| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Saul Alinsky |
Activist |
30-Jan-1909 |
12-Jun-1972 |
Rules for Radicals |
| Luis W. Alvarez |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1911 |
1-Sep-1988 |
Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs |
| Philip W. Anderson |
Physicist |
13-Dec-1923 |
|
Solid state physics |
| Piers Anthony |
Novelist |
6-Aug-1934 |
|
Xanth, Incarnations of Immortality |
| Peggy Ashcroft |
Actor |
22-Dec-1907 |
14-Jun-1991 |
A Passage to India |
| Hertha Ayrton |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1854 |
26-Aug-1923 |
Electric arc |
| Michelle Bachelet |
Head of State |
29-Sep-1951 |
|
President of Chile, 2006-10 |
| Jay Baruchel |
Actor |
9-Apr-1982 |
|
She's Out of My League |
| Samuel Beckett |
Playwright |
13-May-1906 |
22-Dec-1989 |
Waiting for Godot |
| John Betjeman |
Poet |
28-Aug-1906 |
19-May-1984 |
Summoned By Bells |
| J. Michael Bishop |
Scientist |
22-Feb-1936 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
Playwright |
8-Dec-1832 |
26-Apr-1910 |
Synnöve Solbakken |
| Paul Bowles |
Author |
30-Dec-1910 |
18-Nov-1999 |
The Sheltering Sky |
| James Henry Breasted |
Archaeologist |
27-Aug-1865 |
2-Dec-1935 |
A History of Egypt |
| Andrew Breitbart |
Columnist |
1-Feb-1969 |
1-Mar-2012 |
Washington Times columnist |
| Susie Bright |
Columnist |
25-Mar-1958 |
|
Sexpert, porn critic |
| Ford Madox Brown |
Painter |
16-Apr-1821 |
6-Oct-1893 |
English historical painter |
| Warren Buffett |
Business |
30-Aug-1930 |
|
Billionaire in Omaha |
| Helen Caldicott |
Activist |
7-Aug-1938 |
|
Anti-nuclear crusader |
| Albert Camus |
Novelist |
7-Nov-1913 |
4-Jan-1960 |
French author and Nobel laureate |
| Benjamin Cardozo |
Judge |
24-May-1870 |
9-Jul-1938 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1932-38 |
| Anton J. Carlson |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1875 |
2-Sep-1956 |
The Machinery of the Body |
| Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Helen Clark |
Head of State |
26-Feb-1950 |
|
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1999-2008 |
| Marc Connelly |
Playwright |
13-Dec-1890 |
21-Dec-1980 |
The Green Pastures |
| Marie Curie |
Chemist |
7-Nov-1867 |
4-Jul-1934 |
Early nuclear chemist |
| Tim Curry |
Actor |
19-Apr-1946 |
|
Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| Clarence Darrow |
Attorney |
18-Apr-1857 |
13-Mar-1938 |
Scopes Monkey Trial (monkey side) |
| Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
| Max Delbrück |
Scientist |
4-Sep-1906 |
10-Mar-1981 |
Molecular structure of viral genes (phages) |
| Arthur Conan Doyle |
Novelist |
22-May-1859 |
7-Jul-1930 |
Creator of Sherlock Holmes |
| John William Draper |
Chemist |
5-May-1811 |
4-Jan-1882 |
Radiant energy and portrait photography |
| W. E. B. Du Bois |
Sociologist |
23-Feb-1868 |
27-Aug-1963 |
Civil rights activist |
| Henry Dunant |
Activist |
8-May-1828 |
30-Oct-1910 |
Red Cross founder |
| Stanley Ann Dunham |
Relative |
29-Nov-1942 |
7-Nov-1995 |
Mother of President Barack Obama |
| Roger Ebert |
Critic |
18-Jun-1942 |
|
Siskel and Ebert |
| Thomas Edison |
Inventor |
11-Feb-1847 |
18-Oct-1931 |
Invented the light bulb |
| Paul Erdos |
Mathematician |
26-Mar-1913 |
20-Sep-1996 |
Loved only numbers |
| Hans Eysenck |
Psychologist |
4-Mar-1916 |
4-Sep-1997 |
Intelligence and personality |
| Enrico Fermi |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1901 |
29-Nov-1954 |
First controlled nuclear chain reaction |
| Heinz Fischer |
Head of State |
9-Oct-1938 |
|
President of Austria |
| Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
| Andrew Fleming |
Film Director |
14-Mar-1963 |
|
The Craft |
| Harrison Ford |
Actor |
13-Jul-1942 |
|
Han Solo in Star Wars |
| Rosalind Franklin |
Chemist |
25-Jul-1920 |
16-Apr-1958 |
Photographed DNA's structure |
| Saul Friedländer |
Historian |
11-Oct-1932 |
|
Holocaust historian |
| Jerome I. Friedman |
Physicist |
28-Mar-1930 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
| Robert Frost |
Poet |
26-Mar-1874 |
29-Jan-1963 |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
| Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
| Noel Gallagher |
Guitarist |
29-May-1967 |
|
Former guitarist for Oasis |
| Roger Martin du Gard |
Author |
23-Mar-1881 |
22-Aug-1958 |
Les Thibault |
| Pat Garrett |
Government |
5-Jun-1850 |
29-Feb-1908 |
Killed Billy the Kid |
| Bill Gates |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| Julia Gillard |
Head of State |
29-Sep-1961 |
|
Prime Minister of Australia |
| Nick Gillespie |
Journalist |
8-Jul-1963 |
|
Reason magazine |
| Emmanuel Goldstein |
Journalist |
16-Dec-1959 |
|
2600: The Hacker Quarterly |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
| Susan Greenfield |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1950 |
|
Brain Story |
| Matt Groening |
Cartoonist |
15-Feb-1954 |
|
Creator of The Simpsons |
| Greg Gutfeld |
TV Personality |
12-Sep-1964 |
|
Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld |
| Ruth Hale |
Activist |
1886 |
18-Sep-1933 |
Maiden name crusader |
| William Stewart Halsted |
Doctor |
23-Sep-1852 |
7-Sep-1922 |
Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
| Learned Hand |
Judge |
27-Jan-1872 |
18-Aug-1961 |
Influential American justice |
| Stephen Hawking |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Wheelchair-bound physicist |
| Jeff Hawkins |
Inventor |
1-Jun-1957 |
|
Inventor of the Palm Pilot and Treo |
| James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| Gerhard Herzberg |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1904 |
3-Mar-1999 |
Molecular spectroscopy |
| David Hilbert |
Mathematician |
23-Jan-1862 |
14-Feb-1943 |
Hilbert Space |
| Frederick Hopkins |
Scientist |
20-Jun-1861 |
16-May-1947 |
Discovered vitamins |
| Jack Horkheimer |
Astronomer |
11-Jun-1938 |
20-Aug-2010 |
Naked-eye astronomer |
| Fred Hoyle |
Astronomer |
24-Jun-1915 |
20-Aug-2001 |
Opposed the Big Bang but named it |
| Aldous Huxley |
Author |
26-Jul-1894 |
22-Nov-1963 |
Brave New World |
| Julian Huxley |
Biologist |
22-Jun-1887 |
14-Feb-1975 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| Thomas Henry Huxley |
Scientist |
24-May-1825 |
29-Jun-1895 |
Debated Wilberforce over evolution |
| Robert G. Ingersoll |
Author |
11-Aug-1833 |
21-Jul-1899 |
Orator, politician, agnostic |
| Robert Jastrow |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1925 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Red Giants and White Dwarfs |
| Charles F. Johnson |
Blogger |
13-Apr-1953 |
|
Little Green Footballs |
| Philip Johnson |
Architect |
8-Jul-1906 |
25-Jan-2005 |
The Glass House |
| Otto Kahn |
Business |
21-Feb-1867 |
29-Mar-1934 |
Banker with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. |
| Jerome Karle |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1918 |
|
X-Ray diffraction studies |
| Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
Poet |
20-Jul-1864 |
8-Apr-1931 |
Songs of the wilderness and love |
| Alfred Kastler |
Physicist |
3-May-1902 |
7-Jan-1984 |
Optical pumping |
| Friedrich August Kekulé |
Chemist |
7-Sep-1829 |
13-Jul-1896 |
Theory of chemical structure |
| John C. Kendrew |
Chemist |
24-Mar-1917 |
23-Aug-1997 |
Determined structure of myoglobin |
| John Key |
Government |
9-Aug-1961 |
|
Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| John Maynard Keynes |
Economist |
5-Jun-1883 |
21-Apr-1946 |
Father of Keynesian economics |
| Lester A. Kirkendall |
Sociologist |
15-Nov-1903 |
31-May-1991 |
Premarital Intercourse and Interpersonal Relationships |
| Ezra Klein |
Journalist |
9-May-1984 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Abner Kneeland |
Activist |
7-Apr-1774 |
27-Aug-1844 |
Blasphemous preacher |
| Lawrence Kohlberg |
Psychologist |
25-Oct-1927 |
17-Jan-1987 |
Stages of moral development |
| Tjalling C. Koopmans |
Economist |
28-Aug-1910 |
26-Feb-1985 |
Linear programming |
| Michael Krasny |
Talk Show Host |
1944 |
|
Host of Forum on KQED-FM |
| Stanley Kunitz |
Poet |
29-Jul-1905 |
14-May-2006 |
US Poet Laureate, 2000 |
| Ricardo Lagos |
Head of State |
2-Mar-1938 |
|
President of Chile, 2000-06 |
| Irving Langmuir |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
| Anthony J. Leggett |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superfluidity |
| Jean-Marie Lehn |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1939 |
|
Synthesis of molecules |
| Joseph Leidy |
Biologist |
9-Sep-1823 |
30-Apr-1891 |
Trichinosis and dinosaurs |
| Willard F. Libby |
Chemist |
17-Dec-1908 |
8-Sep-1980 |
Carbon-14 dating technique |
| James Lovelock |
Scientist |
26-Jul-1919 |
|
The Gaia Theory |
| René Magritte |
Painter |
21-Nov-1898 |
15-Aug-1967 |
Ceci n'est pas une pipe |
| Bill Maher |
Talk Show Host |
20-Jan-1956 |
|
Politically Incorrect |
| Lynn Margulis |
Biologist |
5-Mar-1935 |
22-Nov-2011 |
Origin of eukaryotic organelles |
| Dave Matthews |
Musician |
9-Jan-1967 |
|
The Dave Matthews Band |
| Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| James Mill |
Philosopher |
6-Apr-1773 |
23-Jun-1836 |
History of India |
| John Stuart Mill |
Philosopher |
20-May-1806 |
8-May-1873 |
Liberal philosopher and essayist |
| Warren Mitchell |
Actor |
14-Jan-1926 |
|
Alf Garnett on Till Death Us Do Part |
| Henry Morgentaler |
Doctor |
19-Mar-1923 |
|
Abortion rights in Canada |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
| Erwin Neher |
Scientist |
20-Mar-1944 |
|
Cellular ion channels |
| Paul Nurse |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1949 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
| Conor Oberst |
Singer/Songwriter |
15-Feb-1980 |
|
Emo cloud responsible for Bright Eyes |
| Bob Odenkirk |
Comic |
22-Oct-1962 |
|
Mr. Show |
| George A. Olah |
Chemist |
22-May-1927 |
|
Isolated carbonium ions |
| Wolfgang Pauli |
Physicist |
25-Apr-1900 |
15-Dec-1958 |
Pauli Exclusion Principle |
| Philippe Petit |
Performance Artist |
13-Aug-1949 |
|
High-wire walker |
| Brad Pitt |
Actor |
18-Dec-1963 |
|
Ocean's Eleven |
| Vladimir Prelog |
Chemist |
23-Jul-1906 |
7-Jan-1998 |
Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
| Thomas Pynchon |
Novelist |
8-May-1937 |
|
Gravity's Rainbow |
| Grote Reber |
Astronomer |
22-Dec-1911 |
20-Dec-2002 |
First radio astronomer |
| Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1965 |
|
Prime Minister of Sweden |
| Charles Richet |
Scientist |
26-Aug-1850 |
4-Dec-1935 |
Studied anaphylaxis and ectoplasm |
| Bobby Riggs |
Tennis |
25-Feb-1918 |
25-Oct-1995 |
Winner of 1939 Wimbledon |
| Richard J. Roberts |
Scientist |
6-Sep-1943 |
|
Eukaryotic (split) genes |
| George Rockwell |
Activist |
9-Mar-1918 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Founded American Nazi Party |
| Gene Roddenberry |
Screenwriter |
19-Aug-1921 |
24-Oct-1991 |
Creator of Star Trek |
| Andy Rooney |
Journalist |
14-Jan-1919 |
4-Nov-2011 |
60 Minutes' resident crank |
| Karl Rove |
Government |
25-Dec-1950 |
|
Political Strategist to George W. Bush |
| Patricia Rozema |
Film Director |
20-Aug-1958 |
|
Mansfield Park |
| Larry Sanger |
Encyclopaedist |
16-Jul-1968 |
|
Co-Founder of Wikipedia |
| Adam Savage |
TV Personality |
15-Jul-1967 |
|
Goateed host of MythBusters |
| John Scalzi |
Novelist |
10-May-1969 |
|
Old Man's War |
| Herbert I. Schiller |
Author |
5-Nov-1919 |
29-Jan-2000 |
Mass Communications and American Empire |
| Maarten Schmidt |
Astronomer |
28-Dec-1929 |
|
Co-Discoverer of quasars |
| John T. Scopes |
Educator |
3-Aug-1900 |
21-Oct-1970 |
Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial |
| Ridley Scott |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1937 |
|
Alien |
| Reinhard Selten |
Economist |
5-Oct-1930 |
|
Game theory |
| Harlow Shapley |
Astronomer |
2-Nov-1885 |
20-Oct-1972 |
Organizer of Heaven |
| Jens C. Skou |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1918 |
|
ATPase researcher |
| Wole Soyinka |
Playwright |
13-Jul-1934 |
|
Politically-charged Nigerian author |
| Harry Dean Stanton |
Actor |
14-Jul-1926 |
|
Bathrobe-clad actor from Repo Man |
| Sting |
Singer/Songwriter |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Lead singer of The Police |
| Leopold Stokowski |
Conductor |
18-Apr-1882 |
13-Sep-1977 |
American Symphony Orchestra |
| Matt Stone |
Cartoonist |
26-May-1971 |
|
South Park |
| John Millington Synge |
Playwright |
16-Apr-1871 |
24-Mar-1909 |
The Playboy of the Western World |
| Albert Szent-Györgyi |
Scientist |
16-Sep-1893 |
22-Oct-1986 |
Vitamins C and B2 |
| Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
| Ray Taliaferro |
Radio Personality |
7-Feb-1939 |
|
KGO late-night talk show host |
| Igor Y. Tamm |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1895 |
12-Apr-1971 |
Cherenkov radiation |
| Ida M. Tarbell |
Journalist |
5-Nov-1857 |
6-Jan-1944 |
History of the Standard Oil Company |
| Studs Terkel |
Author |
16-May-1912 |
31-Oct-2008 |
Working |
| E. Donnall Thomas |
Scientist |
15-Mar-1920 |
|
Bone marrow transplants |
| G. M. Trevelyan |
Historian |
16-Feb-1876 |
21-Jul-1962 |
England under Queen Anne |
| Ted Turner |
Business |
19-Nov-1938 |
|
Founder of Cable News Network |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Astronomer |
5-Oct-1958 |
|
Astrophysicist |
| Cenk Uygur |
Talk Show Host |
21-Mar-1970 |
|
The Young Turks |
| Simon van der Meer |
Physicist |
24-Nov-1925 |
4-Mar-2011 |
Co-Discovered W and Z particles |
| Mario Vargas Llosa |
Novelist |
28-Mar-1936 |
|
Acclaimed Peruvian author |
| Rudolf Virchow |
Doctor |
13-Oct-1821 |
5-Sep-1902 |
Pathology and progressive politics |
| Alfred North Whitehead |
Mathematician |
15-Feb-1861 |
30-Dec-1947 |
Metaphysical mathematician |
| Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| George Will |
Columnist |
4-May-1941 |
|
Conservative pundit, baseball lover |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Father of Sociobiology |
| Sherwin T. Wine |
Religion |
25-Jan-1928 |
21-Jul-2007 |
Humanistic Judaism |
| John Ziegler |
Radio Personality |
28-Mar-1967 |
|
Right-wing talk radio host |
| Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |
