Some of Leonard’s guests over the years

42 Nobel Laureates:

Helen Caldicott, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Edelman, Murray Gell-Mann, Gao Xingjian, Nadine Gordimer, Al Gore, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Daniel Kahneman, Eric Kandel, Henry Kissinger, F.W. de Klerk, Paul Krugman, Leon Lederman, Doris Lessing, Wangari Maathai, Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, VS Naipaul, Barack Obama, Orhan Pamuk, Octavio Paz, Arno Penzias, Stanley Prusiner, Jose Ramos-Horta, Burton Richter, Amartya Sen, Wole Soyinka, Michael Spence, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Thaler, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean Tirole, Harold Varmus, Derek Walcott, Lech Walesa, James Watson, Frank Wilczek, Jody Williams, Rosalyn Yalow, Muhammad Yunis.

Playwrights and Theater People: 

David Lindsay-Abaire, Obi Abili, F. Murray Abraham, Ayad Akhtar, Edward Albee, Alan Alda, Jane Alexander, Julie Andrews, Eileen Atkins, David Auburn, Alan Ayckbourn, Jon Robin Baitz, Jonathan Bank, Roger Bart, Alan Bates, Simon Russell Beale, Douglas Beane, Brian Bedford, Sally Benson, Eric Bentley, Andrew Bergman, Eve Best, Craig Bierko, Reed Birney, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bogosian, Laurent Bouzereau, Christian Borle, Richard Briers, Sarah Brightman, Peter Brook, Mel Brooks, Blair Brown, Robert Brustein, Tom Burke, Danny Burstein, Kate Burton, Charles Busch, Gabriel Byrne, Zoe Caldwell, David Cale, Simon Callow, Christian Camargo, J. Smith Cameron, Bill Camp, Sean Campion, Bobby Cannavale, Louis Cancelmi, Jean-Claude Carriere, Diahann Carroll, Billy Carter, Max Casella, Michael Cerveris, Carol Channing, Stockard Channing, Kristen Chenoweth, Glenn Close, Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, Frances Conroy, Barbara Cook, Brian Cox, Michael Cristofer, Tim Crouch, John Crowley, Billy Crudup, Gretchen Cryer, John Cullum, Alan Cumming, Jack Cummings III, Michael Cumpsty, Sinead Cusack, Tyne Daly, Jeff Daniels, Blythe Danner, Tony Danza, Ossie Davis, Viola Davis, Ruby Dee, Andre DeShields, Daveed Diggs, Taye Diggs, Stephen Dillane, Brandon Victor Dixon, Anne-Marie Duff, Lindsay Duncan, Christopher Durang, Fred Ebb, Christine Ebersole, Gabriel Ebert, Jennifer Ehle, Jesse Eisenberg, Scott Ellis, Linda Emond, Lilly Englert, Will Eno, Mireille Enos, John Epperson, Kathryn Erbe, Melissa Errico, Raul Esparza, Oskar Eustis, Richard Eyre, Jules Feiffer, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cy Feuer, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Fierstein, Santino Fontana, Hallie Foote, Horton Foote, Richard Foreman, Sutton Foster, Elizabeth Franz, Michael Frayn, Michael Friedman, Athol Fugard, Peter Gallagher, Michael Gambon, James Gammon, Janeane Garofalo, Victor Garber, Herb Gardner, Boyd Gaines, Alexander Gemingnani, Frank D. Gilroy, Domnhall Gleeson, John Glover, Savion Glover, Sam Gold, Michael Grandage, Kate Jennings Grant, Adolph Greene, Andre Gregory, Michael Greif, Zach Grenier, Joel Grey, John Guare, Grace Gummer, Mamie Gummer, Danai Gurira, A.R. Gurney, Peter Hall, Rebecca Hall, Marcia Gay Harden, David Hare, Sheldon Harnick, Ed Harris, Neil Patrick Harris, Rosemary Harris, Ethan Hawke, Leslie Hendrix, Shuler Hensley, Clare Higgins, Conleth Hill, Megan Hilty, Ciaran Hinds, Patricia Hodges, Jackie Hoffman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Israel Horovitz, Jeffrey Horowitz, John Houseman, Paige Howard, Cady Huffman, Doug Hughes, David Henry Hwang, James Monroe Iglehart, Marin Ireland, Bill Irwin, David Ives, Brian D’Arcy James, Ricky Jay, Bill T. Jones, Cherry Jones, Sarah Jones, Rajiv Joseph, Thomas Kail, John Kander, Zoe Kazan, Kiki and Herb, Kevin Kline, Larry Kramer, Lisa Kron, Judy Kuhn, Swoozie Kurtz, Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, Michael John LaChiusa, Christine Lahti, Nathan Lane, Jessica Lange, Frank Langella, James Lapine, Arthur Laurents, Linda Lavin, Ming Cho Lee, Katrina Lenk, Lydia Leonard, Robert Sean Leonard, Tracy Letts, David Leveaux, Steven Levenson, Judith Light, Hamish Linklater, Laura Linney, John Lithgow, Jo Loesser, Kenneth Lonergan, Craig Lucas, Patti LuPone, Amy Madigan, Beth Malone, David Mamet, Aasif Mandvi, Theodore Mann, Joe Mantello, Leslie Manville, Donald Margulies, Andrea Martin, Jan Maxwell, Michael Mayer, Jefferson Mays, Marin Mazzie, Simon McBurney, David McCallum, Donal McCann, Rob McClure, Galt McDermott, Ian McDiarmid, Audra McDonald, Geraldine McEwen, Donna McKechnie, Ian McKellen, Terence McNally, Conor McPherson, Ian McShane, Colm Meaney, Sam Mendes, Idina Menzel, S. Epatha Merkerson, Laurie Metcalf, Ben Miles, Arthur Miller, Jonathan Miller, Joe Morton, John Cameron Mitchell, Alfred Molina, Dearbhla Molloy, Debra Monk, Hattie Morahan, Dominique Morisseau, Amy Morton, Itamar Moses, Kate Mulgrew, Carey Mulligan, Donna Murphy, Brian Murray, Greg Naughton, James Naughton, Richard Nelson, Bebe Neuwirth, Phyllis Newman, Alessandro Nivola, Cynthia Nixon, Marni Nixon, Marsha Norman, Jim Norton, Lynn Nottage, Trevor Nunn, Jack O’Brien, Brian F. O’Byrne, Kelli O’Hara, Ciarán O’Reilly, Leslie Odom, Jr., Sophie Okonedo, Mary-Louise Parker, Nathaniel Parker, Suzan-Lori Parks, Estelle Parsons, Mandy Patinkin, Nick Payne, David Hyde-Pierce, Austin Pendleton, Rupert Penry-Jones, Tim Pigott-Smith, Tonya Pinkins, Martha Plimpton, Christopher Plummer, Harold Prince, Robert Prosky, David Rabe, Lily Rabe, Theresa Rebeck, Jemma Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Eddie Redmayne, Roger Rees, Yasmina Reza, Frank Rich, Natasha Richardson, Ron Rifkin, Chita Rivera, Sam Robards, Dallas Roberts, Tony Roberts, Patsy Rodenburg, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Saoirse Ronan, Anika Noni Rose, Dominic Rowan, Richard Roxburgh, Paul Rudnick, Mercedes Ruehl, Sarah Ruhl, Geoffrey Rush, Juliet Rylance, Mark Rylance, Thomas Sadoski, Jay O. Sanders, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Peter Saarsgard, Liev Schreiber, Campbell Scott, Christopher Sears, Jordan Seavey, Amy Sedaris, Marion Seldes, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Marc Shaiman, John Patrick Shanley, Mel Shapiro, Fiona Shaw, Wallace Shawn, Claudia Shear, Michael Sheen, Sir Antony Sher, Bartlett Sher, Peter Sheridan, David Shiner, Martin Short, Leigh Silverman, Josette Simon, Anna Deveare Smith, Lois Smith, Stephen Sondheim, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Spinella, Brent Spiner, June Squibb, Lewis Stadlen, Joseph Stein, Frances Sternhagen, Patrick Stewart, Micah Stock, Tom Stoppard, David Straithairn, Susan Stroman, Charles Strouse, Tom Sturridge, Lili Taylor, Julie Taymor, Owen Teale, Polly Teale, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Thomas, John Douglas Thompson, Tracie Thoms, Jennifer Tipton, Marisa Tomei, Lily Tomlin, Maria Tucci, Stanley Tucci, Tommy Tune, John Turturro, Cicely Tyson, Alfred Uhry, Kate Valk, Nia Vardalos, Gore Vidal, Jack Viertel, Paula Vogel, Zoe Wanamaker, Deborah Warner, Adrienne Warren, Wendy Wasserstein, Sam Waterston, Fritz Weaver, John Weidman, Celia Weston, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Williams, August Wilson, Robert Wilson, David Wimot, Scott Wittman, Bess Wohl, George C. Wolfe, B.D. Wong, John Woodvine, Irene Worth, Jeffrey Wright, David Yazbekm Jerry Zaks.

Movie and Television Actors:

F. Murray Abraham, Victoria Abril, Dan Ackroyd, Ben Affleck, Danny Aiello, Alan Alda, Jane Alexander, Jason Alexander, Joan Allen, Karen Allen, Don Ameche, Bibi Andersson, Julie Andrews, Aziz Ansari, Fanny Ardant, Alan Arkin, Richard Armitage, Patricia Arquette, Ed Asner, Armand Assante, John Astin, Sean Astin, Stephane Audran, Daniel Auteuil, Shabana Azmi, Lauren Bacall, Kevin Bacon, Carroll Baker, Dylan Baker, Bob Balaban, Alec Baldwin, William Baldwin, Javier Bardem, Ellen Barkin, Roseanne Barr, Angela Bassett, Alan Bates, Nathalie Baye, Emmanuelle Beart, Ned Beatty, Ed Begley, Jr., Harry Belafonte, Maria Bello. Monica Bellucci, Richard Belzer, Roberto Benigni, Marisa Berenson, Candice Bergen, Polly Bergen, Patrick Bergin, Sandra Bernhard, Gael Garcia Bernal, Paul Bettany, Juliette Binoche, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Black, Ruben Blades, Michel Blanc, Cate Blanchett, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Bloom, Eric Bogosian, Danny Bonaduce, Christian Borle, Philip Bosco, Carole Bouquet, Eddie Bracken, Kenneth Branagh, Benjamin Bratt, Jim Broadbent, Matthew Broderick, Adrien Brody, Albert Brooks, Pierce Brosnan, Blair Brown, Bryan Brown, Saffron Burrows, Ellen Burstyn, Steve Buscemi, Gabriel Byrne, Rose Byrne, Nicolas Cage, Christian Camargo, Neve Campbell, Bobby Cannavale, Dyan Cannon, Claudia Cardinale, Leslie Caron, David Carradine, Lynda Carter, Max Casella, Seymour Cassel, Sergio Castellito, Marilyn Chambers, Stockard Channing, Josh Charles, Jessica Chastain, Joan Chen, Maggie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat, Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Jill Clay-burg, John Cleese, Glenn Close, James Coburn, Billy Connelly, Chris Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Kevin Corrigan, Kevin Costner, Brian Cox, Peter Coyote, Bryan Cranston, Michael Cyril Creighton, Hume Cronyn, Billy Crudup, Jon Cryer, Billy Crystal. Kieran Culkin, Macauley Culkin, Alan Cumming, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Curtis, John Cusack, Sinead Cusack, Tyne Daly, Jeff Daniels, Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Paul Dano, Ted Danson, Hope Davis, Ossie Davis, Isaach De Bankole, Ruby Dee, Julie Delpy, Catherine Deneuve, Judi Dench, Bruce Dern, Laura Dern, Matt Dillon, Peter Dinklage, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Rachel Dratch, Jamie Draven, Richard Dreyfuss, David Duchovny, Olympia Dukakis, Griffin Dunne, Kirsten Dunst, Robert Duvall, Barbara Eden, Anthony Edwards, Jill Eikenberry, Jesse Eisenberg, Sam Elliot, Noah Emmerich, Linda Emond, Raul Esparza, Emilio Estevez, Rupert Everett, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Peter Falk, Dennis Farina, Vera Farmiga, Mike Farrell, Michael Fassbender, Tina Fey, Sally Field, Ralph Fiennes, Tovah Feldshuh, Julian Fellowes, Colin Firth, Carrie Fisher, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patrice Wymore Flynn, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Bill Forsyth, Will Forte, Claire Foy, James Franco, Scott Frank, Bonnie Franklin, Morgan Freeman, Stephen Fry, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Peter Gallagher, James Gammon, Bruno Ganz, Andy Garcia, Andrew Garfield, Janeane Garofalo, Mitzi Gaynor, Richard Gere, Greta Gerwig, Paul Giamatti, Brendan Gleeson, Danny Glover, Adam Goldberg, Whoopie Goldberg, Elliott Gould, Lauren Graham, Farley Granger, Lee Grant, Eva Green, Adrian Grenier, Pam Grier, Charles Grodin, Christopher Guest, Grace Gummer, Mamie Gummer, Danai Gurira, Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gene Hackman, Larry Hagman, Rebecca Hall, Mark Hamill, Tom Hanks, Marcia Gay Harden, Ed Harris, Julie Harris, Neil Patrick Harris, Richard Harris, Rosemary Harris, Anne Hathaway, Rutger Hauer, Ethan Hawke, John Hawkes, Goldie Hawn, Nigel Hawthorne, Salma Hayek, Lucas Hedges, Tippi Hedren, Mariel Hemingway, Tom Hiddleston, Jonah Hill, Ciaran Hinds, Emile Hirsh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sir Ian Holm, Celeste Holm, Katie Homes, Anthony Hopkins, Bryce Dallas Howard, Steve Huff, Holly Hunter, Kim Hunter, Tab Hunter, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Mary Beth Hurt, David Hyde Pierce, Jeremy Irons, Amy Irving, Ann Jackson, Irene Jacob, Agnes Jaoui, Jet Li, Scarlett Johanssen, Van Johnson, Felicity Jones, James Earl Jones, Shirley Jones, Terry Jones, Erland Josephson, Ashley Judd, Raul Julia, Anna Karina, Stacy Keach, Michael Keaton, Catherine Keener, Harvey Keitel, Marthe Keller, Sally Kellerman, Val Kilmer, Ben Kingsley, Sally Kirkland, Kevin Kline, Peter Krause, Diane Kruger, Swoozie Kurtz, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd, Nathan Lane, Eric Lange, Jessica Lange, Frank Langella, Michele Laroque, Sanaa Lathan, Andy Lau, Jude Law, Cloris Leachman, Isolde Le Besco, Virginie Ledoyen, Christopher Lee, John Leguizamo, Janet Leigh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Sean Leonard, Jared Leto, Tracy Letts, Tony Leung, Jerry Lewis, Viveca Lindfors, Hamish Linklater, Laura Linney, John Lithgow, Norman Lloyd, Sondra Locke, Gina Lollobrigida, Rob Lowe, Joanna Lumley, Kelly Lynch, Lupita Lyong’o, Ali MacGraw, Shirley MacLaine, Patrick Macnee, William H. Macy, Amy Madigan, John Mahoney, Karl Malden, Jena Malone, Aasif Mandvi, Silvana Mangano, Leslie Manville, Julianna Margulies, Cheech Marin, Steve Martin, Tony Martin, Marsha Mason, Mary Stuart Masterson, David McCallum, Rue McClanahan, Malcolm McDowell, Alec McEwen, Elizabeth McGovern, Ian McKellen, Janet McTeer, Audrey Meadows, Jayne Meadows, Anne Meara, Debra Messing, Sienna Miller, Helen Mirren, Matthew Modine, Alfred Molina, Roger Moore, Rick Moranis, Laura Morante, Jeanne Moreau, Rita Moreno, Nanni Moretti, Viggo Mortensen, Joe Morton, Samantha Morton, Larry Moss, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Kate Mulgrew, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kumail Nanjiani, Patricia Neal, Tim Blake Nelson, Connie Nielsen, Bill Nighy, Alessandro Nivola, Philippe Noiret, Nick Nolte, Jeremy Northam, B.J. Novak, Hugh O'Brian, Carroll O’Connor, Nick Offerman, Sandra Oh, Maureen O’Hara, Denis O’Hare, Sophie Okonedo, Gary Oldman, David Oyelowo, Geraldine Page, Chazz Palmenteri, Anne Parillaud, Fess Parker, Mary-Louise Parker, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jim Parsons, Jason Patric, Bill Paxton, Guy Pearce, Amanda Peet, Rosie Perez, Summer Phoenix, David Hyde Pierce, Freida Pinto, Martha Plimpton, Joan Plowright, Christopher Plummer, Sarah Polley, Natalie Portman, Parker Posey, Bel Powley, Robert Prosky, Jonathan Pryce, Bill Pullman, Aidan Quinn, Josh Radnor, Luise Rainer, Charlotte Rampling, Stephen Rea, Robert Redford, Vanessa Redgrave, Roger Rees, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Paul Reiser, Debbie Reynolds, Matthew Rhys, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Richardson, Natasha Richardson, Diana Rigg, Molly Ringwald, John Ritter, Tim Robbins, Tony Roberts, Saoirse Ronan, Mickey Rooney, Anika Noni Rose, Isabella Rossellini, Tim Roth, Gena Rowlands, Paul Rudd, Mercedes Ruehl, Mark Ruffalo, Geoffrey Rush, Amy Ryan, Peter Saarsgard, Ludivine Sagnier, Eva Marie Saint, Sammo Hung, Susan Sarandon, Roy Scheider, Maria Schrader, Liev Schrieber, Hanna Schygulla, Campbell Scott, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kyra Sedgwick, Andy Serkis, Tony Shalhoub, Michael Shannon, Wallace Shawn, Michael Sheen, Martin Short, Gary Sinise, Stellan Skarsgård, Trudie Skyler, Lois Smith, Maggie Smith, Jimmy Smits, Cobie Smulders, Paul Sorvino, Sissy Spacek, Kevin Spacey, Timothy Spall, June Squibb, Rod Steiger, Fisher Stevens, Kristen Stewart, Patrick Stewart, Julia Stiles, Ben Stiller, Jerry Stiller, Sting, Eric Stoltz, Meryl Streep, Gloria Stuart, Tom Sturridge, David Suchet, Mena Suvari, Patrick Swayze, Tilda Swinton, Audrey Tautou, Lili Taylor, Rod Taylor, Victoria Tennant, Charlize Theron, David Thewlis, Kristen Scott Thomas, Marlo Thomas, Marisa Tomei, Lily Tomlin, Stanley Tucci, Kathleen Turner, John Turturro, Rita Tushingham, Cicely Tyson, Liv Ullmann, Peter Ustinov, Melvin Van Peebles, Courtney B. Vance, Nia Vardalos, Robert J. Wagner, Eli Wallach, Sam Wanamaker, Zoe Wanamaker, Fred Ward, Sam Waterston, Emily Watson, Damon Wayans, Sigourney Weaver, Rachel Weisz, Beatrice Welles, Adam West, Forest Whitaker, Billie Whitelaw, James Wilby, Olivia Wilde, Tom Wilkinson, Michelle Williams, Treat Williams, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Rainn Wilson, Rita Wilson, Ruth Wilson, Debra Winger, Evan Rachel Wood, Joanne Woodward, Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh, Michael York.   

Filmmakers, writers, producers, cinematographers, composers, etc.

Ben Affleck, Michael Almereyda, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Hossein Amini, Allison Anders, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Judd Apatow, Michael Apted, Gregg Araki, Denys Arcand, Gillian Armstrong, Darren Aronofsky, Amma Asante, Olivier Assayas, Richard Attenborough, Bille August, Hector Babenco, Noah Baumbach, Maria Luisa Bemberg, Roberto Benigni, Bruce Beresford, Andrew Bergman, Joe Berlinger, Elmer Bernstein, Claude Berri, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Bigelow, Budd Boetticher, Peter Bogdanovich, Jan de Bont, John Boorman, Laurent Bouzereau, Kenneth Branagh, Catherine Breillat, Mel Brooks, Nick Broomfield, Garrett Brown, Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Bujalski, Charles Burnett, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Tim Burton, James Cameron, Jane Campion, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Cantet, Frank Capra, Jr., Christian Carion, Niki Caro, Jean-Claude Carriere, Michael Caton-Jones, Joseph Cedar, Claude Chabrol, J.C. Chandor, Chen Kaige, Patrice Chereau, Peter Chow, Stephen Chow, Michel Ciment, Ethan and Joel Coen, Bill Condon, Martha Coolidge, Karen Cooper, Stuart Cooper, Francis Ford Coppola, Frederick de Cordova, Roger Corman, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, David Cronenberg, John Dahl, Frank Darabont, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jules Dassin, Terence Davies, Julie Delpy, Guillermo del Toro, Jonathan Demme, Kirby Dick, Carlos Diegues, Pete Docter, Robert Drew, Joe Eszterhas, Asghar Farhadi, Julian Fellowes, Abel Ferrara, Ralph Fiennes, Mike Figgis, Milos Forman, Bill Forsyth, Josh Fox, John Frankenheimer, Stephen Frears, William Friedkin, Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, Terry Gilliam, Dan Gilroy, Tony Gilroy, Amos Gitai, Elliot Goldenthal, William Goldman, Nick Gomez, Michel Gondry, Barak Goodman, James Gray, Brian Grazer, David Gordon Green, Josh Gordon, Ulu Grosbard, Michael Gross, Christopher Guest, Paul Haggis, John Lee Hancock, Curtis Hanson, Hal Hartley, Philip Haas, Chris Hegedus, Werner Herzog, Walter Hill, Arthur Hiller, Patricia Hitchcock, Michael Hoffman, Agnieska Holland, Ted Hope, John Houseman, Benoit Jacquot, Henry Jaglom, Steve James, Agnes Jaoui, Jim Jarmusch, Tamara Jenkins, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Chuck Jones, Kent Jones, Neil Jordan, Asif Kapadia, Charlie Kaufman, Ari Kaurismaki, Tony Kaye, Elia Kazan, Rory Kennedy, Robert Kenner, Michael Patrick King, Michelle King, Robert King, Abbas Kiorastami, Michael Kirk, Cedric Klapisch, Travis Knight, Barbara Kopple, Hirokazu Kore-Eda, John Korty, Richard LaGravanese, John Landis, Claude Lanzmann, John Lassiter, Francis Lawrence, Ricky Leacock, Norman Lear, Patrice Lecomte, Ang Lee, Spike Lee, Mike Leigh, Barry Levinson, Kristian Levring, Pierre Lhomme, Doug Liman, Richard Linklater, Ken Loach, Kenneth Lonergan, Baz Luhrmann, Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, John Lynch, Adrian Lyne, Frederica Maas, Alison Maclean, John Madden, Guy Maddin, Samira Makhmalbaf, David Mamet, James Mangold, Abby Mann, Michael Mann, Vitaly Mansky, Garry Marshall, Albert Maysles, Paul Mazursky, Mary Mazzio, Adrian Molina, John McTiernan, Peter Medak, Mike Medavoy, Sam Mendes, Chris Menges, Liz Mermin, George Miller, Anthony Minghella, Samuel Moaz, Lukas Moodysson, Nanni Moretti, Errol Morris, Paul Morrisey, Alexander Nanau, Sheila Nevins, Mike Newell, Randy Newman, Gaspar Noe, Chris Noonan, Naji Abu Nowar, Phillip Noyce, Sven Nykvist, Steven Okazaki, Emiko Omori, Joshua Oppenheimer, Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Francois Ozon, Michael Palin, Gordon Parks, Nick Park, Goran Paskaljevic, Alexander Payne, Raoul Peck, Alexandra Pelosi, Arthur Penn, D.A. Pennebaker, Laura Poitras, Mark and Michael Polish, Sydney Pollack, Sam Pollard, Natalie Portman, Michael Powell, Ed Pressman, Richard Price, David Puttnam, Michael Radford, Sandip Ray, Godfrey Reggio, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Ivan Reitman, Matty Rich, Jay Roach, Jay Rosenblatt, Raul Ruiz, David O. Russell, Walter Salles, Nancy Savoca, John Sayles, Jerry Schatzberg, Volker Schlondorff, Paul Schrader, Barbet Schroeder, Campbell Scott, Ridley Scott, Ousmane Sembene, Andy Serkis, Ron Shelton, Howard Shore, Trudie Skyler, Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Todd Solondz, Will Speck, Roger Spottiswoode, Ricki Stern, Whit Stillman, Oliver Stone, Tim Story, Annie Sundberg, Kris Swanberg, Takeshi Kitano, Dan Talbot, Quentin Tarantino, Bertrand Tavernier, Jim Taylor, Daniele Thompson, Garry Trudeau, Anand Tucker, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Michael Tolkin, Robert Towne, Robert Townsend, Gus Van Sant, Francis Veber, Paul Verhoeven, Jon Voight, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Margarethe von Trotta, Wayne Wang, John Waters, Chris Wedge, Jerry Weintraub, Peter Weir, William Wellman, Jr., Wim Wenders, Lina Wertmuller, Haskell Wexler, Les Wilkof, Sue Williams, Michael Winterbottom, Robert Wise, Frederick Wiseman, Wong Kar Wai, Joe Wright, Edward Yang, Pamela Yates, Sebastian Junger, Caveh Zahedi, Franco Zefferelli, Zhang Yimou, Charlotte Zwerin, Terry Zwigoff.

Humorists and Funny Folks: 

Dan Ackroyd, Pamela Adlon, Steve Allen, Zach Anner, Aziz Ansari, Judd Apatow, Dave Barry, Samantha Bee, Sandra Bernhard, Joy Behar, Richard Belzer, Mike Birbiglia, Lewis Black, Roy Blount Jr., Andy Borowitz, Russell Brand, Neal Brennan, David Brenner, Mel Brooks, Christopher Buckley, Carol Burnett, George Carlin, Wyatt Cenac, Christopher Cerf, Graham Chapman, Margaret Cho, John Cleese, Stephen Colbert, Billy Connolly, Steve Coogan, David Cross, Billy Crystal, Jane Curtin, Tom Davis, Lea DeLaria, Paul Dinello, Rachel Dratch, Bob Elliott, Chris Elliott, Susie Essman, Adam Felber, Craig Ferguson, Tina Fey, Will Forte, Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, Bill Geist, Ricky Gervais, Chris Gethard, Terry Gilliam, Judy Gold, Whoopie Goldberg, Dave Gorman, Gilbert Gottfried, Ray Goulding, Charles Grodin, Christopher Guest, Darrell Hammond, Dave Hill, John Hodgman, Eric Idle, Eddie Izzard, Penn Jillette, Terry Jones, Jonathan Katz, Garrison Keillor, Alan King, Robert Klein, Paul Krassner, Nick Kroll, David Larible, Fran Lebowitz, Carol Leifer, Sheldon Leonard, Jerry Lewis, George Lopez, Bill Maher, Howie Mandel, Aasif Mandvi, Merrill Markoe, Marc Maron, Garry Marshall, Andrea Martin, Steve Martin, Jackie Mason, Norm McDonald, Anne Meara, Dennis Miller, Jonathan Miller, Hasan Minhaj, Jay Mohr, Paul Mooney, Rick Moranis, Martin Mull, Kumail Nanjiani, Trevor Noah, Don Novello, Rosie O’Donnell, P. J. O’Rourke, Michael Palin, Kevin Pollack, Greg Proops, Joe Queenan, David Rakoff, Carl Reiner, Paul Reiser, Reno, Joan Rivers, Rita Rudner, Paul Rudnick, Peter Reubens, Bob Saget, Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris, Harry Shearer, David Shiner, Martin Short, Sarah Silverman, Dick Smothers, Tom Smothers, Jon Stewart, Amy Stiller, Ben Stiller, Jerry Stiller, Julia Sweeney, Judy Tenuta, Scott Thompson, Lily Tomlin, Calvin Trillin, Sandra Tsing Loh, Tracey Ullman, Bruce Vilanch, Sarah Vowell, Damon Wayans, Gene Wilder, Patricia Williams, Larry Wilmore, Lizz Winstead, Steven Wright, Henny Youngman, Bob Zmuda, Alan Zweibel. 

Performance Artists:

Laurie Anderson, Rob Becker, Blue Man Group (orig. cast), Eric Bogosian, Mike Daisey, Ethyl Eichelberger, John Epperson, Karen Finley, Jackie Hoffman, Ricky Jay, Penn Jillette, Alan Kaprow, The Flying Karamazovs, Spalding Gray, Holly Hughes, Bill Irwin, Ricky Jay, Lisa Kron, David Larible, John Leguizamo, Marcel Marceau, the New Bozena, William PopeL., Reno, David Sedaris, Wallace Shawn, Claudia Shear, David Shiner, Anna Deveare Smith, Patti Smith, Stomp (orig. cast), Lily Tomlin, Sandra Tsing Loh

Publishing:

Kurt Andersen, Marty Asher, James Atlas, Paul Bogaards, Helen Gurley Brown, Tina Brown, Bill Buford, Dana Canady, Graydon Carter, Willing Davidson, David Ebershoff, Jason Epstein, Harold Evans, Edwin Frank, Max Frankel, Jane Friedman, Jack Fuller, William Gaines, Jonathan Galassi, Robert Gottlieb, Katherine Graham, Henry Grunwald, Bill Henderson, Pete Hamill, Jerry Howard, Michael Isikoff, Judith Jones, Bill Keller, Arthur Klebanoff, Michael Korda, Jon Landman, Starling Lawrence, Charles McGrath, Sonny Mehta, Daniel Menaker, Grace Mirabella, Adam Moss, Michael Naumann, Victor Navasky, Ann Patty, Norman Pearlstine, Howell Raines, Nora Rawlinson, David Remnick, Jack Romanos, Barney Rosset, A.M. Rosenthal, Andre Schiffrin, Paul Slovak, Remy Stern, Ted Solotaroff, Roger Straus, Sam Tanenhaus, Johnny Temple, Mark Thompson, Ed Victor, George Weidenfeld, Victoria Wilson, Nina Zagat, Tim Zagat. 

Broadcasting:

Noah Adams, Christiane Amanpour, Ted Allen, Chuck Barris, Ralph Baruch, Samantha Bee, Joy Behar, Lowell Bergman, Len Berman, Ofra Bikel, David Brancaccio, David Brinkley, Tom Brokaw, Henry Bromell, Kate Buford, Carol Burnett, Tucker Carlson, Andy Cohen, Stephen Colbert, Anderson Cooper, George Crile, Walter Cronkite, Ron Darling, Daljit Dhaliwal, Phil Donahue, Bob Dotson, Stephen Dubner, Bob Edwards, Jill Eikenberry, Richard Engel, Jeff Fagan, Michael Feldman, Craig Ferguson, Ira Flatow, Martin Fletcher, Ann Flett, Fred Foy, David Frost, William Geist, Kathie Lee Gifford, Brooke Gladstone, Ira Glass, Whoopie Goldberg, Leonard Goldensohn, Michael Goldfarb, Merv Griffin, David Grubin, Tony Guida, Mike Gunton, David Hartman, Chris Hayes, Jim Hightower, John Hockenberry, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Gwen Ifill, David Isay, Hal Jackson, Peter Jennings, Van Jones, Garrison Keillor, Larry King, Michael Kirk, Ted Koppel, Robert Kotlowitz, Carson Kressley, Robert Krulwich, Charles Kuralt, Bill Kurtis, Brian Lamb, Jim Lehrer, Richard Levinson, Ted Libbey, Pia Lindstrom, Jacki Lyden, Robert MacNeil, John Marcus, Marc Maron, Chris Matthews, Malachy McCourt, Andrea Mitchell, Joe Moe, Rand Morrison, Bill Moyers, Judy Muller, Trevor Noah, Suzanne Nossel, Lawrence O’Donnell, Rosie O’Donnell, Steve O'Donnell, Bill O’Reilly, Robert Osborne, Charles Osgood, Jane Pauley, Mike Pesca, Vladimir Posner, Dan Rather, Diane Rehm, Geraldo Rivera, Cokie Roberts, Walter Rodgers, Andy Rooney, Tim Russert, Morley Safer, Mark Samels, Marlene Sanders, Dick Schaap, Danny Schechter, Lynn Scherr, Bob Schieffer, Reese Schonfeld, Daniel Schorr, Jonathan Schwartz, Willard Scott, Robert Siegel, Harry Shearer, James Sheldon, Lynn Sherr, Scott Simon, Hedrick Smith, Martin Smith, Leslie Stahl, Susan Stamberg, Jean Stapleton, Ray Suarez, Studs Terkel, Michael Tucker, Katy Tur, Dana Tyler, Garrick Utley, Meredith Vieira, Mike Wallace, John Walsh, Linda Wertheimer, Ruth Westheimer, Juan Williams, Robert Wuhl, Paula Zahn, Anthony Zuiker, Daniel Zwerdling.

Biography, History and Political Commentary:

André Aciman, Fouad Ajami, Tariq Ali, Eric Alterman, Stephen Ambrose, Lord Noel Annan, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Grigori Arbatov, Stanley Aronowitz, Timothy Garton Ash, Rick Atkinson, Neil Baldwin, James Bamford, Lawrence Bergreen, Ira Berlin, Marshall Berman, Carl Bernstein, Michael Beschloss, Kai Bird, Herbert P. Bix, Harold Bloom, Donald Bogle, Patricia Bosworth, Mark Bowden, Taylor Branch, Douglas Brinkley, Richard Brookhiser, Susan Brownmiller, William F. Buckley, Jr., Kate Buford, Nina Burleigh, James MacGregor Burns, Bryan Burrough, Ian Buruma, Thomas Cahill, Simon Callow, Lou Cannon, Tucker Carlson, Robert Caro, James Carroll, James Chace, Sarah Chayes, Ron Chernow, Jelani Cobb, Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, Patrick Cockburn, William D. Cohan, Stephen Cohen, Blanche Weisen Cooke, Ana Marie Cox, Lewis M. Dabney, Robert Dallek, William Dalrymple, Michael D’Antonio, Norman Davies, EJ Dionne, Jr., Maureen Dowd, Elizabeth Drew, Dinesh D'Souza, William Duiker, Jim Dwyer, Barbara Ehrenreich, Paul Ehrlich, Benita Eisler, Joseph Ellis, Amos Elon, Susan Faludi, Niall Ferguson, Frances Fitzgerald, James Stuart Flexner, Eric Foner, Amanda Foreman, Max Frankel, H. Bruce Franklin, Antonia Fraser, Flora Fraser, Howard French, Saul Friedlander, Thomas L. Friedman, John Fund, Paul John D. Fund, Paul Fussell, Henry Louis Gates, Arthur and Barbara Gelb, Leslie Gelb, David Gergen, Jack Germond, Martin Gilbert, Todd Gitlin, Eddie Glaude, Jr., Brad Gooch, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gershon Gorenberg, Michael Grant, Germaine Greer, Peter Grose, Ruth Gruber, D. Guttenplan, David Halberstam, Joseph T. Hallinan, Blaine Harden, Mark Harris, Anthony Heilbut, Seymour Hersh, Dilip Hiro, Christopher Hitchens, Eric Hobsbawm, Jack Holland, Alastair Horne, David Horowitz, Scott Horton, Ann Hubert, Arianna Huffington, Walter Isaacson, Michael Isikoff, Molly Ivins, Kenneth Jackson, Susan Jacoby, Roy Jenkins, Chalmers Johnson, Haynes Johnson, David Cay Johnston, Tony Judt, Sebastian Junger, Robert Kanigel, Frederick Karl, Michael Kazin, John Keegan, Frederick Kempe, Ian Kershaw, Frances Kiernan, Roger Kimball, Stephen Kinzer, Joe Klein, Michael Korda, Jonathon Kozol, Hilton Kramer, Julia Kristeva, William Kristol, Nina Khrusheva, Howard Lamar, A.J. Langguth, Lewis Lapham, Barbara Leaming, Hermione Lee, Mark Leibovitz, Joseph Lelyveld, Nicholas Lemann, Jill Lepore, Bernard-Henri Levy, Bernard Lewis, David Levering Lewis, Eric Lichtblau, Robert Jay Lifton, Nina Krushcheva, Kate Clifford Larson, Michael Lind, Ryan Lizza, J. Anthony Lukas, Peter Maas, Brenda Maddox, Charles Maier, Thomas Maier, Manning Marable, David Margolick, Kati Marton, Jane Mayer, David McCullough, Roderick MacFarquhar, Robert McChesney, James McPherson, Diane McWhorter, Jon Meacham, Walter Russell Mead, Louis Menand, David Michaelis, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Dick Morris, Edmund Morris, Roger Morris, Jan Myrdahl, Allan Nairn, David Nasaw, Victor, Navasky, John Nichols, Nigel Nicholson, Sheldon Novick, Bill O’Reilly, Michael B. Orens, David Oshinsky, Arkady Ostrovsky, George Packer, Elaine Pagels, Jay Parini, Star Parker, Joseph Persico, Joan Peyser, Nathaniel Philbrick, Kevin Phillips, Kenneth Pollack, Roy Porter, Richard Gid Powers, Anna Quindlen, Sally Quinn, Arnold Rampersad, Ray Raphael, Ahmed Rashid, Richard Reeves, T.R. Reid, David Remnick, Richard Rhodes, John Richardson, Thomas E. Ricks, Hazel Rowley, Mike Royko, Joshua Rubenstein, Edward Said, Harrison Salisbury, Charlotte Salisbury, Robert J. Samuelson, Simon Schama, Sydney Schanberg, Stacy Schiff, Arthur Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser, Tony Schwartz, Tom Segev, James Shapiro, William Shawcross, Earl Shorris, Mark Shriver, Michelangelo Signorile, Vikram Singh, Jean Edward Smith, Jonathon Spence, Charles Spencer, Shelby Steele, Fritz Stern, T.J. Stiles, Jean Strouse, Frank Sulloway, Ronald Takaki, Strobe Talbott, Studs Terkel, Evan Thomas, Helen Thomas, Jeffrey Toobin, James Traub, Irwin Unger, Gore Vidal, Michael Waldman, Joby Warrick, I.H. Watkins, Donovan Webster, Tim Weiner, Allen Weinstein, John Weitz, Cornel West, Tom Wicker, Henry Wiencek, Amy Wilentz, Sean Wilentz, Roger Wilkins, George F. Will, Garry Wills, A.N. Wilson, Victoria Wilson, Simon Winchester, Brenda Wineapple, Jules Witcover, Isser Woloch, Gordon Wood, Bob Woodward, Lawrence Wright, Fareed Zacharia, Howard Zinn.

Criticism/Journalism: 

Thelma Adams, Mike Allen, Eric Asimov, Ken Auletta, Paul Baker, Peter Bart, Emily Bazelon, Carl Bernstein, David Bianculli, Charles Blow, Sidney Blumenthal, Donald Bogle, Mark Bowden, Ben Brantley, Steven Brill, Arthur Brisbane, David Brock, Harold Brodsky, Tina Brown, Frank Bruni, Bryan Burroughs, Sarah Chayes, Shirley Christian, Patrick Cockburn, Steve Coll, Gail Collins, McKay Coppins, Richard Corliss, David Corn, David Denby, Janine Di Giovanni, Christopher Dickey, Morris Dickstein, E.J. Dionne, Maureen Dowd, Charles Duhigg, Jim Dwyer, Roger Ebert, Barbara Ehrenreich, Leslie Fiedler, Dexter Filkins, Marshall Fine, Sheri Fink, Franklin Foer, Max Frankel, John Hope Franklin, Paul Fussell, Herbert J. Gans, Michael Gerson, Carol  Giacomo, Ira Gitler, Misha Glenny, Philip Gourevitch, Linda Greenhouse, Glenn Greenwald, William Grimes, Alma Guillermoprieto, Peter Guralnick, Mel Gussow, Clyde Haberman, Dennis Hamill, Molly Haskell, Chris Hedges, Virginia Heffernan, John Heilemann, Diana Henriques, Seymour Hersh, Carl Hiaasen, Dilip Hiro, J. Hoberman, Robert Hughes, Edward Humes, Charlene Hunter-Gault, Ada Louise Huxtable, Molly Ivins, Pico Iyer, Jane Jacobs, Margo Jefferson, David Cay Johnston, Kent Jones, Deborah Jowett, Sebastian Junger, Pauline Kael, Robert Kaiser, Jodi Kantor, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Stanley Kaufmann, Alfred Kazin, Dave Kehr, Frank Kermode, Michael Kimmelman, Stuart Klawans, Joe Klein, Hank Klibanoff, Chuck Klosterman, Elizabeth Kolbert, Hilton Kramer, Jane Kramer, John Lahr, Christina Lamb, Jon Landman, Anthony Lane, William Langewiesche, Lewis Lapham, Nathan Lee, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Mark Leibovitz, Clifford Levy, Michael Lewis, Eric Lichtblau, Ryan Lizza, Phillip Lopate, Wesley Lowery, Neal MacFrarquar, Leonard Maltin, David Margolick, Joe McGinniss, Charles McGrath, Judith Miller, Andrea Mitchell, Caiitlan Moran, Bill Moyers, Sonia Nazario, John Nichols, Joe Nocera, Brian O’Doherty, Daniel Okrent, Peggy Orenstein, George Packer, Greg Palast, Tara Parker Pope, Samantha Powers, Todd Purdom, Joyce Purnick, Howell Raines, Ruth Reichl, David Remnick, Frank Rich, Thomas Ricks, Donald Richie, Gene Roberts, Walter Rodgers, Jay Rosen, Tom Rosenstiel, Abe Rosenthal, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Lillian Ross, Edward Rothstein, Alex Ross, Alissa Rubin, John Russell, Jim Rutenberg, Marlene Sanders, David Sanger, Andrew Sarris, Charlie Savage, Jeremy Scahill, Shelby Scates, Richard Schickel, Eric Schlosser, Connie Schultz, Arthur Schwartz, Elaine Sciolino, A.O. Scott, Carolyn See, Gene Seymour, Anthony Shadid, Tom Shales, Ari Shavit, David K. Shipler, John Simon, Hedrick Smith, Liz Smith, Rick Smolan, Sree Sreenivasan, Gloria Steinem,David Sterritt, Ron Suskind, Sam Tanenhaus, David Thomson, Heffrey Toobin, Toure, you Glenn Thrush, Kenneth Turan, Jere Van Dyk, Gore Vidal, Norah Vincent, Michael Ware, Juan Williams, James Wood, Bob Woodward, Ben Zimmer, Markus Moulitsas Zuniga.

Public Policy:

Floyd Abrams, Madeleine Albright, Bruce Babbitt, Ben Barnes, Paul Begala, Frances Beinecke, Joe Biden, Hans Blix, Michael Bloomberg, Sidney Blumenthal, David Boies, Derek Bok, Corey Booker, Barbara Boxer, William Bratton, Willie Brown, Robert Caro, James Carville, Jorge Castaneda, Lincoln Chafee, Linda Chavez, Amy Chua, Warren Christopher, Wesley Clark, Richard Clarke, Johnnie Cochrane, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, Diana DeGette, Nicolas de Torrente, Barbaralee Diamondstein-Spielvogel, Hazel Dukes, Brian Fisher, George P. Fletcher, Barney Frank, John Hope Franklin, Thomas Friedman, Martin Garbus, Jeffrey E. Garten, Michael Gerson, Robert Gates, Newt Gingrich, Roberta Gratz, Mike Gravel. Stanley Greenberg, Alan Greenspan, David Gunn, Chuck Hagel, Gary Hart, Michael Hayden, Anita Hill, Shere Hite, Karen Hughes, Jay Inslee, Jane Jacobs, Janis Karpinski, Jack Kemp, Randall Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Bob Kerry, John Kerry, Charles Kimball, Henry Kissinger, Herbert Kohl, Jeri Laber, Ricardo Lagos, Eric Liu, Sir Michael Marmot, Terry McAuliffe, John McCain, Jim McGreevey, David Miliband, George Mitchell, Marwan Muasher, Ralph Nader, Vali Nasr, Barack Obama, Ted Olson, Nancy Pelosi, T. Boone Pickens, David Plouffe, Kenneth Pollack, Samantha Power, Itamar Rabinovich, Jose Ramos-Horta, Bruce Reed, Harry Reid, Bill Richardson, Jean-Francois Rischard, Felix Rohatyn, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sir John Scarlett, Barry Scheck, Frederick F.A.O. Schwartz, Jr., Norman Siegel, Leslie Crocker Snyder, Ted Sorenson, Eliot Spitzer, Gloria Steinem, Stuart Stevens, Joseph Stiglitz, Nadine Strossen, Cass Sunstein, Strobe Talbott, Elizabeth Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse, Christine Todd Whitman, William Whyte, Ted Widmer, L. Douglas Wilder, Jody Williams, Gen. Anthony Zinni.

Public figures and newsmakers:

Elliot Abrams, Floyd Abrams, Jane Alexander, Madeleine Albright, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Moshe Arens, Julian Assange, Bill Ayers, Paul Begala, Yossi Beilin, Derrick Bell, Robert Bennett, William Bennett, Rhoda Berenson, Ingrid Betancourt, Joe Biden, Rod Blagojavich, Cherie Blair, Hans Blix, Michael Bloomberg, David Boies, Derek Bok, Corey Booker, Alex Boraine, Robert Bork, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Barbara Boxer, Bill Bradley, William Bratton, Willie Brown, Pat Buchanan, William F. Buckley, Richard Butler, Jane Byrne, Fernando Enrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, James Carville, Jorge Castaneda, Lincoln Chafee, Warren Christopher, Wesley K. Clark, Richard Clarke, Kathleen Cleaver, Johnnie Cochrane, William Cohen, Charles Colson, Ward Connerly, Andrew Cuomo, Mario Cuomo, Romeo Dallaire, Alfonse D'Amato, Tom Daschle, Angela Davis, John Dean, Diana DeGette, F.W. DeKlerk, Ronald V. Dellums, Kadiatou Diallo, David Dinkins, Bob Dole, Hazel Dukes, Marian Wright Edelman, Dr. Jocelyn Elders, Daniel Ellsberg, Deborah (Mitford) Dutchess of Devonshire, Rahm Emanuel, Charles Evers, Myrlie Eversq-Williams, Tom Farley, Geraldine Ferraro, Amy Fisher, Vicente Fox, Barney Frank, Al Franken, John Hope Franklin, Betty Friedan, Millard Fuller, Yegor Gaidar, John Kenneth Galbraith, Martin Garbus, Bill Gates, Robert Gates, David Gergen, Barry Gibbs, Newt Gingrich, Girma Woled-Giorgis (Pres. of Ethiopia), Al Gore, Tipper Gore, Alan Greenspan, Glenn Greenwald, Lani Guineer, Chuck Hagel, William Hague, Gary Hart, Michael Hayden, Cecil Heftel, Abbie Hoffman, Xaviera Hollander, Jose Ramos Horta, Dolores Huerta, Arianna Huffington, Karen Hughes, Bill Ivey, Thomas Jackson, Jane Jacobs, Massuoda Jalal, Boris Johnson, Vernon Jordan, Roberta Kaplan, Janis Karpinski, Garry Kasparov, Jack Kemp, Caroline Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Bob Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Dexter Scott King, Henry Kissinger, Ed Koch, Dr. Lawrence Korb, Larry Kramer, Madeline Kunin, Joseph Lieberman, Eric Liu, Trent Lott, Wangari Maathai, Zindzi Mandella, John McCain, Stanley McChrystal, Scott McClellan, Susan McDougel, George McGovern, Jim McGreevey, Robert McNamara, Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner, Judith Miller, George Mitchell, Dee Dee Myers, Kweisi Mfume, Walter Mondale, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ralph Nader, Nguyen Cao Ky, Peggy Noonan, Barack Obama, Theodore Olsen, Michael B. Orens, Leoluca Orlando, Farah Pahlavi, George Papadopoulos, Christopher Patten, Maryane Pearl, Nancy Pelosi, Giandomenico Picco, T. Boone Pickens, Joe Pistone (Donnie Brasco), David Plouffe, Sergio Ramirez, Jose Ramos-Horta, Robert Reich, Harry Reid,  Ann Richards, Bill Richardson, Jean-Franciois Rischard, Scott Ritter, Mary Robinson, Randall Robinson, Felix Rohatyn, Mark Rudd, Paul Rusesabagina, Albie Sachs, Jeffrey Sachs, Howard Safir, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Philippe Sands, Michael Schiavo, Pat Schroeder, Charles Schumer, Yitzhak Shamir, Natan Sharansky, Paul Simon, Anne Sinclair, Gen. Rupert Smith, Ted Sorenson, Viscount Charles Spencer, Eliot Spitzer, Gloria Steinem, Nadine Strossen, Hilary Synnott, Jacobo Timmerman, Notra Trulock, Desmond Tutu, Jesse Ventura, Terry Waite, Michael Waldman, Lech Walesa, Lawrence Walsh, Elizabeth Warren, Anthony Weiner, Clifton Wharton, Jr., Christine Todd Whitman, L. Douglas Wilder, Cathy Wilkinson, Jody Williams, Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame Wilson, Jim Wright, Harry Wu, James Yee, Muhammad Yunnis, Warren Zimmerman, Gen. Anthony Zinni.    

Memoirists/Essayists:

André Aciman, Martin Amis, Anchee Min, Bill Ayers, Jay Bakker, John Berendt, Roy Blount Jr., Chastity Bono, Mary Cantwell, David Carr, James Carroll, Susan Cheever, Frank Conroy, Jill Ker Conway, Christopher Dickey, Susan Faludi, Zlata Filipovic, Carrie Fisher, Maria Flook, Paula Fox, C.S. Giscombe, Malcolm Gladwell, Katherine Graham, Temple Grandin, Lucy Greely, Pete Hamill, Kathryn Harrison, Anthony Heilbut, Joseph Heller, Tony Hiss, Marya Hornbacher, Mary Karr, Susanna Kaysen, Alfred Kazin, Laura Kipnis, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Caroline Knapp, Steven Kuusisto, Leonard Kriegel, Lucette Lagnado, William Langewiesche, Lewis Lapham, Joseph Lelyveld, Phillip Lopate, Bruce McCall, Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt, Bill McKibben, Norris Church Mailer, Joyce Maynard, Robert Meeropol, Willie Morris, Nuala O’Faolain, Susan Orlean, Cynthia Ozick, Molly Peacock, Caryl Phillips, Michael Pollan, Chang Rae-Lee, Nan Robertson, Anne Roiphe, Daniel Asa Rose, James Salter, Luc Sante, David Sedaris, Caroline See, Dani Shapiro, Gail Sheehy, Dennis Smith, Ted Solotaroff, Susan Sontag, Gay Talese, Calvin Trillin, Gloria Vanderbilt, Sarah Vowell, Sean Wilsey, Geoffrey Wolff, Tobias Wolfe, Adeline Yen Mah.

Writers of fiction:

Chris Abani, Walter Abish, Chinua Achebe, Peter Ackroyd, Alice Adams, Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, Chris Adrian, Monica Ali, Jeffrey Renard Allen, Martin Amis, Donald Antrim, Aharon Applefeld, Jeffrey Archer, Margaret Atwood, Louis Auchincloss, Paul Auster, Nicholson Baker, Russell Banks, John Banville, Charles Baxter, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, Andrea Barrett, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Paul Beatty, Sandra Benitez, John Berendt, Thomas Berger, Lawrence Block, Amy Bloom, Charles Bock, Chris Bohjalian, William Boyd, T. C. Boyle, John Boyne, Geraldine Brooks, Christopher Buckley, Octavia Butler, Robert Olen Butler, A.S. Byatt, Hortense Callisher, Bebe Moore Campbell, Jay Cantor, Kevin Canty, Peter Carey, Caleb Carr, Emmanuel Carrere, Michael Chabon, Fred Chappell, Bruce Chatwin, Alexander Chee, Susan Cheever, Tracy Chevalier, Susan Choi, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Higgins Clark, Austin Clarke, Bill Clegg, Teju Cole, Jackie Collins, Frank Conroy, Jill Ker Conway, Robert Coover, Michael Crichton, Patricia Cornwell, Michael Cunningham, Clive Cussler, Da Chen, Achmat Dangor, Edwidge Danticat, Peter Ho Davies, Lydia Davis, Siddartha Deb, Samuel R. Delany, Stacey D’Erasmo, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Pete Dexter, Junot Diaz, Joan Didion, Thomas Disch, E.L. Doctorow, Jose Donoso, Michael Dorris, Roddy Doyle, Margaret Drabble, Andre Dubus, Andre Dubus III, Dorothy Dunnett, Umberto Eco, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Deborah Eisenberg, Jill Eisenstadt, Bret Easton Ellis, Harlan Ellison, James Ellroy, Anne Enright, Louise Erdrich, Laura Esquivel, Helen Fielding, Carrie Fisher, Boris Fishman, Richard Flanagan, Angela Flournoy, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ken Follett, Richard Ford, Paula Fox, Jonathon Franzen, Charles Frazier, Kinky Friedman, Marilyn French, Carlos Fuentes, Alan Furst, William Gaddis, Mary Gaitskill, Rivka Galchen, Mavis Gallant, Eduardo Galleano, Gao Xingjian, Kaye Gibbons, William Gibson, Dagoberto Gilb, Gail Godwin, Francisco Goldman, Olivia Goldsmith, Allegra Goodman, Nadine Gordimer, Mary Gordon, Eileen Goudge, Michal Govrin, Sue Grafton, Winston Groom, David Grossman, Allan Gurganus, David Guterson, Ha Jin, Tessa Hadley, Mohsin Hamid, Barry Hannah, Colin Harrison, Jim Harrison, Kathryn Harrison, Kent Haruf, Shirley Hazzard, Scott Heim, Mark Helprin, Aleksander Hemon, Amy Hempel, Carl Hiaasen, Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Hijuelos, Tony Hillerman, SE Hinton, Peter Hoeg, Alan Hollingshurst, AM Homes, Ann Howard, Nick Hornby, Janette Turner Hospital, Khaled Hosseini, Pam Houston, Maureen Howard, Siri Hustvedt, John Irving, Susan Isaacs, Kazuo Ishiguro, Marlon James, P.D. James, Tama Janowitz, Gish Jen, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Erica Jong, Heidi Julavits, Thomas Keneally, William Kennedy, Etgar Keret, Elias Khoury, Jamaica Kincaid, Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walter Kirn, Joe Klein, Ivan Klíma, Karl Ove Knausgård, Judith Krantz, Eric Kraft, Nicole Krauss, Jhumpa Lahiri, Wally Lamb, John Lanchester, Ring Lardner, Jr., Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, Doris Lessing, Jonathan Lethem, Ira Levin, Andrea Levy, Yiyun Li, Margot Livesy, Phillip Lopate, Alistair MacLeod, Karan Mahajan, Norman Mailer, Norman Manea, Hilary Mantel, Paule Marshall, Emer Martin, Carol Maso, Daniel Mason, Peter Mathiessen, Armistead Maupin, William Maxwell, Peter Mayle, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Colleen McCullough, Alice McDermott, Ian McEwan, Patrick McGrath, Tom McGuane, Larry McMurtry, Zakes Mda, Maile Meloy, Claire Messud, Philipp Meyer, Nega Mezlekia, Steven Millhauser, Anchee Min, Eliza Minot, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Rick Moody, Lorrie Moore, Toni Morrison, John Mortimer, Walter Mosely, Harry Mulisch, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Carol Muske-Dukes, Nam Le, Gloria Naylor, Jo Nesbo, Jay Neugeboren, Viet Thanh Nguyen, David Nicholls, Audrey Niffenegger, Cees Nooteboom, Sigrid Nunez, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O’Brien, Tim O'Brien, Ben Okri, Stewart O’Nan, Michael Ondaatje, Joseph O’Neill, Amos Oz, Cynthia Ozick, ZZ Packer, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Grace Paley, Orhan Pamuk, Jay Parini, Ann Patchett, Richard North Patterson, Ridley Pearson, George Pelicanos, Sara Peretsky, Tom Perrotta, Per Petterson, Caryl Phillips, Jayne Anne Phillips, Marge Piercy, Darryl Pinckney, Elena Poniatowska, Richard Price, Francine Prose, Annie Proulx, James Purdy, Anna Quindlen, David Rabe, Emily Raboteau, Sergio Ramirez, Ian Rankin, Ruth Rendell, Yasmina Reza, Anne Rice, Mark Richard, Mordechai Richler, Julian Rios, Tom Robbins, Marilynne Robinson, Roxana Robinson, Anne Roiphe, Philip Roth, Arundhati Roy, Norman Rush, Salman Rushdie, Karen Russell, Richard Russo, James Salter, George Saunders, Lynn Sharon Schwartz, Cathleen Schine, Alice Sebold, Lisa See, Lore Segal, Will Self, Vikram Seth, Ntozake Shange, Akhil Sharma, Sidney Sheldon, Lionel Shriver, Gary Shteyngart, Alix Kates Shulman, Sarah Shun-lien, Anne Rivers Siddon, Bapsie Sidhwa, Pierre Simenon, Jane Smiley, Alexander McCall Smith, Lee Smith, Martin Cruz Smith, Scott Smith, Zadie Smith, Martha Southgate, Wole Soyinka, Dana Spiotta, Irving Stone, Robert Stone, Emma Straub, Peter Straub, Manil Suri, Graham Swift, Amy Tan, Paul Theroux, Ngugi Wa Thiong’O, Lynne Tillman, Colm Toibin, Tatyana Tolstoya, Grace Tremain, William Trevor, Joanna Trollope, Monique Truong, Lily Tuck, Scott Turow, Dubravka Ugresic, John Updike, Gloria Vanderbilt, Mario Vargas Llosa, Vendela Vida, Gore Vidal, William T. Vollman, Kurt Vonnegut, Kate Walbert, Alice Walker, Joseph Wambaugh, Edmund White, Colson Whitehead, John A. Williams, Jeannette Winterson, Don Winslow, Tim Winton, Larry Woiwode, Tom Wolfe, Geoffrey Wolff, Tobias Wolff, Helma Wolitzer, Meg Wolitzer, Jacqueline Woodson.

Poetry:

Diane Ackerman, Elizabeth Alexander, Miguel Algarín, Coleman Barks, Willis Barnstone, Paul Beatty, Breyten Breytenbach, Andrei Codrescu, Billy Collins, W.S. Di Pietro, Diane diPrima, Mark Doty, Jonathon Galassi, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Nikki Giovanni, C.S. Giscombe, Lucy Grealy, Rachel Hadas, Kimiko Hahn, Donald Hall, Sam Hamill, Seamus Heaney, John Hollander, Richard Howard, June Jordan, Mary Karr, Galway Kinnell, Stanley Kunitz, Nick Laird, Ann Lauterbach, David Lehman, Brad Leithauser, Philip Levine, J.D. McClatchy, Tracie Morris, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Carol Muske-Dukes, Eileen Myles, Sharon Olds, Alice Oswald, Joseph Parisi, Octavio Paz, Molly Peacock, Robert Pinsky, Marie Ponsot, James Ragan, Spencer Reece, Adrienne Rich, Michael Ryan, Sapphire, Harvey Shapiro, Owen Sheers, Charles Simic, Louis Simpson, Hal Sirowitz, Gary Snyder, Sir Stephen Spender, Mark Strand, Sekou Sundiata, Stacy Szymaszek, Edwin Torres, Derek Walcott, Michelle Wallace, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Matthew Zapruder. 

Architecture:

Paola Antonelli, Cecil Balmond, Kent Barwick, Barry Bergdoll, Santiago Calatrava, Justin Davidson, Thierry Despont, Barbaralee Diamondstein-Spielvogel, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Paul Goldberger, Robert Gwathmey, Zaha Hadid, Hugh Hardy, Hugh Howard, Stephen Kieran, Michael Kimmelman, Eugene Kohn, Fran Leadon, Daniel Libeskind, Maya Lin, Richard Meier, Stuart Pertz, James Stewart Polshek, David Rockwell, Witold Rybczynski, James Sanders, Robert AM Stern. 

Fine Arts:

Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, Will Barnet, Mathew Barney, Jennifer Bartlett. Lynda Benglis, Chris Burden, Peter Campus, Anthony Caro, Christo and Jean-Claude, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Mark di Suvero, Jim Dine, El Anatsui, Mary Frank, Andy Goldsworthy, April Gornick, Red Grooms, David Hockney, Malcolm Holzman, Alex Katz, William Kentridge, Ruth Kligman, Jeffp Koons, David Leiber, Glenn Ligon, Brice Marden, Alexander Melamid, Mary Miss, Elizabeth Murray, Linda Nochlin, Yoko Ono, Philip Pearlstein, Martin Puryear, Dorothea Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Robert Ryman, David Salle, George Segal, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, Mia Westermann; Maxwell Anderson, Colin Bailey, Rosamund Bernier, Yve-Alain Bois, Michael Brenson, Keith Christiansen, Jeffrey Deitch, Philippe de Montebello, John Elderfield, Richard Feigen, Agnes Gund, Ivan Karp, Kurt Kertess, Phyllis Lambert, Walter Liedtke, Glenn Lowry, Joan Punyet Miro, Raymond Nasher, Amy Newman, Maura Reilly, John Richardson, Joseph J. Rishel, Robert Rosenblum, Nan Rosenthal, William Rubin, John Russell, John Malcolm Russell, David Salle, Robert Storr, Cristin Tierney, 00Gary Tinterow, Anthony Tung, Gertje Utley, Kirk Varnedoe, Christian Viveros-Faune, James C.Y. Watt, Adam Weinberg, Norval White, Kehinde Wiley, Lester Wunderman. 

Photography:  

Berenice Abbott, Lynsey Addario, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Harry Benson, Rudy Burkhardt, Rene Burri, Cornell Capa, Sebastian Copeland, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Dater, Bruce Davidson, Roy deCarava, Henry Diltz, David Douglas Duncan, Arnold Eagle, Alfred Eisenstadt, Morris Engel, Elliott Erwitt, Nathan Farb, Larry Fink, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Helen Gee, Bert Glinn, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Edward Grazda, Philip Jones Griffiths, Tim Hetherington, Chester Higgins, Jr., Hiro, William Klein, Jill Krementz, Barbara Kruger, Annie Liebowitz, David Levinson, Helen Levitt, Glenn Ligon, Jay Maisel, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry, Joe McNally, Susan Meiselas, Joel Meyerowitz, John G. Morris, Ralph Morse, James Nachtwey, Jimmy Nelson, Arnold Newman, Gordon Parks, Gilles Peress, Marc Riboud, Eugene Richards, Thomas Roma, Naomi Rosenblum, Walter Rosenblum, Jeff Rosenheim, Sebastiao Salgado, Stephen Shore, Marvin Smith, Louis Stettner, John Szarkowski, David Turnley, Peter Turnley, Tony Vaccaro, Alex Webb, Bruce Weber.

Illustrators, Cartoonists and Graphic Designers: 

Lynda Barry, Saul Bass, R.O. Blechman, Ruben Bolling, Berkley Breathed, Steve Brodner, John Canemaker, Roz Chast, Daniel Clowes, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Jeff Danziger, Jules Feiffer, Drew Friedman, Milton Glaser, Matt Groening, Herblock, Brad Holland, Al Jaffee, Chuck Jones, Maira Kalman, Ben Katcher, Hank Ketcham, Chip Kidd, Ed Koren, Stephen Kroninger, Stan Lee, Leroy Nieman, Robert Mankoff, Doug Marlette, Peter Max, Bruce McCall, Patrick McDonnell, James McMullen, Mike Peters, Ted Rall, Lauren Redniss, Arnold Roth, Robert Sabuda, Maurice Sendak, Art Spiegelman, Tom Tomorrow, Garry Trudeau.

Dance:

Joan Acocella, Karole Armitage, Gerald Arpino, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert Battle, Arthur Bell, Toni Bentley, Julio Boca, Ashley Bouder, Michael Bourne, Trisha Brown, Christopher Bruce, Brenda Bufalino, Donald Byrd, James Canfield, Michael “Boogaloo Shrimp” Chambers, Marge Champion, Alison Chase, Martha Clarke, Jacques D'Amboise, Michelle Dorrance, Boris Eifman, Eiko and Koma, Garth Fagan, Suzanne Farrell, Eliot Feld, Molissa Fenley, Suzanne Farrell, Robert Garis, Savion Glover, David Hallberg, Martine van Hamel, Erik Hawkins, Geoffrey Holder, Susan Jaffe, Judith Jamison, Virginia Johnson, Bill T. Jones, Elizabeth Kendall, Allegra Kent, Anna Kisselgoff, Ralph Lemon, Lourdes Lopez, Murray Louis, Lar Lubovitch, Peter Martins, Donna McKechnie, Bebe Miller, Arthur Mitchell, Meredith Monk, Mark Morris, Ohad Naharin, Bebe Neuwirth, Harold Nicholas, Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, David Parsons, Sergei Polunin, Marianne Preger-Simon, Alexei Ratmansky, Bertram Ross, Suki Schorer, Bettijane Sills, Elizabeth Streb, Susan Stroman, Paul Szilard, Maria Tallchief, Paul Taylor, Marianna Tcherkassky, Tiekka Tellier, Twyla Tharp, Tommy Tune, Edward Villella, Ashley Wheater, Wendy Whelan, Christopher Wheeldon, Madame Zhao.

Jazz: (*performed live)

Monty Alexander, Geri Allen, JD Allen*, Mose Allison, George Avakian, Benny Bailey, Whitney Balliett, Eddie Barefield, Louis Bellson, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Walter Bishop, Jr., Terence Blanchard, Cindy Blackman, Ruby Braff, Kenny Burrell, Gary Burton, Roy Campbell, Teri Lyne Carrington, Benny Carter, Ron Carter, Bill Charlap*, Doc Cheatham, Cyrus Chestnut, Buck Clayton, George Coleman, George Coleman, Jr., Ravi Coltrane, Chick Corea*, Blossom Dearie, Jack DeJohnette, Bob Dorough, Dave Douglas, Paquito d'Rivera, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Endar, Jon Faddis, Maynard Ferguson, Tommy Flanagan*, Fleurine*, Panama Francis, Chico Freeman, Dave Frishberg, Marcus Gilmore, Vince Giordano*, Ira Gitler, Lorraine Gordon, Benny Golson, Max Gordon, Benny Green, Al Grey, Johnny Griffin, Henry Grimes, Charlie Haden, Chico Hamilton, Billy Harper, Barry Harris*, Craig Haynes, Roy Haynes, Jimmy Heath, Jon Hendricks, Vincent Herring, Andrew Hill, Milt Hinton, Freddie Hubbard, Dick Hyman, Abdullah Ibrahim, Milt Jackson, Illinois Jacquet, Ahmad Jamal*, Herb Jeffreys, Jerry Jerome, J.J. Johnson, Hank Jones, Quincy Jones, Sheila Jordan, Ashley Kahn, Geoff Keezer, Lee Konitz, Steve Kuhn, Peggy Lee, Grace Kelly, John Lewis, Abbie Lincoln, Charles Lloyd, Joe Lovano, Gloria Lynne, Junior Mance, Herbie Mann, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Hugh Masakela, Christian McBride, Jackie McLean, Rene McLean, Marian McPartland, Jay McShann, Brad Meldau, Jane Monheit, James Moody, Jason Moran*, Butch Morris, Paul Motian, Chico O’Farrill, Greg Osby, Jimmy Owens, Eddie Palmieri, William Parker, Flip Phillips, Andre Previn, Ben Ratliff, Joshua Redman, Freddie Redd, Ben Riley, Billy Lee Riley, Marcus Roberts*, Annie Ross, Gonsalvo Rubelcaba, Bobby Sanabria, David Sanborn, Arturo Sandoval, Maria Schneider, Loren Schoenberg, Gunther Schuller, Doc Severinson, Horace Silver, Arvell Shaw, George Shearing, Wayne Shorter, Peter "LaRoca" Sims, Wadada Leo Smith*, Dick Sudhalter, Billy Taylor, Jacky Terrasson, Clark Terry, Toots Thielemans, Charles Tolliver, McCoy Tyner*, James “Blood” Ulmer, Bennie Wallace, Benny Waters, Kenny Werner*, Randy Weston, Joe Williams, Gerald Wilson, Paul Winter, John Zorn.        

Popular Music: (*performed live)

Steven Adler, Karen Akers, Dave and Phil Alvin, Julie Andrews, Paul Anka, Frankie Avalon, Kevin Bacon (Bacon Brothers)*, Joan Baez, John Barry, William Bell, Pat Benatar, George Benson, Dierks Bentley, Theodore Bikel, Ruben Blades, Booker T, Joe Boyd, Pattie Boyd, Edie Brickell, Dave Bromberg, Junior Brown, Ruth Brown, Sam Bush, David Byrne, Glen Campbell, Laura Cantrell, Diahann Carroll, Hoagie Bix Carmichael, Carlene Carter, Rosanne Cash, Jack Cassady, Nick Cave, Merry Clayton, John Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Bootsy Collins, Judy Collins, Phil Collins, Alice Cooper, LL Cool J, Elvis Costello*, Rodney Crowell, DJ Spooky, Dr. John, Dave Davies, Ray Davies, Ron Delsener, Bo Diddley, Peter Duchin, Steve Earle, “Ramblin’” Jack Elliott, Melissa Errico, Gloria Estefan, Don Felder, Eddie Fisher, Howard Fishman, Bela Fleck, Rosie Flores, John Fogerty, Ben Folds, Chris Franz, Richie Furay, Chris Gaffney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jan Gaye, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Lesley Gore, Ellie Greenwich, Art Garfunkle, The Hackberry Ramblers, Merle Haggard, John Hammond, Sheldon Harnick, Emmylou Harris, Mickey Hart, Juliana Hatfield, Bobby Hebb, Richard Hell, Levon Helm, LaToya Jackson, Wanda Jackson, Eilen Jewell, David Johansen (Buster Poindexter), Glyn Johns, Mable John, Norah Jones, Quincy Jones, Steve Jones, Tom Jones, Valerie June, Michael Kamen, Jorma Kaukonen, Al Kooper, Wayne Kramer, Kris Kristofferson, Hilly Kristal, Patti LaBelle, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Denny Laine, kd laing, Michael Lang, Jack Lawrence, Brenda Lee, Cynthia Lennon, Phil Lesh, Jared Leto, Charlie Louvin, Darlene Love, Patty Loveless, Lyle Lovett, Nick Lowe, Shelby Lynne, Miriam Makeba, Howard Mandel, Eleni Mandell, Gucci Mane, Barry Manilow, Barry Mann, Ray Manzarek, Greil Marcus, Ziggy Marley, Johnny Marr, Tony Martin, Nick Mason, Johnny Mathis, Galt McDermott, Ralph McDaniels, Alan Menken, Natalie Merchant, Mitch Miller, Roger Miller, Paddy Moloney, Geoff Muldaur, Tracy Nelson, Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Randy Newman*, Sinead O’Connor, Ty Oke, One Ring Zero, Yoko Ono, Joan Osborne, Sharon Osbourne, Marie Osmond, Freda Payne, Waylon Payne, Joe Perry, The Persuasions, Sam Phillips, Priscilla Presley, Dee Dee Ramone, Phil Ramone, Genya Ravan, Lucy Wainright Roche, Suzzie Roche, Jimmy Roselli, Henry Sapoznik, Carole Bayer Sager, Boz Scaggs, Neil Sedaka, Billy Joe Shavers, Gene Simmons, Russell Simmons, Ricky Skaggs, Percy Sledge, Che “Rhymefest” Smith, Keely Smith, Jill Sobule, Stephen Sondheim, Esperanza Spalding, Ralph Stanley, Mavis Staples, Andy Statman*, Dave Stewart, Sting, Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, Richard Stoltzman, Charles Strouse, Marty Stuart, Andy Summers, They Might Be Giants*, Irma Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson, Tanya Tucker, Big Joe Turner, Suzanne Vega, Loudon Wainwright III, Junior Walker*, Jimmy Webb, Cynthia Weill, Tina Weymouth, Barry White, Margaret Whiting, Dar Williams, Joe Williams, Marion Williams, Rita Wilson, CeCe Winans, Lee Ann Womack, Bill Wyman, David Yazbek, Maury Yeston, Dwight Yoakam, Yo La Tengo, Dan Zanes, Moon Zappa.

Classical Music and Opera: (*performed live)

John Adams, June Anderson, Anonymous 4, Martina Arroyo, Janet Baker, Joshua Bell, Carlo Bergonzi, Leon Botstein, Alfred Brendel, Yefim Bronfman, Lawrence Brownlee, Joseph Calleja, Jane Chapman, John Corigliano, Robert Craft, Tom Crawford, Will Crutchfield, Diana Damrau, Jeremy Denk, Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, Avner Dorman, Jane Eaglen, Rinde Eckert, Emerson String Quartet, Eroica Trio*, Simon Estes, Vladimir Feltsman, Leon Fleisher, Lukas Foss, James Galway, Peter Gelb, Philip Glass, Elliot Goldenthal, Martin Goldsmith, Richard Goode, Morton Gould, Gary Graffman, Susan Graham, Vittorio Grigoro, Helene Grimaud*, Guanieri String Quartet, Andreas Haefliger, Hilary Hahn, Thomas Hampson, Hao Jiang Tian, Barbara Hendricks, Ben Heppner, Jerome Hines, Marilyn Horne, Nico Muhly, Robert Hurwitz, Conrad Janis, Joseph Kalichstein  Janis Kelly, Jennifer Koh, Alfredo Kraus, Min Kym, Lang Lang, Jaime Laredo, Isabel Leonard, Salvatore Licitra, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Christa Ludwig, Yo-Yo Ma, Lorin Maazel, James Maddalena, Joao Carlos Martins, Kurt Masur, Denis Matsuev, Edgar Meyer, Midori, Jonathan Miller, Sherrill Milnes, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Anna Netrebko, Jessye Norman, Christopher Nupin, Mark O’Connor, Kristine Opolais, Ursula Oppens, Christopher O’Riley, Orpheus*, Guher and Suher Pekinel, Ailyn Pérez, Roberta Peters, Susanna Phillips. Fred Plotkin, Carlo Ponti, Jr., Andre Previn, Patricia Racette, Julian Rachlin, Sondra Radvanovsky, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Morris Robinson, Ned Rorem, Charles Rosen, Leonard Rosenman, Alex Ross, Edward Rothstein, Julius Rudel, Gunther Schuller, Gerard Schwarz, Martina Serafin, Russell Sherman, Jeffrey Siegel, Abbey Simon, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Leonard Slatkin, Arnold Steinhardt, Victor Steinhardt, Isaac Stern, Takacs String Quartet*, Teresa Sterne, Richard Stoltzman, Sir John Tavener, Dawn Upshaw, Shirley Verrett, Deborah Voigt, Andreas Vollenweider, Joseph Volte, Gottfried Wagner, Eva–Marie Westbroek, Charles Wuorinen, Eugenia Zuckerman.

World Music:   

Tibetan Gyoto Monks, Vilayat Khan, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba, Cathal McConnell, Kongar-Ol Ondar, Subramyan. 

Sports:

Jim Abbott, Andre Agassi, Tracy Alston, Roger Angell, Nnamdi Asomugha, Red Auerbach, Tiki Barber, Charles Barkley, Billy Bean, Ira Berkow, Len Berman, Yogi Berra, Buzz Bissinger, James Blake, Ron Blomberg, Brian Boitano, John Branch, Plaxico Burress, Jim Bouton, Terry Bradshaw, Ralph Branca, Doug Brown, Gary Carter, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Ed Charles, Eamonn Coghlan, Ned Colletti, Nadia Comanici, Gerry Cooney, Cynthia Cooper, Howard Cossell, Bob Cousy, Jerry Crawford, Ben Crenshaw, Ron Darling, Frank Deford, Tony DiCicco, R.A. Dickey, Art Donovan, Tony Dungy, Lenny Dykstra, Gerald Eskenazi, Stefan Fatsis, John Feinstein, Peggy Fleming, Mick Foley, George Foreman, Bev Francis, Walt Frazier, Bob Gibson, Frank Gifford, Rod Gilbert, Keith Glass, Marty Glickman, Mike Gminski, Dwight Gooden, Goose Gossage, Curt Gowdy, Tim Green, Bud Greenspan, Eric Gregg, Wayne Gretzky, Ken Griffey, Sr., Jon Gruden, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Tommy Heinsohn, Keith Hernandez, Orel Hershiser, Lou Holtz, Red Holzman, Frank Isola, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Phil Jackson, Tommy John, Jay Johnstone, Kara Lynne Joyce, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Garry Kasparov, Meb Kefelizighi, Ralph Kiner, Bernard King, Lornah Kiplagat, Joe Klecko, Dr. John Kline, Bob Knight, Bela Koralyi, Tony LaRussa, Terry Leach, Leron Lee, Marv Levy, Jim Leyritz, Floyd Little, John Lucas, Mike Lupica, Sparky Lyle, Marty Lyons, Merlyn Mantle, Tim McCarver, Patrick McEnroe, Bobby Murcer, Martina Navratilova, Phil Niekro, Joe Nocera, Diana Nyad, Ethan O’Bryant, Michael Oher, Buck O'Neill, Shaquille O'Neal, Bobby Orr, Billy Packer, Bob Paris, Jeff Passan, Mike Pesca, George Plimpton, Jorge Posada, Edgar Prado, S.L Price, Willie Randolph, Renee Richards, Cathy Rigby, Cal Ripken, Jr., Doc Rivers, Rachel Robinson, Robbie Rogers, Charlie Rosen, Bill Russell, Dick Schaap, Steve Scott, Gary Sheffield, Bob Sheppard, Allie Sherman, Mary Decker Slaney, Dean Smith, Duke Snider, Rusty Staub, Leigh Steinberg, Nelson Christian Stokes, Mel Stottlemyre, Darryl Strawberry, Barry Switzer, Sheryl Swoopes, Fran Tarkenton, Lawrence Taylor, Y.A. Tittle, Mike Tyson, Ben Utecht, George Vecsey, Tim Wakefield, Herschel Walker, Teresa Weatherspoon, L. Jon Wertheim, Bernie Williams, Mookie Wilson, Dave Winfield, Katarina Witt, Earl Woods, Don Zimmer

Food:

Grant Achatz, Ferran Adria, Margarita Carrillo Arronte, Eric Asimov, Dan Barber, Serena Bass, Lidia Bastianich, Mario Batali, Rick Bayless, Ed Behr, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Jack Bishop, Brian Bistrong, Mark Bittman, Rosemary Black, Jim Botsacos, David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, Anthony Bourdain, Terrance Brennan, Leslie Brenner, Frank Bruni, David Burke, Floyd Cardoz, Andrew Carmellini, David Chang, Julia Child, Craig Claiborne, Melissa Clark, Patrick Clark, Mary Cleaver, Ben Cohen, Tom Colicchio, Noel Comess, Shirley Corriher, Dana Cowen, Lou Di Palo, Alain Ducasse, Wylie Dufresne, David Emil, Florence Fabricant, Mark Federman, Claudia Fleming, George Foreman, Pierre Franey, Betty Fussell, Cornelius Gallagher, Ina Garten, Ted Genoways, Rozanne Gold, Joyce Goldstein, John Gottfried, Dorie Greenspan, William Grimes, Joan Gussow, Carla Hall, Dorothy Hamilton, Marcella Hazan, Jeff Henderson, Pierre Herme, Amanda Hesser, Peter Hoffman, Ken Hom, Josefina Howard, Eddie Huang, Madhur Jaffrey, Steven Jenkins, Judith Jones, Lynne Rosetto Kasper, Molly Katzen, Thomas Keller, Diana Kennedy, Todd Kliman, Mark Kram, Aglaia Kremezi, Peter Kump, Gray Kunz, Mark Kurlansky, Jim Lahey, Philippe Lajaunie, George Lang, Gabrielle Langholtz, Nigella Lawson, Ted Lee, Matt Lee, Emeril Legasse, Ed Levine, Chris Lilly, Anita Lo, Michael Lomanico, Sheila Lukins, Pino Luongo, Sirio Maccioni, Waldy Malouf, John Mariani, Zarela Martinez, Danny Meyer, Bryan Miller, Mike Mills, Rick Moonan, Pamela Morgan, Eberhard Muller, Jean-Luc Naret, Joan Nathan, Marion Nestle, Drew Nieporent, Michel Nischan, Jamie Oliver, Molly O'Neill, Daniel Orr, Charlie Palmer, Jacques Pepin, Deb Perelman, James Peterson, Adam Platt, Fred Plotkin, Michael Pollan, Alfred Portale, Julie Powell, Peter Poulokakos, Paul Prudhomme, Doug Psaltis, Wolfgang Puck, Patricia Quintana, Gordon Ramsey, Rene Redzepi, Mads Refslund, Ruth Reichl, Eric Ripert, Glenn Roberts, Rick Rogers, Michael Romano, David Rosengarten, Colette Rossant, Julee Rosso, Julie Sahni, Alain Sailhac, Marcus Samuelsson, Amy Scherber, Ed Schoenfeld, Arthur Schwartz, Kim Severson, Mimi Sheraton, Bryce Shuman, Robert Sietsema, Sam Sifton, Andre Soltner, Katy Sparks, Jeffrey Steingarten, Jane and Michael Stern, Martha Stewart, Bill Telepan, Wanda and Giovanna Tornabene, Jacques Torres, Jeremiah Tower, Charlie Trotter, Tom Valenti, Josh Viertel, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, David Waltuck, Karen Waltuck, Alice Waters, Jonathan Waxman, Patricia Wells, Pete Wells, Marco Pierre White, Jonathan White, Michael White, Anne Wilan, Barry Wine, Clark Wolf, Tama Matsuoka Wong, Eileen Yin-Fei Lo, Daniel Young, Eli Zabar, Nina Zagat, Tim Zagat, Geoffrey Zakarian.

Wine:

Anthony Dias Blue, Pio Boffa, David Bruce, Michel Chapoutier, B.R. Cohn, Francis Ford Coppola, Roger Dagorn, José Domecq, Robert Drouhin, Willie Frank, Pierre-Henri Gagey, Angelo Gaja, Gaia Gaja, Willie Gluckstern, Andrea Immer, Daniel Johnnes, Leigh Knowles, Pierre Lanson, Michel Laroche, Zelma Long, Paul Lukacs, Kermit Lynch, Vincent Maufoux, Corinne Metzolopoulos, Robert Mondavi, Ghislaine de Montgolfier, Egön Muller IV, Mary Ewing Mulligan, Ignacio Osborne, Olivier Ott, Janet Pagano, Karen Page, Fess Parker, Jancis Robinson, Michaela Rodeno, Michel Rolland, Roman Roth, Aldo Sohm, Claude Taittinger, Andre Tchelistcheff, Caroline Wente, Joshua Wesson, Maurizio Zanella.

Business and Economics:

Gil Amelio, Jagdish Bhagwati, Alex Berenson, Jared be Bernstein, Nick Bilton, Michael Bloomberg, David Brancaccio, Richard Branson, Edgar Bronfman, Warren Buffett, John Cassidy, Ha-Joon Chang, Ron Chernow, James J. Cramer, Jim Clark, Adam Davidson, Lou Dobbs, Stephen P Dubner, William Easterly, Barry Eichengreen, Bill Gates, Andrew Grove, Diana Henriques, Louis Hyman, Greg Ip, Joseph Jett, John Kay, Tom Kelley, Paul Krugman, Steven Leavitt, Jim Lebenthal, Michael Lewis, Martin Lindstrom, Howard Lutnik, Jeff Madrick, Antonio Garcia Martinez, Kim Masters, Peter Peterson, David Pogue, Jim Rogers, Louis Rukeyser, Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Robert Shiller, Alan Sloan, George Soros, Paul Soros, Gene Sperling, James Stewart, Joseph Stiglitz, Randall Stross, Robert Thaler, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Bob Wright, Muhammad Yunis.

Science, Technology, Mathematics and Medicine:

Diane Ackerman, Amir Aczel, Victor Ambros, Natalie Angier, Clay Armstrong, Robert Atkins, Robert Bakker, Robert Ballard, Julian Barbour, Alim Louis Benabid, David Berlinski, Bob Berman, Jeremy Bernstein, William Broad, Jane Brody, Benedict Carey, Sean Carroll, Daniel Charles, K.C. Cole, Francis Collins, Dalton Conley, Fabien Cousteau, Jacques Cousteau, Ken Croswell, Richard Dawkins, Antonio Damasio, Christian de Duve, Vincent DeVita, Jr., Jared Diamond, Peter Diamondis, Carl Djerassi, K.Eric Drexler, Ann Druyan, Esther Dyson, Gerald Edelman, Kevin Eggan, Paul Ehrlich, Paul Ekman, Niles Eldredge, Brian Fagan, Stanley Falkow, Tom Farley, Anthony Fauci, Todd Feinberg, Timothy Ferris, Helen Fisher, Tim Flannery, Ira Flatow, Richard Fortey, Robert Gallo, Laurie Garrett, Bill Gates, Atul Gawande, Margaret Geller, Murray Gell-Man, James Gleick, Thomas Gold, Jane Goodall, Gordon Gould, Stephen Jay Gould, Brian Greene, Stanley Greenspan, Jerome Groopman, Andrew Grove, Leonard Guarente, Marvin Harris, Zahi Hawass, Eve Herold, Homer Hickham, Bertil Hille, Julia Hirschberg, David Ho, John Horgan, John Horner, Sir Alec Jeffreys, Donald Johanson, George Johnson, Steve Jones, Michio Kaku, Ali S. Khan, Mary-Claire King, David Kirby, Robert Kirshner, Cristof Koch, Gina Kolata, Elizabeth Kolbert, Harold Koplowitz, Jaron Lanier, Richard Leakey, Leon Lederman, Janna Levin, Jay Levy, Jeffrey Lieberman, Alan Lightman, James Lovelock, Roderick MacKinnon, Bill McKibben, Kenneth Miller, Walter Mischel, Leonard Mlodinow, Kary Mullis, Elon Musk. Mark Norell, Michael Novacek, Paul Offit, Dennis Overbye, Abraham Pais, Tara Parker-Pope, Gerard Piel, Arno Penzias, Sidney Perkowitz, Steven Pinker, Walter Pitman, Thomas Prettyman, Stanley Prusiner, Lisa Randall, Isabelle Rapin, Sir Martin Rees, David Reznick, Burton Richter, Matt Ridley, Mary Roach, William Ryan, Oliver Sachs, Robert M. Sapolsky, Neil Shubin, Simon Singh, Lee Smolin, Dava Sobel, Albert Starr, Ralph Steinman, John Sulston, Ernest Sternglass, Bryan Sykes, Deborah Tannen, Ian Tattersall, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Harold Varmus, J. Craig Venter, Jan Vilcek, Cedric Villani, Emily Voigt, Nicholas Wade, Frans de Waal, James Watson, Steven Weinberg, Spencer Wells, Frank Wilczek, Ian Wilmot, E.O. Wilson, Steve Wozniak, Rosalyn Yalow, Philip Zimbardo, Carl Zimmer.

The Right Stuff:  

Buzz Aldrin, Conrad Anker, Robert Ballard, Richard Branson, David Breshears, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Jacques Cousteau, Ron Garan, Thor Heyerdahl, Sir Edmund Hillary, Scott Horowitz, Mae Jemison, Brian Jones, Jon Krakauer, Eugene Kranz, Mike Massimino, Story Musgrave, Jerri Nielsen, Bertrand Piccard, Sally Ride, Alan Shepard, Norman Simmons, Norman Vaughn, Chuck Yeager. 

Fashion:   

Joseph Abboud, Geoffrey Beene, Oleg Cassini, Kenneth Cole, Diane von Furstenberg, Donna Karan, Grace Mirabella, Isaac Mizrachi, Marco Pasanella, Paulina Porizkova, Liz Tilberis, Veronica Webb, John Weitz.

Miscellaneous: 

Eric Carle, Manuel Castells, Jim Carlton, Esther Dyson, Susan Faludi, Bill Gates, Jaron Lanier, Mary Wells Lawrence, Paul Levinson, Craig Newmark, Mary Pipher, Princess Martha Louise of Norway, Richard Pevear, Monty Roberts, Douglas Rushkoff, Witold Rybczynski, Robert Thurman, Larissa Volokhonsky.