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Actor

Julie Andrews, Olivia De Havilland, Sally Field, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Ron Howard, Oprah Winfrey



Activist

Benazir Bhutto, Jimmy Carter, Whoopi Goldberg, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Nader, Rosa Parks



Aerospace Engineer

Daniel Goldin, Donna Shirley



Animator

Chuck Jones



Anthropologist

Donald Johanson



Architect

Frank O. Gehry, Philip Johnson, Maya Lin



Artist

Maya Lin, Fritz Scholder



Astronaut

Story Musgrave, Sally Ride, Alan Shepard



Astronomer

Clyde Tombaugh



Athlete

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tenley Albright, Sir Roger Bannister, Yogi Berra, Susan Butcher, Julius Erving, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Sir Edmund Hillary, Willie Mays, Peyton Manning, Bill Russell, Herschel Walker



Aviation Engineer

Paul MacCready



Aviator

General Chuck Yeager



Ballerina

Suzanne Farrell



Baseball player

Yogi Berra, Willie Mays



Basketball coach

Mike Krzyzewski, a href="/autodoc/page/rus0int-1">Bill Russell, Lenny Wilkens, John Wooden



Basketball player

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julius Erving, Bill Russell



Beekeeper

Sir Edmund Hillary



Biographer

Stephen Ambrose, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough



Broadcast Journalist

Sam Donaldson, Larry King, Charles Kuralt, Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Oprah Winfrey



Cartoonist

Chuck Jones



Chemist

Gertrude Elion, Linus Pauling, Glenn Seaborg



Choreographer

Twyla Tharp



Dancer

Suzanne Farrell, Twyla Tharp



Film Director

James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Nora Ephron, Peter Jackson, Julie Taymor, Robert Zemeckis



Dog Sledder

Susan Butcher



Entertainment Executive

Michael Eisner, George Lucas, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey



Entrepreneur

Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Stephen Case, Lawrence Ellison, Jeong Kim, James Kimsey, George Lucas, Craig McCaw, Pierre Omidyar, Larry Page, Frederick Smith, Martha Stewart, Sanford Weill, Oprah Winfrey



Ethnobotanist

Richard Schultes



Explorer

Robert Ballard, Sylvia Earle, Donald Johanson, Ernst Mayr, Story Musgrave Richard Schultes, Donna Shirley



Farmer

Jimmy Carter



Figure skater

Tenley Albright, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton



Film Producer

Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, Ted Turner



Filmmaker

James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Nora Ephron, Ron Howard, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, Julie Taymor, Robert Zemeckis



Financier

Henry Kravis, Stephen Schwarzman, Carlos Slim, Sanford Weill



Geneticist

Francis Collins, David Ho, Bert Vogelstein, James Watson, Ian Wilmut



Historian

Stephen Ambrose, Shelby Foote, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough



Investment Banker

Henry Kravis



Inventor

Willem Kolff, Paul MacCready



Journalist

Nora Ephron, Joan Didion, David Halberstam, Nicholas Kristof, Neil Sheehan, Tom Wolfe, Bob Woodward



Lawyer

Rudolph Giuliani, Alberto Gonzales, John Grisham, Frank Johnson, Anthony Kennedy, Ralph Nader, John Sexton



Marine Biologist

Sylvia Earle



Minister

Dr. Robert Schuller



Mountaineer

Sir Edmund Hillary



Molecular Biologist

Francis Collins, John Gearhart, Bert Vogelstein, James Watson



Military/Soldier

Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, Alan Shepard, Adm. James B. Stockdale, Michael Thornton, Chuck Yeager



Museum Director

J. Carter Brown



Musician

Julie Andrews, Johnny Cash, Sheryl Crow, Quincy Jones, Naomi Judd, B.B. King, Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Stephen Sondheim, Kiri Te Kanawa



Novelist

Shelby Foote, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest Gaines, John Grisham, Khaled Hosseini, John Irving, Norman Mailer, Frank McCourt, James Michener, N. Scott Momaday, Joyce Carol Oates, Carol Shields, Amy Tan, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Tom Wolfe



Painter

Fritz Scholder



Physicist

Murray Gell-Mann, Leon Lederman, Glenn Seaborg, Edward Teller, Charles Townes



Pilot

Story Musgrave, Alan Shepard, Chuck Yeager



Poet

Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, W.S. Merwin, Story Musgrave, Carol Shields, John Updike



Politician

Ehud Barak, Benazir Bhutto, Willie Brown Jr., George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Rudolph Giuliani, Mikhail Gorbachev, John Hume, Hamid Karzai, John Lewis, Norman Mineta, George Mitchell, Ralph Nader, Shimon Peres, Lech Walesa



Record Producer

Quincy Jones



Scientist

Timothy Berners-Lee, Norman Borlaug, Francis Collins, Gertrude Elion, Sylvia Earle, Judah Folkman, John Gearhart, Murray Gell-Mann, David Ho, Maeve Leakey, Richard Leakey, Leon Lederman, Ernst Mayr, Barry Marshall, Story Musgrave, Linus Pauling, Sally Ride, Jonas Salk, Richard E. Schultes, Glenn Seaborg, Edward Teller, Clyde Tombaugh, Charles Townes, Bert Vogelstein, James Watson, Andrew Weil, Ian Wilmut



Screenwriter

James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, John Irving, George Lucas, Suzan-Lori Parks, Gore Vidal, Robert Zemeckis



Singer

Julie Andrews, Johnny Cash, Sheryl Crow, B.B. King, Naomi Judd, Kiri Te Kanawa



Surgeon/Medical Doctor

Tenley Albright, Sir Roger Bannister, Benjamin Carson, Denton Cooley, Judah Folkman, William Kolff, Barry Marshall, Antonia Novello, Andrew Weil



Teacher

Stephen Ambrose, Johnnetta Cole, Rita Dove, John Irving, Donald Johanson, Mike Krzyzewski, Leon Lederman, Frank McCourt, Story Musgrave, Joyce Carol Oates, Lloyd Richards, Richard Schultes, Carol Shields, Clyde Tombaugh, James Watson, Andrew Weil, Elie Wiesel, John Wooden



Theatrical Director

Trevor Nunn, Harold Prince, Lloyd Richards, Julie Taymor



Writer

Edward Albee, Stephen Ambrose, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest Gaines, John Grisham, Khaled Hosseini, John Irving, Charles Kuralt, Norman Mailer, Frank McCourt, David McCullough, W.S. Merwin, James Michener, N. Scott Momaday, Joyce Carol Oates, Suzan-Lori Parks, Carol Shields, Stephen Sondheim, Amy Tan, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Elie Wiesel, Tom Wolfe