| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Fred Allen |
Comic |
31-May-1894 |
17-Mar-1956 |
Town Hall Tonight |
| Mel Allen |
Sports Figure |
13-Feb-1913 |
16-Jun-1996 |
Sportscaster, Voice of the Yankees |
| Don Ameche |
Actor |
31-May-1904 |
6-Dec-1993 |
Trading Places |
| Eddie Anderson |
Actor |
18-Sep-1905 |
28-Feb-1977 |
Rochester on The Jack Benny Show |
| Eve Arden |
Actor |
30-Apr-1908 |
12-Nov-1990 |
The Eve Arden Show |
| Gene Autry |
Country Musician |
29-Sep-1907 |
2-Oct-1998 |
Singing cowboy |
| Red Barber |
Sports Figure |
17-Feb-1908 |
22-Oct-1992 |
The Voice of the Dodgers |
| Jack Benny |
Actor |
14-Feb-1894 |
26-Dec-1974 |
The Jack Benny Show |
| Gertrude Berg |
Radio Personality |
3-Oct-1899 |
14-Sep-1966 |
The Goldbergs |
| Edgar Bergen |
Actor |
16-Feb-1903 |
30-Sep-1978 |
Radio's greatest ventriloquist |
| Jim Bohannon |
Radio Personality |
c. 1946 |
|
The Jim Bohannon Show |
| Amar Bose |
Inventor |
2-Nov-1929 |
|
Inventor of Bose speakers |
| Eddie Cantor |
Singer |
31-Jan-1892 |
10-Oct-1964 |
Banjo Eyes |
| Dick Clark |
TV Personality |
30-Nov-1929 |
18-Apr-2012 |
American Bandstand |
| William Conrad |
Actor |
27-Sep-1920 |
11-Feb-1994 |
Jake and the Fatman |
| Charles J. Correll |
Actor |
2-Feb-1890 |
26-Sep-1972 |
Andy of Amos & Andy |
| Bing Crosby |
Singer |
3-May-1903 |
14-Oct-1977 |
White Christmas |
| Rick Dees |
Radio Personality |
14-Aug-1950 |
|
Disco Duck |
| Tommy Dorsey |
Musician |
19-Nov-1905 |
26-Nov-1956 |
Popular bandleader |
| Ralph Edwards |
Game Show Host |
13-Jun-1913 |
16-Nov-2005 |
This Is Your Life |
| Lee De Forest |
Inventor |
26-Aug-1873 |
30-Jun-1961 |
Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube |
| Stan Freberg |
Comic |
7-Aug-1926 |
|
Radio's The Stan Freberg Show |
| Alan Freed |
Disc Jockey |
15-Dec-1922 |
20-Jan-1965 |
Legendary rock-and-roll DJ |
| Christopher Glenn |
Journalist |
23-Mar-1938 |
17-Oct-2006 |
Longtime CBS radio correspondent |
| Arthur Godfrey |
Actor |
31-Aug-1903 |
16-Mar-1983 |
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends |
| Benny Goodman |
Jazz Musician |
30-May-1909 |
13-Jun-1986 |
Bespectacled jazz clarinetist |
| Gale Gordon |
Actor |
20-Feb-1906 |
30-Jun-1995 |
The Lucy Show |
| Freeman F. Gosden |
Actor |
5-May-1899 |
10-Dec-1982 |
Amos of Amos & Andy |
| Ray Goulding |
Comic |
20-Mar-1922 |
24-Mar-1990 |
Half of Bob & Ray |
| Paul Harvey |
Radio Personality |
4-Sep-1918 |
28-Feb-2009 |
The Paul Harvey Show |
| Ernie Harwell |
Baseball |
25-Jan-1918 |
4-May-2010 |
Voice of the Detroit Tigers |
| Bob Hope |
Comic |
29-May-1903 |
27-Jul-2003 |
Centenarian comic |
| Don Imus |
Radio Personality |
23-Jul-1940 |
|
Imus in the Morning |
| Wolfman Jack |
Radio Personality |
21-Jan-1939 |
1-Jul-1995 |
Crusty-throated disc jockey |
| Jim Jordan |
Actor |
16-Nov-1896 |
1-Apr-1988 |
Fibber McGee |
| Marian Jordan |
Actor |
15-Apr-1898 |
7-Apr-1961 |
Molly of Fibber McGee and Molly |
| Tom Joyner |
Radio Personality |
23-Nov-1949 |
|
The Tom Joyner Morning Show |
| Mel Karmazin |
Business |
24-Aug-1943 |
|
President and COO of Viacom, 2000-04 |
| Casey Kasem |
Radio Personality |
27-Apr-1932 |
|
American Top 40 |
| Garrison Keillor |
Radio Personality |
7-Aug-1942 |
|
A Prairie Home Companion |
| Larry King |
Talk Show Host |
19-Nov-1933 |
|
Larry King Live |
| Kay Kyser |
Musician |
18-Jun-1897 |
23-Jul-1985 |
The Ol' Professor, eleven #1 records |
| Rush Limbaugh |
Radio Personality |
12-Jan-1951 |
|
Conservative talk show host |
| Guglielmo Marconi |
Scientist |
25-Apr-1874 |
20-Jul-1937 |
Inventor of radio |
| Groucho Marx |
Comic |
2-Oct-1890 |
19-Aug-1977 |
You Bet Your Life |
| Edward R. Murrow |
Journalist |
25-Apr-1908 |
27-Apr-1965 |
The epitome of broadcast journalism |
| Charles Osgood |
Journalist |
8-Jan-1933 |
|
CBS News Sunday Morning |
| Gary Owens |
Radio Personality |
10-May-1936 |
|
Radio DJ, announcer for Laugh-In |
| William S. Paley |
Business |
28-Sep-1901 |
26-Oct-1990 |
Chairman of CBS, 1946-83 |
| James Quello |
Government |
21-Apr-1914 |
24-Jan-2010 |
FCC Commissioner, 1974-97 |
| David Sarnoff |
Business |
27-Feb-1891 |
12-Dec-1971 |
CEO of RCA, founder of NBC |
| Vin Scully |
Baseball |
29-Nov-1927 |
|
Voice of the Dodgers |
| Jean Shepherd |
Radio Personality |
26-Jul-1921 |
16-Oct-1999 |
A Christmas Story |
| Red Skelton |
Comic |
18-Jul-1913 |
17-Sep-1997 |
The Red Skelton Show |
| Kate Smith |
Singer |
1-May-1907 |
17-Jun-1986 |
God Bless America |
| Susan Stamberg |
Radio Personality |
7-Sep-1938 |
|
NPR |
| Lowell Thomas |
Journalist |
6-Apr-1892 |
29-Aug-1981 |
With Lawrence in Arabia |
| Les Tremayne |
Radio Personality |
16-Apr-1913 |
19-Dec-2003 |
Veteran of 30,000 radio broadcasts |
| Bob Uecker |
Baseball |
26-Jan-1935 |
|
Mr. Baseball |
| Orson Welles |
Actor |
6-May-1915 |
10-Oct-1985 |
Citizen Kane |
