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Dean for America

Dean for America

ORGANIZATION

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Neil Abercrombie	Politician	26-Jun-1938		Governor of Hawaii
Chris Albrecht	Business	c. 1951		Former HBO Chairman and CEO
Jane Alexander	Actor	28-Oct-1939		The Ring
Emily Altman	Business	1955		Morgan Stanley
Wally Amos	Business	1-Jul-1936		Famous Amos
Cecil D. Andrus	Politician	25-Aug-1931		Twice Governor of Idaho
Judd Apatow	Film Director	6-Dec-1967		Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin
Kwame Anthony Appiah	Philosopher	8-May-1954		The Ethics of Identity
H. Jesse Arnelle	Attorney	30-Dec-1933		Partner, Arnelle & Hastie
Harriet C. Babbitt	Diplomat	13-Nov-1947		US Ambassador to OAS, 1993-97
William Baldwin	Actor	21-Feb-1963		A Baldwin Brother
Xavier Becerra	Politician	26-Jan-1958		Congressman, California 31st
Peter Benchley	Novelist	8-May-1940	11-Feb-2006	Jaws
Lawrence Bender	Film/TV Producer	17-Oct-1957		A Band Apart
Judy Blume	Author	12-Feb-1938		Author of children's books
W. Michael Blumenthal	Government	3-Jan-1926		US Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-79
Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.	Attorney	18-Sep-1940	15-Sep-2014	Patton Boggs
David Bohnett	Business	2-Apr-1956		GeoCities cofounder
Stewart Brand	Business	14-Dec-1938		Founder, Whole Earth Catalog
Eli Broad	Business	6-Jun-1933		Billionaire
Beth Broderick	Actor	24-Feb-1959		Aunt Zelda on Sabrina
James L. Brooks	Film/TV Producer	9-May-1940		Producer of The Simpsons
Mel Brooks	Film Director	28-Jun-1926		Blazing Saddles
Jeffrey H. Brotman	Business	c. 1943		Chairman of Costco
Dan Butler	Actor	2-Dec-1954		Bob "Bulldog" Brisco on Frasier
Octavia Butler	Novelist	22-Jun-1947	24-Feb-2006	Patternmaster
Leslie L. Byrne	Politician	28-Oct-1946		Congresswoman from Virginia, 1993-95
Colleen Camp	Actor	7-Jun-1953		Police Academy 2
Tim Carvell	Comic	c. 1973		Head writer, The Daily Show
Benjamin Cayetano	Politician	14-Nov-1939		Governor of Hawaii, 1994-2002
Richard Celeste	Politician	11-Nov-1937		Governor of Ohio, 1983-91
Michael Chabon	Novelist	24-May-1963		The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Glenn Close	Actor	19-Mar-1947		Fatal Attraction
Andrew B. Cogan	Business	c. 1963		CEO of Knoll
Jeffrey Connaughton	Attorney	c. 1959		Lobbyist, Quinn Gillespie
Martha Coolidge	Film Director	17-Aug-1946		Valley Girl
Roger Corman	Film/TV Producer	5-Apr-1926		Frankenstein Unbound
Peter Coyote	Actor	10-Oct-1942		Dennis Ryland on The 4400
Wes Craven	Film Director	2-Aug-1939	30-Aug-2015	Freddy Krueger's father
James Cromwell	Actor	27-Jan-1940		Babe, L.A. Confidential
James W. Cronin	Physicist	29-Sep-1931		Time not necessarily reversible
David Crosby	Musician	14-Aug-1941		Crosby, Stills, and Nash
David Cross	Actor	4-Apr-1964		Mr. Show with Bob and David
James S. Crown	Business	25-Jun-1953		Henry Crown and Company
Joseph F. Cullman III	Business	9-Apr-1912	30-Apr-2004	CEO of Philip Morris, 1957-78
Ann Cusack	Actor	22-May-1961		The Jeff Foxworthy Show
Ted Danson	Actor	29-Dec-1947		Bartender on Cheers
Joe Dante	Film Director	28-Nov-1946		The 'burbs
Larry David	Film/TV Producer	2-Jul-1947		Seinfeld co-creator, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Embeth Davidtz	Actor	11-Aug-1965		Matilda
Kelvin Davis	Business	c. 1965		Texas Pacific Group
John de Lancie	Actor	20-Mar-1948		Q on Star Trek: TNG
Robert De Niro	Actor	17-Aug-1943		The Godfather: Part II
Robert E. Denham	Attorney	27-Aug-1945		Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson
Michael Douglas	Actor	25-Sep-1944		Wall Street
Robin Chandler Duke	Activist	13-Oct-1923		Former president of NARAL
Nora Dunn	Comic	29-Apr-1952		SNL alumna
Eve Ensler	Playwright	25-May-1953		The Vagina Monologues
Nora Ephron	Author	19-May-1941	26-Jun-2012	When Harry Met Sally
Bill Fagerbakke	Actor	4-Oct-1957		Dauber Dybinski on Coach
Robert Fagles	Translator	11-Sep-1933	26-Mar-2008	Translator of Greek literature
Morgan Fairchild	Actor	3-Feb-1950		Jordan Roberts on Falcon Crest
Mike Farrell	Actor	6-Feb-1939		BJ Hunnicutt on MASH*
Frances D. Fergusson	Educator	3-Oct-1944		President of Vassar, 1986-2006
Val Fitch	Physicist	10-Mar-1923	5-Feb-2015	Time not necessarily reversible
Harold Ford	Politician	11-May-1970		Congressman from Tennessee, 1997-2007
Donald M. Fraser	Politician	20-Feb-1924		Mayor of Minneapolis, 1980-93
Charles W. Freeman, Jr.	Diplomat	1943		US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1989-92
Glenn Frey	Musician	6-Nov-1948		Lead vocals and guitar, Eagles
Elizabeth Furse	Politician	13-Oct-1936		Congresswoman from Oregon, 1993-99
Robert Gant	Actor	13-Jul-1968		Ben on Queer as Folk
Janeane Garofalo	Comic	28-Sep-1964		Actor, Comedian, Author, Activist
George Gaynes	Actor	16-May-1917		Henry Warnimont on Punky Brewster
Jami Gertz	Actor	28-Oct-1965		Muffy on Square Pegs
Chuck Geschke	Business	11-Sep-1939		Co-Founder of Adobe
Gordon D. Giffin	Diplomat	c. 1949		US Ambassador to Canada, 1997-2001
Walter Gilbert	Chemist	21-Mar-1932		Sequencing techniques for DNA
Kirsten Gillibrand	Politician	9-Dec-1966		US Senator from New York
Donald A. Glaser	Physicist	21-Sep-1926	28-Feb-2013	Inventor of the bubble chamber
Paul Michael Glaser	Actor	25-Mar-1943		Starsky and Hutch
Dan Glickman	Politician	24-Nov-1944		Former Congressman, President of the MPAA
Laurie H. Glimcher	Educator	c. 1950		Professor of Immunology at Harvard
Robert F. Goheen	Educator	15-Aug-1919	31-Mar-2008	President of Princeton University, 1957-72
William Goldman	Novelist	12-Aug-1931		Marathon Man
Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Actor	17-Feb-1981		Third Rock From the Sun
Al Gore	Politician	31-Mar-1948		US Vice President under Clinton
Stone Gossard	Musician	20-Jul-1966		Pearl Jam
Robert Greenwald	Film/TV Producer	28-Aug-1945		Outfoxed, Xanadu
Jon Gries	Actor	17-Jun-1957		Broots on The Pretender
Parker Griffith	Politician	6-Aug-1942		Congressman from Alabama, 2009-11
Christopher Guest	Actor	5-Feb-1948		This Is Spinal Tap
Roger Guillemin	Scientist	11-Jan-1924		Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)
Paul Haggis	Screenwriter	10-Mar-1953		Crash
William R. Hambrecht	Business	c. 1935		W.R. Hambrecht & Co.
Marcia Gay Harden	Actor	14-Aug-1959		Verna in Miller's Crossing
Emmylou Harris	Country Musician	2-Apr-1947		Pieces of the Sky
Reed Hastings	Business	8-Oct-1960		Founder and CEO of Netflix
Dennis Haysbert	Actor	2-Jun-1954		President David Palmer on 24
Buck Henry	Comic	9-Dec-1930		Frequent SNL host
James L. Heskett	Educator	c. 1934		Professor at HBS
Mellody Hobson	Business	3-Apr-1969		President of Ariel Capital Management
Philip H. Hoff	Politician	29-Jun-1924		Governor of Vermont, 1963-69
James C. Hormel	Diplomat	1-Jan-1933		US Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1999-2001
Reed E. Hundt	Business	3-Mar-1948		FCC Chairman, 1993-97
Helen Hunt	Actor	15-Jun-1963		As Good As It Gets
Heather F. Hurlburt	Activist	c. 1967		Executive Director, National Security Network
Joan Jett	Musician	22-Sep-1958		I Love Rock 'N Roll
Larry Jinks	Editor	c. 1928		San Jose Mercury News publisher, 1989-94
Quincy Jones	Music Producer	14-Mar-1933		Musician, Composer, Producer
Bill Joy	Computer Programmer	8-Nov-1954		BSD designer, C shell, vi, Java
Jane Kaczmarek	Actor	21-Dec-1955		Pleasantville
John Kander	Composer	18-Mar-1927		Top Broadway composer
Alex Karras	Actor	15-Jul-1935	10-Oct-2012	Mongo, dad on Webster
George F. Kennan	Diplomat	16-Feb-1904	17-Mar-2005	Architect of US policy of Soviet containment
Barbara Kennelly	Politician	10-Jul-1936		Congresswoman from Connecticut, 1982-99
Jamaica Kincaid	Novelist	25-May-1949		Annie John
Stephen King	Novelist	21-Sep-1947		The Shining
Jerome Kohlberg, Jr.	Business	10-Jul-1925	30-Jul-2015	KKR, Kohlberg & Company
Sheila Kuehl	Politician	9-Feb-1941		Dobie Gillis and ex-California State Senator
Christine Lahti	Actor	4-Apr-1950		Dr. Kate Austin on Chicago Hope
Celinda Lake	Government	?		Lake Research Partners
Leonard Lauder	Business	19-Mar-1933		Chairman of Estee Lauder
Arthur Laurents	Playwright	14-Jul-1918	5-May-2011	West Side Story
Norman Lear	Film/TV Producer	27-Jul-1922		Creator of All in the Family
Lawrence Lessig	Attorney	3-Jun-1961		Constitutional and internet law
Ted Levine	Actor	29-May-1958		Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs
Christopher Lloyd	Actor	22-Oct-1938		Jim Ignatowski on Taxi
David Loebsack	Politician	23-Dec-1952		Congressman, Iowa 2nd
Zoe Lofgren	Politician	21-Dec-1947		Congresswoman, California 16th
David Lowery	Musician	10-Sep-1960		Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker
Bernard Lown	Doctor	7-Jun-1921		Inventor of defibrillator, peace activist
Henry Luce III	Publisher	28-Apr-1925	7-Sep-2005	Former Time magazine publisher
Richard W. Lyman	Educator	18-Oct-1923	27-May-2012	President of Stanford University, 1971-80
Ann Magnuson	Actor	4-Jan-1956		Film actress, Bongwater vocalist
Janet Malcolm	Journalist	1934		The Journalist and the Murderer
Wendie Malick	Actor	13-Dec-1950		Judith on Dream On
Robert Malley	Government	1963		Ex-National Security Council
James Mangold	Film Director	16-Dec-1963		Walk the Line
Vilma S. Martinez	Attorney	17-Oct-1943		US Ambassador to Argentina
John P. Mascotte	Business	c. 1940		CEO of The Continental Corporation, 1983-95
Marsha Mason	Actor	3-Apr-1942		The Goodbye Girl
Mike McCready	Musician	5-Apr-1965		Pearl Jam
James McDermott	Politician	28-Dec-1936		Congressman, Washington 7th
John McEntire	Drummer	1970		Tortoise
Allyn Ann McLerie	Actor	1-Dec-1926		They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Diane Middlebrook	Author	16-Apr-1939	15-Dec-2007	Biographer of Anne Sexton
Viggo Mortensen	Actor	20-Oct-1958		Aragorn in Lord of the Rings
Woodrow A. Myers, Jr.	Doctor	14-Feb-1954		EVP at Wellpoint, 2000-05
Kathy Najimy	Actor	6-Feb-1957		Voice of Peggy on King of the Hill
Graham Nash	Musician	2-Feb-1942		Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Paul Newman	Actor	26-Jan-1925	26-Sep-2008	Salad dressing magnate
Craig Newmark	Computer Programmer	2-Dec-1952		Founder, Craigslist
Leonard Nimoy	Actor	26-Mar-1931	27-Feb-2015	Commander Spock on Star Trek
Paul Nitze	Diplomat	16-Jan-1907	19-Oct-2004	US cold warrior
Kenneth J. Novack	Business	1941		Former Partner, Mintz Levin
Martha Nussbaum	Philosopher	6-May-1947		The Fragility of Goodness
Gavin O'Connor	Film Director	1964		Tumbleweeds
Paul Orfalea	Business	28-Nov-1947		Founder of Kinko's
Elaine Pagels	Historian	13-Feb-1943		The Gnostic Gospels
Chris Parnell	Actor	5-Feb-1967		Saturday Night Live
Mandy Patinkin	Actor	30-Nov-1952		Dead Like Me
Alan Patricof	Business	c. 1935		Apax Partners
M. Scott Peck	Author	22-May-1936	25-Sep-2005	The Road Less Traveled
Claiborne Pell	Politician	22-Nov-1918	1-Jan-2009	US Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-97
Rhea Perlman	Actor	31-Mar-1948		Cheers
Tom Peters	Author	7-Nov-1942		In Search of Excellence
Charles E. Phillips, Jr.	Business	c. 1960		President of Oracle, 2003-10
Christina Pickles	Actor	17-Feb-1935		Judy Geller on Friends
Amy Pietz	Actor	6-Mar-1969		Caroline in the City
Nicholas Pileggi	Author	22-Feb-1933		Goodfellas screenwriter
Charlotte Rae	Actor	22-Apr-1926		Mrs. Garrett on The Facts of Life
Bonnie Raitt	Singer	8-Nov-1949		Redhaired blueswoman
Anthony Rapp	Actor	26-Oct-1971		Broadway cast of Rent
Andrew S. Rappaport	Business	1957		Venture capitalist, August Capital
Ogden R. Reid	Politician	24-Jun-1925		Congressman from New York, 1963-75
John C. Reilly	Actor	24-May-1965		Boogie Nights
Carl Reiner	Actor	20-Mar-1922		Your Show of Shows
Rob Reiner	Actor	6-Mar-1947		Meathead
Paul Reiser	Actor	30-Mar-1957		Mad About You
Nicholas A. Rey	Business	23-Jan-1938	14-Jan-2009	US Ambassador to Poland, 1993-97
Anne Rice	Novelist	4-Oct-1941		Vampire novelist
Deborah D. Rieman	Business	c. 1951		CEO of CheckPoint Software, 1995-99
David Rockefeller	Business	12-Jun-1915		Founder of the Trilateral Commission
Laurance Rockefeller	Business	26-May-1910	11-Jul-2004	Financier behind Eastern Airlines
Felix Rohatyn	Business	29-May-1928		Financier, Lazard Fr�res
Roy Romer	Politician	31-Oct-1928		Governor of Colorado, 1987-99
James C. Rosapepe	Diplomat	20-May-1951		US Ambassador to Romania, 1998-2001
Hilary Rosen	Lobbyist	22-Oct-1958		CEO of the RIAA, 1998-2003
David O. Russell	Film Director	20-Aug-1958		I Heart Huckabees
Rene Russo	Actor	17-Feb-1954		Outbreak
Haim Saban	Business	1944		Billionaire
Jeffrey Sachs	Economist	5-Nov-1954		The End of Poverty
Paul Sagan	Business	c. 1959		CEO of Akamai
Thomas P. Salmon	Politician	19-Aug-1932		Governor of Vermont, 1973-77
Pamela Samuelson	Educator	c. 1949		Computer Law Professor at UC Berkeley
Roger W. Sant	Business	c. 1930		Billionaire, AES
Susan Sarandon	Actor	4-Oct-1946		Louise in Thelma and Louise
Vidal Sassoon	Business	17-Jan-1928	9-May-2012	Celebrity hairstylist
David Satcher	Government	2-Mar-1941		US Surgeon General, 1998-2002
Arthur L. Schechter	Diplomat	6-Dec-1939		US Ambassador to the Bahamas, 1998-2001
Eric Schmidt	Business	27-Apr-1955		CEO of Google, 2001-11
Kurt L. Schmoke	Politician	1-Dec-1949		Mayor of Baltimore, 1988-99
Pat Schroeder	Politician	30-Jul-1940		Congresswoman from Colorado, 1973-97
Bobby Scott	Politician	30-Apr-1947		Congressman, Virginia 3rd
Tony Shalhoub	Actor	9-Oct-1953		Monk
Stanley K. Sheinbaum	Activist	12-Jun-1920		Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly
Adele Simmons	Administrator	21-Jun-1941		President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99
Carly Simon	Singer/Songwriter	25-Jun-1945		You're So Vain
James D. Sinegal	Business	1-Jan-1936		Co-founder of Costco
Kurtwood Smith	Actor	3-Jul-1943		Red on That 70's Show
Aaron Sorkin	Author	9-Jun-1961		The West Wing, Sports Night
George Soros	Business	12-Aug-1930		Financial speculator
Stephen Spinella	Actor	11-Oct-1956		Love! Valour! Compassion!
Jack Steinberger	Physicist	25-May-1921		Researcher of neutrinos
Fritz Stern	Historian	2-Feb-1926		German historian
Mike Stoller	Songwriter	13-Mar-1933		Hitmaker for Elvis
Robert S. Strauss	Diplomat	19-Oct-1918	19-Mar-2014	US Ambassador to Russia, 1991-92
Barbra Streisand	Singer	24-Apr-1942		You Don't Bring Me Flowers
David Talbot	Business	22-Sep-1951		Founder of Salon.com
Andrew Tanenbaum	Computer Programmer	16-Mar-1944		Creator of Minix
Donna Tartt	Novelist	23-Dec-1963		The Secret History
Sheri S. Tepper	Author	16-Jul-1929		The Gate to Women's Country
Heather Thomas	Actor	8-Sep-1957		Jody Banks on The Fall Guy
Susumu Tonegawa	Scientist	6-Sep-1939		Antibody production and diversity
Joe Trippi	Activist	10-Jun-1956		Democratic campaign strategist
Garry Trudeau	Cartoonist	21-Jul-1948		Doonesbury
Scott Turow	Novelist	12-Apr-1949		Presumed Innocent
Leonard S. Unger	Diplomat	17-Dec-1917	3-Jun-2010	US Ambassador to Taiwan, 1974-79
William vanden Heuvel	Diplomat	14-Apr-1930		US Ambassador to the UN Europe, 1977-79
John Vasconcellos	Politician	11-May-1932	24-May-2014	California State Legislator
Kate Walsh	Actor	13-Oct-1967		Dr. Montgomery on Private Practice
Douglas A. Warner III	Business	9-Jun-1946		CEO of JP Morgan, 1995-2000
William D. Watkins	Business	c. 1953		CEO of Seagate
Seth P. Waxman	Government	28-Nov-1951		US Solicitor General, 1997-2001
Harvey Weinstein	Film/TV Producer	19-Mar-1952		Miramax and The Weinstein Co.
Cora Weiss	Activist	?		Samuel Rubin Foundation
Jann Wenner	Business	7-Jan-1946		Publisher of Rolling Stone magazine
John C. West	Politician	27-Aug-1922	21-Mar-2004	Governor of South Carolina, 1971-75
Haskell Wexler	Cinematographer	6-Feb-1922	27-Dec-2015	Medium Cool
Sheldon Whitehouse	Politician	20-Oct-1955		US Senator from Rhode Island
Bradley Whitford	Actor	10-Oct-1959		The West Wing
Ashley Williams	Actor	12-Nov-1978		Good Morning Miami
Robin Williams	Comic	21-Jul-1951	11-Aug-2014	Mork from Ork
Treat Williams	Actor	1-Dec-1951		Prince of the City
Elizabeth Wilson	Actor	4-Apr-1921	9-May-2015	The Graduate
James Wolcott	Journalist	10-Dec-1952		Vanity Fair cultural critic
Steve Wozniak	Computer Programmer	11-Aug-1950		Co-Founder of Apple Computer
George Zimmer	Business	21-Nov-1948		Founder of Men's Wearhouse

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