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Klint Kubiak
Klint Alexander Kubiak is an American professional football coach who is the head coach for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks in 2025, winning Super Bowl LX.
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer (1882–1971)
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
Marilyn Manson
American musician (born 1969)
Gloria Swanson
American actress (1899–1983)
Kesha
Kesha Rose Sebert (born March 1, 1987), formerly stylized as Ke$ha, is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter. She has earned two number-one albums on the US Billboard 200 with Animal (2010) and Rainbow (2017), and the top-ten records Warrior (2012) and High Road (2020). She attained ten top-ten singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, including "Tik Tok", "Right Round" with Flo Rida, "My First Kiss" with 3OH!3, "Blah Blah Blah", "Your Love Is My Drug", "Take It Off", "We R Who We R", "Blow", "Die Young", and "Timber" with Pitbull. Her 2009 single "Tik Tok" was the best-selling digital single
Liv Tyler
American actress (born 1977)
Meg Ryan
American actress (born 1961)
Ted Kaczynski
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.
Frank Wilczek
American theoretical physicist
Steve Carell
Steven John Carell is an American actor and comedian. He starred as Michael Scott in the NBC sitcom The Office, and also worked at several points as a producer, executive producer, writer, and director. Carell has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award for The Office. He was recognized as "America's Funniest Man" by Life.
Chuck Palahniuk
American novelist, essayist
Steven Tyler
American singer
Susan Wojcicki
American business executive (1968–2024) Former CEO of YouTube.
Jack Szostak
American biologist
Chloë Sevigny
American actress
John Krasinski
John Burke Krasinski is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), where he was also a producer and occasional director. He directed, co-wrote and co-starred in the 2018 horror film A Quiet Place, for which Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He has since written and directed the sequel A Quiet Place Part II (2020).
Jared Padalecki
American actor
Amanda Bynes
American actress and fashion designer (born 1986)
the Wachowskis
American film directors, screenwriters, and producers
Ronda Rousey
American former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, professional wrestler, and judoka
John Hopfield
American scientist (born 1933)
Tom Brady
Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 23 seasons. He spent his first 20 seasons with the New England Patriots and was a central contributor to the franchise's dynasty from 2001 to 2019. In his final three seasons, he played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brady is widely regarded as the greatest quarterback of all time.
Andrew Schally
Polish-American endocrinologist (1926–2024)
Roger Zelazny
U.S. science fiction and fantasy writer and poet (1937–1995)
Martha Stewart
American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)
Paul Wesley
American actor (born 1982)
Brock Lesnar
Brock Edward Lesnar is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist, amateur wrestler and professional American football player. As a wrestler, he is best known for his time with WWE. Lesnar had three previous tenures with the company from 2000 to 2004, 2012 to 2020, and again from 2021 to 2026. Lesnar is the only person to have won the primary heavyweight championships of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Carroll Baker
American actress (born 1931)
Johnny Galecki
American actor
Jerry West
American basketball player and executive (1938-2024)
Victor Ambros
American developmental biologist
Ray Manzarek
American keyboardist (1939–2013)
Téa Leoni
American actress and film producer
Maria Bello
American actress
Stephanie L. Kwolek
American chemist, inventor of Kevlar (1923–2014)
Chad Michael Murray
American actor
Rachel Zegler
Rachel Anne Zegler is an American actress and singer. Zegler gained recognition for her performance as María in Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the musical West Side Story (2021), for which she earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Christine Baranski
American actress (born 1952)
Tara Lipinski
Tara Kristen Lipinski is an American sports commentator and former competitive figure skater. A former competitor in women's singles, she was the 1997 U.S. national champion and world champion, a two-time Champions Series Final champion (1997–1998), and the 1998 Olympic champion. She is the youngest single skater Olympic champion and World champion ever, and until 2019 was the youngest to win the U.S. Nationals. She was the first woman to complete a triple loop–triple loop combination, which became her signature jump element, in competition.
Christina Perri
American singer-songwriter
CM Punk
Phillip Jack Brooks, better known by his ring name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler and actor. He has been signed to WWE since November 2023, where he performs on the Raw brand. Brooks is known for his outspoken and confrontational straight edge persona, which is based on his real-life experiences. His 434-day reign as WWE Champion is the 10th-longest world title reign in WWE history.
Armie Hammer
American actor (born 1986)
JoJo
American singer and actress
Rebecca Black
American YouTuber and singer
Bonnie Hunt
American actress and comedian
Veronica Roth
American author
Pat Benatar
American singer
Daryl Sabara
American actor (born 1992)
Rose Marie
American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer (1923–2017)
Ève Curie
writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (1904–2007)
Izabella Scorupco
Polish-Swedish model, actress and singer
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in Norwood Park Township, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his public performances as a clown prior to the discovery of his crimes.
Anna Gunn
American actress
Maddie Ziegler
American dancer and actress
Gore Verbinski
American film director (born 1964)
Rob Van Dam
American professional wrestler and actor (born 1970)
Amy Ryan
American actress (born 1968)
Jane Krakowski
American actress and singer, comedian
Jenny McCarthy
American actress, model, activist, television personality and author