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Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
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Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
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Jack London
American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)
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Robert A. Millikan
American physicist (1868–1953)
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Jane Addams
American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)
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William Shockley
American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)
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Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
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Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s. He died in custody awaiting his trial; his death was ruled a suicide.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
American writer (1875–1950)
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W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
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Elizabeth Blackwell
American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist (1821-1910)
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Sherwood Anderson
American writer (1876–1941)
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Marcus Garvey
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)
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George Eastman
American entrepreneur, inventor and photographer (1854–1932)
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Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)
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Anton LaVerga
Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible (1930-1997)
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Hermann Joseph Muller
American biologist (1890–1967)
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)
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Joshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist (1925–2008)
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Victoria Woodhull
American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
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Irving Fisher
American economist and statistician (1867–1947)
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Luther Burbank
American botanist and horticulturist (1849–1926)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
American jurist (1841–1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932
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Raymond Cattell
British-American psychologist (1905–1998)
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
American geologist and eugenicist (1857–1935)
John Harvey Kellogg
American physician (1852–1943)
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John D. Rockefeller Jr.
American financier and philanthropist (1874–1960)
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Garrett Hardin
American ecologist (1915–2003)
Madison Grant
American lawyer, eugenicist, and conservationist (1865–1937)
Lothrop Stoddard
American white-supremacist historian, political scientist, journalist (1883–1950)
Adolf Meyer
Swiss-American psychiatrist (1866-1950)
Lewis Terman
American educational psychologist and academic (1877–1956)
Ellsworth Huntington
American geographer (1876-1947)
Alex Hrdlicka
Czech-American anthropologist
Richard Lynn
British psychologist (1930–2023)
Ben Klassen
American engineer, author and politician (1918-1993)
Robert Yerkes
American psychologist (1876–1956)
Norman Bel Geddes
American theatrical and industrial designer (1893–1958)
John Marshall Harlan II
US Supreme Court justice from 1955 to 1971
Charles Benedict Davenport
American botanist, zoologist and eugenicist (1866 – 1944)
John Merle Coulter
U.S. Botanist (1851-1928)
James J. Davis
American politician (1873-1947)
Christopher Langan
American horse rancher and author who scored high on IQ tests
William Ernest Castle
American geneticist (1867–1962)
J. Philippe Rushton
Canadian psychology professor (1943–2012)
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Edward Henry Harriman
American financier and railroad magnate (1848–1909)
Frank William Taussig
United States economist (1859-1940)
William Herbert Sheldon
American psychologist (1898-1977)
William Dudley Pelley
American political activist, screenwriter, and convicted fraudster (1890-1965)
Charles Martin
Oregon politician (1863-1946)
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A. James Gregor
American political scientist (1929–2019)
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Herbert McLean Evans
American scientist (1882-1971)
Herbert Spencer Jennings
American biologist (1868–1947)
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Henry H. Goddard
American psychologist (1866–1957)
Linda Gottfredson
American psychologist
Walter M. Pierce
American politician (1861-1954)
Joseph LeConte
American geologist (1823–1901)
Henry Harpending
American anthropologist (1944–2016)
Edwin Katzenellenbogen
German psychiatrist (1882–1955)
Mary Carson Breckinridge
American nurse (1881–1965)