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List Rules People on this list must have gone to City College of New York and be of some renown.

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Woody Allen Film Score Composer, Comedian, Musician Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American actor, writer, director, comedian and playwright, whose career spans more than 50 years. He worked as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokes ...more

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Tony Curtis Painter, Actor Tony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a ...more

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Colin Powell Statesman, Politician, Soldier Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. ...more

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Jackie Mason Rabbi, Comedian, Screenwriter Jackie Mason is an American stand-up comedian and film and television actor.

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Paul Goodman Writer Paul Goodman was an American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist, although now best known as a social critic, anarchist philosopher, and public intellectual. Though often thought of ...more

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Henry Kissinger Statesman, Businessperson, Politician Henry Alfred Kissinger is an American diplomat and political scientist. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents ...more

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Leonard Kleinrock Professor, Inventor, Computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist. A computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, he made several important ...more

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan Sociologist, Politician Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected ...more

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Sheldon Adelson Businessperson, Real estate development, Entrepreneur Sheldon Gary Adelson is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay ...more

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Herman Hollerith Businessperson, Inventor, Statistician Herman Hollerith was an American statistician and inventor who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the ...more

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Edward G. Robinson Actor Edward Goldenberg Robinson was a Romanian-born American actor. A popular star during Hollywood's Golden Age and known for roles such as Rico in his star-making film Little Caesar and as Rocco in ...more

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Norman Gaylord Chemist, Inventor, Engineer Norman Gaylord was an American industrial chemist and research scientist credited with playing a key role in the development of the gas-permeable rigid contact lens which allows oxygen to reach ...more

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Cornel Wilde Film Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and film director.

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Leonard Greene Inventor, Engineer Leonard Michael Greene was an American inventor and aerodynamics engineer who held more than 200 patents, many of which are aviation-related. He is most well known for his contributions to ...more

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Yip Harburg Film Score Composer, Screenwriter, Lyricist Yip Harburg was a lyricist, screenwriter, and film score composer.

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Bayard Rustin Bayard Rustin was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania, where his family was involved in civil ...more

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Samuel R. Delany Editor, Literary critic, Educator Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., Chip Delany to his friends, is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes fiction, memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society. His ...more

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Gabourey Sidibe Actor Gabourey Sidibe is an American actress who made her acting debut in the 2009 film Precious, a role that brought her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. From 2010 to 2013, she ...more

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Eli Wallach Film Producer, Actor Eli Herschel Wallach was an American film, television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s. Trained in stage acting, which he enjoyed doing ...more

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Jonas Salk Medical researcher, Virologist, Scientist Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine. Born in New York City, he attended New York ...more

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Richard Schiff Television director, Television producer, Actor Richard Schiff is an American actor and comedian. He played Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Schiff made his directorial debut with The West Wing, ...more

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Felix Frankfurter Politician, Professor, Jurist Felix Frankfurter was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna and immigrated to New York at the age of 12. He graduated from Harvard Law School ...more

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Ira Gershwin Lyricist, Author Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. With George he wrote ...more

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Henry Miller Painter, Novelist, Author Henry Valentine Miller was an American writer. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms, developing a new sort of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social ...more

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Alfred Stieglitz Artist, Photographer Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, ...more

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Herbert Sandler Businessperson, Banker Herbert Sandler is the former CO-CEO of Golden West Financial Corporation and World Savings Bank.

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Frank Loesser Songwriter, Screenwriter, Lyricist Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and music to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won ...more

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Sapphire Poet, Author, Writer Ramona Lofton, better known by her pen name Sapphire, is an American author and performance poet.

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Garry Winogrand Photographer Garry Winogrand was a street photographer from the Bronx, New York, known for his portrayal of American life, and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. Though he photographed in Los ...more

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Julian Schwinger Physicist, Theoretical Physicist Julian Seymour Schwinger was a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a ...more

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Upton Sinclair, Jr. Politician, Journalist, Novelist Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr., was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books across a number of genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular ...more

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Bernard Baruch Businessperson, Politician, Investor Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. ...more

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Harry Magdoff Economist, Writer Henry Samuel Magdoff, was a prominent American socialist commentator. He held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became ...more

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Andrew Grove Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Writer Andrew Stephen Grove, is a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author. He is a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the ...more

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Zero Mostel Performer, Comedian, Actor Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel was an American actor and comedian of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in Fiddler on the Roof, ...more

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Judd Hirsch Actor Judd Seymore Hirsch is an American actor known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi, John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John, and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs. He ...more

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Roy Innis Roy Emile Alfredo Innis is an American activist and politician. He has been National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality since his election to the position in 1968. One of his sons, ...more

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Butterfly McQueen Actor Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. She continued as ...more

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Ernest Lehman Film Producer, Screenwriter, Film Director Ernest Paul Lehman was an American screenwriter. He received six Academy Award nominations during his career, without a single win. At the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001, he received an Honorary ...more

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Robert Scheer Editor, Journalist, Professor Robert Scheer is an actor.

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Deborah Lipstadt Historian, Professor, Author Deborah Esther Lipstadt is an American historian and author of the books Denying the Holocaust and The Eichmann Trial. She is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory ...more

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Barbara Herrnstein Smith Barbara Herrnstein Smith is an American literary critic and theorist, best known for her work Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. She is currently the Braxton ...more

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Morton Sobell Morton Sobell is an American former engineer with General Electric and Reeves Electronics who worked on military and government contracts, and who was subsequently found guilty of spying for the ...more

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Joel Barr Engineer Joel Barr, also Iozef Veniaminovich Berg and Joseph Berg, was part of the Soviet Atomic Spy Ring

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William Perl Scientist William Perl, whose real name was William Mutterperl, was an American physicist and Soviet spy. While a student at the City College of New York, Perl joined the Steinmetz Club, the campus branch ...more

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Seymour Martin Lipset Sociologist, Political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset was an American political sociologist, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason ...more

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Irving Kahn Investor, Financial adviser, Financial Analyst Irving Kahn was an American businessman and investor. He was the oldest living active investment professional. He was an early disciple of Benjamin Graham, the creator of the value investing ...more

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Robert E. Kahn Engineer Robert Elliot "Bob" Kahn is an American electrical engineer, who, along with Vint Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, the fundamental ...more

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Asa Philip Randolph Trade unionist, Social activist Asa Philip Randolph was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car ...more

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Arno Allan Penzias Physicist, Scientist, Astronomer Arno Allan Penzias is an American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics who is co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang ...more