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Actor

Julie Andrews, 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, Susan Butcher, Julius Erving, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Sir Edmund Hillary, Willie Mays, Herschel Walker



Aviation Engineer

Paul MacCready



Aviator

General Chuck Yeager



Ballerina

Suzanne Farrell



Baseball player

Willie Mays



Basketball coach

Mike Krzyzewski, Lenny Wilkens, John Wooden



Basketball player

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julius Erving



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



Choreographer

Twyla Tharp



Dancer

Suzanne Farrell, Twyla Tharp



Film Director

James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Zemeckis



Dog Sledder

Susan Butcher



Entertainment Executive

Michael Eisner, George Lucas, Oprah Winfrey



Entrepreneur

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



Ethnobotanist

Richard Schultes



Explorer

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



Farmer

Jimmy Carter



Figure skater

Tenley Albright, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton



Film Producer

Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas



Filmmaker

James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Robert Zemeckis, George Lucas



Financier

Henry Kravis, 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

David Halberstam Bob Woodward



Lawyer

Rudolph Giuliani, John Grisham, Ralph Nader



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

Johnny Cash, Quincy Jones, B.B. King, Wynton Marsalis, Stephen Sondheim,



Novelist

Shelby Foote, John Grisham, Norman Mailer, Frank McCourt, James Michener, N. Scott Momaday, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, John Updike



Painter

Fritz Scholder



Physicist

Leon Lederman, Edward Teller



Pilot

Story Musgrave, Chuck Yeager



Poet

Story Musgrave, Rita Dove, 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, George Mitchell, Ralph Nader, Shimon Peres, Lech Walesa



Record Producer

Quincy Jones



Scientist

Francis Collins, Gertrude Elion, Sylvia Earle, Judah Folkman, John Gearhart, David Ho, Leon Lederman, Story Musgrave, Linus Pauling, Jonas Salk, Edward Teller, Clyde Tombaugh, Bert Vogelstein, James Watson, Andrew Weil, Ian Wilmut



Screenwriter

James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis



Singer

Julie Andrews, Johnny Cash, Sheryl Crow, B.B. King



Surgeon/Medical Doctor

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



Teacher

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



Theatrical Director

Trevor Nunn, Lloyd Richards



Writer

Edward Albee, Stephen Ambrose, Joan Didion, John Grisham, Charles Kuralt, Norman Mailer, Frank McCourt, David McCullough, James Michener, N. Scott Momaday, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Elie Wiesel