100 Notable alumni of
Princeton University
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Princeton University is 13th in the world, 9th in North America, and 9th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Princeton University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 17 individuals affiliated with Princeton University won Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
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John F. Kennedy
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Studied in 1935-1936
- Occupations
- naval officerwriteranti-communistjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to as JFK or Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to his presidency.
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Jeff Bezos
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1982-1986 graduated with Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science
- Occupations
- commercial astronautcomputer scientistentrepreneur
- Biography
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, media proprietor and investor. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. He is the third-wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of about US$180 billion as of January 2024. He was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes.
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Alan Turing
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Studied in 1937-1938
- Occupations
- cryptographercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
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Wentworth Miller
- Occupations
- film actormodelscreenwritertelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Wentworth Earl Miller III is an American-British actor and screenwriter. He rose to prominence following his starring role as Michael Scofield in the Fox series Prison Break, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2005. He made his screenwriting debut with the 2013 thriller film Stoker. In 2014, he began playing Leonard Snart / Captain Cold in a recurring role on The CW series The Flash before becoming a series regular on the spin-off, Legends of Tomorrow.
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Michelle Obama
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- In 1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in sociology
- Occupations
- lawyerpodcasterwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017, being married to former president Barack Obama.
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Brooke Shields
- Occupations
- children's writermodelwriterfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was 11 years old. She continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980), and Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love (1981).
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John Forbes Nash
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1948-1950 graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- economistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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John Forbes Nash, Jr., known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. In 2015, he and Louis Nirenberg were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations.
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Woodrow Wilson
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1875-1879 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacheracademicteacherpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. As president, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism.
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Ted Cruz
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- law clerkpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Rafael Edward Cruz is an American politician, attorney, and political commentator serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008.
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James Stewart
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1928-1932 studied architecture
- Occupations
- voice actoraircraft pilottelevision directorcharacter actormilitary personnel
- Biography
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James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart was an American actor and military officer. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality, which he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the "American ideal" in the mid-twentieth century. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the greatest American male actors. He received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1980, the Kennedy Center Honor in 1983, as well as the Academy Honorary Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom, both in 1985.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Studied in 1913-1917
- Occupations
- novelistwriterscreenwritershort story writer
- Biography
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
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David Duchovny
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Studied in 1982
- Occupations
- television directorscreenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producer
- Biography
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David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, producer and musician. He portrayed FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files (1993–2002, 2016–2018) and played the writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication (2007–2014), both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards. Duchovny appeared in both X-Files films, the 1998 science fiction-thriller of the same name and the supernatural-thriller The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008). He executive-produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius (2015–2016).
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Richard Feynman
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1939-1942 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- quantum physicistpercussionistauthorscience communicatorwriter
- Biography
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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga.
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Aaron Burr
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianmilitary officerjuristbretteur
- Biography
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Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician, businessman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805 during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term. He founded the Manhattan Company on September 1, 1799. Burr is remembered for his famous personal and political conflict with Alexander Hamilton, which culminated in the Burr–Hamilton duel in Weehawken, New Jersey on July 11, 1804. Burr mortally wounded Hamilton, who died from his wounds the following day.
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Grover Cleveland
- Occupations
- writerlawyerpoliticianexecutionerstatesperson
- Biography
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Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He is the only president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive presidential terms. In the years before his presidency, he served as a mayor and governor of New York state, winning fame as an anti-corruption crusader. Cleveland was the first Democrat to win the presidency after the Civil War, and was one of two Democrat presidents, followed by Woodrow Wilson in 1912, in an era when Republicans dominated the presidency between 1861 and 1933. He won the popular vote in three presidential elections—1884, 1888, and 1892. Benjamin Harrison won the electoral college vote, and thus the presidency, in 1888.
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James Madison
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Studied in 1769-1771
- Occupations
- writerlawyerdiplomatpoliticianphilosopher
- Biography
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James Madison Jr. was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
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Ellie Kemper
- Occupations
- writertelevision actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
- Biography
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Elizabeth Claire Kemper is an American actress and comedian, best known for her roles of Erin Hannon in the sitcom The Office (2009–2013), and Kimmy Schmidt in the sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019). She has also appeared in films, notably Bridesmaids (2011), 21 Jump Street (2012), Sex Tape (2014), and Home Sweet Home Alone (2021). In 2018, she released her debut book, My Squirrel Days.
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Robert Mueller
- Occupations
- civil servantmilitary officerofficiallawyerarmy officer
- Biography
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Robert Swan Mueller III is an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.
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Donald Rumsfeld
- Occupations
- defence ministercivil servantbusinesspersonpoliticianauthor
- Biography
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld was an American politician, government official and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under president Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He was both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1963–1969), director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–1970), counselor to the president (1969–1973), the U.S. Representative to NATO (1973–1974), and the White House Chief of Staff (1974–1975). Between his terms as secretary of defense, he served as the CEO and chairman of several companies.
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Dean Cain
- Occupations
- film actorfilm producerscreenwritervoice actoractor
- Biography
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Dean George Cain is an American actor. From 1993 to 1997, he played Clark Kent / Superman in the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Cain was the host of Ripley's Believe It or Not! and appeared in the sports drama series Hit the Floor.
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Sonia Sotomayor
- Occupations
- judgelawyeruniversity teacherprosecutorpolitician
- Biography
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Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, and has served since August 8, 2009. She is the third woman, first woman of color, the first Hispanic, and first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court.
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Lee Iacocca
- Occupations
- entrepreneurdiaristbusiness executivemanagerautobiographer
- Biography
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Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca was an American automobile executive best known for the development of the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 1992. He was one of the few executives to preside over the operations of two of the United States' Big Three automakers.
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MacKenzie Scott
- Occupations
- novelistbusinesspersonphilanthropist
- Biography
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MacKenzie Scott is an American novelist and philanthropist. As of January 2024, she has a net worth of US$40.6 billion, owning a 4% stake in Amazon, the company her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos founded. As such, Scott is the third-wealthiest woman in the United States and the 47th-wealthiest individual in the world. Scott was named the world's most powerful woman by Forbes in 2021 and one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2020.
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David E. Kelley
- Occupations
- screenwriterlawyerfilm producershowrunnerexecutive producer
- Biography
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David Edward Kelley is an American television writer, producer, and former attorney. He has created and/or produced a number of television series including Doogie Howser, M.D., Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Goliath, Big Little Lies, and Big Sky. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows that have aired on all four top commercial U.S. television networks (ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC) as well as cable giant HBO.
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Queen Noor of Jordan
- Occupations
- autobiographerwriterarchitectqueen consort
- Biography
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Noor Al Hussein is an American-born Jordanian philanthropist and activist who is the fourth wife and widow of King Hussein of Jordan. She was Queen of Jordan from their marriage on June 15, 1978, until Hussein's death on February 7, 1999.
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Elena Kagan
- Occupations
- lawyeracademic administratoruniversity teacherjudge
- Biography
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Elena Kagan is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 10, 2010, and has served since August 7, 2010. Kagan is the fourth woman to become a member of the Court.
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David Petraeus
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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David Howell Petraeus is a retired United States Army general and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus served 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and commander, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A) from July 4, 2010, to July 18, 2011. His other four-star assignments include serving as the 10th commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from October 13, 2008, to June 30, 2010, and as commanding general, Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I) from February 10, 2007, to September 16, 2008. As commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq.
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Samuel Alito
- Occupations
- judgelawyeruniversity teachermagistratejurist
- Biography
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Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated to the high court by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served on it since January 31, 2006. After Antonin Scalia, Alito is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Terence Tao
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1992-1996 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. Tao was awarded a Fields Medal in 2006. His research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing and analytic number theory.
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Molly Ephraim
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Molly Ephraim is an American actress who has appeared in films, television, and Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theater productions. She is best known for her role as Mandy Baxter on the ABC/Fox sitcom Last Man Standing during its original run (2011–2017) before its move to Fox after its sixth season. Ephraim has also appeared on a number of other TV series, including Brockmire (2017), Halt and Catch Fire (2017), and Casual (2018). Ephraim portrayed Irene Kelly in the Hugh Jackman movie The Front Runner (2018), her second collaboration with her Last Man Standing co-star Kaitlyn Dever. She also appeared on HBO's Perry Mason as Della Street’s lover Hazel Prystock. She plays Maybelle Fox on the Amazon series A League of Their Own.
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Syngman Rhee
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Syngman Rhee was a South Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960. Rhee is also known by his art name Unam (우남; 雩南). Rhee was also the first and last president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea from 1919 to his impeachment in 1925 and from 1947 to 1948. As president of South Korea, Rhee's government was characterised by authoritarianism, limited economic development, and in the late 1950s growing political instability and public opposition.
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Nambi Narayanan
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Studied in 1969
- Occupations
- aerospace engineerwriterchemical engineer
- Biography
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Nambi Narayanan is an Indian aerospace scientist who worked for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). As a senior official at the ISRO, he was briefly in charge of the cryogenics division. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, in March 2019.
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Mel Ferrer
- Occupations
- film directorfilm producertheatrical directorproducerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Melchor Gastón Ferrer was an American actor and filmmaker. He achieved prominence on Broadway before scoring notable film hits with Scaramouche, Lili, and Knights of the Round Table. He starred opposite his wife, actress Audrey Hepburn, in War and Peace and produced her film Wait Until Dark. He also acted extensively in European films and appeared in several cult hits, including The Antichrist (1974), The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975), The Black Corsair (1976), and Nightmare City (1980).
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Ralph Nader
- Occupations
- writercolumnistjournalistenvironmentalistpolitical writer
- Biography
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Ralph Nader is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes, and a perennial presidential candidate. He became famous in the 1960s and 1970s for his book Unsafe at Any Speed, which criticized the automotive industry for its safety record and helped lead to the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966.
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Thích Nhất Hạnh
- Occupations
- peace activistmonkspiritual teacherBhikkhuwriter
- Biography
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Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism. Known as the "father of mindfulness", Nhất Hạnh was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism.
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Jerome Powell
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1971-1975 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerinvestment banker
- Biography
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Jerome Hayden "Jay" Powell is an American attorney and investment banker who has served since 2018 as the 16th chair of the Federal Reserve.
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Eric Schmidt
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- In 1976 graduated with bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teachersoftware engineerelectrical engineerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and former software engineer who served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also served as the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017, and Technical Advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020. In April 2022, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth to be US$25.1 billion.
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Daniel Kahneman
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teachereconomistpsychologistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American author, psychologist and economist notable for his work on hedonic psychology, psychology of judgment and decision-making. He is also known for his work in behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory.
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John Rawls
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1939-1950 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherphilosopherpedagogue
- Biography
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John Bordley Rawls was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition. Rawls has been described as one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century.
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Carl Icahn
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Studied philosophy
- Occupations
- financiermerchantstockbrokerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Carl Celian Icahn is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Icahn's business model is to take large stakes in companies that he believes will appreciate from changes to corporate policy. Subsequently, Icahn then pressures management to make the changes that he believes will benefit shareholders. Widely regarded as one of the most successful hedge fund managers of all time and one of the greatest investors on Wall Street, he was one of the first activist shareholders and is credited with making that investment strategy mainstream for hedge funds.
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Wayne Rogers
- Occupations
- television actorinvestorstage actormilitary officerentrepreneur
- Biography
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William Wayne McMillan Rogers III was an American actor, known for playing the role of Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre in the CBS television series M*A*S*H and as Dr. Charley Michaels on House Calls (1979–1982).
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Eugene O'Neill
- Occupations
- writerscreenwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. O'Neill is also the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
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Paul Krugman
- Occupations
- economistwriterprofessorcolumnistpundit
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Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography. The Prize Committee cited Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic distribution of economic activity, by examining the effects of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services.
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José Ferrer
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actorfilm producertheatrical directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television. He was one of the most celebrated and esteemed Hispanic American actors—or, indeed, actors of any ethnicity—during his lifetime and after, with a career spanning nearly 60 years between 1935 and 1992. He achieved prominence for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac in the play of the same name, which earned him the inaugural Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1947. He reprised the role in a 1950 film version and won an Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the first Hispanic actor and the first Puerto Rican-born to win an Academy Award.
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Lex Barker
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- television actorstage actorsingerfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr., known as Lex Barker, was an American actor. He was known for playing Tarzan for RKO Pictures between 1949 and 1953, and portraying leading characters from Karl May's novels, notably as Old Shatterhand in a film series by the West German studio Constantin Film. At the height of his fame, he was one of the most popular actors in German-speaking cinema, and received Bambi Award and Bravo Otto nominations for the honor.
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Graham Phillips
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Graham David Phillips is an American actor, filmmaker and singer. Beginning his acting career at the age of nine, Phillips is known for a variety of television, film, and stage roles; as Zach Florrick on the CBS series The Good Wife, Ben Tennyson in the film Ben 10: Race Against Time, and Evan Goldman in the Broadway musical 13, as well as a leading role in the independent film Staten Island Summer. He has also appeared in films such as Blockers and XOXO and in the recurring television roles of Nick St. Clair in Riverdale and Nate in Atypical. He made his feature film directorial debut in 2019 with The Bygone.
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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- In 1961 graduated with Master in Public Administration in public administration
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard, also known simply as PPK ( Spanish: [pepeˈka]), is a Peruvian economist, public administrator, and former politician who served as the 59th President of Peru from 2016 to 2018. He served as Prime Minister of Peru and as Minister of Economy and Finance during the presidency of Alejandro Toledo. Kuczynski resigned from the presidency on 23 March 2018, following a successful impeachment vote and days before a probable conviction vote. Since 10 April 2019 he has been in pretrial detention, due to an ongoing investigation on corruption, money laundering, and connections to Odebrecht, a public works company accused of paying bribes.
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Cornel West
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- In 1975 graduated with Master of Arts
- In 1980 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- writerpolitical activistactorcriticuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, social critic, actor, and public intellectual. The grandson of a Baptist minister, West's primary philosophy focuses on the roles of race, gender, and class struggle in American society. A socialist, West draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including Christianity, the black church, democratic socialism, left-wing populism, neopragmatism, and transcendentalism. Among his most influential books are Race Matters (1993) and Democracy Matters (2004).
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Edward Said
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- musicologistwriterphilosophertranslatorliterary critic
- Biography
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Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.
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Jason Garrett
- Occupations
- Canadian football playerAmerican football coachplayer of American football
- Biography
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Jason Calvin Garrett is an American former football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a quarterback before becoming a coach. Garrett was the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys for 9+1⁄2 seasons from 2010 to 2019.
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Mark A. Milley
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in politics
- Occupations
- army officer
- Biography
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Mark Alexander Milley is a retired United States Army general who last served as the 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2023. He previously served as the 39th chief of staff of the Army from August 14, 2015, to August 9, 2019, and held multiple command and staff positions in eight divisions and special forces throughout his military career.
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Michael Lewis
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in art history
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Michael Monroe Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance.
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Parker Stevenson
- Occupations
- television actorphotographeractorfilm actorfilm producer
- Biography
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Richard Stevenson Parker Jr., known professionally as Parker Stevenson, is an American actor best known for playing Frank Hardy in the 1970s series The Hardy Boys and Craig Pomeroy on the 1990s series Baywatch.
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Eliot Spitzer
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Eliot Laurence Spitzer is an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 54th governor of New York from 2007 until his resignation in 2008.
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Lachlan Murdoch
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Lachlan Keith Murdoch is an Australian-British-American businessman and mass media heir. He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, chairman of News Corp, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation, and the founder of Australian investment company Illyria Pty Ltd.
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Michael Porter
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- aerospace engineeruniversity teachereconomistmechanical engineerinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Michael Eugene Porter is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and FSG, a social impact consultancy. He is credited for creating Porter's five forces analysis, which is instrumental in business strategy development at present. He is generally regarded as the father of the modern strategy field. He is also regarded as one of the world's most influential thinkers on management and competitiveness as well as one of the most influential business strategists. His work has been recognized by governments, non governmental organizations and universities.
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Adlai Stevenson II
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 1952 and 1956, losing both elections to Dwight D. Eisenhower in a landslide. Stevenson was the grandson of Adlai Stevenson I, the 23rd vice president of the United States.
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Kip S. Thorne
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1962-1965 graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- astrophysicistphysicistwriteruniversity teacherastronomer
- Biography
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Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
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Allen W. Dulles
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- lawyerpoliticianintelligence officerdiplomat
- Biography
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Allen Welsh Dulles was an American lawyer who was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program, the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He was fired by John F. Kennedy over the latter fiasco.
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Ali Reza Pahlavi
- Occupations
- politiciansocialite
- Biography
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Ali Reza Pahlavi was a member of the Pahlavi imperial family of the Imperial State of Iran. He was the younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran and his third wife Farah Diba. He was second in order of succession to the Iranian throne before the Iranian Revolution.
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Susie Dent
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Graduated with master's degree in German
- Occupations
- writertelevision personalitylexicographerlinguistetymologist
- Biography
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Susie Dent is an English lexicographer, etymologist, and media personality. She has appeared in "Dictionary Corner" on the Channel 4 game show Countdown since 1992. She also appears on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, a post-watershed comedy version of the show.
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Jesse Marsch
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- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Jesse Alan Marsch is an American professional soccer coach and former player who last managed Leeds United. Marsch played 14 seasons as a midfielder in Major League Soccer (MLS) with D.C. United, Chicago Fire, and Chivas USA, winning three league titles and four U.S. Open Cup titles, as well as earning two caps for the United States national team.
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Pete Hegseth
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- basketball playerwriterpoliticiantelevision presenter
- Biography
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Peter Brian Hegseth is an American television host and author.
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Timothy Ferriss
- Occupations
- businesspersonwriterinternational forum participanttechnology evangelistinvestor
- Biography
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Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru. He became well known through his 4-Hour self-help book series—including The 4-Hour Work Week, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef—that focused on lifestyle optimizations, but he has since reconsidered this approach.
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Daphne Oz
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- television presenterjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Daphne Nur Oz is an American television host, food writer, and chef. She was one of five co-hosts on the ABC daytime talk show The Chew for the show's first six seasons and was a co-host of the syndicated talk/cooking show The Good Dish.
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Mellody Hobson
- Occupations
- international forum participantentrepreneur
- Biography
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Mellody Hobson is an American businesswoman who is president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, and the chairwoman of Starbucks Corporation. She is the former chairwoman of DreamWorks Animation, having stepped down after negotiating the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., by NBCUniversal in August 2016. In 2017, she became the first African-American woman to head The Economic Club of Chicago. She was also named to chair the board of directors of Starbucks in 2021, making her one of the highest profile corporate directors in the United States.
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James Baker
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- lawyerpoliticianmilitary officerdiplomat
- Biography
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James Addison Baker III is an American attorney, diplomat and statesman. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 10th White House Chief of Staff and 67th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan and the 61st U.S. Secretary of State before returning as the 16th White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
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Chloe Kim
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- snowboarder
- Biography
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Chloe Kim is an American snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women's snowboard halfpipe at 17 years old.
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Edward Witten
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- physicisttheoretical physicistmathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Edward Witten is an American mathematical and theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus in the school of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Witten is a researcher in string theory, quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum field theories, and other areas of mathematical physics. Witten's work has also significantly impacted pure mathematics. In 1990, he became the first physicist to be awarded a Fields Medal by the International Mathematical Union, for his mathematical insights in physics, such as his 1981 proof of the positive energy theorem in general relativity, and his interpretation of the Jones invariants of knots as Feynman integrals. He is considered the practical founder of M-theory.
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George Shultz
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- university teachereconomistentrepreneurmilitary personnelbusinessperson
- Biography
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George Pratt Shultz was an American economist, businessman, diplomat and statesman. He served in various positions under two different Republican presidents and is one of the only two persons to have held four different Cabinet-level posts, the other being Elliot Richardson. Shultz played a major role in shaping the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration.
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Jared Polis
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1992-1996 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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Jared Schutz Polis is an American politician, businessman, and philanthropist serving as the 43rd governor of Colorado since 2019.
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Wolfgang Pauli
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- theoretical physicist
- Biography
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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle". The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter.
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Nicholas Hammond
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- television actorstage actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Nicholas Hammond is an American-Australian actor and writer who is best known for his roles as Friedrich von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music and as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the 1970s television series The Amazing Spider-Man. He also appeared in the theatrical films as Spider-Man and its two sequels outside of North America.
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Gita Gopinath
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Gita Gopinath is an Indian-American economist who has served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), since 21 January 2022. She had previously served as chief economist of the IMF between 2019 and 2022.
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Norman Finkelstein
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- historianwriteruniversity teacherpolitical scientisthuman rights activist
- Biography
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Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
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- novelistuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.
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Chai Ling
- Occupations
- human rights activistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Chai Ling is a Chinese psychologist and businesswoman who was one of the student leaders in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. She was a representative of the hardline faction of the protest movement and according to a documentary, Gate of Heavenly Peace, she had indicated that the strategy of the leadership group she dominated was to provoke the Government to use violence against the unarmed students. Comments that she made to that effect in an interview later formed the basis of two lawsuits. She had also claimed to have witnessed soldiers killing student protesters inside Tiananmen Square.
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Meg Whitman
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1973-1977 graduated with Bachelor of Science in economics
- Occupations
- business executiveinternational forum participantpoliticianentrepreneur
- Biography
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Margaret Cushing Whitman is an American business executive, diplomat, and politician serving as the United States ambassador to Kenya since 2022. Whitman was president and chief executive officer (CEO) of eBay from 1998 to 2008. Afterwards, she became president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise from 2011 to 2015, during the company's major split. She then served as the CEO of Quibi from its launch in 2018 until its closure in 2020. A member of the Republican Party, she ran for governor of California but was defeated by former governor Jerry Brown in California's 2010 gubernatorial election. Whitman was a senior presidential campaign official for Republican Mitt Romney in both 2008 and 2012, although she supported Democrats Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in the 2016 presidential election and the 2020 presidential election, respectively.
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Moe Berg
- Occupations
- baseball playerspy
- Biography
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Morris Berg was an American professional baseball catcher and coach in Major League Baseball, who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Although he played 15 seasons in the major leagues, almost entirely for four American League teams, Berg was never more than an average player and was better known for being "the brainiest guy in baseball." Casey Stengel once described Berg as "the strangest man ever to play baseball".
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Craig Robinson
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- investment bankerbasketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Craig Malcolm Robinson is an American college basketball coach, basketball executive, and broadcaster. He is a former head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University and Brown University. He was a star forward as a player at Princeton University in the early 1980s and a bond trader during the 1990s. He currently is the Executive Director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He is former First Lady Michelle Obama's brother.
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Mark Feuerstein
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Mark Feuerstein is an American actor. He had an early, recurring role in several episodes of Caroline in the City, playing the title character's new boyfriend, and later gained notice in a guest appearance in an episode of Season 2 of Sex and the City. He went on to appear in TV series The West Wing (2001–2005), Royal Pains (2009–2016), Prison Break (2017), and co-wrote, co-produced as well as starred in the short-lived CBS sitcom 9JKL. In 2022, he received a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performance nomination for his work in The Baby-Sitters Club.
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John Foster Dulles
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Studied in 1908
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyertrusteepoliticianchairperson
- Biography
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John Foster Dulles was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. A member of the Republican Party, Dulles served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959 (due to his colon cancer diagnosis) and was briefly a Senator from New York in 1949. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, who advocated an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world.
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Marvin Minsky
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- 1951-1954 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacherartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Marvin Lee Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy.
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Tamon Yamaguchi
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- military officersoldier
- Biography
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Tamon Yamaguchi was a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in the Pacific War during World War II. Yamaguchi′s carrier force was part of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He subsequently participated in the Battle of Midway, where he was killed in action, choosing to go down with the aircraft carrier Hiryū when she was scuttled after being crippled by aircraft from USS Enterprise and USS Yorktown.
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David Blatt
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- coachbasketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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David Michael Blatt, is an Israeli-American professional basketball executive. He is also a former coach and player.
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Paul Volcker
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- bankerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with measures known as the Volcker shock. He previously served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1975 to 1979.
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Stockton Rush
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Science in Engineering in aerospace engineering
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Richard Stockton Rush III was an American businessman and engineer, best known as the co-founder and chief executive officer of OceanGate, a deep-sea exploration company.
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George F. Kennan
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianwriterpoliticianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men."
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Edoardo Agnelli
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Edoardo Agnelli was the eldest child and only son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat S.p.A., and of Marella Agnelli, who was born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto. He converted to Shia Islam when he was living in New York City, and changed his name to Mahdi. In mid-November 2000, he was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin.
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Pete Conrad
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- In 1953 graduated with Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering
- Occupations
- astronautaircraft pilotracing automobile drivermilitary officer
- Biography
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Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot, and commanded the Apollo 12 space mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected for NASA's second astronaut class in 1962.
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Robert Nozick
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- university teacherphilosopherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Robert Nozick was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971), in which Nozick also presented his own theory of utopia as one in which people can freely choose the rules of the society they enter into. His later work, Philosophical Explanations (1981), advanced notable epistemological claims, namely his counterfactual theory of knowledge.
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John Bardeen
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- physicistinventoruniversity teacherelectrical engineer
- Biography
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John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.
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Turki bin Faisal Al Saud
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- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Turki bin Faisal Al Saud is a Saudi prince and former government official who served as the head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency from 1979 to 2001. He is the chairman of the King Faisal Foundation's Center for Research and Islamic Studies.
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Craig Mazin
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- film directorpodcasterscreenwriteractor
- Biography
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Craig Mazin is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for creating, writing, and producing the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019) and co-creating, co-writing, and executive producing the HBO series The Last of Us (2023–present), the latter alongside Neil Druckmann. He has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and Outstanding Limited Series. Before his work on drama shows gained widespread attention, he was primarily known for his writing work on comedy films such as Scary Movie 3 (2003), Scary Movie 4 (2006), The Hangover Part II (2011), The Hangover Part III (2013), and Identity Thief (2013).
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Larry Kudlow
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- economistwriterpunditjournalistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Lawrence Alan Kudlow is an American conservative broadcast news analyst, columnist, journalist, political commentator, and radio personality. He is a financial news commentator for Fox Business and served as the Director of the National Economic Council during the Trump Administration from 2018 to 2021. He assumed that role after his previous employment as a CNBC television financial news host.
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Jodi Picoult
- Occupations
- novelistwriterprimary school teachereditor
- Biography
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Jodi Lynn Picoult is an American writer. Picoult has published 28 novels, as well as short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003.
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William Clay Ford
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- business executiveentrepreneurtaekwondo athlete
- Biography
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William Clay Ford Jr. is an American businessman, serving as executive chair of Ford Motor Company. The great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford, Ford joined the board in 1988 and has served as chair since January 1999. Ford also served as the president, CEO, and COO until turning over those roles to former Boeing executive Alan Mulally in September 2006. Ford is also the vice chairman of the Detroit Lions NFL franchise. Ford serves as a chairman of the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce.
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Bob Bradley
- Occupations
- association football managersporting director
- Biography
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Robert Frank Bradley is an American soccer coach who is currently manager of Norwegian club Stabæk.
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Bill Bradley
- Enrolled in Princeton University
- Studied in 1965
- Occupations
- basketball playerwriterpoliticiansenior advisorbusinessperson
- Biography
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William Warren Bradley is an American politician and former professional basketball player. He served three terms as a Democratic U.S. senator from New Jersey (1979–1997). He ran for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2000 election, which he lost to Vice President Al Gore.
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Martin Seligman
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherbridge playerpsychologist
- Biography
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Martin Elias Peter Seligman is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. Seligman is a strong promoter within the scientific community of his theories of well-being and positive psychology. His theory of learned helplessness is popular among scientific and clinical psychologists. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Seligman as the 31st most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
