List of TED speakers, the Glossary

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1. 866 relations: A. J. Jacobs, Aaron Koblin, Abha Dawesar, Abigail Washburn, Abraham Verghese, Adam Davidson (journalist), Adam Ostrow, Adam Spencer, Aditi Shankardass, Adora Svitak, Ahn Trio, Aimee Mullins, Ajit Narayanan, Al Gore, Al Seckel, Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, Alain de Botton, Alan Kay, Alan Siegel, Alec Soth, Alejandro Aravena, Alex Steffen, Alex Tabarrok, Alexa Meade, Alexis Ohanian, Alison Gopnik, Alison Jackson (artist), Allan Savory, Amanda Bennett, Amanda Burden, Amanda Palmer, America Ferrera, Amory Lovins, Amy B. Smith, Amy Cuddy, Amy Tan, Amy Webb, Anand Giridharadas, Anant Agarwal, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Andrea M. Ghez, Andreas Schleicher, Andrew Bird, Andrew McAfee, Andrew Mwenda, Andrew Solomon, Andrew Stanton, Andy Hobsbawm, Andy Puddicombe, ... Expand index (816 more) »

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A. J. Jacobs

Arnold Stephen Jacobs Jr., commonly called A.J. Jacobs (born March 20, 1968) is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments.

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Aaron Koblin

Aaron Koblin (born January 14, 1982) is an American digital media artist and entrepreneur best known for his use of data visualization and his work in crowdsourcing, virtual reality, and interactive film.

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Abha Dawesar

Abha Dawesar (born 1 January 1974) is an Indian-born novelist writing in English.

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Abigail Washburn

Abigail Washburn (born November 10, 1977) is an American clawhammer banjo player and singer.

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Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese (born 1955) is an American physician and author.

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Adam Davidson (journalist)

Adam Davidson (born 1970) is an American journalist.

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Adam Ostrow

Adam Ostrow is an American businessman, writer and speaker who currently serves as the Chief Digital Officer at TEGNA Inc.

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Adam Spencer

Adam Barrington Spencer (born 29 January 1969) is an Australian comedian, media personality and former radio presenter.

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Aditi Shankardass

Aditi Shankardass (अदिती शंकरदास) is a British neuroscientist.

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Adora Svitak

Adora Svitak (born October 15, 1997) is an American writer, public speaker, former child prodigy, (Note however the Telegraph's tagline is incorrect to confuse Adora Svitak with Dora the Explorer, a confusion which Adora.) and activist.

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Ahn Trio

The Ahn Trio is a classical piano trio composed of three sisters: Angella (violin), Lucia (piano), and Maria (cello) Ahn; Lucia and Maria are twins.

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Aimee Mullins

Aimee Mullins (born 1975) is an American athlete, actress, and public speaker.

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Ajit Narayanan

Ajit Narayanan (born August 21, 1981) is the inventor of FreeSpeech, a picture language with a deep grammatical structure.

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Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.

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Al Seckel

Alfred Paul "Al" Seckel (September 3, 1958 – 2015) was an American collector and popularizer of visual and other types of sensory illusions, who wrote books about them.

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Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani

Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (المياسة بنت حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني; born 1983) is the sister of Qatar's ruling Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and daughter of the country's former Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and his second wife Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al-Missned.

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Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton (born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British author and public speaker.

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Alan Kay

Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012 is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design.

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Alan Siegel

Alan Siegel (born August 26, 1938) is the CEO of Siegelvision, a brand identity consultancy.

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Alec Soth

Alec Soth (born 1969) is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis.

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Alejandro Aravena

Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori (born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016, and was the director and curator of the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

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Alex Steffen

Alex Steffen (born 1968 in Oakland, California) is an American futurist and advocate of 'bright green environmentalism' who writes and speaks about sustainability and the future of the planet.

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Alex Tabarrok

Alexander Taghi Tabarrok (born November 11, 1966) is a Canadian-American economist.

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Alexa Meade

Alexa Meade (born 1986) is an American installation artist best known for her portraits painted directly onto the human body and inanimate objects in a way that collapses depth and makes her models appear two-dimensional when photographed.

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Alexis Ohanian

Alexis Kerry Ohanian (Ալեքսիս Քերի Օհանյան; born April 24, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor.

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Alison Gopnik

Alison Gopnik (born June 16, 1955) is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Alison Jackson (artist)

Alison Jackson (born 15 May 1960) is an English artist, photographer and filmmaker.

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Allan Savory

Clifford Allan Redin Savory (born 15 September 1935) is a Zimbabwean livestock farmer and president and co-founder of the Savory Institute.

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Amanda Bennett

Amanda Bennett (born July 9, 1952) is an American journalist and author.

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Amanda Burden

Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden (Mortimer; born January 18, 1944) is an American businesswoman who is a principal at Bloomberg Associates, an international consulting service founded by Michael Bloomberg as a philanthropic venture to help city governments improve the quality of life of their citizens.

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Amanda Palmer

Amanda MacKinnon Palmer (born April 30, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and performance artist who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo the Dresden Dolls.

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America Ferrera

America Georgina Ferrera (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress, director and television producer.

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Amory Lovins

Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American writer, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

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Amy B. Smith

Amy Smith (born November 4, 1962) is an American inventor, educator, and founder of the MIT D-Lab and senior lecturer of mechanical engineering at MIT.

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Amy Cuddy

Amy Joy Casselberry Cuddy (born July 23, 1972) is an American social psychologist, author and speaker.

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Amy Tan

Amy Ruth Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film.

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Amy Webb

Amy Lynn Webb (born October 18, 1974) is an American futurist, author and founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute.

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Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas is an American journalist and political pundit.

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Anant Agarwal

Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher.

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Anas Aremeyaw Anas

Anas Aremeyaw Anas, better known as Anas, is a Ghanaian journalist born in the late 1970s.

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Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Anastasia Taylor-Lind (born 1981) is an English/Swedish photojournalist.

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Andrea M. Ghez

Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Andreas Schleicher

Andreas Schleicher (born 7 July 1964) is a German mathematician, statistician and researcher in the field of education who is currently the director for education and skills, and special adviser on education policy to the secretary-general, at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

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Andrew Bird

Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American indie rock multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter.

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Andrew McAfee

Andrew Paul McAfee (born) is a principal research scientist at MIT and cofounder and codirector of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Andrew Mwenda

Andrew Mwenda (born 1972) is a Ugandan print, radio and television journalist, and the founder and owner of The Independent, a current affairs newsmagazine.

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Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon (born October 30, 1963) is an American writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London.

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Andrew Stanton

Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker and voice actor based at Pixar, which he joined in 1990.

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Andy Hobsbawm

Andrew John Hobsbawm (born 12 June 1963) is an entrepreneur, writer and musician from London, England.

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Andy Puddicombe

Andy Puddicombe (born 23 September 1972) is a British author, public speaker and a teacher of meditation and mindfulness.

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Angela Duckworth

Angela Lee Duckworth (born 1970) is an American academic, psychologist, and popular science author.

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Angelo Vermeulen

Angelo Vermeulen (born 1971, Sint Niklaas) is a Belgian space systems researcher, biologist and artist.

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Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor.

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Anne Milgram

Anne Melissa Milgram (born December 1, 1970) is an American attorney and academic who currently serves as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) since 2021.

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Anne-Marie Slaughter

Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is an American international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist, and public commentator.

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Annie Lennox

Ann Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist.

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Anthony Atala

Anthony Atala (born July 14, 1958) is an American bioengineer, urologist, and pediatric surgeon.

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Antonio Damasio

Antonio Damasio (António Damásio) is a Portuguese neuroscientist.

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Antony Garrett Lisi

Antony Garrett Lisi (born January 24, 1968), known as Garrett Lisi, is an American theoretical physicist.

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Antony Gormley

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor.

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Anupam Mishra

Anupam Mishra (1948 – 19 December 2016) was an Indian Gandhian, author, journalist, environmentalist, TED speaker, and water conservationist who worked on promoting water conservation, water management and traditional rainwater harvesting techniques.

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Apollo Robbins

Apollo Robbins (born May 23, 1974) is an American sleight-of-hand artist, security consultant, self-described gentleman thief and deception specialist.

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Arduino

Arduino is an Italian open-source hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices.

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Arianna Huffington

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου,; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman.

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Arthur C. Brooks

Arthur C. Brooks (born May 21, 1964) is an American author, public speaker, and academic.

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Arthur Ganson

Arthur Ganson (born 1955) is a kinetic sculptor.

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Arthur Potts Dawson

Arthur Potts Dawson (born 1971 in Camden, London) started cooking in 1988.

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Arthur T. Benjamin

Arthur T. Benjamin (born March 19, 1961) is an American mathematician who specializes in combinatorics.

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Arunachalam Muruganantham

Arunachalam Muruganantham (born 12 October 1961) also known as Padman is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India.

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Ashraf Ghani

Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan former politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban.

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Atul Gawande

Atul Atmaram Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher.

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Aubrey de Grey

Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey (born 20 April 1963) is an English biomedical gerontologist.

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Ayah Bdeir

Ayah Bdeir (آية بدير; born 1982 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian entrepreneur, inventor, and interactive artist of Syrian descent.

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Barry Schwartz (psychologist)

Barry Schwartz (born August 15, 1946) is an American psychologist.

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Beardyman

Darren Alexander Foreman (born 14 May 1982), better known as Beardyman, is an English musical producer, DJ, multivocalist, musician and comedian from London known for his beatboxing skills and use of live looping.

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Beeban Kidron

Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, (born 2 May 1961), is a British politician.

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Ben Goldacre

Ben Michael Goldacre (born 20 May 1974) is a British physician, academic and science writer.

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Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor (born November 19, 1951) is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for the comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.

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Ben Shneiderman

Ben Shneiderman (born August 21, 1947) is an American computer scientist, a Distinguished University Professor in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the founding director (1983-2000) of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab.

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Benjamin B. Dunlap

Benjamin Bernard "Bernie" Dunlap (born December 3, 1937, in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American author and academic, who was the president of Wofford College from July 2000 to 2013.

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Benjamin Barber

Benjamin R. Barber (August 2, 1939 – April 24, 2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld, and for 2013's If Mayors Ruled the World.

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Benjamin Zander

Benjamin Zander (born 9 March 1939 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English conductor, who is currently the musical director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

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Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life".

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Bernie Krause

Bernard L. Krause (born December 8, 1938) is an American musician and soundscape ecologist.

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Bertrand Piccard

Bertrand Piccard FRSGS (born 1 March 1958) is a Swiss explorer, psychiatrist and environmentalist.

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Beth Simone Noveck

Beth Simone Noveck (born 1971) is a Professor at Northeastern University and the 1st Chief AI Strategist for the State of New Jersey.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.

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Bill Joy

William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist.

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Bill Strickland

William E. Strickland (born August 25, 1947, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American community leader, author, and the former President and CEO of the non-profit Manchester Bidwell Corporation based in Pittsburgh.

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Bill T. Gross

William T. Gross (born 1958) is an American businessman.

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Bill T. Jones

William Tass Jones, known as Bill T. Jones (born February 15, 1952), is an American choreographer, director, author and dancer.

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Billy Collins

William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.

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Billy Graham

William Franklin Graham Jr. (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelist, ordained Southern Baptist minister and civil rights advocate whose broadcasts and world tours featuring live sermons became well known in the mid- to late 20th century.

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Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels (born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).

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Bjørn Lomborg

Bjørn Lomborg (born 6 January 1965) is a Danish author and the president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center.

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Blaise Agüera y Arcas (born 1975) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, software engineer, software architect, and author.

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Bob Mankoff

Robert Mankoff (born May 1, 1944Wilson, Craig. "Top drawer at 'The New Yorker' Mankoff makes his imprint as cartoon editor," USA Today (2 October 1997): D, 1:2.) is an American cartoonist, editor, and author.

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Boniface Mwangi

Boniface Mwangi (born July 10, 1983) is a Kenyan photojournalist, politician and activist involved in social-political activism.

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Bonnie Bassler

Bonnie Lynn Bassler (born 1962) is an American molecular biologist; the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University; and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

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Bono

Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by the nickname Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter and activist.

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Bran Ferren

Bran Ferren (born January 16, 1953) is an American technologist, artist, architectural designer, vehicle designer, engineer, lighting and sound designer, visual effects artist, scientist, lecturer, photographer, entrepreneur, and inventor.

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Brené Brown

Casandra Brené Brown (born November 18, 1965) is an American professor, social worker, author, and podcast host.

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Brenda Laurel

Brenda Laurel (born 1950) is an American interaction designer, video game designer, and researcher.

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Brian Cox (physicist)

Brian Edward Cox (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist and musician who is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science.

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Brian D. Farrell

Brian Dorsey Farrell is a professor of biology and curator in entomology at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

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Brian Dettmer

Brian Dettmer (born 1974) is an American contemporary artist.

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Brian Greene

Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American physicist.

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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (born November 24, 1946) is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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Bruce Feiler

Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is an American writer and television personality.

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Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, and law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.

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Bunker Roy

Sanjit "Bunker" Roy (born 30 June 1945) is an Indian social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College.

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Burt Rutan

Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943) is a retired American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, and energy-efficient air and space craft.

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C. K. Williams

Charles Kenneth "C.

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Cameron Sinclair

Cameron Sinclair (born 16 November 1973) is a designer, writer and one of the pioneers in socially responsive architecture.

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Carl Honoré

Carl Honoré (born 29 December 1967 in Scotland) is a Canadian journalist who wrote the internationally best-selling book In Praise of Slow (2004) about the Slow Movement.

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Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti (born 1971 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian architect, engineer, educator and author.

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Carmen Agra Deedy

Carmen Agra Deedy is an author of children’s literature, storyteller and radio contributor.

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Caroline Lavelle

Caroline Lavelle is an English singer-songwriter and cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands.

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Carolyn Porco

Carolyn C. Porco (born March 6, 1953) is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s.

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Cary Fowler

Morgan Carrington "Cary" Fowler Jr. (born 1949) is an American agriculturalist and the former executive director of the Crop Trust, currently serving as U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security.

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Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan, known informally as Meng, is an author, philanthropist, motivator, and former software engineer.

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Charles Fleischer

Charles Fleischer (born August 27, 1950) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, musician, and writer, best known for appearing in films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Polar Express, Rango, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story.

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Charles Hazlewood

Charles Matthew Egerton Hazlewood (born 14 November 1966) is a British conductor.

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Charles J. Moore

Charles J. Moore is an oceanographer and boat captain known for articles that recently brought attention to the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch', an area of the Pacific Ocean strewn with floating plastic debris caught in a gyre.

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Charles Leadbeater

Charles Leadbeater, also known as Charlie Leadbeater, is a British author and former advisor to Tony Blair.

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Cheryl Hayashi

Cheryl Y. Hayashi is a biologist who specializes in the evolution and functional properties of spider silk.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian author who is regarded as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature.

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Chip Conley

Chip Conley (born October 31, 1960) is an American hotelier, hospitality entrepreneur, author, and speaker.

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Chip Kidd

Charles Kidd (born 1964) is an American graphic designer known for book covers.

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Chris Abani

Christopher Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian American and Los Angeles- based author.

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Chris Anderson (entrepreneur)

Chris Anderson (born 1957) is a British-American businessman who is the head of TED, a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. List of TED speakers and Chris Anderson (entrepreneur) are TED (conference).

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Chris Anderson (writer)

Chris Anderson (born July 9, 1961) is an English-American author and entrepreneur.

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Chris Bangle

Christopher Edward Bangle (born October 14, 1956) is an American automobile designer.

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Chris Burkard

Chris Burkard is an American photographer and artist, based in the California Central Coast region.

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Chris Hadfield

Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer.

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Chris Jordan (artist)

Chris Jordan (born 1963) is an American artist, photographer and film producer based in Seattle, Washington.

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Chris Kluwe

Christopher James Kluwe (born December 24, 1981) is a former American football punter and writer.

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Chris Milk

Chris Milk is an American entrepreneur, filmmaker, music video director, and immersive artist.

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Christien Meindertsma

Christien Meindertsma (born 1980) is a Dutch artist and designer.

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Christopher deCharms

Dr.

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Christopher Emdin

Christopher Emdin is the Director of the Schupf Family IdeaLab at Skidmore College and Maxine Greene Chair for Distinguished Contributions to Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Christopher Poole

Christopher Poole (born), also known online as moot, is an American Internet entrepreneur and developer.

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Christopher Soghoian

Christopher Soghoian (born 1981) is a privacy researcher and activist.

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Chrystia Freeland

Christina Alexandra Freeland (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian politician serving as the tenth and current deputy prime minister of Canada since 2019 and the minister of finance since 2020.

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Cindy Gallop

Lucinda Lee Gallop (born 1 February 1960) is an English advertising consultant, founder and former chair of the US branch of advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and founder of the IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn companies.

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Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky (born 1964) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism.

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Clifford Stoll

Clifford Paul "Cliff" Stoll (born June 4, 1950) is an American astronomer, author and teacher.

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Conrad Wolfram

Conrad Wolfram (born 10 June 1970) is a British technologist and businessman known for his work in information technology and mathematics education reform.

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Corneille Ewango

Corneille E.N. Ewango is a Congolese environmentalist, and was responsible for the Okapi Faunal Reserve's botany program in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1996 to 2003.

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Craig Venter

John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist and businessman.

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Cure Violence

Cure Violence is a public health approach to violence prevention and reduction.

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Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Breazeal is an American robotics scientist and entrepreneur.

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Cynthia Kenyon

Cynthia Jane Kenyon (born February 21, 1954) is an American molecular biologist and biogerontologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a widely used model organism, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.

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Dale Dougherty

Dale Dougherty (born 1956) is a co-founder of O'Reilly Media, along with Tim O'Reilly.

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Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo

Dambisa Felicia Moyo, Baroness Moyo (born 2 February 1969)Moyo showed a copy of an official document with her date and place of birth as part of a lecture she gave at TEDGlobal 2013, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely (דן אריאלי; born April 29, 1967) is an Israeli-American professor and author.

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Dan Barber

Dan Barber (born October 2, 1969) is the chef and co-owner of Family Meal at Blue Hill in Manhattan and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York, United States.

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Dan Pallotta

Daniel M. Pallotta (born January 21, 1961) is an American entrepreneur, author, and humanitarian activist.

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Daniel Dennett

Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist.

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Daniel Gilbert (psychologist)

Daniel Todd Gilbert (born November 5, 1957) is an American social psychologist and writer.

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Daniel Goldstein

Daniel G. Goldstein (born 1969) is an American cognitive psychologist known for the specification and testing of heuristics and models of bounded rationality in the field of judgment and decision making.

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Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an American psychologist, author, and science journalist.

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Daniel H. Pink

Daniel H. Pink (born July 23, 1964) is an American author.

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Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman (דניאל כהנמן; March 5, 1934 – March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist best-known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Vernon L.

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Daniel Kish

Daniel Kish (born 1966 in Montebello, California) is an American expert in human echolocation and the President of World Access for the Blind (WAFTB), a California-registered nonprofit organization founded by Kish in 2000 to facilitate "the self-directed achievement of people with all forms of blindness" and increase public awareness about their strengths and capabilities.

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Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set designer.

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Daniel Suarez (born December 21, 1964) is an American novelist, writing principally in the science fiction and techno-thriller genres.

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Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet (born Daniel Paul Corney; 31 January 1979) is an English writer and savant.

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Daniel Wolpert

Daniel Mark Wolpert FRS FMedSci (born 8 September 1963) is a British medical doctor, neuroscientist and engineer, who has made important contributions in computational biology.

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Danielle de Niese

Danielle de Niese (born 11 April 1979) is an Australian-American lyric soprano.

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Danny Hillis

William Daniel Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence.

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Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller (דפנה קולר; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist.

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

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David Agus

David B. Agus is an American physician, cancer researcher and author who serves as a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering and the Founding Director and CEO of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine.

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David Binder

David Binder (born October 28, 1967, in Los Angeles, California) is a Broadway, off-Broadway, and West End theater producer and artistic director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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David Blaine

David Blaine (born April 4, 1973) is an American magician, mentalist, and endurance performer.

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David Bolinsky

David Bolinsky (born May 2, 1952) is a former lead medical illustrator at Yale.

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David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a Canadian-born American conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times.

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David Byrne

David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016, and as UK Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from November 2023 to July 2024.

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David Carson (graphic designer)

David Carson (born September 8, 1955) is an American graphic designer and design director.

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David Chalmers

David John Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

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David Christian (historian)

David Gilbert Christian (born June 30, 1946), a historian and scholar of Russian history, has become notable for teaching and promoting the emerging discipline of Big History.

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David Deutsch

David Elieser Deutsch (born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford.

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David Eagleman

David Eagleman (born April 25, 1971) is an American neuroscientist, author, and science communicator.

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David Epstein (journalist)

David Epstein is an American journalist.

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David Hanson (robotics designer)

David Hanson Jr. is an American roboticist who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hanson Robotics, a Hong Kong-based robotics company founded in 2013.

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David Holt (musician)

David Holt (born October 15, 1946 in Gatesville, Texas) is a musician who performs traditional American music and stories.

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David Isay

David Avram "Dave" Isay (born December 5, 1965) is an American radio producer and founder of Sound Portraits Productions.

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David Keith (physicist)

David W. Keith is a professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago.

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David Kwong

David Kwong (born 1980) is a magician, puzzle creator, writer, and producer.

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David M. Kelley

David M. Kelley (born February 10, 1951) is an American engineer, designer, businessman, and educator.

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David Macaulay

David Macaulay (born 2 December 1946) is a British-born American illustrator and writer.

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David McCandless

David McCandless (born 1971) is a British data-journalist, writer and information designer.

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David Perry (game developer)

David Perry (born 4 April 1967) is a Northern Irish video game developer and programmer.

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David Pogue

David Welch Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is an American technology and science writer and TV presenter, and correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning.

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David Rockwell

David Rockwell (born July 21, 1956) is an American architect and designer.

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David S. Rose

David Semel Rose (born June 12, 1957) is an American serial entrepreneur and angel investor.

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David Steindl-Rast

David Steindl-Rast OSB (born July 12, 1926) is an American Catholic Benedictine monk, author, and lecturer.

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Dawn Landes

Dawn Landes (born December 5, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

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Dean Kamen

Dean Lawrence Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman.

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Dean Ornish

Dean Michael Ornish (born July 16, 1953) is an American physician and researcher.

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Deb Roy

Deb Roy is a Canadian scientist, tenured professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication.

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Deborah M. Gordon

Deborah M. Gordon (born December 30, 1955) is an American biologist best known for her impactful research in the behavioral ecology of ants and her studies on the operations of ant colonies without a central control.

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Deborah Scranton

Deborah Scranton (born 1962) is an American film director.

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Denis Dutton

Denis Laurence Dutton (9 February 1944 – 28 December 2010) was an American philosopher of art, web entrepreneur, and media activist.

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Devdutt Pattanaik

Devdutt Pattanaik is a mythologist and writer from Mumbai, India.

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Diana Nyad

Diana Nyad (née Sneed; born August 22, 1949) is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer.

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Diana Reiss

Diana Reiss (born 1948 or 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a professor of psychology at Hunter College and in the graduate program of Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology at the City University of New York.

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Diébédo Francis Kéré

Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 10 April 1965) is a Burkinabé-German architect, recognized for creating innovative works that are often sustainable and collaborative in nature.

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Didier Sornette

Didier Sornette (born June 25, 1957, in Paris) is a French researcher studying subjects including complex systems and risk management.

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Dilip Ratha

Dilip Ratha is a scholar of international migration and its relationship with global development.

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Dimitar Sasselov

Dimitar D. Sasselov (Димитър Д.; born 1961) is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States.

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Don Norman

Donald Arthur Norman (born December 25, 1935) is an American researcher, professor, and author.

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Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott (born June 1, 1947) is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, who specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society.

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Donald Sadoway

Donald Robert Sadoway (born 7 March 1950) is professor emeritus of materials chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator.

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Drew Curtis

Drew Curtis (born February 7, 1973) is the founder and an administrator of Fark, an Internet news aggregator.

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E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing the field of sociobiology.

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Eddi Reader

Sadenia "Eddi" Reader MBE (born 29 August 1959) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known for her work as the lead vocalist of the folk and soft rock band Fairground Attraction, and for an enduring solo career.

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Eddie Obeng

Edward David Asihene Obeng (born 1959) is a British organisational theorist, educator, and author, who serves as a professor at Henley Business School and Hult International Business School's Ashridge Executive Education.

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Edith Widder

Edith Anne "Edie" Widder Smith (born 1951) is an American oceanographer, marine biologist, author and the Co-founder, CEO and Senior Scientist at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association.

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Eduardo Paes

Eduardo da Costa Paes (born 14 November 1969) is a Brazilian politician who became the mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 2009 to 2012, reelected for a second term from 2013 to 2016 and a third in 2021.

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Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky (born February 22, 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes.

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Edward Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former American NSA intelligence contractor and a whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.

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EL Seed

eL Seed (born 1981), is a French Tunisian calligraphy artist and muralist, whose work feature the Arabic language through graffiti (sometimes referred to as Calligraffiti).

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Elaine Morgan

Elaine Morgan OBE, FRSL (7 November 1920 – 12 July 2013), was a Welsh writer for television and the author of several books on evolutionary anthropology.

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Eleni Gabre-Madhin

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin is an Ethiopian economist, and former chief executive officer of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX).

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Eli Beer

Eli Beer (born September 13, 1973 in Israel) is the founder of United Hatzalah of Israel, and President of the U.S.-based organization Friends of United Hatzalah.

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Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980) is an author, activist, and entrepreneur.

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Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak (Elif Şafak,; née Bilgin; born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert (born July 18, 1969) is an American journalist and author.

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Elizabeth Kapuʻuwailani Lindsey

Elizabeth Kapuʻuwailani Lindsey is an actor, filmmaker and anthropologist.

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Elizabeth Lesser

Elizabeth Lesser is the co-founder and senior adviser of Omega Institute, the largest adult education center in the United States focusing on health, wellness, spirituality and creativity.

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Elizabeth Loftus

Elizabeth F. Loftus (born 1944) is an American psychologist who is best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies.

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Elizabeth Pisani

Elizabeth Pisani (born 1964) is a British-American epidemiologist, public health consultant, author and journalist.

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Ellen MacArthur

Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur (born 8 July 1976) is a retired English sailor, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

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Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in space company SpaceX and automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the founding of The Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink and OpenAI.

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Elyn Saks

Elyn R. Saks is associate dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner.

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Emily Levine

Emily Levine (October 20, 1944 – February 3, 2019) was an American humorist, writer, actress and public speaker who lectured on science and the human condition.

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Emily Oster

Emily Fair Oster (born February 14, 1980) is an American economist who has served as the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence at Brown University since 2019, where she has been a professor of economics since 2015.

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Emmanuel Jal

Emmanuel Jal (born Jal Jok 1 January 1980) is a South Sudanese-Canadian artist, actor,author, former child soldier, and political activist.

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Enrique Peñalosa

Enrique Peñalosa Londoño (born 30 September 1954) is a Colombian politician.

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Eric Lewis (pianist)

Eric Robert Lewis (born May 13, 1973), popularly known as ELEW, is an American jazz pianist who has found cross-over success playing rock and pop music.

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Eric Liu

Eric P. Liu (born 1968) is an American lawyer and CEO and co-founder of Citizen University, a non-profit organization promoting civic empowerment.

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Eric Topol

Eric Jeffrey Topol (born) is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author.

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Eric Whitacre

Eric Edward Whitacre (born January2, 1970) is a Grammy-winning American composer, conductor, and speaker best known for his choral music.

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Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson is an American academic, author and inventor.

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Erik Hersman

Erik Hersman (born 1975) is a technologist, blogger and commentator who specialises in the impact and application of technology throughout Africa.

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Erin McKean

Erin McKean (born 1971) is an American lexicographer.

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Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo, FBA (born 25 October 1972) is a French–American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Ethan Nadelmann

Ethan A. Nadelmann (born March 13, 1957) is the founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs.

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Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman (born January 4, 1973) is an American media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist.

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Ethel (string quartet)

Ethel is a New York based string quartet that was co-founded in 1998 by Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Todd Reynolds, violin; and Mary Rowell, violin.

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Euvin Naidoo

Euvin Naidoo (born 1971) is a South African banking executive based in Johannesburg.

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Eva Vertes

Eva Vertes George (born 1985) is a Canadian Alzheimer's and cancer researcher and a resident physician in pathology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, where she earned an M.D. degree after attending Princeton University as an undergraduate.

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Eva Zeisel

Eva Striker Zeisel (born Éva Amália Striker, November 13, 1906 – December 30, 2011) was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States.

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Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)

Evan "Ev" Clark Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American billionaire technology entrepreneur.

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Eve Ensler

V, formerly Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953), is an American playwright, author, performer, feminist, and activist.

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Evelyn Glennie

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Annie Glennie, (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish percussionist.

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Evgeny Morozov

Evgeny Morozov (Russian: Eвге́ний Моро́зов; Яўгені Марозаў; born in 1984) is a writer, researcher, and intellectual from Belarus who studies political and social implications of technology.

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Fabian Oefner

Fabian Oefner (born 1984, Switzerland) creates colorful art by harnessing scientific properties in an effort to bring to attention the beauty of the natural world and how it works.

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Fabien Cousteau

Fabien Cousteau (born 2 October 1967) is an aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker.

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Feisal Abdul Rauf

Feisal Abdul Rauf (فيصل عبد الرؤوف, born October 23, 1948) is a Kuwaiti-born Egyptian-American Sufi imam, author, and activist whose stated goal is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West.

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Felix Dennis

Felix Dennis (27 May 194722 June 2014) was an English publisher, poet, spoken-word performer, and philanthropist.

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Francis Collins

Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project.

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Frank Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry (born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer.

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Frans Lanting

Frans Lanting (born 13 July 1951) is a Dutch National Geographic photographer, author and speaker.

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Fred Swaniker

Fred Swaniker (born 1976) is a Ghanaian serial entrepreneur and leadership development expert on a mission to help the world's most extraordinary talent fulfil its potential.

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Fredy Peccerelli

Fredy Peccerelli (born 1971), a forensic anthropologist, is the director and one of the founding members of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation in Guatemala City, a nongovernmental organization that exhumes mass graves of victims of Guatemala's civil war.

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Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Freeman Alphonsa Hrabowski III (born August 13, 1950) is an American educator, advocate, and mathematician.

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Freeman Dyson

Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and engineering.

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Gabby Giffords

Gabrielle Dee Giffords (born June 8, 1970) is an American retired politician and gun control activist.

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Garik Israelian

Garik Israelian (Գարիկ Իսրայելյան, born 1963) is an Armenian-Spanish astrophysicist and co-founder of the Starmus Festival.

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Gary Haugen

Gary Alan Haugen (born April 16, 1963) is an American attorney who is the Founder, CEO, and former President of International Justice Mission, a global organization that protects the poor from violence throughout the developing world.

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Gary Kovacs

Gary Kovacs (born 1963 or 1964) is a San Francisco Bay Area technologist.

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Gary William Flake

Gary William Flake (born 1966 or 1967) was most recently the CTO of Search at Salesforce.com, which bought and shuttered Clipboard, Inc., of which he was the founder and CEO.

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Gary Wolf (journalist)

Gary Wolf is an American writer, contributing editor at Wired magazine, and co-founder of the Quantified Self.

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Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Gavin Edmund Pretor-Pinney is a British author, known for his books The Cloudspotter's Guide and The Wavewatcher's Companion.

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Gavin Schmidt

Gavin A. Schmidt is a British climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the climate science blog RealClimate.

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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (born 7 September 1973) is an author who has written on the role of women and girls in foreign policy.

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Geena Rocero

Geena Rocero (born 1983) is a Filipino-born American model, TED speaker, and transgender advocate based in New York City.

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Geoff Mulgan

Sir Geoffrey John Mulgan CBE (born 1961) is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL).

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Geoffrey Canada

Geoffrey Canada (born January 13, 1952) is an American educator, social activist and author.

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Geoffrey West

Geoffrey Brian West (born 15 December 1940) is a British theoretical physicist and former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute.

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George Ayittey

George B. N. Ayittey (13 October 1945 – 28 January 2022) was a Ghanaian economist and author.

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George Dyson (science historian)

George Dyson (born 26 March 1953) is an American non-fiction author and historian of technology whose publications broadly cover the evolution of technology in relation to the physical environment and the direction of society.

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George M. Whitesides

George McClelland Whitesides (born August 3, 1939) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University.

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George Monbiot

George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January 1963) is a British journalist, author, and environmental and political activist.

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George Papandreou

George Andreas Papandreou (Γεώργιος Ανδρέας Παπανδρέου,, shortened to Giorgos (Γιώργος) to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011.

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Gero Miesenböck

Gero Andreas Miesenböck (born 15 July 1965) is an Austrian scientist.

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Gever Tulley

Gever Tulley is an American writer, speaker, educator, entrepreneur, and computer scientist.

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Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist, author, and former lawyer.

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Golan Levin

Golan Levin (born 1972) is an American new media artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression.

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Google Sheets

Google Sheets is a spreadsheet application and part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google.

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Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.

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Graham Hawkes

Graham Hawkes (born 23 December 1947) is a London-born marine engineer and submarine designer.

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Greg Lynn

Greg Lynn (born 1964) is an American architect, founder and owner of the Greg Lynn FORM office, a Full Professor at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and a professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

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Gregory Petsko

Gregory A. Petsko (born August 7, 1948) is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

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Gregory Stock

Gregory Stock is an American biophysicist, best-selling author, biotech entrepreneur, and the former director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA’s School of Medicine.

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Grimanesa Amorós

Grimanesa Amorós (born 1962 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian-American artist known for large-scale light sculpture installations, where she draws inspiration from Peruvian cultural legacies and the communities surrounding her sculptures.

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Gustavo Dudamel

Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born 26 January 1981) is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist.

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Handspring Puppet Company

The Handspring Puppet Company is a South African puppetry performance and design company.

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Hanna Rosin

Hanna Rosin (born 1970) is an American writer.

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Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling (27July 19487February 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic and public speaker.

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Harish Manwani

Harish Manwani (born 1953) is an Indian business executive who was the global chief operating officer of Unilever.

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Harsha Bhogle

Harsha Bhogle (born 19 July 1961) is an Indian cricket commentator and journalist.

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Harvey V. Fineberg

Harvey Vernon Fineberg (born September 15, 1945) is an American physician.

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Hasan M. Elahi

Hasan M. Elahi (born 1972) is a Bangladeshi-born American interdisciplinary media artist whose work has an emphasis on technology and media and their social implications.

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Hawa Abdi

Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe (Xaawo Cabdi, حواء عبدي, 17 May 19475 August 2020) was a Somali human rights activist and physician.

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Heather Brooke

Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner.

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Hector Ruiz

Hector de Jesus Ruiz Cardenas (born December 25, 1945) is the chairman and CEO of Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions, Inc. and former CEO & executive chairman of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD).

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Helen Fisher (anthropologist)

Helen Elizabeth Fisher (born May 31, 1945) is an American anthropologist, human behaviour researcher, and self-help author.

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Henry Markram

Henry John Markram (born 28 March 1962) is a South African-born Israeli neuroscientist, professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and director of the Blue Brain Project and founder of the Human Brain Project.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer.

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Hod Lipson

Hod Lipson (born 1967) is an Israeli - American robotics engineer.

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Holly Morris (author)

Holly Morris (born September 30, 1965) is an American author, documentary director/producer and television presenter.

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Homaro Cantu

Homaro "Omar" Cantu Jr. (September 23, 1976 – April 14, 2015) was an American chef and inventor known for his use of molecular gastronomy.

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Honor Harger

Honor Harger (born 1975 in Dunedin) is a curator and artist from New Zealand.

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Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold (born 1947) is an American critic, writer, and teacher, known for his specialties on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities.

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Hubertus Knabe

Hubertus Knabe (born 1959) is a German historian and was the scientific director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, a museum and memorial in a notorious former Stasi torture prison in Berlin.

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Hugh Evans (humanitarian)

Hugh Evans (born 4 March 1983) is an Australian humanitarian.

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Hugh Herr

Hugh Herr (born October 25, 1964) is an American rock climber, engineer, and biophysicist.

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Ian Goldin

Ian Andrew Goldin (born 1955) is a South African-born British professor at the University of Oxford in England, and was the founding director of the Oxford Martin School.

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Ian Ritchie (entrepreneur)

Ian Cleland Ritchie, is a Scottish businessman specialising in the information technology sector.

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Imogen Heap

Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap (born 9 December 1977) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Iqbal Quadir

Iqbal Z. Quadir (ইকবাল জেড.) is an entrepreneur and promoter of the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in creating prosperity in low-income countries.

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Irene Pepperberg

Irene Maxine Pepperberg (born April 1, 1949) is an American scientist noted for her studies in animal cognition, particularly in relation to parrots.

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Irwin Redlener

Irwin Redlener is an American pediatrician and public health activist who specializes in health care for underserved children and disaster planning, response, and recovery.

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Isaac Mizrahi

Isaac Mizrahi (born October 14, 1961) is an American fashion designer, actor, singer, television presenter and chief designer of the Isaac Mizrahi brand for Xcel Brands.

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer.

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Itay Talgam

Itay Talgam (איתי טלגם) (born 24 March 1958, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli conductor and business consultant.

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Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev (Иван Кръстев, born 1965 in Lukovit, Bulgaria), is a political scientist, the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, permanent fellow at the IWM (Institute of Human Sciences) in Vienna, and 2013-4-17 Richard von Weizsäcker fellow at the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin.

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Iwan Baan

Iwan Baan (born February 8, 1975, in Alkmaar) is a Dutch photographer.

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J. J. Abrams

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American filmmaker and composer.

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Jack Andraka

Jack Thomas Andraka (born January 8, 1997) is an American who, as a high school student, won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a method to possibly detect the early stages of pancreatic and other cancers.

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Jack Horner (paleontologist)

John Robert Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist most famous for describing Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young.

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Jackie Tabick

Jacqueline Hazel "Jackie" Tabick (née Acker; born 1948) is a British Reform rabbi.

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Jacqueline Novogratz

Jacqueline Novogratz (born 1961) is an American entrepreneur and author.

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Jaime Lerner

Jaime Lerner (17 December 1937 – 27 May 2021) was a Brazilian politician.

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James Balog

James Balog (pronounced BAY-log; born July 15, 1952) is an American photographer whose work explores the relationship between humans and nature.

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James Cameron

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker.

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James Flynn (academic)

James Robert Flynn (28 April 193411 December 2020) was an American-born New Zealand moral philosopher and intelligence researcher.

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James G. Stavridis

James George Stavridis (born February 15, 1955) is a retired United States Navy admiral and vice chair, global affairs, and a managing director-partner of The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm, and chair of the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation.

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James Geary

James Geary (born 1962) is an American writer, former Europe editor of Time and deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

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James H. Fallon

James H. Fallon (October 18, 1947 – November 20, 2023) was an American neuroscientist.

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James Hansen

James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1941) is an American adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

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James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler is an American writer, social critic, public speaker, and blogger.

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James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey (born March 14, 1948) is an American photojournalist and war photographer.

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James Randi

James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.

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James Surowiecki

James Michael Surowiecki (born April 30, 1967) is an American journalist.

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James Veitch is an English comedian.

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James Watson

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.

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Jamie Heywood

James Heywood (born October 4, 1966, in London, England) is an American MIT mechanical engineer who founded with his family the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) when his younger brother Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in December 1998.

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Jamie Oliver

Jamie Trevor Oliver MBE OSI (born 27 May 1975) is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur and cookbook author.

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Jan Chipchase

Jan Chipchase is the founder of, a research, design and strategy consultancy that specializes in understanding consumer behavior in emerging markets.

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Jane Chen

Jane Marie Chen is the co-founder of Embrace, a social enterprise that invented and distributes a low-cost infant warmer, that gives premature and low-birth-weight infants a better chance at survival.

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Jane Goodall

Dame Jane Morris Goodall (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist.

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Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal (born October 21, 1977) is an American author, game designer, and researcher.

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Janet Echelman

Janet Echelman (born March 19, 1966) is an American sculptor and fiber artist.

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Janette Sadik-Khan

Janette Sadik-Khan (born April 28, 1961) is a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation (2007–2013) and an advisor on transportation and urban issues.

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Janine Benyus

Janine M. Benyus (born 1958) is an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author.

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Janna Levin

Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is an American theoretical cosmologist and a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College.

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Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author.

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Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Jarrett J. Krosoczka (born December 22, 1977, in Worcester, Massachusetts) is the author and illustrator of several graphic novels and picture books, most famously his Lunch Lady series.

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Jason Pontin

Jason Matthew Daniel Pontin (born 11 May 1967) is a British-born venture capitalist and journalist.

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Jay S. Walker

Jay Scott Walker (born November 5, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and chairman of Walker Digital, a privately held research and development lab focused on using digital networks to create new business systems.

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Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (and Robinson (2010), p. 7.; born January 12, 1964) is an American business magnate best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

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Jeff Hawkins

Jeffrey Hawkins is an American businessman, neuroscientist and engineer.

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Jeff Smith (Missouri politician)

Jeff Smith (born December 9, 1973) is an American politician who served as a member of the Missouri Senate, representing the 4th district from 2007 until 2009.

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Jefferson Han

Jefferson Y. "Jeff" Han (born 1975) is a computer scientist who worked for New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences until 2006.

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Jeffrey Skoll

Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer.

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Jehane Noujaim

Jehane Noujaim (جيهان نجيم) (born May 17, 1974) is an American documentary film director best known for her films Control Room, Startup.com, Pangea Day and The Square. She has co-directed The Great Hack and The Vow with Karim Amer.

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Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician.

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Jennifer Lin

Jennifer Lin (born 1989 in California) is an American Music Director, pianist, and Composer.

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Jennifer Pahlka

Jennifer Pahlka (born December 27, 1969) is an American businesswoman and political advisor.

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Jeremy Heimans

Jeremy Heimans is an Australian entrepreneur and political activist.

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Jessa Gamble

Jessa Gamble (born April 25, 1979), née Sinclair, is a Canadian and English author and co-owner of the science blog The Last Word on Nothing.

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Jessica Jackley

Jessica Erin Jackley (born October 29, 1977) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Kiva and later ProFounder, two organizations that promote development through microloans.

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Ji-Hae Park

Ji-Hae Park (born in Germany) is a German-born Korean violinist.

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Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor (born May 4, 1959) is an American neuroanatomist, author, and public speaker.

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Jill Sobule

Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless.

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Jill Tarter

Jill Cornell Tarter (born January 16, 1944) is an American astronomer best known for her work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

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Jim Holt (philosopher)

Jim Holt (born 30 October 1954) is an American journalist, popular-science author, and essayist.

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Jim Stolze

Jim Stolze (born November 30, 1973) is a tech-entrepreneur located at Amsterdam Science Park, mostly known for his work in the world wide TEDx Community and the European Startup scene.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal Wales (born on August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader.

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Joachim de Posada

Joachim de Posada (August 23, 1947—June 11, 2015) was a Cuban born motivational speaker, best known as co-author of the book Don’t Eat the Marshmallow...Yet.

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Joan Halifax

Joan Jiko Halifax (born July 30, 1942) is an American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality.

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Jody Williams

Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950) is an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights (especially those of women), and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today's world.

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Joe Belfiore

Joe Belfiore is an American business executive who has held various roles at Microsoft since August 1990, mostly in the field of user experience.

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Joe Madiath

Joe Madiath (born 3 December 1950) is an Indian social entrepreneur.

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Johan Rockström

Johan Rockström (born 31 December 1965) is a Swedish scientist, internationally recognized for his work on global sustainability issues.

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Johann Hari

Johann Eduard Hari (born 21 January 1979) is a Scottish writer and journalist who wrote for The Independent and The Huffington Post.

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John Doerr

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John Francis (environmentalist)

John H. Francis III (born 1946) is an American environmentalist nicknamed The Planetwalker. Born in Philadelphia, the son of a West Indian immigrant, he moved to Marin County, California, as a young man.

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John Hardy (jewelry)

John Hardy, established in Bali in 1975, creates artisan handcrafted jewelry.

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John Hockenberry

John Charles Hockenberry (born June 4, 1956) is an American journalist and author.

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John Hodgman

John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American author, actor, and humorist.

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John Lloyd (producer)

John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd (born 30 September 1951) is an English television and radio comedy producer and writer.

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John Maeda

John Maeda (born 1966) is a Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft.

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John McWhorter

John Hamilton McWhorter V (born October 6, 1965) is an American linguist with a specialty in creole languages, sociolects, and Black English.

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John Wilbanks

John Wilbanks is a Senior Fellow at the, former Head of Data at Biogen Digital Health, former Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks, and Executive Director at.

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John Wooden

John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player.

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Johnny Lee (computer scientist)

Johnny Chung Lee (born 1979) is an American computer engineer known for his inventions related to the Wii Remote.

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Joi Ito

is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

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Jok Church

Jok Richard Church (November 28, 1949 – April 29, 2016) was an American cartoonist who created the Universal Press Syndicate syndicated comic strip You Can With Beakman and Jax, later adapted into the TV series Beakman's World.

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Jon Gosier

Jonathan D. Gosier (born 1981 or 1982) is a software developer, investor, and philanthropist.

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Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a British journalist, author, and filmmaker.

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Jonathan Eisen

Jonathan Andrew Eisen (born August 31, 1968) is an American evolutionary biologist, currently working at University of California, Davis.

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Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan David Haidt (born October 19, 1963) is an American social psychologist and author.

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Jonathan Harris (artist)

Jonathan Jennings Harris (born August 27, 1979 in Burlington, Vermont) is an American artist and computer scientist, known for his work with data visualization, interactive documentary, and ritual.

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Jonathan Klein (businessman)

Jonathan David Klein (born 1960) is co-founder and Chairman of Getty Images, Inc., a global digital media company.

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Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan L. Zittrain (born December 24, 1969) is an American professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School.

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José Antonio Abreu

José Antonio Abreu Anselmi (May 7, 1939 – March 24, 2018) was a Venezuelan orchestra conductor, pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician best known for his association with El Sistema.

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Joseph DeRisi

Joseph Lyman DeRisi is an American biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology.

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Joseph DeSimone

Joseph M. DeSimone (born May 16, 1964) is an American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur who has co-founded companies based on his research, including the American 3D printing technology company, Carbon, of which he was CEO from 2014 until November 2019.

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Joseph Lekuton

Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton (born 1968 or 1969) is a Kenyan politician.

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Joseph Nye

Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. (born January 19, 1937) is an American political scientist.

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Josette Sheeran

Josette Sheeran (born 12 June 1954) is an American non-profit executive and diplomat who served in the United States Department of State.

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Joshua Davis (designer)

Joshua Davis (born June 13, 1971) is an American designer, technologist, author, and visual artist in new media.

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Joshua Foer

Joshua Foer (born September 23, 1982) is a freelance journalist and author living in Brookline, Massachusetts, with a primary focus on science.

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Joshua Klein

Joshua Klein (born 1974 in Seattle, Washington) is a technologist who uses systems thinking to create alternative methods of succeeding in divergent fields.

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Joshua Prager (writer)

Joshua Harris Prager (born 1971) is an American journalist and author.

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Joshua Ramus

Joshua Ramus (born August 11, 1969) is the founding principal of REX, an architecture and design firm based in New York City.

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Joshua Roman

Joshua Roman (born December 16, 1983) is an American cellist.

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Joshua Silver

Joshua D. Silver is a British physicist whose discoveries have included a new way to change the curvature of lenses, with a significant application for the low-cost manufacture of corrective lenses and adjustable spectacles, especially in low-income countries.

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JR (artist)

JR (born 22 February 1983) is the pseudonym of a French photographer and street artist.

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Juan Enríquez

Juan Enríquez Cabot (born 1959) is a Mexican-American academic, businessman, author, and speaker.

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Julia Bacha

Julia Bacha (born 1980) is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker.

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Julia Sweeney

Julia Anne Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) is an American actress and comedian.

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Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange (Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006.

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Juliana Rotich

Juliana Rotich is a Kenyan information technology professional, who has developed web tools for crowdsourcing crisis information and coverage of topics related to the environment.

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Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director and writer of theater, opera, and film.

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Kailash Satyarthi

Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated the universal right to education.

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Kaki King

Kaki King (born Katherine Elizabeth King, August 24, 1979) is an American guitarist and composer.

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Kamal Meattle

Kamal Meattle is an Indian environmental activist and CEO of & Software Technology Incubator Park based in New Delhi, India.

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Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion.

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Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker is an American novelist.

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Kary Mullis

Kary Banks Mullis (December 28, 1944August 7, 2019) was an American biochemist.

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Kate Orff

Kate Orff (born 1971) is an American landscape architect.

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Kathryn Schulz

Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author.

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Kavita Ramdas

Kavita Nandini Ramdas (born 1963) is an American feminist and activist.

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Keith Barry

Keith Patrick Barry (born 2 October 1976) is an Irish mentalist, hypnotist, magician and activist for the elderly.

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Keith Schacht

Keith Schacht (born 9 December 1979) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor.

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Kelly McGonigal

Kelly McGonigal (born October 21, 1977) is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who is known for her work in the field of "science help" which focuses on translating insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support health and well-being.

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Ken Robinson (educationalist)

Sir Ken Robinson (4 March 1950 – 21 August 2020) was a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies.

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Kenichi Ebina

is a Japanese performance artist who is best known for winning the eighth season of America's Got Talent on September 18, 2013.

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Kenneth Kamler

Kenneth Kamler is an American orthopedic microsurgeon trained at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, who practices surgery of the hand in New York and extreme medicine in some of the most remote regions on Earth.

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Kevin Bales

Kevin Brian Bales (born 1952) is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, co-author of the Global Slavery Index, and was a co-founder and previously president of Free the Slaves, the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International.

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Kevin Briggs

Sergeant Kevin Briggs (also known as the Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge) is a California Highway Patrol officer noted for his work in suicide intervention, having dissuaded more than two hundred people from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco Bay.

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Kevin Kelly (editor)

Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of ''Wired'' magazine and a former editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Review.

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Kevin R. Stone

Kevin Robert Stone (born June 4, 1955) is an American physician, orthopedic surgeon, clinician, researcher, and company founder of The Stone Clinic and the Stone Research Foundation in San Francisco.

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Kevin Rudd

Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and June to September 2013.

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Kevin Surace

Kevin Surace (born July 12, 1962) is an American technology innovator, producer and entrepreneur.

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Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021.

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Krista Tippett

Krista Tippett (née Weedman; born November 9, 1960) is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur.

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Kristen Ashburn

Kristen Ashburn (born 1973) is an American photojournalist.

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Kwabena Boahen

Kwabena Adu Boahen (born 22 September 1964) is a Ghanaian-born Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

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Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah (born 8 May 1954) is a British-American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history.

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Lakshmi Pratury

Lakshmi Pratury is an entrepreneur, curator, and speaker.

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Larry Brilliant

Lawrence Brilliant (born May 5, 1944) is an American epidemiologist, technologist, philanthropist, and author, who worked with the World Health Organization from 1973–1976 helping to successfully eradicate smallpox.

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Larry Burns (General Motors)

Lawrence D. Burns is the former corporate vice president of Research and Development for General Motors.

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Larry Page

Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American businessman, computer scientist, and internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin.

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Laurel Braitman

Laurel S. Braitman (born February 11, 1978) is an American science historian, writer, and a TED Fellow.

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Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett (born 1951) is an American science journalist and author.

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Lawrence Lessig

Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American legal scholar and political activist.

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Leah Buechley

Leah Buechley is an American educator, engineer and designer who is best known as the developer of the LilyPad Arduino toolkit and other smart textiles.

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Leana Wen

Leana Sheryle Wen (born Wen Linyan; January 27, 1983) is an American physician, author, professor, speaker, consultant, newspaper columnist and television commentator.

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Lee Smolin

Lee Smolin (born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto.

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Lemon Andersen

Lemon Andersen (born Andrew Andersen; April 21, 1975) is an American poet, spoken word artist and actor.

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Lennart Green

Sven Lennart Green (born 25 December 1941) is a Swedish world champion close-up/card magician, a title which he won in 1991 at the FISM convention in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Lera Boroditsky

Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976) is a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition.

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Leroy Cronin

Leroy "Lee" Cronin FRSE FRSC (born 1 June 1973) is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow.

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Lesley Hazleton

Lesley Adele Hazleton (September 20, 1945 – April 29, 2024) was a British-American author and journalist.

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Leslie T. Chang

Leslie T. Chang is a Chinese-American journalist and the author of Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (2008).

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Lewis Pugh

Lewis William Gordon Pugh, OIG, (born 5 December 1969) is a British-South African endurance swimmer and ocean advocate.

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Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's nonviolent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.

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Lisa Gansky

Lisa Gansky (born May 1, 1961) is an American entrepreneur and author.

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Liu Bolin

Liu Bolin (born 7 January 1973) is a contemporary artist born in China's Shandong province, who specialises in self-portraits where he is disguised to match his surroundings.

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Liza Donnelly

Liza Donnelly is an American cartoonist and writer, best known for her work in The New Yorker and is resident cartoonist of CBS News.

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Loretta Napoleoni

Loretta Napoleoni (born 1955) is an Italian journalist and political analyst.

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Louie Schwartzberg

Louie Schwartzberg (born February 21, 1950) is an American director, producer, and cinematographer.

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Louise Fresco

Louise Ottilie Fresco (born 11 February 1952) is a Dutch scientist and writer known for her work on globally sustainable food production.

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Louise Leakey

Princess Louise de Merode (née Leakey, born 21 March 1972) is a Kenyan paleontologist and anthropologist.

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Luca Turin

Luca Turin (born 20 November 1953) is a biophysicist and writer with a long-standing interest in bioelectronics, the sense of smell, perfumery, and the fragrance industry.

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Maajid Nawaz

Maajid Usman Nawaz (born 2 November 1977) is a British activist and former radio presenter.

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Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Körbelová, later Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001.

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Mae Jemison

Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut.

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Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman is an American artist, illustrator, writer, and designer known for her painting and writing about the human condition.

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Majora Carter

Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City.

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Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born 3 September 1963) is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker.

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Mallika Sarabhai

Mallika Sarabhai is an activist and Indian classical dancer and actress from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

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Malte Spitz

Malte Spitz (born 14 April 1984) is a German Green Party politician and Executive Committee member.

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Manal al-Sharif

Manal al-Sharif (منال الشريف; born 25 April 1979) is a Saudi women's rights activist who helped start a right to drive campaign in 2011.

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Manuel Lima

Manuel Lima FRSA (born May 3, 1978) is a Portuguese–American designer, author, and lecturer known for his work in information visualization and visual culture.

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Marc Abrahams

Marc Abrahams (born 1956) is the editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research, and the originator and master of ceremonies of the annual Ig Nobel Prize celebration.

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Marc Koska

Marc Andrew Koska OBE (born 14 March 1961) is best known for inventing the non-reusable K1 auto-disable syringe, thus preventing the medical transmission of blood-borne diseases.

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Marco Tempest

Marco Tempest (born December 3, 1964) is a Swiss magician based in New York City.

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Marcus du Sautoy

Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (born 26 August 1965) is a British mathematician, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford and author of popular mathematics and popular science books.

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Margaret Heffernan

Margaret Heffernan (born 16 June 1955) is an entrepreneur, CEO, writer and keynote speaker.

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Margaret Wertheim

Margaret Wertheim (born 20 August 1958) is an Australian-born science writer, curator, and artist based in the United States.

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Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjes (born 1963) is a Canadian designer, artist, illustrator, typographer and writer.

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Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Francesca Mazzucato (born June 16, 1968) is an Italian–American-British economist and academic.

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Mark Kelly

Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, former astronaut, and United States Navy Captain who has been the junior United States senator from Arizona since 2020.

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Mark Pagel

Mark David Pagel FRS (born 5 June 1954 in Seattle, Washington) is an evolutionary biologist and professor.

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Mark Plotkin

Mark J. Plotkin (born May 21, 1955) is an ethnobotanist and a plant explorer in the Neotropics, where he is an expert on rainforest ecosystems.

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Mark Ronson

Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is a British-American musician, DJ, and producer.

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Mark Roth (scientist)

Mark Roth (born 1957) is an American biochemist, and director of the Roth Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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Mark Z. Jacobson

Mark Zachary Jacobson (born 1965) is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and director of its Atmosphere/Energy Program.

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Marla Spivak

Marla Spivak (born 1955) is an American entomologist, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota specializing in apiculture and social insects.

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Marlene Zuk

Marlene Zuk (born May 20, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist.

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Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques (born 1945) is a British journalist, editor, academic, political commentator and author.

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Martin Rees

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist.

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Martin Seligman

Martin Elias Peter Seligman (born August 12, 1942) is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books.

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Martin Villeneuve

Martin Villeneuve is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, director, actor, and art director.

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Martine Rothblatt

Martine Aliana Rothblatt is an American lawyer, author, entrepreneur, and a transgender woman.

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Marvin Minsky

Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Mary Lou Jepsen

Mary Lou Jepsen (born 1965) is a technical executive and inventor in the fields of display, imaging, and computer hardware.

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Mary Roach

Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor.

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Matt Cutts

Matthew Cutts (born 1972 or 1973) is an American software engineer.

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Matt Ridley

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, (born 7 February 1958), is a British science writer, journalist and businessman.

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Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter (born 1 October 1937) is a British type designer.

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Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard (माथ्यु रिका, born 15 February 1946) is a Nepalese French writer, photographer, translator and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.

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Maurizio Seracini

Maurizio Seracini (born 1946) is a self-proclaimed diagnostician of Italian art.

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May El-Khalil

May El Khalil is the Founder and President of the Beirut Marathon Association, which oversees the annual Beirut Marathon and has been held every autumn since 2003.

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Maya Beiser

Maya Beiser (born 31 December 1963) is an American musician, cellist, performing artist and producer who lives in New York City.

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Maysoon Zayid

Maysoon Zayid (ميسون زايد) is an American actress and comedian.

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Maz Jobrani

Maziyar Jobrani (مازیار جبرانی; born February 26, 1972), better known as Maz Jobrani, is an American comedian and actor who was part of the "Axis of Evil" comedy group.

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Melinda French Gates

Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist, former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft, and the ex-wife of its co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates.

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Mellody Hobson

Mellody Hobson (born April 3, 1969) is an American businesswoman who is president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, and the chairwoman of Starbucks Corporation.

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Mena Grabowski Trott

Mena Grabowski Trott (born Philomena Frances Grabowski on 16 September 1977, now Mena Grabowski Lazar) is a co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad.

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Michael Anti (journalist)

Jing Zhao (born 1975), also known by his pen name Michael Anti, is a Chinese journalist and political blogger, recognized for his posts about freedom of the press in China.

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Michael Hansmeyer

Michael Hansmeyer is a post-modern architect who utilizes algorithmic architecture techniques, generative art mentalities, and CAD software to generate complex structures.

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Michael Merzenich

Michael Matthias Merzenich (born 1942 in Lebanon, Oregon) is an American neuroscientist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Michael Moschen

Michael Moschen is an American juggler.

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Michael Pollan

Michael Kevin Pollan (born February 6, 1955) is an American journalist who is a professor and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University.

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Michael Porter

Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947) is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes.

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Michael Sandel

Michael Joseph Sandel (born March 5, 1953) is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where his course Justice was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television.

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Michael Shermer

Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focused on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.

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Michael Specter

Michael Specter (born 1955) is an American journalist who has been a staff writer, focusing on science, technology, and global public health at The New Yorker since September 1998.

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Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944) is an American conductor, pianist and composer.

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Mick Cornett

Michael Earl Cornett Sr. (born July 16, 1958) is an American politician and former television personality who served as the 35th mayor of Oklahoma City, from 2005 until 2018.

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Mick Ebeling

Mick Ebeling (born November 14, 1973) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, author, speaker and philanthropist who focuses on developing groundbreaking technology that benefits humanity.

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Miguel Nicolelis

Miguel Ângelo Laporta Nicolelis (born March 7, 1961), is a Brazilian scientist, physician and Duke School of Medicine Professor in Neuroscience at Duke University, best known for his pioneering work surrounding brain-computer interface (also known as "brain-machine interface") technology.

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi (Csíkszentmihályi Mihály Róbert,; 29 September 1934 – 20 October 2021) was a Hungarian-American psychologist.

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Mike Matas

Michael Matas (born March 23, 1986) is an American user interface designer and icon artist.

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Mikko Hyppönen

Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (born 13 October 1969) is a Finnish computer security expert, speaker and author.

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Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser (June 26, 1929June 26, 2020) was an American graphic designer, recognized for his designs, including the I Love New York logo; a 1966 poster for Bob Dylan; the logos for DC Comics, Stony Brook University, Brooklyn Brewery; and his graphic work on the introduction of the iconic 1969 Olivetti Valentine typewriter.

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Mina Bissell

Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-American biologist known for her research on breast cancer.

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Misha Glenny

Michael V. E. "Misha" Glenny (born 25 April 1958) is a British journalist and broadcaster, specialising in southeast Europe, global organised crime, and cybersecurity.

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Mitchell Joachim

Mitchell Joachim (pronounced /jo-ak-um/; born February 3, 1972) is an architect and urban designer.

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Molly Stevens

Dame Molly Morag Stevens (born May 1974) is Professor of Biomedical Materials and regenerative medicine and Research Director for Biomedical Materials Sciences in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London.

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Monica Lewinsky

Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American activist.

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Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Valentine Spurlock (November 7, 1970 – May 23, 2024) was an American documentary filmmaker, writer, and television producer.

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Moshe Safdie

Moshe Safdie (משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author.

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Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann (September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles.

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Nalini Nadkarni

Nalini Nadkarni (1954) is an American forest ecologist who pioneered the study of Costa Rican rain forest canopies.

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Naná Vasconcelos

Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Gato Barbieri, and Milton Nascimento.

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Nancy Kanwisher

Nancy Gail Kanwisher FBA (born 1958) is the Walter A Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a researcher at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

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Nancy Lublin

Nancy Lublin (born June 30, 1971) is an American nonprofit executive and businesswoman who was the founder and former CEO of Crisis Text Line and the founder of Dress for Success.

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Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Mohanrao Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur.

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism.

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Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes (born November 25, 1958) is an American historian of science.

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Natalie MacMaster

Natalie MacMaster (born June 13, 1972) is a Canadian fiddler from Troy, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, who plays Cape Breton fiddle music.

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Natalie Merchant

Natalie Anne Merchant (born October 26, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Natasha Tsakos

Natasha Tsakos is a conceptual director, interactive designer, and performance artist from Geneva, Switzerland, living in Florida.

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Nate Silver

Nathaniel Read Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician, writer, and poker player who analyzes baseball, basketball, and elections.

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Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Paul Myhrvold (born August 3, 1959), formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and the principal author of Modernist Cuisine and its successor books.

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Nathan Wolfe

Nathan Daniel Wolfe (born 24 August 1970) is an American virologist.

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Nathaniel Kahn

Nathaniel Kahn (born November 9, 1962, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American filmmaker.

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National Journal

National Journal is an advisory services company based in Washington, D.C., offering services in government affairs, advocacy communications, stakeholder mapping, and policy brands research for government and business leaders.

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Naturally 7

Naturally 7 is an American music group with a distinct a cappella style they call "vocal play," which, according to group leader Roger Thomas, is "the art of becoming an instrument using the human voice to create the sound." They simulate the sounds of an instrumental band using only their voices, mouths and distortion effects.

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Navi Radjou

Navi Radjou (born 14 August 1970) is an Indian born scholar and an innovation and leadership advisor based in Silicon Valley.

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Negin Farsad

Negin Farsad (نگین فرساد; born March 24, 1978) is an Iranian-American comedian, actress, writer, and filmmaker based in New York City.

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Neil Gershenfeld

Neil Adam Gershenfeld (born December 1, 1959) is an American professor at MIT and the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab.

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Neil Harbisson

Neil Harbisson (1982) is a Catalan-raised British-Irish-American cyborg artist and activist for transpecies rights.

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Neil MacGregor

Robert Neil MacGregor (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director.

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Neil Turok

Neil Geoffrey Turok (born 16 November 1958) is a South African physicist.

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Nellie McKay

Nell Marie McKay (born April 13, 1982) is an English–American singer and songwriter.

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian economist, who has been serving as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021.

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Niall Ferguson

Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (born 18 April 1964) Niall Ferguson is a Scottish–American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.

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Nicholas Christakis

Nicholas A. Christakis (born May 7, 1962) is a Greek-American sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of human welfare (including the behavior, health, and capability of individuals and groups).

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Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect.

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Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford

Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, (born 22 April 1946 in Hammersmith) is a British economist, banker, and academic.

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Nick Bostrom

Nick Bostrom (Niklas Boström; born 10 March 1973 in Sweden) is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.

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Nick Hanauer

Nicolas Joseph Hanauer (born September 2, 1959) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

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Nick Veasey

Nick Veasey is a British photographer working primarily with images created from X-ray imaging.

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Niels Diffrient

Niels Diffrient (6 September 1928 – 8 June 2013) was an American industrial designer.

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Nina Jablonski

Nina G. Jablonski (born) is an American anthropologist and palaeobiologist, known for her research into the evolution of skin color in humans.

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Noah Feldman

Noah Raam Feldman (born May 22, 1970) is an American legal scholar and academic.

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Noreena Hertz

Noreena Hertz (born 24 September 1967) is an English academic, economist and bestselling author, who sits on the boards of Mattel, Warner Music Group and Workhuman.

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Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Ogyen Trinley Dorje (born 26 June 1985), also written as Urgyen Trinley Dorje is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa.

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Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson (Ólafur Elíasson; born 5 February 1967) is an Icelandic–Danish artist known for sculptured and large-scaled installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer's experience.

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.

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Olivia Judson

Olivia P. Judson (born 1970) is a British evolutionary biologist and science writer.

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Omar Ahmad (politician)

Omar Ahmad (June 25, 1964 – May 10, 2011) was an American Internet entrepreneur and politician.

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Ory Okolloh

Okolloh in 2006 Ory Okolloh (or Ory Okolloh Mwangi) is a Kenyan activist, lawyer, and blogger.

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P. W. Singer

Peter Warren Singer (born 1974) is an American political scientist, an international relations scholar and a specialist on 21st-century warfare.

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Pamela Ronald

Pamela Christine Ronald (born January 29, 1961) is an American plant pathologist and geneticist.

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Pamelia Kurstin

Pamelia Stickney (formerly known as Pamelia Kurstin) is an American theremin player.

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Pankaj Ghemawat

Pankaj Ghemawat (born 30 September 1959) is an Indian-American economist, professor, global strategist, speaker and author known for his work in the study of globalization.

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Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli (born 1963) is an Italian architect, curator, author, editor, and educator.

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Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna (born 27 July 1977 in Kanpur) is an Indian-American specialist in geopolitics and globalization.

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Parikipandla Narahari

Parikipandla Narahari (born 1 March 1975) also known as P. Narahari is an Indian civil servant employed by the Indian Administrative Services and author.

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Parul Sehgal

Parul Sehgal (born) is an American literary critic.

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Pat Mitchell

Pat Mitchell (born January 20, 1943) is a media executive.

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Patrick Chappatte

Patrick Chappatte (known simply as Chappatte) (b. February 22, 1967, in Karachi, Pakistan) is a Lebanese-Swiss cartoonist known for his work for Le Temps, NZZ am Sonntag, the German news magazine Der Spiegel, The New York Times International Edition and the French satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné.

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Pattie Maes

Pattie Maes (born 1961) is an American scientist.

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Paul Bloom (psychologist)

Paul Bloom (born December 24, 1963) is a Canadian-American psychologist.

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Paul Collier

Sir Paul Collier, (born 23 April 1949) is a British development economist who serves as the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and co-Director of the International Growth Centre.

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Paul Gilding

Paul Gilding is an Australian environmentalist, consultant, and author, known for The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World (2011).

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Paul J. Zak

Paul J. Zak (born 9 February 1962) is an American neuroeconomist.

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Paul MacCready

Paul B. MacCready Jr. (September 25, 1925 – August 28, 2007) was an American aeronautical engineer.

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Paul Moller

Paul Sandner Moller (born December 11, 1936, in Fruitvale, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian engineer who has spent over fifty years developing the Moller Skycar personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle.

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Paul Nicklen

Paul Nicklen (born July 21, 1968) is a Canadian photographer, film-maker, author and marine biologist.

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Paul Romer

Paul Michael Romer (born November 6, 1955) is an American economist and policy entrepreneur who is a University Professor in Economics at Boston College.

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Paul Sereno

Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger.

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Paul Stamets

Paul Edward Stamets (born July 17, 1955) is an American mycologist and entrepreneur who sells various mushroom products through his company.

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Paul Tudor Jones

Paul Tudor Jones II (born September 28, 1954) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, conservationist and philanthropist.

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Paul W. Ewald

Paul W. Ewald (born) is an American evolutionary biologist, specializing in the evolutionary ecology of parasitism, evolutionary medicine, agonistic behavior, and pollination biology.

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Paul W. K. Rothemund

Paul Wilhelm Karl Rothemund is a research professor at the Computation and Neural Systems department at Caltech.

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Pavan Sukhdev

Pavan Sukhdev is an Indian environmental economist whose field of studies include green economy and international finance.

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Pawan Sinha

Pawan Sinha is a Cambridge-based scientist who won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2012.

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Penelope Boston

Penelope J. Boston is a speleologist and astrobiologist.

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Perverted-Justice

Perverted Justice Foundation, Inc., more commonly known as Perverted-Justice (also known as PeeJ), was an American organization based in California and Oregon which investigated, identified, and publicized the conduct of adults who have used chat rooms and other social media in order to solicit online sexual conversations and in-person meetings with minors.

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Peter Diamandis

Peter H. Diamandis (born May 20, 1961) is an American marketer, engineer, physician, and entrepreneur.

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Peter Donnelly

Sir Peter James Donnelly (born 15 May 1959) is an Australian-British mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, and the CEO of Genomics PLC.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist.

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Peter Molyneux

Peter Douglas Molyneux (born 5 May 1959) is an English video game designer and programmer.

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Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig (born December 14, 1956) is an American computer scientist and Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI.

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Peter Singer

Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W.

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Peter Ward (paleontologist)

Peter Douglas Ward (born May 12, 1949) is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide.

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Phil Borges

Phil Borges (born 1942) is an American documentary photographer and filmmaker, recognized for his documentation of indigenous peoples and tribal cultures, with a particular focus on Tibet, human rights, and women's empowerment issues.

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Phil Hansen (artist)

Phil Hansen (born 1979) is a self-taught American artist.

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Philip K. Howard

Philip King Howard (born October 24, 1948) is an American lawyer and writer.

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Philip Zimbardo

Philip George Zimbardo (born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.

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Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit (born 13 August 1949) is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on the morning of 7 August 1974.

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Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck (born 18 January 1949) is a French industrial architect and designer known for his wide range of designs, including interior design, architecture, household objects, furniture, boats and other vehicles.

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Pico Iyer

Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his.

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Pilobolus

Pilobolus is a genus of fungi that commonly grows on herbivore dung.

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Planet Labs

Planet Labs PBC (formerly Planet Labs, Inc. and Cosmogia, Inc.) is a publicly trading American Earth imaging company based in San Francisco, California.

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PostSecret

PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren in 2004, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard.

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Pranav Mistry

Pranav Mistry (Hindi: प्रणव मिस्त्री; born 14 May 1981) is a computer scientist and inventor.

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Preston Reed

Preston Reed (born April 13, 1955) is an American fingerstyle guitarist.

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R. Luke DuBois

Roger Luke DuBois (born 10 September 1975) is an American composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City.

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Rachel Sussman

Rachel Sussman (born 1975) is an American contemporary artist and photographer based in Brooklyn.

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Raffaello D'Andrea

Raffaello D’Andrea (born August 13, 1967, in Pordenone, Italy) is a Canadian-Italian-Swiss engineer, artist, and entrepreneur.

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Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

Raghunath Anant Mashelkar,, also known as Ramesh Mashelkar, (born 1 January 1943) is an Indian Chemical Engineer, born in a village named Marcel in Goa and brought up in Maharashtra.

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Rajesh P. N. Rao

Rajesh P. N. Rao (born 2 July 1970 in Madras, India) is the Director of the NSF Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) and the Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Ramesh Raskar

Ramesh Raskar is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology associate professor and head of the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group.

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Randall Munroe

Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd.

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Ray Anderson (entrepreneur)

Ray C. Anderson (July 28, 1934 – August 8, 2011) was founder and chairman of Interface Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics.

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Ray Kurzweil

Raymond Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor.

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Ray Zahab

Raymond Zahab, (born in 1969) is a Canadian long-distance runner and public speaker.

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Read Montague

Pendleton Read Montague, Jr.

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Rebecca Goldstein

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual.

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Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices.

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Rebecca Onie

Rebecca Onie (born 1977) is the co-founder with Rocco J Perla of The Health Initiative, a nationwide effort to spur a new conversation about - and new investments in - health.

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Rebecca Saxe

Rebecca Saxe is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and associate Dean of Science at MIT.

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Reggie Watts

Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts (born March 23, 1972) is a German-born, American comedian, actor, beatboxer, and musician.

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Regina E. Dugan

Regina E. Dugan (born March 19, 1963), is an American businesswoman, inventor, technology developer and government official.

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Renata Salecl

Renata Salecl (born 1962) is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist.

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Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani (born November 18, 1975) is an American lawyer, politician, civil servant, and the founder of the nonprofit organization "Girls Who Code", which aims to increase the number of women in computer science and close the gender employment difference in that field.

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Ricardo Semler

Ricardo Semler (born 1959) is the chief executive officer and majority owner of Semco Partners, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering.

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Richard Baraniuk

Richard G. Baraniuk is the C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the Founder and Director of the open education initiative OpenStax (formerly called Connexions).

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Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate best known for co-founding the Virgin Group in 1970, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.

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Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, and author.

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Richard G. Wilkinson

Richard Gerald Wilkinson (born 1943) is a British social epidemiologist, author, advocate, and left-wing political activist.

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Richard Ledgett

Richard H. Ledgett Jr. is a former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency.

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Richard Preston

Richard Preston (born August 5, 1954) is a writer for The New Yorker and bestselling author who has written books about infectious disease, bioterrorism, redwoods and other subjects, as well as fiction.

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Richard Saul Wurman

Richard Saul Wurman (born March 26, 1935) is an American architect and graphic designer. List of TED speakers and Richard Saul Wurman are TED (conference).

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Rick Warren

Richard Duane Warren (born January 28, 1954) is an American Baptist evangelical Christian pastor and author.

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Rives (poet)

Rives (born 1968) is an American poet, storyteller, and author.

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Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins (born 24 June 1968) is an English activist and writer on environmental issues, based in Totnes, England.

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Rob May

Rob May (born 15 February 1969, in London) is a musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Robert Ballard

Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for his work in underwater archaeology (maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks) and marine geology.

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Robert Fischell

Robert Fischell (born February 10, 1929) is a physicist, prolific inventor, and holder of more than 200 U.S. and foreign medical patents.

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Robert J. Gordon

Robert James Gordon is an American economist.

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Robert J. Lang

Robert James Lang (born May 4, 1961) is an American physicist who is also one of the foremost origami artists and theorists in the world.

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Robert Legato

Robert Legato (born 1956) is an American visual effects supervisor, second unit director, and second unit director of photography.

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Robert Neuwirth

Robert Neuwirth is an American journalist, author, and investigative reporter.

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Robert Reid (author)

Robert H. "Rob" Reid (born October 2, 1966) is an American author and entrepreneur.

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Robert Swan

Robert Charles Swan, OBE, FRGS (born 28 July 1956) is the first person to walk to both poles.

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Robert Thurman

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism.

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Robert Wright (journalist)

Robert Wright (born January 15, 1957) is an American author and journalist known for his wide-ranging interests in philosophy, society, science (especially evolutionary psychology), history, politics, international relations, and religion.

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Robin Chase

Robin Chase is an American transportation entrepreneur.

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Robin Ince

Robin Ince (born 20 February 1969) is an English comedian, actor and writer.

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Rodney Brooks

Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rokia Traoré

Rokia Traoré (born 24. January 1974) is a Malian-born singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Roman Mars

Roman Mars is an American radio producer.

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Romulus Whitaker

Romulus Earl Whitaker (born 23 May 1943) is an American-born Indian herpetologist, wildlife conservationist, and founder of the Madras Snake Park, the Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust (ANET), and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust.

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Ron Eglash

Ron Eglash (born December 25, 1958, in Chestertown, Maryland) is an American who works in cybernetics, anthropology, and design.

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Ron Finley

Ron Finley is a Los Angeles-based fashion designer to professional athletes, collector of original blaxploitation posters, and proponent of urban gardening.

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Rory Bremner

Roderick Keith Ogilvy "Rory" Bremner,"Rory Bremner".

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Rory Stewart

Roderick James Nugent Stewart (born 3 January 1973), known as Rory Stewart, is a British academic, broadcaster, writer and former diplomat and politician.

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Rose George

Rose George is a British journalist and author.

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Ross Lovegrove

Ross Lovegrove (born 1958 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh artist and industrial designer.

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Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator.

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Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax (born 19 April 1953) is a British-American actress, comedian, writer, television personality, and mental health campaigner.

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Rufus Cappadocia

Rufus Cappadocia is a Canadian-American cellist best known for his cross-cultural recordings and performances.

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Russell Foster

Russell Grant Foster, CBE, FRS FMedSci (born 1959) is a British professor of circadian neuroscience, the Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi).

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Ruth Chang

Ruth Chang is an American philosopher and legal scholar who serves as the Professor and Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of University College, Oxford, and an American professor of philosophy.

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Saša Vučinić

Saša Vučinić is a Serbian journalist and is the co-founder of North Base Media VC, and co-founder and former CEO and Managing Director of the Media Development Loan Fund.

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Sadhguru

Sadhguru (born Jagadish Vasudev, 3 September 1957) is the founder and head of the Isha Foundation, based in Coimbatore, India.

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Sal Khan

Salman "Sal" Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science.

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Sally Kohn

Sally Rebecca Kohn (born March 27, 1977) is an American liberal political commentator, community organizer, and founder and chief executive officer of the Movement Vision Lab, a grassroots think tank that focuses on liberal and progressive ideas and positions.

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Sam Harris

Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host.

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Sam Hyde

Samuel Whitcomb Hyde is an American comedian, podcaster, boxer and a co-founder of sketch comedy group Million Dollar Extreme alongside Nick Rochefort and Charls Carroll.

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Samantha Power

Samantha Jane Power (born September 21, 1970) is a British-American journalist, diplomat, and government official who is currently serving as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development.

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Sanford Biggers

Sanford Biggers is an American interdisciplinary artist who works in film and video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance.

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Sara Seager

Sara Seager (born 21 July 1971) is a Canadian–American astronomer and planetary scientist.

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Sarah Jones (stage actress)

Sarah Jones is an American playwright, actress, and poet.

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Sarah Kay (poet)

Sarah Kay (born June 19, 1988) is an American poet.

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Sarah Lewis (professor)

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African-American studies at Harvard University.

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Sarah Parcak

Sarah Helen Parcak is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist, who has used satellite imagery to identify potential archaeological sites in Egypt, Rome and elsewhere in the former Roman Empire.

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Sarah Silverman

Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer.

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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (born 11 August 1974) is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme Neuroscience at University College London.

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Saul Griffith

Saul Griffith (born 1974) is an Australian–American inventor and renewable electricity advocate.

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Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod; June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist.

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Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker who has reported in-the-field on dirty, dangerous and demanding occupations and the experience of infantry combat. He is the author of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997) which was adapted into a major motion picture and led to a resurgence in adventure creative nonfiction writing.

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Sebastian Seung

Hyunjune Sebastian Seung (English: /sung/ or) is President at Samsung Electronics & Head of Samsung Research and Anthony B. Evnin Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Computer Science.

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Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist.

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Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, 1944) is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.

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Sendhil Mullainathan

Sendhil Mullainathan (born c. 1973) is an American professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (with Eldar Shafir).

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Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American businessman and computer scientist who co-founded Google with Larry Page.

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Seth Berkley

Seth Franklin Berkley (born October 18, 1956) is an American medical epidemiologist and a global advocate of the power of vaccines.

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Seth Godin

Seth W. Godin (born July 10, 1960), also known as "F.

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Seyi Oyesola

is a Nigerian doctor, who co-invented "hospital in a box".

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Shaffi Mather

Shaffi Mather (born 6 February 1970) is an Indian social entrepreneur, who served as the Economic Advisor to the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, of Kerala's Congress led, UDF Government.

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Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan (born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi cinema.

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Shai Agassi

Shai Agassi (שי אגסי, born April 19, 1968) is an Israeli entrepreneur known for his involvement in the electric vehicle industry.

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Shai Reshef

Shai Reshef is an American-Israeli businessperson and academic administrator.

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Shane Koyczan

Shane L. Koyczan, born 22 May 1976, is a Canadian spoken word poet, writer, and member of the group Tons of Fun University.

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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (شرمین عبید چنائے; born November 12, 1978) is a Canadian-Pakistani journalist, filmmaker and political activist known for her work in films that highlight gender inequality against women.

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Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician, historian, public intellectual, writer, and former diplomat, who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009.

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Shea Hembrey

Shea Hembrey (born 1974 in Hickory Grove, Arkansas) is an American conceptual artist.

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Sheena Iyengar

Sheena S. Iyengar is the S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Department at Columbia Business School, widely and best known as an expert on choice.

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Sheila Nirenberg

Sheila Nirenberg is an American neuroscientist and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College.

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Shekhar Kapur

Shekhar Kulbhushan Kapur (born 6 December 1945) is an Indian filmmaker and actor.

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Shereen El Feki

Shereen El Feki (شيرين الفقي; born 1967 or 1968) is a British journalist and author, most notable for her book Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World.

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Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle (born June 18, 1948) is an American sociologist.

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Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin Bernard Nuland (born Shepsel Ber Nudelman; December 8, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College.

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Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28, 1969) is an American technology executive, philanthropist, and writer.

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Sheryl WuDunn

Sheryl WuDunn (born November 16, 1959) is an American business executive, writer, lecturer, and Pulitzer Prize winner.

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Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat (شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957) is an Iranian photographer and visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.

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Shukla Bose

Shukla Bose is the founder and CEO of the Parikrma Humanity Foundation, a nonprofit organization that runs English-medium schools for under-privileged children in Bangalore, India.

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Siegfried Woldhek

Siegfried Woldhek (born May 14, 1951) is a Dutch artist and illustrator.

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Simon Anholt

Simon Anholt is an independent policy advisor who has worked to help develop and implement strategies for enhanced economic, political and cultural engagement with other countries.

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Simon Sinek

Simon Oliver Sinek (born 1973) is an English-born American author and inspirational speaker on business leadership.

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Sirena Huang

Sirena Huang (born May 18, 1994) is an American concert violinist.

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Sivamani (percussionist)

Anandan "Drums" Sivamani (born 1 December 1959) is an Indian percussionist.

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Sleepy Man

Sleepy Man (prior to late 2014 known as Sleepy Man Banjo Boys) is a bluegrass music band from Lebanon Township, New Jersey, United States.

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Somi (singer)

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Thomas Dolby

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Thomas Heatherwick

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Thomas P. Campbell

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Thomas P. M. Barnett

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Thomas Piketty

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Harford

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Tim Jackson (economist)

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Tod Machover

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Tom Chatfield

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Tom Wujec

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Tony Fadell

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Ziauddin Yousafzai

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See also

TED (conference)

• Brittany Young
• Bruno Giussani
• Chris Anderson (entrepreneur)
• Christine Nieves
• David Moinina Sengeh
• Harry Marks (broadcast designer)
• Kasiva Mutua
• Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile
• Kelli Anderson
• Lara Stein
• Leila Takayama
• List of TED speakers
• Moriba Jah
• Richard Saul Wurman
• Sapling Foundation
• Sincerely, X
• TED (conference)
• TED 2023
• TED Fellows
• TED Radio Hour
• TED Talks India
• TEDMED
• The Audacious Project

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TED_speakers

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