| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for | 
| George Abbott | 
Playwright | 
25-Jun-1887 | 
31-Jan-1995 | 
Damn Yankees | 
| John Abizaid | 
Military | 
1-Apr-1951 | 
  | 
C-in-C, US Central Command, 2003-07 | 
| Morton I. Abramowitz | 
Diplomat | 
20-Jan-1933 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Turkey, 1989-91 | 
| Elliott Abrams | 
Government | 
24-Jan-1948 | 
  | 
Asst. Secy. of State involved in Iran-Contra | 
| George S. Abrams | 
Attorney | 
c. 1932 | 
  | 
Partner, Winer & Abrams | 
| M. H. Abrams | 
Author | 
23-Jul-1912 | 
21-Apr-2015 | 
The Mirror and the Lamp | 
| Jill Abramson | 
Journalist | 
19-Mar-1954 | 
  | 
New York Times managing editor | 
| André Aciman | 
Author | 
2-Jan-1951 | 
  | 
Out of Egypt | 
| Arlene Ackerman | 
Educator | 
10-Jan-1947 | 
2-Feb-2013 | 
School superintendent of San Francisco | 
| Bruce Ackerman | 
Scholar | 
19-Aug-1943 | 
  | 
We the People | 
| Joel Ackerman | 
Business | 
c. 1965 | 
  | 
Partner, Warburg Pincus | 
| William Ackman | 
Business | 
11-May-1966 | 
  | 
Pershing Square Capital Management | 
| Brock Adams | 
Politician | 
13-Jan-1927 | 
10-Sep-2004 | 
US Senator from Washington, 1987-93 | 
| Brooks Adams | 
Historian | 
24-Jun-1848 | 
13-Feb-1927 | 
The Law of Civilization and Decay | 
| Charles Francis Adams IV | 
Business | 
2-May-1910 | 
5-Jan-1999 | 
Former president of Raytheon | 
| Charles Francis Adams, Jr. | 
Business | 
27-May-1835 | 
20-May-1915 | 
President of Union Pacific, 1884-90 | 
| Charles Francis Adams | 
Diplomat | 
18-Aug-1807 | 
21-Nov-1886 | 
US Ambassador to the UK, 1861-68 | 
| Charles Francis Adams III | 
Government | 
2-Aug-1866 | 
11-Jun-1954 | 
Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33 | 
| Henry Adams | 
Historian | 
16-Feb-1838 | 
28-Mar-1918 | 
The Education of Henry Adams | 
| John Adams | 
Composer | 
15-Feb-1947 | 
  | 
Nixon in China | 
| John Adams | 
Head of State | 
30-Oct-1735 | 
4-Jul-1826 | 
2nd President of the U.S. | 
| Roger Adams | 
Chemist | 
2-Jan-1889 | 
6-Jul-1971 | 
Organic chemist at Illinois | 
| Samuel Adams | 
Politician | 
27-Sep-1722 | 
2-Oct-1803 | 
Brewer led the Boston Tea Party | 
| Harold Adamson | 
Songwriter | 
10-Dec-1906 | 
17-Aug-1980 | 
Time on My Hands | 
| John Adler | 
Politician | 
23-Aug-1959 | 
4-Apr-2011 | 
Congressman from New Jersey, 2009-11 | 
| Renata Adler | 
Journalist | 
19-Oct-1938 | 
  | 
Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker | 
| James Agee | 
Poet | 
27-Nov-1909 | 
16-May-1955 | 
A Death in the Family | 
| Liaquat Ahamed | 
Economist | 
14-Nov-1952 | 
  | 
Lords of Finance | 
| Conrad Aiken | 
Poet | 
5-Aug-1889 | 
17-Aug-1973 | 
Earth Triumphant | 
| Howard Aiken | 
Physicist | 
8-Mar-1900 | 
14-Mar-1973 | 
Designer of early computers | 
| George Akerson | 
Government | 
5-Sep-1889 | 
21-Dec-1937 | 
First White House Press Secretary | 
| Tom A. Alberg | 
Business | 
c. 1940 | 
  | 
Madrona Venture Group | 
| Winthrop W. Aldrich | 
Business | 
2-Nov-1885 | 
25-Feb-1974 | 
Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, 1934-53 | 
| Anthony J. Alexander | 
Business | 
c. 1951 | 
  | 
CEO of FirstEnergy | 
| Christopher Alexander | 
Architect | 
4-Oct-1936 | 
  | 
A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order | 
| Horatio Alger | 
Author | 
13-Jan-1832 | 
18-Jul-1899 | 
Ragged Dick | 
| Tatyana Ali | 
Actor | 
24-Jan-1979 | 
  | 
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 
| Charlotte Allen | 
Journalist | 
? | 
  | 
Conservative writer | 
| Frederick Lewis Allen | 
Journalist | 
5-Jul-1890 | 
13-Feb-1954 | 
Editor of Harpers, 1941-53 | 
| George V. Allen | 
Diplomat | 
3-Nov-1903 | 
11-Jul-1970 | 
US Ambassador to Iran, 1946-48 | 
| Hervey Allen | 
Poet | 
8-Dec-1889 | 
28-Dec-1949 | 
Ballads of the Border | 
| Graham T. Allison | 
Scholar | 
23-Mar-1940 | 
  | 
Kennedy School of Government | 
| Gordon W. Allport | 
Psychologist | 
11-Nov-1897 | 
9-Oct-1967 | 
Personality: A Psychological Interpretation | 
| Michael Almereyda | 
Film Director | 
7-Apr-1959 | 
  | 
Hamlet | 
| Joseph Alsop | 
Columnist | 
11-Oct-1910 | 
28-Aug-1989 | 
Matter of Fact | 
| Jonathan Alter | 
Columnist | 
6-Oct-1957 | 
  | 
Newsweek Senior Editor | 
| Emily Altman | 
Business | 
1955 | 
  | 
Morgan Stanley | 
| Sidney Altman | 
Chemist | 
7-May-1939 | 
  | 
Proved enzyme role of RNA | 
| Aida M. Alvarez | 
Business | 
1950 | 
  | 
SBA Administrator, 1997-2001 | 
| Maryanne Amacher | 
Composer | 
25-Feb-1943 | 
22-Oct-2009 | 
Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear) | 
| Marc Ambinder | 
Journalist | 
c. 1979 | 
  | 
Contributing Editor, National Journal | 
| Cleveland Amory | 
Author | 
2-Sep-1917 | 
14-Oct-1998 | 
The Cat Who Came for Christmas | 
| Deborah Amos | 
Journalist | 
? | 
  | 
NPR foreign correspondent | 
| Fred Anderson | 
Historian | 
11-Apr-1949 | 
  | 
Crucible of War | 
| Leroy Anderson | 
Composer | 
29-Jun-1908 | 
18-May-1975 | 
The Syncopated Clock | 
| Philip W. Anderson | 
Physicist | 
13-Dec-1923 | 
  | 
Solid state physics | 
| Robert W. Anderson | 
Playwright | 
28-Apr-1917 | 
9-Feb-2009 | 
Tea and Sympathy | 
| Phil Angelides | 
Politician | 
12-Jun-1953 | 
  | 
Chair, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission | 
| Rand V. Araskog | 
Business | 
30-Oct-1931 | 
  | 
CEO of ITT, 1979-98 | 
| Richard Armour | 
Author | 
15-Jul-1906 | 
28-Feb-1989 | 
It All Started with Columbus | 
| Adam M. Aron | 
Business | 
c. 1954 | 
  | 
CEO of Vail Resorts, 1996-2006 | 
| Darren Aronofsky | 
Film Director | 
12-Feb-1969 | 
  | 
Requiem for a Dream | 
| Miguel Arteta | 
Film Director | 
1965 | 
  | 
Chuck & Buck | 
| Frederick B. Artz | 
Historian | 
19-Oct-1894 | 
20-Jul-1983 | 
Reaction and Revolution, 1814-1832 | 
| John Ashbery | 
Poet | 
28-Jul-1927 | 
  | 
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror | 
| John M. Ashbrook | 
Politician | 
21-Sep-1928 | 
24-Apr-1982 | 
Congressman from Ohio, 1961-82 | 
| John Jacob Astor | 
Philanthropist | 
13-Jul-1864 | 
15-Apr-1912 | 
Died aboard the Titanic | 
| Alfred L. Atherton | 
Diplomat | 
22-Nov-1921 | 
30-Oct-2002 | 
US Ambassador to Egypt, 1979-83 | 
| Brooks Atkinson | 
Critic | 
28-Nov-1894 | 
14-Jan-1984 | 
New York Times drama critic | 
| Margaret Atwood | 
Author | 
18-Nov-1939 | 
  | 
The Handmaid's Tale | 
| Dennis A. Ausiello | 
Doctor | 
c. 1945 | 
  | 
Massachusetts General Hospital | 
| John H. Austin | 
Doctor | 
c. 1944 | 
29-May-2009 | 
Arcadian Management Services | 
| Donald B. Ayer | 
Attorney | 
30-Apr-1949 | 
  | 
Partner, Jones Day | 
| Irving Babbitt | 
Philosopher | 
2-Aug-1865 | 
15-Jul-1933 | 
Early leader of Neohumanism | 
| Robert Bacon | 
Government | 
5-Jul-1860 | 
29-May-1919 | 
US Ambassador to France, 1909-12 | 
| Katherine Baicker | 
Economist | 
23-May-1971 | 
  | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 2005-07 | 
| F. Lee Bailey | 
Attorney | 
10-Jun-1933 | 
  | 
Criminal defense attorney | 
| Bernard Bailyn | 
Historian | 
9-Sep-1922 | 
  | 
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution | 
| George F. Baker | 
Business | 
27-Mar-1840 | 
2-May-1931 | 
"None of the public's business" | 
| Robert T. Bakker | 
Paleontologist | 
1945 | 
  | 
The Dinosaur Heresies | 
| John C. Baldwin | 
Doctor | 
c. 1949 | 
  | 
Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech | 
| Roger Baldwin | 
Activist | 
21-Jan-1884 | 
26-Aug-1981 | 
Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union | 
| W. Scott Bales | 
Judge | 
c. 1956 | 
  | 
Justice, Arizona Supreme Court | 
| Steve Ballmer | 
Business | 
24-Mar-1956 | 
  | 
CEO of Microsoft, 2003-14 | 
| Ed Balls | 
Politician | 
25-Feb-1967 | 
  | 
British MP, Normanton | 
| George Bancroft | 
Historian | 
3-Oct-1800 | 
17-Jan-1891 | 
A History of the United States | 
| Hugh Bancroft | 
Publisher | 
13-Sep-1879 | 
17-Oct-1933 | 
President of Dow Jones, 1928-31 | 
| Benjamin R. Barber | 
Scholar | 
2-Aug-1939 | 
  | 
Jihad vs. McWorld | 
| Walworth Barbour | 
Diplomat | 
4-Jun-1908 | 
21-Jul-1982 | 
US Ambassador to Israel, 1961-73 | 
| James R. Barker | 
Business | 
c. 1936 | 
  | 
Interlake Steamship Co. | 
| Fred Barnes | 
TV Personality | 
1-Feb-1943 | 
  | 
Fox News regular | 
| Michael Barone | 
Pundit | 
19-Sep-1944 | 
  | 
Almanac of American Politics | 
| Joseph W. Barr | 
Government | 
17-Jan-1918 | 
23-Feb-1996 | 
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1968-69 | 
| Barbara M. Barrett | 
Attorney | 
c. 1950 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Finland | 
| Zvi Barzilay | 
Business | 
c. 1947 | 
  | 
President of Toll Brothers | 
| Walter Jackson Bate | 
Critic | 
23-May-1918 | 
26-Jul-1999 | 
Samuel Johnson | 
| Robert F. Bauer | 
Attorney | 
22-Feb-1952 | 
  | 
White House Counsel, 2010-11 | 
| Stephen L. Baum | 
Business | 
c. 1941 | 
  | 
CEO of Sempra Energy, 2000-05 | 
| Lucian A. Bebchuk | 
Educator | 
c. 1955 | 
  | 
Corporate governance scholar | 
| Anthony Beilenson | 
Politician | 
26-Oct-1932 | 
  | 
Congressman from California, 1977-97 | 
| Georg von Békésy | 
Scientist | 
3-Jun-1899 | 
13-Jun-1972 | 
Mechanism of cochlear stimulation | 
| Henry Whitney Bellows | 
Religion | 
11-Jun-1814 | 
30-Jan-1882 | 
Unitarian leader, civil reformer | 
| Perry Belmont | 
Politician | 
28-Dec-1851 | 
25-May-1947 | 
Congressman from New York, 1881-88 | 
| Samuel Flagg Bemis | 
Historian | 
20-Oct-1891 | 
26-Sep-1973 | 
Scholar of diplomacy | 
| Peter Benchley | 
Novelist | 
8-May-1940 | 
11-Feb-2006 | 
Jaws | 
| Richard Benedick | 
Diplomat | 
? | 
  | 
US negotiator to the Montreal Protocol | 
| Robert Benham | 
Judge | 
25-Sep-1946 | 
  | 
Justice, Georgia Supreme Court | 
| Douglas J. Bennet | 
Educator | 
23-Jun-1938 | 
  | 
President of Wesleyan University, 1995-2007 | 
| Doug Bereuter | 
Politician | 
6-Oct-1939 | 
  | 
Congressman from Nebraska, 1979-2004 | 
| Arthur Berger | 
Composer | 
15-May-1912 | 
7-Oct-2003 | 
Ideas of Order | 
| William H. Berkman | 
Business | 
c. 1964 | 
  | 
The Associated Group | 
| Marshall Berman | 
Scholar | 
24-Nov-1940 | 
11-Sep-2013 | 
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air | 
| Ben Bernanke | 
Economist | 
13-Dec-1953 | 
  | 
Federal Reserve Chairman, 2006-14 | 
| Irving Bernstein | 
Historian | 
15-Nov-1916 | 
25-Sep-2001 | 
Labor historian | 
| Leonard Bernstein | 
Conductor | 
25-Aug-1918 | 
14-Oct-1990 | 
Conductor, New York Philharmonic | 
| Georges Berthoin | 
Politician | 
17-May-1925 | 
  | 
Trilateral Commission Euro Chair, 1973-92 | 
| Michael Beschloss | 
Historian | 
30-Nov-1955 | 
  | 
The Conquerors | 
| Benazir Bhutto | 
Head of State | 
21-Jun-1953 | 
27-Dec-2007 | 
Former prime minister of Pakistan | 
| Alexander Bickel | 
Scholar | 
17-Dec-1924 | 
7-Nov-1974 | 
The Least Dangerous Branch | 
| Frank Bidart | 
Poet | 
1939 | 
  | 
The Book of the Body | 
| Francis Biddle | 
Government | 
9-May-1886 | 
4-Oct-1968 | 
US Attorney General, 1941-45 | 
| Jacob Bigelow | 
Botanist | 
27-Feb-1787 | 
10-Jan-1879 | 
American Medical Botany | 
| John H. Biggs | 
Business | 
19-Jul-1936 | 
  | 
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1993-2002 | 
| Jeff Bingaman | 
Politician | 
3-Oct-1943 | 
  | 
US Senator from New Mexico | 
| Hiram Bingham | 
Politician | 
19-Nov-1875 | 
6-Jun-1956 | 
US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu | 
| Traci Bingham | 
Actor | 
13-Jan-1968 | 
  | 
Baywatch, Surreal Life | 
| Robert Bireley | 
Historian | 
26-Jul-1933 | 
  | 
The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War | 
| George David Birkhoff | 
Mathematician | 
21-Mar-1884 | 
12-Nov-1944 | 
Modern theory of dynamical systems | 
| Herbert P. Bix | 
Historian | 
1938 | 
  | 
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan | 
| Harry Blackmun | 
Judge | 
12-Nov-1908 | 
4-Mar-1999 | 
US Supreme Court Justice, 1970-94 | 
| Frank Blake | 
Business | 
c. 1950 | 
  | 
CEO of Home Depot | 
| James Blake | 
Tennis | 
28-Dec-1979 | 
  | 
2nd place, 2006 Tennis Masters Cup | 
| Robert O. Blake, Jr. | 
Diplomat | 
c. 1958 | 
  | 
South Asia Secretary, US State Dept | 
| Lloyd C. Blankfein | 
Business | 
20-Sep-1954 | 
  | 
CEO of Goldman Sachs | 
| Felix Bloch | 
Physicist | 
23-Oct-1905 | 
10-Sep-1983 | 
Nuclear magnetic resonance | 
| Julia Chang Bloch | 
Diplomat | 
1942 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Nepal, 1989 | 
| Nicolaas Bloembergen | 
Physicist | 
11-Mar-1920 | 
  | 
Nonlinear optics | 
| Alfred H. Bloom | 
Educator | 
27-Feb-1946 | 
  | 
President, Swarthmore College | 
| Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. | 
Government | 
c. 1952 | 
  | 
Asst. Secy. State Politico-Military, 2001-05 | 
| Leonard Bloomfield | 
Linguist | 
1-Apr-1887 | 
18-Apr-1949 | 
Structural linguistics of Tagalog | 
| Roberts Blossom | 
Actor | 
25-Mar-1924 | 
8-Jul-2011 | 
Deranged | 
| Roy Blount, Jr. | 
Author | 
5-Oct-1941 | 
  | 
Humorist | 
| Richard Blumenthal | 
Government | 
13-Feb-1946 | 
  | 
US Senator from Connecticut | 
| Robert Bly | 
Poet | 
23-Dec-1926 | 
  | 
Iron John: A Book About Men | 
| Danny J. Boggs | 
Judge | 
23-Oct-1944 | 
  | 
6th Circuit Court of Appeals | 
| Frederick M. Bohen | 
Business | 
c. 1937 | 
  | 
COO of Rockefeller University, 2002-05 | 
| Charles E. Bohlen | 
Diplomat | 
30-Aug-1904 | 
31-Dec-1974 | 
US Ambassador to USSR, 1953-57 | 
| Sissela Bok | 
Scholar | 
2-Dec-1934 | 
  | 
Ethicist | 
| Charles J. Bonaparte | 
Government | 
9-Jun-1851 | 
28-Jun-1921 | 
US Attorney General, 1906-09 | 
| George Phillips Bond | 
Astronomer | 
20-May-1825 | 
17-Feb-1865 | 
Father of astrophotography | 
| Daniel Boorstin | 
Historian | 
1-Oct-1914 | 
28-Feb-2004 | 
The Creators | 
| Andy Borowitz | 
Comic | 
4-Jan-1958 | 
  | 
The Borowitz Report | 
| Leon Botstein | 
Educator | 
14-Dec-1946 | 
  | 
President of Bard College | 
| Michael Boudin | 
Judge | 
29-Nov-1939 | 
  | 
1st Circuit Court of Appeals | 
| Henry S. Boutell | 
Politician | 
14-Mar-1856 | 
11-Mar-1926 | 
Congressman from Illinois, 1897-1911 | 
| James Bowdoin | 
Politician | 
7-Aug-1726 | 
6-Nov-1790 | 
Governor of Massachusetts 1785-87 | 
| Joseph L. Bower | 
Business | 
21-Sep-1938 | 
  | 
Professor, Harvard Business School | 
| Robert A. Bowman | 
Business | 
c. 1955 | 
  | 
President and CEO, MLB Advanced Media | 
| Paul S. Boyer | 
Historian | 
2-Aug-1935 | 
17-Mar-2012 | 
When Time Shall Be No More | 
| John Brademas | 
Politician | 
2-Mar-1927 | 
11-Jul-2016 | 
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 | 
| David F. Bradford | 
Economist | 
8-Jan-1939 | 
22-Feb-2005 | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 | 
| Robert F. Bradford | 
Politician | 
15-Dec-1902 | 
18-Mar-1983 | 
Governor of Massachusetts, 1947-49 | 
| Ben Bradlee | 
Editor | 
26-Aug-1921 | 
21-Oct-2014 | 
Editor of The Washington Post, 1965-91 | 
| Milton Bradley | 
Business | 
8-Nov-1836 | 
30-May-1911 | 
Board games | 
| Roger D. Branigin | 
Politician | 
26-Jul-1902 | 
19-Nov-1975 | 
Governor of Indiana, 1965-69 | 
| Aurelia E. Brazeal | 
Diplomat | 
24-Nov-1943 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Ethiopia, 2002-05 | 
| Donna Brazile | 
Author | 
15-Dec-1959 | 
  | 
Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager | 
| Phil Bredesen | 
Politician | 
21-Nov-1943 | 
  | 
Governor of Tennessee, 2003-11 | 
| Walter W. Bregman | 
Business | 
c. 1933 | 
  | 
President, International Playtex | 
| Amy Brenneman | 
Actor | 
22-Jun-1964 | 
  | 
Judging Amy | 
| Percy Williams Bridgman | 
Physicist | 
21-Apr-1882 | 
20-Aug-1961 | 
High-pressure physics | 
| Andrew Brimmer | 
Economist | 
13-Sep-1926 | 
7-Oct-2012 | 
Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74 | 
| Jenne K. Britell | 
Business | 
c. 1942 | 
  | 
Structured Ventures, Inc. | 
| David Broder | 
Journalist | 
11-Sep-1929 | 
9-Mar-2011 | 
Washington Post reporter | 
| Harold Brodkey | 
Novelist | 
25-Oct-1930 | 
26-Jan-1996 | 
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode | 
| Christopher W. Brody | 
Business | 
c. 1944 | 
  | 
Partner, Warburg Pincus, 1971-98 | 
| Ernie Brooks | 
Bassist | 
? | 
  | 
Ex-Bassist for The Modern Lovers | 
| Fred Brooks | 
Computer Programmer | 
19-Apr-1931 | 
  | 
Father of the IBM System 360 | 
| Van Wyck Brooks | 
Critic | 
16-Feb-1886 | 
2-May-1963 | 
Finders & Makers | 
| Heywood Broun | 
Journalist | 
7-Dec-1888 | 
18-Dec-1939 | 
Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s | 
| Anthony G. Brown | 
Politician | 
21-Nov-1961 | 
  | 
Lt. Governor of Maryland | 
| Michael A. Brown | 
Business | 
c. 1958 | 
  | 
CEO of Quantum, 1995-2002 | 
| Roger H. Brown | 
Historian | 
c. 1936 | 
  | 
Republic in Peril: 1812 | 
| William Andreas Brown | 
Diplomat | 
7-Sep-1930 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Israel, 1988-92 | 
| Bruce C. Bruckmann | 
Business | 
c. 1953 | 
  | 
Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. | 
| David Brudnoy | 
Radio Personality | 
5-Jun-1940 | 
8-Dec-2004 | 
Boston talk radio host | 
| William C. Bryson | 
Judge | 
19-Aug-1945 | 
  | 
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit | 
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | 
Government | 
28-Mar-1928 | 
  | 
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 | 
| Charles Bulfinch | 
Architect | 
8-Aug-1763 | 
15-Apr-1844 | 
Architect of the U.S. Capitol | 
| Ralph Bunche | 
Diplomat | 
4-Aug-1904 | 
9-Dec-1971 | 
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948 | 
| William Bundy | 
Government | 
24-Sep-1917 | 
6-Oct-2000 | 
Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ | 
| Stephen B. Burbank | 
Educator | 
c. 1946 | 
  | 
UPenn Law Professor | 
| Geoffrey Burbidge | 
Astronomer | 
24-Sep-1925 | 
26-Jan-2010 | 
Quasi-steady state cosmology | 
| Kevin Burke | 
Business | 
c. 1951 | 
  | 
CEO of Consolidated Edison | 
| Kennett F. Burnes | 
Business | 
c. 1943 | 
  | 
CEO of Cabot, 2001-08 | 
| Walter Dean Burnham | 
Scholar | 
15-Jun-1930 | 
  | 
Democracy in the Making | 
| John Burns | 
Journalist | 
4-Oct-1944 | 
  | 
New York Times correspondent | 
| William S. Burroughs | 
Author | 
5-Feb-1914 | 
2-Aug-1997 | 
Naked Lunch | 
| Sylvia Mathews Burwell | 
Government | 
23-Jun-1965 | 
  | 
OMB Director | 
| Richard L. Bushman | 
Historian | 
20-Jun-1931 | 
  | 
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling | 
| Dick Button | 
Figure Skating | 
18-Jul-1929 | 
  | 
Olympic figure skater | 
| Caroline Bynum | 
Historian | 
1941 | 
  | 
Medieval historian | 
| Godfrey Lowell Cabot | 
Business | 
26-Feb-1861 | 
2-Nov-1962 | 
Founder of Cabot Corporation | 
| Thomas Dudley Cabot | 
Business | 
1-May-1897 | 
8-Jun-1995 | 
CEO of Cabot, 1922-60 | 
| John T. Cahill | 
Business | 
c. 1957 | 
  | 
CEO of Pepsi Bottling Group, 2001-06 | 
| Frank V. Cahouet | 
Business | 
25-May-1932 | 
  | 
CEO of Mellon Financial, 1987-98 | 
| Felipe Calderón | 
Head of State | 
18-Aug-1962 | 
  | 
President of Mexico | 
| Kurt M. Campbell | 
Government | 
1957 | 
  | 
Asst. Secy. of State for East Asian Affairs | 
| Levin H. Campbell | 
Judge | 
2-Jan-1927 | 
  | 
1st Circuit Court of Appeals, 1972-1992 | 
| Geoffrey Canada | 
Educator | 
13-Jan-1952 | 
  | 
Harlem Children's Zone | 
| Cass Canfield | 
Publisher | 
26-Apr-1897 | 
27-Mar-1986 | 
Harper & Brothers | 
| Claude R. Canizares | 
Physicist | 
1945 | 
  | 
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics | 
| Annie Jump Cannon | 
Astronomer | 
11-Dec-1863 | 
13-Apr-1941 | 
Census-taker of the sky | 
| Walter Bradford Cannon | 
Scientist | 
19-Oct-1871 | 
1-Oct-1945 | 
Fight or flight response | 
| Mario Capecchi | 
Scientist | 
6-Oct-1937 | 
  | 
Knock-out mice | 
| Andrew Card | 
Government | 
10-May-1947 | 
  | 
White House Chief of Staff, 2001-06 | 
| Prudence E. Carlson | 
Relative | 
c. 1951 | 
  | 
Daughter of LeRoy T. Carlson | 
| Doug Carlston | 
Business | 
1947 | 
  | 
Co-Founder, Br0derbund Software | 
| Dennis W. Carlton | 
Economist | 
c. 1950 | 
  | 
Economics Professor, University of Chicago | 
| Frank Carlucci | 
Government | 
18-Oct-1930 | 
  | 
US Secretary of Defense, 1987-89 | 
| Leonard Carmichael | 
Educator | 
9-Nov-1898 | 
16-Sep-1973 | 
Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64 | 
| Robert Caro | 
Historian | 
30-Oct-1935 | 
  | 
Biographer of Lyndon Johnson | 
| Nicholas G. Carr | 
Author | 
1959 | 
  | 
Does IT Matter? | 
| Elliott Carter | 
Composer | 
11-Dec-1908 | 
5-Nov-2012 | 
The Defence of Corinth | 
| Albert V. Casey | 
Business | 
28-Feb-1920 | 
10-Jul-2004 | 
CEO of American Airlines, 1974-85 | 
| John Casey | 
Novelist | 
18-Jan-1939 | 
  | 
Spartina | 
| John L. Cassis | 
Business | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
Cross Atlantic Partners | 
| David Caute | 
Author | 
16-Dec-1936 | 
  | 
Comrade Jacob | 
| Stanley Cavell | 
Philosopher | 
1-Sep-1926 | 
  | 
Professor of Aesthetics, Harvard | 
| Ana María Cetto | 
Scientist | 
1946 | 
  | 
Mexican physicist | 
| Martin Chalfie | 
Scientist | 
1947 | 
  | 
Green Fluorescent Protein | 
| Margaret F. C. Chan | 
Doctor | 
1947 | 
  | 
WHO Director-General | 
| Alfred Chandler | 
Historian | 
15-Sep-1918 | 
9-May-2007 | 
Business historian | 
| Edward Channing | 
Historian | 
15-Jun-1856 | 
7-Jan-1931 | 
A History of the United States | 
| Frederic L. Chapin | 
Diplomat | 
13-Jul-1929 | 
8-Sep-1989 | 
US Ambassador to Guatemala, 1981-84 | 
| Bruce Chapman | 
Government | 
1-Dec-1940 | 
  | 
Founder of the Discovery Institute | 
| John Jay Chapman | 
Essayist | 
2-Mar-1862 | 
4-Nov-1933 | 
Essayist, founder of The Nursery | 
| Jean-Marc Chapus | 
Business | 
c. 1959 | 
  | 
Trust Company of the West | 
| Benjamin D. Chereskin | 
Business | 
c. 1959 | 
  | 
Madison Dearborn Partners | 
| Michael Chertoff | 
Government | 
28-Nov-1953 | 
  | 
US Homeland Security Czar | 
| Joseph Choate | 
Attorney | 
24-Jan-1832 | 
14-May-1917 | 
Attorney, ambassador | 
| Amy Chua | 
Author | 
26-Oct-1962 | 
  | 
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother | 
| Alonzo Church | 
Mathematician | 
14-Jun-1903 | 
11-Aug-1995 | 
Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis | 
| Henry Cisneros | 
Politician | 
11-Jun-1947 | 
  | 
Secretary of HUD, 1993-97 | 
| Grenville Clark | 
Attorney | 
5-Nov-1882 | 
13-Jan-1967 | 
World Peace Through World Law | 
| Joseph Sill Clark | 
Politician | 
21-Oct-1901 | 
21-Jan-1990 | 
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1956-69 | 
| Kim B. Clark | 
Business | 
20-Mar-1949 | 
  | 
President of BYU-Idaho | 
| W. Edmund Clark | 
Business | 
c. 1947 | 
  | 
CEO of Toronto Dominion Bank | 
| James Freeman Clarke | 
Religion | 
4-Apr-1810 | 
8-Jun-1888 | 
Ten Great Religions | 
| John S. Clarkeson | 
Business | 
c. 1943 | 
  | 
CEO of Boston Consulting Group, 1986-97 | 
| Lacy Clay | 
Politician | 
27-Jul-1956 | 
  | 
Congressman, Missouri 1st | 
| Christian Clemenson | 
Actor | 
17-Mar-1958 | 
  | 
Dr. Tom Loman on CSI: Miami | 
| Hal Clement | 
Novelist | 
20-May-1922 | 
29-Oct-2003 | 
Mission of Gravity | 
| Adam Clymer | 
Journalist | 
27-Apr-1937 | 
  | 
The New York Times | 
| Ariel Cohen | 
Scholar | 
c. 1964 | 
  | 
Expert on International Relations | 
| David X. Cohen | 
Film/TV Producer | 
c. 1966 | 
  | 
Simpsons, Futurama producer | 
| Eliot A. Cohen | 
Government | 
c. 1955 | 
  | 
Prominent neoconservative | 
| Morris Raphael Cohen | 
Philosopher | 
25-Jul-1880 | 
28-Jan-1947 | 
Reason and Nature | 
| Rob Cohen | 
Film Director | 
12-Mar-1949 | 
  | 
The Fast and the Furious | 
| Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. | 
Administrator | 
17-Feb-1949 | 
  | 
President of MLB National League, 1994-99 | 
| Lovida H. Coleman, Jr. | 
Attorney | 
21-May-1949 | 
  | 
Partner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan | 
| Robert Coles | 
Psychiatrist | 
12-Oct-1929 | 
  | 
Children of Crisis | 
| J. Barclay Collins II | 
Business | 
21-Oct-1944 | 
  | 
General Counsel for Hess Corporation | 
| James F. Collins | 
Diplomat | 
4-Jun-1939 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Russia, 1997-2001 | 
| Barry Commoner | 
Biologist | 
28-May-1917 | 
30-Sep-2012 | 
Science and Survival | 
| James B. Conant | 
Educator | 
26-Mar-1893 | 
11-Feb-1978 | 
President of Harvard, 1933-53 | 
| Tony Conrad | 
Violinist | 
7-Mar-1940 | 
9-Apr-2016 | 
Violin, Theater of Eternal Music | 
| Jill Ker Conway | 
Educator | 
9-Oct-1934 | 
  | 
President of Smith College, 1975-85 | 
| Alistair Cooke | 
Journalist | 
20-Nov-1908 | 
29-Mar-2004 | 
Alistair Cooke's America | 
| Archibald Cary Coolidge | 
Educator | 
6-Mar-1866 | 
14-Jan-1928 | 
The United States as a World Power | 
| John S. Cooper | 
Politician | 
23-Aug-1901 | 
21-Feb-1991 | 
US Senator from Kentucky | 
| Sam Coppersmith | 
Politician | 
22-May-1955 | 
  | 
Congressman from Arizona, 1993-95 | 
| Elias James Corey | 
Chemist | 
12-Jul-1928 | 
  | 
Retrosynthetic analysis | 
| Allan M. Cormack | 
Physicist | 
23-Feb-1924 | 
7-May-1998 | 
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) | 
| Jerome Corsi | 
Activist | 
31-Aug-1946 | 
  | 
Co-Author, Unfit for Command | 
| F. Albert Cotton | 
Chemist | 
9-Apr-1930 | 
20-Feb-2007 | 
Metal-metal bonds | 
| Tom Cotton | 
Government | 
13-May-1977 | 
  | 
Senator from Arkansas | 
| Tyler Cowen | 
Economist | 
21-Jan-1962 | 
  | 
Mercatus Center | 
| Malcolm Cowley | 
Author | 
24-Aug-1898 | 
27-Mar-1989 | 
Exile's Return | 
| Archibald Cox | 
Government | 
17-May-1912 | 
29-May-2004 | 
Target of Watergate Saturday Night Massacre | 
| James Gould Cozzens | 
Novelist | 
19-Aug-1903 | 
9-Aug-1978 | 
Guard of Honor | 
| Gregory B. Craig | 
Attorney | 
4-Mar-1945 | 
  | 
White House Counsel, 2009 | 
| Cleveland Cram | 
Spy | 
21-Dec-1917 | 
9-Jan-1999 | 
History of the Counterintelligence Staff | 
| Donald J. Cram | 
Chemist | 
22-Apr-1919 | 
17-Jun-2001 | 
Synthesis of molecules | 
| Jim Cramer | 
TV Personality | 
10-Feb-1955 | 
  | 
Mad Money | 
| Avery O. Craven | 
Historian | 
12-Aug-1885 | 
21-Jan-1980 | 
The Growth of Southern Nationalism | 
| F. Marion Crawford | 
Novelist | 
2-Aug-1854 | 
9-Apr-1909 | 
Whosoever Shall Offend | 
| Robert Creeley | 
Poet | 
21-May-1926 | 
30-Mar-2005 | 
Founded Black Mountain Review | 
| Michael Crichton | 
Novelist | 
23-Oct-1942 | 
4-Nov-2008 | 
Jurassic Park | 
| John H. Crimmins | 
Diplomat | 
26-Nov-1919 | 
12-Dec-2007 | 
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1973-78 | 
| Herbert Croly | 
Author | 
23-Jan-1869 | 
17-May-1930 | 
The Promise of American Life | 
| Ralph D. Crosby, Jr. | 
Business | 
23-Sep-1947 | 
  | 
CEO of EADS North America | 
| Alfred W. Crosby | 
Historian | 
15-Jan-1931 | 
  | 
The Columbian Exchange | 
| Countee Cullen | 
Poet | 
30-May-1903 | 
9-Jan-1946 | 
Harlem Renaissance poet | 
| John Culver | 
Politician | 
8-Aug-1932 | 
  | 
US Senator from Iowa, 1974-81 | 
| e. e. cummings | 
Poet | 
14-Oct-1894 | 
3-Sep-1962 | 
Majuscule-challenged American poet | 
| Bill Cunningham | 
Photographer | 
13-Mar-1929 | 
25-Jun-2016 | 
Fashion photographer, The New York Times | 
| Rivers Cuomo | 
Musician | 
13-Jun-1970 | 
  | 
Weezer frontman | 
| Robert F. Curl, Jr. | 
Chemist | 
23-Aug-1933 | 
  | 
Co-Discovered fullerines | 
| George E. Curry | 
Journalist | 
23-Feb-1947 | 
20-Aug-2016 | 
Emerge editor-in-chief | 
| Haskell Curry | 
Mathematician | 
12-Sep-1900 | 
1-Sep-1982 | 
Combinatory Logic | 
| Philip D. Curtin | 
Historian | 
22-May-1922 | 
4-Jun-2009 | 
The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census | 
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis | 
Judge | 
4-Nov-1809 | 
15-Sep-1874 | 
US Supreme Court Justice, 1851-57 | 
| George Ticknor Curtis | 
Historian | 
28-Nov-1812 | 
28-Mar-1894 | 
Constitutional History of the United States | 
| Harvey Cushing | 
Doctor | 
8-Apr-1869 | 
7-Oct-1939 | 
Cushing's Syndrome | 
| John Henry Cutler | 
Publisher | 
10-Jun-1910 | 
16-Sep-1998 | 
Duxbury Clipper | 
| Robert Cutler | 
Government | 
12-Jun-1895 | 
8-May-1974 | 
1950s National Security Advisor | 
| Matt Damon | 
Actor | 
8-Oct-1970 | 
  | 
Good Will Hunting | 
| Richard Henry Dana | 
Author | 
1-Aug-1815 | 
6-Jan-1882 | 
Two Years Before the Mast | 
| Nicholas Daniloff | 
Journalist | 
30-Dec-1934 | 
  | 
Journalist jailed by Soviet Union | 
| Richard Darman | 
Government | 
10-May-1943 | 
25-Jan-2008 | 
Carlyle Group member, former OMB Director | 
| Guy Davenport | 
Author | 
23-Nov-1927 | 
4-Jan-2005 | 
Thasos and Ohio | 
| George David | 
Business | 
7-Apr-1942 | 
  | 
CEO of United Technologies | 
| Thayer David | 
Actor | 
4-Mar-1927 | 
17-Jul-1978 | 
Jergens in Rocky | 
| Jeffrey Davidow | 
Diplomat | 
26-Jan-1944 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Mexico, 1998-2001 | 
| Donald Davidson | 
Philosopher | 
6-Mar-1917 | 
30-Aug-2003 | 
Actions, Reasons And Causes | 
| Richard K. Davidson | 
Business | 
9-Jan-1942 | 
  | 
CEO of Union Pacific, 1991-2006 | 
| Artur Davis | 
Politician | 
9-Apr-1967 | 
  | 
Congressman from Alabama, 2003-11 | 
| David Brion Davis | 
Historian | 
16-Feb-1927 | 
  | 
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture | 
| Joseph S. Davis | 
Economist | 
5-Nov-1885 | 
1975 | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-58 | 
| Alain de Botton | 
Author | 
20-Dec-1969 | 
  | 
The Architecture of Happiness | 
| John Gunther Dean | 
Diplomat | 
24-Feb-1926 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to India, 1985-88 | 
| Robert W. Decherd | 
Business | 
c. 1951 | 
  | 
CEO of Belo, 1987-2007 | 
| Christopher DeMuth | 
Activist | 
5-Aug-1946 | 
  | 
American Enterprise Institute | 
| Robert E. Denham | 
Attorney | 
27-Aug-1945 | 
  | 
Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson | 
| Joseph Dennie | 
Journalist | 
30-Aug-1768 | 
7-Jan-1812 | 
America's Joseph Addison | 
| James M. Derham | 
Diplomat | 
? | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Guatemala | 
| Peter A. Derow | 
Business | 
c. 1940 | 
  | 
Institutional Investor, Inc. | 
| Joseph M. DeThomas | 
Diplomat | 
? | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Estonia, 2001-04 | 
| C. Maury Devine | 
Business | 
c. 1950 | 
  | 
Former Exxon Mobil executive | 
| Bernard DeVoto | 
Historian | 
11-Jan-1897 | 
13-Nov-1955 | 
Across the Wide Missouri | 
| Samuel Dexter | 
Politician | 
14-May-1761 | 
4-May-1816 | 
US Secretary of War, Treasury | 
| Persi Diaconis | 
Mathematician | 
31-Jan-1945 | 
  | 
Science of random numbers | 
| Peter Diamandis | 
Activist | 
20-May-1961 | 
  | 
Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation | 
| Jared Diamond | 
Scientist | 
10-Sep-1937 | 
  | 
Guns, Germs and Steel | 
| Frank Graves Dickey | 
Educator | 
1-Dec-1917 | 
7-Aug-2009 | 
President, University of Kentucky, 1956-63 | 
| Charles M. Diker | 
Business | 
1934 | 
  | 
Diker Management LLC | 
| C. Douglas Dillon | 
Government | 
21-Aug-1909 | 
10-Jan-2003 | 
US Treasury Secretary, 1961-65 | 
| S. S. Van Dine | 
Novelist | 
15-Oct-1888 | 
11-Apr-1939 | 
The Canary Murder Case | 
| Viet Dinh | 
Government | 
22-Feb-1968 | 
  | 
USA PATRIOT Act mastermind | 
| E. J. Dionne | 
Journalist | 
23-Apr-1952 | 
  | 
The Washington Post | 
| Lou Dobbs | 
TV Personality | 
24-Sep-1945 | 
  | 
CNN anchor, Lou Dobbs Tonight | 
| Edward A. Doisy | 
Scientist | 
3-Nov-1893 | 
23-Oct-1986 | 
Chemical structure of Vitamin K | 
| Elizabeth Dole | 
Politician | 
29-Jul-1936 | 
  | 
US Senator from North Carolina, 2003-09 | 
| Shaun Donovan | 
Government | 
24-Jan-1966 | 
  | 
Director of US Office of Management and Budget | 
| Joel Dorius | 
Educator | 
4-Jan-1919 | 
14-Feb-2006 | 
Professor fired for gay porn arrest | 
| Diana Lady Dougan | 
Diplomat | 
13-Jan-1943 | 
  | 
Former US Ambassador | 
| Paul H. Douglas | 
Politician | 
26-Mar-1892 | 
24-Sep-1976 | 
US Senator from Illinois, 1949-67 | 
| Ross Douthat | 
Columnist | 
28-Nov-1979 | 
  | 
New York Times columnist | 
| John W. Dower | 
Historian | 
21-Jun-1938 | 
  | 
Embracing Defeat | 
| William C. Dowling | 
Educator | 
5-Apr-1944 | 
  | 
Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris | 
| W. E. B. Du Bois | 
Sociologist | 
23-Feb-1868 | 
27-Aug-1963 | 
Civil rights activist | 
| Adolph Dubs | 
Diplomat | 
4-Aug-1920 | 
14-Feb-1979 | 
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1978-79 | 
| Philip N. Duff | 
Business | 
c. 1958 | 
  | 
Front Point Partners | 
| Avery Cardinal Dulles | 
Religion | 
24-Aug-1918 | 
12-Dec-2008 | 
Fordham Professor, Roman Catholic Cardinal | 
| Charles F. Dunbar | 
Diplomat | 
1-Apr-1931 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1988-91 | 
| Arne Duncan | 
Educator | 
6-Nov-1964 | 
  | 
US Secretary of Education | 
| Jeffrey D. Dunn | 
Business | 
c. 1955 | 
  | 
Group COO, Nickelodeon Networks | 
| Stanley H. Durwood | 
Business | 
5-Aug-1920 | 
15-Jul-1999 | 
Father of the multi-screen movie theater | 
| Ronald Dworkin | 
Philosopher | 
11-Dec-1931 | 
14-Feb-2013 | 
Taking Rights Seriously | 
| Timothy B. Dyk | 
Judge | 
14-Feb-1937 | 
  | 
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit | 
| Esther Dyson | 
Business | 
14-Jul-1951 | 
  | 
EDventure Holdings, former ICANN director | 
| George H. Earle | 
Politician | 
5-Dec-1890 | 
30-Dec-1974 | 
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1935-39 | 
| Richard Eberhart | 
Poet | 
5-Apr-1904 | 
9-Jun-2005 | 
Collected Poems | 
| Otto Eckstein | 
Economist | 
1-Aug-1927 | 
22-Mar-1984 | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-66 | 
| Walter D. Edmonds | 
Novelist | 
15-Jul-1903 | 
24-Jan-1998 | 
Drums Along the Mohawk | 
| Karl W. Eikenberry | 
Military | 
1951 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Afghanistan | 
| Luigi R. Einaudi | 
Diplomat | 
1-Mar-1936 | 
  | 
Secy. General of the OAS, 2004-05 | 
| Charles William Eliot | 
Educator | 
20-Mar-1834 | 
22-Aug-1926 | 
President, Harvard University, 1869-1909 | 
| T. S. Eliot | 
Poet | 
26-Sep-1888 | 
4-Jan-1965 | 
Author of "The Waste Land" | 
| Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. | 
Diplomat | 
24-Jan-1928 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1973-78 | 
| Caroline Elkins | 
Author | 
30-May-1969 | 
  | 
Imperial Reckoning | 
| Stanley M. Elkins | 
Historian | 
27-Apr-1925 | 
16-Sep-2013 | 
Slavery | 
| Daniel Ellsberg | 
Government | 
7-Apr-1931 | 
  | 
Pentagon Papers source | 
| Douglas W. Elmendorf | 
Government | 
c. 1961 | 
  | 
Director, Congressional Budget Office | 
| Charles M. Elson | 
Business | 
c. 1960 | 
  | 
Economist, University of Delaware | 
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
Essayist | 
25-May-1803 | 
27-Apr-1882 | 
Essayist, wrote Nature | 
| William A. Emerson, Jr. | 
Journalist | 
28-Feb-1923 | 
25-Aug-2009 | 
Editor, Saturday Evening Post, 1965-69 | 
| Richard S. Emmet | 
Attorney | 
8-Apr-1897 | 
5-Oct-1969 | 
Counsel to the Bank of New York | 
| John F. Enders | 
Scientist | 
10-Feb-1897 | 
8-Sep-1985 | 
Cultured the polio virus | 
| Thomas O. Enders | 
Diplomat | 
28-Nov-1932 | 
17-Mar-1996 | 
US Ambassador to Canada, Spain | 
| Peter B. Evans | 
Sociologist | 
2-Jun-1944 | 
  | 
Embedded Autonomy | 
| Edward Everett | 
Politician | 
11-Apr-1794 | 
15-Jan-1865 | 
Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40 | 
| Thomas E. Everhart | 
Physicist | 
15-Feb-1932 | 
  | 
President of CalTech, 1987-97 | 
| David A. Fahrenthold | 
Journalist | 
c. 1978 | 
  | 
Washington Post reporter | 
| Ursula O. Fairbairn | 
Business | 
c. 1943 | 
  | 
Former EVP, American Express | 
| Charles S. Fairchild | 
Attorney | 
30-Apr-1842 | 
24-Nov-1924 | 
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1887-89 | 
| Philip Falcone | 
Business | 
c. 1962 | 
  | 
Billionaire, Harbinger Capital | 
| James Fallows | 
Journalist | 
2-Aug-1949 | 
  | 
Atlantic Monthly | 
| Susan Faludi | 
Activist | 
18-Apr-1959 | 
  | 
Backlash | 
| Martha J. Farah | 
Psychologist | 
c. 1955 | 
  | 
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UPenn | 
| Oliver La Farge | 
Author | 
19-Dec-1901 | 
2-Aug-1963 | 
Laughing Boy | 
| Paul Farmer | 
Doctor | 
1959 | 
  | 
Doctor for the world's poorest | 
| Thomas L. Farmer | 
Attorney | 
26-Jul-1923 | 
5-Feb-2015 | 
Overseas Development Council | 
| Chaka Fattah | 
Politician | 
21-Nov-1956 | 
  | 
Congressman, Pennsylvania 2nd | 
| Robert A. Fein | 
Psychologist | 
? | 
  | 
National Threat Assessment Center | 
| Douglas Feith | 
Government | 
16-Jul-1953 | 
  | 
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 2001-05 | 
| Noah Feldman | 
Author | 
22-May-1970 | 
  | 
After Jihad | 
| Martin Feldstein | 
Economist | 
25-Nov-1939 | 
  | 
Reagan economist | 
| Cornelius Felton | 
Scholar | 
6-Nov-1807 | 
26-Feb-1862 | 
Classical scholar of Greek | 
| Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. | 
Government | 
28-Oct-1951 | 
  | 
CEO of TIAA-CREF | 
| Frances D. Fergusson | 
Educator | 
3-Oct-1944 | 
  | 
President of Vassar, 1986-2006 | 
| Leslie A. Fiedler | 
Critic | 
8-Mar-1917 | 
29-Jan-2003 | 
Love and Death in the American Novel | 
| Marshall Field IV | 
Business | 
15-Jun-1916 | 
18-Sep-1965 | 
Owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, 1956-65 | 
| Mark Fields | 
Business | 
24-Jan-1961 | 
  | 
CEO of Ford Motor | 
| Glenn Fine | 
Attorney | 
c. 1956 | 
  | 
Justice Department Inspector General | 
| Jonathan Finer | 
Journalist | 
c. 1976 | 
  | 
Washington Post reporter | 
| Hamilton Fish, Jr. | 
Politician | 
3-Jun-1926 | 
23-Jul-1996 | 
Congressman from New York, 1969-95 | 
| Hamilton Fish III | 
Politician | 
7-Dec-1888 | 
18-Jan-1991 | 
Congressman from New York, 1920-45 | 
| J. Dudley Fishburn | 
Business | 
8-Jun-1946 | 
  | 
British MP, Kensington, 1988-97 | 
| Franklin M. Fisher | 
Economist | 
13-Dec-1934 | 
  | 
Economist at MIT | 
| Richard W. Fisher | 
Business | 
18-Mar-1949 | 
  | 
President and CEO, Dallas Fed | 
| John Fiske | 
Historian | 
30-Mar-1842 | 
4-Jul-1901 | 
Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy | 
| Dudley Fitts | 
Scholar | 
28-Apr-1903 | 
10-Jul-1968 | 
Translator of Greek literature | 
| J. Michael Fitzpatrick | 
Business | 
c. 1946 | 
  | 
President of Rohm and Haas, 1999-2005 | 
| Rodman Flender | 
Film Director | 
9-Jun-1962 | 
  | 
Idle Hands | 
| Denise K. Fletcher | 
Business | 
c. 1949 | 
  | 
EVP Finance at Vulcan Energy | 
| William A. Fletcher | 
Judge | 
6-Jun-1945 | 
  | 
9th Circuit Court of Appeals | 
| Abraham Flexner | 
Educator | 
13-Nov-1866 | 
21-Sep-1959 | 
The American College | 
| James Thomas Flexner | 
Historian | 
13-Jan-1908 | 
13-Feb-2003 | 
George Washington | 
| Edward T. Fogarty | 
Business | 
c. 1937 | 
  | 
CEO of Tambrands, 1994-97 | 
| Thomas C. Foley | 
Business | 
9-Jan-1952 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Ireland, 2006-09 | 
| Maya Forbes | 
Film Director | 
23-Jul-1968 | 
  | 
Infinitely Polar Bear | 
| Robert L. Fornaro | 
Business | 
c. 1952 | 
  | 
CEO of AirTran Holdings | 
| Bill Foster | 
Politician | 
7-Oct-1955 | 
  | 
Congressman from Illinois, 2008-11 | 
| Vicente Fox | 
Head of State | 
2-Jul-1942 | 
  | 
President of Mexico, 2000-06 | 
| Ford M. Fraker | 
Business | 
c. 1949 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia | 
| Jonathan Frakes | 
Actor | 
19-Aug-1952 | 
  | 
Commander Riker on Star Trek: TNG | 
| Barney Frank | 
Politician | 
31-Mar-1940 | 
  | 
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1981-2013 | 
| Garance Franke-Ruta | 
Columnist | 
c. 1975 | 
  | 
Senior Editor, The American Prospect | 
| David Frankel | 
Film Director | 
2-Apr-1959 | 
  | 
The Devil Wears Prada | 
| Al Franken | 
Politician | 
21-May-1951 | 
  | 
US Senator from Minnesota | 
| John Hope Franklin | 
Historian | 
2-Jan-1915 | 
25-Mar-2009 | 
From Slavery to Freedom | 
| A. Stone Freedberg | 
Doctor | 
30-May-1908 | 
25-Aug-2009 | 
Found H. Pylori near stomach ulcers | 
| William W. Freehling | 
Historian | 
26-Dec-1935 | 
  | 
Prelude to Civil War | 
| Joshua B. Freeman | 
Historian | 
1949 | 
  | 
In Transit | 
| Richard Freeman | 
Economist | 
29-Jun-1943 | 
  | 
Labor economist | 
| Marilyn French | 
Author | 
21-Nov-1929 | 
2-May-2009 | 
The Women's Room | 
| Aaron L. Friedberg | 
Government | 
16-Apr-1956 | 
  | 
In the Shadow of the Garrison State | 
| David B. Frohnmayer | 
Politician | 
9-Jul-1940 | 
9-Mar-2015 | 
President, University of Oregon, 1994-2009 | 
| Francis Fukuyama | 
Author | 
27-Oct-1952 | 
  | 
The End of History and the Last Man | 
| R. Buckminster Fuller | 
Architect | 
12-Jul-1895 | 
1-Jul-1983 | 
Futurist, invented the geodesic dome | 
| Jason Furman | 
Government | 
c. 1970 | 
  | 
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution | 
| Paul Fussell | 
Historian | 
22-Mar-1924 | 
23-May-2012 | 
The Great War and Modern Memory | 
| William Gaddis | 
Novelist | 
29-Dec-1922 | 
16-Dec-1998 | 
A Frolic of His Own | 
| James I. Gadsden | 
Diplomat | 
12-Mar-1948 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Iceland, 2002-05 | 
| John Gage | 
Business | 
c. 1942 | 
  | 
Sun Microsystems | 
| James K. Galbraith | 
Scholar | 
29-Jan-1952 | 
  | 
Economics Professor at UT-Austin | 
| Peter Galbraith | 
Diplomat | 
31-Dec-1950 | 
  | 
The End of Iraq | 
| Frederick D. Gardner | 
Politician | 
6-Nov-1869 | 
18-Dec-1933 | 
Governor of Missouri, 1917-21 | 
| Richard N. Gardner | 
Diplomat | 
9-Jul-1927 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Spain, 1993-97 | 
| William M. Gardner | 
Politician | 
26-Oct-1948 | 
  | 
New Hampshire Secretary of State | 
| Geoff Garin | 
Business | 
? | 
  | 
Pollster | 
| Merrick B. Garland | 
Judge | 
13-Nov-1952 | 
  | 
US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit | 
| Anne Garrels | 
Journalist | 
2-Jul-1951 | 
  | 
NPR senior foreign correspondent | 
| Bill Gates | 
Business | 
28-Oct-1955 | 
  | 
Co-Founder of Microsoft | 
| Mark Gearan | 
Government | 
16-Sep-1956 | 
  | 
Peace Corps Director, 1995-99 | 
| Clifford Geertz | 
Anthropologist | 
23-Aug-1926 | 
30-Oct-2006 | 
Thick Description | 
| Frank Gehry | 
Architect | 
28-Feb-1929 | 
  | 
Postmodern architect | 
| C. Daniel Gelatt | 
Business | 
c. 1947 | 
  | 
President of NMT Corporation | 
| Leslie H. Gelb | 
Government | 
4-Mar-1937 | 
  | 
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003 | 
| Robert A. Gerard | 
Government | 
c. 1945 | 
  | 
Assistant Treasury Secretary, 1974-77 | 
| William H. Gerdts | 
Art Historian | 
18-Jan-1929 | 
  | 
Art Across America | 
| Elbridge Gerry | 
Politician | 
17-Jul-1744 | 
23-Nov-1814 | 
Patron saint of Gerrymandering | 
| Ivan Getting | 
Inventor | 
18-Jan-1912 | 
11-Oct-2003 | 
Global Positioning System | 
| Riccardo Giacconi | 
Astronomer | 
6-Oct-1931 | 
  | 
Discovered cosmic X-ray sources | 
| Samir G. Gibara | 
Business | 
23-Apr-1939 | 
  | 
CEO of Goodyear, 1996-2002 | 
| Walter S. Gifford | 
Business | 
10-Jan-1885 | 
7-May-1966 | 
President of AT&T, 1925-48 | 
| Gabrielle Giffords | 
Politician | 
8-Jun-1970 | 
  | 
Congresswoman from Arizona, 2007-12 | 
| Jarobin Gilbert, Jr. | 
Business | 
c. 1946 | 
  | 
Former NBC executive | 
| Walter Gilbert | 
Chemist | 
21-Mar-1932 | 
  | 
Sequencing techniques for DNA | 
| George Gilder | 
Pundit | 
29-Nov-1939 | 
  | 
Technological futurist pundit | 
| Carol Gilligan | 
Psychologist | 
28-Nov-1936 | 
  | 
In a Different Voice | 
| Allan D. Gilmour | 
Business | 
1934 | 
  | 
Twice Vice Chairman of Ford | 
| Todd Gitlin | 
Educator | 
6-Jan-1943 | 
  | 
Journalism professor, social critic | 
| Sheldon Glashow | 
Physicist | 
5-Dec-1932 | 
  | 
Electroweak Theory | 
| James Glassman | 
Publisher | 
1-Jan-1947 | 
  | 
Roll Call editor | 
| Robert R. Glauber | 
Business | 
? | 
  | 
National Association of Securities Dealers | 
| Roy J. Glauber | 
Physicist | 
1-Sep-1925 | 
  | 
Quantum optics | 
| James Gleick | 
Author | 
1-Aug-1954 | 
  | 
Chaos: Making a New Science | 
| James L. Goddard | 
Government | 
24-Apr-1923 | 
18-Dec-2009 | 
FDA Commissioner, 1966-68 | 
| Sam Goddard | 
Politician | 
8-Aug-1919 | 
1-Feb-2006 | 
Governor of Arizona, 1965-67 | 
| Terry Goddard | 
Politician | 
29-Jan-1947 | 
  | 
Attorney General of Arizona | 
| Donald J. Gogel | 
Business | 
c. 1949 | 
  | 
CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice | 
| Ray A. Goldberg | 
Educator | 
19-Oct-1926 | 
  | 
Agribusiness professor, Harvard | 
| Stephen M. Goldfeld | 
Economist | 
9-Aug-1940 | 
25-Aug-1995 | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1980-81 | 
| James M. Goldgeier | 
Scholar | 
c. 1961 | 
  | 
America Between the Wars | 
| Daniel Jonah Goldhagen | 
Scholar | 
30-Jun-1959 | 
  | 
Hitler's Willing Executioners | 
| John P. Goldsberry | 
Business | 
c. 1954 | 
  | 
CFO of Gateway | 
| James Goodby | 
Diplomat | 
20-Dec-1929 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Finland, 1980-81 | 
| Amy Goodman | 
Radio Personality | 
13-Apr-1957 | 
  | 
Host of Democracy Now! | 
| Nelson Goodman | 
Philosopher | 
7-Aug-1906 | 
25-Nov-1998 | 
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast | 
| Doris Kearns Goodwin | 
Historian | 
4-Jan-1943 | 
  | 
Team of Rivals | 
| S. Bernard Goodwyn | 
Judge | 
c. 1961 | 
  | 
Justice, Virginia Supreme Court | 
| Chris Gordon | 
Business | 
c. 1973 | 
  | 
Bain Capital | 
| Kermit Gordon | 
Economist | 
1916 | 
1976 | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-62 | 
| Lincoln Gordon | 
Diplomat | 
10-Sep-1913 | 
19-Dec-2009 | 
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66 | 
| Robert J. Gordon | 
Economist | 
3-Sep-1940 | 
  | 
The Rise and Fall of American Growth | 
| Al Gore | 
Politician | 
31-Mar-1948 | 
  | 
US Vice President under Clinton | 
| Al Gore III | 
Relative | 
19-Oct-1982 | 
  | 
Al Gore's son | 
| Kristin Gore | 
Relative | 
5-Jun-1977 | 
  | 
Futurama, SNL writer | 
| Jamie S. Gorelick | 
Attorney | 
6-May-1950 | 
  | 
9-11 Commission member | 
| Edward Gorey | 
Author | 
22-Feb-1925 | 
15-Apr-2000 | 
Amphigorey | 
| Richard Gotshalk | 
Scholar | 
4-Sep-1931 | 
16-Apr-2009 | 
Homer and Hesiod: Myth and Philosophy | 
| Benjamin Apthorp Gould | 
Astronomer | 
27-Sep-1824 | 
26-Nov-1896 | 
American astronomer and star-catalogist | 
| Bill Gradison | 
Politician | 
28-Dec-1928 | 
  | 
Congressman from Ohio, 1975-93 | 
| Laurence S. Grafstein | 
Business | 
c. 1960 | 
  | 
Managing Director, Lazard | 
| Donald E. Graham | 
Journalist | 
22-Apr-1945 | 
  | 
CEO of Washington Post | 
| Paul Graham | 
Computer Programmer | 
13-Nov-1964 | 
  | 
Y Combinator | 
| Fred Grandy | 
Actor | 
29-Jun-1948 | 
  | 
Congressman, Gopher on The Love Boat | 
| Robert Grant | 
Novelist | 
24-Jan-1852 | 
19-May-1940 | 
Unleavened Bread | 
| Michael Graves | 
Architect | 
9-Jul-1934 | 
12-Mar-2015 | 
Postmodern architect, New York Five | 
| C. Boyden Gray | 
Government | 
6-Feb-1943 | 
  | 
Conservative activist, lobbyist | 
| Hanna Holborn Gray | 
Educator | 
25-Oct-1930 | 
  | 
President, University of Chicago, 1978-93 | 
| Horace Gray | 
Judge | 
24-Mar-1828 | 
15-Sep-1902 | 
US Supreme Court Justice, 1882-1902 | 
| Jonathan N. Grayer | 
Business | 
c. 1965 | 
  | 
CEO of Kaplan | 
| Alan Grayson | 
Politician | 
13-Mar-1958 | 
  | 
Congressman, Florida 9th | 
| Johnny Green | 
Composer | 
10-Oct-1908 | 
15-May-1989 | 
Body and Soul | 
| Joshua Green III | 
Business | 
1936 | 
  | 
Joshua Green Corporation | 
| S. William Green | 
Politician | 
16-Oct-1929 | 
14-Oct-2002 | 
Congressman from New York, 1978-93 | 
| Stanley B. Greenberg | 
Business | 
10-May-1945 | 
  | 
Pollster | 
| Brian Greene | 
Author | 
9-Feb-1963 | 
  | 
The Elegant Universe | 
| Jesse L. Greenstein | 
Astronomer | 
15-Oct-1909 | 
21-Oct-2002 | 
Co-Discoverer of quasars | 
| Andre Gregory | 
Theater Director | 
11-May-1934 | 
  | 
My Dinner with Andre | 
| Joseph Grew | 
Diplomat | 
27-May-1880 | 
25-May-1965 | 
US Ambassador to Japan, 1932-41 | 
| Kenneth C. Griffin | 
Business | 
c. 1969 | 
  | 
Citadel Investment Group | 
| David J. Gross | 
Physicist | 
19-Feb-1941 | 
  | 
Deep structure of matter | 
| Erich S. Gruen | 
Historian | 
7-May-1935 | 
  | 
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic | 
| Ernest Gruening | 
Politician | 
6-Feb-1887 | 
26-Jun-1974 | 
US Senator from Alaska, 1959-69 | 
| Mandy Grunwald | 
Activist | 
c. 1958 | 
  | 
Hillary Clinton media adviser | 
| Judith M. Gueron | 
Administrator | 
c. 1941 | 
  | 
President of MDRC, 1986-2004 | 
| Gordon Gund | 
Business | 
15-Oct-1939 | 
  | 
Former owner, Cleveland Cavaliers | 
| Amy Gutmann | 
Educator | 
19-Nov-1949 | 
  | 
President, University of Pennsylvania | 
| Fred Gwynne | 
Actor | 
10-Jul-1926 | 
2-Jul-1993 | 
Herman on The Munsters | 
| John Hagelin | 
Activist | 
9-Jun-1954 | 
  | 
Natural Law Party | 
| David Halberstam | 
Journalist | 
10-Apr-1934 | 
23-Apr-2007 | 
The Powers That Be | 
| Edward Everett Hale | 
Author | 
3-Apr-1822 | 
10-Jun-1909 | 
The Man Without a Country | 
| Horatio Hale | 
Anthropologist | 
3-May-1817 | 
28-Dec-1896 | 
Ethnologist studied polynesia | 
| Donald Hall | 
Poet | 
20-Sep-1928 | 
  | 
The One Day | 
| Louis J. Halle | 
Author | 
17-Nov-1910 | 
13-Aug-1998 | 
Out of Chaos | 
| Mark Halperin | 
Journalist | 
11-Jan-1965 | 
  | 
TIME senior political analyst | 
| John Hancock | 
Politician | 
23-Jan-1737 | 
8-Oct-1793 | 
First signer of the Declaration of Independence | 
| Learned Hand | 
Judge | 
27-Jan-1872 | 
18-Aug-1961 | 
Influential American justice | 
| Oscar Handlin | 
Historian | 
29-Sep-1915 | 
20-Sep-2011 | 
The Uprooted | 
| Mary W. M. Hargreaves | 
Historian | 
1-Mar-1914 | 
29-Aug-2008 | 
Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains | 
| Guillermo Haro | 
Astronomer | 
21-Mar-1913 | 
26-Apr-1988 | 
Herbig-Haro objects | 
| George Russell Harrison | 
Physicist | 
14-Jul-1898 | 
27-Jul-1979 | 
Echelle spectrograph | 
| Jerry Harrison | 
Musician | 
21-Feb-1949 | 
  | 
Guitar and keyboard player for Talking Heads | 
| C. Lowell Harriss | 
Economist | 
2-Aug-1912 | 
14-Dec-2009 | 
Columbia University Economist | 
| William Harrop | 
Diplomat | 
19-Feb-1929 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Israel, 1991-93 | 
| Alex W. Hart | 
Business | 
c. 1940 | 
  | 
CEO of Advanta Corporation, 1995-97 | 
| Myra M. Hart | 
Business | 
c. 1940 | 
  | 
Co-Founder of Staples | 
| Parker T. Hart | 
Diplomat | 
28-Sep-1910 | 
15-Oct-1997 | 
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1961-65 | 
| Arthur A. Hartman | 
Diplomat | 
12-Mar-1926 | 
16-Mar-2015 | 
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1981-87 | 
| Harris L. Hartz | 
Judge | 
20-Jan-1947 | 
  | 
10th Circuit Court of Appeals | 
| John Harwood | 
Journalist | 
c. 1956 | 
  | 
Wall Street Journal political editor | 
| Peter Haskell | 
Actor | 
15-Oct-1934 | 
12-Apr-2010 | 
Kevin Grant on Bracken's World | 
| William Dodd Hathaway | 
Politician | 
21-Feb-1924 | 
24-Jun-2013 | 
US Senator from Maine, 1973-79 | 
| John Hawkes | 
Novelist | 
17-Aug-1925 | 
15-May-1998 | 
The Blood Oranges | 
| Trip Hawkins | 
Business | 
28-Dec-1953 | 
  | 
Founder of Electronic Arts | 
| Ulric Haynes | 
Diplomat | 
8-Jun-1931 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Algeria, 1977-81 | 
| William R. Hearst III | 
Business | 
c. 1950 | 
  | 
San Francisco Examiner Editor, 1984-95 | 
| William Randolph Hearst | 
Business | 
29-Apr-1863 | 
14-Aug-1951 | 
Newspaper magnate | 
| Chris Hedges | 
Journalist | 
18-Sep-1956 | 
  | 
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning | 
| Joel Hefley | 
Politician | 
18-Apr-1935 | 
  | 
Congressman from Colorado, 1987-2007 | 
| Robert L. Heilbroner | 
Economist | 
24-Mar-1919 | 
4-Jan-2005 | 
The Worldly Philosophers | 
| Richard H. Heindel | 
Educator | 
24-Aug-1912 | 
31-Jul-1979 | 
The American Impact on Great Britain | 
| Robert B. Heisler, Jr. | 
Business | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
EVP at KeyCorp, 1994-2007 | 
| William W. Helman IV | 
Business | 
c. 1958 | 
  | 
Greylock Partners | 
| Mark Helprin | 
Author | 
28-Jun-1947 | 
  | 
Winter's Tale | 
| Michael A. Henning | 
Business | 
1-May-1940 | 
  | 
CEO of E&Y International, 1993-99 | 
| Nat Hentoff | 
Critic | 
10-Jun-1925 | 
  | 
The Jazz Life | 
| Enrique Hernandez, Jr. | 
Business | 
2-Nov-1955 | 
  | 
Inter-Con Security Systems | 
| Roland A. Hernandez | 
Business | 
c. 1958 | 
  | 
CEO of Telemundo Group, 1995-2000 | 
| Dudley R. Herschbach | 
Chemist | 
18-Jun-1932 | 
  | 
Crossed molecular beam experiments | 
| Christian Herter, Jr. | 
Government | 
29-Jan-1919 | 
16-Sep-2007 | 
First Chairman, New York Urban Coalition | 
| Christian Herter | 
Politician | 
28-Mar-1895 | 
30-Dec-1966 | 
US Secretary of State, 1959-61 | 
| Hendrik Hertzberg | 
Publisher | 
1943 | 
  | 
The New Yorker | 
| John B. Hess | 
Business | 
5-Apr-1954 | 
  | 
CEO of Amerada Hess | 
| Stephen Hess | 
Author | 
20-Apr-1933 | 
  | 
International News and Foreign Correspondents | 
| Hugh Hewitt | 
Radio Personality | 
22-Feb-1956 | 
  | 
Conservative talk radio show | 
| Jack H. Hexter | 
Historian | 
25-May-1910 | 
8-Dec-1996 | 
On Historians | 
| Andrew Heyward | 
Journalist | 
1950 | 
  | 
President of CBS News, 1996-2005 | 
| Fred Hiatt | 
Columnist | 
30-Apr-1955 | 
  | 
Washington Post Editorial Page Editor | 
| Granville Hicks | 
Critic | 
9-Sep-1901 | 
18-Jun-1982 | 
Marxist critic, The Great Tradition | 
| J. Tomilson Hill | 
Business | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
Vice Chairman of Blackstone Group | 
| Martin J. Hillenbrand | 
Diplomat | 
1-Aug-1915 | 
2-Feb-2005 | 
US Ambassador to Germany, 1972-76 | 
| David D. Hiller | 
Publisher | 
12-Jun-1953 | 
  | 
LA Times publisher, 2006-08 | 
| Jim Himes | 
Politician | 
5-Jul-1966 | 
  | 
Congressman, Connecticut 4th | 
| Samuel S. Hinds | 
Actor | 
4-Apr-1875 | 
13-Oct-1948 | 
It's a Wonderful Life | 
| Deane R. Hinton | 
Diplomat | 
12-Mar-1923 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Panama, 1990-94 | 
| George H. Hitchings | 
Scientist | 
18-Apr-1905 | 
27-Feb-1998 | 
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, arthritis | 
| Edward Hoagland | 
Essayist | 
21-Dec-1932 | 
  | 
The Courage of Turtles | 
| George F. Hoar | 
Politician | 
29-Aug-1826 | 
30-Sep-1904 | 
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1877-1904 | 
| Franklin W. Hobbs | 
Business | 
c. 1947 | 
  | 
Warburg Dillon Read | 
| Adam Hochschild | 
Author | 
5-Oct-1942 | 
  | 
King Leopold's Ghost | 
| William E. Hocking | 
Philosopher | 
10-Aug-1873 | 
12-Jun-1966 | 
The Meaning of God in Human Experience | 
| Donald Hodel | 
Government | 
23-May-1935 | 
  | 
Reagan's Secretary of Energy & Interior | 
| Roald Hoffmann | 
Chemist | 
18-Jul-1937 | 
  | 
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction | 
| Stanley Hoffmann | 
Historian | 
27-Nov-1928 | 
13-Sep-2015 | 
Gulliver's Troubles | 
| John H. Holdridge | 
Diplomat | 
21-Aug-1924 | 
12-Jul-2001 | 
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1983-86 | 
| Bert Hölldobler | 
Zoologist | 
25-Jun-1936 | 
  | 
Social organizations in insects | 
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | 
Author | 
29-Aug-1809 | 
7-Oct-1894 | 
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | 
| Dennis H. Holtschneider | 
Educator | 
14-Jan-1965 | 
  | 
President, DePaul University | 
| Sidney Homer | 
Economist | 
20-Oct-1902 | 
9-Aug-1983 | 
A History of Interest Rates | 
| Grace Murray Hopper | 
Computer Programmer | 
9-Dec-1906 | 
1-Jan-1992 | 
Computer programming pioneer | 
| Hume Alexander Horan | 
Diplomat | 
13-Aug-1934 | 
22-Jul-2004 | 
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1988 | 
| Donald F. Hornig | 
Educator | 
17-Mar-1920 | 
21-Jan-2013 | 
President of Brown University, 1970-76 | 
| H. Robert Horvitz | 
Scientist | 
8-May-1947 | 
  | 
Genetic regulation of organ development | 
| Alanson B. Houghton | 
Diplomat | 
10-Oct-1863 | 
15-Sep-1941 | 
US Ambassador to the UK, 1925-29 | 
| Amo Houghton | 
Politician | 
7-Aug-1926 | 
  | 
Congressman from New York, 1987-2005 | 
| James R. Houghton | 
Business | 
6-Apr-1936 | 
  | 
CEO of Corning, 2002-05 | 
| David F. Houston | 
Government | 
17-Feb-1866 | 
2-Sep-1940 | 
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20 | 
| Daniel Walker Howe | 
Historian | 
10-Jan-1937 | 
  | 
What Hath God Wrought | 
| Walter Howe | 
Diplomat | 
10-Jun-1907 | 
8-Apr-1966 | 
US Ambassador to Chile, 1958-61 | 
| Glenn Hubbard | 
Economist | 
4-Sep-1958 | 
  | 
George W. Bush economist | 
| Franklin P. Huddle | 
Diplomat | 
9-May-1943 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Tajikistan, 2001-03 | 
| Reginald Hudlin | 
Film Director | 
15-Dec-1961 | 
  | 
Boomerang | 
| Roy M. Huffington | 
Business | 
4-Oct-1917 | 
11-Jul-2008 | 
Texas Oilman | 
| Cameron R. Hume | 
Diplomat | 
1947 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Indonesia | 
| Harold L. Humes | 
Author | 
11-Apr-1926 | 
10-Sep-1992 | 
Co-Founder, The Paris Review | 
| Samuel P. Huntington | 
Author | 
18-Apr-1927 | 
24-Dec-2008 | 
The Clash of Civilizations | 
| Leonid Hurwicz | 
Economist | 
21-Aug-1917 | 
24-Jun-2008 | 
Mechanism design theory | 
| Glenn H. Hutchins | 
Business | 
c. 1955 | 
  | 
Co-Founder, Silver Lake Partners | 
| Thomas Hutchinson | 
Government | 
9-Sep-1711 | 
3-Jun-1780 | 
Last Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony | 
| Michael Ignatieff | 
Author | 
12-May-1947 | 
  | 
Blood and Belonging | 
| David Ignatius | 
Columnist | 
1950 | 
  | 
Washington Post op-ed columnist | 
| Akira Iriye | 
Historian | 
20-Oct-1934 | 
  | 
Across the Pacific | 
| Walter Isaacson | 
Author | 
20-May-1952 | 
  | 
Former Managing Editor for Time | 
| Lawrence V. Jackson | 
Business | 
c. 1953 | 
  | 
Wal-Mart executive | 
| Rona Jaffe | 
Author | 
12-Jun-1932 | 
30-Dec-2005 | 
Mazes & Monsters | 
| Hamilton James | 
Business | 
3-Feb-1951 | 
  | 
President of Blackstone Group | 
| William James | 
Philosopher | 
11-Jan-1842 | 
26-Aug-1910 | 
The Principles of Psychology | 
| Charles H. Jenkins, Jr. | 
Business | 
1944 | 
  | 
CEO of Publix, 2001-08 | 
| Josef Joffe | 
Editor | 
15-Mar-1944 | 
  | 
Editor of Die Zeit | 
| Robert D. Joffe | 
Attorney | 
26-May-1943 | 
28-Jan-2010 | 
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore | 
| James M. Johnson | 
Judge | 
c. 1946 | 
  | 
Justice, Washington Supreme Court | 
| Philip Johnson | 
Architect | 
8-Jul-1906 | 
25-Jan-2005 | 
The Glass House | 
| Phillip Johnson | 
Author | 
1940 | 
  | 
Intelligent Design theorist | 
| Robert David Johnson | 
Historian | 
27-Nov-1967 | 
  | 
Congress and the Cold War | 
| William Samuel Johnson | 
Educator | 
7-Oct-1727 | 
14-Nov-1819 | 
President of Columbia University, 1787-1800 | 
| David L. Johnston | 
Educator | 
c. 1942 | 
  | 
President, University of Waterloo | 
| L. Craig Johnstone | 
Diplomat | 
1-Sep-1942 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Algeria, 1985-88 | 
| Manfred Jonas | 
Historian | 
9-Apr-1927 | 
25-Aug-2013 | 
Isolationism in America, 1935-1941 | 
| Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. | 
Publisher | 
1946 | 
  | 
Washington Post publisher, 2000-08 | 
| Bobby Jones | 
Golf | 
17-Mar-1902 | 
18-Dec-1971 | 
Winner of 13 major championships | 
| G. Lewis Jones | 
Diplomat | 
18-May-1907 | 
13-Nov-1971 | 
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1956-59 | 
| Rashida Jones | 
Actor | 
25-Feb-1976 | 
  | 
Ann Perkins on Parks and Recreation | 
| Richard H. Jones | 
Diplomat | 
26-Aug-1950 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Israel, 2005-08 | 
| Tommy Lee Jones | 
Actor | 
15-Sep-1946 | 
  | 
Men in Black | 
| Dale W. Jorgenson | 
Economist | 
7-May-1933 | 
  | 
Economist at Harvard | 
| Fred Joseph | 
Business | 
22-Apr-1937 | 
27-Nov-2009 | 
CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert, 1985-90 | 
| Jonathan J. Judge | 
Business | 
c. 1954 | 
  | 
CEO of Paychex | 
| Percy Julian | 
Chemist | 
11-Apr-1899 | 
19-Apr-1975 | 
Physostigmine and cortisone | 
| Ted Kaczynski | 
Criminal | 
22-May-1942 | 
  | 
The Unabomber | 
| Leo P. Kadanoff | 
Physicist | 
14-Jan-1937 | 
26-Oct-2015 | 
Second-order phase transitions | 
| Jeremy Paul Kagan | 
Film Director | 
14-Dec-1945 | 
  | 
The Journey of Natty Gann | 
| Peter R. Kagan | 
Business | 
c. 1968 | 
  | 
Partner at Warburg Pincus | 
| Robert Kagan | 
Government | 
26-Sep-1958 | 
  | 
Influential neocon, cofounded PNAC | 
| David Kaiser | 
Physicist | 
14-Feb-1971 | 
  | 
How the Hippies Saved Physics | 
| David E. Kaiser | 
Historian | 
7-Jun-1947 | 
  | 
No End Save Victory | 
| Michio Kaku | 
Physicist | 
24-Jan-1947 | 
  | 
String Theory | 
| Bernard Kalb | 
Journalist | 
4-Feb-1922 | 
  | 
CBS and NBC news correspondent | 
| Marvin Kalb | 
Journalist | 
9-Jun-1930 | 
  | 
CBS and NBC news correspondent | 
| Eric R. Kandel | 
Scientist | 
7-Nov-1929 | 
  | 
Signal transduction in the nervous system | 
| Tim Kang | 
Actor | 
16-Mar-1973 | 
  | 
Kimball Cho on The Mentalist | 
| Peter R. Kann | 
Business | 
c. 1942 | 
  | 
CEO of Dow Jones, 1991-2006 | 
| Joel D. Kaplan | 
Government | 
c. 1969 | 
  | 
White House policy advisor | 
| Justin Kaplan | 
Author | 
5-Sep-1925 | 
2-Mar-2014 | 
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain | 
| Peter Kaplan | 
Editor | 
10-Feb-1954 | 
29-Nov-2013 | 
Editor-in-Chief, New York Observer | 
| Jerome Karle | 
Chemist | 
18-Jun-1918 | 
6-Jun-2013 | 
X-Ray diffraction studies | 
| Stanley Karnow | 
Journalist | 
4-Feb-1925 | 
27-Jan-2013 | 
In Our Image | 
| Martin Karplus | 
Chemist | 
15-Mar-1930 | 
  | 
Karplus Equation | 
| Kevin D. Katari | 
Business | 
c. 1969 | 
  | 
Watershed Asset Management | 
| Robert A. Katzmann | 
Judge | 
22-Apr-1953 | 
  | 
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals | 
| Juliette Kayyem | 
Government | 
16-Aug-1969 | 
  | 
Counterterrorism wonk | 
| David T. Kearns | 
Business | 
11-Aug-1930 | 
25-Feb-2011 | 
CEO of Xerox, 1985-91 | 
| David Keene | 
Administrator | 
? | 
  | 
American Conservative Union | 
| Barnaby C. Keeney | 
Educator | 
17-Oct-1914 | 
18-Jun-1980 | 
President of Brown University, 1955-66 | 
| Morton Keller | 
Historian | 
1-Mar-1929 | 
  | 
Regulating a New Economy | 
| Donald Kennedy | 
Educator | 
18-Aug-1931 | 
  | 
Editor-in-Chief of Science | 
| John F. Kennedy | 
Head of State | 
29-May-1917 | 
22-Nov-1963 | 
35th US President, 1961-63 | 
| Joseph P. Kennedy | 
Business | 
6-Sep-1888 | 
18-Nov-1969 | 
Smuggler and patriarch of the Kennedy clan | 
| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | 
Relative | 
17-Jan-1954 | 
  | 
Son of Robert F. Kennedy | 
| Robert F. Kennedy | 
Politician | 
20-Nov-1925 | 
6-Jun-1968 | 
Slain Presidential candidate | 
| Ted Kennedy | 
Politician | 
22-Feb-1932 | 
25-Aug-2009 | 
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1962-2009 | 
| Doug Kenney | 
Comic | 
10-Dec-1946 | 
27-Aug-1980 | 
National Lampoon cofounder | 
| Robert O. Keohane | 
Scholar | 
3-Oct-1941 | 
  | 
After Hegemony | 
| John Kerr | 
Actor | 
15-Nov-1931 | 
2-Feb-2013 | 
Tea and Sympathy | 
| Cameron Kerry | 
Relative | 
6-Sep-1950 | 
  | 
John Kerry's younger brother | 
| Charles R. Kesler | 
Scholar | 
c. 1956 | 
  | 
Conservative scholar | 
| John Key | 
Government | 
9-Aug-1961 | 
  | 
Prime Minister of New Zealand | 
| Alan Keyes | 
Radio Personality | 
7-Aug-1950 | 
  | 
Illinois carpetbagger | 
| Tracy Kidder | 
Author | 
12-Nov-1945 | 
  | 
The Soul of a New Machine | 
| Leo Kiely | 
Business | 
16-Jan-1947 | 
  | 
CEO of Molson Coors | 
| Jim Yong Kim | 
Administrator | 
8-Dec-1959 | 
  | 
President of the World Bank | 
| Ron Kind | 
Politician | 
16-Mar-1963 | 
  | 
Congressman, Wisconsin 3rd | 
| John W. King | 
Politician | 
10-Oct-1918 | 
9-Aug-1996 | 
Governor of New Hampshire, 1963-69 | 
| Thomas Starr King | 
Religion | 
17-Dec-1824 | 
4-Mar-1864 | 
Saved California to the Union | 
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | 
Head of State | 
17-Dec-1874 | 
22-Jul-1950 | 
Three-time Prime Minister of Canada | 
| Alfred Kinsey | 
Scientist | 
23-Jun-1894 | 
25-Aug-1956 | 
Researched human sexual behavior | 
| Michael Kinsley | 
Pundit | 
9-Mar-1951 | 
  | 
Founding editor of Slate | 
| Paul G. Kirk, Jr. | 
Politician | 
18-Jan-1938 | 
  | 
US Senator from Massachusetts | 
| Lincoln Kirstein | 
Author | 
4-May-1907 | 
5-Jan-1996 | 
Co-Founder, New York City Ballet | 
| Henry Kissinger | 
Government | 
27-May-1923 | 
  | 
US Secretary of State, 1973-77 | 
| Richard G. Kleindienst | 
Government | 
5-Aug-1923 | 
3-Feb-2000 | 
US Attorney General, 1972-73 | 
| Kevin Klose | 
Government | 
c. 1940 | 
  | 
CEO of National Public Radio | 
| William S. Knowles | 
Chemist | 
1-Jun-1917 | 
13-Jun-2012 | 
Chiral catalysts | 
| Kenneth Koch | 
Poet | 
27-Feb-1925 | 
6-Jul-2002 | 
On the Great Atlantic Rainway | 
| Richard H. Kohn | 
Historian | 
29-Dec-1940 | 
  | 
Eagle and Sword | 
| Walter Kohn | 
Chemist | 
9-Mar-1923 | 
19-Apr-2016 | 
Density-functional theory | 
| Gabriel Kolko | 
Historian | 
17-Aug-1932 | 
  | 
Century of War | 
| Mort Kondracke | 
Columnist | 
28-Apr-1939 | 
  | 
Tolerated by Fox, McLaughlin | 
| Arthur Kopit | 
Playwright | 
10-May-1937 | 
  | 
Mama's Hung You in the Closet | 
| Roger D. Kornberg | 
Scientist | 
24-Apr-1947 | 
  | 
Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription | 
| Bruce Kovner | 
Activist | 
Feb-1945 | 
  | 
Caxton Associates billionaire | 
| Jonathan Kozol | 
Educator | 
5-Sep-1936 | 
  | 
Death at an Early Age | 
| Hilton Kramer | 
Critic | 
25-Mar-1928 | 
27-Mar-2012 | 
The New Criterion | 
| Stephen Krasner | 
Educator | 
15-Feb-1942 | 
  | 
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 | 
| Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. | 
Military | 
c. 1950 | 
  | 
The Army and Vietnam | 
| Nicholas D. Kristof | 
Journalist | 
27-Apr-1959 | 
  | 
New York Times Op-Ed columnist | 
| Bill Kristol | 
Columnist | 
23-Dec-1952 | 
  | 
Editor of The Weekly Standard | 
| George A. Krol | 
Diplomat | 
1956 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Belarus, 2003-06 | 
| Randall S. Kroszner | 
Economist | 
22-Jun-1962 | 
  | 
Federal Reserve Governor | 
| Thomas Kuhn | 
Author | 
18-Jul-1922 | 
17-Jun-1996 | 
Structure of Scientific Revolutions | 
| Stanley Kunitz | 
Poet | 
29-Jul-1905 | 
14-May-2006 | 
US Poet Laureate, 2000 | 
| Erich Kunzel | 
Conductor | 
21-Mar-1935 | 
1-Sep-2009 | 
Conductor, Cincinnati Pops, 1977-2009 | 
| Lawrence Lader | 
Activist | 
6-Aug-1919 | 
7-May-2006 | 
Father of abortion rights activism | 
| Anthony Lake | 
Government | 
2-Apr-1939 | 
  | 
Clinton's National Security Advisor | 
| Everett J. Lake | 
Politician | 
8-Feb-1871 | 
16-Sep-1948 | 
Governor of Connecticut, 1921-23 | 
| Corliss Lamont | 
Activist | 
28-Mar-1902 | 
26-Apr-1995 | 
Millionaire socialist | 
| Thomas W. Lamont | 
Business | 
30-Sep-1870 | 
2-Feb-1948 | 
Banker and diplomat | 
| Lisa Lampanelli | 
Comic | 
19-Jul-1961 | 
  | 
Insult Comic | 
| Edwin H. Land | 
Inventor | 
7-May-1909 | 
1-Mar-1991 | 
Polaroid Land Camera | 
| Richard Landes | 
Scholar | 
24-Jun-1949 | 
  | 
Center for Millennial Studies | 
| William Leonard Langer | 
Historian | 
16-Mar-1896 | 
26-Dec-1977 | 
Our Vichy Gamble | 
| Samuel P. Langley | 
Astronomer | 
22-Aug-1834 | 
2-Feb-1906 | 
Heavier-than-air flying machine | 
| Christopher Lasch | 
Author | 
1-Jun-1932 | 
14-Feb-1994 | 
The Culture of Narcissism | 
| Owen Lattimore | 
Author | 
29-Jul-1900 | 
31-May-1989 | 
Scholar of Mongolia | 
| James Laughlin | 
Publisher | 
30-Oct-1914 | 
12-Nov-1997 | 
Founder, New Directions Press | 
| Bernard Cardinal Law | 
Religion | 
4-Nov-1931 | 
  | 
Archbishop of Boston, 1984-2002 | 
| Edward Lazear | 
Economist | 
1948 | 
  | 
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors | 
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt | 
Astronomer | 
4-Jul-1868 | 
12-Dec-1921 | 
Cepheid variable | 
| John LeBoutillier | 
Politician | 
26-May-1953 | 
  | 
Congressman from New York, 1981-83 | 
| John C. Lechleiter | 
Business | 
c. 1953 | 
  | 
CEO of Eli Lilly | 
| Philip Leder | 
Biologist | 
19-Nov-1934 | 
  | 
Harvard Geneticist | 
| David M. Lee | 
Physicist | 
20-Jan-1931 | 
  | 
Superfluidity of helium-3 | 
| Jennifer 8. Lee | 
Journalist | 
15-Mar-1976 | 
  | 
New York Times reporter | 
| Kewsong Lee | 
Business | 
c. 1965 | 
  | 
Managing Director, Warburg Pincus | 
| Yuan T. Lee | 
Chemist | 
29-Nov-1936 | 
  | 
Crossed molecular beam experiments | 
| David W. Leebron | 
Educator | 
1956 | 
  | 
President, Rice University | 
| Jean-Marie Lehn | 
Chemist | 
30-Sep-1939 | 
  | 
Synthesis of molecules | 
| Tom Lehrer | 
Comic | 
9-Apr-1928 | 
  | 
Comedic songwriter | 
| Lew Lehrman | 
Business | 
15-Aug-1938 | 
  | 
Rite Aid drugstore founder | 
| Jack Lemmon | 
Actor | 
8-Feb-1925 | 
27-Jun-2001 | 
The Odd Couple | 
| Leslie Lenkowsky | 
Government | 
30-Mar-1946 | 
  | 
Philanthropic Studies | 
| James F. Leonard | 
Diplomat | 
30-May-1920 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to the UN, 1977-79 | 
| Richard W. Leopold | 
Historian | 
6-Jan-1912 | 
23-Nov-2006 | 
Robert Dale Owen: A Biography | 
| Alan Jay Lerner | 
Playwright | 
31-Aug-1918 | 
14-Jun-1986 | 
An American in Paris | 
| Jeremy Leven | 
Film Director | 
1941 | 
  | 
Don Juan DeMarco | 
| Burton Levin | 
Diplomat | 
28-Sep-1930 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Burma, 1987-90 | 
| Daniel B. Levin | 
Government | 
4-Mar-1956 | 
  | 
Justice Department attorney | 
| Linda Fayne Levinson | 
Business | 
c. 1942 | 
  | 
Vendare Media Corporation | 
| Steven Levitt | 
Economist | 
1968 | 
  | 
Freakonomics | 
| Marv Levy | 
Football | 
3-Aug-1925 | 
  | 
NFL, CFL, and NCAA coach | 
| Jacob J. Lew | 
Government | 
29-Aug-1955 | 
  | 
US Secretary of the Treasury | 
| Albert Lewin | 
Film Director | 
23-Sep-1894 | 
9-May-1968 | 
The Picture of Dorian Gray | 
| William M. Lewis, Jr. | 
Business | 
30-Apr-1956 | 
  | 
Co-Chair Investment Banking at Lazard | 
| Anthony Lewis | 
Journalist | 
27-Mar-1927 | 
25-Mar-2013 | 
Gideon's Trumpet | 
| John P. Lewis | 
Economist | 
18-Mar-1921 | 
19-May-2010 | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1963-64 | 
| Marlo Lewis, Jr. | 
Activist | 
c. 1951 | 
  | 
Global Warming critic | 
| W. Walker Lewis | 
Business | 
c. 1945 | 
  | 
Devon Value Advisers | 
| Richard A. Licht | 
Politician | 
25-Mar-1948 | 
  | 
Lt. Governor of Rhode Island, 1985-89 | 
| S. Robert Lichter | 
Scholar | 
28-Aug-1948 | 
  | 
Center for Media and Public Affairs | 
| Allan J. Lichtman | 
Historian | 
4-Apr-1947 | 
  | 
The Keys to the White House | 
| Robert Jay Lifton | 
Psychiatrist | 
16-May-1926 | 
  | 
The Nazi Doctors | 
| Charles P. Light, Jr. | 
Attorney | 
1902 | 
1976 | 
Prominent Washington attorney, law professor | 
| Jeremy Lin | 
Basketball | 
23-Aug-1988 | 
  | 
Charlotte Hornets point guard | 
| Maya Lin | 
Artist | 
5-Oct-1959 | 
  | 
Designed Vietnam Veterans Memorial | 
| Robert Todd Lincoln | 
Politician | 
1-Aug-1843 | 
26-Jul-1926 | 
US Secretary of War, 1881-85 | 
| Albert S. Lindemann | 
Historian | 
19-May-1938 | 
  | 
Esau's Tears | 
| Susan L. Lindquist | 
Biologist | 
5-Jun-1949 | 
  | 
Protein folding | 
| Howard Lindsay | 
Playwright | 
29-Mar-1889 | 
11-Feb-1968 | 
The Sound of Music | 
| Larry Lindsey | 
Economist | 
18-Jul-1954 | 
  | 
Masterminded GWB's tax cut | 
| Ralph Linton | 
Anthropologist | 
27-Feb-1893 | 
25-Dec-1953 | 
The Study of Man | 
| Walter Lippmann | 
Journalist | 
23-Sep-1889 | 
14-Dec-1974 | 
Today and Tomorrow | 
| John Lithgow | 
Actor | 
19-Oct-1945 | 
  | 
Third Rock From The Sun | 
| Alain Locke | 
Author | 
13-Sep-1886 | 
9-Jun-1954 | 
Leader in the Harlem Renaissance | 
| Henry Cabot Lodge | 
Politician | 
12-May-1850 | 
9-Nov-1924 | 
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924 | 
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | 
Politician | 
5-Jul-1902 | 
27-Feb-1985 | 
Ambassador, Massachusetts Senator | 
| John Davis Lodge | 
Politician | 
20-Oct-1903 | 
29-Oct-1985 | 
Governor of Connecticut, 1951-55 | 
| Rayford W. Logan | 
Historian | 
7-Jan-1897 | 
4-Nov-1982 | 
The Negro in American Life and Thought | 
| Donal Logue | 
Actor | 
27-Feb-1966 | 
  | 
Jimmy the Cab Driver | 
| Nicholas Longworth | 
Politician | 
5-Nov-1869 | 
9-Apr-1931 | 
Congressman from Ohio, 1903-31 | 
| Edward Lorenz | 
Scientist | 
23-May-1917 | 
16-Apr-2008 | 
Chaos theory | 
| Alan D. Lourie | 
Judge | 
13-Jan-1935 | 
  | 
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit | 
| Arthur O. Lovejoy | 
Historian | 
10-Oct-1873 | 
30-Dec-1962 | 
The Great Chain of Being | 
| Robert A. Lovett | 
Government | 
14-Sep-1895 | 
7-May-1986 | 
US Secretary of Defense, 1951-53 | 
| A. Lawrence Lowell | 
Educator | 
1-Jan-1856 | 
6-Jan-1943 | 
President, Harvard University, 1909-33 | 
| James Russell Lowell | 
Author | 
22-Feb-1819 | 
12-Aug-1891 | 
The Biglow Papers | 
| Percival Lowell | 
Astronomer | 
13-Mar-1855 | 
12-Nov-1916 | 
Predicted existence of planet Pluto | 
| Robert Lowell | 
Poet | 
1-Mar-1917 | 
12-Sep-1977 | 
Lord Weary's Castle | 
| Annette Lu | 
Politician | 
7-Jun-1944 | 
  | 
Vice President of Taiwan | 
| Carrie Lukas | 
Activist | 
? | 
  | 
Independent Women's Forum | 
| Robert Luskin | 
Attorney | 
21-Jan-1950 | 
  | 
Karl Rove's lawyer | 
| Douglas Lute | 
Military | 
c. 1953 | 
  | 
White House War Czar | 
| Willem J. Luyten | 
Astronomer | 
7-Mar-1899 | 
21-Nov-1994 | 
Stellar mortician | 
| Princeton Lyman | 
Diplomat | 
20-Nov-1935 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to South Africa, 1992-95 | 
| Richard W. Lyman | 
Educator | 
18-Oct-1923 | 
27-May-2012 | 
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 | 
| Loretta E. Lynch | 
Government | 
21-May-1959 | 
  | 
U.S. Attorney General | 
| Michael Lynton | 
Business | 
c. 1960 | 
  | 
CEO of Sony Entertainment | 
| Cecil B. Lyon | 
Diplomat | 
8-Nov-1903 | 
6-Apr-1993 | 
US Ambassador to Chile, Sri Lanka | 
| Champ Lyons, Jr. | 
Judge | 
6-Dec-1940 | 
  | 
Justice, Alabama Supreme Court | 
| Yo-Yo Ma | 
Cellist | 
7-Oct-1955 | 
  | 
Cellist, The Silk Road Ensemble | 
| James MacArthur | 
Actor | 
8-Dec-1937 | 
28-Oct-2010 | 
Dano from Hawaii 5-O | 
| Torbert H. Macdonald | 
Politician | 
6-Jun-1917 | 
21-May-1976 | 
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1955-76 | 
| David Lyle Mack | 
Diplomat | 
10-Jun-1940 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to the UAE, 1986-89 | 
| Percy MacKaye | 
Playwright | 
16-Mar-1875 | 
31-Aug-1956 | 
The Canterbury Pilgrims | 
| Charles MacVeagh | 
Attorney | 
6-Jun-1860 | 
4-Dec-1931 | 
US Ambassador to Japan, 1925-28 | 
| Lincoln MacVeagh | 
Diplomat | 
1-Oct-1890 | 
15-Jan-1972 | 
Roosevelt's Ambassador to Greece | 
| Miguel de la Madrid | 
Head of State | 
12-Dec-1934 | 
1-Apr-2012 | 
President of Mexico, 1982-88 | 
| Norman Mailer | 
Author | 
31-Jan-1923 | 
10-Nov-2007 | 
Armies of the Night | 
| Minoru Makihara | 
Business | 
12-Jan-1930 | 
  | 
President of Mitsubishi, 1992-98 | 
| Terrence Malick | 
Film Director | 
30-Nov-1943 | 
  | 
Badlands | 
| Burton Malkiel | 
Economist | 
28-Aug-1932 | 
  | 
A Random Walk Down Wall Street | 
| Mahmood Mamdani | 
Author | 
? | 
  | 
When Victims Become Killers | 
| Michael Mandelbaum | 
Author | 
23-Sep-1946 | 
  | 
The Global Rivals | 
| James Mann | 
Author | 
18-Sep-1946 | 
  | 
Rise of the Vulcans | 
| Stanley Marcus | 
Business | 
20-Apr-1905 | 
22-Jan-2002 | 
CEO of Neiman-Marcus, 1950-72 | 
| Guillermo G. Marmol | 
Business | 
c. 1955 | 
  | 
Former Partner, McKinsey & Company | 
| John P. Marquand | 
Novelist | 
10-Nov-1893 | 
16-Jul-1960 | 
The Late George Apley | 
| Margaret H. Marshall | 
Judge | 
1-Sep-1944 | 
  | 
Massachusetts Chief Justice | 
| Siri S. Marshall | 
Business | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
General Counsel for General Mills, 1994-2008 | 
| William Moulton Marston | 
Inventor | 
9-May-1893 | 
2-May-1947 | 
Invented polygraph, Wonder Woman | 
| Robert L. Martensen | 
Doctor | 
1-Jan-1947 | 
26-Sep-2013 | 
The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History | 
| William Martin | 
Novelist | 
c. 1950 | 
  | 
Back Bay | 
| Lauro Martines | 
Historian | 
22-Nov-1927 | 
  | 
The Social World of the Florentine Humanists | 
| Eric Maskin | 
Economist | 
12-Dec-1950 | 
  | 
Mechanism design theory | 
| Cotton Mather | 
Religion | 
12-Feb-1663 | 
13-Feb-1728 | 
Pastor at Boston North Church | 
| Increase Mather | 
Religion | 
21-Jun-1639 | 
23-Aug-1723 | 
Massachusetts Puritan leader | 
| Jim Matheson | 
Politician | 
21-Mar-1960 | 
  | 
Congressman, Utah 2nd | 
| Harry Mathews | 
Author | 
14-Feb-1930 | 
  | 
My Life in CIA | 
| Sylvia M. Mathews | 
Administrator | 
1965 | 
  | 
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 
| F. O. Matthiessen | 
Critic | 
19-Feb-1902 | 
1-Apr-1950 | 
American Renaissance | 
| Garrett Mattingly | 
Historian | 
6-May-1900 | 
18-Dec-1962 | 
Renaissance Diplomacy | 
| Antonia Maury | 
Astronomer | 
21-Mar-1866 | 
8-Jan-1952 | 
Stellar classification | 
| William Maxwell | 
Novelist | 
16-Aug-1908 | 
31-Jul-2000 | 
The Folded Leaf | 
| Jonathan Mayhew | 
Religion | 
8-Oct-1720 | 
9-Jul-1766 | 
Congregationalist minister, anti-Royalist | 
| Thom Mayne | 
Architect | 
1943 | 
  | 
Architect, 2005 Pritzker Prize winner | 
| Wiley Mayne | 
Politician | 
19-Jan-1917 | 
27-May-2007 | 
Congressman from Iowa, 1967-75 | 
| John McCardell | 
Educator | 
17-Jun-1949 | 
  | 
Vice Chancellor, University of the South | 
| Karen McCarthy | 
Politician | 
18-Mar-1947 | 
5-Oct-2010 | 
Congresswoman from Missouri, 1995-2005 | 
| Michael McCaul | 
Politician | 
14-Jan-1962 | 
  | 
Congressman, Texas 10th | 
| Stanley McChrystal | 
Military | 
14-Aug-1954 | 
  | 
Commander, US Forces Afghanistan, 2009-10 | 
| Mark McClellan | 
Government | 
26-Jun-1963 | 
  | 
Medicare Chief | 
| John J. McCloy | 
Military | 
31-Mar-1895 | 
11-Mar-1989 | 
World Bank, Warren Commission | 
| Pat McCormick | 
Comic | 
30-Jun-1927 | 
29-Jul-2005 | 
Smokey and the Bandit | 
| Paul W. McCracken | 
Economist | 
29-Dec-1915 | 
3-Aug-2012 | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 | 
| James S. McDonald | 
Business | 
26-Jan-1953 | 
12-Sep-2009 | 
CEO of Rockefeller & Co. | 
| Neil H. McElroy | 
Government | 
30-Oct-1904 | 
30-Nov-1972 | 
US Secretary of Defense, 1957-59 | 
| F. Warren McFarlan | 
Educator | 
c. 1937 | 
  | 
Baker Foundation Professor | 
| Edward McGaffigan | 
Government | 
8-Dec-1948 | 
2-Sep-2007 | 
NRC Commissioner, 1996-2007 | 
| Henry McGee | 
Business | 
c. 1954 | 
  | 
President of HBO Video | 
| James McGreevey | 
Politician | 
6-Aug-1957 | 
  | 
Governor of New Jersey, 2002-04 | 
| Raymond J. McGuire | 
Business | 
1957 | 
  | 
Citigroup M&A executive | 
| Bill McKibben | 
Activist | 
8-Dec-1960 | 
  | 
The End of Nature | 
| John McLean | 
Judge | 
11-Mar-1785 | 
4-Apr-1861 | 
US Supreme Court Justice, 1829-61 | 
| William G. McLoughlin | 
Historian | 
11-Jun-1922 | 
28-Dec-1992 | 
New England Dissent | 
| Scott McNealy | 
Business | 
13-Nov-1954 | 
  | 
Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems | 
| Barbara J. McNeil | 
Educator | 
c. 1940 | 
  | 
Harvard Professor of Health Care Policy | 
| George Herbert Mead | 
Philosopher | 
27-Feb-1863 | 
26-Apr-1931 | 
Pragmatist, social behaviorist | 
| Sanjeev K. Mehra | 
Business | 
c. 1960 | 
  | 
Partner, Goldman Sachs | 
| Ved Mehta | 
Author | 
21-Mar-1934 | 
  | 
Face to Face | 
| Keith A. Meister | 
Business | 
c. 1973 | 
  | 
Icahn Enterprises | 
| Craig C. Mello | 
Scientist | 
19-Oct-1960 | 
  | 
RNA interference | 
| Frederick Merk | 
Historian | 
15-Aug-1887 | 
24-Sep-1977 | 
Slavery and the Annexation of Texas | 
| Robert K. Merton | 
Sociologist | 
4-Jul-1910 | 
23-Feb-2003 | 
On the Shoulders of Giants | 
| Tom Mesereau | 
Attorney | 
1950 | 
  | 
Defended Michael Jackson | 
| Thomas M. Messer | 
Curator | 
9-Feb-1920 | 
15-May-2013 | 
Director of the Guggenheim, 1961-88 | 
| Bob Metcalfe | 
Business | 
1946 | 
  | 
Co-Inventor of Ethernet | 
| Mary S. Metz | 
Educator | 
c. 1937 | 
  | 
President of Mills College, 1981-90 | 
| James W. Michaels | 
Journalist | 
17-Jun-1921 | 
2-Oct-2007 | 
Longtime Forbes editor | 
| Alexis P. Michas | 
Business | 
c. 1954 | 
  | 
Co-Founder, Stonington Partners Inc. | 
| Michael W. Michelson | 
Business | 
c. 1952 | 
  | 
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts | 
| Empress Michiko | 
Royalty | 
20-Oct-1934 | 
  | 
Empress of Japan | 
| J. William Middendorf II | 
Diplomat | 
22-Sep-1924 | 
  | 
Ford's Secretary of the Navy | 
| Richard M. Miles | 
Diplomat | 
8-Jan-1937 | 
  | 
Former US Ambassador to Georgia, Bulgaria | 
| Stanley Milgram | 
Psychologist | 
15-Aug-1933 | 
20-Dec-1984 | 
Milgram Experiment | 
| David Miller | 
Politician | 
26-Dec-1958 | 
  | 
Mayor of Toronto, 2003-10 | 
| David C. Miller | 
Diplomat | 
15-Jul-1942 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 1984-86 | 
| J. Hillis Miller | 
Critic | 
5-Mar-1928 | 
  | 
Deconstructionist literary critic | 
| Merton H. Miller | 
Economist | 
16-May-1923 | 
3-Jun-2000 | 
Modigliani-Miller theorem | 
| Robert H. Miller | 
Diplomat | 
8-Sep-1927 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, 1983-86 | 
| Stuart A. Miller | 
Business | 
1957 | 
  | 
CEO of Lennar | 
| Karen Gordon Mills | 
Business | 
c. 1953 | 
  | 
Solera Capital LLC | 
| Ogden L. Mills | 
Government | 
23-Aug-1884 | 
11-Oct-1937 | 
US Treasury Secretary, 1932-33 | 
| Eric Mindich | 
Business | 
1967 | 
  | 
Eton Park Capital Management | 
| George R. Minot | 
Doctor | 
2-Dec-1885 | 
25-Feb-1950 | 
Liver therapy for pernicious anemia | 
| Martha L. Minow | 
Attorney | 
6-Dec-1954 | 
  | 
Dean of Harvard Law School | 
| Peter Minowitz | 
Political Scientist | 
1955 | 
  | 
Profits, Priests, and Princes | 
| Hyman Minsky | 
Economist | 
23-Sep-1919 | 
25-Oct-1996 | 
Inherently unstable markets | 
| Marvin Minsky | 
Scientist | 
9-Aug-1927 | 
24-Jan-2016 | 
Father of Artificial Intelligence | 
| Cleta Mitchell | 
Attorney | 
1950 | 
  | 
Conservative lawyer | 
| Elvis Mitchell | 
Critic | 
1958 | 
  | 
New York Times film critic | 
| A. Malachi Mixon III | 
Business | 
c. 1940 | 
  | 
CEO of Invacare | 
| Goenawan Mohammad | 
Journalist | 
29-Jul-1941 | 
  | 
Muckraking Indonesian journalist | 
| Thomas L. Monahan III | 
Business | 
c. 1966 | 
  | 
The Corporate Executive Board Company | 
| William H. Moody | 
Judge | 
23-Feb-1853 | 
2-Jul-1917 | 
US Supreme Court Justice, 1906-10 | 
| William Vaughn Moody | 
Playwright | 
8-Jul-1869 | 
17-Oct-1910 | 
The Great Divide | 
| Gwen Moore | 
Politician | 
18-Apr-1951 | 
  | 
Congresswoman, Wisconsin 4th | 
| Robin Moore | 
Author | 
31-Oct-1925 | 
21-Feb-2008 | 
The Green Berets | 
| Rodman W. Moorhead III | 
Business | 
c. 1944 | 
  | 
Former Managing Director, Warburg Pincus | 
| Sandra O. Moose | 
Business | 
c. 1941 | 
  | 
Ex-VP, Boston Consulting Group | 
| Paul Elmer More | 
Scholar | 
12-Dec-1864 | 
9-Mar-1937 | 
Shelburne Essays | 
| Tom Morello | 
Guitarist | 
30-May-1964 | 
  | 
Rage Against the Machine | 
| Edmund S. Morgan | 
Historian | 
17-Jan-1916 | 
8-Jul-2013 | 
The Puritan Dilemma | 
| Henry S. Morgan | 
Business | 
24-Oct-1900 | 
8-Feb-1982 | 
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley | 
| J. P. Morgan, Jr. | 
Business | 
7-Sep-1867 | 
13-Mar-1943 | 
Banking magnate, J. P. Morgan & Co. | 
| Samuel Eliot Morison | 
Historian | 
9-Jul-1887 | 
15-May-1976 | 
Rear Admiral and naval historian | 
| Robert Morris, Jr. | 
Computer Programmer | 
8-Nov-1965 | 
  | 
Author of 1988 Huge Internet Worm | 
| Jonathan Mostow | 
Film Director | 
28-Nov-1961 | 
  | 
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | 
| Robert Motherwell | 
Painter | 
24-Jan-1915 | 
16-Jul-1991 | 
Abstract expressionist | 
| John Lothrop Motley | 
Diplomat | 
15-Apr-1814 | 
29-May-1877 | 
The Rise of the Dutch Republic | 
| Ben R. Mottelson | 
Physicist | 
9-Jul-1926 | 
  | 
Determined shapes of nuclei | 
| Leo F. Mullin | 
Business | 
26-Jan-1943 | 
  | 
CEO of Delta Airlines, 1997-2004 | 
| Alicia H. Munnell | 
Economist | 
12-Jun-1942 | 
  | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97 | 
| James Murdoch | 
Business | 
13-Dec-1972 | 
  | 
Rupert Murdoch's heir-apparent | 
| Michael E. Murphy | 
Government | 
1962 | 
  | 
Founding partner, D.C. Navigators | 
| Richard W. Murphy | 
Diplomat | 
29-Jul-1929 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Syria, 1974-78 | 
| Scott Murphy | 
Politician | 
26-Jan-1970 | 
  | 
Congressman from New York, 2009-11 | 
| Charles Murray | 
Author | 
1943 | 
  | 
The Bell Curve | 
| Terrence Murray | 
Business | 
c. 1939 | 
  | 
CEO of FleetBoston | 
| Roger B. Myerson | 
Economist | 
29-Mar-1951 | 
  | 
Mechanism design theory | 
| Vladimir Nabokov | 
Novelist | 
23-Apr-1899 | 
2-Jul-1977 | 
Lolita | 
| Ethan Nadelmann | 
Activist | 
13-Mar-1957 | 
  | 
Drug Policy Alliance | 
| Thomas Nagel | 
Philosopher | 
4-Jul-1937 | 
  | 
What is it like to be a bat? | 
| Ajay Naidu | 
Actor | 
12-Feb-1972 | 
  | 
Samir in Office Space | 
| Mira Nair | 
Film Director | 
15-Oct-1957 | 
  | 
Salaam Bombay! | 
| John Naisbitt | 
Author | 
15-Jan-1929 | 
  | 
Megatrends | 
| Ogden Nash | 
Poet | 
19-Aug-1902 | 
19-May-1971 | 
Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker | 
| Victor Navasky | 
Publisher | 
5-Jul-1932 | 
  | 
Publisher of The Nation | 
| Glen D. Nelson | 
Business | 
c. 1938 | 
  | 
Vice Chairman of Medtronic, 1988-2002 | 
| Ted Nelson | 
Computer Programmer | 
17-Jun-1937 | 
  | 
Hypertext pioneer, Xanadu | 
| Hassan Nemazee | 
Business | 
27-Jan-1950 | 
  | 
Nemazee Capital Corporation | 
| Howard Nemerov | 
Poet | 
1-Mar-1920 | 
5-Jul-1991 | 
US Poet Laureate, 1987-88 | 
| Simon Newcomb | 
Astronomer | 
12-Mar-1835 | 
11-Jul-1909 | 
Nautical Almanac | 
| Joseph P. Newhouse | 
Economist | 
24-Feb-1942 | 
  | 
Rand economist, Harvard professor | 
| Michael H. Newlin | 
Diplomat | 
16-May-1926 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Algeria, 1981-85 | 
| Frank N. Newman | 
Business | 
20-Apr-1942 | 
  | 
CEO of Bankers Trust, 1996-99 | 
| Howard H. Newman | 
Business | 
c. 1947 | 
  | 
Former Partner, Warburg Pincus | 
| David G. Newton | 
Diplomat | 
13-Nov-1935 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Iraq, 1984-88 | 
| Susan Niditch | 
Scholar | 
1950 | 
  | 
Folklore and the Hebrew Bible | 
| Thomas Niles | 
Diplomat | 
22-Sep-1939 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Greece, 1993-97 | 
| William Niskanen | 
Administrator | 
13-Mar-1933 | 
26-Oct-2011 | 
Chairman of the Cato Institute | 
| Paul Nitze | 
Diplomat | 
16-Jan-1907 | 
19-Oct-2004 | 
US cold warrior | 
| Janne E. Nolan | 
Educator | 
28-Dec-1951 | 
  | 
Defense and foreign policy analyst | 
| John T. Noonan, Jr. | 
Judge | 
24-Oct-1926 | 
  | 
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1985-96 | 
| Charles Nordhoff | 
Novelist | 
1-Feb-1887 | 
10-Apr-1947 | 
Mutiny on the Bounty | 
| Grover Norquist | 
Activist | 
19-Oct-1956 | 
  | 
Washington lobbyist, anti-tax crusader | 
| Dean Norris | 
Actor | 
c. 1963 | 
  | 
Hank Schrader on Breaking Bad | 
| Frank Norris | 
Novelist | 
5-Mar-1870 | 
25-Oct-1902 | 
The Octopus | 
| Charles Eliot Norton | 
Scholar | 
16-Nov-1827 | 
21-Oct-1908 | 
American man of letters | 
| B. J. Novak | 
Actor | 
31-Jul-1979 | 
  | 
Ryan Howard on The Office | 
| Michael Novak | 
Religion | 
9-Sep-1933 | 
  | 
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism | 
| Neil S. Novich | 
Business | 
c. 1954 | 
  | 
CEO of Ryerson, 2006-07 | 
| Ryoji Noyori | 
Chemist | 
3-Sep-1938 | 
  | 
Chiral catalysts | 
| Martha Nussbaum | 
Philosopher | 
6-May-1947 | 
  | 
The Fragility of Goodness | 
| Joseph S. Nye | 
Government | 
19-Jan-1937 | 
  | 
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94 | 
| Conan O'Brien | 
Talk Show Host | 
18-Apr-1963 | 
  | 
Briefly hosted The Tonight Show | 
| John F. O'Brien | 
Business | 
c. 1943 | 
  | 
CEO of Allmerica Financial, 1995-2002 | 
| Soledad O'Brien | 
Journalist | 
19-Sep-1966 | 
  | 
CNN newscaster | 
| Kenneth P. O'Donnell | 
Politician | 
4-Mar-1924 | 
9-Sep-1977 | 
Assistant to President Kennedy | 
| Lawrence O'Donnell | 
Journalist | 
7-Nov-1951 | 
  | 
MSNBC political analyst | 
| Sean O'Faolain | 
Novelist | 
22-Feb-1900 | 
20-Apr-1991 | 
Come Back to Erin | 
| Frank O'Hara | 
Poet | 
27-Jun-1926 | 
25-Jul-1966 | 
Meditations in an Emergency | 
| Michael O'Hare | 
Actor | 
6-May-1952 | 
28-Sep-2012 | 
Jeffrey Sinclair on Babylon 5 | 
| Eugene O'Neill | 
Playwright | 
16-Oct-1888 | 
27-Nov-1953 | 
Long Day's Journey Into Night | 
| Onora O'Neill | 
Philosopher | 
23-Aug-1941 | 
  | 
President of the British Academy, 2005-09 | 
| Bill O'Reilly | 
Talk Show Host | 
10-Sep-1949 | 
  | 
The O'Reilly Factor | 
| Tim O'Reilly | 
Publisher | 
6-Jun-1954 | 
  | 
Publisher, O'Reilly Media | 
| Bertil Ohlin | 
Economist | 
23-Apr-1899 | 
3-Aug-1979 | 
Hecksher-Ohlin model of free trade | 
| Tom Oliphant | 
Columnist | 
c. 1945 | 
  | 
Boston Globe columnist | 
| John Ong | 
Diplomat | 
29-Sep-1933 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Norway, 2002-05 | 
| Walter J. Ong | 
Scholar | 
30-Nov-1912 | 
12-Aug-2003 | 
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word | 
| Ernst J. Öpik | 
Astronomer | 
23-Oct-1893 | 
10-Sep-1985 | 
Andromeda Nebula | 
| Robert Oppenheimer | 
Physicist | 
22-Apr-1904 | 
18-Feb-1967 | 
Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project | 
| Robert Endicott Osgood | 
Historian | 
14-Aug-1921 | 
28-Dec-1986 | 
Limited War | 
| James Otis | 
Government | 
5-Feb-1725 | 
23-May-1783 | 
Massachusetts patriot and pamphleteer | 
| Henry D. Owen | 
Diplomat | 
26-Aug-1920 | 
5-Nov-2011 | 
US Ambassador at Large, 1977-81 | 
| Catherine Oxenberg | 
Actor | 
22-Sep-1961 | 
  | 
Amanda Carrington on Dynasty | 
| David W. Oxtoby | 
Educator | 
1951 | 
  | 
President, Pomona College | 
| Mehmet Oz | 
Doctor | 
11-Jun-1960 | 
  | 
Healing from the Heart | 
| Douglas H. Paal | 
Diplomat | 
? | 
  | 
Director, American Institute in Taiwan, 2002-06 | 
| Peter Pace | 
Military | 
5-Nov-1945 | 
  | 
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2005-07 | 
| Robert P. Paganelli | 
Diplomat | 
3-Nov-1931 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Syria, 1981-84 | 
| Elaine Pagels | 
Historian | 
13-Feb-1943 | 
  | 
The Gnostic Gospels | 
| Ajit V. Pai | 
Attorney | 
10-Jan-1973 | 
  | 
FCC Commissioner | 
| Nell Irvin Painter | 
Historian | 
2-Aug-1942 | 
  | 
Creating Black Americans | 
| George Pake | 
Scientist | 
1-Apr-1924 | 
4-Mar-2004 | 
First director of Xerox PARC | 
| Anthony Pantaleoni | 
Attorney | 
29-May-1939 | 
  | 
Fulbright & Jaworski | 
| Andreas Papandreou | 
Head of State | 
5-Feb-1919 | 
23-Jun-1996 | 
Twice Prime Minister of Greece | 
| George A. Papandreou | 
Head of State | 
16-Jun-1952 | 
  | 
Prime Minister of Greece, 2009-11 | 
| Robert E. Park | 
Sociologist | 
14-Feb-1864 | 
7-Feb-1944 | 
Race and Culture | 
| Anthony W. Parker | 
Business | 
c. 1945 | 
  | 
GOP activist | 
| William H. Parker | 
Government | 
21-Jun-1902 | 
16-Jul-1966 | 
Chief of LAPD, 1950-66 | 
| Francis Parkman | 
Historian | 
16-Sep-1823 | 
8-Nov-1893 | 
France and England in North America | 
| Vernon Louis Parrington | 
Historian | 
3-Aug-1871 | 
16-Jun-1929 | 
Main Currents in American Thought | 
| Gram Parsons | 
Musician | 
5-Nov-1946 | 
19-Sep-1973 | 
Flying Burrito Brothers | 
| John Dos Passos | 
Author | 
14-Jan-1896 | 
28-Sep-1970 | 
U.S.A. Trilogy | 
| William C. Pate | 
Business | 
c. 1963 | 
  | 
Equity Group Investments | 
| Deval Patrick | 
Politician | 
31-Jul-1956 | 
  | 
Governor of Massachusetts | 
| David C. Patterson | 
Business | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
Brandywine Trust Company | 
| William J. Patterson | 
Business | 
27-Jan-1962 | 
24-Sep-2010 | 
SPO Partners & Co. | 
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | 
Astronomer | 
10-May-1900 | 
7-Dec-1979 | 
Hydrogen in the Sun | 
| Endicott Peabody | 
Politician | 
15-Feb-1920 | 
1-Dec-1997 | 
Governor of Massachusetts, 1963-65 | 
| M. Scott Peck | 
Author | 
22-May-1936 | 
25-Sep-2005 | 
The Road Less Traveled | 
| Merton J. Peck | 
Economist | 
17-Dec-1925 | 
1-Mar-2013 | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69 | 
| I. M. Pei | 
Architect | 
26-Apr-1917 | 
  | 
Designed Louvre's glass pyramid | 
| Benjamin Peirce | 
Mathematician | 
4-Apr-1809 | 
10-Jun-1880 | 
Idempotent and nilpotent | 
| Charles Sanders Peirce | 
Philosopher | 
10-Sep-1839 | 
19-Apr-1914 | 
Founder of Pragmatism | 
| Herbert C. Pell | 
Diplomat | 
16-Feb-1884 | 
17-Jul-1961 | 
US Ambassador to Portugal, 1937-41 | 
| Mark Penn | 
Government | 
5-Jan-1954 | 
  | 
Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign strategist | 
| Boies Penrose | 
Politician | 
1-Nov-1860 | 
31-Dec-1921 | 
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1897-1921 | 
| Marty Peretz | 
Publisher | 
c. 1937 | 
  | 
Co-Owner, The New Republic | 
| Bradford Perkins | 
Historian | 
6-Mar-1925 | 
29-Jun-2008 | 
Castlereagh and Adams | 
| Dexter Perkins | 
Historian | 
20-Jun-1889 | 
12-May-1984 | 
The Monroe Doctrine | 
| George R. Perkovich | 
Author | 
c. 1959 | 
  | 
India's Nuclear Bomb | 
| Ken Perlin | 
Scientist | 
c. 1957 | 
  | 
Perlin noise | 
| Saul Perlmutter | 
Astronomer | 
22-Sep-1959 | 
  | 
Accelerating expansion of the universe | 
| Thomas Petri | 
Politician | 
28-May-1940 | 
  | 
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1979-2015 | 
| William Lyon Phelps | 
Critic | 
2-Jan-1865 | 
21-Aug-1943 | 
Essays on Modern Novelists | 
| Howard Phillips | 
Activist | 
3-Feb-1941 | 
20-Apr-2013 | 
Founder, US Taxpayers Party | 
| John Phillips | 
Educator | 
27-Dec-1719 | 
21-Apr-1795 | 
Founder of Phillips Exeter Academy | 
| Samuel Phillips, Jr. | 
Educator | 
5-Feb-1752 | 
10-Feb-1802 | 
Founder of Phillips Academy | 
| Irving Pichel | 
Film Director | 
24-Jun-1891 | 
13-Jul-1954 | 
Destination Moon | 
| Edward Charles Pickering | 
Astronomer | 
19-Jul-1846 | 
3-Feb-1919 | 
Photometer inventor and surveyor | 
| Timothy Pickering | 
Politician | 
17-Jul-1745 | 
29-Jan-1829 | 
US Secretary of State, 1795-1800 | 
| Sebastián Piñera | 
Head of State | 
1-Dec-1949 | 
  | 
President of Chile | 
| Steven Pinker | 
Linguist | 
18-Sep-1954 | 
  | 
The Language Instinct | 
| Daniel Pipes | 
Government | 
9-Sep-1949 | 
  | 
Influential neocon | 
| Walter Piston | 
Composer | 
20-Jan-1894 | 
12-Nov-1976 | 
Symphony No. 3 | 
| Gilbert Plass | 
Physicist | 
22-Mar-1922 | 
1-Mar-2004 | 
Climate change scientist | 
| Nicholas Platt | 
Diplomat | 
10-Mar-1936 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1991-92 | 
| George Plimpton | 
Author | 
18-Mar-1927 | 
25-Sep-2003 | 
Paper Lion | 
| David Plotz | 
Journalist | 
13-Jan-1970 | 
  | 
Editor of Slate | 
| Richard Poirier | 
Critic | 
9-Sep-1925 | 
15-Aug-2009 | 
Raritan, A Quarterly Review | 
| H. David Politzer | 
Physicist | 
31-Aug-1949 | 
  | 
Deep structure of matter | 
| Carl Pope | 
Activist | 
c. 1945 | 
  | 
Executive Director, The Sierra Club | 
| Jeremy D. Popkin | 
Historian | 
19-Dec-1948 | 
  | 
Revolutionary News: The Press in France | 
| David H. Popper | 
Diplomat | 
3-Oct-1912 | 
24-Jul-2008 | 
US Ambassador to Chile, 1974-77 | 
| Charles O. Porter | 
Politician | 
4-Apr-1919 | 
1-Jan-2006 | 
Congressman from Oregon, 1957-61 | 
| Cole Porter | 
Composer | 
9-Jun-1891 | 
15-Oct-1964 | 
I've Got You Under My Skin | 
| Michael Porter | 
Scholar | 
1947 | 
  | 
Competitive Strategy | 
| Roger B. Porter | 
Educator | 
19-Jun-1946 | 
  | 
Professor, Kennedy School of Government | 
| Natalie Portman | 
Actor | 
9-Jun-1981 | 
  | 
Black Swan | 
| Adam Posen | 
Scholar | 
? | 
  | 
Institute for International Economics | 
| Wesley W. Posvar | 
Educator | 
14-Sep-1925 | 
27-Jul-2001 | 
Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh, 1967-91 | 
| Trevor Potter | 
Attorney | 
24-Oct-1955 | 
  | 
FEC Commissioner, 1991-95 | 
| Roscoe Pound | 
Judge | 
27-Oct-1870 | 
1-Jul-1964 | 
Sociological jurisprudence | 
| Kendall J. Powell | 
Business | 
c. 1954 | 
  | 
CEO of General Mills | 
| Robert Pozen | 
Business | 
1946 | 
  | 
Fidelity Investments | 
| William H. Prescott | 
Historian | 
4-May-1796 | 
28-Jan-1859 | 
The Conquest of Mexico | 
| Eric Press | 
Business | 
c. 1965 | 
  | 
Apollo Management | 
| Penny Pritzker | 
Business | 
2-May-1959 | 
  | 
US Secretary of Commerce | 
| Francis Paul Prucha | 
Historian | 
4-Jan-1921 | 
30-Jul-2015 | 
The Great Father | 
| E. M. Purcell | 
Physicist | 
30-Aug-1912 | 
7-Mar-1997 | 
Nuclear magnetic resonance | 
| Jon Purnell | 
Diplomat | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Uzbekistan, 2004-07 | 
| Nathan M. Pusey | 
Educator | 
4-Apr-1907 | 
14-Nov-2001 | 
President of Harvard, 1953-71 | 
| Stephen R. Quazzo | 
Business | 
c. 1960 | 
  | 
Transwestern Investment Company | 
| Carroll Quigley | 
Educator | 
9-Nov-1910 | 
3-Jan-1977 | 
Harvard professor, mentor to Bill Clinton | 
| Josiah Quincy | 
Educator | 
4-Feb-1772 | 
1-Jul-1864 | 
President of Harvard, 1829-45 | 
| Willard Van Orman Quine | 
Philosopher | 
25-Jun-1908 | 
25-Dec-2000 | 
Two Dogmas of Empiricism | 
| Paul J. Quirk | 
Political Scientist | 
14-Apr-1949 | 
  | 
The Politics of Deregulation | 
| Maxwell M. Rabb | 
Attorney | 
28-Sep-1910 | 
9-Jun-2002 | 
US Ambassador to Italy, 1981-89 | 
| Peter Railton | 
Philosopher | 
23-May-1950 | 
  | 
Facts, Values, and Norms | 
| Franklin Raines | 
Government | 
14-Jan-1949 | 
  | 
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004 | 
| Jack N. Rakove | 
Historian | 
4-Jun-1947 | 
  | 
Original Meanings | 
| Bruce Ratner | 
Business | 
23-Jan-1945 | 
  | 
New York City developer | 
| Alan Charles Raul | 
Government | 
9-Sep-1954 | 
  | 
Sidley & Austin | 
| Bruce Rauner | 
Politician | 
18-Feb-1957 | 
  | 
Governor of Illinois | 
| Charles Redman | 
Diplomat | 
24-Dec-1943 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Germany, 1994-96 | 
| Sumner Redstone | 
Business | 
27-May-1923 | 
  | 
Chairman and CEO of Viacom | 
| Henry Hope Reed | 
Critic | 
25-Sep-1915 | 
1-May-2013 | 
American Skyline | 
| Jack Reed | 
Activist | 
22-Oct-1887 | 
19-Oct-1920 | 
Ten Days That Shook the World | 
| Donald Regan | 
Government | 
21-Dec-1918 | 
10-Jun-2003 | 
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1981-85 | 
| Henry Regnery | 
Publisher | 
5-Jan-1912 | 
18-Jun-1996 | 
Regnery Publishing | 
| William Rehnquist | 
Judge | 
1-Oct-1924 | 
3-Sep-2005 | 
US Chief Justice, 1986-2005 | 
| Jehuda Reinharz | 
Educator | 
1944 | 
  | 
President, Brandeis University | 
| Edwin O. Reischauer | 
Diplomat | 
15-Oct-1910 | 
1-Sep-1990 | 
US Ambassador to Japan, 1961-66 | 
| Robert D. Reischauer | 
Administrator | 
c. 1941 | 
  | 
President of the Urban Institute | 
| Stephen Reno | 
Educator | 
c. 1943 | 
  | 
Chancellor, University System of New Hampshire | 
| Nicolas P. Retsinas | 
Government | 
? | 
  | 
Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard | 
| Mel Reynolds | 
Politician | 
8-Jan-1952 | 
  | 
Congressman from Illinois, 1993-95 | 
| Michelle Rhee | 
Activist | 
25-Dec-1969 | 
  | 
DC Public Schools Chancellor, 2007-10 | 
| Syngman Rhee | 
Head of State | 
26-Mar-1875 | 
19-Jul-1965 | 
First President of South Korea | 
| John J. Rhodes | 
Politician | 
18-Sep-1916 | 
24-Aug-2003 | 
Congressman from Arizona, 1953-83 | 
| Nicholas V. Riasanovsky | 
Historian | 
21-Dec-1923 | 
14-May-2011 | 
A History of Russia | 
| Frank Rich | 
Columnist | 
2-Jun-1949 | 
  | 
New York magazine | 
| John K. Richards | 
Attorney | 
15-Mar-1856 | 
1-Mar-1909 | 
US Solicitor General, 1897-1903 | 
| Theodore W. Richards | 
Chemist | 
31-Jan-1868 | 
2-Apr-1928 | 
Atomic weights | 
| Elliot Richardson | 
Government | 
20-Jul-1920 | 
31-Dec-1999 | 
Refused to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor | 
| William A. Richardson | 
Politician | 
2-Nov-1821 | 
19-Oct-1896 | 
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1873-74 | 
| Tom Ridge | 
Politician | 
26-Aug-1945 | 
  | 
US Secretary of Homeland Security, 2003-04 | 
| Bruce Riedel | 
Spy | 
c. 1953 | 
  | 
CIA Near East Asia Specialist | 
| Adam G. Riess | 
Astronomer | 
1969 | 
  | 
Accelerating expansion of the universe | 
| Charles R. Ritcheson | 
Historian | 
26-Feb-1925 | 
8-Dec-2011 | 
British Politics and the American Revolution | 
| Dennis Ritchie | 
Computer Programmer | 
9-Sep-1941 | 
12-Oct-2011 | 
Co-Creator of UNIX | 
| Michael Ritchie | 
Film Director | 
28-Nov-1938 | 
16-Apr-2001 | 
The Candidate | 
| Hugh H. Roberts | 
Business | 
c. 1951 | 
  | 
Former Kraft Foods executive | 
| John G. Roberts, Jr. | 
Judge | 
27-Jan-1955 | 
  | 
US Chief Justice | 
| Philip R. Roberts | 
Business | 
18-Feb-1942 | 
  | 
Roberts Ventures, LLC | 
| Richard J. Roberts | 
Scientist | 
6-Sep-1943 | 
  | 
Eukaryotic (split) genes | 
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | 
Poet | 
22-Dec-1869 | 
6-Apr-1935 | 
The Man Against the Sky | 
| Eugene H. Robinson | 
Journalist | 
12-Mar-1954 | 
  | 
Associate Editor, Washington Post | 
| James Harvey Robinson | 
Historian | 
29-Jun-1863 | 
16-Feb-1936 | 
The Mind in the Making | 
| Linda Robinson | 
Journalist | 
15-Jan-1960 | 
  | 
US News and World Report | 
| Mo Rocca | 
Comic | 
28-Jan-1969 | 
  | 
Senior correspondent, The Daily Show | 
| V. Manuel Rocha | 
Diplomat | 
? | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Bolivia, 2000-02 | 
| David Rockefeller | 
Business | 
12-Jun-1915 | 
  | 
Founder of the Trilateral Commission | 
| Jay Rockefeller | 
Politician | 
18-Jun-1937 | 
  | 
US Senator from West Virginia | 
| Stephen K. Roddenberry | 
Attorney | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
Akerman Senterfitt | 
| Buddy Roemer | 
Politician | 
4-Oct-1943 | 
  | 
Governor of Louisiana, 1988-92 | 
| Theodore Roethke | 
Poet | 
25-May-1908 | 
1-Aug-1963 | 
The Waking | 
| Eddy J. Rogers, Jr. | 
Attorney | 
1940 | 
  | 
Partner, Andrews Kurth | 
| Peter Rojas | 
Blogger | 
c. 1975 | 
  | 
Gizmodo, Engadget | 
| Ann Romney | 
First Lady | 
16-Apr-1949 | 
  | 
Wife of Mitt Romney | 
| Archie Roosevelt | 
Relative | 
9-Apr-1894 | 
13-Oct-1979 | 
Conservative leader against New Deal | 
| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. | 
Politician | 
17-Aug-1914 | 
17-Aug-1988 | 
Congressman from New York, 1949-55 | 
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 
Head of State | 
30-Jan-1882 | 
12-Apr-1945 | 
US President during WWII | 
| James Roosevelt | 
Politician | 
23-Dec-1907 | 
13-Aug-1991 | 
Congressman from California, 1955-65 | 
| Kermit Roosevelt | 
Relative | 
10-Oct-1889 | 
4-Jun-1943 | 
Theodore Roosevelt's son | 
| Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. | 
Government | 
16-Feb-1916 | 
8-Jun-2000 | 
1953 Iran coup | 
| Theodore Roosevelt | 
Head of State | 
27-Oct-1858 | 
6-Jan-1919 | 
26th US President, 1901-09 | 
| Theodore Roosevelt IV | 
Business | 
27-Nov-1942 | 
  | 
Lehman Brothers | 
| Harvey S. Rosen | 
Economist | 
29-Mar-1949 | 
  | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 | 
| Stephen A. Ross | 
Economist | 
c. 1943 | 
  | 
Professor of Financial Economics, MIT | 
| Marc Rotenberg | 
Activist | 
20-Apr-1960 | 
  | 
Electronic Privacy Information Center | 
| Nouriel Roubini | 
Economist | 
29-Mar-1958 | 
  | 
Dr. Doom, Roubini Global Economics | 
| Robert E. Rubin | 
Government | 
29-Aug-1938 | 
  | 
US Treasury Secretary, 1995-99 | 
| George Rublee | 
Diplomat | 
7-Jul-1868 | 
26-Apr-1957 | 
Advisor to Woodrow Wilson | 
| Neil Rudenstine | 
Educator | 
21-Jan-1935 | 
  | 
President of Harvard, 1991-2001 | 
| Paul Rudolph | 
Architect | 
23-Oct-1918 | 
8-Aug-1997 | 
Brutalist architect | 
| Andrew Russell | 
Aristocrat | 
30-Mar-1962 | 
  | 
14th Duke of Bedford | 
| Jeffrey Sachs | 
Economist | 
5-Nov-1954 | 
  | 
The End of Poverty | 
| Peter Sagal | 
Radio Personality | 
31-Jan-1965 | 
  | 
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! | 
| Jeff Sagansky | 
Business | 
26-Jan-1952 | 
  | 
President, CBS Entertainment, 1990-94 | 
| Edward Said | 
Educator | 
1-Nov-1935 | 
25-Sep-2003 | 
Orientalism | 
| Kazuhiko Sakamoto | 
Business | 
1945 | 
  | 
Marubeni Corporation | 
| Meredith Salenger | 
Actor | 
14-Mar-1970 | 
  | 
The Journey of Natty Gann | 
| Carlos Salinas | 
Head of State | 
3-Apr-1948 | 
  | 
President of Mexico, 1988-94 | 
| Leverett Saltonstall | 
Politician | 
1-Sep-1892 | 
17-Jun-1979 | 
US Senator from Masachusetts, 1945-67 | 
| Gary Samore | 
Government | 
31-Mar-1953 | 
  | 
White House WMD Czar, 2009-13 | 
| Richard Samp | 
Activist | 
c. 1952 | 
  | 
Chief counsel, Washington Legal Foundation | 
| Paul Samuelson | 
Economist | 
15-May-1915 | 
13-Dec-2009 | 
Theory of revealed preference | 
| Robert J. Samuelson | 
Columnist | 
23-Dec-1945 | 
  | 
Newsweek columnist | 
| Bengt I. Samuelsson | 
Scientist | 
21-May-1934 | 
  | 
Prostaglandins | 
| Sheryl Sandberg | 
Business | 
28-Aug-1969 | 
  | 
COO of Facebook | 
| Steve Sandvoss | 
Actor | 
23-Jun-1980 | 
  | 
Latter Days | 
| Edward Terry Sanford | 
Judge | 
23-Jul-1865 | 
8-Mar-1930 | 
US Supreme Court Justice, 1923-30 | 
| David E. Sanger | 
Journalist | 
5-Jul-1960 | 
  | 
NYT Chief Washington Correspondent | 
| George Santayana | 
Philosopher | 
16-Dec-1863 | 
26-Sep-1952 | 
The Realms of Being | 
| Juan Manuel Santos | 
Head of State | 
10-Aug-1951 | 
  | 
President of Colombia | 
| Ronald L. Sargent | 
Business | 
1955 | 
  | 
CEO of Staples | 
| Thomas J. Sargent | 
Economist | 
19-Jul-1943 | 
  | 
Rational expectations theory | 
| Jim Sasser | 
Politician | 
30-Sep-1936 | 
  | 
US Senator from Tennessee, 1977-95 | 
| Vicki L. Sato | 
Business | 
c. 1947 | 
  | 
President of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, 2000-05 | 
| Eduardo Saverin | 
Business | 
13-Mar-1982 | 
  | 
Co-Founder of Facebook | 
| Robert A. Scalapino | 
Scholar | 
19-Oct-1919 | 
31-Oct-2011 | 
Longtime Asia scholar at Berkeley | 
| Howard B. Schaffer | 
Diplomat | 
21-Jul-1929 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Bangladesh, 1984-87 | 
| Sydney Schanberg | 
Journalist | 
17-Jan-1934 | 
9-Jul-2016 | 
The Death and Life of Dith Pran | 
| Orville Schell | 
Author | 
20-May-1940 | 
  | 
Prominent sinologist | 
| Thomas C. Schelling | 
Economist | 
14-Apr-1921 | 
  | 
The Strategy of Conflict | 
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | 
Historian | 
15-Oct-1917 | 
28-Feb-2007 | 
The Age of Roosevelt | 
| David Schlesinger | 
Journalist | 
15-Apr-1960 | 
  | 
Editor-in-Chief of Reuters | 
| James R. Schlesinger | 
Government | 
15-Feb-1929 | 
27-Mar-2014 | 
Served Nixon, Ford, Carter | 
| Brian P. Schmidt | 
Astronomer | 
24-Feb-1967 | 
  | 
Accelerating universe | 
| John R. Schmidt | 
Attorney | 
1943 | 
  | 
Partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw | 
| Jack Schmitt | 
Astronaut | 
3-Jul-1935 | 
  | 
12th Man on the Moon | 
| Bill Schneider | 
Pundit | 
8-Oct-1944 | 
  | 
CNN senior political analyst | 
| Cynthia P. Schneider | 
Scholar | 
16-Aug-1953 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1998-2001 | 
| Carl E. Schorske | 
Historian | 
15-Mar-1915 | 
13-Sep-2015 | 
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture | 
| Richard R. Schrock | 
Chemist | 
4-Jan-1945 | 
  | 
Metathesis | 
| Michael Schudson | 
Sociologist | 
3-Nov-1946 | 
  | 
Discovering the News | 
| Chuck Schumer | 
Politician | 
23-Nov-1950 | 
  | 
US Senator from New York | 
| Delmore Schwartz | 
Poet | 
8-Dec-1913 | 
11-Jul-1966 | 
Summer Knowledge | 
| Mark Schwartz | 
Business | 
? | 
  | 
Former CEO, Soros Fund Management | 
| Bobby Scott | 
Politician | 
30-Apr-1947 | 
  | 
Congressman, Virginia 3rd | 
| Charles Seeger | 
Musicologist | 
14-Dec-1886 | 
7-Feb-1979 | 
American musicologist | 
| Pete Seeger | 
Singer/Songwriter | 
3-May-1919 | 
27-Jan-2014 | 
We Shall Overcome | 
| Erich Segal | 
Novelist | 
16-Jun-1937 | 
17-Jan-2010 | 
Love Story | 
| John F. Seiberling | 
Politician | 
8-Sep-1918 | 
2-Aug-2008 | 
Congressman from Ohio, 1971-87 | 
| George Seldes | 
Journalist | 
16-Nov-1890 | 
2-Jul-1995 | 
Witness to a Century | 
| Charles G. Sellers | 
Historian | 
9-Sep-1923 | 
  | 
James K. Polk | 
| Bruce M. Selya | 
Judge | 
27-May-1934 | 
  | 
1st Circuit Court of Appeals, 1986-2006 | 
| Roger Sessions | 
Composer | 
28-Dec-1896 | 
16-Mar-1985 | 
Concerto for Orchestra | 
| Joe Sestak | 
Politician | 
12-Dec-1951 | 
  | 
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 2007-11 | 
| Marc J. Shapiro | 
Business | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, 1997-2003 | 
| Robert B. Shapiro | 
Business | 
4-Aug-1938 | 
  | 
CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000 | 
| Lloyd S. Shapley | 
Mathematician | 
2-Jun-1923 | 
12-Mar-2016 | 
Theory of stable allocations | 
| K. Barry Sharpless | 
Chemist | 
28-Apr-1941 | 
  | 
Chiral catalysts | 
| Kathryn L. Shaw | 
Economist | 
c. 1954 | 
  | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 | 
| Wallace Shawn | 
Actor | 
12-Nov-1943 | 
  | 
Ate dinner with Andre | 
| Harry Shearer | 
Comic | 
23-Dec-1943 | 
  | 
Almost half the voices on The Simpsons | 
| Daniel P. Sheehan | 
Activist | 
1946 | 
  | 
Christic Institute | 
| Neil Sheehan | 
Journalist | 
27-Oct-1936 | 
  | 
A Bright Shining Lie | 
| Hugh Shelton | 
Military | 
2-Jan-1942 | 
  | 
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1997-2001 | 
| John H. Shenefield | 
Attorney | 
23-Jan-1930 | 
  | 
Morgan Lewis | 
| Robert E. Sherwood | 
Playwright | 
4-Apr-1896 | 
14-Nov-1955 | 
Abe Lincoln in Illinois | 
| Thomas J. Shields | 
Business | 
c. 1947 | 
  | 
Shields & Company | 
| Willow B. Shire | 
Business | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
Orchard Consulting Group | 
| Thomas P. Shoesmith | 
Diplomat | 
25-Jan-1922 | 
26-Apr-2007 | 
US Ambassador to Malaysia, 1983-87 | 
| Alex Shoumatoff | 
Author | 
4-Nov-1946 | 
  | 
The Mountain of Names | 
| Bob Shrum | 
Activist | 
1943 | 
  | 
Democratic political strategist | 
| Elisabeth Shue | 
Actor | 
6-Oct-1963 | 
  | 
Leaving Las Vegas | 
| Alexander Shulgin | 
Chemist | 
17-Jun-1925 | 
2-Jun-2014 | 
Rediscovered MDMA | 
| Stanley S. Shuman | 
Business | 
c. 1934 | 
  | 
Allen & Company | 
| William Shurcliff | 
Physicist | 
27-Mar-1909 | 
20-Jun-2006 | 
Manhattan Project physicist | 
| Kenton J. Sicchitano | 
Business | 
c. 1944 | 
  | 
Former Partner, PWC | 
| Laurie A. Siegel | 
Business | 
c. 1957 | 
  | 
Senior VP HR at Tyco | 
| Richard D. Simmons | 
Business | 
30-Dec-1934 | 
  | 
President of Washington Post Co., 1981-91 | 
| Ruth J. Simmons | 
Educator | 
3-Jul-1945 | 
  | 
President, Brown University | 
| John Simon | 
Critic | 
12-May-1925 | 
  | 
Reviewer for New York magazine | 
| Thomas W. Simons | 
Diplomat | 
4-Sep-1938 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1995-98 | 
| Christopher A. Sims | 
Economist | 
21-Oct-1942 | 
  | 
Statistical theory of time series | 
| Ronald L. Skates | 
Business | 
c. 1942 | 
  | 
CEO of Data General, 1989-99 | 
| B. F. Skinner | 
Psychologist | 
20-Mar-1904 | 
18-Aug-1990 | 
Radical Behaviorism | 
| Theda Skocpol | 
Educator | 
4-May-1947 | 
  | 
Harvard sociologist, political scientist | 
| Barbara Slavin | 
Journalist | 
1951 | 
  | 
Sr. Diplomatic Reporter, USA Today | 
| Carl S. Sloane | 
Business | 
1937 | 
  | 
Co-Founder, Temple, Barker & Sloane | 
| Benjamin A. Smith II | 
Politician | 
16-Mar-1916 | 
6-Sep-1991 | 
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1960-62 | 
| Kent Smith | 
Actor | 
19-Mar-1907 | 
23-Apr-1985 | 
Cat People | 
| Peter Smith | 
Educator | 
31-Oct-1945 | 
  | 
President, CSU Monterey Bay, 1995-2005 | 
| Richard Norton Smith | 
Historian | 
1953 | 
  | 
Presidential historian | 
| Rick Smith | 
Business | 
c. 1972 | 
  | 
CEO of TASER International | 
| Vernon L. Smith | 
Economist | 
1-Jan-1927 | 
  | 
Experimental economics | 
| Lee Smolin | 
Physicist | 
1955 | 
  | 
The Trouble with Physics | 
| Charles W. Socarides | 
Activist | 
24-Jan-1922 | 
25-Dec-2005 | 
Deprogrammer of homosexuals | 
| Robert M. Solow | 
Economist | 
23-Aug-1924 | 
  | 
Theory of economic growth | 
| Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld | 
Educator | 
c. 1954 | 
  | 
Chief Executive Leadership Institute | 
| Han Duck Soo | 
Head of State | 
18-Jun-1949 | 
  | 
Prime Minister of South Korea | 
| Mira Sorvino | 
Actor | 
28-Sep-1967 | 
  | 
Mighty Aphrodite | 
| David Souter | 
Judge | 
17-Sep-1939 | 
  | 
US Supreme Court Justice, 1990-2009 | 
| Thomas Sowell | 
Economist | 
30-Jul-1930 | 
  | 
Conservative economist, Hoover fellow | 
| Jared Sparks | 
Author | 
10-May-1789 | 
14-Mar-1866 | 
Life and Writings of George Washington | 
| A. Michael Spence | 
Economist | 
7-Nov-1943 | 
  | 
Asymmetric markets | 
| Ambrose Spencer | 
Politician | 
13-Dec-1765 | 
13-Mar-1848 | 
Congressman and Judge from New York | 
| Roger W. Sperry | 
Scientist | 
20-Aug-1913 | 
17-Apr-1994 | 
"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology | 
| Joel Elias Spingarn | 
Critic | 
17-May-1875 | 
26-Jul-1939 | 
Literary critic, NAACP leader | 
| Lyman Spitzer, Jr. | 
Astronomer | 
26-Jun-1914 | 
31-Mar-1997 | 
Father of space telescopes | 
| Lawrence E. Spivak | 
TV Personality | 
11-Jun-1900 | 
9-Mar-1994 | 
Meet the Press | 
| Harley O. Staggers, Jr. | 
Politician | 
22-Feb-1951 | 
  | 
Congressman from West Virginia, 1983-93 | 
| Richard Stallman | 
Computer Programmer | 
16-Mar-1953 | 
  | 
Founder, GNU software project | 
| Craig Stapleton | 
Diplomat | 
c. 1945 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to France | 
| Chauncey Starr | 
Physicist | 
14-Apr-1912 | 
17-Apr-2007 | 
Electric Power Research Institute | 
| Paul Starr | 
Educator | 
12-May-1949 | 
  | 
The Social Transformation of American Medicine | 
| Ronald Steel | 
Scholar | 
25-Mar-1931 | 
  | 
Pax Americana | 
| Jill Stein | 
Doctor | 
14-May-1950 | 
  | 
Green Party presidential candidate, 2012 and 2016 | 
| William H. Stein | 
Chemist | 
25-Jun-1911 | 
2-Feb-1980 | 
Amino-acid analyzer | 
| James B. Steinberg | 
Government | 
7-May-1953 | 
  | 
Deputy Secretary of State | 
| George Steiner | 
Critic | 
23-Apr-1929 | 
  | 
After Babel | 
| Thomas A. Steitz | 
Scientist | 
23-Aug-1940 | 
  | 
Ribosomes | 
| Tom Stemberg | 
Business | 
18-Jan-1949 | 
23-Oct-2015 | 
Founder and CEO of Staples, Inc. | 
| Jay B. Stephens | 
Attorney | 
5-Nov-1946 | 
  | 
General Counsel of Raytheon | 
| Thomas F. Stephenson | 
Business | 
c. 1942 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Portugal | 
| Daniel H. Stern | 
Business | 
c. 1961 | 
  | 
Reservoir Capital Group | 
| Paula Stern | 
Government | 
31-Mar-1945 | 
  | 
Chairman, Int'l. Trade Commission, 1984-86 | 
| Richard G. Stern | 
Novelist | 
25-Feb-1928 | 
24-Jan-2013 | 
Other Men's Daughters | 
| Wallace Stevens | 
Poet | 
2-Oct-1879 | 
2-Aug-1955 | 
Harmonium | 
| Adlai E. Stevenson III | 
Politician | 
10-Oct-1930 | 
  | 
US Senator from Illinois, 1970-81 | 
| Thomas A. Stewart | 
Editor | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
Editor, Harvard Business Review | 
| Whit Stillman | 
Film Director | 
25-Jan-1952 | 
  | 
The Last Days of Disco | 
| Henry L. Stimson | 
Government | 
21-Sep-1867 | 
20-Oct-1950 | 
US Secretary of War 1911-13, 1940-45 | 
| Richard Stites | 
Historian | 
2-Dec-1931 | 
7-Mar-2010 | 
The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia | 
| Todd Stitzer | 
Business | 
Mar-1952 | 
  | 
CEO of Cadbury Schweppes | 
| David Stockman | 
Government | 
10-Nov-1946 | 
  | 
Ronald Reagan's chief economist | 
| Nicholas Stoller | 
Screenwriter | 
19-Mar-1976 | 
  | 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall | 
| Richard B. Stone | 
Politician | 
22-Sep-1928 | 
  | 
US Senator from Florida, 1975-80 | 
| Gerald L. Storch | 
Business | 
c. 1957 | 
  | 
CEO of Toys R Us | 
| Joseph Story | 
Judge | 
18-Sep-1779 | 
10-Sep-1845 | 
US Supreme Court Justice, 1812-45 | 
| William Wetmore Story | 
Sculptor | 
12-Feb-1819 | 
7-Oct-1895 | 
Cleopatra | 
| Samuel S. Stratton | 
Politician | 
27-Sep-1916 | 
13-Sep-1990 | 
Congressman from New York | 
| Nadine Strossen | 
Activist | 
18-Aug-1950 | 
  | 
President of the ACLU | 
| Gerry Studds | 
Politician | 
12-May-1937 | 
14-Oct-2006 | 
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1973-97 | 
| Thomas J. Sugrue | 
Historian | 
24-Jul-1962 | 
  | 
The Origins of the Urban Crisis | 
| Andrew Sullivan | 
Journalist | 
10-Aug-1963 | 
  | 
The Daily Dish | 
| Lawrence H. Summers | 
Economist | 
30-Nov-1954 | 
  | 
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 | 
| Charles Sumner | 
Politician | 
6-Jan-1811 | 
11-Mar-1874 | 
Anti-slavery Senator from Massachusetts | 
| James B. Sumner | 
Chemist | 
19-Nov-1887 | 
12-Aug-1955 | 
Crystallized enzymes | 
| Cass Sunstein | 
Scholar | 
21-Sep-1954 | 
  | 
Why Societies Need Dissent | 
| David Susskind | 
Talk Show Host | 
19-Dec-1920 | 
22-Feb-1987 | 
The David Susskind Show | 
| Phillip Swagel | 
Government | 
c. 1965 | 
  | 
Bush economist | 
| Emory C. Swank | 
Diplomat | 
29-Jan-1922 | 
3-Jun-2010 | 
US Ambassador to Cambodia, 1970-73 | 
| Harold R. Swearer | 
Educator | 
13-Oct-1932 | 
19-Oct-1991 | 
President of Brown University, 1977-88 | 
| Fife Symington | 
Politician | 
12-Aug-1945 | 
  | 
Governor of Arizona, 1991-97 | 
| Robert A. Taft | 
Politician | 
8-Sep-1889 | 
31-Jul-1953 | 
US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53 | 
| David K. Y. Tang | 
Attorney | 
c. 1953 | 
  | 
Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | 
| William Taubman | 
Author | 
13-Nov-1940 | 
  | 
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | 
| Helen B. Taussig | 
Doctor | 
24-May-1898 | 
20-May-1986 | 
Mother of pediatric cardiology | 
| Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. | 
Astronomer | 
24-Mar-1941 | 
  | 
Co-Discovered first binary pulsar | 
| Ernest Thayer | 
Poet | 
14-Aug-1863 | 
21-Aug-1940 | 
Casey at the Bat | 
| Abigail Thernstrom | 
Author | 
1936 | 
  | 
Opponent of Affirmative Action | 
| Stephan Thernstrom | 
Scholar | 
1934 | 
  | 
Neoconservative thinker | 
| Evan Thomas | 
Journalist | 
25-Apr-1951 | 
  | 
Newsweek | 
| Jonathan Taylor Thomas | 
Actor | 
8-Sep-1981 | 
  | 
Randy on Home Improvement | 
| Pamela Thomas-Graham | 
Business | 
24-Jun-1963 | 
  | 
CEO of CNBC, 2001-05 | 
| Virgil Thomson | 
Composer | 
25-Nov-1896 | 
30-Sep-1989 | 
Four Saints in Three Acts | 
| Henry David Thoreau | 
Author | 
12-Jul-1817 | 
6-May-1862 | 
Walden | 
| John L. Thornton | 
Business | 
c. 1954 | 
  | 
President of Goldman Sachs, 1999-2003 | 
| Lester Thurow | 
Economist | 
7-May-1938 | 
25-Mar-2016 | 
Sloan School of Management | 
| Baratunde Thurston | 
Comic | 
11-Sep-1977 | 
  | 
How to Be Black | 
| James Toback | 
Film Director | 
23-Nov-1944 | 
  | 
The Pick-up Artist | 
| James Tobin | 
Economist | 
5-Mar-1918 | 
11-Mar-2002 | 
Investment behaviorist | 
| James R. Tobin | 
Business | 
c. 1944 | 
  | 
CEO of Boston Scientific | 
| Jeffrey Toobin | 
Attorney | 
21-May-1960 | 
  | 
CNN Senior Legal Analyst | 
| Pat Toomey | 
Politician | 
17-Nov-1961 | 
  | 
US Senator from Pennsylvania | 
| Malcolm Toon | 
Diplomat | 
4-Jul-1916 | 
12-Feb-2009 | 
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1976-79 | 
| Kathleen Kennedy Townsend | 
Politician | 
4-Jul-1951 | 
  | 
Lt. Governor of Maryland, 1995-2003 | 
| Marvin S. Traub | 
Business | 
14-Apr-1925 | 
11-Jul-2012 | 
CEO of Bloomingdale's, 1978-92 | 
| Laurence Tribe | 
Attorney | 
10-Oct-1941 | 
  | 
Harvard Law Professor | 
| William Monroe Trotter | 
Activist | 
7-Apr-1872 | 
7-Apr-1934 | 
Co-founder, Boston Guardian | 
| Pierre Trudeau | 
Head of State | 
18-Oct-1919 | 
28-Sep-2000 | 
Twice Prime Minister of Canada | 
| John Trumbull | 
Painter | 
6-Jun-1756 | 
10-Nov-1843 | 
American Revolutionary painter | 
| Jonathan Trumbull | 
Politician | 
12-Oct-1710 | 
17-Aug-1785 | 
Governor of Connecticut, 1769-84 | 
| Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. | 
Politician | 
26-Mar-1740 | 
7-Aug-1809 | 
Governor of Connecticut, 1797-1809 | 
| Daniel K. K. Tseung | 
Business | 
c. 1971 | 
  | 
Sun Hung Kai Properties | 
| Roger Y. Tsien | 
Scientist | 
1-Feb-1952 | 
24-Aug-2016 | 
Green Fluorescent Protein | 
| Jim Guy Tucker | 
Politician | 
13-Jun-1943 | 
  | 
Governor of Arkansas, 1992-96 | 
| Royall Tyler | 
Playwright | 
18-Jul-1757 | 
26-Aug-1826 | 
The Contrast | 
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | 
Astronomer | 
5-Oct-1958 | 
  | 
Astrophysicist | 
| Harlan Ullman | 
Columnist | 
15-Mar-1941 | 
  | 
Shock and Awe | 
| Theodore W. Ullyot | 
Attorney | 
c. 1968 | 
  | 
Chief of Staff to Alberto Gonzales, 2005 | 
| Leonard S. Unger | 
Diplomat | 
17-Dec-1917 | 
3-Jun-2010 | 
US Ambassador to Taiwan, 1974-79 | 
| Chase Untermeyer | 
Diplomat | 
7-Mar-1946 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Qatar | 
| John Updike | 
Novelist | 
18-Mar-1932 | 
27-Jan-2009 | 
Rabbit, Run | 
| Chris Van Hollen | 
Politician | 
10-Jan-1959 | 
  | 
Congressman, Maryland 8th | 
| John H. van Vleck | 
Physicist | 
13-Mar-1899 | 
27-Oct-1980 | 
Quantum theory of paramagnetism | 
| Courtney B. Vance | 
Actor | 
12-Mar-1960 | 
  | 
ADA Ron Carver in Law & Order: CI | 
| Sheldon B. Vance | 
Diplomat | 
18-Jan-1917 | 
12-Nov-1995 | 
US Ambassador to Congo, 1969-74 | 
| Harold E. Varmus | 
Scientist | 
18-Dec-1939 | 
  | 
Genetic causes of cancer | 
| Jones Very | 
Poet | 
28-Aug-1813 | 
8-May-1880 | 
Religious mystic | 
| Peter Viereck | 
Poet | 
5-Aug-1916 | 
13-May-2006 | 
Terror and Decorum | 
| Richard N. Viets | 
Diplomat | 
10-Nov-1930 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Jordan, 1981-84 | 
| Oswald Garrison Villard | 
Journalist | 
13-Mar-1872 | 
1-Oct-1949 | 
Some Newspapers and Newspaper-Men | 
| Kaavya Viswanathan | 
Novelist | 
c. 1987 | 
  | 
Alleged plagiarist, How Opal Mehta... | 
| David J. Vitale | 
Business | 
c. 1952 | 
  | 
CAO, Chicago Public Schools | 
| David Vitter | 
Politician | 
3-May-1961 | 
  | 
US Senator from Louisiana | 
| Gregory Vlastos | 
Philosopher | 
27-Jul-1907 | 
12-Oct-1991 | 
Influential scholar of ancient philosophy | 
| Paul Volcker | 
Economist | 
5-Sep-1927 | 
  | 
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-87 | 
| David M. Walker | 
Government | 
2-Oct-1951 | 
  | 
US Comptroller General | 
| Chris Wallace | 
Journalist | 
12-Oct-1947 | 
  | 
Fox News Sunday | 
| David Foster Wallace | 
Novelist | 
21-Feb-1962 | 
12-Sep-2008 | 
Infinite Jest | 
| Henry C. Wallich | 
Economist | 
10-Jun-1914 | 
16-Sep-1988 | 
Council of Economic Advisers, 1959-61 | 
| Peter J. Wallison | 
Government | 
6-Jun-1941 | 
  | 
White House Counsel, 1986-87 | 
| John L. Walsh | 
Business | 
c. 1956 | 
  | 
President of UGI | 
| Michael Walzer | 
Philosopher | 
3-Mar-1935 | 
  | 
Just and Unjust Wars | 
| Artemas Ward | 
Military | 
26-Nov-1727 | 
28-Oct-1800 | 
Major General of the Continental Army | 
| Joseph Warren | 
Government | 
11-Jun-1741 | 
17-Jun-1775 | 
American patriot killed at Bunker Hill | 
| Alexander F. Watson | 
Diplomat | 
8-Aug-1939 | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Peru, 1986-89 | 
| Alan Watts | 
Philosopher | 
6-Jan-1915 | 
16-Nov-1973 | 
Zen beat counterculture sage | 
| Seth P. Waxman | 
Government | 
28-Nov-1951 | 
  | 
US Solicitor General, 1997-2001 | 
| Robert C. Weaver | 
Government | 
29-Dec-1907 | 
17-Jul-1997 | 
US HUD Secretary, 1966-68 | 
| Sinclair Weeks | 
Government | 
15-Jun-1893 | 
7-Feb-1972 | 
US Commerce Secretary, 1953-58 | 
| Andrew Weil | 
Author | 
8-Jun-1942 | 
  | 
New age ethnopharmacologist | 
| Caspar Weinberger | 
Government | 
18-Aug-1917 | 
28-Mar-2006 | 
Iran-Contra figure pardoned by Bush | 
| Scott Weinger | 
Actor | 
5-Oct-1975 | 
  | 
Steve Hale on Full House | 
| Suzy Welch | 
Journalist | 
1959 | 
  | 
HBR Editor, now wife of Jack Welch | 
| Bill Weld | 
Politician | 
31-Jul-1945 | 
  | 
Governor of Massachusetts, 1991-97 | 
| Sumner Welles | 
Diplomat | 
14-Oct-1892 | 
24-Sep-1961 | 
US Under Secretary of State, 1937-43 | 
| Cornel West | 
Activist | 
2-Jun-1953 | 
  | 
Race Matters | 
| Katharine Weymouth | 
Publisher | 
c. 1966 | 
  | 
Washington Post publisher | 
| Lally Weymouth | 
Journalist | 
3-Jul-1943 | 
  | 
The Washington Post | 
| Charles W. Whalen, Jr. | 
Politician | 
31-Jul-1920 | 
27-Jun-2011 | 
Congressman from Ohio, 1967-79 | 
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. | 
Business | 
13-Sep-1926 | 
  | 
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92 | 
| M. Edward Whelan III | 
Activist | 
c. 1959 | 
  | 
Ethics and Public Policy Center | 
| Bill White | 
Politician | 
16-Jun-1954 | 
  | 
Mayor of Houston, 2004-10 | 
| Theodore H. White | 
Historian | 
6-May-1915 | 
15-May-1986 | 
The Making of the President | 
| George M. Whitesides | 
Chemist | 
3-Aug-1939 | 
  | 
Harvard chemist, highest H-Index | 
| William C. Whitney | 
Business | 
5-Jul-1841 | 
2-Feb-1904 | 
US Secretary of the Navy, 1885-89 | 
| Tom Wicker | 
Journalist | 
18-Jun-1926 | 
25-Nov-2011 | 
The New York Times | 
| John A. Wickham, Jr. | 
Military | 
25-Jun-1928 | 
  | 
US Army Chief of Staff, 1983-87 | 
| Henry Nelson Wieman | 
Philosopher | 
19-Aug-1884 | 
19-Jun-1975 | 
The Source of Human Good | 
| Byron Wien | 
Business | 
c. 1933 | 
  | 
Investment strategist, Blackstone | 
| Norbert Wiener | 
Mathematician | 
26-Nov-1894 | 
18-Mar-1964 | 
Cybernetics | 
| Leon Wieseltier | 
Editor | 
14-Jun-1952 | 
  | 
The New Republic | 
| Michael Wigglesworth | 
Poet | 
18-Oct-1631 | 
10-Jun-1705 | 
The Day of Doom | 
| Richard B. Wigglesworth | 
Government | 
25-Apr-1891 | 
22-Oct-1960 | 
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1928-58 | 
| Richard Wilbur | 
Poet | 
1-Mar-1921 | 
  | 
Second U.S. Poet Laureate | 
| Robert A. Wild | 
Educator | 
c. 1940 | 
  | 
President, Marquette University | 
| Malcolm R. Wilkey | 
Judge | 
6-Dec-1918 | 
15-Aug-2009 | 
US Ambassador to Uruguay, 1985-90 | 
| Wesley S. Williams, Jr. | 
Attorney | 
13-Nov-1942 | 
  | 
Former Partner, Covington & Burling | 
| Barry Lawson Williams | 
Business | 
c. 1944 | 
  | 
Williams Pacific Ventures | 
| Ernest J. Wilson III | 
Educator | 
c. 1948 | 
  | 
Dean, Annenberg School for Communication | 
| Edward O. Wilson | 
Biologist | 
10-Jun-1929 | 
  | 
Father of Sociobiology | 
| Kenneth G. Wilson | 
Physicist | 
8-Jun-1936 | 
15-Jun-2013 | 
Second-order phase transitions | 
| Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. | 
Business | 
c. 1942 | 
  | 
Capricorn Holdings | 
| Justin Winsor | 
Curator | 
2-Jan-1831 | 
22-Oct-1897 | 
Librarian of Harvard University | 
| Robert Charles Winthrop | 
Politician | 
12-May-1809 | 
16-Nov-1894 | 
Speaker of the 30th Congress | 
| Timothy E. Wirth | 
Politician | 
22-Sep-1939 | 
  | 
US Senator from Colorado, 1987-93 | 
| John Wise | 
Religion | 
1652 | 
8-Apr-1725 | 
A Vindication of New England Churches | 
| Owen Wister | 
Author | 
14-Jul-1860 | 
21-Jul-1938 | 
The Virginian | 
| John L. Withers II | 
Diplomat | 
? | 
  | 
US Ambassador to Albania | 
| Edward Witten | 
Physicist | 
26-Aug-1951 | 
  | 
String theorist at Princeton | 
| Peter Woit | 
Physicist | 
c. 1957 | 
  | 
String Theorist | 
| Susan Wojcicki | 
Business | 
5-Jul-1968 | 
  | 
CEO of YouTube | 
| Timothy V. Wolf | 
Business | 
c. 1952 | 
  | 
CFO of Molson Coors Brewing | 
| Thomas Wolfe | 
Novelist | 
3-Oct-1900 | 
15-Sep-1938 | 
Look Homeward, Angel | 
| Christian Wolff | 
Composer | 
8-Mar-1934 | 
  | 
Burdocks | 
| Sheldon S. Wolin | 
Philosopher | 
4-Aug-1922 | 
21-Oct-2015 | 
Politics and Vision | 
| David A. Wollard | 
Business | 
c. 1937 | 
  | 
Former President, Bank One Colorado NA | 
| Gordon S. Wood | 
Historian | 
27-Nov-1933 | 
  | 
The Creation of the American Republic | 
| Peter H. Wood | 
Historian | 
1-May-1943 | 
  | 
Black Majority | 
| Robert W. Wood | 
Physicist | 
2-May-1868 | 
11-Aug-1955 | 
Physical Optics | 
| Robert B. Woodward | 
Chemist | 
10-Apr-1917 | 
8-Jul-1979 | 
Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. | 
| Douglas Woolf | 
Novelist | 
23-Mar-1922 | 
18-Jan-1992 | 
Fade Out | 
| Suzanne H. Woolsey | 
Business | 
c. 1942 | 
  | 
National Academies | 
| Sewall Wright | 
Biologist | 
21-Dec-1889 | 
3-Mar-1988 | 
Mathematics of evolution | 
| Henry M. Wriston | 
Educator | 
4-Jul-1889 | 
7-Mar-1978 | 
President of Brown University, 1937-55 | 
| Isoroku Yamamoto | 
Military | 
4-Apr-1884 | 
18-Apr-1943 | 
Commander of the Japanese Navy | 
| Ahmed Zaki Yamani | 
Government | 
30-Jun-1930 | 
  | 
Former Saudi Minister of Oil | 
| Matthew Yglesias | 
Blogger | 
18-May-1981 | 
  | 
Big Media Matt | 
| John Yoo | 
Government | 
10-Jun-1967 | 
  | 
Thinks Geneva Conventions are obsolete | 
| Harry L. You | 
Business | 
c. 1959 | 
  | 
EVP at EMC | 
| Robert M. Young | 
Film Director | 
22-Nov-1924 | 
  | 
Dominick and Eugene | 
| Robert P. Young, Jr. | 
Judge | 
c. 1952 | 
  | 
Justice, Michigan Supreme Court | 
| Tim Zagat | 
Critic | 
13-Jun-1940 | 
  | 
Zagat Survey | 
| Steve Zahn | 
Actor | 
13-Nov-1968 | 
  | 
Glenn in Out of Sight | 
| Fareed Zakaria | 
Journalist | 
20-Jan-1965 | 
  | 
Time columnist | 
| Robert J. Zimmer | 
Educator | 
5-Nov-1947 | 
  | 
President, University of Chicago | 
| Howard Zinn | 
Historian | 
24-Aug-1922 | 
27-Jan-2010 | 
A People's History of the United States | 
| Edward Zorinsky | 
Politician | 
11-Nov-1928 | 
6-Mar-1987 | 
US Senator from Nebraska, 1976-87 | 
| Mark Zuckerberg | 
Business | 
14-May-1984 | 
  | 
Founder of Facebook | 
| Mark A. Zupan | 
Educator | 
c. 1959 | 
  | 
Dean of Business, University of Rochester | 
| Edward Zwick | 
Film Director | 
8-Oct-1952 | 
  | 
The Last Samurai |