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100 Notable alumni of University of Texas at Austin

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Texas at Austin is ranked #32 in the world and #26 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Texas at Austin sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Texas at Austin won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

James Lankford

1. James Lankford

1968-. (aged 58)
politician director
James Paul Lankford is an American Southern Baptist minister and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oklahoma, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Oklahoma's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015.
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Daniel Gibson

2. Daniel Gibson

1986-. (aged 40)
basketball player
Daniel Hiram "Boobie" Gibson is an American former professional basketball player. He was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the 2006 NBA draft and played seven seasons for them.
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Alan Bean

3. Alan Bean

1932-2018 (aged 86)
painter military flight engineer military officer test pilot aircraft pilot
Alan LaVern Bean was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, NASA astronaut and painter. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3, and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
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Tara Davis-Woodhall

4. Tara Davis-Woodhall

1999-. (aged 27)
long jumper athletics competitor
Tara Davis-Woodhall is an American track and field athlete. She won a gold medal in women's long jump at the 2024 Summer Olympics and also a silver medal at the 2023 World Championships. In 2017, she set the American junior women's record in the indoor long jump, and placed 6th in the women's long jump final at the 2020 Summer...
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Richard Garriott

5. Richard Garriott

1961-. (aged 65)
programmer game designer video game director engineer video game developer
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut.
Cory Joseph

6. Cory Joseph

1991-. (aged 35)
basketball player
Cory Ephram Joseph is a Canadian professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He plays the point guard position and was previously the captain of the Canadian national team.
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Christopher Rich

7. Christopher Rich

1953-. (aged 73)
actor
Christopher Rich Wilson is an American actor, best known for his roles on Murphy Brown, Reba, and Boston Legal.
Myles Turner

8. Myles Turner

1996-. (aged 30)
basketball player
Myles Christian Turner is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season for the Texas Longhorns before being selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 11th overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft. Turner spent 10 seasons with the Pacers, reaching the 2025 NBA Finals in his final year...
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Ramsey Clark

9. Ramsey Clark

1927-2021 (aged 94)
peace activist lawyer politician
William Ramsey Clark was an American lawyer, activist, and federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously, he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney...
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Dina Powell

10. Dina Powell

1973-. (aged 53)
diplomat banker politician
Dina Powell, also known as Dina Powell McCormick is an Egyptian-American financial executive, philanthropist, and political advisor, best known for having been the United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to President Donald Trump.
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Jaxson Hayes

11. Jaxson Hayes

2000-. (aged 26)
basketball player
Jaxson Reed Hayes is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns.
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Marilyn Burns

12. Marilyn Burns

1949-2014 (aged 65)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Marilyn Burns was an American actress. Burns is known for portraying survivor Sally Hardesty in Tobe Hooper's influential horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which established her as an early final girl and scream queen. In 2025, the film was her first to be inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
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Bianna Golodryga

13. Bianna Golodryga

1978-. (aged 48)
presenter news presenter journalist
Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga is a Soviet-born American news anchor and journalist. She currently co-anchors One World with Zain Asher on CNN International. She previously served as a senior global affairs analyst at CNN, and as news and finance anchor at Yahoo! News. Golodryga also co-anchored the weekend edition of Good Morning America and co-hosted CBS This Morning.
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Ryan Crouser

14. Ryan Crouser

1992-. (aged 34)
athletics competitor
Ryan Crouser is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put and discus. He specializes in the shot put, in which he is the only three-time Olympic gold medalist, having won in Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Paris, and also a three-time outdoor World Champion. He holds the world record in the shot put, both indoors...
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Jarrett Allen

15. Jarrett Allen

1998-. (aged 28)
basketball player
Jarrett Allen is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns and was selected 22nd overall by the Brooklyn Nets in the 2017 NBA draft. In January 2021, he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers as part of the four-team blockbuster James Harden trade. In...
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Gunnar Hansen

16. Gunnar Hansen

1947-2015 (aged 68)
film actor screenwriter non-fiction writer
Gunnar Milton Hansen was an Icelandic-born American actor and author. He played the deranged cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
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Marquise Goodwin

17. Marquise Goodwin

1990-. (aged 36)
athletics competitor American football player
Marquise Derell Goodwin Sr. is an American former professional football wide receiver. He also is an Olympian who competed in the long jump in track and field. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns.
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Quinn Ewers

18. Quinn Ewers

2003-. (aged 23)
American football player
Quinn Tucker Ewers is an American professional football quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and Texas Longhorns. Ewers was selected by the Dolphins in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL draft.
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Ashley Estes Kavanaugh

19. Ashley Estes Kavanaugh

1974-. (aged 52)
secretary
Ashley Estes Kavanaugh is an American public official and former political aide. She is married to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
John B. Goodenough

20. John B. Goodenough

1922-2023 (aged 101)
inventor physicist meteorologist university teacher
John Bannister Goodenough was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with identifying the Goodenough–Kanamori rules of the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, with developing materials for computer...
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Noël Wells

21. Noël Wells

1986-. (aged 40)
musician screenwriter film director comedian actor
Noël Kristi Wells is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer. She is known for her television roles as Rachel Silva in the Netflix comedy-drama Master of None (2015–2017), as the voice of Kelsey Pokoly in the Cartoon Network animated television series Craig of the Creek (2018–2025), as the voice of Ensign D'Vana Tendi in the Paramount+ animated series Star...
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Guy Ecker

22. Guy Ecker

1959-. (aged 67)
actor television actor
Guy Frederick Ecker is an American actor.
Jamaal Charles

23. Jamaal Charles

1986-. (aged 40)
athletics competitor American football player
Jamaal RaShaad Jones Charles is an American former professional football player who was a running back for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns, where he won the 2006 Rose Bowl, and was selected by the Chiefs in the third round of the 2008 NFL...
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Billy Miller

24. Billy Miller

1979-2023 (aged 44)
film actor actor television actor
William John Miller II was an American actor. He was recognized for his work on American soap operas, including his award-winning work as Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless and his dual portrayals of Jason Morgan and Drew Cain on General Hospital.
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Mohamed Bamba

25. Mohamed Bamba

1998-. (aged 28)
basketball player
Mohamed Fakaba Bamba is an Ivorian-American professional basketball player for the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns. He was highly regarded by scouts due to his 7 ft 10 in (2.39 m) wingspan and shooting ability. He attended Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, New Hampshire, and Westtown School in...
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Valerie Mahaffey

26. Valerie Mahaffey

1953-2025 (aged 72)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Valerie Mahaffey was a Canadian-American actress. She began her career starring in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors (1979–81), for which in 1980 she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
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Ryan Piers Williams

27. Ryan Piers Williams

1981-. (aged 45)
actor screenwriter film director
Ryan Piers Williams is an American actor, director, and writer.
Tex Ritter

28. Tex Ritter

1905-1974 (aged 69)
singer television actor film actor songwriter stage actor
Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter was an American country music singer and actor. He was the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John Ritter, grandsons Jason Ritter and Tyler Ritter). He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Tiya Sircar

29. Tiya Sircar

1982-. (aged 44)
dancer television actor voice actor actor film actor
Tiya Sircar is an American actress, known for her role as "Real Eleanor"/Vicky in The Good Place (2016–2020). She also provided the voice for Sabine Wren in Disney XD's Star Wars Rebels (2014–2018), played Rooni Schuman in ABC's Alex, Inc. (2018) and co-starred in The Internship (2013).
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Kathryn Crosby

30. Kathryn Crosby

1933-2024 (aged 91)
actor singer voice actor
Olive Kathryn Crosby was an American actress and singer who performed in films, primarily under the stage name Kathryn Grant. She married Bing Crosby in 1957 and subsequently appeared on television with him and hosted a talk show, The Kathryn Crosby Show, on which he occasionally appeared, before returning to acting after his death.
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Avery Bradley

31. Avery Bradley

1990-. (aged 36)
basketball player
Avery Antonio Bradley Jr. is an American former professional basketball player who is the vice president of player development for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns before being drafted 19th overall by the Boston Celtics in the 2010 NBA draft. With the Celtics, Bradley was twice recognized as an...
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Robert Rauschenberg

32. Robert Rauschenberg

1925-2008 (aged 83)
assemblage artist performance artist jewelry designer visual artist painter
Milton Ernest "Robert" or "Bob" Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg was primarily a painter and a sculptor, but he also...
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Mitch Pileggi

33. Mitch Pileggi

1952-. (aged 74)
voice actor television actor actor film actor
Mitchell Pileggi is an American actor. He played Horace Pinker in Shocker, Walter Skinner on The X-Files, Colonel Steven Caldwell on Stargate Atlantis, Ernest Darby in Sons of Anarchy, and Harris Ryland in the TNT revival of Dallas (2012–2014).
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Paul Alexander

34. Paul Alexander

1946-2024 (aged 78)
lawyer writer
Paul Richard Alexander was an American paralytic polio survivor, attorney and author. After contracting polio in 1952 at the age of six, he spent the remainder and vast majority of his life in an iron lung, and is currently recognized as the person to have spent the longest period of time occupying one at almost 72 years. Decades following his...
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Pat Hingle

35. Pat Hingle

1924-2009 (aged 85)
stage actor television actor character actor actor film actor
Martin Patterson Hingle was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films. His first film was On the Waterfront in 1954. He often played tough authority figures. Hingle was a close friend of Clint Eastwood and appeared in the Eastwood films Hang 'Em High, The Gauntlet, and Sudden Impact. He...
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William H. McRaven

36. William H. McRaven

1955-. (aged 71)
military officer
William Harry McRaven is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who served as the ninth commander of the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) from August 8, 2011 to August 28, 2014. From 2015 to 2018, he was the chancellor of The University of Texas System.
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John Hillerman

37. John Hillerman

1932-2017 (aged 85)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
John Benedict Hillerman was an American actor best known for his starring role as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on the television series Magnum, P.I. that aired from 1980 to 1988. For his role as Higgins, Hillerman earned five Golden Globe nominations, winning in 1981, and four Emmy nominations, winning in 1987. He retired from acting in 1999.
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Lois Chiles

38. Lois Chiles

1947-. (aged 79)
model television actor actor film actor
Lois Cleveland Chiles is an American actress and former fashion model known for her role as Holly Goodhead in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979), and as a hit-and-run driver in Creepshow 2 (1987). Other screen credits include The Way We Were (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974), Death on the Nile (1978), Broadcast News (1987), and the television role of...
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Jay Duplass

39. Jay Duplass

1973-. (aged 53)
cinematographer film editor film screenwriter film producer actor
Lawrence Jay Duplass Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, and author widely known for his films The Puffy Chair (2005), Cyrus (2010), and Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), made in collaboration with his younger brother, Mark Duplass.
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Michael Dell

40. Michael Dell

1965-. (aged 61)
businessperson entrepreneur financier philanthropist investor
Michael Saul Dell is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world's largest technology infrastructure companies.
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P. J. Tucker

41. P. J. Tucker

1985-. (aged 41)
basketball player
Anthony Leon "P.J." Tucker Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Regarded as a reliable perimeter defender all throughout his career, Tucker won an NBA championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2021. He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns. Outside his NBA career, he was...
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Colt McCoy

42. Colt McCoy

1986-. (aged 40)
American football player
Daniel "Colt" McCoy is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns, winning several awards and honors as a senior in 2009 and ranking second all-time in games won by an FBS quarterback. McCoy was selected by the Cleveland Browns in...
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Ricky Williams

43. Ricky Williams

1977-. (aged 49)
baseball player American football player Canadian football player
Errick Miron, known professionally as Ricky Williams, is an American former professional football running back who played for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and one season in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
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Peri Gilpin

44. Peri Gilpin

1961-. (aged 65)
voice actor actor
Peri Gilpin is an American actress who portrayed Roz Doyle in the NBC sitcom Frasier and Kim Keeler in the ABC Family drama series Make It or Break It.
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Allen Ludden

45. Allen Ludden

1917-1981 (aged 64)
television personality film actor game show host actor singer
Allen Ellsworth Ludden was an American television personality, actor, singer, emcee, and game show host. He hosted various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1980.
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Mary Lou Retton

46. Mary Lou Retton

1968-. (aged 58)
artistic gymnast
Mary Lou Retton is an American retired gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the individual all-around competition, as well as two silver medals and two bronze medals, which earned her the Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year award.
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LaMarcus Aldridge

47. LaMarcus Aldridge

1985-. (aged 41)
basketball player
LaMarcus Nurae Aldridge is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for two seasons with the Texas Longhorns. Aldridge was selected second overall in the 2006 NBA draft. After spending nine seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, he signed with the San Antonio Spurs in 2015. In March 2021, he signed with the Brooklyn Nets after the...
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Kevin Alejandro

48. Kevin Alejandro

1976-. (aged 50)
television actor director actor film actor
Kevin Michael Alejandro is an American actor and director. He has worked in TV since 2003, with some film credits.
Felicia Day

49. Felicia Day

1979-. (aged 47)
film director writer actor film actor screenwriter
Kathryn Felicia Day is an American actress, singer, writer, and web series creator. She is the creator and star of the web series The Guild (2007–2013), a show loosely based on her life as a gamer. She also wrote and starred in the Dragon Age web series Dragon Age: Redemption (2011). She is a founder of the online media company...
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Walter Cronkite

50. Walter Cronkite

1916-2009 (aged 93)
journalist news presenter
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. Cronkite received numerous honors including two Peabody Awards, a George Polk Award, an Emmy...
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Lindsey Morgan

51. Lindsey Morgan

1990-. (aged 36)
television actor television director actor film actor
Lindsey Marie Morgan is an American actress. She is known for playing Raven Reyes in the CW science fiction drama series The 100 (2014–2020) and Micki Ramirez in the action crime drama series Walker (2021–2022).
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Trevante Rhodes

52. Trevante Rhodes

1990-. (aged 36)
television actor athletics competitor actor film actor
Trevante Nemour Rhodes is an American actor. He won several accolades and achieved recognition in 2016 for his performance as "Black" (Adult Chiron) in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight. He has since starred in The Predator (2018), Bird Box (2018), and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). In his youth, he was an accomplished track and field sprinter, winning...
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Krista Allen

53. Krista Allen

1971-. (aged 55)
erotic photography model model television actor actor film actor
Krista Allen is an American actress and model. Allen is known for playing soap opera roles, including Billie Reed on Days of Our Lives (1996–1999) and Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful (2021–2023), earning a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for the latter.
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Kyle Shanahan

54. Kyle Shanahan

1979-. (aged 47)
American football coach American football player
Kyle Michael Shanahan is an American professional football coach who is the head coach for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He came to prominence as the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons, whose offense in 2016 led the league in points scored and helped the team reach Super Bowl LI. Shanahan became the head coach...
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Bruce McGill

55. Bruce McGill

1950-. (aged 76)
voice actor television actor actor film actor
Bruce Travis McGill is an American actor. He worked with director Michael Mann in the films The Insider (1999), Ali (2001), and Collateral (2004). McGill's other notable film roles include Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day in John Landis's Animal House, and Sheriff Dean Farley in My Cousin Vinny.
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Arch Manning

56. Arch Manning

2005-. (aged 21)
American football player
Archibald Charles Manning is an American college football quarterback for the Texas Longhorns. He is a member of the Manning family of renowned football players.
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Scoot McNairy

57. Scoot McNairy

1977-. (aged 49)
television actor film producer actor film actor
John "Scoot" McNairy is an American actor. He is known for his roles in films such as Monsters (2010), Argo, Killing Them Softly (both 2012), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Lyle, Lyle Crocodile (2022), Speak No Evil, and Nightbitch (both 2024).
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Lady Bird Johnson

58. Lady Bird Johnson

1912-2007 (aged 95)
entrepreneur politician
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson was the first lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969, as the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. She had previously been Second Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, when her husband was vice president under President John F. Kennedy.
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Roger Clemens

59. Roger Clemens

1962-. (aged 64)
baseball player
William Roger Clemens, nicknamed "Rocket", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees and also played for the Toronto Blue Jays and Houston Astros. He was one of the most dominant pitchers in major league history, tallying 354 wins, a 3.12...
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Stacey Abrams

60. Stacey Abrams

1973-. (aged 53)
voting rights activist entrepreneur jurist lawyer politician
Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression, in 2018. Her efforts have been widely credited with boosting...
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Jenna Bush Hager

61. Jenna Bush Hager

1981-. (aged 45)
correspondent teacher politician writer children's writer
Jenna Welch Bush Hager is an American news personality, author, and journalist. She is the co-host of Today with Jenna & Sheinelle, the fourth hour of NBC's morning news program, Today. Hager and her fraternal twin sister, Barbara, are the daughters of the 43rd U.S. president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush. Hager is also a granddaughter...
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Mark Duplass

62. Mark Duplass

1976-. (aged 50)
showrunner actor television actor film actor film producer
Mark David Duplass is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and musician. With his brother Jay Duplass, he started the film production company Duplass Brothers Productions in 1996, for which they wrote and directed The Puffy Chair (2005), Baghead (2008), Cyrus (2010), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), and The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012).
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Jordan Spieth

63. Jordan Spieth

1993-. (aged 33)
golfer
Jordan Alexander Spieth is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour and former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking. He is a three-time major winner and the 2015 FedEx Cup champion.
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Marcia Gay Harden

64. Marcia Gay Harden

1959-. (aged 67)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards.
Rex Tillerson

65. Rex Tillerson

1952-. (aged 74)
politician engineer merchant businessperson civil engineer
Rex Wayne Tillerson is an American energy executive and former diplomat who served as the 69th United States secretary of state from 2017 to 2018 in the first administration of Donald Trump. From 2006 to 2016, he was chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of ExxonMobil.
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Jeb Bush

66. Jeb Bush

1953-. (aged 73)
governor banker politician writer bookbinder
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He was the second son of former president George H. W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, and a younger brother of former president George W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, he was an unsuccessful...
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Greg Abbott

67. Greg Abbott

1957-. (aged 69)
lawyer judge politician
Gregory Wayne Abbott is an American politician, attorney, and jurist who has served since 2015 as the 48th governor of Texas. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2002 to 2015 as the 50th attorney general of Texas and from 1996 to 2001 as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court. As of 2025, Abbott is the longest-serving...
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Scottie Scheffler

68. Scottie Scheffler

1996-. (aged 30)
golfer
Scott Alexander Scheffler is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is currently ranked world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, a position he has held for over 175 weeks. He has won four major championships.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson

69. Neil deGrasse Tyson

1958-. (aged 68)
astrophysicist science communicator
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer....
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Tristan Thompson

70. Tristan Thompson

1991-. (aged 35)
basketball player
Tristan Trevor James Thompson is a Canadian professional basketball player who has played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Throughout his career, he has played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings, Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls, and Los Angeles Lakers. He won an NBA championship with the Cavaliers in 2016. Thompson played one season of college basketball...
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Eli Wallach

71. Eli Wallach

1915-2014 (aged 99)
stage actor military officer actor autobiographer film producer
Eli Herschel Wallach was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City. Known for his character actor roles, his entertainment career spanned over six decades. He received a BAFTA Award, a Tony Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He also was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1988 and received the Academy Honorary Award...
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Robert Rodriguez

72. Robert Rodriguez

1968-. (aged 58)
production designer writer camera operator film actor cinematographer
Robert Anthony Rodriguez is an American filmmaker, composer, actor, chef and visual effects supervisor. He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of Texas. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2.6 million ($5.5 million in 2023 dollars) against a budget of $7,000...
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Wes Anderson

73. Wes Anderson

1969-. (aged 57)
film director manufacturer director actor animator
Wesley Wales Anderson is an American filmmaker. His films are known for themes of grief, loss of innocence, and dysfunctional families. Due to his films' eccentricity, distinctive visual and narrative styles, and frequent use of ensemble casts, critics have described Anderson as an auteur. Three of his films appeared in BBC Culture's 2016 poll of the greatest films since 2000.
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Jon Hamm

74. Jon Hamm

1971-. (aged 55)
voice actor actor television actor director waiter
Jonathan Daniel Hamm is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Don Draper in the period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), for which he won numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Farrah Fawcett

75. Farrah Fawcett

1947-2009 (aged 62)
stage actor artist actor model film producer
Farrah Fawcett was an American actress. A four-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she played a starring role in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels.
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Glen Powell

76. Glen Powell

1988-. (aged 38)
film producer film actor television actor actor stunt performer
Glen Thomas Powell Jr. is an American actor. He began his career with small roles on television and in films including Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) and Fast Food Nation (2006). Powell acted in the action film The Expendables 3 (2014), the comedy-horror series Scream Queens (2015–2016), the teen comedy Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), the historical romance The Guernsey...
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Renée Zellweger

77. Renée Zellweger

1969-. (aged 57)
voice actor manufacturer actor film actor
Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
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Ethan Hawke

78. Ethan Hawke

1970-. (aged 56)
stage actor television actor writer comics writer film actor
Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, author, and filmmaker. Over a four-decade career on both stage and screen, he has become known for his versatility across a wide range of roles and acclaimed collaborations with director Richard Linklater. Prolific in both independent films and blockbusters, Hawke has received numerous accolades including a Daytime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations...
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Owen Wilson

79. Owen Wilson

1968-. (aged 58)
voice actor actor comedian television actor writer
Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor and screenwriter. He has frequently worked with filmmaker Wes Anderson, with whom he has shared writing and acting credits on the films Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)—the latter received a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He has also appeared in Anderson's The...
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Matthew McConaughey

80. Matthew McConaughey

1969-. (aged 57)
film producer film actor television actor actor television producer
Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor. He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). After a number of supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). His career progressed with lead roles in the science fiction film Contact (1997), the...
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Kevin Durant

81. Kevin Durant

1988-. (aged 38)
basketball player
Kevin Wayne Durant, also known by his initials KD, is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Slim Reaper", he is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players and one of the greatest scorers of all time. Durant has won two NBA championships, is the only male to...
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Rip Torn

82. Rip Torn

1931-2019 (aged 88)
film producer film actor stage actor film director television actor
Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. was an American actor whose career spanned roughly 60 years. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Marsh Turner in Cross Creek (1983). Torn's portrayal of Artie the producer on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998) received six Emmy Award nominations, winning in 1996. Torn was also known for his...
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George P. Bush

83. George P. Bush

1976-. (aged 50)
politician teacher lawyer businessperson military officer
George Prescott Bush is an American politician and attorney who served as the commissioner of the Texas General Land Office from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Bush unsuccessfully campaigned for the party's nomination in the 2022 Texas Attorney General election.
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Brené Brown

84. Brené Brown

1965-. (aged 61)
essayist scientist writer podcaster social worker
Casandra Brené Brown is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin.
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Ann Richards

85. Ann Richards

1933-2006 (aged 73)
politician
Dorothy Ann Richards was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards was the second female governor of Texas (the first being Miriam A. Ferguson), and was...
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Laura Bush

86. Laura Bush

1946-. (aged 80)
HIV/AIDS activist writer autobiographer children's writer president
Laura Lane Welch Bush is an American educator who was the first lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 as the wife of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. Bush was also the first lady of Texas from 1995 to 2000 when her husband was governor.
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Jayne Mansfield

87. Jayne Mansfield

1933-1967 (aged 34)
singer stage actor television actor Playboy Playmate film actor
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, Playboy Playmate, singer, and sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was known for her numerous publicity stunts, her buxom figure, and her personal life. Her film career was short-lived, but she won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe Award. Mansfield gained a reputation as Hollywood's "smartest dumb blonde".
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F. Murray Abraham

88. F. Murray Abraham

1939-. (aged 87)
stage actor television actor character actor actor film actor
F. Murray Abraham is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award, four Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. He came to prominence for his portrayal of Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984) for which he...
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Rob Thomas

89. Rob Thomas

1965-. (aged 61)
screenwriter writer children's writer television producer teacher
Robert James Thomas is an American author, producer, director and screenwriter. He created the television series Veronica Mars (2004–2007, 2019), co-developed 90210 (2008–2013), and co-created Party Down (2009–2010, 2023) and iZombie (2015–2019).
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Fess Parker

90. Fess Parker

1924-2010 (aged 86)
television actor stage actor singer film actor
Fess Elisha Parker Jr. was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of the title characters in the Walt Disney television miniseries Davy Crockett (1954–55; ABC) and the television series Daniel Boone (1964–70; NBC).
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James Talarico

91. James Talarico

1989-. (aged 37)
teacher politician
James Dell Talarico is an American politician, Presbyterian seminarian, and former public school teacher serving since 2018 as a member of the Texas House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, Talarico has been called a "rising star" among Texas Democrats.
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Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

92. Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

1944-. (aged 82)
politician
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb is the elder daughter of the 36th U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson and former first lady Lady Bird Johnson. She served as chairwoman of the Board of Reading is Fundamental, the nation's largest children's literacy organization, as well as chairwoman of the President's Advisory Committee for Women. She is a magazine editor who served as First...
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Karl Rove

93. Karl Rove

1950-. (aged 76)
political adviser journalist lobbyist politician
Karl Christian Rove is an American Republican political consultant, policy advisor, and lobbyist. He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration until his resignation on August 31, 2007. He has also headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Rove was one...
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C. Wright Mills

94. C. Wright Mills

1916-1962 (aged 46)
university teacher sociologist
Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills published widely in both popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, and The Sociological Imagination. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals...
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Rachel Lindsay

95. Rachel Lindsay

1985-. (aged 41)
television presenter lawyer sports team owner
Rachel Lynn Lindsay is an American media personality, attorney and podcaster. She is best known for her role as a contestant on the twenty-first season of ABC's The Bachelor and as the lead of its spinoff, The Bachelorette, in its thirteenth season. She was the first African-American lead in The Bachelor franchise. She was a correspondent for Extra from 2020...
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Pita Limjaroenrat

96. Pita Limjaroenrat

1980-. (aged 46)
singer politician model writer businessperson
Pita Limjaroenrat, nicknamed Tim (Thai: ทิม, RTGS: Thim), is a Thai businessman and former politician who served as Leader of the Move Forward Party, the de facto successor to the dissolved Future Forward Party, from 2020 to 2023, and then as the advisory chair of the party from 2023 to 2024. He was also a member of the House of...
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Mostafa Chamran

97. Mostafa Chamran

1932-1981 (aged 49)
military officer politician physicist
Mostafa Chamran Save'ei was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla fighter who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran and a member of parliament as well as the commander of paramilitary volunteers in Iran–Iraq War, known as "Irregular Warfare Headquarters". He was killed during the Iran–Iraq War.
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Fernando Belaúnde Terry

98. Fernando Belaúnde Terry

1912-2002 (aged 90)
university teacher architect politician
Fernando Sergio Marcelo Marcos Belaúnde Terry was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru (1963–1968 and 1980–1985). Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected in 1980 after twelve years of military rule.
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John Owen Brennan

99. John Owen Brennan

1955-. (aged 71)
intelligence analyst civil servant intelligence officer
John Owen Brennan is an American former intelligence officer who served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from March 2013 to January 2017. He served as chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. president Barack Obama, with the title Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President. Previously, he advised Obama on foreign...
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J. M. Coetzee

100. J. M. Coetzee

1940-. (aged 86)
university teacher novelist linguist essayist writer
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger,...
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