and director of American films (1887-1956)

Microbiologist who invented the bifurcated needle that sped smallpox vaccination.

American dancer and choreographer (1901-1997)

Financier who ran America’s industrial mobilization in the First World War.

American composer and conductor (1911-1975)

Cofounder of Home Depot who taught America to wander a warehouse of possibility.

American businessman

French public intellectual who made philosophy a visible, traveling vocation.

Financier whose Ponzi scheme became the largest in recorded history.

Vermont’s senior senator and the longest-serving independent in congressional history.

American singer and actress (born 1945)

American librettist, songwriter, actress (1917–2006)

Writer whose Feminine Mystique named a quiet American unrest.

Editor and commentator who founded The Weekly Standard.

Comic who turned sidewalk ambush into a television form.

Austrian and American filmmaker (1906–2002)

Orthodox writer who argued that tradition and women’s dignity can share a table.

Songwriter who stretched American music into literature.

Media executive who remade Disney through Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Fox.

The writer and artist who created Batman — one long credited, one late.

NBCUniversal studio executive who rose to vice-chairman of the company.

Mathematician-turned-tycoon who rose in 1990s Russia and died in exile in 2013.

American cinematographer (1903–1980)

Manager-turned-studio chief who ran Paramount through a decade of outsized hits.

Illinois congressman from the North Shore who chairs the New Democrat Coalition.

San Fernando Valley congressman and CPA who has held a House seat since 1997.

Croatian film producer (1932–2019)

Organizer remembered as the mother of Pride.

Pulitzer-winning columnist at The New York Times and founding editor of SAPIR.

American film producer

Chairman and CEO of Comcast, the company his father founded.

Hawaii’s senior senator, a former lieutenant governor appointed after Daniel Inouye’s death.

Media reporter who hosted CNN’s Reliable Sources and wrote the industry’s first draft.

Polish composer (1902-1983)

American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright (1930-2020)

Macro trader who founded Caxton and became a major patron of Juilliard.

American laywright, author and film director

American pianist, composer, producer (1928–2023)

American actress (1925–2021)

American screenwriter and film producer (1914-1984)

Investor who made the proxy fight a permanent feature of American business.

The immigrant founder of Universal Pictures and an early studio system.

American actress (born 1952)

Russian-born essayist who writes about feminism, culture, and liberty.

Israeli actor (1935–2023)

Belgian filmmaker who turned ordinary time into cinema of the highest order.

American film producer (1947-2020)

American film director and producer (1924-2002)

Psychiatrist who became a Pulitzer-winning newspaper columnist.

American filmmaker and novelist

Economist who has led Brown University through a long, steady presidency.

Constitutional scholar who has led Princeton as its twentieth president.

New York’s senior senator and longtime leader of Senate Democrats.

Political journalist who moderated NBC’s Meet the Press and later launched a podcast.

French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer (born 1937)

French composer of musical theater

Hungarian-American actor and film director

The most beloved Stooge, a physical poet of nyuks, spins, and sudden grace.

American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist (1929-2004)

Showrunner who, with David Benioff, adapted A Song of Ice and Fire for HBO.

Argentine film director

Operator who ran PayPal and later became CEO of Verizon.

CNN anchor who hosts Inside Politics and co-anchors State of the Union.

Television executive who rose to the top creative job at Disney.

English musician and artist

American writer (1909–1993)

Psychologist who showed that human judgment is brilliantly flawed.

Mathematician who co-founded Akamai and died on Flight 11.

Activist investor who made Third Point’s letters required reading.

Goldman alumnus who founded Och-Ziff, a global alternative-asset firm.

American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian (1911–1987)

Director of intense, often unsettling pictures from Pi to The Wrestler.

American animation film director and film producer (1894-1979)

Founder of Barstool Sports who turned a Boston rag into a national media brand.

Talk-show host who took The Rubin Report from a web corner to a conservative franchise.

Novelist and screenwriter who, with D. B. Weiss, brought Westeros to Sunday night.

Providence mayor who represented Rhode Island in the House and later led a Jewish civil-rights group.

British teacher who spent a life explaining rural China to English readers.

Technology and business executive.

West Tennessee congressman and former U.S. attorney for the Western District.

Comcast’s longtime political strategist who later served as U.S. ambassador to Canada.

American playwright, filmmaker and author (born 1947)

American film director, screenwriter and producer

American film producer (1902–1965)

Media executive listed among contemporary figures in news and Hollywood-adjacent business.

American composer (1912-2004)

Co-founder of Carlyle and a civic philanthropist who now owns the Baltimore Orioles.

American public official in national-security and legal posts.

Baghdadi merchant who built a trading house from Bombay to China.

Computational scientist who founded D. E. Shaw and later returned to research.

Computer scientist who co-founded Two Sigma, a quant firm with a scientist’s habits.

Investment banker who became chief executive of Goldman Sachs.

NBA commissioner who turned a domestic league into a worldwide game.

Distressed-debt investor who built Appaloosa and bought the Carolina Panthers.

Parody specialist who helped make Airplane! and The Naked Gun.

Minnesota congressman and food-and-spirits executive from a Twin Cities district.

Lawyer and professor who built free legal aid for gender-nonconforming people.

South Florida congresswoman who chaired the Democratic National Committee.

Historian who took a Holocaust denier to court and won.

American film producer

American actress

French filmmaker and actress

San Francisco mayor who became California’s longest-serving woman in the Senate.

English lyricist

Career Federal Reserve economist who became the Board’s vice chair.

Hedge-fund founder who built Paloma and sat on the boards of many civic institutions.

Screenwriter, playwright, film director, studio executive (1905-1980)

Psychologist who traced adult power back to the nursery and asked both parents to raise the child.

Entertainment lawyer who became the first second gentleman of the United States.

Pentagon policy official during the early 2000s.

Internist and addiction specialist who became radio and television’s Dr. Drew.

Immunologist whose mRNA work made a new class of vaccines possible.

American actor (born 1937)

Facebook co-founder who later built the work app Asana.

Philadelphia mayor and Pennsylvania governor who also chaired the national Democratic Party.

American actor (1886-1966)

American film and television costumer (1897-1981)

Brazilian co-founder of Facebook, now a Singapore-based investor.

Journalist who edited Time and later took the magazine’s chair into a new corporate life.

Pair who wrote It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.

Physicist who pushed the hydrogen bomb from idea to device.

American filmmaker and producer

Inventor of polarizing film and instant photography.

Navy commander who represented Hampton Roads in Congress for two terms.

American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian (b. 1932)

American lawyer and writer (1911-1993)

The first woman to be dean of Harvard Law and the fourth woman on the Supreme Court.

American actor (1915–2014)

New York congressman who chaired House Foreign Affairs after sixteen terms.

Austrian-German actress (1897–1986)

Michigan senator and former CIA analyst who served three House terms first.

British-American actress (1932–2011)

Memoirist who made depression speak in the first person and gave a generation a public language.

Essayist who wrote feminism, rock, and freedom in the same key.

Mattel co-founder who turned design and a garage shop into Hot Wheels.

Foreign-policy lawyer who served three Republican presidents.

American actor (born 1938)

American composer and conductor (1922-2004)

Soap maker who printed a philosophy on every label.

Brooklyn congressman who helped write the Civil Rights Act and undo racial immigration quotas.

Italian painter (1921-2007)

Hungarian-British screenwriter, director and producer (1902–1988)

Jewish American composer and conductor (1911-1984)

British broadcaster who took Woman’s Hour and then joined Radio 4’s Today.

Anarchist partners who made free speech and prison into American literature.

Poet whose sonnet gave the Statue of Liberty its American voice.

Mathematician whose theorem ties symmetry to the conservation laws of physics.

Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter and film director (1924–2005)

Mathematician-geneticist who helped lead the Human Genome Project.

American screenwriter (born 1945)

Novelist and poet who put female desire on the bestseller list and refused to whisper about it.

Psychoanalyst who asked why people flee freedom and called the answer a human problem.

American writer (1937-2010)

Austrian actor and director (1885–1957)

Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)

Austrian American composer (1921-1999)

Hungarian Communist official who briefly led the country in the crisis year of 1956.

German philosopher of hope who read history as a future that had not yet arrived.

German-American actor and film director (1892–1947)

Austrian composer (1887-1964)

Beauty entrepreneur who built a global house from a kitchen-table cream.

Ethan Coen

Founder of the Drug Policy Alliance.

Physicist who showed how symmetry governs the quantum world.

Seth Rogen's writing partner and a quiet engine of modern comedy.

Playwright of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day.

Composer of Winter Wonderland, a standard that outlived him by decades.

Vienna-born justice who treated judicial restraint as a discipline.

Astronomer who turned his own firing into a founding gay-rights campaign.

American songwriter (1910–1969)

Sports better who modernized the Las Vegas sports book.

Legal scholar who wrote one of the first serious anatomies of the Nazi state.

German film composer (1906-1967)

Austrian film director (1907-1997)

American-British writer (born 1931)

Hedge-fund manager who later became a majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets.

Vanity Fair correspondent who wrote the Roger Ailes biography and The Apprentice screenplay.

Engineer who founded DuckDuckGo, the privacy-first search company.

American film and theatre director, playwright, screenwriter (1912-1999)

South African-born producer who ran MGM and co-founded Spyglass.

Anthropologist whose essays helped found feminist and queer studies.

Haifa-born bassist who co-founded KISS and turned a rock band into a worldwide brand.

American actor (1933–2016)

Soviet security official who directed the NKVD during the early Great Purge.

American comedian, actor, writer and singer (1896–1996)

American film director and producer (1899–1983)

Composer who let jazz into the concert hall without leaving Tin Pan Alley behind.

Tulsa banker and philanthropist who built BOK Financial into a major regional house.

American actor (1934–2021)

Investor and philanthropist who built Open Society from a trader’s fortune.

Psychologist who gave prejudice against gay people a name.

Founder of Men's Wearhouse and the voice of I guarantee it.

American composer, conductor, and oboist (1928–2023)

Austrian-born historian who built women’s history as a field, not a footnote.

Chemist who designed medicines by studying how cells work.

Writer who remade English prose and kept a Paris salon that remade modern art.

British-American-Israeli film director

Haitian industrialist and longtime leader of Haiti’s Jewish community.

Italian film director (1919–2006)

Trial lawyer who turned the courthouse steps into a stage for cases the culture wanted quiet.

Political journalist who became one of CNN’s senior analysts after CBS and U.S. News.

screenwriter, film producer (1942-2018)

Journalist who made second-wave feminism a national conversation.

Short-story writer who made Bronx voices into American literature.

Endocrinologist who helped create the oral contraceptive pill.

Bolshevik economist who nationalized banks and later ran Soviet finance.

Comintern envoy who helped the Chinese Communist Party find its first footing.

Old Bolshevik who chaired the Communist International in the Soviet Union’s first years.

American comedian (1890–1977)

German-American lyricist (1886-1941)

Israeli screenwriter, director, producer, and voice actor

Israeli-American media builder who brought Power Rangers to American kids.

American film producer and art collector (1898–1986)

American poet and lyricist (1921–2012)

School counselor who chairs the Beau Biden Foundation.

Austrian and German composer (1898–1962)

Montreal-born entrepreneur who became president of Shopify and a champion of independent merchants.

Filmmaker who treats taboo and play as the same canvas.

American composer of popular music (1905-1986)

Literary critic who treated reading as a contact sport with the dead.

British playwright (1930–2008)

American actor (born 1942)

Columbia Pictures cofounder who ran a major studio with a producer’s iron hand.

Publisher who co-owned National Periodical Publications, later DC.

Canadian film director (1928-2007)

American film studio executive (1881-1958)

Four brothers from a Polish-Jewish family who helped invent the Hollywood studio.

American actor

Cartoonist who founded Mad and taught America to laugh at itself.

Camera-shop owner who became San Francisco's pioneering gay supervisor.

Miramax co-founder who championed independent film, later disgraced.

American filmmaker (1922-2015)

Broker who helped keep the American Revolution solvent.

Organizer who moved from Freedom Summer to a lifetime of progressive campaigns.

American photographer (1913-2009)

French writer who made language itself a feminist instrument and cofounded a new university.

American film producer (1897-1979)

The Hassenfeld brothers’ textile remnants shop that became a toy empire.

Diplomat who shaped American statecraft and shared the Nobel Peace Prize.

American film director (1905–1988)

Mathematician-turned-investor who helped power Renaissance Technologies’ research engine.

Treasury secretary who financed the New Deal and the Second World War.

Settlement-house reformer and a founder of the NAACP.

Austrian-born banker who became a British financier of states and mines.

Kraków-born economist who revived Marx’s crisis theory from inside the Frankfurt School.

American journalist (1909-1950)

English journalist and lyricist (1925-2020)

Berlin-born philosopher whose books became a field manual for the student New Left.

American screenwriter (1897-1953)

Facial plastic surgeon and health-tech executive in Philadelphia.

The merchant who turned Starbucks into a third place between home and work.

Canadian film score composer (born 1946)

Radio’s most famous morning man, who turned shock into a long-form American interview.

American lyricist and composer (1907-2007)

American screenwriter (1920–1988)

Polish actress (1899-1980)

Ukrainian-Israeli businessman who co-founded PrivatBank.

Soviet novelist and war correspondent with a hundred titles to his name.

American film producer (1911-2006)

American lyricist (1896–1983)

Microbiologist who helped turn the hepatitis B discovery into a vaccine.

American screenwriter and producer (1920-2010)

MGM’s boy wonder producer who made the studio’s prestige years possible.

film producer (1916-1991)

Electrical engineer who cofounded Qualcomm and put a piece of San Diego into every pocket.

American writer (1913–1984)

Yiddish storyteller who carried a world of memory into English letters.

Israeli-American financier who steered Marvel from toys and comics toward a modern studio era.

English Zionist journalist who served as the World Zionist Organization’s general secretary.

Founder of Millennium, a multi-manager giant of modern hedge funds.

Polish-born journalist who became a rare foreign member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Slovak–Canadian filmmaker (1946–2022)

American actor (1907–1981)

Film executive who cofounded Columbia Pictures with his brother Harry.

Lawyer who led the NAACP Legal Defense Fund through the civil-rights cases after Brown.

Medal of Honor colonel who became a military analyst and investment manager.

The team that created Captain America and helped invent the visual language of the superhero.

American film executive (1892–1978)

Accountant-publisher who co-owned the company that became DC Comics.

Dallas nightclub owner who shot Lee Harvey Oswald on live television.

Nevada senator who won a House seat, then unseated an incumbent to reach the Senate.

Social worker who treated charity and labor peace as one civic craft.

New York senator who helped write mid-century civil-rights and foreign-affairs law.

Banker who financed American railroads and major Jewish institutions.

Marine officer turned Massachusetts congressman, elected to the House at thirty-two.

American actor (born 1980)

CNN’s lead Washington anchor, host of The Lead and co-host of State of the Union.

Austrian surgeon who became General Luo in China's wartime hospitals.

Actor who moved from Spider-Man to 127 Hours and a restless side career.

American film composer and conductor (1953-2015)

Maryland congressman, constitutional lawyer, and former state senator.

Czechoslovak director (1918–1979)

Chicago-area congresswoman who has held the lakefront 9th District since 1999.

South African-British actress

First woman to chair the Federal Reserve and later the first woman to lead the Treasury.

Real-estate investor who became a senior White House adviser and Middle East envoy.

Colorado governor and entrepreneur who became the first openly gay man elected to a U.S. governorship.

Canadian-American film director

Hollywood lyric team behind Silver Bells and a shelf of Oscar songs.

Communist leader who broke with Stalinism and later advised American labor on foreign policy.

director and filmmaker (born 1955)

Advocate and television personality who grew up in public as a transgender kid.

American actor and musician

Media executive who ran NBCUniversal and later held a top post at Paramount Skydance.

Trader who cofounded Susquehanna and became one of America’s most successful market-makers.

Television executive who ran NBCUniversal and later CNN Worldwide.

Financier whose crimes ended a career built on billionaire clients.

American film producer and media proprietor (born 1950)

Physician-epidemiologist who directed the CDC at the turn of the century.

Development economist who carried the classroom into the United Nations.

Lawyer-turned-legal analyst and bestselling writer on American trials.

American actress (born 1962)

CIA and Pentagon chief of staff who later analyzed security on television.

American actor (born 1978)

American composer of musical theater and popular music (1885-1945)

American composer; film score composer (1913-1983)

American choreographer and director (1918–1998)

American film composer (1929–2004)

Clown prince of American comedy and a tireless fundraiser.

Manhattan congressman and dean of New York’s House delegation.

Batman artist who helped create Robin and the Joker.

Observational comic who co-created the sitcom that made everyday nothing a national pastime.

American screenwriter and producer (1911–1962)

American music producer, journalist (1917–2008)

Half of the Airplane! trio who also directed the smash romance Ghost.

Polish film director

American actor

American film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures (1880–1958)

The third voice in Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker.

Former hedge-fund manager who turned stock talk into CNBC’s Mad Money.

Mathematician who proved that a hedge fund could be a research lab.

Entrepreneur and television host who ran a weekend small-business hour.

American screenwriter and lyricist (1897–1964)

Twentieth-century songwriter associated with Christmas music.

Impish comic who spent two seasons as a Stooge and a lifetime as a scene-stealer.

Hungarian film producer (1901-1991)

South African Communist leader, ANC strategist, and anti-apartheid commander.

American filmmakers

American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer (born 1932)

Literary scholar who put the NAACP’s work on a national stage.

Pediatrician who, with Rachel Schneerson, made a conjugate vaccine against Hib.

CNN morning anchor who also sits in for Anderson Cooper’s evening hour.

American actor (1913-1952)

Archie co-founder and a guardian of the Comics Code.

Television political reporter, among several public figures who share the name.

American actor (1907-1984)

Manager who made a historic fortune betting against the housing bubble.

English film and stage director (1926–2003)

Louisville congressman and newspaper editor who chaired the House Budget Committee.

Songwriter of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and a shelf of December standards.

Georgia’s senior U.S. senator, elected as a millennial after a career in investigative film.

Satirist who made a comedy desk the country’s most trusted nightly briefing.

American actor (born 1983)

Internet entrepreneur who cofounded HuffPost and BuzzFeed and helped invent the shareable web.

British film director

Entrepreneur who became CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.

American screenwriter

Television journalist who reported for CNN from posts around the world.

American actor

Intelligence analyst convicted of passing American secrets to Israel.

Uruguayan singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and actor

Austrian-American film director (1894-1969)

Israeli film director (born 1968)

Hedge-fund manager who built Perceptive Advisors around biotech.

British film director (1916–1994)

New York Times editor, the journalist Joseph Kahn among several public namesakes.

American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)

Russian-born mogul who cofounded 20th Century Fox and helped invent the Oscars.

American journalist and cinematographer (1889-1983)

actor (1896-1964)

New Jersey congressman and former White House speechwriter from a swing suburban seat.

Dateline NBC correspondent from a storied Hollywood writing family.

American filmmaker

Private-equity executive who helped lead Bain Capital through decades of dealmaking.

Writer-producer who turned messy adulthood into a comedy studio.

American actor

Philosopher who asked how gender is performed and remade the humanities around the question.

Psychologist who became the first woman to permanently lead an Ivy League university.

Novelist who told children and teenagers the truth about their own bodies and friendships.

Artist who set a table for history’s women and made collaboration a monumental form.

American actress, comedian and singer (1921-1965)

Family-court judge who became television’s longest-running bench and a household name.

The songwriter pair behind Let It Snow! and a run of Broadway and film standards.

American film director (1911–2008)

Investigator who turned corporate due diligence into a global industry.

British-Israeli comedy actor

American film and theatre director (born 1952)

American couple convicted of passing wartime secrets to the Soviet Union and executed in 1953.

American screenwriter (1909-2000)

Sears president who spent a fortune building schools across the South.

American actress

American composer and screenwriter

American actress and film director

Hedge-fund executive and television panelist who made markets a conversation.

German film director and cinematographer (1890-1969)

Greensboro lawyer who served North Carolina’s Piedmont in Congress from 2021 to 2025.

Broadcast journalist and author who became a breakout campaign correspondent.

UK motion picture production designer (1921-2016)

American film director, playwright, and screenwriter

Pediatrician who represents Washington’s 8th District, from Seattle suburbs to the Cascades.

American actor (1916–2020)

German composer (1900–1950)

Designer who founded Lane Bryant and made plus-size clothing a proper industry.

American harmonica player (1914-2001)

Writer-producer who turned everyday rudeness into two of television’s defining comedies.

Co-founder of Oracle who still sets the company's technical course.

The middle Stooge — a violinist from Philadelphia who made chaos a precise art.

Co-founder of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager.

American comedy writer and playwright (1928-2009)

Brooklyn-born interviewer who made a nighttime desk the world’s green room.

American screenwriter, novelist, essayist, playwright, LGBT-rights and AIDS activist (1935–2020)

Computer scientist who co-founded Google and later Alphabet with Sergey Brin.

New York developer who leased, then rebuilt, the World Trade Center site.

American actress (1924–2014)

Lithuanian-born British actor (1928-1973)

Economist who led Tufts and later Harvard through a careful, short presidency.

Soviet official who stood among Stalin’s closest lieutenants.

First Amendment scholar who led Michigan and then Columbia.

American actress

American actor (1911–1976)

American theatre director, actor and acting teacher (1901–1982)

American film editor

Long Island congressman and Army veteran who later became EPA administrator.

Irish film director

English actor (1905–1978)

American businessman remembered among retail entrepreneurs of the late twentieth century.

Frankfurt School sociologist who read popular culture as a document of power.

Investor who left Goldman to run Omega Advisors.

Revolutionary, theorist, and organizer of the Red Army, later exiled and assassinated.

Composer and conductor who brought the concert hall to the living room.

Physician who co-founded Regeneron and still runs it.

Russian-Israeli industrialist who built Novatek into a major natural-gas company.

Former Yukos executive who rebuilt a life in Israel as an investor and philanthropist.

Television executive who ran CBS through a long ratings prime, then left amid scandal.

Retailer who built The Limited, Victoria’s Secret, and a Columbus philanthropic map.

Author of Stone Butch Blues and a historian of gender outlaws.

Actress known for Popular, What I Like About You, and American Horror Story.

Harvard psychiatrist who treated drug policy as a medical subject.

American film producer

Businessman born in 1956, recorded here for a career in commerce and wealth.

Old Bolshevik and early Soviet deputy premier, later destroyed in the Great Purge.

Political commissar who carried the Party’s voice into the Red Army.

The Bavarian immigrant shop that put riveted denim into the world.

Russian-American film director (1895-1980)

Naval officer and commissioner who helped set America’s postwar nuclear course.

American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984)

Nurse who brought public health onto the stoops of the Lower East Side.

Civil-rights attorney known for high-profile harassment and abuse cases.

Longtime Goldman Sachs chief who rose from a Brooklyn commodities desk.

West Palm Beach mayor who returned to Congress for a South Florida district.

The MGM studio chief who helped invent the Hollywood system.

Irish documentarian

Co-founder and longtime publisher of the company that became Archie Comics.

American screenwriter and producer (born 1948)

Austrian economist who made the case for markets as human action.

German-born actress (1910–2014)

American actress, singer (1942-1999)

American actress, singer and filmmaker (born 1977)

Berlin physician who built the first modern science of sexual diversity.

Comic who rebuilt a career by talking, at length, in a garage.

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Co-founder and first CEO of Netflix.

German-French filmmaker (1927–2025)

Theater magnate who created Loew’s chain and the studio that became MGM.

Actress who made glamour look like both armor and invitation.

French businessman, film director, screenwriter and film producer (born 1938)

Entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com, bought the Mavericks, and joined Shark Tank.

Political journalist who wrote Game Change and later built the 2WAY platform.

Lawyer-turned-broadcaster with one of talk radio’s largest audiences.

Programmer who co-founded Facebook and still runs its parent, Meta Platforms.

American actress (born 1965)

Computer scientist who led Cornell after a run as Michigan's provost.

American actor (1919–1996)

American actor (1928–2017)

American film director (1914–1990)

American composer and conductor (1944-2012)

Longtime co-anchor of NBC’s Today whose career ended in a workplace scandal.

Co-creator of Robot Chicken with Seth Green.

Quiet third founder of the company that became Archie Comics.

Publisher who helped invent the American comic book as an object.

Philosopher who directed the Frankfurt School and named the dark side of modern reason.

German film director (1902-1957)

Army officer and one-term congressman from Staten Island who later advised the Pentagon.

Austrian-born American music composer and conductor (1888–1971)

Soviet diplomat who pushed collective security before the war.

American film producer

Hungarian writer (1880-1974)

South African-born member of a prominent American political family.

American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author (1917–2007)

Israeli film director and producer (1929–2014)

Media executive who became chief executive of The New York Times Company.

Feminist writer and organizer of the late twentieth century.

Longtime D.C. Circuit judge who served as the 86th U.S. attorney general.

American film director and producer (1900–1987)

American film producer

Director who made explosions, steel, and sunlight into a house style.

Colorado’s senior senator, a lawyer who led Denver’s public schools first.

Builder of the Bloomberg terminal who served three terms as New York's mayor.

Hungarian-American director (1886–1962)

Producer and studio boss who has run New Line, DreamWorks, MGM, and now Warner Bros.

Founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, built from a dorm-room PC shop.

New York Times Company executive, a publisher-side Golden in a large public record of Michaels.

American film choreographer (1915–2007)

Dutch-American executive who ran Sony Pictures and later chaired Snap and Warner Music.

American songwriter, composer and producer of popular music (1941–2015)

Theater entrepreneur who founded the company that became National Amusements.

Philadelphia entrepreneur who built Fanatics into the dominant digital sports-commerce company.

Young civil-rights workers murdered during Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

Ukrainian musician & composer (1894-1995)

Physician-scientist who ran Pfizer's research for fifteen years.

California congressman for a coastal district that includes Camp Pendleton.

American film producer

American director and comedian (1931–2014)

American theatre and film producer

American actress (born 1999)

Georgian-Israeli businessman who built interests from energy to new media and leads St. Petersburg’s Jewish Congress.

Ukrainian-born financier who cofounded Alfa-Group and later the investment house LetterOne.

Chicago economist who made monetarism a public argument.

Painter who raised fans, patterns, and craft to the scale of high art.

Bahraini-British designer who built a namesake women’s ready-to-wear line.

Lyricist who put English words to Stardust and a dozen other standards.

Major-league catcher and OSS spy, the brainiest man ever to crouch behind home plate.

Bowl-cut leader of the Three Stooges and the act’s stubborn straight man.

Canadian writer (1931–2001)

American activist and entertainer (1895-1985)

Mad caricaturist who spent fifty years spoofing movies and TV.

Painter-turned-partisan who helped write Tito’s Yugoslavia.

Philosopher of the Haskalah who argued for reason, faith, and civil rights together.

Industrialist who has long led European Jewish communal organizations from the president’s chair.

Israeli film director (1931–2018)

American playwright, librettist, and theatre director (1904-1961)

American economist who pushed Austrian ideas toward a radical edge.

Author of The Beauty Myth and a loud voice of 1990s feminism.

Jerusalem-born actress who grew up on screen and collected an Oscar without losing the books.

American film director (1907-2002)

American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director (1889-1982)

Producer behind Fast and Furious, Jump Street, and a stack of hits.

American playwright, writer, and academic (1927–2018)

American composer (1905-1958)

Comedian who turned awkwardness into Kroll Show and Big Mouth.

New York congresswoman who became the first woman to chair House Appropriations.

Today show producer who became president of NBC News and a working screenwriter.

Linguist who remade the study of language and became one of the most cited living writers.

Co-founder of GLG Partners who later invested in world-class restaurants.

Historian who asked how “whiteness” was made — and whether it could be unmade.

American lyricist of popular songs, television, and movie themes (1927-2018)

Novelist and journalist who treated American public life as a prizefight.

American film director (1899–1981)

Metals trader who assembled Rusal, once the world’s largest aluminum company.

English artist (1904–1978)

Swedish banker who built a workers’ bank and later served Soviet finance.

American librettist, lyricist, theatrical producer, and director of musicals (1895–1960)

Frankfurt School jurist who studied the modern state, then analyzed it for the OSS.

Austrian-American director, producer, and actor (1905–1986)

Physicist who, with Lise Meitner, named and explained nuclear fission.

American playwright, screenwriter and novelist (1923-1981)

Editor who ran The New York Times Book Review, then wrote a frank opinion column.

American film producer (1905-1996)

English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter

Pioneer of immunology and the search for targeted medicines.

German Jewish set decorator and art collector (1889-1947)

Emmy-winning writer-producer who played Toby Flenderson on The Office.

Hungarian-American actor (1891-1971)

American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor (1930-2014)

Austrian-born American stage and film actor (1895-1967)

American actor (1925–2008)

Founder of Elliott Management, a long-running activist and distressed-debt fund.

German-born banker who helped design America's central bank.

Diplomat and scholar who led the World Bank after a career at Defense.

NBC News correspondent, a television journalist among several public Peter Alexanders.

Longtime chairman of Progressive Insurance.

American film director (1939–2022)

American actor (1927–2011)

American musician, composer, arranger and conductor (1928–2002)

American actor and director

Psychologist who helped name emotional intelligence and later led Yale.

British actor and comedian (1925–1980)

English playwright and screenwriter (1926-2016)

Austrian-American film editor (1919–2007)

American screenwriter (1909-1952)

British retailer who once owned Topshop and a swath of the high street.

Young lawyers who argued Loving v. Virginia and helped end bans on interracial marriage.

Composer of Santa Baby and hundreds of other songs.

Longtime Redstone lieutenant who ran Viacom as president, CEO, and chairman.

American screenwriter and dramatist (1914-1971)

Psychologist and writer who challenged how medicine named women’s minds, then kept publishing for decades.

American actress (1932–2023)

Pediatrician who served as U.S. assistant secretary for health.

Immunologist who co-developed the Hib conjugate vaccine.

British actress (born 1970)

Advocate who became the first openly transgender White House staffer.

Chicago political operator who became a congressman, White House chief of staff, mayor, and ambassador.

German-born CBS executive who became Viacom’s first president.

Israeli chemist who isolated THC and mapped the endocannabinoid system.

Newsroom leader who rose at The New York Times and later ran NBC News editorial.

Animator who created Steven Universe and opened children’s television to a wider heart.

American comedian and actor (1919–2006)

Co-founder of LinkedIn and a leading Silicon Valley investor.

American actress and writer

Connecticut’s senior senator and former state attorney general.

American screenwriter, film director and producer (1912-1992)

American actor (born 1947)

NBC’s chief foreign correspondent, a field reporter fluent in the region’s languages.

Physicist who made quantum electrodynamics usable — and unforgettable.

Defense advisor who shaped arms and strategy debates for decades.

CNN International’s high-energy business anchor and editor-at-large of CNN Business.

American composer of songs and Broadway musicals (1902–1979)

Songwriters of Home for the Holidays, a travelogue of American longing.

American film producer (1933–2015)

American businessman and sports team owner (born 1941)

Czech-born publisher who built a newspaper and scientific empire, then left it in wreckage.

Labor secretary and teacher who made economic argument a public craft.

American writer (1897-1955)

American screenwriter, film director, and producer (1908-1966)

Goldman partner who became Clinton’s Treasury secretary in a booming decade.

Founder of New Line Cinema, the indie studio that walked hobbits into a global franchise.

German-born American film director (1900-1973)

British industrialist and a leading figure of Anglo-Jewry.

Songwriting pair who gave America The Christmas Song.

American film producer (1900-1971)

Director and producer

Poet and editor who put Sisterhood Is Powerful into the century’s library.

Infectious-disease physician who led the CDC through the later pandemic years.

Career prosecutor who served as the 37th U.S. deputy attorney general.

Film and television producer, partner in the Spyglass era.

Foreign correspondent and columnist who has reported from more than sixty countries.

Russian-Israeli businessman who turned an oil stake into a global fortune and a London football club.

French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)

Attorney who served as White House chief of staff to President Biden.

British actor (1924–2015)

Actor with a granite face who made monsters, bikers, and voice-over legends equally human.

Oregon’s senior senator, known for privacy fights and the Senate Finance gavel.

South African dramatist and playwright (1934-2020)

CAA co-founder who ran Universal Studios for nearly two decades.

Dealmaker who used MacAndrews & Forbes to buy everything from makeup to comic books.

Marxist theorist and revolutionary who co-founded the Spartacus League in Germany.

New York lawyer who rose young and left a hard reputation.

German-American film editor (1911-1999)

Physicist whose Frisch–Peierls memorandum showed a uranium bomb was possible.

Jurist who built a career on equal protection and careful dissent.

American humorist, author, and screenwriter (1904-1979)

English comic who turns invented men into public tests.

Writer and commentator who became a familiar liberal voice on cable news.

American film producer (1901–1985)

American film producer and film editor (1904-1958)

American composer (1902-1989)

Independent producer who put his name on Goldwyn and then on MGM.

Judge and counsel who coined “New Deal” and wrote for Franklin Roosevelt.

San Diego congresswoman, the youngest member of California’s House delegation.

Comedian who made shock, sweetness, and politics share a single joke.

American graphic designer and filmmaker (1920–1996)

Financier who built Reliance into a vehicle for 1980s corporate deals.

American film producer and record company executive (1921-2014)

Biblical scholar who recovered the matriarchs as serious religious figures.

American film producer

New York public official who served as Manhattan borough president and city comptroller.

Soil microbiologist who coined “antibiotic” and helped find streptomycin.

Ukrainian-born figure long described by Western agencies as a powerful boss of Russian organized crime.

A Soviet-born computer scientist who co-founded the company that organized the web.

Actor-producer who voiced Robot Chicken and played Scott Evil.

Saturday Night Live veteran who has hosted Late Night since 2014.