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83 relations: Ahmet Ertegun, Alan Lomax, Andrew Goodpaster, Annie Leibovitz, B.B. King, Barbra Streisand, Ben Carson, Benny Carter, Beverly Cleary, Big Bird, Bill Cosby, Billie Jean King, Bob Schieffer, Bobby Short, Cal Ripken Jr., Carl Lewis, Carol Burnett, Caroll Spinney, Civil service, Cokie Roberts, Colin Powell, David Copperfield (illusionist), Dolly Parton, Film director, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Fred Rogers, George F. Kennan, Gloria Steinem, Gwen Verdon, Hank Aaron, Harold E. Varmus, Harry Belafonte, Herbie Hancock, Herman Wouk, I. M. Pei, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Jaroslav Pelikan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Jenette Kahn, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Lewis (civil rights leader), Judy Blume, Katherine Paterson, Larry Bird, Laura Bush, Leontyne Price, Library of Congress, Linda Chavez, ..., Madeleine Albright, Marian Wright Edelman, Mark McGwire, Martin Scorsese, Maurice Sendak, Max Kampelman, Merce Cunningham, Michael DeBakey, Mickey Hart, Miguel León-Portilla, Muhammad Ali, Pete Seeger, Philip Roth, Quincy Jones, Ralph Stanley, Rita Moreno, Robert McCloskey, Sally Ride, Sesame Street, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Spielberg, Suzanne Farrell, Sylvia Earle, T. Berry Brazelton, Tiger Woods, Toni Morrison, Tony Bennett, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vint Cerf, William F. Buckley Jr., William Styron, Yo-Yo Ma. Expand index (33 more) »
Ahmet Ertegun
Ahmet Ertegun (Turkish spelling: Ahmet Ertegün; (– December 14, 2006) was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter and philanthropist. He was best known as the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records, and for discovering and championing many leading rhythm and blues and rock musicians. He also wrote classic blues and pop songs, and served as the chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum, located in Cleveland, Ohio. Ertegun has been described as "one of the most significant figures in the modern recording industry." In 2017 he was inducted into Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in recognition of his work in the music business. He was also a significant figure in fostering ties between the U.S. and Turkey, his birthplace. He served as the chairman of the American Turkish Society for over 20 years until his death. He also co-founded the New York Cosmos soccer team of the original North American Soccer League.
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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.
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Andrew Goodpaster
Andrew Jackson Goodpaster (February 12, 1915 – May 16, 2005) was an American Army General.
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Annie Leibovitz
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer.
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B.B. King
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker.
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Ben Carson
Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American politician, author and former neurosurgeon serving as the 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development since 2017, under the Trump Administration.
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Benny Carter
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
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Beverly Cleary
Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; born April 12, 1916) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction.
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Big Bird
Big Bird is the main protagonist of the children's television show Sesame Street.
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Bill Cosby
William Henry Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, author, and convicted sex offender.
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Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player.
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Bob Schieffer
Bob Lloyd Schieffer (born February 25, 1937) is an American television journalist.
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Bobby Short
Robert Waltrip Short (September 15, 1924 – March 21, 2005) was an American cabaret singer and pianist, best known for his interpretations of songs by popular composers of the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Richard A. Whiting, Vernon Duke, Noël Coward and George and Ira Gershwin.
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Cal Ripken Jr.
Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr. (born August 24, 1960), nicknamed "The Iron Man", is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles (1981–2001).
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Carl Lewis
Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold.
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Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer and writer, whose career spans seven decades of television.
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Caroll Spinney
Caroll Edwin Spinney (born December 26, 1933) is an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street since 1969.
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Civil service
The civil service is independent of government and composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
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Cokie Roberts
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts (née Boggs; born December 27, 1943), best known as Cokie Roberts, is an American journalist and author.
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Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell (born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army.
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David Copperfield (illusionist)
David Seth Kotkin (born September 16, 1956), known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American magician, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history.
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music.
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Film director
A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.
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Fred Lawrence Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for over 70 years.
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Fred Rogers
Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister.
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George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian.
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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Gwen Verdon
Gwyneth Evelyn “Gwen” Verdon (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000) was an American actress and dancer.
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Hank Aaron
Henry Louis Aaron (born February 5, 1934), nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", is a retired American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder who serves as the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves.
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Harold E. Varmus
Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist and was the 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute, a post to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama, and before that was director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to 1999.
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Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist.
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.
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Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is an American author.
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I. M. Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei, FAIA, RIBA – website of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (born 26 April 1917), commonly known as I. M.
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Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern (Исаа́к Соломо́нович Штерн; Isaak Solomonovich Shtern; 21 July 1920 – 22 September 2001) was an American violinist.
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Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman (יצחק פרלמן; born 31 August 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and music teacher.
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is an American retired track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump.
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Jaroslav Pelikan
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan (December 17, 1923 – May 13, 2006) was a scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist.
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Jenette Kahn
Jenette Kahn (born May 16, 1947) is an American comic book editor and executive.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-born economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism.
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John Lewis (civil rights leader)
John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader.
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Judy Blume
Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman; February 12, 1938) is an American writer known for children's and young adult (YA) fiction.
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Katherine Paterson
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is a Chinese-born American writer best known for children's novels.
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Larry Bird
Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is an American professional basketball executive, former coach and former player, most recently serving as president of the Indiana Pacers in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is an American educator and the wife of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, serving as the First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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Leontyne Price
Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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Linda Chavez
Linda Lou ChavezStated on Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., May 20, 2012, PBS (born June 17, 1947) is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host.
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Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born May 15, 1937) is an American politician and diplomat.
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Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for the rights of children.
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Mark McGwire
Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963), nicknamed Big Mac, is an American former professional baseball player and currently the bench coach for the San Diego Padres.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.
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Maurice Sendak
Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.
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Max Kampelman
Max Kampelman, born Max Kampelmacher (November 7, 1920 – January 25, 2013), was an American diplomat.
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Merce Cunningham
Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American modern dance for more than 50 years.
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Michael DeBakey
Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon, scientist, and medical educator.
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Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist and musicologist.
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Miguel León-Portilla
Miguel León-Portilla (born February 22, 1926 in Mexico City) is a Mexican anthropologist and historian, and a prime authority on Nahuatl thought and literature.
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist.
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Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.
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Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.
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Ralph Stanley
Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016), also known as Dr.
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Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer and singer.
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Robert McCloskey
John Robert McCloskey (September 14, 1914 – June 30, 2003) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
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Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American engineer, physicist and astronaut.
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Sesame Street
Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.
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Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.
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Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an American ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Farrell began her ballet training at the age of eight.
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Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Alice Earle (née Reade; born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer.
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T. Berry Brazelton
Thomas Berry Brazelton (May 10, 1918 – March 13, 2018) was an American pediatrician, author, and the developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS).
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Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont Woods (born December 30, 1975) better known as Tiger Woods, is an American professional golfer who is among the most successful golfers of all time.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
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Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American novelist.
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Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf ForMemRS, (born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-inventor Bob Kahn.
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William F. Buckley Jr.
William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator.
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William Styron
William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.
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Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American cellist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Living_Legend
