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American football player (born 1998)

Harvard (Founder)

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher who forged a uniquely American classical music…

Abraham Pollin (December 3, 1923 – November 24, 2009) was an American real estate developer, sports team owner, and philanthropist based in the Washington, D.C.

American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher

Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic politician from Connecticut who rose from humble immigrant roots to…

Abraham Zabludovsky (June 14, 1924 – April 9, 2003) was a Polish-born Mexican architect celebrated for his modernist and brutalist designs that blended…

American ice hockey player (born 1998)

Adam Schefter (born December 21, 1966) is an American sports journalist best known as the Senior NFL Insider at ESPN, a role he has held since August 2009,…

Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917) was a German organic chemist whose groundbreaking research advanced synthetic dye production and the…

Egyptian-born American entrepreneur and racehorse owner

Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American comedian, screenwriter, author, radio host, and former United States Senator from Minnesota.

Alan J.

American baseball player (born 1994)

Alexander David Sobel (born 1975) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central and…

Grandmaster Chess School (Founder)

Alfred Goodman Gilman (July 1, 1941 – December 23, 2015) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…

Aron "Ali" Bacher (born 24 May 1942) is a South African former Test cricketer, physician, and cricket administrator of Lithuanian-Jewish descent who captained…

Alice Herz-Sommer (26 November 1903 – 23 February 2014) was a Czech-born pianist, music teacher, and supercentenarian who survived internment in the…

Alvin E.

American actress and television presenter (born 1974)

Amatus Lusitanus (1511–1568), born João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, was a Portuguese physician of Marrano Jewish descent whose clinical acumen and anatomical…

André Aciman is an Egyptian-born American writer and scholar whose novels, memoirs, and essays recurrently probe the intricacies of desire, memory, exile, and…

American football player (born 1959)

Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is a British mathematician renowned for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had eluded…

April Ross (born June 20, 1982) is an American retired professional beach volleyball player renowned for her three Olympic medals, making her one of the most…

Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania for 30…

Austrian-American composer (1874–1951)

American physicist (1922–2020)

Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist renowned for his pioneering work on DNA synthesis, particularly the discovery…

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist renowned for co-inventing the laser and pioneering laser spectroscopy.

Avi Wigderson is an Israeli-American mathematician and computer scientist renowned for his pioneering work in theoretical computer science, particularly in…

American professional wrestler (born 1960)

Bernice Frankel (May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009), known professionally as Bea Arthur, was an American actress, comedian, and singer whose career spanned…

American politician (born 1968)