National affairs
Pete Domenici, US senator
Eugene Cernan, astronaut
Bruce McCandless, astronaut
Paul Weitz, astronaut
Richard Gordon, astronaut
Edith Windsor, gay rights activist
Richard Haynes, defense lawyer
Norman Dorsen, civil rights lawyer
Barbara Blaine, victims’ rights advocate
Janet Benshoof, women’s rights lawyer
World affairs
Mario Soares, Portuguese president
Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms dealer
Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, Iranian president
Manuel Noriega, Panamanian dictator
Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat
Ahmed Kathrada, South African rights activist
Rene Preval, Haitian president
Omar Abdel Rahman, Egyptian cleric
Antony Armstrong-Jones, British royal
Liam Cosgrave, Irish leader
King Michael of Romania
Film
Harry Dean Stanton, actor
Roger Moore, actor
Bill Paxton, actor
Dina Merrill, actress, philanthropist
Miriam Colon, actress
Michael Parks, actor
George Romero, director
Tobe Hooper, director
Bruce Brown, filmmaker
Literary
William Peter Blatty, author
William H. Gass, author
Nancy Friday, author
Jean Stein, author
Howard Frank Mosher, author
Robert James Waller, author
Robert Pirsig, author
Colin Dexter, mystery writer
Patricia McKissack, children’s author
Michael Bond, children’s author
Judith Jones, editor
Sue Grafton, writer
Television and radio
Robert Guillaume, actor
Miguel Ferrer, actor
Jay Thomas, actor
Erin Moran, actress
Tim Pigott-Smith, actor
Robert Osborne, film historian/host
Bob Schiller, writer
The arts
Howard Hodgkin, painter
Chuck Stewart, photographer
Marie Cosindas, photographer
Gosta Peterson, photographer
Jay Lynch, cartoonist
Skip Williamson, cartoonist
Ivan Chermayeff, graphic designer
Media
Richard Schickel, critic, author
Lillian Ross, journalist
Clare Hollingworth, journalist
Simeon Booker, journalist
Bernard Redmont, journalist
Jack Rosenthal, journalist
Marshall Loeb, business journalist
Byron Dobell, editor
Robert Silvers, editor
Stanley Greene, photojournalist
Don Hogan Charles, photojournalist
Ward Chamberlin, broadcasting exec
Theater, dance, and opera
John Hurt, actor
Alec McCowen, actor
Barbara Cook, actress, singer
Linda Hopkins, actress, singer
A.R. Gurney, playwright
Albert Innaurato, playwright
Michael Friedman, composer
Peter Hall, director
Kurt Moll, opera star
Barbara Smith Conrad, opera star
Trisha Brown, dancer-choreographer
Chuck Davis, dancer-choreographer
Dennis Wayne, dancer-choreographer
Music
Al Jarreau, jazz-pop artist
Walter Becker, guitarist-songwriter
James Cotton, bluesman
Mel Tillis, country star
Don Williams, country star
Larry Coryell, fusion guitarist
Gord Downie, rock singer
Chester Bennington, rock singer
Malcolm Young, rock guitarist
Buddy Greco, pop singer
Keely Smith, torch singer
Maggie Roche, pop-folk artist
Rosalie Sorrels, folk singer
Prodigy, rap artist
Lil Peep, rap artist
Johnny Hallyday, pop singer
Sports
Sam Mele, baseball
Roy Sievers, baseball
Ruben Amaro, baseball
Steve Palermo, baseball
Dallas Green, baseball
Gene Michael, baseball
Yordano Ventura, baseball
Darrall Imhoff, basketball
Jerry Krause, basketball
Yale Lary, football
Ferdie Pacheco, boxing
Steven Holcomb, bobsled
Brian Oldfield, Olympics
Pete Hamilton, car racing
Tony DiCicco, soccer
Business
David Rockefeller, banker
Gerald Elovitz, Building #19 co-founder
Arthur Cinader, J. Crew founder
Brenda Barnes, PepsiCo chief
Mike Ilitch, Little Caesars founder, Detroit Tigers and Red Wings owner
Mary Anderson, REI co-founder
Jeff Brotman, Costco co-founder
Thomas Forkner, Waffle House co-founder
Jerry Perenchio, entertainment mogul
Pierre Berge, fashion executive
Science, medicine, and technology
Paul Ornstein, psychoanalyst
Boyd Woodruff, microbiologist
Arthur Janov, psychotherapist
Hans Dehmelt, physicist
Peter Mansfield, physicist
Alexei Abrikosov, physicist
Kenneth Arrow, economist
George Olah, chemist
Lloyd Conover, chemist
Amy Reed, physician
John Sarno, physician
Academe and education
Kevin Starr, historian
David Fromkin, historian
Eduard Sekler, architecture historian
Mary Maples Dunn, college president
Theodore Lowi, political scientist
Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician
Marshall Goldman, economist
Jerry Fodor, philosopher
Martin Rein, sociologist
Local
Christy Mihos, businessman, politician
Jack E. Robinson, lawyer, politician
Alice Hennessey, mayoral aide
Kathleen Kelley, union leader
Lee Johnson, judge
Mitchell Chester, education official
Velma Haith, community leader
Enid Shapiro, social worker
Walter Guralnick, dental health advocate
Miriam Gannon, foster mother
Jan Fontein, MFA director
Frederic Sharf, art collector, philanthropist
Irma Mann, marketing mogul
Susan Phelps, store owner
Jim Mouradian, guitar maker
Jack Grinold, sports information director
Thomas Derrah, actor
Norman Pashoian, hotel doorman