100 Notable alumni of Brown University

Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees

Brown University is 77st in the world, 1st in North America, and 50st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Brown University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Brown University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Naomi Novik

1. Naomi Novik

1973-. (aged 53)
novelist writer science fiction writer fantasy author programmer
Naomi Novik is an American author of speculative fiction. She is known for the Temeraire series, an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. Novik has won many awards for her work,...
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Michael Parenti

2. Michael Parenti

1933-2026 (aged 93)
opinion journalist university teacher historian journalist political scientist
Michael John Parenti was an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who wrote on scholarly and popular subjects. He taught at universities and also ran for political office. Parenti was well known for his Marxist writings and lectures, and was an intellectual of the American Left.
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Jeffrey Eugenides

3. Jeffrey Eugenides

1960-. (aged 66)
writer academic novelist university teacher
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a...
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Hiroko Kuniya

4. Hiroko Kuniya

1957-. (aged 69)
journalist news presenter
Hiroko Kuniya is a Japanese news presenter and journalist. Kuniya was born in Osaka Prefecture and graduated from International School of the Sacred Heart in 1975 and then Brown University with majors in international relations and international economics. In 1981, she began to work as a news caster and writer for the English-language broadcasts of NHK television's Seven O'clock News....
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Cecile Richards

5. Cecile Richards

1957-2025 (aged 68)
politician
Cecile Richards was an American activist who served as the president of both the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliated Planned Parenthood Action Fund from 2006 to 2018. In 2010, Richards was elected to the Ford Foundation board of trustees. In spring 2019, Richards co-founded Supermajority, a women's political action group.
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Louis Ozawa Changchien

6. Louis Ozawa Changchien

1975-. (aged 51)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Louis Ozawa Changchien is an American actor best known for his role in the films The Bourne Legacy (2012) and Jack Ryan (2023), and for his role as members of the Kawakami family in the Predator and Alien vs. Predator franchises, including Hanzo Kawakami in Predators (2010), Eiji Kawakami in Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey (2022), and Kenji and Kiyoshi...
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Ben Shenkman

7. Ben Shenkman

1968-. (aged 58)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Ben Shenkman is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the comedy-drama series Royal Pains and the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America, which earned him both Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.
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Robert Capron

8. Robert Capron

1998-. (aged 28)
stage actor film director actor voice actor stand-up comedian
Robert Banfield Capron Jr. is an American actor. After making his film debut with a minor role in Bride Wars (2009), he received mainstream recognition for his starring role as Rowley Jefferson in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series (2010–2012).
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Charles Colson

9. Charles Colson

1931-2012 (aged 81)
lawyer writer politician
Charles Wendell Colson, generally referred to as Chuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. Once known as President Nixon's "hatchet man", Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal, for being named as one of the Watergate Seven and also for pleading guilty...
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Aaron Beck

10. Aaron Beck

1921-2021 (aged 100)
professor of medicine psychiatrist university teacher
Aaron Temkin Beck was an American psychiatrist who was a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is regarded as the father of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). His pioneering methods are widely used in the treatment of clinical depression and various anxiety disorders. Beck also developed self-report measures for depression and anxiety,...
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Richard Fleischer

11. Richard Fleischer

1916-2006 (aged 90)
screenwriter director film director
Richard Owen Fleischer was an American film director. His career spanned more than four decades, beginning at the height of the Golden Age of Hollywood and lasting through the American New Wave. He was the son of animation pioneer Max Fleischer, and served as chairman of Fleischer Studios.
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Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark

12. Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark

1969-. (aged 57)
business consultant photographer aristocrat
Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark is the third child of Constantine II and Anne-Marie, who were the last King and Queen of Greece, from 1964 to 1973.
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Will Oldham

13. Will Oldham

1970-. (aged 56)
singer television actor guitarist singer-songwriter songwriter
Joseph Will Oldham is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded in collaboration with dozens of other musicians under variations of Palace (Palace, Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music). After briefly publishing music under his own name, in 1998 he adopted Bonnie "Prince" Billy as the name for most of his work.
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Jessica Meir

14. Jessica Meir

1977-. (aged 49)
explorer university teacher aircraft pilot marine biologist astronaut
Jessica Ulrika Meir is a Swedish American marine biologist, physiologist, and NASA astronaut. She was previously an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia. She has studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in Antarctica, and the physiology of bar-headed geese,...
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Alicia Sacramone

15. Alicia Sacramone

1987-. (aged 39)
artistic gymnast
Alicia Marie Sacramone Quinn is a retired American artistic gymnast. She won a silver medal with the United States team at the 2008 Summer Olympics and is the 2005 World Champion on floor exercise and the 2010 World Champion on the vault. With a total of eleven World Championship and Olympic medals, Sacramone is the fourth most decorated U.S. female...
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Andy Hertzfeld

16. Andy Hertzfeld

1953-. (aged 73)
computer engineer
Andrew Jay Hertzfeld is an American software engineer who was a member of Apple Computer's original Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a designer for the Macintosh system software.
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Richard Holbrooke

17. Richard Holbrooke

1941-2010 (aged 69)
writer banker diplomat politician
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world, (Asia from 1977 to 1981 and Europe from 1994 to 1996) assisting in brokering a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia leading to the signing of...
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Madeline Miller

18. Madeline Miller

1978-. (aged 48)
novelist teacher writer
Madeline Miller is an American novelist, author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018). Miller spent ten years writing The Song of Achilles while she worked as a teacher of Latin and Greek. The novel tells the story of the love between the mythological figures Achilles and Patroclus; it won the Orange Prize for Fiction, making Miller the...
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Nicolas Jaar

19. Nicolas Jaar

1990-. (aged 36)
musician record producer
Nicolas Jaar is an American composer and musician. Among his notable works are the albums Space Is Only Noise (2011), Sirens (2016), and Cenizas (2020). He has also released three albums as one half of his band Darkside (Psychic, 2013, Spiral, 2021 and Nothing, 2025) and two further albums under the alias Against All Logic.
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Joseph Bologna

20. Joseph Bologna

1934-2017 (aged 83)
actor television actor screenwriter writer stage actor
Joseph Bologna was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter notable for his roles in the comedy films My Favorite Year, Blame It on Rio, and Transylvania 6-5000.
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Ottessa Moshfegh

21. Ottessa Moshfegh

1981-. (aged 45)
novelist screenwriter writer
Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh is an American author and novelist. Her debut novel, Eileen (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Moshfegh's subsequent novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona.
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Michael Showalter

22. Michael Showalter

1970-. (aged 56)
film producer film actor film director television actor television producer
Michael Showalter is an American director, writer, and producer. He first achieved recognition as a cast member on MTV's The State, which aired from 1993 to 1995. Along with David Wain, Showalter created the Wet Hot American Summer franchise, with Showalter co-writing and starring in Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and the Netflix series. Showalter wrote and directed The Baxter...
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Charles Evans Hughes

23. Charles Evans Hughes

1862-1948 (aged 86)
judge politician lawyer diplomat jurist
Charles Evans Hughes was an American politician, academic, and jurist who served as the 11th chief justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the 36th governor of New York (1907–1910), an associate justice of the Supreme Court (1910–1916), and 44th U.S. secretary of state (1921–1925). He was the Republican...
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Timothy Snyder

24. Timothy Snyder

1969-. (aged 57)
political scientist literary critic writer university teacher academic
Timothy David Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. From 2017 to 2025 he was...
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Marco Beltrami

25. Marco Beltrami

1966-. (aged 60)
composer film score composer
Marco Beltrami is an American composer of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror (Scream, Mimic, The Faculty, Resident Evil, The Woman in Black, Carrie, A Quiet Place, and The Nun II), action (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Live Free or Die Hard, World War Z), science fiction (I, Robot, Snowpiercer), Western...
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Raymond J. Barry

26. Raymond J. Barry

1939-. (aged 87)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Raymond John Barry is an American film, television, and stage actor. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film Steel City.
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Elvis Perkins

27. Elvis Perkins

1976-. (aged 50)
singer-songwriter musician
Elvis Brooke Perkins is an American folk-rock musician. He released his debut studio album, Ash Wednesday, in 2007. He subsequently toured in support of the album with his band Elvis Perkins in Dearland, composed of Perkins alongside multi-instrumentalists Brigham Brough, Wyndham Boylan-Garnett and Nick Kinsey. The band released its self-titled debut, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, in 2009.
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Ira Glass

28. Ira Glass

1959-. (aged 67)
screenwriter radio producer film producer actor radio personality
Ira Jeffrey Glass is an American public radio personality. He is the host and producer of the radio and television series This American Life and has participated in NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. His work in radio and television has won him awards, such as the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding...
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Randy Pausch

29. Randy Pausch

1960-2008 (aged 48)
university teacher writer computer scientist motivational speaker pedagogue
Randolph Frederick Pausch was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Maggie Hassan

30. Maggie Hassan

1958-. (aged 68)
lawyer politician
Margaret Wood Hassan is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator for New Hampshire since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Hassan was the 81st governor of New Hampshire, from 2013 to 2017.
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Chris Hayes

31. Chris Hayes

1979-. (aged 47)
news presenter political pundit writer journalist television presenter
Christopher Loffredo Hayes is an American political commentator, television news anchor, and author. Hayes hosts All In with Chris Hayes, a weekday news and opinion television show on MS NOW. Hayes also hosts a weekly MS NOW podcast, Why Is This Happening? Hayes formerly hosted a weekend MSNBC show, Up with Chris Hayes. He is an editor-at-large of The Nation...
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Bess Armstrong

32. Bess Armstrong

1953-. (aged 73)
film actor television actor stage actor
Elizabeth Key "Bess" Armstrong is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Four Seasons (1981), High Road to China (1983), Jaws 3-D (1983), and Nothing in Common (1986). Armstrong also starred in the ABC drama series My So-Called Life and had lead roles in a number of made-for-television films.
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David Walton

33. David Walton

1978-. (aged 48)
film actor actor television actor
David B. Walton is an American actor. He is known for his role in the television sitcom Cracking Up (2004), as Liam Connor. He has starred in several television programs, including the drama series Heist (2006), comedy series New Girl (2012–2018), and on the NBC comedies Perfect Couples (2010–2011), Bent (2012), and About a Boy (2014–2015). He played Dr. Rick...
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Horace Mann

34. Horace Mann

1796-1859 (aged 63)
writer lawyer university teacher politician
Horace Mann was an American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education; he is thus also known as The Father of American Education. In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives (1848–1853). From September 1852 to...
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Lois Lowry

35. Lois Lowry

1937-. (aged 89)
novelist writer journalist children's writer photographer
Lois Ann Lowry is an American writer. She is the author of many books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, the Anastasia series, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences.
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Jim Yong Kim

36. Jim Yong Kim

1959-. (aged 67)
anthropologist physician university teacher politician
Jim Yong Kim, also known as Kim Yong (Korean: 김용; Hanja: 金墉), is an American physician and anthropologist who served as the 12th president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019.
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Thomas Perez

37. Thomas Perez

1961-. (aged 65)
lawyer politician
Thomas Edward Perez is an American politician and attorney who served as the senior advisor to U.S. president Joe Biden and the director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs from 2023 to 2025. Perez previously served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 2013 to 2017, the chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2017 to 2021,...
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Julie Warner

38. Julie Warner

1965-. (aged 61)
television actor television director actor film actor
Juliet Mia Warner is an American actress. She is best known as Danni Lipton on Family Law (1999–2001) and Megan O'Hara on Nip/Tuck (2003–2006), Lou in Doc Hollywood (1991), Elaine in Mr. Saturday Night (1992), Michelle in Tommy Boy (1995), Micki in Wedding Bell Blues (1996), and Dean York in Chalk It Up (2016). She also appeared in the 1989...
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Mary Chapin Carpenter

39. Mary Chapin Carpenter

1958-. (aged 68)
singer-songwriter recording artist singer street artist
Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American country and folk music singer-songwriter. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C.-area clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records. Carpenter's first album, 1987's Hometown Girl, did not produce any charting singles. She broke through with 1989's State of the Heart and 1990's Shooting Straight in the Dark.
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André Leon Talley

40. André Leon Talley

1948-2022 (aged 74)
journalist autobiographer
André Leon Talley was an American fashion journalist, stylist, creative director, author, and editor-at-large of Vogue magazine. He was the magazine's fashion news director from 1983 to 1987, its first African-American male creative director from 1988 to 1995, and then its editor-at-large from 1998 to 2013. Often regarded as a fashion icon, he was known for supporting emerging designers and...
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David Hedison

41. David Hedison

1927-2019 (aged 92)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Albert David Hedison Jr. was an American film, television, and stage actor. He was known for his roles as the title character in The Fly (1958), Captain Lee Crane in the television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968), and CIA agent Felix Leiter in two James Bond films, Live and Let Die (1973) and Licence...
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Dean Phillips

42. Dean Phillips

1969-. (aged 57)
politician business executive
Dean Benson Phillips is an American politician, businessman, and former presidential candidate who served from 2019 to 2025 as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 3rd congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, Phillips was an executive in the food and beverage industry before entering politics. Formerly the president and CEO of his family's distilled spirits business, Phillips Distilling Company,...
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Sam Trammell

43. Sam Trammell

1969-. (aged 57)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Sam Trammell is an American actor, best known for his role as Sam Merlotte on the HBO fantasy drama series True Blood. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Miller in Ah, Wilderness!
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Chris Berman

44. Chris Berman

1955-. (aged 71)
sports commentator
Christopher James Berman, nicknamed "Boomer", is an American sportscaster. He has been an anchor for SportsCenter on ESPN since 1979, joining a month after its initial launch, and hosted the network's Sunday NFL Countdown program from 1985 to 2016 and NFL Primetime from 1987 to 2005 and since 2019. He has also anchored Monday Night Countdown, U.S. Open golf, the...
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Todd Haynes

45. Todd Haynes

1961-. (aged 65)
actor screenwriter director television director film director
Todd Haynes is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer whose work is known for its engagement with melodrama, historical pastiche, and queer cinema. Across four decades, his films frequently explore the emotional and psychological consequences of social repression, particularly as they relate to sexuality, identity, illness, and conformity. Haynes is often associated with the New Queer Cinema movement of...
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Dara Khosrowshahi

46. Dara Khosrowshahi

1969-. (aged 57)
entrepreneur businessperson
Dara Khosrowshahi is an Iranian and American business executive who is the chief executive officer of Uber. He was previously CEO of Expedia Group, a company that owns several travel fare aggregators. He is on the board of directors of BET.com and Hotels.com, and was on the board of The New York Times Company.
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Nadiem Makarim

47. Nadiem Makarim

1984-. (aged 42)
businessperson chief executive officer
Nadiem Anwar Makarim is an Indonesian politician and businessman who is the only minister of education, culture, research, and technology of Indonesia, serving from 2021 until 2024.
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Max Joseph

48. Max Joseph

1982-. (aged 44)
film director writer film producer cinematographer film actor
H. Maxwell Joseph is an American filmmaker and a television and gameshow host.
Ken Starr

49. Ken Starr

1946-2022 (aged 76)
prosecutor university teacher lawyer judge politician
Kenneth Winston Starr was an American lawyer and judge who as independent counsel authored the Starr Report, which served as the basis of the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He headed an investigation of members of the Clinton administration, known as the Whitewater controversy, from 1994 to 1998. Starr previously served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of...
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Simon Kinberg

50. Simon Kinberg

1973-. (aged 53)
screenwriter executive producer film director film producer
Simon David Kinberg is an American filmmaker. He has written and produced a number of films for 20th Century Fox, including several films in the X-Men film franchise and The Martian, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. He made his directorial debut with the X-Men film Dark Phoenix (2019), which he also wrote.
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Ted Chiang

51. Ted Chiang

1967-. (aged 59)
novelist science fiction writer writer
Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. He has published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) and Exhalation: Stories (2019). His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of...
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E. Howard Hunt

52. E. Howard Hunt

1918-2007 (aged 89)
spy novelist writer
Everette Howard Hunt Jr. was an American intelligence officer and author. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he was a central figure in U.S. regime change in Latin America including the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Frank...
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Bobby Jindal

53. Bobby Jindal

1971-. (aged 55)
writer politician
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is an American politician who served as the 55th governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Republican Party, Jindal previously served as a U.S. representative from Louisiana from 2005 to 2008, and served as chair of the Republican Governors Association from 2012 to 2013.
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower

54. Julie Nixon Eisenhower

1948-. (aged 78)
visual artist writer
Julie Nixon Eisenhower is an American author who is the younger daughter of former U.S. president Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat Nixon. Her husband, David, is the grandson of former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie Eisenhower.
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Peter Jacobson

55. Peter Jacobson

1965-. (aged 61)
film actor actor television actor
Peter Jacobson is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Chris Taub on the Fox medical drama series House. He also starred on the USA Network science fiction drama Colony as former Proxy Snyder.
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Bill O'Brien

56. Bill O'Brien

1969-. (aged 57)
head coach American football player American football coach
William James O'Brien, is an American football coach who is currently the head coach at Boston College. Previously, he was the head coach of the Houston Texans from 2014 to 2020, and at Penn State from 2012 to 2013. Prior to Boston College, O'Brien was the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama and for the New England Patriots. After...
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Doug Liman

57. Doug Liman

1965-. (aged 61)
film director director cinematographer film producer executive producer
Douglas Eric Liman is an American film director and producer. He is known for directing the films Swingers (1996), Go (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Jumper (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), American Made (2017), and Road House (2024).
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Sasha Spielberg

58. Sasha Spielberg

1990-. (aged 36)
singer actor film actor musician
Sasha Rebecca Spielberg, also known by her stage name Buzzy Lee, is an American actress and musician.
Francesca Gregorini

59. Francesca Gregorini

1968-. (aged 58)
singer screenwriter composer singer-songwriter film director
Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna is an Italian-American screenwriter and film director.
Silas Weir Mitchell

60. Silas Weir Mitchell

1829-1914 (aged 85)
writer medical writer neurologist physician
Silas Weir Mitchell is an American character actor. He is known for starring as Charles "Haywire" Patoshik in the Fox television series Prison Break (2005–2007), for the recurring role of Donny Jones in My Name Is Earl (2005–2009), and as Monroe in the NBC television series Grimm (2011–2017).
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Alex Wagner

61. Alex Wagner

1977-. (aged 49)
journalist
Alexandra Swe Wagner is an American journalist and television host. She is a senior political analyst and was the host of Alex Wagner Tonight on MSNBC. She is the author of FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging (One World/Random House). She was a contributor for CBS News and is a contributing editor at The...
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Larry Elder

62. Larry Elder

1952-. (aged 74)
non-fiction writer radio personality talk show host film director journalist
Laurence Allen Elder is an American conservative political commentator and talk radio host. He hosts The Larry Elder Show, based in California. The show began as a local program on Los Angeles radio station KABC in 1994 and ran until 2008, followed by a second run on KABC from 2010 to 2014. The show was nationally syndicated, first through ABC...
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John Sculley

63. John Sculley

1939-. (aged 87)
businessperson
John Sculley III is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and investor in high-tech startups. Sculley was vice-president (1970–1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), until he became chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving on October 15, 1993. In 1987, Sculley was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive, with an annual salary of...
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Takehiro Hira

64. Takehiro Hira

1974-. (aged 52)
actor television actor
Takehiro Hira is a Japanese theatre, film, and television actor.
JoBeth Williams

65. JoBeth Williams

1948-. (aged 78)
actor film director
Margaret JoBeth Williams is an American actress. She rose to prominence appearing in such films as Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Stir Crazy (1980), Poltergeist (1982), The Big Chill (1983), The Day After (1983), Teachers (1984), and Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). A three-time Emmy Award nominee, she was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie...
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Wendy Carlos

66. Wendy Carlos

1939-. (aged 87)
record producer film score composer composer
Wendy Carlos is an American musician and composer known for electronic music and film scores.
Lisa Loeb

67. Lisa Loeb

1968-. (aged 58)
composer actor women's rights activist guitarist singer-songwriter
Lisa Anne Loeb is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author and actress. She started her career with "Stay (I Missed You)" (1994) from the film Reality Bites, the first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 for an artist without a recording contract. She achieved additional top-20 singles with "Do You Sleep?" in 1996 and "I Do" in 1998. Her albums...
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Davis Guggenheim

68. Davis Guggenheim

1963-. (aged 63)
television director film producer film director cinematographer television producer
Philip Davis Guggenheim is an American screenwriter, director, and producer.
Victoria Nuland

69. Victoria Nuland

1961-. (aged 65)
diplomat politician
Victoria Jane Nuland is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024. A former member of the US Foreign Service, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and the 18th U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2005 to 2008. Between July 2023 and...
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Curtis Yarvin

70. Curtis Yarvin

1973-. (aged 53)
computer scientist blogger political theorist
Curtis Guy Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political blogger and software developer. He is known, along with accelerationist philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx), which originated in the late 2000s. By the early 2020s, Yarvin and his ideas...
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Rhonda Ross Kendrick

71. Rhonda Ross Kendrick

1971-. (aged 55)
actor
Rhonda Ross Kendrick is an American singer and actress. Kendrick is the daughter of singer and actress Diana Ross and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy. She was raised by her mother and Robert Ellis Silberstein, who had married Ross before she was born.
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Rory Kennedy

72. Rory Kennedy

1968-. (aged 58)
writer film director film producer actor
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy is an American documentary filmmaker. Kennedy has made documentary films that center on social issues such as addiction, her opposition to nuclear power, the treatment of prisoners-of-war, and the politics of the Mexican border fence.
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Kate Burton

73. Kate Burton

1957-. (aged 69)
stage actor television actor voice actor actor film actor
Katherine Burton is a Welsh and American actress, the daughter of actors Richard Burton and Sybil Christopher. On television, Burton received critical acclaim as Dr. Ellis Grey in the drama series Grey's Anatomy, and as Vice President Sally Langston on Scandal. She has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Tony Awards.
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Masi Oka

74. Masi Oka

1974-. (aged 52)
television actor digital artist actor film actor
Masayori "Masi" Oka is a Japanese actor, producer, and digital effects artist based in the United States who became widely known for starring in NBC's Heroes as Hiro Nakamura, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, and in CBS's Hawaii Five-0 as Doctor Max Bergman.
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Leila Pahlavi

75. Leila Pahlavi

1970-2001 (aged 31)
translator model
Leila Pahlavi was a princess of Iran and the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Shah and his third wife, Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi.
Hill Harper

76. Hill Harper

1966-. (aged 60)
television actor actor film actor politician
Frank Eugene "Hill" Harper is an American actor and political candidate, who is known for his roles as Dr. Sheldon Hawkes in CSI: NY, Agent Spelman Boyle in Limitless, and Dr. Marcus Andrews in The Good Doctor.
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Dhani Harrison

77. Dhani Harrison

1978-. (aged 48)
singer pianist model composer guitarist
Dhani Harrison is an English and American musician, composer and singer-songwriter. He is the son of George Harrison, lead guitarist of the Beatles, and Olivia Harrison. Dhani debuted as a professional musician assisting in recording his father's final album, Brainwashed, and completing it with the assistance of Jeff Lynne after his father's death in November 2001.
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Joe Paterno

78. Joe Paterno

1926-2012 (aged 86)
American football coach
Joseph Vincent Paterno, sometimes referred to as JoePa, was an American college football player, athletic director, and coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2011. With 409 victories, Paterno is the most victorious coach in NCAA FBS history. He recorded his 409th victory on October 29, 2011; his career ended with his...
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Yaya DaCosta

79. Yaya DaCosta

1982-. (aged 44)
model actor
Yaya DaCosta is an American actress and model. She was the runner-up in Cycle 3 of America's Next Top Model. DaCosta eventually went on to star in ABC's daytime drama series All My Children (2008), ABC's comedy-drama Ugly Betty (2009), and NBC's medical drama Chicago Med (2015–2022).
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John D. Rockefeller Jr

80. John D. Rockefeller Jr

1874-1960 (aged 86)
art collector banker financier philanthropist
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist. Rockefeller was the fifth child and only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in Midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center, making him one of the largest real estate holders in the city at that time. Towards the...
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Marin Hinkle

81. Marin Hinkle

1966-. (aged 60)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Marin Hinkle is an American actress. Among many television and movie roles, she is best known for playing Judy Brooks in the ABC television drama Once and Again (1999–2002), Judith Harper-Melnick in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003–2015), and Rose Weissman in the Amazon Prime Video comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023). For her role in...
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Lucy DeVito

82. Lucy DeVito

1983-. (aged 43)
stage actor film director television actor actor film actor
Lucy Chet DeVito is an American actress. She was a recurring character on ABC Family's Melissa & Joey (2010–2012), starred in the Hulu sitcom Deadbeat (2014–2015), and was a main voice actor and executive producer of the FXX animated comedy Little Demon (2022). DeVito has appeared in a number of theater productions, including her Broadway debut I Need That (2023)....
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Leelee Sobieski

83. Leelee Sobieski

1983-. (aged 43)
actor television actor film actor sculptor film producer
Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta "Leelee" Sobieski is an American artist and retired actress. She achieved fame in her teens with roles in films such as Deep Impact (1998), Never Been Kissed, Eyes Wide Shut (both 1999), Here on Earth (2000), Joy Ride and The Glass House (both 2001).
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Tim Blake Nelson

84. Tim Blake Nelson

1964-. (aged 62)
film director manufacturer television actor voice actor film editor
Timothy Blake Nelson is an American actor, director, and writer. Described as a "modern character actor", his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Gideon in Minority Report (2002), Doctor Steve Pendanski in Holes (2003), Doctor Jonathan Jacobo in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Danny Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Samuel Sterns / The Leader in...
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Eva Amurri

85. Eva Amurri

1985-. (aged 41)
film actor television actor blogger
Eva Amurri is an American actress.
Kerry Kennedy

86. Kerry Kennedy

1959-. (aged 67)
writer human rights defender
Mary Kerry Kennedy is an American lawyer, author, and human rights activist. Kennedy is a daughter of former United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, and a niece of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. She is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a non-profit human rights advocacy organization.
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Daveed Diggs

87. Daveed Diggs

1982-. (aged 44)
actor television actor screenwriter rapper athletics competitor
Daveed Daniele Diggs is an American actor, rapper, and singer-songwriter. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping. In 2015, he originated the dual roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the musical Hamilton, for which he won a 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical. Along with the...
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Andrew Yang

88. Andrew Yang

1975-. (aged 51)
entrepreneur
Andrew Yang is an American businessman, attorney, lobbyist, political commentator, and author. He founded the political party and action committee Forward Party in 2021, for which he serves as co-chair alongside former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and Michael S. Willner.
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Janet Yellen

89. Janet Yellen

1946-. (aged 80)
economist banker professor politician
Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist who served as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury from 2021 to 2025. She also served as chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. She was the first woman to hold either position, and has also led the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Yellen is the Eugene E....
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Laura Linney

90. Laura Linney

1964-. (aged 62)
television director film actor stage actor television actor actor
Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of several awards, including four Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, five Tony Awards, and a BAFTA.
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Julie Bowen

91. Julie Bowen

1970-. (aged 56)
film director television actor voice actor actor film actor
Julie Bowen is an American actress. She is best known as Claire Dunphy in ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which she received widespread critical acclaim, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Tracee Ellis Ross

92. Tracee Ellis Ross

1972-. (aged 54)
television actor television director television presenter actor model
Tracee Joy Silberstein, known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends (2000–2008) and Black-ish (2014–2022) receiving nominations for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the latter.
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Ted Turner

93. Ted Turner

1938-. (aged 88)
sailor philanthropist entrepreneur environmentalist media proprietor
Robert Edward Turner III is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television, as well as television networks TBS and TNT.
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John Krasinski

94. John Krasinski

1979-. (aged 47)
voice actor stage actor actor television actor film actor
John Burke Krasinski is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), where he was also a producer and occasional director. He directed, co-wrote and co-starred in the 2018 horror film A Quiet Place, for which Time named him one of the 100 most influential people...
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John F. Kennedy Jr

95. John F. Kennedy Jr

1960-1999 (aged 39)
lawyer publisher
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., also known as JFK Jr., was an American attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was a son of 35th U.S. president John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Amy Carter

96. Amy Carter

1967-. (aged 59)
activist
Amy Lynn Carter is the only daughter and fourth child of the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter. Carter first entered the public spotlight as a child when she lived in the White House during her father's presidency.
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Marilynne Robinson

97. Marilynne Robinson

1943-. (aged 83)
writer science fiction writer novelist essayist
Marilynne Summers Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Robinson began teaching at the...
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Emma Watson

98. Emma Watson

1990-. (aged 36)
voice actor stage actor model actor child actor
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress. In the 2010s, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015. Watson was also listed by Forbes as an honouree on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2015...
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Prince Feisal bin Al-Hussein of Jordan

99. Prince Feisal bin Al-Hussein of Jordan

1963-. (aged 63)
sports executive
Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein is a Jordanian prince who is a son of King Hussein and Princess Muna, and the younger brother of King Abdullah II. Periodically he has served as regent during his brother's absences abroad.
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Nicanor Parra

100. Nicanor Parra

1914-2018 (aged 104)
academic physicist writer mathematician poet
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century.
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