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Christopher Hitchens
English American author and journalist (1949–2011)
Daniel Dennett
American philosopher (1942–2024)
Valerie Solanas
American radical feminist and author (1936-1988)
Frank Marshall
American chess player
Frank Vincent
American actor (1937–2017)
Tommie Smith
American track and field athlete
Gabby Douglas
American gymnast
Kathy Ireland
American model and businesswoman
Michael S. Hart
American author, founder of Project Gutenberg (1947–2011)
Warren Farrell
author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Dorothy Height
American activist (1912-2010)
Francis Parkman
American historian (1823–1893)
James Weldon Johnson
American writer and activist (1871–1938)
Deirdre McCloskey
American economist & academic
Michael Oher
American football player
Jennifer Shahade
American chess and poker player
Helen Hunt Jackson
American novelist, poet, writer, activist (1830–1885)
Brian Weiss
American psychiatrist
Robert J. Lang
American physicist, mathematician and origami expert
Sydnee Steele
American pornographic actress
Bruce Gilley
American political scientist, economist, journalist, author and professor
Simon Sinek
British/American author and motivational speaker
Samuel Gridley Howe
American physician and abolitionist (1801–1876)
William Lombardy
American chess player (1937-2017)
Kay Redfield Jamison
American bipolar disorder researcher
Lubomír Kaválek
Czech-American chess player
Andrea James
American writer, film producer, director, and activist
David Horowitz
Neoconservative activist, writer
Phillip E. Johnson
American legal academic (1940-2019)
Styles P
American rapper from New York (born 1974)
Stewart L. Udall
American Democratic politician, former United States Secretary of the Interior (1920-2010)
Scott Jurek
American ultramarathoner
Dean Conant Worcester
U.S. zoologist and ornithologist (1866–1924)
Owen Lattimore
American scholar of Central Asia (1900-1989)
Jack Herer
American Cannabis/Hemp and freedom activist (1939-2010)
Jeannette Walls
American writer and journalist
Charles Eliot Norton
American art historian (1827-1908)
William Morton Wheeler
U.S. entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard professor (1865–1937)
Louis Zorich
American actor (1924-2018)
Joshua Waitzkin
American chess player
Hans Kmoch
Austrian-Dutch chess player and writer
Lil' Flip
American rapper
William Henry Holmes
American academic, painter and illustrator (1846-1933)
William Delbert Gann
American businessman (1878–1955)
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
Denny Miller
American actor (1934-2014)
William S. Sadler
Psychiatrist and author (1875–1969)
Hazel Henderson
British-American activist & progressive writer (1933–2022)
Andrew Soltis
American chess player
Jonathan Tisdall
American-Norwegian chess player and journalist
Robin Roberts
American television broadcaster (born 1960)
Felicia Pearson
American actress
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice activist (born 1939)
Robby Robinson
American bodybuilder
Willard Fiske
American librarian, book collector, and chess player (1831–1904)
Bruce Pandolfini
American chess author, teacher, and coach
Isaac Rice
German American musicologist, lawyer, inventor and capitalist, and chess writer (1850–1915)
Mike Reynolds
American architect
Jeremy Silman
American chess player and writer (1954–2023)
John Leonard Watson
American chess player (1951-)