Lachlan Murdoch living
Billionaire heir, executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, co-chairman of News Corp (FOX News), founder of Illyria investments
1971- (53)
foxcorporation.com
Bill Bradley living
2X NBA champion, US senator, Democratic Party politician, storyteller, best basketball player that Princeton had ever seen, inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 1983
1943- (81)
billbradley.com
Brian Kernighan living
Computer scientist, co-inventor of C programming language, computer programmer
1942- (82)
Anthony Lake living
Business executive, Democratic politician, political strategist, US national security advisor from 1993-1997, executive director of UNICEF from 2010-2017
1939- (85)
Frederick P. Hitz living
Inspector General at the CIA, intelligence officer, espionage, spycraft, tradecraft, author of The Great Game
1939- (85)
penguinrandomhouse.com
Carl Icahn living
Billionaire stock trader, hedge fund manager, 85% owner of Icahn Enterprises LP (IEP), shares lost $6-10 Billion in one day after Hindeburg Research accused his company of Ponzi schemes, corporate raider reputation with Transworld Airlines (TWA) in a leveraged buyout, founder of LowestFare.com, activist investor
1936- (88)
Peter Kenen
Economist, international economics, Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University
1932-2012 (80)
voxeu.org
John Nash
mathematician, pioneer in game theory and differential geometry, the film drama "A Beautiful Mind" was created and Russell Crowe played his character
1928-2015 (87)
britannica.com
John Forbes Nash Jr.
Mathematician who developed the embedding theorem, pioneer in game theory, Nash equilibrium theory, algebraic geometry, differential geometry (differential equations)
1928-2015 (87)
William Colby
CIA director from 1973-1976, US army military veteran, CIA intelligence officer, drowned and his canoe washed ashore
1920-1996 (76)
Henry Morgenthau III
TV producer at WGBH in Boston from 1955-1977, Prospects of Mankind, The Negro and the American Promise, author
1917-2018 (101)
washingtonpost.com
Laurance Rockefeller
financier, co-founder of Eastern Airlines, pilot, procurement of McDonnell Aircraft for the US Navy, investor, pioneer in paranormal research, UFOs, aliens, crop circles
1910-2004 (94)
britannica.com
Ken Galbraith
Economist, liberal diplomat, ambassador to India, writer at Forbes, author of The Affluent Society, The Great Crash 1929, lecturer, Warburg professor of economics at Harvard, proponent of liberalism and realism, coined the phrase "progress is an innocent fraud", co-founder the European Management Symposium (now World Economic Forum or "WEF")
1908-2006 (98)
Theodor W. Adorno
Enlightenment philosopher, sociologist on discrimination, psychologist, co-author of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, pioneer in social/aestheic theory and negative dialectics, Marxist theorist, critical theorist of society, musicologist, music critic, composer
1903-1969 (66)
britannica.com
John von Neumann
mathematician, polymath, axiomatization of set theory, quantum mechanics, physicist, worked on the Manhattan project
1903-1957 (54)
ams.org
Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the United States from 1913-1921, Democratic politician, socialist, governor of New Jersey, co-founder of Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), co-founder of the US Federal Reserve Bank (the FED), author of The New Freedom
1856-1924 (68)
David Brearly
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, helped draft the US Constitution
1745-1790 (45)
John Dickinson
Politician aka Penman of the Revolution, scholar, solicitor, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 12 Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania in 1767-1768
1732-1808 (76)
Jerome "Jay" Powell
Banker aka Jerome Powell, lawyer, 16th chair of the US Federal Reserve since 2018, former editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Law Journal
federalreserve.gov
Dryden Kuser
Politician, husband of Brooke Astor, grandson of John Fairfield Dryden
MacKenzie Scott
Novelist, author, philanthropist, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos who co-founded Amazon, owner of 4% of Amazon, activist, founder of Bystander Revolution
Mark Wilf
Sports team owner, co-owner and President of the Minnesota Vikings
vikings.com
Michelle Obama
Educator, podcaster, author lawyer at Sidley & Austin, former First Lady of the United States, founder of The Girls Opportunity Alliance
Dr. Carroll Quigley
professor of history at Princeton University, historian, Anglophile whisleblower, author of The Anglo-American Establishment, Tragedy and Hope
carrollquigley.net
Queen Noor of Jordan
Queen of Jordan from 1978-1999, philanthropist, political activist, House of Hashemites
Andrew Weissmann
criminal fraud lawyer, criminal lawyer, attorney, special counsel assigned by Robert Mueller
its.law.nyu.edu
Alvin Felzenberg
Historian, author, spokesman for the 911 Commission Report
c-span.org
Alexis McGill Johnson
President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, founder of the Culture Group, civil rights activist
plannedparenthood.org