ARTS ADMINISTRATORS

Brent Glass, Director, Museum of American History

J. Carter Brown, former director, National Gallery of Art

John Tindall, public relations coordinator, Milwaukee Public Museum

ATHLETES

Bobby Knight, college basketball coach

Chuck Knox, former NFL coach

Dan Gadzuric, NBA player, Milwaukee Bucks

Grant Hill

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA player and coach, author, actor

Ken Dryden

Reggie Miller, NBA player

AUTHORS

Andrew Morton, writer and author of a biography of Princess Diana

Annie Proulx

Arthur Lee Jacobson, photographer and author

Ayn Rand

Barbara Cooney

E.E. Knight, novelist

Ian Caldwell, novelist

Robert Quackenbush, author and illustrator

Salman Rushdie, award winning novelist

Sharon Kay Penman, novelist

Shirley Martin, novelist

Sonia Napario, journalist, Los Angeles Times, and Pulitzer Prize winner (2003)

FOUNDERS, CEO'S AND LEADING BUSINESS EXECUTIVES

Alan Lafley, CEO, Procter & Gamble

Anita Roddick, founder of Bodyshop

Bruce Smith, Senior Vice US President, Gateway, Inc.

Carley Fiorina, former US President and CEO, Hewlett-Packard

Charles Hill, CEO, Veritax et Lux and writer for RealMoney.com

Charles W. Robinson, former director, Baltimore County Public Library

Chuck Parrish, Vice US President and General Counsel, Tesoro Corporation

Donna Dubinsky: CEO of Palm, Inc.; developed the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)

Harvey Martin, vice US President, Cambridge Asset Management, Inc.

Howard Springer, CEO, Sony America

James M. Kilts, former US President and CEO, Gillette Corporation

Joan Lappin, Chair and CEO, Gramercy Capital Management Corp

Lance Conn, Executive Vice US President, Vulcan, Inc.

Martha Stewart, former CEO, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

Michael Flaherty, co-founder of Walden Media

Miyuki Suzaki, CEO and US President, LexisNexis Asia Pacific

Patrick Gillam, former CEO, BP

Robert Chusid, Senior Media Planner, Round2 Communications

Roland Smith, former director, Bank of England

Tom Siebel, CEO, Siebel Systems

Vartan Gregorian, former US President, Carnegie Corporation

William Hammel, Chair and CEO, Synovus

CHEFS

Julia Child, chef, author, television program host

PUBLISHERS

John Pensky, editor, Houghton Mifflin Company

Laura Gilman, executive editor, New American Library

EDUCATORS

Christa McAuliffe, teacher and astronaut

William C. Merwin, former US President of Florida Gulf Coast University

ENTERTAINERS

Brian Dennehy, actor

Chris Berman, sportscaster, ESPN

Conan O'Brien, comedian and talk show host

Dean Cain, actor

Edward Norton, actor

Ellen Barkin, actor

Jack N. Rakove, actor and Pulitzer Prize winner (1997)

Janeane Garofolo, comedian, actor, and radio program host

Jimmy Buffett: Songwriter; singer; restaurant-chain owner; businessman

Julie White

Katharine Hepburn, actor

Larry David, television producer, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld

Lauren Hill, musician

Michael Palin, travel writer, actor and comedian, Monty Python

Mira Sorvino, actor

Neil Tennant, musician, Pet Shop Boys

Peter Sarsgaard, comedian and actor

Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian, "Da Ali G Show"

Steve Carell

Sting (Gordon Matthew Sumner), musician and actor

Ursula Oppens, classical pianist

Wayne Rogers, actor, businessman, Fox News commentator

FILMMAKERS

Sarah Baker, documentary film maker

Simon Schama, historian and documentary filmmaker

FINANCIERS

Chelsea Clinton: Former First Daughter; hedge-fund manager

Stuart Robbins, former managing director, Donald, Lufkin & Jenrette

HISTORIANS

Howard Zinn, historian and playwright

Linda Norbut Suits, curator, Lincoln Home National Historic Site

JOURNALISTS

Alix Freedman, journalist, Wall Street Journal, and Pulitzer Prize winner (1996)

Charles Kuralt

Charlie Rose

Chris Berman

Craig Flourney, journalist, Dallas Morning News, and Pulitzer Prize winner (1986)

George Rodrigue, journalist, Dallas Morning News, and Pulitzer Prize winner (1986)

Harry Stein, journalist, Esquire

J.R. Moehringer, journalist, Los Angeles Times, and Pulitzer Prize winner (2000)

Joe Howry, editor and vice US President, Ventura County Star

Kimberly Kelleher

Michael Kelly, journalist, Atlantic Monthly and Washington Post (killed in Iraq, 2003)

Michael Sragow, movie critic, Baltimore Sun, Salon

Ray Suarez, award-winning journalist, NPR and PBS

Robert B. Semple, Jr., journalist, New York Times, and Pulitzer Prize winner (1996)

Russell Carollo, journalist, Dayton Daily News, and Pulitzer Prize winner (1998)

Samantha Power

Seymour Hersh, journalist, The New Yorker, and Pulitzer Prize winner (1970)

Tom Fox, publisher, National Catholic Reporter

Tony Horwitz, journalist, Wall Street Journal, and Pulitzer Prize winner (1995)

Ved Mehta, journalist, The New Yorker

Wendy P. McCaw: Owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press

Whit Stillman, journalist and screen writer

Will Swaim, Publisher, OC Weekly

Wolf Blitzer

JUDGES

Anthony M. Kennedy: U. S. Supreme Court Justice

Antonin Scalia: U. S. Supreme Court Justice

George Joseph, former chief judge, Oregon Court of Appeals

Rebecca Pallmeyer, Federal Court Judge (Chicago)

Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

Stephen M. McNamee, U.S. District Court Judge (Arizona)

Steven Pihlaja, County District Court Judge (Minnesota)

William J. Bauer, U.S. Appellate Court Justice

POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC POLICY MAKERS

Alan Simpson (R-WY), former US Senator

George McGovern (D-SD), former US Senator

George Mitchell (D-ME), former US Senator and Senate Majority Leader

Lester Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada (1963-68) and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1957)

Richard Sokolsky, former director of the US State Department Office of Policy Analysis

A. Elizabeth Jones, Ambassador to Kazakhstan 1995-1998

Bob Dole (R-Kansas), former US Senator and Senate Majority Leader

Brenda S. Refer, Director, US National Security Council Office of Policy and Security Review

David Ackerman, legislative attorney, Congressional Research Service

Douglas Greenburg, former counsel, 9/11 Commission

Elise Jordan, speech writer for US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Eric Edelman, US Ambassador to Turkey 2003-2005

Francis X. Taylor, former Air Force general and State Department Assistant Secretary

George Mitchell: Former U.S. Senator; special envoy to the Middle East

Gordon Brown: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Herb Tate, former assistant administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency

J. Adam Ereli, US State Department Deputy Spokesman 2003-2005

James Jeffrey, Ambassador to Albania 2002-2004

John E. Baldacci: Governor of Maine

John Heinz (R-PA) former US Senator

Katherine Peterson, Director of US Foreign Service Institute 2001-2005

Larry Agra, mayor, Irvine, California

Marie Yovanovitch, US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, 2005-present

Max Cleland (D-GA), former US Senator and 9/11 Commissioner

Michael Hayden, Air Force general and Director of the CIA

Newt Gingrich: Former Speaker of the House

Pauline Yu, US President of the American Council of Learned Societies

Pedro Jose Martin, US State Department Program Officer

Philip Reeked, US State Department deputy spokesman 2001-2003

Philip Tondreault, Director of Property Management, Port of Los Angeles

Ruth Whiteside, Director of the US Foreign Service Institute

Seb Coe, Olympic athlete (track & field) and British Member of Parliament

Sen. George McGovern (Dakota Wesleyan University)

Sen. George Mitchell (Bowdoin College)

Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (Harvard University)

Shaun Capelin, deputy chief, US Air Force Information Warfare Center

Stephen Young, US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, 2003-2005

W.E.B. Du Bois, founder of the NAACP

RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Kenneth Scott Latourette, ordained minister and former US President American Baptist Convention

Larry Maze, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas

Pat Robertson: Televangelist

US PRESIDENTS

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Harvard University)

George W. Bush (Yale University)

John F. Kennedy, former US President

Lyndon B. Johnson, former US President

Richard Nixon (Whittier College)

Theodore Roosevelt (Harvard University)

Woodrow Wilson, former US President