Alan Alda: actor, writer

Stephen King: novelist

Russell Baker: journalist

Arthur Miller: playwright

Dave Barry: humorist writer, actor

Toni Morrison: novelist, professor

Linda Bloodworth-Thomason: television writer/producer ("Designing Women", "Evening Shade")

Paul Newman: actor, food entrepreneur

Carol Browner: Head of the Environmental Protection Agency

Joe Paterno: football coach (Penn State)

Chevy Chase: comedian, actor, writer

Sally Ride: astronaut

Tom Clancy: writer

Joan Rivers: comedienne

Mario Cuomo: Governor of New York

Diane Sawyer: broadcast journalist

Michael Eisner: Walt Disney CEO

Paul Simon: songwriter, singer

Jodi Foster: actress, filmmaker

Steven Spielberg: filmmaker

Kathryn Fuller: World Wildlife Fund CEO

Marty Shottenheimer: Professional Football Coach

A. Bartlett Giamatti: President, Yale University and Commissioner of Baseball

Clarence Thomas: U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Theodore Geisel: (a.k.a Dr. Seuss)

Harold Varmus: Nobel laureate in medicine, Director of National Institutes of Health

Cathy Guisewite: cartoonist (Cathy)

Barbara Walters: broadcast journalist

Chris Isaak: songwriter, singer

Bob Woodward: journalist, writer (All the President's Men)

Garrison Keillor: radio host and writer