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Our Distinguished Contributors Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Hall of Fame Basketball Star New York Rens Nati Harnik—AP/Shutterstock.com Ansel Adams Pioneering Photographer Britannica Contributor, 1947 Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Noor al-Hussein Queen Dowager of Jordan The Hidden Dangers of Land Mines © Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock.com Madeleine K. Albright U.S. Secretary of State The War on Democracy U.S. Department of State Steve Allen Father of Late-Night Television Steve Allen on The Tonight Show © Supplied By Globe Photos, Inc—ZUMAPRESS.com/Alamy James A. Baker U.S. Secretary of State Going It Alone Is Not an Option Courtesy of James A. Baker III Wendy Beckett Influential Art Historian The Art of Looking at Art Stephen Barker/Shutterstock.com David Ben-Gurion Israel’s 1st Prime Minister Britannica Contributor, 1973 Horst Tappe/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Elizabeth Blackburn Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Leading with Science Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Charles Blow Columnist, The New York Times Juneteenth © Beowulf Sheehan. Reproduced with permission. Torah Bright Olympic Gold, Snowboarder Snowboarding Courtesy of Roxy and Torah Bright Tina Brown Best-Selling Author & Publisher Tina Brown on Princess Di © lev radin/Shutterstock.com Walter Camp Father of American Football Britannica Contributor, 1902 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-00838) Jimmy Carter U.S. President & Nobel Laureate Camp David Accords Jimmy Carter Library Lon Chaney Silent Film Star Britannica Contributor, 1929 © PictureLux—The Hollywood Archive/Alamy G.K. Chesterton Legendary Writer Britannica Contributor, 1929 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-B2- 1272-7b) Madame Chiang First Lady of Rep. of China Britannica Contributor, 1947 © Three Lions—Hulton Archive/Getty Images Bill Clinton U.S. President Dayton Accords Courtesy, William J. Clinton Foundation Mark Cuban Business Maverick & TV Star Non-fungible Token © Jaguarps/Dreamstime.com Marie Curie Nobel Prizes, Physics & Chemistry Britannica Contributor, 1926 © Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Dalai Lama Nobel Peace Prize Laureate A Call to Compassion © Joachim Eckel/Dreamstime.com Michael DeBakey Pioneering Surgeon Britannica Contributor, 1961 Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries/University of Houston Digital Library Neil deGrasse Tyson Astronomer & TV Host Popularizing Science Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Entertainment W.E.B. Du Bois Famed African American Leader Britannica Contributor, 1926 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Albert Einstein Nobel Prize in Physics Britannica Contributor, 1926 Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-60242) Joseph Ellis Pulitzer Prize Winner Thomas Jefferson © Erik Jacobs Chris Evert Hall of Fame Tennis Star U.S. Open Hood Milk Alexander Fleming Nobel Prize in Medicine Britannica Contributor, 1945 U.S National Library of Medicine Henry Ford Pioneering Industrialist Britannica Contributor, 1926 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3c11278u) Sigmund Freud Pioneering Psychoanalyst Britannica Contributor, 1926 Mary Evans/Sigmund Freud Copyrights (courtesy of W.E. Freud) Milton Friedman Nobel Prize in Economics Money Chuck Nacke/Alamy Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India Britannica Contributor, 1975 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-134157) Jeanne Gang Pioneering Architect Britannica Contributor, 2023 Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Entertainment Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Famed Public Intellectual Monuments of Hope, Memorials to a Poisoned Past Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Lillian Gish Silent Film Star Britannica Contributor, 1929 Bain News Service/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-32655) Robin Givhan Pulitzer Prize Winner André Leon Talley Robin Givhan Scott Hamilton Olympic Gold, Figure Skater Figure Skating Paul Morigi/Getty Images Entertainment Yuval Noah Harari Best-Selling Author Our Nonconscious Future Ilya Malnikov, courtesy of YNHarari.com Tony Hawk Pioneering Skateboarder Skateboarding Carlos Carvalho/Dreamstime.com Alfred Hitchco*ck Legendary Film Director Britannica Contributor, 1965 © 1960 Universal Pictures Herbert Hoover U.S. President Britannica Contributor, 1961 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (hec 18560) Harry Houdini Legendary Magician Britannica Contributor, 1926 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Reproduction no. LC-USZ62-112419) T.H. Huxley Famed Biologist Britannica Contributor, 1875 © Hulton Archive/Getty Images Lyndon Johnson U.S. President Britannica Contributor, 1963 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3a53305u) Michio Kaku Best-Selling Author & Physicist Albert Einstein © Andrew Cribb/Alamy Garry Kasparov Chess World Champion Worry About Human (Not Machine) Intelligence Andreas Rentz /Getty Images Sir John Keegan Famed Historian Normandy Invasion Shutterstock.com John Kennedy U.S. President Britannica Contributor, 1960 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston Marie Kondo Best-Selling Author & TV Star 6 Questions for Tidying Expert Marie Kondo © Starstock/Dreamstime.com Lee Iacocca Legendary Auto Executive Chrysler Armando Arorizo—Prensa Internacional/ZUMA Wire/ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Monica Lewinsky Activist & Author Cyberbullying Xavier Collin—Image Press Agency/Alamy Live News/Alamy Glenn Lowry Director, Museum of Modern Art Art Museums and Their Digital Future Courtesy of Glenn Lowry, photo by Peter Ross Thomas Malthus Pioneering Demographer Britannica Contributor, 1824 © Photos.com/Getty Images Jessica Meir NASA Astronaut Moon Travel NASA/Bill Ingalls H.L. Mencken Influential Writer & Critic Britannica Contributor, 1926 © Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images James Naismith Inventor of Basketball Britannica Contributor, 1929 agefotostock/Alamy Howard Nemerov U.S. Poet Laureate Britannica Contributor, 1974 James A. Finley/AP Images/Shutterstock.com Jack Nicklaus Legendary Golfer U.S. Open Jim Mandeville/The Nicklaus Companies Toluse Olorunnipa Pulitzer Prize Winner George Floyd Lori Hoffman for Bloomberg L.P. Naomi Osaka Tennis Star 4 Questions for Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Arnold Palmer Legendary Golfer Masters Tournament Courtesy, Arnold Palmer Enterprises Steven Pinker Famed Author & Psychologist Rationality Rebecca Goldstein Eleanor Roosevelt U.S. First Lady Britannica Contributor, 1947 Brown Brothers Anwar Sadat President of Egypt Britannica Contributor, 1981 United Archives GmbH/Alamy Carl Sagan Famed Cosmologist Extraterrestrial Life NASA/JPL/Cosmos Studies Martin Scorsese Oscar-Winning Film Director Film Preservation © Featureflash/Shutterstock.com Sir Walter Scott Groundbreaking Novelist Britannica Contributor, 1815 © Photos.com/Getty Images George B. Shaw Nobel Prize in Literature Britannica Contributor, 1926 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3a26142u) Peter Singer Noted Philosopher Ethics Denise Applewhite/Princeton University Lee Strasberg Legendary Actor & Teacher Britannica Contributor, 1959 © Hulton Archive—Archive Photos/Getty Images Leon Trotsky Russian Revolutionary Leader Britannica Contributor, 1926 Bain News Service/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-35130) Gene Tunney Heavyweight Boxing Champion Britannica Contributor, 1929 Carl Van Vechten photograph collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-103690) Ted Turner Broadcasting Pioneer United Nations Foundation UN Photo Desmond Tutu Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa Benny Gool—Oryx Media/Desmond Tutu Peace Cent James Watt Seminal Inventor Britannica Contributor, 1819 © Photos.com/Getty Images Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury Security Is Good, Reconciliation Even Better Steve Parsons/Getty Images Jody Williams Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Toward a Land Mine-Free World John Murphy Aurora PA E.O. Wilson Pulitzer-Prize Sociobiologist Mass Extinction © Sage Ross (CC BY-SA 3.0) Orville Wright Legendary Aviation Pioneer Britannica Contributor, 1929 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.