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1,572 famous people found
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Roy ORBISON
American singer, songwriter, and musician
1936 - 1988 -
Diane Baker
American actress, producer and educator
1938 -
Jim HENSON
American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, filmmaker, and screenwriter who achieved worldwide notice as the creator of The Muppets
1936 - 1990 -
Nellie BLY
American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days
1864 - 1922 -
Elie WIESEL
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
1928 - 2016 -
Jack LONDON
American novelist, journalist, and social activist
1876 - 1916 -
Joan BAEZ
American singer, songwriter, musician and activist
1941 -
Jane RUSSELL
American film actress and one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s
1921 - 2011 -
Chuck BERRY
American singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music
1926 - 2017 -
Stevie WONDER
American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
1950 -
Carly SIMON
American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author
1945 -
James Taylor
American singer, songwriter, and musician
1948 -
Tony CURTIS
American film actor
1924 - 2010 -
Arnold SCHWARZENEGGER
Austrian-American actor, filmmaker, businessman, author, and former politician and professional bodybuilder
1947 -
Jerry LEWIS
American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian
1926 - 2017 -
J. D. SALINGER
American writer best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye
1919 - 2010 -
Morgan FREEMAN
American actor and film narrator
1937 -
Carlos SANTANA
Mexican and American guitarist
1947 -
Harry BELAFONTE
Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor
1927 - 2023 -
Yehudi MENUHIN
American-born violinist and conductor
1916 - 1999