The Achievers

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George Lucas, Class of 1989
Maya Lin, Class of 2000
Sergey Brin, Class of 2004
Dame Jane Goodall, Class of 1987
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Class of 2003
President Barack Obama, Class of 2007
Simone Biles, Class of 2017
Lynsey Addario
Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist, Inducted in 2017
Edward Albee
Three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, Inducted in 2005
Svetlana Alexievich
Nobel Prize In Literature, Inducted in 2017
Dame Julie Andrews
Stage and Screen Actress, Inducted in 2004
Maya Angelou
Poet and Historian, Inducted in 1990
John Banville
Acclaimed Irish Novelist, Inducted in 2017
Carol Burnett
Television Hall of Fame, Inducted in 2014
Sir Michael Caine
British Film Icon, Inducted in 2017
James Cameron
Film Futurist, Inducted in 1998
Johnny Cash
Country Music Legend, Inducted in 1988
Francis Ford Coppola
Filmmaker, Producer and Screenwriter, Inducted in 1994
Dame Olivia de Havilland
Two Oscars for Best Actress, Inducted in 1978
Joan Didion
Novelist and Essayist, Inducted in 2006
David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography, Inducted in 1997
David Doubilet
Pioneer of Underwater Photography, Inducted in 2008
Rita Dove
Former Poet Laureate of the United States, Inducted in 1994
Gustavo Dudamel
Maestro of the Music World, Inducted in 2024
Nora Ephron
Humorist, Screenwriter and Director, Inducted in 2007
Suzanne Farrell
Ballerina Extraordinaire, Inducted in 1987
Sally Field
Two Oscars for Best Actress, Inducted in 2005
Lord Norman Foster
Architecture Gold Medal, Inducted in 2017
Aretha Franklin
The Queen of Soul, Inducted in 1999
Carlos Fuentes
Author, Scholar and Diplomat, Inducted in 2006
Athol Fugard
Novelist and Playwright, Inducted in 2014
Peter Gabriel
Singer, Songwriter and Humanitarian, Inducted in 2017
Ernest J. Gaines
Master of the Novel, Inducted in 2001
Frank O. Gehry
Architecture Gold Medal, Inducted in 1995
Vince Gill
Country Music Hall of Fame, Inducted in 1997
Louise Glück
Nobel Prize in Literature, Inducted in 2012
Whoopi Goldberg
Actress and Activist, Inducted in 1994
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for History, Inducted in 1996
Nadine Gordimer
Nobel Prize in Literature, Inducted in 2009
John Grisham
Bestselling Author, Inducted in 1993
Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter and Rapper, Inducted in 2000
Khaled Hosseini, M.D.
Novelist and Activist, Inducted in 2008
Ron Howard
Oscar for Best Director, Inducted in 1997
Jeremy Irons
Stage and Screen Actor, Inducted in 2000
John Irving
National Book Award, Inducted in 2005
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
Nobel Prize in Literature, Inducted in 2017
Sir Peter Jackson
Oscar for Best Director, Inducted in 2006
Philip C. Johnson
Dean of American Architects, Inducted in 1991
Chuck Jones
Animation Pioneer, Inducted in 1990
James Earl Jones
Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, Inducted in 1996
Quincy Jones
Music Impresario, Inducted in 1984
Beverly Joubert
Filmmaker and Conservationist, Inducted in 2009
Dereck Joubert
Filmmaker and Conservationist, Inducted in 2009
Carole King
Singer and Songwriter, Inducted in 2014
B.B. King
King of the Blues, Inducted in 2004
Maya Lin
Artist and Architect, Inducted in 2000
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber
Musical Theatre Composer, Inducted in 2019
George Lucas
Creator of Star Wars, Inducted in 1989
Norman Mailer
National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, Inducted in 2004
Wynton Marsalis
Pulitzer Prize for Music, Inducted in 1988
Johnny Mathis
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement, Inducted in 2011
Frank McCourt
Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Inducted in 1999
David McCullough
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography, Inducted in 1985
Audra McDonald
Six Tony Awards, Inducted in 2012
W. S. Merwin
Former Poet Laureate of the United States, Inducted in 2008
James A. Michener
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist, Inducted in 1971
N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Inducted in 1993
Jessye Norman
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement, Inducted in 1992
Lynn Nottage
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, Inducted in 2019
Joyce Carol Oates
National Book Award, Inducted in 1997
Jimmy Page
Guitarist and Founder of Led Zeppelin, Inducted in 2017
Suzan-Lori Parks
Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Inducted in 2007
Itzhak Perlman
Virtuoso of the Violin, Inducted in 2005
Sidney Poitier
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, Inducted in 2014
Harold Prince
Broadway Producer and Director, Inducted in 2007
Lloyd Richards
Tony Award-winning Director, Inducted in 1987
Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus, Inducted in 2006
James Rosenquist
Pop Art Pioneer, Inducted in 1988
Oliver Sacks, M.D.
Neurologist and Author, Inducted in 2000
Stephen Sondheim
Composer and Lyricist, Inducted in 2005
Wole Soyinka
Nobel Prize in Literature, Inducted in 2009
Esperanza Spalding
Jazz Phenomenon, Inducted in 2014
Hilary Swank
Two Oscars for Best Actress, Inducted in 2007
Amy Tan
Bestselling Novelist, Inducted in 1996
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Beloved Opera Singer, Inducted in 2006
Twyla Tharp
Dancer and Choreographer, Inducted in 1993
Wayne Thiebaud
Painter and Teacher, Inducted in 1987
John Updike
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, Inducted in 2004
Gore Vidal
National Book Award, Inducted in 2006
Alice Waters
Food Revolutionary, Inducted in 1998
Oprah Winfrey
Media Entrepreneur, Inducted in 1989
Tom Wolfe
America's Master Novelist, Inducted in 2005