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Career: Primatologist

Hank Aaron
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Lynsey Addario
Edward Albee
Tenley Albright, M.D.
Svetlana Alexievich
Dame Julie Andrews
Maya Angelou
Frances H. Arnold, Ph.D.
Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D.
Sir Roger Bannister
John Banville
Ehud Barak
Lee R. Berger, Ph.D.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Yogi Berra
Jeffrey P. Bezos
Benazir Bhutto
Simone Biles
Keith L. Black, M.D.
Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.
David Boies
Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.
Benjamin C. Bradlee
Sergey Brin
J. Carter Brown
General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., USAF
Linda B. Buck, Ph.D.
Carol Burnett
George H. W. Bush
Susan Butcher
Sir Michael Caine
James Cameron
Benjamin S. Carson, M.D.
Jimmy Carter
Johnny Cash
William J. Clinton
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
Francis Ford Coppola
Ray Dalio
Dame Olivia de Havilland
Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
Michael S. Dell
Ron Dennis
Joan Didion
David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.
David Doubilet
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.
Rita Dove
Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.
Larry J. Ellison
Nora Ephron
Julius Erving
Tony Fadell
Paul Farmer, M.D.
Suzanne Farrell
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Sally Field
Lord Norman Foster
Aretha Franklin
Milton Friedman, Ph.D.
Carlos Fuentes
Athol Fugard
Peter Gabriel
Ernest J. Gaines
William H. Gates III
Leymah Gbowee
Frank O. Gehry
Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.
Vince Gill
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Louise Glück
Whoopi Goldberg
Dame Jane Goodall
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Nadine Gordimer
Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.
Carol W. Greider, Ph.D.
John Grisham
Sir John Gurdon
Dorothy Hamill
Sir Demis Hassabis
Lauryn Hill
Sir Edmund Hillary
Reid Hoffman
Khaled Hosseini, M.D.
Ron Howard
John Hume
Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.
Daniel K. Inouye
Jeremy Irons
John Irving
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
Sir Peter Jackson
Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.
Frank M. Johnson, Jr.
Philip C. Johnson
Chuck Jones
James Earl Jones
Quincy Jones
Beverly Joubert
Dereck Joubert
Paul Kagame
Katalin Karikó, Ph.D.
Thomas Keller
Anthony M. Kennedy
Carole King
B.B. King
Coretta Scott King
Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.
Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.
Wendy Kopp
Henry R. Kravis
Nicholas D. Kristof
Mike Krzyzewski
Ray Kurzweil
Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.
Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
Richard E. Leakey
Leon Lederman, Ph.D.
Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.
Congressman John R. Lewis
Maya Lin
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber
George Lucas
Paul B. MacCready, Ph.D.
Norman Mailer
Peyton Manning
Wynton Marsalis
John C. Mather, Ph.D.
Johnny Mathis
Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.
Willie Mays
Frank McCourt
David McCullough
Audra McDonald
Admiral William H. McRaven, USN
W. S. Merwin
Reinhold Messner
James A. Michener
Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.
Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.
N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.
Story Musgrave, M.D.
Ralph Nader
Peggy Noonan
Jessye Norman
Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN
Lynn Nottage
Joyce Carol Oates
Pierre Omidyar
Jimmy Page
Larry Page
Arnold Palmer
Leon Panetta
Rosa Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks
Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D.
Shimon Peres
Itzhak Perlman
General David H. Petraeus, USA
Sidney Poitier
General Colin L. Powell, USA
Harold Prince
Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.
Lord Martin Rees
Lloyd Richards
Sally K. Ride, Ph.D.
Cal Ripken Jr.
Sonny Rollins
Anthony D. Romero
James Rosenquist
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
Pete Rozelle
Bill Russell
Albie Sachs
Oliver Sacks, M.D.
Jonas Salk, M.D.
Frederick Sanger, Ph.D.
George B. Schaller, Ph.D.
Barry Scheck
Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D.
Neil Sheehan
Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Carlos Slim Helú
Frederick W. Smith
Stephen Sondheim
Sonia Sotomayor
Wole Soyinka
Esperanza Spalding
Martha Stewart
Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN
Hilary Swank
Amy Tan
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Edward Teller, Ph.D.
Twyla Tharp
Wayne Thiebaud
Lt. Michael E. Thornton, USN
Clyde Tombaugh
Charles H. Townes, Ph.D.
Lord David Trimble
Robert Edward (Ted) Turner
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
John Updike
Gore Vidal
Antonio Villaraigosa
Lech Walesa
Herschel Walker
Alice Waters
James D. Watson, Ph.D.
Andrew Weil, M.D.
Leslie H. Wexner
Elie Wiesel
Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D.
Oprah Winfrey
Tom Wolfe
John Wooden
Bob Woodward
Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.
General Chuck Yeager, USAF
Andrew J. Young

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