100 Notable alumni of
New School
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New School is 175th in the world, 78th in North America, and 75th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from New School sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Bradley Cooper
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- film actorcharacter actorscreenwritertelevision actorstage actor
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Bradley Charles Cooper is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and three Grammy Awards. In addition, he has been nominated for twelve Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award. Cooper appeared on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list three times and on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015. His films have grossed $13 billion worldwide, and he has been placed in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actors four times.
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Marlon Brando
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- film actortelevision actorstage actordirector
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Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest cinema actors of the 20th century, Brando received numerous accolades throughout his career, which spanned six decades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to mainstream audiences.
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Bella Hadid
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- equestrianmodel
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Isabella Khair Hadid is an American model. Hadid has made 35 appearances on international Vogue covers. In 2022, she was named Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual list in 2023.
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Jonah Hill
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- screenwriterfilm directorvoice actoractorcomedian
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Jonah Hill is an American actor. The accolades he has received include nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Jesse Eisenberg
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- voice actorscreenwriterfilm actorstage actorfilm director
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Jesse Adam Eisenberg is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
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Tony Curtis
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- writermilitary personnelfilm actormilitary officerpainter
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Tony Curtis was an American actor with a career that spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films, in roles covering a wide range of genres. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances.
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Peter Falk
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- television producerstage actorautobiographerfilm produceractor
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Peter Michael Falk was an American film and television actor, singer and television director and producer. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo on the NBC/ABC series Columbo (1968–1978, 1989–2003), for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a Golden Globe Award (1973). In 1996, TV Guide ranked Falk No. 21 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. He received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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- politicianjournalistwomen's rights activistdiplomathuman rights activist
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement, and advocacy, she largely redefined the role. Widowed in 1945, she served as a United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952, and took a leading role in designing the text and gaining international support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1948, she was given a standing ovation by the assembly upon their adoption of the declaration. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
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Lena Dunham
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- television producerfilm directorwriterfilm produceractor
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Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She has since written and directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy.
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Rob Zombie
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- voice actorscreenwriterfilm producerrecord producerfilm director
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Rob Zombie is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and actor. His music and lyrics are notable for their horror and sci-fi themes, and his live shows have been praised for their elaborate shock rock theatricality. He has sold an estimated 15 million albums worldwide. He rose to fame as a founding member and the frontman of heavy metal band White Zombie, with whom he released four albums.
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Bea Arthur
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- voice actorfilm actorcomedianstage actoractivist
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Beatrice Arthur was an American actress, comedienne and singer. She began her career on stage in 1947, attracting critical acclaim before achieving worldwide recognition for her work on television beginning in the 1970s as Maude Findlay in the popular sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1972) and Maude (1972–1978) and later in the 1980s and 1990s as Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls (1985–1992).
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Tom Ford
- Enrolled in New School
- Studied in 1986
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- screenwriterfashion designerfilm directorfilm producer
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Thomas Carlyle Ford is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched his eponymous brand in 2005, having previously been the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Ford wrote and directed the films A Single Man (2009) and Nocturnal Animals (2016). From 2019 to 2022, he was chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
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Kevin Smith
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- directorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm editor
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Kevin Patrick Smith is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy buddy film Clerks (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob, characters who also appeared in Smith's later films Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), and Clerks III (2022) which are set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. While not strictly sequential, the films have crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon known as the "View Askewniverse", named after Smith's production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier.
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Harry Belafonte
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- entertainerexecutive producerfilm producerfilm actorcivil rights advocate
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Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.
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James Baldwin
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- social criticnovelistuniversity teachercivil rights advocateplaywright
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James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels. His 1955 essay collection Notes of a Native Son helped establish his reputation as a voice for human equality. Baldwin was an influential public figure and orator, especially during the civil rights movement in the United States.
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Shimon Peres
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- ministerpoliticianwriterpoet
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Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician and statesman who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president of Israel from 2007 to 2014. He was a member of twelve cabinets and represented five political parties in a political career spanning 70 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and except for three months out of office in early 2006, served as a member of the Knesset continuously until he was elected president in 2007. Serving in the Knesset for 48 years (with the first uninterrupted stretch lasting more than 46 years), Peres is the longest serving member in the Knesset's history. At the time of his retirement from politics in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state and was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation.
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Cicely Tyson
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- film actorstage actormodeltelevision actorvoice actor
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Cecily Louise "Cicely" Tyson was an American actress. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, she is known for her portrayals of complex and strong-willed African American women. She received several awards including three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. She was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2018.
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Walter Matthau
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- film actorcharacter actortelevision actorstage actorfilm director
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Walter John Matthau was an American screen and stage actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters. He starred in 10 films alongside his real-life friend Jack Lemmon, including The Odd Couple (1968) and Grumpy Old Men (1993). The New York Times called this "one of Hollywood's most successful pairings". Among other accolades, he was an Academy Award, a two-time BAFTA Award, and two-time Tony Award winner.
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Tennessee Williams
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- poetscreenwriternovelistwriterplaywright
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Thomas Lanier Williams III, known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
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Sufjan Stevens
- Enrolled in New School
- 1998-2000 graduated with Master of Fine Arts in creative writing
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- musicianoboistbanjoistrecord producercomposer
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Sufjan Stevens is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nominations.
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Soleil Moon Frye
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorstage actorfilm director
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Soleil Moon Frye is an American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. She began her career as a child actress at the age of two. When she was seven, Frye won the role of Penelope "Punky" Brewster in the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster. The series debuted in September 1984 and earned consistently low ratings, but the Punky character was a hit with young children. After NBC cancelled the series, it was picked up for the syndication market where it aired for an additional two seasons before ending in 1988. Frye reprised the role in a 2021 revival of the series, which was cancelled after one season.
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Edward Hopper
- Enrolled in New School
- Studied in 1900-1906
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- draftspersongraphic artistengraverpainterillustrator
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Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in capturing American life and landscapes through his art.
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Norman Rockwell
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- photographerpainterillustrator
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Norman Percevel Rockwell was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, the Four Freedoms series, Saying Grace, and The Problem We All Live With. He is also noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys' Life (now Scout Life), calendars, and other illustrations. These works include popular images that reflect the Scout Oath and Scout Law such as The Scoutmaster, A Scout Is Reverent, and A Guiding Hand.
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Shelley Winters
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- stage actorautobiographeractortelevision actorwriter
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Shelley Winters was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972), the latter of which also earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture. She also appeared in A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). She also acted on television, including a tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and wrote three autobiographies.
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Rod Steiger
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Rodney Stephen Steiger was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Ranked as "one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars", he is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He starred as Marlon Brando's mobster brother Charley in On the Waterfront (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964) which won him the Silver Bear for Best Actor, and as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film In the Heat of the Night (1967) which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Joel Schumacher
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- film producerscreenwriterdirectorfilm directorcostume designer
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Joel T. Schumacher was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Raised in New York City by his mother, Schumacher graduated from Parsons School of Design and originally became a fashion designer. He first entered filmmaking as a production and costume designer before gaining writing credits on Car Wash, Sparkle, and The Wiz.
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Ai Weiwei
- Enrolled in New School
- Studied in 1982-1983
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- human rights activistvisual artistfilm directorsculptorarchitect
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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of "tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In April 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport for "economic crimes," and detained for 81 days without charge. Ai Weiwei emerged as a vital instigator in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and one of the nation's most vocal political commentators.
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Marc Jacobs
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- dressmakerfashion designer
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Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for his own fashion label, Marc Jacobs, and formerly Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, which was produced for approximately 15 years, before it was discontinued after the 2015 fall/winter collection. At its peak, it had over 200 retail stores in 80 countries. He was the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2014. Jacobs was on Time magazine's "2010 Time 100" list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and was #14 on Out magazine's 2012 list of "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America". He married his longtime partner Charly Defrancesco on April 6, 2019.
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Ben Gazzara
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- screenwriterfilm directorcharacter actorstage actortelevision director
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Biagio Anthony "Ben" Gazzara was an American actor and director of film, stage, and television. He received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Drama Desk Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and three Tony Awards.
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Matisyahu
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- rapperactormusiciansingersinger-songwriter
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Matthew Paul Miller, known by his stage name Matisyahu, is an American reggae singer, rapper, beatboxer, and musician.
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Martin Balsam
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- film actorcharacter actortelevision actorstage actor
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Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He had a prolific career in character roles in film, in theatre, and on television. An early member of the Actors Studio, he began his career on the New York stage, winning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1968). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Thousand Clowns (1965).
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Alexander Wang
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- designerfashion designer
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Alexander Wang is an American fashion designer. Wang launched his eponymous fashion brand in 2005 and came to prominence after being awarded the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2008. He is known for his urban-inspired designs and use of black.
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Oscar Nunez
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- television producerscreenwritertelevision directorcomediantelevision actor
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Óscar Núñez, sometimes credited as Oscar Nunez, is a Cuban-American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as the Dunder Mifflin accountant Óscar Martínez on NBC's The Office.
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Andrea Casiraghi
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- aristocrat
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Andrea Albert Pierre Casiraghi is the elder son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover, and her second husband Stefano Casiraghi. He is the eldest grandchild of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and American actress Grace Kelly. Casiraghi is currently fourth in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne, following his twin cousins and his mother.
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Ella Emhoff
- Years
- 1999-.. (age 26)
- Occupations
- modelfashion designerpainter
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Ella Rose Emhoff is an American artist and fashion designer. As the daughter of former U.S. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and stepdaughter of former Vice President Kamala Harris, she was a member of the Second Family of the United States from 2021 to 2025.
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Esther Rolle
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- actorfilm actorstage actordancertelevision actor
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Esther Elizabeth Rolle was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons (1972–1974), and its spin-off series Good Times, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1976. In 1979, Rolle won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special for the television film Summer of My German Soldier.
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Olivia Palermo
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- entrepreneurfashion influenceractor
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Olivia Palermo is an American socialite, fashion influencer, entrepreneur, model and television personality.
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Adam Pally
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorstage actordirector
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Adam Saul Pally is an American comedian and actor. He first earned recognition for starring as Max Blum in Happy Endings, as Dr. Peter Prentice in The Mindy Project, as Wade Whipple in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), its sequels, and the spin-off series Knuckles (2024). Pally also starred in Making History and was an executive producer of The President Show.
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Andrew Robinson
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- television produceruniversity teacherstage actornovelistwriter
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Andrew Jordt Robinson is an American actor and the former director of the Master of Fine Arts acting program at the University of Southern California. Originally a stage actor, he works predominantly in supporting roles on television and in low-budget films. He is known for his portrayals of the psychopathic serial killer Scorpio in Dirty Harry (1971), Larry Cotton in the horror film Hellraiser (1987), and Elim Garak in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999). He and his wife Irene have a daughter, actress Rachel Robinson, who appeared in Deep Space Nine episode "The Visitor".
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Kelly Chen
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- film actorrecording artistfilm directorsinger
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Kelly Chen Wai-lam is a Hong Kong singer and actress. She has been referred to as a "Diva of Asia" (Chinese: 亞洲天后; lit. 'Asia's Heavenly Queen'). Chen has great success in the East Asian entertainment industry with nearly 20 million record sales of 38 albums.
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Nina Arianda
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Nina Arianda Matijcio is an American actress. She won the 2012 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Vanda Jordan in Venus in Fur, and she was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for portraying Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday. She starred in Amazon Studios legal series Goliath and starred in the biographical film Stan & Ollie (2018) as Stan Laurel's wife Ida.
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Elaine Stritch
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- actorfilm actorsingerstage actortelevision actor
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Elaine Stritch was an American actress, known for her work on Broadway and later, television. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and appeared in numerous stage plays, musicals, feature films and television series. Stritch was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995.
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Greg Kurstin
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- record producercomposersongwriterpianist
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Gregory Allen Kurstin is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. He has won nine Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical in 2017 and 2018, and contributed to five songs that peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100.
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Jenny Han
- Enrolled in New School
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- writernovelistchildren's writerfilm director
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Jenny Han is an American author, screenwriter, executive producer, and showrunner. She is best known for writing The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, which she adapted into a TV series for Prime Video. She also wrote the To All the Boys trilogy which was adapted into a Netflix film series.
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Lorraine Hansberry
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- activistscreenwritertheatrical directorwriterplaywright
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award – making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 U.S. Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee.
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Donna Karan
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- designerfashion designer
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Donna Karan, also known as DK, is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.
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Laura Poitras
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- screenwriterfilm producercamera operatorfilm directorcinematographer
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Laura Poitras is an American director and producer of documentary films.
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Ani DiFranco
- Occupations
- recording artistsingerfilm directorwriterstreet artist
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Angela Maria "Ani" DiFranco is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums. DiFranco's music has been classified as folk rock and alternative rock, although it has additional influences from punk, funk, hip hop and jazz. She has released all her albums on her own record label, Righteous Babe.
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Kevin Kwan
- Occupations
- writernovelistdesigner
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Kevin Kwan is a Singaporean-born American novelist and writer of satirical novels Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend, and Rich People Problems. His latest book, Lies and Weddings, was released in June 2024.
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Jillian Hervey
- Occupations
- actorsingerdancer
- Biography
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Jillian Kristin Williams is an American dancer, singer, and vocalist for the musical duo Lion Babe. She is the daughter of Ramon Hervey II and singer, actress, and former Miss America Vanessa Williams.
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Barbara Kruger
- Occupations
- photographervisual artistartistpainterconceptual artist
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Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Kruger's artistic mediums include photography, sculpture, graphic design, architecture, as well as video and audio installations.
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Hage Geingob
- Enrolled in New School
- In 1974 graduated with Master of Arts in international relations
- Occupations
- politicianresearcher
- Biography
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Hage Gottfried Geingob was a Namibian politician who served as the third president of Namibia from 2015 until his death in February 2024. Geingob was the first prime minister of Namibia from 1990 to 2002, and served again from 2012 to 2015. Between 2008 and 2012 Geingob served as Minister of Trade and Industry. In November 2014, Geingob was elected president of Namibia by an overwhelming margin. In November 2017, Geingob became the third president of the ruling SWAPO Party after winning by a large margin at the party's sixth Congress. He served as the party's president until his death. In August 2018, Geingob began a one-year term as chairperson of the Southern African Development Community.
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Will Wright
- Occupations
- computer scientistvideo game developernew media artistdesignergame designer
- Biography
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William Ralph Wright is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, which later became part of Electronic Arts. In April 2009, he left EA to run Stupid Fun Club Camp, an entertainment think tank in which Wright and EA are principal shareholders.
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Adrian Cronauer
- Occupations
- lawyerradio personality
- Biography
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Adrian Joseph Cronauer was an American radio personality and United States Air Force Sergeant, whose experiences as an innovative disc jockey on American Forces Network during the Vietnam War inspired the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam starring Robin Williams as Cronauer.
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Mustafa Shakir
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Mustafa Shakir is an American actor known for his portrayal as Bushmaster in Marvel's Luke Cage, Big Mike in The Deuce and Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop (2021).
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Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Elettra-Ingrid Rossellini Wiedemann is an American food editor, writer, fashion model, and socialite. She is the daughter of Italian actress and model Isabella Rossellini and Jonathan Wiedemann, an American. Her maternal grandparents were Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini.
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Anna Sui
- Enrolled in New School
- Graduated with honorary doctorate
- Occupations
- businesspersonartistfashion designer
- Biography
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Anna Sui is an American fashion designer. Her brand categories include several fashion lines, footwear, cosmetics, fragrances, eyewear, jewelry, accessories and home goods
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Jenna Lyons
- Occupations
- fashion designerpersonal stylist
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Jenna Lyons is an American fashion designer, businesswoman, and television personality. Lyons was the executive creative director and president of retailer J.Crew from 2010 until April 2017, when she announced her departure from the company. Lyons began working for J.Crew in 1990 and held various positions throughout her twenty-seven years at the company. In 2013, Lyons was referred to as the "Woman Who Dresses America". She is the CEO and co-founder of LoveSeen, a false eyelash beauty brand. She is also known for starring in the reality television series Stylish with Jenna Lyons and The Real Housewives of New York City, which she joined in the show's fourteenth season.
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Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark
- Occupations
- socialitemodelstudent
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Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark is a fashion model, socialite and member of the former Greek royal family. She is the oldest child and only daughter of Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, and his wife, Marie-Chantal Miller. Her paternal grandparents are Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Denmark, who were the last King and Queen of the Hellenes, while her maternal grandfather is duty free entrepreneur Robert Warren Miller.
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Paul Rand
- Occupations
- designergraphic designerteacher
- Biography
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Paul Rand was an American art director and graphic designer. He was best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT. He developed an American Modernistic style from European influences and was one of the first American commercial artists to embrace and practice the Swiss Style of graphic design.
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Ruth Benedict
- Occupations
- anthropologist
- Biography
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Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
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Amiri Baraka
- Occupations
- writerscreenwriterprose writerpoetjournalist
- Biography
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Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture.
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Roy Hargrove
- Occupations
- trumpeterjazz musicianbrass player
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Roy Anthony Hargrove was an American jazz musician and composer whose principal instruments were the trumpet and flugelhorn. He achieved worldwide acclaim after winning two Grammy Awards for differing styles of jazz in 1998 and 2002. Hargrove primarily played in the hard bop style for the majority of his albums, but also had a penchant for genre-crossing exploration and collaboration with a variety of hip hop, neo soul, R&B and alternative rock artists. As Hargrove told one reporter, "I've been around all kinds of musicians, and if a cat can play, a cat can play. If it's gospel, funk, R&B, jazz or hip-hop, if it's something that gets in your ear and it's good, that's what matters."
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Isaac Mizrahi
- Occupations
- film produceractorfashion designercreative directordesigner
- Biography
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Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer, actor, singer, television presenter and chief designer of the Isaac Mizrahi brand for Xcel Brands. Based in New York City, he is best known for his eponymous fashion lines. Mizrahi was previously a judge on Project Runway All Stars. In 2022 he played Amos Hart in the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago.
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Judith Malina
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- playwrighttelevision actorpoetdirectorfilm actor
- Biography
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Judith Malina was a German-born American actress, director and writer. With her husband Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Brad Mehldau
- Occupations
- music arrangercomposerjazz pianistrecording artist
- Biography
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Bradford Alexander Mehldau is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
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Hamilton Morris
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- journalisttelevision producertelevision actor
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Hamilton Morris is an American journalist, documentarian, and scientific researcher. He is the creator and director of the television series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, in which he investigated the chemistry, history, and cultural impact of various psychoactive drugs.
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Sasha Meneghel
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- actorfashion designerathletics competitorvolleyball playermodel
- Biography
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Sasha Meneghel Szafir Figueiredo is a Brazilian model.
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Queen Anne of Romania
- Biography
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Anne was the wife of King Michael I of Romania. She married Michael in 1948, the year after he had abdicated the throne. Nonetheless, she was known after the marriage as Queen Anne (Romanian: Regina Ana).
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Carine Roitfeld
- Occupations
- fashion designermodeleditor-in-chiefjournalist
- Biography
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Carine Roitfeld is a French fashion editor, former fashion model, and writer. She is the former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, a position she held from 2001 to 2011. In 2012, she became founder and editor-in-chief of CR Fashion Book, a bi-annual print magazine headquartered in New York City.
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Peter L. Berger
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Peter Ludwig Berger was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and contributions to sociological theory.
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Didit Hediprasetyo
- Occupations
- socialitefashion designer
- Biography
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Ragowo Hediprasetyo Djojohadikusumo, or more commonly known as Didit Prabowo, is an Indonesian fashion designer and socialite. He is the only child of current Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and his former wife, Titiek Suharto, as well as the maternal grandson of former Indonesian president Suharto.
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Lewis Mumford
- Occupations
- architectural theoreticianhistorian of technologyhistorianliterary criticsociologist
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Lewis Mumford was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer. He made significant contributions to social philosophy, American literary and cultural history, and the history of technology.
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Deborah Eisenberg
- Occupations
- writeractorplaywright
- Biography
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Deborah Eisenberg is an American short story writer, actress and teacher. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University.
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Franco Modigliani
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
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Franco Modigliani ( was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Pasqual Maragall i Mira
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Pasqual Maragall Mira is a Spanish retired politician and former President of Generalitat de Catalunya. He had previously been Mayor of Barcelona, from 1982 to 1997, and helped run the city's successful Olympic bid.
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Jason Wu
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Jason Wu is a Canadian artist and fashion designer based in New York City. Born in Taiwan and raised in Vancouver, he studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design, and trained under Narciso Rodriguez before launching his own line.
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Stacey Farber
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Stacey Farber is a Canadian actress. She played Ellie Nash in seasons 2 through 8 of the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. From 2010 to 2011, she starred in the CBC series 18 to Life. From 2014 to 2017, she played Sydney Katz on the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope, and since 2023 she has had a lead role on The Spencer Sisters. Stacey has also recurred on the Netflix drama series Virgin River and The CW superhero series Superman & Lois.
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Julia Taylor Ross
- Occupations
- film actortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Julia Chan is an English actress and presenter.
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Elliott Erwitt
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- artistphotographerphotojournalistfilm directorjournalist
- Biography
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Elliott Erwitt was a French-born American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid photos of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings. He was a member of Magnum Photos from 1953.
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Narciso Rodriguez
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Narciso Jesus Rodriguez III is an American fashion designer.
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Julio Torres
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- film directorstand-up comedianfilm producerfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Julio Torres is a Salvadoran-American writer, comedian, and actor. He is known as a writer for Saturday Night Live and as the co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO series Los Espookys and Fantasmas. He previously wrote for The Chris Gethard Show on truTV. He directed, wrote, and starred in the surrealist comedy film Problemista.
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Doris Dörrie
- Occupations
- film directorfilm producerscreenwriterwriterfilm actor
- Biography
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Doris Dörrie is a German film director, producer and author.
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Prabal Gurung
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Prabal Gurung is a Nepalese–American fashion designer based in New York City.
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Thomas G. Waites
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- actorfilm actorstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Thomas G. Waites is an American actor and acting instructor born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Waites runs an eponymous acting studio in New York City. He has been a member of the Actors Studio since 1984.
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Leandra Medine
- Occupations
- writerjournalistblogger
- Biography
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Leandra Medine Cohen is an American author, blogger, and humor writer best known for Man Repeller.
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Jerry Herman
- Enrolled in New School
- In 1952 studied architecture
- Occupations
- lyricistcomposersongwriterpianist
- Biography
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Gerald Sheldon Herman was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant
- Occupations
- singerjazz pianistcomposerpianistsongwriter
- Biography
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Cécile McLorin Salvant is a French-American jazz vocalist. Salvant is one of the most highly regarded jazz vocalists of her generation, often winning DownBeat annual critics polls. She has released seven albums since 2010, six of which have been nominated for Grammy Awards. She is a 3-time winner of the Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy Award for her 2015 album For One to Love, her 2017 album Dreams and Daggers, and her 2018 album The Window, each released on the Mack Avenue label. Salvant's most recent album is Mélusine, released in 2023 by Nonesuch Records. Salvant primarily sings in English or French, her first language, and has also recorded songs in Occitan and Haitian Kreyòl.
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Sailor Brinkley Cook
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Sailor Lee Brinkley Cook is an American model and the daughter of supermodel Christie Brinkley. Billy Joel is her godfather.
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Jake Hurwitz
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- podcastertelevision actorfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Jacob Penn Cooper Hurwitz is an American comedian, writer, actor, and member of the comedy duo Jake and Amir. He was hired by the comedy website CollegeHumor after becoming an intern there in 2006, and has written and appeared in original videos for the website, as well as contributing articles which have been published both online and in print. He also starred in The CollegeHumor Show, an MTV sitcom that ran for one season in 2009. Outside of CollegeHumor, Hurwitz has hosted Myspace's BFF series.
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Tara Subkoff
- Occupations
- film actorfashion designerfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Tara Lyn Subkoff is an American actress, conceptual artist, director, and fashion designer.
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Stephanie Kelton
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 56)
- Enrolled in New School
- In 2001 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherauthoreconomist
- Biography
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Stephanie A Kelton is an American heterodox economist and academic, and a leading proponent of modern monetary theory. She served as an advisor to Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign and worked for the Senate Budget Committee under his chairmanship. She is also the author of The Deficit Myth, a New York Times bestseller, on the subject of modern monetary theory.
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Adrian
- Occupations
- costume designerfashion designer
- Biography
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Adrian Adolph Greenburg, widely known mononymously as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and hundreds of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films between 1928 and 1941. He was usually credited onscreen with the phrase "Gowns by Adrian". Early in his career he chose the professional name Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own.
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Dmitry Sholokhov
- Occupations
- creative directorartistfashion designer
- Biography
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Dmitry Sholokhov is a Belarus-American fashion designer, instructor, and reality television contestant, best known as the winner of season ten of Project Runway and season four of Project Runway: All Stars.
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Mary Jo White
- Enrolled in New School
- Graduated with master's degree in psychology
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mary Jo White is an American attorney who served as the 31st chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2013 to 2017. She was the first woman to be the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002. On January 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated White to replace Elisse B. Walter as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 8, 2013, and was sworn into office on April 10, 2013. In 2014, she was listed as the 73rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
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Woodrow Parfrey
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Sydney Woodrow Parfrey was an American film and television actor from the 1950s to the early 1980s. He is often remembered as "one of TV's great slimeball villains".
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Heinrich Blücher
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- philosopheruniversity teacherpoet
- Biography
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Heinrich Friedrich Ernst Blücher was a German poet and philosopher. He was the second husband of Hannah Arendt whom he had first met in Paris in 1936. During his life in America, Blücher traveled in popular academic circles and appears prominently in the lives of various New York intellectuals.
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Rockwell Kent
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- printmakerprose writerpainterwriterillustrator
- Biography
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Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager.
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José James
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- composerbandleaderjazz musiciansinger
- Biography
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José James is an American composer, baritone singer, guitar player and vocalist who combines contemporary jazz and hip hop.
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Mike Doughty
- Occupations
- engineersingerstreet artistguitaristsinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Michael Ross Doughty is an American singer-songwriter and author. He founded the band Soul Coughing in 1992, and as of The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns (2016), has released 18 studio albums, live albums, and EPs, all since 2000.
