| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Wendell R. Anderson |
Politician |
1-Feb-1933 |
|
Governor of Minnesota, 1971-76 |
| Jean M. Auel |
Novelist |
18-Feb-1936 |
|
The Clan of the Cave Bear |
| Stephen M. Axinn |
Attorney |
1938 |
|
Antitrust attorney |
| Merribel S. Ayres |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Lighthouse Consulting Group |
| John Battelle |
Blogger |
4-Nov-1965 |
|
The Industry Standard |
| Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
|
Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
| Hans Bethe |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1906 |
6-Mar-2005 |
Atomic scientist |
| Dave Bing |
Basketball |
24-Nov-1943 |
|
NBA Hall of Famer, Detroit mayor |
| Arthur Blank |
Business |
27-Sep-1942 |
|
Co-Founder of Home Depot |
| David Bohnett |
Business |
2-Apr-1956 |
|
GeoCities cofounder |
| David Bonderman |
Business |
27-Nov-1942 |
|
Billionaire, Texas Pacific Group |
| Erskine Bowles |
Government |
8-Aug-1945 |
|
White House Chief of Staff, 1996-98 |
| Christie Brinkley |
Model |
2-Feb-1954 |
|
Supermodel |
| Jeffrey H. Brotman |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Chairman of Costco |
| Michael G. Browning |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Browning Investments Inc. |
| John W. Bryant |
Politician |
22-Feb-1947 |
|
Congressman from Texas, 1983-97 |
| August Busch III |
Business |
6-Jun-1937 |
|
Anheuser-Busch CEO, 1975-2002 |
| Cassandra C. Carr |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Public Strategies, Inc. |
| Kathy Castor |
Politician |
20-Aug-1966 |
|
Congresswoman, Florida 14th |
| Frank J. Caufield |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers |
| John Chapple |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Nextel Partners, 1998-2006 |
| Edward L. Chavez |
Judge |
c. 1956 |
|
New Mexico Chief Justice |
| Louis Chênevert |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
President and COO of United Technologies |
| Yvon Chouinard |
Business |
9-Nov-1938 |
|
Founder, Patagonia |
| Henry Cisneros |
Politician |
11-Jun-1947 |
|
Secretary of HUD, 1993-97 |
| Art Clokey |
Cartoonist |
12-Oct-1921 |
8-Jan-2010 |
Creator of Gumby |
| Sam Coppersmith |
Politician |
22-May-1955 |
|
Congressman from Arizona, 1993-95 |
| Don Cornelius |
TV Personality |
27-Sep-1936 |
1-Feb-2012 |
Soul Train |
| Alan Cranston |
Politician |
19-Jun-1914 |
31-Dec-2000 |
US Senator from California, 1969-93 |
| Sheryl Crow |
Singer |
11-Feb-1962 |
|
All I Wanna Do |
| Tom Cruise |
Actor |
3-Jul-1962 |
|
Flamboyant Scientologist |
| Mario Cuomo |
Politician |
15-Jun-1932 |
1-Jan-2015 |
Governor of New York, 1983-95 |
| Nader F. Darehshori |
Publisher |
c. 1936 |
|
CEO of Houghton Mifflin, 1990-2002 |
| Robert C. Davidson, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Surface Protection Industries |
| Jonathan Davis |
Musician |
18-Jan-1971 |
|
Korn frontman |
| Drew S. Days III |
Government |
1941 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1993-96 |
| Dennis DeConcini |
Politician |
8-May-1937 |
|
US Senator from Arizona, 1977-95 |
| Johann Deisenhofer |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1943 |
|
Proteins of photosynthesis |
| Robert E. Denham |
Attorney |
27-Aug-1945 |
|
Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson |
| John Densmore |
Drummer |
1-Dec-1944 |
|
Drummer for The Doors |
| Charles M. Diker |
Business |
1934 |
|
Diker Management LLC |
| James Dimon |
Business |
13-Mar-1956 |
|
CEO of JP Morgan Chase |
| Michael Douglas |
Actor |
25-Sep-1944 |
|
Wall Street |
| Ervin Drake |
Songwriter |
3-Apr-1919 |
15-Jan-2015 |
It Was a Very Good Year |
| Connie K. Duckworth |
Business |
3-Nov-1954 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
| Robin Chandler Duke |
Activist |
13-Oct-1923 |
|
Former president of NARAL |
| Anthony F. Earley, Jr. |
Business |
29-Jul-1949 |
|
CEO of DTE Energy |
| Edward E. Elson |
Diplomat |
c. 1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Denmark, 1994-98 |
| Rahm Emanuel |
Politician |
29-Nov-1959 |
|
Mayor of Chicago |
| Vic Fazio |
Politician |
11-Oct-1942 |
|
Congressman from California, 1979-99 |
| Lawrence K. Fish |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Citizens Financial Group |
| Edsel B. Ford II |
Business |
27-Dec-1948 |
|
VP, Ford Motors |
| William Clay Ford, Jr. |
Business |
3-May-1957 |
|
CEO of Ford, 2001-06 |
| Donald Fowler |
Government |
12-Sep-1935 |
|
DNC chairman, 1995-97 |
| Bob Frankston |
Computer Programmer |
14-Jun-1949 |
|
Programmer of Visicalc |
| Stephen Friedman |
Business |
21-Dec-1937 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
| Frederick P. Furth |
Attorney |
12-Apr-1934 |
|
Partner, The Furth Firm |
| Edwin C. Gage |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Carlson Companies, 1989-91 |
| Claire L. Gaudiani |
Educator |
1944 |
|
President, Connecticut College, 1988-2001 |
| George Gaynes |
Actor |
16-May-1917 |
|
Henry Warnimont on Punky Brewster |
| David Geffen |
Business |
21-Feb-1943 |
|
Music and movie industry mogul |
| Tom Gegax |
Author |
c. 1947 |
|
Tires Plus, later self-help guru |
| Dick Gephardt |
Politician |
31-Jan-1941 |
|
Congressman from Missouri, 1977-2005 |
| Chuck Geschke |
Business |
11-Sep-1939 |
|
Co-Founder of Adobe |
| Walter Gilbert |
Chemist |
21-Mar-1932 |
|
Sequencing techniques for DNA |
| Robert F. Goheen |
Educator |
15-Aug-1919 |
31-Mar-2008 |
President of Princeton University, 1957-72 |
| Alan E. Goldberg |
Business |
1-Sep-1954 |
|
Former Morgan Stanley executive |
| Bart Gordon |
Politician |
24-Jan-1949 |
|
Congressman from Tennessee, 1985-2011 |
| Berry Gordy |
Business |
28-Nov-1929 |
|
Founder of Motown Records |
| Linda M. Griego |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Griego Enterprises, Inc. |
| John Hall |
Politician |
23-Jul-1948 |
|
Congressman from New York, 2007-11 |
| Steven K. Hamp |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
President, The Henry Ford, 1996-2005 |
| Nancy H. Handel |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CFO of Applied Materials, 2004-06 |
| Sidney Harman |
Business |
5-Aug-1918 |
12-Apr-2011 |
Founder of Harman International |
| Anthony S. Harrington |
Diplomat |
9-Mar-1941 |
|
US Ambassador to Brazil, 2000-01 |
| Goldie Hawn |
Actor |
21-Nov-1945 |
|
Private Benjamin |
| Christie Hefner |
Business |
8-Nov-1952 |
|
CEO of Playboy, 1988-2009 |
| Hugh Hefner |
Publisher |
9-Apr-1926 |
|
Founder, Playboy magazine |
| Warren Hellman |
Business |
25-Jul-1934 |
|
Hellman & Friedman |
| Don Henley |
Musician |
22-Jul-1947 |
|
The Eagles |
| Marshall Herskovitz |
Film/TV Producer |
23-Feb-1952 |
|
Executive Producer, thirtysomething |
| John B. Hess |
Business |
5-Apr-1954 |
|
CEO of Amerada Hess |
| James C. Hormel |
Diplomat |
1-Jan-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1999-2001 |
| Karen N. Horn |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Bank One, 1987-96 |
| Jeffrey R. Immelt |
Business |
19-Feb-1956 |
|
CEO of General Electric |
| Steve Israel |
Politician |
30-May-1958 |
|
Congressman, New York 2nd |
| John E. Jacob |
Business |
16-Dec-1934 |
|
President of Urban League, 1982-94 |
| Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
| Robert D. Joffe |
Attorney |
26-May-1943 |
28-Jan-2010 |
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
| Lonnie Johnson |
Inventor |
6-Oct-1949 |
|
Revolutionized the squirt gun industry |
| Luci Baines Johnson |
Relative |
2-Jul-1947 |
|
Daughter of LBJ |
| Robert L. Johnson |
Business |
8-Apr-1946 |
|
CEO of BET |
| Sheila Crump Johnson |
Business |
1949 |
|
Billionaire |
| Travis C. Johnson |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Attorney at Law, El Paso |
| Quincy Jones |
Music Producer |
14-Mar-1933 |
|
Musician, Composer, Producer |
| Vernon Jordan |
Business |
15-Aug-1935 |
|
Advisor to Bill Clinton |
| Helene L. Kaplan |
Attorney |
19-Jun-1933 |
|
Of Counsel, Skadden Arps |
| Juliette Kayyem |
Government |
16-Aug-1969 |
|
Counterterrorism wonk |
| Nicole Kidman |
Actor |
20-Jun-1967 |
|
Moulin Rouge |
| Donald E. Kiernan |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CFO of SBC, 1993-2001 |
| Martin S. Kimmel |
Business |
9-Apr-1916 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Founder of Kimco Realty |
| Raymond P. Kogovsek |
Politician |
19-Aug-1941 |
|
Congressman from Colorado, 1979-85 |
| Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. |
Business |
10-Jul-1925 |
30-Jul-2015 |
KKR, Kohlberg & Company |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
Density-functional theory |
| Kenneth P. Kopelman |
Attorney |
21-Jan-1952 |
|
Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel |
| Robert Kraft |
Business |
5-Jun-1941 |
|
Owner, New England Patriots |
| Orin Kramer |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Chair, New Jersey State Investment Council |
| Bob Lanier |
Politician |
10-Mar-1925 |
20-Dec-2014 |
Mayor of Houston, 1992-98 |
| Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
| William S. Lerach |
Attorney |
1946 |
|
Class-action litigator |
| Richard A. Lerner |
Biologist |
28-Aug-1938 |
|
Scripps Research Institute |
| Lawrence Lessig |
Attorney |
3-Jun-1961 |
|
Constitutional and internet law |
| David B. Lewis |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Partner, Lewis & Munday |
| Edward B. Lewis |
Scientist |
20-May-1918 |
21-Jul-2004 |
Drosophila researcher, Nobel laureate |
| Carl H. Lindner |
Business |
22-Apr-1919 |
17-Oct-2011 |
Cincinnati billionaire |
| Seth MacFarlane |
Actor |
26-Oct-1973 |
|
Creator of Family Guy |
| Paul Magliocchetti |
Criminal |
c. 1946 |
|
Washington lobbyist, PMA Group |
| George J. Maloof, Jr. |
Business |
2-Sep-1964 |
|
Las Vegas entrepreneur |
| Gavin Maloof |
Business |
9-Oct-1956 |
|
Las Vegas entrepreneur |
| Joe Maloof |
Business |
15-Nov-1955 |
|
Las Vegas entrepreneur |
| Charles T. Manatt |
Attorney |
9-Jun-1936 |
22-Jul-2011 |
DNC Chairman, 1981-85 |
| Garry Marshall |
Film Director |
13-Nov-1934 |
|
Happy Days |
| Thomas J. May |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of NSTAR |
| Terry McAuliffe |
Politician |
9-Feb-1957 |
|
Governor of Virginia |
| Craig McCaw |
Business |
11-Aug-1949 |
|
Billionaire, Nextel |
| Susan McCaw |
Diplomat |
c. 1962 |
|
US Ambassador to Austria, 2005-07 |
| Linda McMahon |
Wrestling |
4-Oct-1948 |
|
Former CEO of WWE |
| Lloyd Meeds |
Politician |
11-Dec-1927 |
17-Aug-2005 |
Congressman from Washington, 1965-79 |
| Helen M. Meyer |
Judge |
c. 1954 |
|
Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court |
| Ira M. Millstein |
Attorney |
8-Nov-1926 |
|
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
| Howard P. Milstein |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Chairman of Emigrant Bank |
| Edward A. Mueller |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Qwest |
| Craig Mundie |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CTO of Microsoft |
| Elon Musk |
Business |
28-Jun-1971 |
|
CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors |
| Hector M. Nevares |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Puerto Rican dairy magnate |
| Frank N. Newman |
Business |
20-Apr-1942 |
|
CEO of Bankers Trust, 1996-99 |
| David D. Newsom |
Diplomat |
6-Jan-1918 |
30-Mar-2008 |
US Ambassador to Philippines, 1977-78 |
| Leonard Nimoy |
Actor |
26-Mar-1931 |
27-Feb-2015 |
Commander Spock on Star Trek |
| Luis G. Nogales |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of UPI, 1984-86 |
| Kenneth J. Novack |
Business |
1941 |
|
Former Partner, Mintz Levin |
| James R. Olin |
Politician |
28-Feb-1920 |
29-Jul-2006 |
Congressman from Virginia, 1983-93 |
| Ronald L. Olson |
Attorney |
1941 |
|
Munger Tolles & Olson |
| Pierre M. Omidyar |
Business |
21-Jun-1967 |
|
Founder of eBay |
| George Pake |
Scientist |
1-Apr-1924 |
4-Mar-2004 |
First director of Xerox PARC |
| George E. Palade |
Scientist |
19-Nov-1912 |
7-Oct-2008 |
Microstructure of the cell |
| Leon Panetta |
Government |
28-Jun-1938 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 2011-13 |
| Richard Parsons |
Business |
4-Apr-1948 |
|
CEO of Time Warner, 2002-07 |
| Alan Patricof |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Apax Partners |
| Arno Penzias |
Astronomer |
26-Apr-1933 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
| Rhea Perlman |
Actor |
31-Mar-1948 |
|
Cheers |
| David Plouffe |
Government |
27-May-1967 |
|
Senior Advisor to Barack Obama |
| Sydney Pollack |
Film Director |
1-Jul-1934 |
26-May-2008 |
Tootsie |
| Charles A. Ratner |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Forest City Enterprises |
| Steven Rattner |
Business |
5-Jul-1952 |
|
Quadrangle Group |
| Rob Reiner |
Actor |
6-Mar-1947 |
|
Meathead |
| Lynda Resnick |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Roll International |
| Randi Rhodes |
Radio Personality |
28-Jan-1959 |
|
Liberal talk show host |
| Anne Rice |
Novelist |
4-Oct-1941 |
|
Vampire novelist |
| Cedric Richmond |
Politician |
13-Sep-1973 |
|
Congressman, Louisiana 2nd |
| Leonard Riggio |
Business |
28-Feb-1941 |
|
CEO of Barnes & Noble, 1986-2002 |
| John W. Rogers, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Ariel Capital Management |
| Felix Rohatyn |
Business |
29-May-1928 |
|
Financier, Lazard Fr�res |
| William C. Rudin |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Rudin Management Company |
| Thomas M. Ryan |
Business |
1953 |
|
CEO of CVS Caremark |
| Charles A. Sanders |
Business |
10-Feb-1932 |
|
CEO of Glaxo, 1989-95 |
| Roger W. Sant |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
Billionaire, AES |
| Frank Savage |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
VP at Equitable Life, 1987-96 |
| Arthur L. Schechter |
Diplomat |
6-Dec-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to the Bahamas, 1998-2001 |
| Eric Schmidt |
Business |
27-Apr-1955 |
|
CEO of Google, 2001-11 |
| Bruce Schneier |
Computer Programmer |
15-Jan-1964 |
|
Applied Cryptography |
| Sherwood Schwartz |
Film/TV Producer |
14-Nov-1916 |
12-Jul-2011 |
Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch |
| John F. Seiberling |
Politician |
8-Sep-1918 |
2-Aug-2008 |
Congressman from Ohio, 1971-87 |
| Kevin W. Sharer |
Business |
2-Mar-1948 |
|
CEO of Amgen |
| Stanley K. Sheinbaum |
Activist |
12-Jun-1920 |
|
Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly |
| Sidney Sheldon |
Author |
11-Feb-1917 |
30-Jan-2007 |
Annie Get Your Gun |
| Stanley S. Shuman |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
Allen & Company |
| Stan Sigman |
Business |
1947 |
|
CEO of AT&T Mobility |
| John Silber |
Educator |
15-Aug-1926 |
27-Sep-2012 |
President of Boston University, 1971-96 |
| Fred Silverman |
Film/TV Producer |
13-Sep-1937 |
|
TV producer and executive |
| Adele Simmons |
Administrator |
21-Jun-1941 |
|
President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99 |
| Herbert A. Simon |
Economist |
15-Jun-1916 |
9-Feb-2001 |
Administrative Behavior |
| James Simons |
Mathematician |
c. 1938 |
|
Renaissance Technologies hedge fund |
| Nancy Sinatra |
Singer |
8-Jun-1940 |
|
Has boots made for walkin' |
| James D. Sinegal |
Business |
1-Jan-1936 |
|
Co-founder of Costco |
| Theda Skocpol |
Educator |
4-May-1947 |
|
Harvard sociologist, political scientist |
| Christian Slater |
Actor |
18-Aug-1969 |
|
Kuffs, True Romance |
| Alan D. Solomont |
Business |
1957 |
|
DNC National Finance Chairman, 1997 |
| Aaron Sorkin |
Author |
9-Jun-1961 |
|
The West Wing, Sports Night |
| George Soros |
Business |
12-Aug-1930 |
|
Financial speculator |
| Michael I. Sovern |
Educator |
1-Dec-1931 |
|
President of Columbia University, 1980-93 |
| Joan Spero |
Diplomat |
2-Oct-1944 |
|
Under Secretary of State, 1993-97 |
| John R. Stafford |
Business |
1937 |
|
CEO of American Home Products, 1986-2001 |
| Richard H. Stallings |
Politician |
7-Oct-1940 |
|
Congressman from Idaho, 1985-93 |
| R. Allen Stanford |
Business |
24-Mar-1950 |
|
Stanford Financial Group |
| Mike Stoller |
Songwriter |
13-Mar-1933 |
|
Hitmaker for Elvis |
| Robert S. Strauss |
Diplomat |
19-Oct-1918 |
19-Mar-2014 |
US Ambassador to Russia, 1991-92 |
| Barbra Streisand |
Singer |
24-Apr-1942 |
|
You Don't Bring Me Flowers |
| Richard F. Syron |
Business |
25-Oct-1943 |
|
CEO of Freddie Mac, 2003-08 |
| Deborah Szekely |
Activist |
3-May-1922 |
|
Co-Founder, Golden Door Spa |
| Ellen Tauscher |
Politician |
15-Nov-1951 |
|
Former Congresswoman, California 10th |
| Donald Trump |
Business |
14-Jun-1946 |
|
The Donald |
| Thomas Unterman |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former CFO of Times Mirror |
| Chris Van Hollen |
Politician |
10-Jan-1959 |
|
Congressman, Maryland 8th |
| Katrina vanden Heuvel |
Editor |
7-Oct-1959 |
|
Editor of The Nation |
| Brian "Head" Welch |
Guitarist |
19-Jun-1971 |
|
Ex-Guitarist for Korn |
| Michael R. Wessel |
Government |
c. 1959 |
|
Longtime aide to Dick Gephardt |
| Alan Wheat |
Politician |
16-Oct-1951 |
|
Congressman from Missouri, 1983-95 |
| Ed Whitacre, Jr. |
Business |
4-Nov-1941 |
|
Chairman and CEO of General Motors, 2009-10 |
| Bradley Whitford |
Actor |
10-Oct-1959 |
|
The West Wing |
| James Whitmore |
Actor |
1-Oct-1921 |
6-Feb-2009 |
Give 'em Hell, Harry! |
| Christopher J. Williams |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
Williams Capital Group |
| J. McDonald Williams |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Trammell Crow, 1990-94 |
| William Winter |
Politician |
21-Feb-1923 |
|
Governor of Mississippi, 1980-84 |
| Werner F. Wolfen |
Attorney |
15-May-1930 |
|
Former Partner, Irell & Manella |
| Robert C. Wright |
Business |
1943 |
|
CEO of NBC Universal |
| Steve Wynn |
Business |
27-Jan-1942 |
|
Las Vegas billionaire |
| Kneeland C. Youngblood |
Business |
13-Dec-1955 |
|
Pharos Capital Group |
| Dweezil Zappa |
Guitarist |
5-Sep-1969 |
|
Son of Frank Zappa |
