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Living Legends

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A

Hank Aaron

Madeleine Albright

Muhammad Ali

Mario Andretti

B

Tony Bennett

Harry Belafonte

Dr. James H. Billington

Big Bird

Larry Bird

Herbert Block (Herblock)

Judy Blume

Julian Bond

T. Berry Brazelton

Gwendolyn Brooks

Dave Brubeck

William F. Buckley

Carol Burnett

Laura Bush

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C

Benjamin Solomon Carson

Benny Carter

Johnny Cash

Vinton Cerf

Ray Charles

Linda Chavez

Julia Child

Beverly Cleary

David Copperfield

Bill Cosby

Walter Cronkite

Merce Cunningham

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D

Michael DeBakey

E

Sylvia Earle

Marian Wright Edelman

Ahmet Ertegun

F

Suzanne Farrell

G

John Kenneth Galbraith

Andrew Goodpaster

Stephen Jay Gould

Katharine Graham

Archie Green

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H

Herbie Hancock

Mickey Hart

Al Hirschfeld

Odetta Holmes

Bob Hope

J

Quincy Jones

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

K

Jenette Kahn

Max Kampelman

George Kennan

B. B. King

Billie Jean King

Jeane Kirkpatrick

John Werner Kluge

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L

Ursula LeGuin

Annie Leibovitz

Carl Lewis

John Lewis

Alan Lomax

M

Yo-Yo Ma

Robert McCloskey

David McCullough

Mark "Big Mac" McGwire

Rita Moreno

Toni Morrison

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P

Gordon Parks

Dolly Parton

Katherine Paterson

I. M. Pei

Jaroslav Pelikan

Itzhak Perlman

Colin Powell

Leontyne Price

Tito Puente

R

Sally Ride

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Cokie Roberts

Frank Robinson

Fred Rogers

Philip Roth

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S

Bob Schieffer

Martin Scorsese

Pete Seeger

Maurice Sendak

Gunther Schuller

Bobby Short

Stephen Sondheim

Steven Spielberg

Ralph Stanley

Gloria Steinem

Isaac Stern

Barbra Streisand

William Styron

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V

Harold Varmus

Gwen Verdon

W

Lew Wasserman

Fred Whipple

Tiger Woods

Herman Wouk

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Last Updated: 05/13/2009