100 Notable alumni of Princeton University
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
Princeton University is ranked #26 in the world and #21 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Princeton 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 Princeton University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Jodi Picoult
1966-. (aged 60)
editor
teacher
writer
primary school teacher
novelist
Jodi Lynn Picoult is an American writer. Picoult has published 28 novels and short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and have been translated into 34 languages. In 2003, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction.
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2. Pete Conrad
1930-1999 (aged 69)
astronaut
military officer
racing automobile driver
aircraft pilot
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 12 mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected for NASA's second astronaut class in 1962.
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3. Robert Nozick
1938-2002 (aged 64)
university teacher
political scientist
philosopher
Robert Nozick was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971), in which Nozick proposes his minimal state as the only justifiable form of...
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4. William Clay Ford
1957-. (aged 69)
taekwondo athlete
entrepreneur
business executive
William Clay Ford Jr., commonly known as Bill Ford, is an American businessman, serving as the executive chair of Ford Motor Company since 1999. The great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford, Ford joined the board in 1988, and also served as CEO of the company from 2001 to 2006. He also serves as the vice chair of the Detroit Lions...
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5. Bill Bradley
1943-. (aged 83)
senior advisor
politician
writer
basketball player
businessperson
William Warren Bradley is an American politician and former professional basketball player. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a United States senator from New Jersey from 1979 to 1997 and a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2000 election, which he lost to Vice President Al Gore.
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6. Craig Mazin
1971-. (aged 55)
screenwriter
film director
podcaster
film producer
actor
Craig Mazin is an American filmmaker. He is best known for creating, writing, and producing the HBO historical disaster drama miniseries Chernobyl (2019) and co-creating, co-writing, and executive producing the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023–present), the latter alongside Neil Druckmann. For the former, he won Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Limited Series.
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7. Meg Whitman
1956-. (aged 70)
business executive
entrepreneur
politician
Margaret Cushing Whitman is an American business executive, diplomat and politician. She served as the United States Ambassador to Kenya from July 2022 to November 2024 under the Presidency of Joe Biden.
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8. David Blatt
1959-. (aged 67)
coach
basketball player
basketball coach
David Michael Blatt is an Israeli-American professional basketball executive. He is also a former coach and player.
9. Jonathan Safran Foer
1977-. (aged 49)
university teacher
novelist
writer
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.
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10. Tamon Yamaguchi
1892-1942 (aged 50)
soldier
military officer
Tamon Yamaguchi was a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in the Pacific War during World War II. Yamaguchi′s carrier force was part of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He subsequently participated in the Battle of Midway, where he was killed in action, choosing to go down with the aircraft carrier...
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11. John Foster Dulles
1888-1959 (aged 71)
politician
trustee
lawyer
diplomat
chairperson
John Foster Dulles was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A member of the Republican Party, he was briefly a U.S. senator from New York in 1949. Dulles was a significant figure in the early Cold War era who pushed...
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12. Mark Feuerstein
1971-. (aged 55)
film actor
actor
television actor
Mark Feuerstein is an American actor. He had an early, recurring role on the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City, playing the title character's boyfriend, and later gained notice in a guest appearance on an episode of Season 2 of Sex and the City. Following Caroline in the City, he went on to star on three NBC sitcoms–Fired Up, Conrad...
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13. Craig Robinson
1962-. (aged 64)
investment banker
basketball player
basketball coach
Craig Malcolm Robinson is an American college basketball coach, basketball executive, and broadcaster. He is a former head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University and Brown University. He was a star forward as a player at Princeton University in the early 1980s and a bond trader during the 1990s. He currently is the executive director of the National Association...
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14. Marvin Minsky
1927-2016 (aged 89)
computer scientist
artificial intelligence researcher
university teacher
mathematician
Marvin Lee Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research in artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory and wrote extensively about AI and philosophy.
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15. Moe Berg
1902-1972 (aged 70)
spy
baseball player
Morris Berg was an American professional baseball catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He played 15 seasons in the major leagues, almost entirely for four American League teams, though he was never more than an average player and was better known for being...
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16. Nicholas Hammond
1950-. (aged 76)
screenwriter
stage actor
television actor
actor
film actor
Nicholas Hammond is an American-Australian actor and writer who is best known for his roles as Friedrich von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music and as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the 1970s television series The Amazing Spider-Man. He also appeared in the film Spider-Man (1977) and its two sequels, Spider-Man Strikes Back and Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge.
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17. Chloe Kim
2000-. (aged 26)
freestyle skier
snowboarder
Chloe Kim is an American professional snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women's snowboard halfpipe at 17 years old.
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18. Tim Ferriss
1977-. (aged 49)
investor
orator
technology evangelist
consultant
writer
Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru. He is known for his 4-Hour self-help book series — including The 4-Hour Work Week, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef — that focused on lifestyle optimizations, but he has since reconsidered this approach. He also supports scientific research into psychedelic treatments.
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19. Daphne Oz
1986-. (aged 40)
television presenter
writer
journalist
Daphne Nur Oz is an American television host, food writer, and chef. She was one of five co-hosts on the ABC daytime talk show The Chew for the show's first six seasons and was a co-host of the syndicated talk/cooking show The Good Dish.
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20. Michael Porter
1947-. (aged 79)
military flight engineer
economist
mechanical engineer
university teacher
Michael Eugene Porter is an American businessman and professor at Harvard Business School. He was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and FSG, a social impact consultancy. He is credited with creating Porter's five forces analysis, a foundational framework in strategic management that remains widely used in both academia and industry....
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21. Jared Polis
1975-. (aged 51)
businessperson
entrepreneur
politician
Jared Schutz Polis is an American politician, entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist serving as the 43rd governor of Colorado since 2019. He served one term on the Colorado State Board of Education from 2001 to 2007 as well as five terms as the United States representative from Colorado's 2nd congressional district from 2009 to 2019. He was the only Democratic member...
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22. George Shultz
1920-2021 (aged 101)
entrepreneur
economist
university teacher
diplomat
politician
George Pratt Shultz was an American economist, businessman, diplomat, and statesman who served in various positions under Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. A member of the Republican Party, he is one of the only two persons to have held four different Cabinet-level posts, the other being Elliot Richardson. As United States Secretary of State, Shultz played a major role...
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23. Mellody Hobson
1969-. (aged 57)
entrepreneur
Mellody Louise Hobson Lucas is an American businesswoman who is president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, and former chair of Starbucks. She is the former chairman of DreamWorks Animation, having stepped down after negotiating the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., by NBCUniversal in August 2016. In 2017, she became the first African-American woman to head The Economic Club of...
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24. Susie Dent
1964-. (aged 62)
television personality
writer
etymologist
linguist
lexicographer
Susan Dent is an English lexicographer, etymologist, and media personality. She has appeared in "Dictionary Corner" on the Channel 4 game show Countdown since 1992. She also appears on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, a post-watershed comedy version of the show.
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25. James Baker
1930-. (aged 96)
lawyer
diplomat
military officer
politician
James Addison Baker III is an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, and former Marine Corps officer. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 10th White House chief of staff and 67th United States secretary of the treasury under President Ronald Reagan and the 61st U.S. secretary of state before returning as the 16th White House chief of staff...
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26. Stockton Rush
1962-2023 (aged 61)
venture capitalist
explorer
entrepreneur
Richard Stockton Rush III was an American businessman who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of OceanGate, a deep-sea exploration company.
27. Jesse Marsch
1973-. (aged 53)
association football player
association football coach
Jesse Alan Marsch is an American professional soccer coach and former player who is the head coach of the Canada men's national team. Marsch played 14 seasons as a midfielder in Major League Soccer (MLS) with D.C. United, Chicago Fire, and Chivas USA, winning three league titles and four U.S. Open Cup titles, as well as earning two caps for...
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28. Kip S. Thorne
1940-. (aged 86)
university teacher
writer
physicist
astrophysicist
astronomer
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American astrophysicist and author. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
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29. Eliot Spitzer
1959-. (aged 67)
lawyer
politician
Eliot Laurence Spitzer is an American politician and attorney who served as the 54th governor of New York from 2007 until his resignation in 2008 after a prostitution scandal. A member of the Democratic Party, he was also the 63rd attorney general of New York from 1999 to 2006.
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30. Adlai Stevenson II
1900-1965 (aged 65)
diplomat
lawyer
politician
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in 1952 and 1956, losing both elections to...
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31. Allen W. Dulles
1893-1969 (aged 76)
lawyer
diplomat
intelligence officer
politician
Allen Welsh Dulles was an American lawyer who was the first civilian director of central intelligence (DCI), and its longest serving director. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw numerous activities, such as the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Project MKUltra mind control program, and the Bay...
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32. Ali Reza Pahlavi
1966-2011 (aged 45)
socialite
politician
Ali Reza Pahlavi was a member of the Pahlavi imperial family of Iran. He was the younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran and his third wife Farah Diba. He was second in order of succession to the Iranian throne before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. On 4 January 2011, he died from suicide after battling with...
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33. Parker Stevenson
1952-. (aged 74)
television actor
television director
actor
voice actor
film producer
Richard Stevenson Parker Jr., known professionally as Parker Stevenson, is an American actor best known for playing Frank Hardy in the 1970s series The Hardy Boys and Craig Pomeroy on the 1990s series Baywatch. He is also a descendant of the Lee Family of Virginia.
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34. Jason Garrett
1966-. (aged 60)
American football player
American football coach
Canadian football player
Jason Calvin Garrett is an American former professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He was most notably the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys from 2010 to 2019.
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35. Lachlan Murdoch
1971-. (aged 55)
businessperson
Lachlan Keith Murdoch is a businessman and mass media heir. He is the son of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, chairman of News Corp, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation. In 2025, Murdoch's net worth was estimated at A$3.21 billion, as published in the Financial Review Rich List.
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36. Edward Said
1935-2003 (aged 68)
literary critic
journalist
philosopher
political scientist
writer
Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world...
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37. Paul Krugman
1953-. (aged 73)
columnist
professor
writer
economist
essayist
Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024. In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory...
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38. Rossif Sutherland
1978-. (aged 48)
film actor
actor
television actor
Rossif Racette-Sutherland is a Canadian actor, son of actor Donald Sutherland, brother of actors Angus Sutherland and Roeg Sutherland, and half-brother of actor Kiefer Sutherland and his twin sister Rachel. He has appeared in various projects including TV series like ER and Crossing Lines and films such as Poor Boy's Game and River. By fall 2024, Sutherland had starred in...
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39. Graham Phillips
1993-. (aged 33)
voice actor
stage actor
actor
television actor
film actor
Graham David Phillips is an American actor, singer, writer and director. Beginning his acting career at the age of nine, Phillips is known for a variety of television, film, and stage roles; as Zach Florrick on the CBS series The Good Wife, Ben Tennyson in the film Ben 10: Race Against Time, and Evan Goldman in the Broadway musical 13,...
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40. John Rawls
1921-2002 (aged 81)
pedagogue
philosopher
university teacher
politician
John Bordley Rawls was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition. Rawls has been described as one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century.
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41. Lex Barker
1919-1973 (aged 54)
singer
stage actor
television actor
actor
film actor
Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr. was an American film and television actor. He played Tarzan for RKO Pictures between 1949 and 1953 and portrayed leading characters from Karl May's novels, including Old Shatterhand in a film series by the West German studio Rialto Film. At the height of his fame, he was one of the most popular actors in German-speaking cinema...
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42. Carl Icahn
1936-. (aged 90)
merchant
financier
businessperson
stockbroker
Carl Celian Icahn is an American businessman and investor. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Icahn's business model is to take large stakes in companies that he believes will appreciate from changes to corporate policy; Icahn then pressures management to make the...
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43. Cornel West
1953-. (aged 73)
writer
critic
podcaster
philosopher
executive producer
Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, politician, social critic, and public intellectual. West was an independent candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election and is an outspoken voice in left-wing politics in the United States. The grandson of a Baptist minister, West's primary philosophy focuses on the roles of race, gender, and class struggle in...
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44. José Ferrer
1912-1992 (aged 80)
theatrical director
film producer
film actor
stage actor
film director
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television. He was one of the most celebrated and esteemed Hispanic American actors during his lifetime and after, with a career spanning nearly 60 years between 1935 and 1992. He achieved prominence for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac in the play...
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45. Eugene O'Neill
1888-1953 (aged 65)
playwright
screenwriter
writer
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest American plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire...
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46. Nambi Narayanan
1941-. (aged 85)
military flight engineer
chemical engineer
writer
Nambi Narayanan is an Indian aerospace scientist who worked for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). As a senior official at the ISRO, he was briefly in charge of the cryogenics division. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, in March 2019.
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47. Ralph Nader
1934-. (aged 92)
political activist
lawyer
journalist
presenter
environmentalist
Ralph Nader is an American lawyer and political activist involved in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. He is a perennial presidential candidate. His 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed, which criticized the automotive industry for its safety record, helped lead to the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966.
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48. Eric Schmidt
1955-. (aged 71)
businessperson
entrepreneur
university teacher
computer scientist
engineer
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also was the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017, and technical advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020. Since 2025, he has...
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49. Wayne Rogers
1933-2015 (aged 82)
military officer
stage actor
investor
television actor
film actor
William Wayne McMillan Rogers III was an American actor, known for playing the role of Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre in the CBS television series M*A*S*H and as Dr. Charley Michaels on House Calls (1979–1982).
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50. Mel Ferrer
1917-2008 (aged 91)
actor
director
writer
film producer
producer
Melchor Gastón Ferrer was an American actor, director, and producer, active in film, theatre, and television. He achieved prominence on Broadway before scoring notable film hits with Scaramouche (1952), Lili (1953), and Knights of the Round Table (also 1953). He starred opposite his wife, actress Audrey Hepburn, in War and Peace (1956) and produced her film Wait Until Dark (1967).
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51. Molly Ephraim
1986-. (aged 40)
television actor
stage actor
actor
film actor
Molly Ephraim is an American actress who has appeared in films, television, and Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theater productions. She is best known for her role as Mandy Baxter on the ABC/Fox sitcom Last Man Standing during its original run (2011–2017) before its move to Fox after its sixth season. Ephraim has also appeared on a number of other TV...
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52. Thích Nhất Hạnh
1926-2022 (aged 96)
Buddhist monk
spiritual teacher
monk
peace activist
religious studies scholar
Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism. Known as the "father of mindfulness", Nhất Hạnh was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism.
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53. Syngman Rhee
1875-1965 (aged 90)
politician
writer
journalist
Syngman Rhee, also known by his art name Unam (우남; 雩南), was a South Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960. Rhee was also the first and last president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea from 1919 to his impeachment in 1925 and from 1947 to 1948. His administration...
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54. Elena Kagan
1960-. (aged 66)
academic administrator
university teacher
lawyer
judge
jurist
Elena Kagan is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and is the fourth woman to serve on the Court.
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55. Queen Noor of Jordan
1951-. (aged 75)
writer
autobiographer
queen consort
architect
Noor Al Hussein is an American-born Jordanian philanthropist and activist who was the fourth wife and widow of King Hussein of Jordan. She was Queen of Jordan from their marriage on June 15, 1978, until Hussein's death on February 7, 1999.
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56. Jerome Powell
1953-. (aged 73)
investment banker
lawyer
politician
Jerome Hayden "Jay" Powell is an American central banker who has been the 16th chair of the Federal Reserve since 2018. He was previously both a lawyer and investment banker in the private sector before entering public service.
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57. David E. Kelley
1956-. (aged 70)
ice hockey player
film producer
executive producer
showrunner
lawyer
David Edward Kelley is an American television writer, producer, and former attorney. He has created and/or produced a number of television series including Doogie Howser, M.D., Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Goliath, Big Little Lies, and Big Sky. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows that...
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58. Samuel Alito
1950-. (aged 76)
university teacher
lawyer
judge
jurist
magistrate
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated to the high court by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served on it since January 31, 2006. After Antonin Scalia, Alito is the second Italian American justice to serve on...
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59. Dean Cain
1966-. (aged 60)
film producer
film actor
American football player
television actor
actor
Dean George Tanaka, known professionally as Dean Cain, is an American actor best known for portraying Superman in the 1990s television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Cain was also the host of Ripley's Believe It or Not! and appeared in the sports drama series Hit the Floor.
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60. Donald Rumsfeld
1932-2021 (aged 89)
defence minister
military officer
diplomat
author
politician
Donald Henry Rumsfeld was an American politician, businessman, and naval officer who served as the 13th United States secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and again as the 21st secretary of defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He was both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was...
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61. Sonia Sotomayor
1954-. (aged 72)
prosecutor
university teacher
lawyer
judge
politician
Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, and has served since August 8, 2009. She is the first Hispanic justice and the third woman U.S. Supreme Court justice.
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62. Aaron Burr
1756-1836 (aged 80)
military officer
politician
lawyer
bretteur
jurist
Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he is primarily remembered for the killing of Alexander Hamilton in a duel, as well as his alleged conspiracy to take parts of...
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63. James Madison
1751-1836 (aged 85)
lawyer
writer
statesperson
philosopher
politician
James Madison was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
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64. MacKenzie Scott
1970-. (aged 56)
novelist
philanthropist
businessperson
MacKenzie Scott is an American novelist, philanthropist, and early contributor to Amazon. She was married to Jeff Bezos, the co-founder of Amazon, from 1993 to 2019. As of December 2025, she has a net worth of US$40.0 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, owning a 1.3 per cent stake in Amazon. As such, Scott is the third-wealthiest woman in the...
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65. Pete Hegseth
1980-. (aged 46)
television presenter
political donor
basketball player
military officer
politician
Peter Brian Hegseth is an American government official and former television personality who has served as the 29th United States secretary of defense since 2025.
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66. David Duchovny
1960-. (aged 66)
film director
writer
film producer
actor
film actor
David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, director and musician. He received his breakthrough with the role of Fox Mulder in The X-Files franchise (1993–2002; 2016–2018) earning a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received another Golden Globe for his portrayal of Hank Moody on the...
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67. Richard Feynman
1918-1988 (aged 70)
university teacher
science communicator
physicist
quantum physicist
writer
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles". He is also known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of the physics of...
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68. Grover Cleveland
1837-1908 (aged 71)
politician
lawyer
writer
statesperson
executioner
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first U.S. president to serve two nonconsecutive terms and the first Democrat elected president after the American Civil War.
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69. Ted Cruz
1970-. (aged 56)
law clerk
lawyer
politician
Rafael Edward Cruz is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008. Since 2025, Cruz has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee.
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70. F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896-1940 (aged 44)
screenwriter
novelist
short story writer
writer
playwright
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term that he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. He published four novels, four story...
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71. Jeff Bezos
1964-. (aged 62)
computer scientist
business oligarch
commercial astronaut
entrepreneur
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes, as of December 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth is US$239.4 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world. He was the wealthiest person from 2017 to...
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72. Wentworth Miller
1972-. (aged 54)
actor
television actor
screenwriter
model
film actor
Wentworth Earl Miller III is a British-born American actor known for playing the role of Michael Scofield in Prison Break, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2005. He made his screenwriting debut with the 2013 thriller film Stoker. In 2014, he began playing Leonard Snart / Captain...
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73. Brooke Shields
1965-. (aged 61)
stage actor
model
children's writer
child actor
television actor
Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress and current president of the Actors' Equity Association. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was 11 years old. She continued to model into her...
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74. John F. Kennedy
1917-1963 (aged 46)
anti-communist
writer
naval officer
statesperson
politician
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president at 43 years. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of...
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75. Mark A. Milley
1958-. (aged 68)
army officer
Mark Alexander Milley is a retired United States Army general who served as the 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023. He had previously served as the 39th chief of staff of the Army from 2015 to 2019 and held multiple command and staff positions in eight divisions and special forces.
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76. Larry Kudlow
1947-. (aged 79)
writer
pundit
businessperson
economist
radio personality
Lawrence Alan Kudlow is an American conservative broadcast news analyst, economist, columnist, journalist, political commentator, and radio personality. He is a financial news commentator for Fox Business and served as the director of the National Economic Council during the Trump administration from 2018 to 2021. He assumed that role after his previous employment as a CNBC television financial news host....
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77. Norman Finkelstein
1953-. (aged 73)
human rights defender
political scientist
writer
university teacher
academic
Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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78. David Petraeus
1952-. (aged 74)
politician
military officer
David Howell Petraeus is a retired United States Army general who served as the fourth director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from September 2011 until his resignation in November 2012. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus served 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the...
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79. John C. Bogle
1929-2019 (aged 90)
economist
investor
financier
businessperson
John Clifton "Jack" Bogle was an American investor, business magnate and philanthropist and founder. He was the founder and chief executive of The Vanguard Group and is credited with popularizing the index fund. An avid investor and money manager himself, he preached investment over speculation, long-term patience over short-term action, and reducing broker fees as much as possible. An ideal...
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80. Lee Iacocca
1924-2019 (aged 95)
autobiographer
entrepreneur
diarist
business executive
engineer
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca was an American author, engineer, and an executive who developed the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and then revived the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979...
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81. John McCarthy
1927-2011 (aged 84)
university teacher
artificial intelligence researcher
computer scientist
mathematician
engineer
John Joseph McCarthy III is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club New York Red Bulls.
82. Robert Mueller
1944-. (aged 82)
army officer
lawyer
official
military officer
civil servant
Robert Swan Mueller III is an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.
83. Woodrow Wilson
1856-1924 (aged 68)
statesperson
lawyer
political scientist
university teacher
writer
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat to serve as president during the Progressive Era, when Republicans dominated the presidency and legislative branches. As president, Wilson made significant economic reforms and led the United States through World War I. He was the leading architect of the...
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84. Michelle Obama
1964-. (aged 62)
jurist
lawyer
writer
sociologist
podcaster
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who served as First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 as the wife of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
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85. John Forbes Nash
1928-2015 (aged 87)
university teacher
economist
mathematician
John Forbes Nash Jr., known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2015, Louis Nirenberg and he were awarded the Abel Prize for...
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86. Gita Gopinath
1971-. (aged 55)
economist
Gita Gopinath is an Indian-American economist who is currently serving as the Gregory and Ania Coffey professor of Economics at Harvard University and previously served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), from 21 January 2022 to 31 August 2025. Before that she also served as chief economist of the IMF between 2019 and 2022.
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87. John Bardeen
1908-1991 (aged 83)
inventor
physicist
electrical engineer
university teacher
John Bardeen was an American condensed matter physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for their invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and Robert Schrieffer for their microscopic theory of superconductivity, known as the BCS theory.
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88. Edward Witten
1951-. (aged 75)
university teacher
physicist
theoretical physicist
string theorist
mathematician
Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to string theory, topological quantum field theory, and various areas of mathematics. He is a professor emeritus in the school of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Witten is a researcher in string theory, quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum field theories, and other areas of mathematical...
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89. Daniel Kahneman
1934-2024 (aged 90)
essayist
university teacher
psychologist
author
economist
Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist best known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Vernon L. Smith. Kahneman's published empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory. Kahneman became known as...
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90. Chai Ling
1966-. (aged 60)
businessperson
human rights defender
Chai Ling is a Chinese-American psychologist. She rose to prominence while studying at Peking University as one of the leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. After moving to the US, she founded All Girls Allowed, an organization dedicated to ending China's one-child policy, and Jenzabar, an enterprise resource planning software firm for educational institutions.
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91. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
1938-. (aged 88)
banker
economist
politician
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard, also known simply as PPK ( Spanish: [pepeˈka]), is a Peruvian economist, public administrator, and former politician who served as the president of Peru from 2016 to 2018. He served as prime minister of Peru and as minister of economy and finance during the presidency of Alejandro Toledo. Kuczynski resigned from the presidency on 23 March...
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92. Ellie Kemper
1980-. (aged 46)
television actor
writer
voice actor
actor
film actor
Elizabeth Claire Kemper is an American actress, best known for her roles of Erin Hannon in the sitcom The Office (2009–2013) and Kimmy Schmidt in the sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019). She has also appeared in films, notably Bridesmaids (2011), 21 Jump Street (2012), Sex Tape (2014), and Home Sweet Home Alone (2021). In 2018, she released her debut book,...
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93. Alan Turing
1912-1954 (aged 42)
computer scientist
cryptographer
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical...
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94. Paul Volcker
1927-2019 (aged 92)
banker
economist
politician
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with measures known as the Volcker shock. He previously served...
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95. Michael Lewis
1960-. (aged 66)
journalist
writer
Michael Monroe Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance.
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96. James Stewart
1908-1997 (aged 89)
film actor
poet
military officer
television actor
director
James Stewart is a London-based family lawyer and Chambers HNW Family Lawyer of the Year.
97. Edoardo Agnelli
1954-2000 (aged 46)
entrepreneur
Edoardo Agnelli was an Italian entrepreneur and industrialist. He was the principal family shareholder of the Italian car company Fiat S.p.A., as well as chairman of Juventus from 1923 until his death in 1935.
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98. George F. Kennan
1904-2005 (aged 101)
historian
university teacher
geopolitical analyst
diplomat
political scientist
George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise...
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99. Wolfgang Pauli
1900-1958 (aged 58)
theoretical physicist
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian–Swiss theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum mechanics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle". The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter.
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100. Terence Tao
1975-. (aged 51)
mathematician
university teacher
Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS is an Australian and American mathematician. He is a Fields medalist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. His research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric...
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