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Inventor of the submarine
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David Bushnell
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Inventor of Morse code
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Samuel Morse
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Inventor of the cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
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First surgeon to successfully separate twins conjoined at the back of the head who later turned politician
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Ben Carson
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Lexicographer and textbook pioneer, his name has become synonymous with dictionary in the United States
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Noah Webster
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First author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Sinclair Lewis
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Playwright and novelist, "Out Town" "The Eighth Day" "The Skin of Our Teeth"
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Thornton Wilder
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Writer and poet who is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry, "All the King's Men"
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Robert Penn Warren
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Journalist who is known for the original reporting on the Watergate scandal
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Bob Woodward
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Philosopher and gender studies scholar who is considered influential to feminist and queer scholarship
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Judith Butler
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Abstract painter best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color
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Mark Rothko
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Director, "On the Waterfront" "A Streetcar Named Desire" "Gentleman's Agreement"
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Elia Kazan
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Director, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" "The Sting"
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George Roy Hill
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Director, "All the President's Men" "Sophie's Choice" "The Pelican Brief"
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Alan J. Pakula
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Director, "Wall Street" "Born on the Fourth of July" "Natural Born Killers"
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Oliver Stone
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Director, "The Deer Hunter"
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Michael Cimino
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Director, "Spotlight"
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Tom McCarthy
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Director, "Minari" "Twisters"
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Lee Isaac Chung
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Film composer, "The Shawshank Redemption" "American Beauty" "Skyfall"
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Thomas Newman
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Songwriter for musicals, best known for co-creating "The Book of Mormon" and co-writing the songs for "Frozen" and "Coco"
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Robert Lopez
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Actress, "Kramer vs. Kramer" "Sophie's Choice" "Mamma Mia!"
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Meryl Streep
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Actress, "Taxi Driver" "The Silence of the Lambs" "Inside Man"
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Jodie Foster
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Actress, "Alien" "Avatar" "Ghostbusters"
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Sigourney Weaver
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Actress, "Fargo" "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" "Nomadland"
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Frances McDormand
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Actress, "Requiem for a Dream" "A Beautiful Mind" "Top Gun: Maverick"
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Jennifer Connelly
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Actress, "The Untouchables" "Easy A" "Sharp Objects" "House of Cards"
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Patricia Clarkson
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Actress and comedian, "Bad Moms" "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" "WandaVision" "Crossing Jordan"
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Kathryn Hahn
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Actress, "What's Love Got to Do with It" "Black Panther" "Malcolm X" "9-1-1"
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Angela Bassett
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Actress best known for her role as Juliet Capulet in "Romeo + Juliet" and Carrie Mathison in "Homeland"
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Claire Danes
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Actress best known for her role as Mia Toretto in "Fast and the Furious"
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Jordana Brewster
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Actress, "12 Years a Slave" "Black Panther" "Us"
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Lupita Nyong'o
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Actress, "The Holdovers" "Only Murders in the Building"
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Da'Vine Joy Randolph
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Actress best known for her roles as Darlene Conner in "Roseanne" and Leslie Winkle in "The Big Bang Theory"
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Sara Gilbert
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Actress best known for her role as Rose Armitage in "Get Out"
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Allison Williams
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Actor, "The Color of Money" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" "The Hustler"
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Paul Newman
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Actor, "The Big Lebowski" "The Batman" "Transformers" "Monk"
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John Turturro
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Actor, "Fight Club" "American History X" "Birdman"
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Edward Norton
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Actor best known for his role as Fox Mulder in "The X-Files"
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David Duchovny
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Actor, "Scream" "Spotlight" "The French Dispatch"
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Liev Schreiber
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Actor best known for his role as Adrian Monk in "Monk"
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Tony Shalhoub
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Actor best known for his role as Kendall Roy in "Succession"
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Jeremy Strong
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Actor best known for his roles as Fonzie in "Happy Days" and Barry Zuckerkorn in "Arrested Development"
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Henry Winkler
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Actor, "The Truman Show" "The Americans" "Super 8"
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Noah Emmerich
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Actor, "John Wick" "The Wire" "Bosch"
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Lance Reddick
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Actor best known for his role as M'Baku in "Black Panther"
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Winston Duke
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Actor, "The Holdovers" "Sideways" "Private Parts" "Straight Outta Compton"
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Paul Giamatti
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Actor, "Atlanta" "If Beale Street Could Talk" "Eternals" "Bullet Train"
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Brian Tyree Henry
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Actor, "Aquaman" "The Matrix Resurrections" "The Trial of the Chicago 7"
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
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Actor who portrayed Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before he was found guilty of assault
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Jonathan Majors
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Comedian who appeared in "The Daily Show" and voiced the role of Anger in "Inside Out"
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Lewis Black
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Broadcast journalist working for CNN since 2001
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Anderson Cooper
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"Father of American Football"
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Walter Camp
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Baseball executive who became notable for helping to end two of the longest World Series droughts in MLB history (Red Sox and Cubs)
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Theo Epstein
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Head football coach of the Miami Dolphins since 2022
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Mike McDaniel
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Figure skater and 2022 Olympic champion
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Nathan Chen
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