Wes Anderson (filmmaker - Rushmore and The Royal Tennenbaums)
Steve Allen (writer and comedian)
Woody Allen (director, writer and comedian)
George Carlin (comedian and actor)
Ethan Coen (filmmaker - The Big Lebowski, Fargo, etc.)
Wes Craven (director - Nightmare on Elm Street)
Harrison Ford (actor)
Jimmy Kimmel (comedian and former star of The Man Show)
Jay Leno (host, The Tonight Show)
Peter Lynch (director)
Amy Madigan (actress)
Steve Martin (comedian & actor)
Dennis Miller (comedian)
Joan Rivers (comedian)
Susan Sarandon (actress)
Wallace Shawn (actor, playwright)
Gene Siskel (movie reviewer, Siskel & Ebert At The Movies)
Steve Thomas (host, This Old House)
Dave Thomas (one of the "Mackenzie Brothers" on SCTV)
Alex Trebeck (host, Jeopardy)

William Bennett (former Drug czar & NEH leader, BOOK OF VIRTUES)
Jerry Brown (former governor of California and presidential candidate)
Pat Buchanan (Reform party nominee in 2000 for President of the United States)
William Jefferson Clinton (former President of the United States)
Angela Davis (social activist)
Rahm Emanuel (Clinton White House Political Advisor)
Rudi Giuliani (former mayor of NYC)
Gary Hart (US Senator, former presidential candidate)
Vaclav Havel (former President of Czechoslovakia)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights leader)
Robert McNamara (former Secretary of Defense, head of the World Bank)
Richard Riordan (former mayor of LA)
Aung San Suu Kyi (Human rights activist and Novel Peace prize winner)
John Silber (former president of Boston University)
Pierre Trudeau (Former Canadian Prime Minister)
Elie Wiesel (Human rights activist and Nazi hunter)
Dr. Stephen Younger (Director of the Department of Defense's Threat Reduction Agency, established after 9/11)

J. Paul Getty (industrialist and founder of Getty Oil, endowed the famous Getty art museum)
Carl Icahn (CEO of TWA,  corporate raider)
Carly Fiorina (CEO, Hewlett-Packard)
Gerald Levine (CEO, Time Warner)
Michael McKaskey (owner, Chicago bears)
Lachlan Murdoch (media magnate, son of Rupert Murdoch)
George Soros (money manager, billionaire founder of the Soros Foundation)
P. Michael Spence (economist and winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics)
Moses Znaimer, (Owner of CITY-TV and MUCH-MUSIC, Toronto)

Pearl Buck (writer, Pulitzer prize and Nobel prize winner)
Philip K. Dick (science fiction writer)
Paul Draper (winemaker, Ridge Vineyards)
T.S. Eliot (author)
Ken Follet (author)
Phillip Glass (composer)
Randall Grahm (winemaker, Bonny Doon Vineyards)
Jay McInerney (author)
Moby (musician)
Neil Peart (drummer for rock group, Rush)
Steve Reich (musician, composer)
Jeff Smith (chef also known as "The Frugal Gourmet")
Susan Sontag (essayist)
Alexander Solzhenitsin (political dissident, Writer)

John Elway (quarterback, Denver Broncos)
Phil Jackson (NBA coach, LA Lakers)
Bruce Lee (martial arts & actor)
Mick Schmidt (former Philadelphia Philly)
Aaron Taylor (Offensive tackle, Green Bay Packers)

John Chancellor (journalist, News Anchor)
Ivan Frolov (editor of PRAVDA)
Mark Hulbert (financial columnist for FORBES magazine)
Stone Phillips (broadcast journalist)
Eric Severide (a contemporary of Walter Cronkite)
George F. Will (journalist and commentator)
Juan Williams (Host of National Public Radio's "Talk of the nation", writer for the Washington Post)

Justice Stephen Breyer (US supreme court)
Carol Heckman (first female US magistrate in the Western district)
Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin (Canadian Chief Justice)
Justice David Souter (US Supreme Court)
Judge Joseph A Wapner (People's Court)

The Late Pope John Paul II
Cardinal Bernardin, Late cardinal of Chicago

Kristen Baker (first female brigade commander, United States military Academy)