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Notable People
Biographical profiles of politicians, scientists, artists, activists, jurists, and public figures.
Aaron Copland
Composer and America's Sound
Abby Stein
Leaving Hasidic Life and Returning to Judaism on New Terms
Adam Grant
Psychologist, Work Culture, and Public Conversation
Adam Lambert
Idol Runner-Up Behind a Career Bigger Than the Format
Adam Levine
The Frontman Who Turned Maroon 5 Into a Pop Constant
Adam Schiff
Prosecutor Behind a Career Around the Defense of Institutions
Adam Shankman
Choreographer Bringing Broadway Velocity to Hollywood
Adam Silver
Commissioner, the NBA, and a Global Media Power
Ady Barkan
Activist and America's Health Care System Answer to the Sick
Al Capp
Li'l Abner, Dogpatch, Sadie Hawkins, and the Shmoo
Alan Arkin
Comic Actor With a Serious Side
Albert Einstein
The Physicist Who Changed More Than Physics
Alejandro Mayorkas
Refugee Lawyer, DHS, and America's Border Deadlock
Alex Borstein
Comedian Behind a Career Out of Voices and Bite
Alex Edelman
Comedian, Belonging, and His Sharpest Material
Alex Katz
Painter Making Flatness Feel Alive
Alexander Rosenberg
Glass Artist Beyond Blown Away
Alexander Vindman
Officer and Duty Ahead of Presidential Power
Allan Lichtman
Historian, Elections, and a Forecasting Argument
Aly Raisman
The Olympic Captain Who Turned Survival Into Public Pressure
Amos Oz
The Novelist Who Made Israel's Arguments Readable
Amy Berman Jackson
Judge and the Refusal to Let Spectacle Run the Courtroom
Amy Spitalnick
Advocate, Fighting Extremism, and Jewish Democracy Project
Andrea Mitchell
The Reporter Who Made Washington Look Like a Beat
Andrew Marantz
Reporter Mapping How the Internet Broke Politics
Andrew Weissmann
The Prosecutor Who Made Complex Crime Public
Andy Borowitz
Satirist Making Fake Headlines Feel More Honest Than Real Ones
Andy Cohen
The Ringmaster Who Turned Bravo Into a Conversation Machine
Andy Goldfarb
Investor, Stillness, and Jewish Home Ritual
Andy Grove
Refugee Executive and Teaching Silicon Valley to Fear Complacency
Andy Jassy
Cloud Executive and Inheriting Amazon's Hardest Job
Andy Kaufman
The Entertainer Who Refused to Let the Audience Relax
Andy Sweet
Photographer and Preserving Miami's Vanishing Jewish World
Angela Buchdahl, Jacqueline Mates-Muchin,
Angela Buchdahl and Jacqueline Mates-Muchin changed the public face of American Jewish...
Anita Diamant
Writer and Jewish Women's Lives in Public View
Anna Levine
Civil Rights Activist and Lawyer Who Kept Starting Over
Anne Frank
Why the Diary Outlived the Nazis
Annie Leibovitz
Photographer Making Portraits Feel Like Events
Antony Blinken
Diplomat Making Alliance Management His Life Work
Ari Melber
The Lawyer-Anchor Who Made Legal News Feel Watchable
Ari Shapiro
Journalist Making Listening Sound Like Character
Arielle Gold
Olympic Halfpipe Medalist and Snowboarding Comeback
Arik Kershenbaum
Zoologist Studying Animal Communication
Art Rosenfeld
Physicist and Energy Efficiency in Public View
Art Spiegelman
Cartoonist and Comics Answer to History
Arthur Miller
Playwright and the American Dream on Trial
Audrey Flack
The Photorealist Who Refused to Paint Small
Avi Loeb
Astrophysicist, Alien Questions, and Scientific Fight
Avi Schiffmann
Coder, Crisis Information, and Public Service
Avril Haines
Intelligence Lawyer and Quiet Power in Serious Form
Barbara Kruger
Artist and the Turn Toward Advertising Against Power
Barnett Newman
Painter and Abstraction Like a Moral Crisis
Barry Asher
Hall of Famer and the Push to Make Pro Bowling a Tour Sport
Barry Levinson
Baltimore Memory, Jewish Family, and American Talk
Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld
DNA and the Innocence Project
Barry Sonnenfeld
The Director Who Made Weirdness Move Fast
Bat-El Papura
The Performer Who Made Her Size Part of the Story
Bea Arthur
Actress, Sharp-Tongued Women, and Icons
Bella Abzug
Congresswoman Bringing Feminist Insurgency Into the House
Ben Cardin
Human Rights Senator Outside the Spotlight
Ben Ferencz
Nuremberg Prosecutor Who Argued for Law Over War
Ben Ginsberg
Republican Election Lawyer and the System Ahead of the Party
Ben Mezrich
Author of High-Speed Nonfiction and Pop Thrillers
Ben Shahn
Painter Treating Art as a Form of Dissent
Benny Leonard
Lightweight Genius and Jewish American Folk Hero
Bernie Sanders
Independent Senator Who Pulled Democrats Left
Bette Midler
The Divine Miss M and the Art of Being Larger Than Life
Beverly Fishman
Artist Who Made Pharmaceuticals Look Beautiful and Dangerous
Beverly Sills
The American Diva Who Made Opera Feel Native
Bill Ackman
Activist Investor, Conviction, and Public Drama
Bill Goldberg
Wrestler and the Refusal to Change His Name
Bill Kristol
Conservative Strategist and Breaking With His Own Movement
Billy Crystal
Jewish Comic and a Broader Act
Billy Joel
Songwriter Making New York Sound Like America
Bob Iger
Executive Who Remade Disney for the Franchise Era
Bob Mankoff
Cartoon Editor and Humor Like a System
Bob Simon
War Correspondent With Lasting Curiosity
Bonnie Hammer
Executive, Cable Hits, and NBCUniversal Streaming
Brett Goldstein
Writer-Actor and the Refusal to Stay Inside Roy Kent
Brian Schatz
Senator, Climate, Tech, and Basic Governance
Bruce Feiler
Writer, Life Transitions, and a Public Language
Bud Selig
Commissioner and a Bigger, Messier Baseball
Burt Bacharach
Composer and Elegant, Strange Pop
Calvin Trillin
The Reporter Who Made Everyday America Worth Chronicling
Camila Giorgi
Italian Tennis Shotmaker Who Never Played Safe
Carl Bernstein
Reporter and the Push to Make Watergate a Journalistic Standard
Carl Reiner
Comedy Architect and the Push to Invent Modern Television
Carl Sagan
Scientist, Wonder, and Public Obligation
Carole King
Songwriter, Private Feeling, and Public Music
Carolyn and Oscar Goodman
Las Vegas Mayors, Downtown Politics, and a Civic Dynasty
Cass Elliott
The Voice That Made California Pop Feel Bigger Than Life
Cass Sunstein
Legal Thinker, Nudges, and Statecraft
Chaim Topol
Israeli Actor Who Made Tevye Global
Charlie Kaufman
The Screenwriter Who Turned Anxiety Into Film Structure
Chuck Rosenberg
Prosecutor and Integrity Part of the Job
Chuck Schumer
Senate Tactician and New York Liberalism National
Claudia Sheinbaum
Scientist and Mexico's First Woman President
Clive Davis
Executive and Rewriting Popular Music
Corey Gil-Shuster
The Ask Project and Conflict in First Person
Cynthia Ozick
Writer, Jewish Seriousness, and Literary Force
Cyril Wecht
The Forensic Pathologist Who Took Big Cases Public
Dahlia Lithwick
Legal Commentator and the Human Court
Dan Abrams
Lawyer, Legal News, and a Media Business
Dan Gelber
The Mayor Who Treated Miami Beach as a Public Duty
Dan Gilbert
Billionaire Treating Detroit as a Long Bet
Dan Goldman
The Impeachment Lawyer Who Turned Oversight Into an Elected Career
Dan Levy
Writer-Performer and Kindness in Radical on TV Form
Dan Schulman
Payments Chief and Taking Over Verizon at a Turning Point
Dan Wolf
Airline Founder and Human Regional Flying
Dana Nessel
Michigan Attorney General and Civil Rights at the Center of the Job
Dani Goldstein Waldman
Show Jumper and the Push to Put Israel on the Olympic Course
Daniel Goleman
Writer, Emotional Intelligence, and Public Language
Daniel L. Doctoroff
Builder Who Turned ALS Research Into a Civic Project
Daniel Libeskind
Architect of Memory, Loss, and Public Form
Daniel Pearl
Reporter Treating Curiosity as a Form of Respect
Daniella Levine Cava
Social Worker Bringing Advocacy Politics to Miami-Dade
Danny Meyer
Restaurateur, Hospitality, and a Management Creed
Darren Aronofsky
Director and Making Obsession Feel Physical
Dave Aronberg
Prosecutor Who Exposed the Florida Shuffle
Dave Koz
Saxophonist Making Smooth Jazz Feel Hospitable
David Axelrod
Strategist, Chicago Politics, and a National Language
David Ben-Gurion
Founder, Zionism, and a State
David Copperfield
Illusionist, Magic, and Mass Culture
David Eagleman
Neuroscientist, Author, and Public Science Voice
David Frum
Conservative Critic of Trump-Era Populism
David Geffen
Mogul Behind Labels, Studios, and Cultural Institutions
David Litt
Speechwriter Who Made Democratic Civics Funny
David Remnick
Editor Keeping The New Yorker Ambitious
David Rubenstein
Financier, Wealth, and Civic Theater
Dean Kremer
The Israeli-American Starter Who Made Jewish Baseball Feel Current Again
Debbie Friedman
Songwriter Who Changed Liberal Jewish Prayer
Deborah Estrin
Computer Scientist, Personal Data, and Public-Interest Question
Debra Katz
Lawyer Who Made Workplace Power Answer Back
Deni Avdija
From Israeli Prospect to Portland's Breakout Star
Denis Goldberg
The Rivonia Trialist Who Made Solidarity a Life Project
Dennis Ross
The Diplomat Who Made the Peace Process His Life's Work
Dianne Feinstein
Senator, California Pragmatism, and National Power
Doctor Mike
Physician, Health Literacy, and a Mass Audience
Donna Karan
Designer, New York Ease, and a Global Brand
Doris Roberts
Character Actress, Marie Barone, and Comic Timing
Doris and Donald Fisher
Gap Founders and SFMOMA Art Patrons
Doug Emhoff
The First Second Gentleman and the Public Face of Jewish Civic Life
Douglas Diamond
Economist and Explaining Why Banks Run
Drake
Rap Star Keeping Jewishness in the Frame
Ed Asner
Actor and Toughness in Humane Form
Eddie Jaku
Survivor, Memory, and a Lesson Against Hatred
Elena Kagan
Justice, Precision, and a Judicial Style
Elie Honig
Mob Prosecutor Turned TV Legal Explainer
Elie Wiesel
Memory, Indifference, and the Duty to Speak
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda became central to modern Jewish history because he treated Hebrew as...
Elissa Slotkin
The National-Security Democrat in the Senate
Ellen Weintraub
Commissioner Warning About Dark Money
Eric Garcetti
Mayor Treating Los Angeles as a Test Case
Eric Lander
The Genome Architect Whose Career Tested the Politics of Science
Eric Topol
Cardiologist and the Attempt to Make Data Serve Patients
Eric Weinstein
Public Intellectual, Dissent, and Genre
Estee Lauder
Saleswoman Behind Modern Prestige Beauty
Eugen Engel
The Composer Whose Opera Outlived the Nazis
Eugene Levy
The Comic Actor Who Made Exasperation Feel Warm
Evan Gershkovich
The Reporter Whose Imprisonment Became a Test of Press Freedom
Ezra Klein
Journalist, Explanation, and a Media Style
Ezra Levin
Indivisible Co-Founder and Grassroots Organizer
Faye Kellerman
Mystery Novelist, Orthodox Life, and Decker-Lazarus
Frank Gehry
Architect and Buildings Refuse to Behave
Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh
Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh's career shows the possibilities and limits of Druze integration,...
Gal Gadot
Israeli Star, Wonder Woman, and a Global Emblem
Gary Gensler
The Regulator Who Refused to Treat Markets as Self-Policing
Gary Slutkin
Epidemiologist Arguing That Violence Spreads Like Disease
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Reporter Who Made Women at War Impossible to Ignore
Geoffrey Berman
Prosecutor and the Refusal to Leave Quietly
George Gershwin
Composer and Modern American Music
Gertrud Kauders
The Prague Painter the Nazis Failed to Erase
Gilda Radner
Comic and Strange Women Lovable
Gloria Allred
Lawyer, Public Pressure, and a Women's-Rights Strategy
Gloria Borger
CNN Political Analyst Who Made TV Feel Reported
Golda Meir
Founder, Diplomat, Prime Minister, and the Burden of 1973
Greg Joseph
Kicker and Carrying Jewish Day School Into the NFL
Greta Zimmer Friedman
Refugee Behind the V-J Day Kiss Photo
Harry Litman
Former Prosecutor, Legal Commentary, and Public Service
Harvey Fierstein
Playwright and Gay Life Center Stage
Harvey Keitel
The Actor Who Made Tough Men Look Spiritually Exposed
Harvey Korman
The Sketch Player Who Made Panic Precise
Harvey Levin
Lawyer, Gossip, and the TMZ News Machine
Harvey Milk
Jewish Politician Who Made Visibility a Civic Strategy
Helen Frankenthaler
Painter Who Let Color Change Shape
Herb Alpert
Trumpeter Behind A&M and a Lifetime of Making
Herb Caen
Columnist Who Made San Francisco Read Itself
Herman Wouk
Novelist Who Gave War Fiction a Jewish Gravity
Howard Schultz
Entrepreneur, Coffee, and a Third Place Empire
Ida Applebroog
The Artist Who Made Power Look Cartoonish and Cruel
Ina Garten
Home Cook, Ease, and Authority
Ira Flatow
The Host Who Made Science Radio Feel Like Public Life
Ira Glass
Radio Host Who Changed Narrative Audio
Ira Glasser
The Civil Libertarian Who Treated Free Speech as a Stress Test
Iris Apfel
The Collector Who Made Personal Style Bigger Than Fashion
Isaac Asimov
The Writer Who Taught Science Fiction to Think in Systems
Isaac Herzog
Israel's President in a Time of Fracture
Isaac Mizrahi
Designer Who Refused to Stay in One Medium
Itzhak Perlman
The Violinist Who Made Classical Music Feel Personal
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Genius, Power, and the Burden of Los Alamos
J.B. Pritzker
The Billionaire Governor Who Made Illinois a Progressive Bulwark
Jack Jacobs
The Soldier Who Would Not Let Valor Stay Abstract
Jack Russell Weinstein
Philosopher Who Took Argument to Radio
Jackie Tabick
Jackie Tabick is often described as Britain's first woman rabbi. That is true, but it is...
Jacky Rosen
Synagogue President Making Bipartisanship Her Brand
Jacob Frey
The Mayor Shaped by Minneapolis Crisis and Reform
Jacque Fresco
Futurist and the Attempt to Design Scarcity Out of Society
Jake Sherman
Capitol Reporter, Congress, and Daily Power Beat
Jamie Raskin
Constitutional Lawyer Who Took Democracy Personally
Jan Koum
Immigrant Founder Keeping WhatsApp Simple
Janet Yellen
Economist and Reaching Every Summit of U.S. Economic Policy
Janna Levin
Physicist Who Made Black Holes Public
Jared Diamond
Geography, Power, and Big Historical Arguments
Jared Isaacman
Private-Space Entrepreneur and NASA Administrator
Jared Moskowitz
The Florida Democrat Shaped by Crisis Politics
Jared Polis
Governor and the Attempt to Make Colorado Faster, Cheaper, and Freer
Jason Alexander
Comic Craftsman and George Costanza Last
Jason Gould
Singer Who Refused to Stay Only Somebody's Son
Jeff Zucker
The TV Executive Who Kept Rebuilding the News
Jeffrey Goldberg
Atlantic Editor and Foreign Affairs Journalist
Jeffrey Rosen
The Constitutional Moderator Who Turned Ideas Into Civic Programming
Jerry Lewis
The Comedian and Filmmaker Who Turned Frenzy Into Control
Jerry Saltz
Critic Making Looking at Art Feel Urgent
Jerry Seinfeld
Stand-Up and the Comedy of Small Things
Jerry Stiller
Comic Father, Exasperation, and an Art
Jesse Appell
The Comedian Who Learned to Be Funny in Chinese
Jill Wine-Banks
The Watergate Prosecutor Still Explaining Power
Jim Dine
Artist Who Made Ordinary Objects Feel Personal
Joan Nathan
Jewish Food Writer and Culinary Historian
Jodi Rudoren
Editor Who Kept Jewish Journalism Sharp
Joel Meyerowitz
Photographer Who Helped Color Photography Win
Jon Ossoff
Young Senator, Oversight, and Public Service
Jon Scheyer
Duke Coach, Succession, and the Pressure After Coach K
Jon Stewart
Comic, Satire, and Civic Pressure
Jonah Goldberg
Conservative Who Made Anti-Populism a Home
Jonas Salk
Doctor Making Polio Feel Beatable
Jonathan Adler
Potter, Modern American Glamour, and a Brand
Jonathan Neman
Sweetgreen Founder and Healthy Fast Food at Scale
Jonathan Sacks
Chief Rabbi, Public Intellectual, and a Rare Moral Voice
Jonathan Swan
The Reporter Who Made Follow-Up Questions Hard to Escape
Jonathan Zittrain
Cyberlaw Scholar Treating the Internet as a Constitutional Problem
Joseph Wapner
Judge Who Made Courtroom TV Credible
Josh Shapiro
The Swing-State Governor Making Competence His Politics
Joshua Braff
Novelist Keeping Family Life Ragged and Funny
Joshua Cohen
The Novelist Who Turned Jewish Argument Into High Comedy
Judge Judy Sheindlin
Family Court Judge, Arbitration, and Mass Television
Judy Blume
Writer Who Told Young Readers the Truth
Judy Chicago
Feminist Artist Beyond The Dinner Party
Jules Feiffer
Cartoonist and Drawing American Anxiety Talking
Julian Edelman
Slot Receiver, Reinvention, and Patriot Lore
Julian Schnabel
The Painter Who Treated Scale as Destiny
Julian Zelizer
Historian and American Politics Legible Again
Julie Schumer
The Painter Who Came Back to Abstraction
Julie Taymor
Director, Stagecraft, and World-Building
Julius Lester
Writer Who Carried Black History and Jewish Memory Together
Katie Bouman
Scientist and the Push to Turn Black Hole Data Into Images
Ken Goldberg
Roboticist Treating Automation as a Human Problem
Ken Grossman
Sierra Nevada Founder Who Changed American Beer
Kenneth Feinberg
The Lawyer Who Tried to Make Catastrophe Compensation Fair
Kenny G
Smooth Jazz, Soprano Saxophone, and a Global Habit
Kevin Feige
The Producer Who Turned Marvel Into a Studio System
Kirk Douglas
Star, Fury, and Conscience
Larry David
The Comic of Social Rules and Small Humiliations
Larry Ellison
Oracle Founder and Long-Running Tech Power Broker
Larry King
Broadcaster and the Next Question
Larry Kramer
The AIDS Activist Who Turned Alarm Into Action
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
The Founders Who Turned Search Into Infrastructure
Larry Tesler
Computer Scientist and the Attempt to Make Software Less Annoying
Laurence Tribe
The Constitutional Scholar Who Made Argument a Public Craft
Lawrence Bacow
The University President Who Made Steadiness a Governing Style
Lawrence Weiner
Artist and Language Do the Work of Sculpture
Lee Krasner
Painter and the Refusal to Stay in Pollock's Shadow
Lenny Krayzelburg
Olympic Backstroker, Immigrant, and Four-Time Gold Medalist
Leonard Adleman
The Mathematician Who Helped Build the Internet's Locks
Leonard Bernstein
Maestro Who Made Classical Music Public
Leonard Schleifer
The Neurologist Who Built Regeneron Around Science
Leonard Susskind
String Theory Physicist and Public Teacher
Lera Boroditsky
Cognitive Scientist Making Language Feel Strange Again
Lesley Stahl
Correspondent and Calm Questioning in Dangerous Form
Lev Raphael
The Writer Who Made Gay Jewish Fiction Speak Plainly
Lewis A. Kaplan
Federal Judge in Carroll and Bankman-Fried Cases
Libby Schaaf
Mayor and the Attempt to Govern Oakland's Contradictions
Linoy Ashram
Gymnast and Breaking Israel's Olympic Ceiling
Lise Meitner
Physicist, Fission, and Refusing the Bomb
Lori Greiner
The Inventor Who Turned Retail Instinct Into a Television Empire
Lorne Michaels
The Producer Who Built Saturday Night Live Into an Institution
Louis D. Brandeis
Justice and the Attempt to Make Democracy Defend Itself
Louise Glück
Poet Who Made Severity Sing
Ludwig Guttmann
Refugee Doctor, Rehabilitation, and the Paralympics
Maggie Haberman
The Reporter Who Made Trump's Habits Legible
Maimonides
Thinker and the Attempt to Make Reason and Torah Cohere
Mandy Cohen
Doctor and the Attempt to Make Public Health Sound Practical Again
Mandy Patinkin
Performer With Jewish Music Still in the Frame
Marc Benioff
The Salesforce Founder Who Turned Enterprise Software Into a Public Philosophy
Marc Chagall
Painter and Jewish Memory Float
Marc Elias
Election Lawyer and Democracy Docket Founder
Marc Jacobs
The Designer Who Turned Taste Into a Moving Target
Margalit Fox
Obituary Writer Who Made the Form Feel Alive
Mark Leibovich
The Reporter Who Made Washington Vanity Readable
Marra Gad
Writer and the Refusal to Choose Between Blackness and Jewishness
Martin Wolf
The Economist Who Asked Whether Capitalism Could Save Democracy
Marty Baron
Editor Treating Accountability as a Reporting Method
Marvin Hamlisch
Composer Making Prestige Sound Like Pop
Masha Gessen
Writer Who Made Autocracy Legible
Maury Povich
Host, Tabloid Television, and an American Ritual
Max Fried
Jewish Left-Hander, World Series Ace, and Yankees Pitcher
Max Rosenstock
The Jewish Vaudeville Strongman Behind the Legend
Max Weinberg
Drummer, Steadiness, and an Event
Mayim Bialik
Sitcom Star Keeping Science in the Story
Mel Brooks
Comic, Parody, and Major American Art
Merrick Garland
Judge and Institutional Restraint
Merrill Moses
The Goalkeeper Who Turned Bravado Into Longevity
Michael Bloomberg
The Mogul, Mayor, and Philanthropist of Scale
Michael Chabon
Novelist Making Inheritance Feel Like Adventure
Michael Dell
Founder and Rebuilding His Tech Empire
Michael Levitt
Nobelist and the Push to Make Molecules Computable
Michael S. Schmidt
The Reporter Who Turned Leaks Into Institutional Pressure
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor Making American Music Feel Central
Michelle Goldberg
Columnist Who Reports Reactionary Politics
Mikael Dolsten
The Research Chief Who Helped Pfizer Move at Pandemic Speed
Mike Nichols
Director and Smart Adults in Exposed Form
Mila Kunis
The Immigrant Actress Who Made Dry Wit Her Signature
Milton Berle
Comic and Teaching America How to Watch TV
Mindy Grossman
The Executive Who Treated Retail Like a Media Business
Mitchell Schwartz
The All-Pro Tackle Who Made Reliability His Signature
Morton Dean
The Correspondent Who Kept Going to Hard Places
Moses
The Biblical Liberator, Lawgiver, and the Problem of History
Nancy Lieberman
Basketball Hall of Famer and Coaching Pioneer
Naomi Klein
Writer Who Treated Crisis as a Political System
Natan Levy
Israeli MMA Fighter and Jewish Self-Defense Advocate
Natan Sharansky
Refusenik, Freedom, and Jewish Public Cause
Nate Ebner
NFL Champion, Olympic Rugby Player, and Jewish Memory
Nathan Englander
Jewish Fiction, Irony, and Moral Pressure
Neil Blumenthal
The Founder Who Treated Eyewear as a Pricing Problem
Nicole Krauss
Novelist Treating Memory as a Living Force
Nissim Black
More Than a 'Hasidic Rapper' Headline
Nita Lowey
The Appropriator Who Made Persistence Look Powerful
Noah Schnapp
Actor and Growing Up Alongside Will Byers
Norman Lear
The Producer Who Made Sitcoms Fight About America
Oliver Sacks
Neurologist, Case Histories, and Literature
Oren Liebermann
The Israeli-American Correspondent Who Made War Reporting Clearer
P!nk
The Pop Star Who Turned Defiance Into Arena Art
Paul Kolker
Surgeon, Artist, and the Problem of Perception
Paul Simon
Songwriter and Intimate Restlessness
Peter Edelman
Poverty Lawyer Keeping Social Welfare a Moral Question
Peter Max
Pop Artist, Cosmic Color, and Mass Culture
Peter Sagal
Public Radio Host Who Made Satire Hospitable
Philip Glass
Composer Who Made Repetition Feel Vast
Philip Levine
Poet and Giving Work Its Own Music
Polly Apfelbaum
The Artist Who Let Color Sprawl
Rachel Levine
Public Health Official Who Made Visibility Part of Service
Rachel Weisz
The Actor Who Made Seriousness Magnetic
Rafael Halperin
The Rabbi Who Turned Strength Into a Jewish Spectacle
Ralph Lauren
Designer, Aspiration, and an American Uniform
Randi Zuckerberg
The Facebook Executive Who Turned Tech Fluency Into a Media Career
Randy Rainbow
Musical Satirist, Show Tunes, and Political Comedy
Randy Schekman
The Biologist Who Made the Cell's Shipping System Visible
Ray Gelato
The Bandleader Who Kept Swing in Public Life
Renee Richards
Tennis Pioneer Who Forced the Sport to Face Gender in Public
Reuben and Rose Mattus
Couple, Premium Ice Cream, and Category
Richard Blumenthal
Prosecutor, Consumer Advocate, and Senator
Richard J. Davidson
The Scientist Who Put Well-Being in the Lab
Richard Serra
The Sculptor Who Turned Steel Into Experience
Rita Rudner
Comedian Who Made Politeness Cut Deeper
Riva Lehrer
The Artist Who Made Disability Portraiture Answer Back
Robert Evans
Producer and Bankable New Hollywood
Robert Mangold
The Painter Who Made Shape Carry the Argument
Robert Reich
Public Economist and Inequality Critic
Robert S. Langer
Engineer, Biomedicine, and a Buildable Field
Robert Sapolsky
Neuroscientist and Stress, Behavior, and Free Will Public
Robert Smigel
The Writer Who Turned a Dog Puppet Into a Comic Weapon
Roberta Kaplan
The Litigator Who Made Power Answer in Court
Rochelle Walensky
Public Health Leader and the Attempt to Rebuild Trust
Ron Chernow
Biographer and Readable American Power
Ron Klain
The Chief of Staff Who Treated Government as a Coordination Problem
Ron Wyden
The Senator Who Made Policy Detail Political
Ronnie Landfield
Painter Keeping Lyrical Abstraction Open
Rosalind Franklin
The Scientist Who Saw DNA Clearly and Kept Going
Ross Bleckner
The Painter Who Made Loss Luminous
Roy Lichtenstein
The Pop Artist Who Made Reproduction Look Strange
Rube Goldberg
Cartoonist Who Made Overcomplication an American Joke
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justice, Dissent, and Democratic Instruction
Ruth Calderon
Scholar Bringing Talmud Into Israeli Public Life
Ruth Handler
Barbie Creator, Mattel Builder, and Nearly Me Founder
Ruth Marcus
The Columnist Who Made Judicial Politics Readable
Ruth Porat
Executive Who Made Google's Scale Answer to Capital Discipline
Ryan Goodman
NYU Legal Scholar and Just Security Co-Founder
Ryan Turell
Orthodox Scorer and Yeshiva Basketball in Public View
Sacha Baron Cohen
The Satirist Who Turns Disguise Into Exposure
Sam Altman
Operator, AI, and a Public Power Center
Sam Berns
Progeria, TED, and Practical Joy
Sam Stein
The Reporter Who Kept Political Journalism Fast
Sandy Koufax
Dodgers Pitcher, Hall of Famer, and Jewish Sports Icon
Sara Paretsky
Novelist and Giving Crime Fiction a Harder Heroine
Sara Seager
Astronomer Making Other Worlds Feel Reachable
Sasha Cohen
The Skater Who Made Elegance Look Dangerous
Scooter Braun
Artist Management, Catalog Power, and HYBE
Scott Gottlieb
FDA Commissioner Who Made Health Policy Sound Urgent
Scott Turow
Novelist Making the Law Read Like Fate
Seth Rogen
The Comic Who Turned Slacker Energy Into an Industry
Seymour Hersh
Reporter and Accountable Secrecy
Shaina Taub
The Theater Maker Who Turned Suffrage Into a Live Wire
Sharon Brous and IKAR
Rabbi and the Attempt to Reclaim Religion
Sheryl Sandberg
Meta Executive, Lean In, and Public Ambition
Shira Marili Mirvis
Shira Marili Mirvis became the first woman chosen as the sole spiritual leader of an...
Sid Caesar
Comic Who Gave Television Its First Great Sketch Age
Sidney Walton
The Veteran Who Turned One Regret Into a National Tour
Sigmund Freud
Thinker, the Mind, and an Argument
Simon Helberg
Actor and Howard Wolowitz Beyond a Punch Line
Simon Schama
Historian Making Big History Feel Personal
Stan Lee
Marvel Editor Who Made Superheroes Sound Human
Stephen Breyer
The Supreme Court Pragmatist
Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics, Storytelling, and Public Curiosity
Stephen Jay Gould
The Paleontologist Who Made Evolution a Public Argument
Stephen Sondheim
Writer and Teaching Musicals to Think
Stephen Wolfram
The Scientist Who Tried to Turn Knowledge Into Computation
Steve Adler
The Mayor Who Tried to Keep Austin Governable
Steve Ballmer
Microsoft Chief, Scale, and a Civic Project
Steven Levitsky
The Political Scientist Who Made Democratic Breakdown Legible
Steven Pinker
Language, Progress, and the Argument Over Reason
Steven Rosenberg
The Surgeon Who Forced Immunotherapy Into Cancer Care
Steven Spielberg
Blockbusters, Jewish Memory, and the Stories America Tells Itself
Steven Weinberg
Physicist and the Push to Make the Standard Model Coherent
Sue Bird
Point Guard, Longevity, and Leadership
Susan Pinker
Psychologist Who Made Social Connection Measurable
Susan Polgar
Grandmaster Forcing Chess to Treat Women as Competitors
Susan Sontag
Critic and Interpretation Fight With Experience
Susie Essman
Comic, Fury, and a Signature Voice
Sylvan Adams
Cycling, Philanthropy, and the Project of 'Normal Israel'
Tamar Frankel
Scholar and Trust at the Center of Corporate Law
Tamir Goodman
Orthodox Basketball Prospect Who Protected Shabbat
Ted Deutch
Congressman Who Carried Jewish Advocacy Into Institutional Life
Ted Koppel
Anchor Treating Television as a Public Trust
Terry Gross
Interviewer Making Listening Feel Serious
Theodor Herzl
Journalist, Zionism, and a Political Program
Theodore Maiman
Physicist and the Laser Real
Tom Frieden
CDC Director, Prevention Strategist, and Resolve Founder
Tom Friedman
Columnist, Globalization, and a Public Argument
Tony Horwitz
The Reporter Who Treated American History Like a Road-Trip Argument
Tony Randall
Actor Who Made Fastidiousness Funny
Tony Schwartz
Ghostwriter Who Argued With His Own Bestseller
Tovah Feldshuh
Performer Who Turned Golda Meir Into a One-Woman Institution
Victor Borge
The Pianist Who Made Classical Music Safe for Laughter
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
The President Whose Jewishness Became Part of Ukraine's Story
W. Ian Lipkin
Virus Hunter and Modern Outbreak Science
Walter Isaacson
Biographer, Genius, and Public Argument
Walter Mosley
Novelist, Black Los Angeles, and Literary Universe
Wendy Freedman
Astronomer and Reopening the Argument Over Cosmic Expansion
Wendy Sherman
Diplomat of Hard Conversations
Wendy Wasserstein
Playwright Who Put Smart Women's Lives on Stage
Werner Reich
Holocaust Survivor, Magic, and the Ethics of Kindness
William Goldman
Screenwriter Who Made Hollywood Talk Smarter
William Rosenberg
The Founder Who Turned Doughnuts Into a Franchise Machine
William Safire
The Columnist Who Made Politics and Language Compete
William Shatner
Actor and the Refusal to Stay on the Bridge
Willie Garson
Character Actor and Friendship in Essential Form
Wolf Blitzer
CNN Anchor and Permanent Washington
Yehudah Pryce
The Social Worker Who Made Teshuvah Concrete
Yuval Noah Harari
Historian, Big History, and an Argument About AI
Zeke Miller
The White House Reporter Who Made Speed Look Reliable
Zsolt Balla
The Rabbi Who Made Jewish Service in Germany Thinkable Again