Jack Benny, ’50s television host
Halle Berry, actress who recently appeared in “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge”
Wilford Brimley, of television and films, “Cocoon” and “The Firm”
Delta Burke, of television’s “Designing Women”
James Cagney, producer, director and actor
Nell Carter, of the television show “Gimme a Break”
Dale Evans, actress, singer and wife of Roy Rogers
Stephen Furst, actor on the television shows “St. Elsewhere” and “Babylon 5”
Jackie Gleason, funny star of “The Honeymooners”
Gordon Jump, actor on “WKRP in Cincinnati”
Mabel King, actress who played Mama on “What’s Happening”
Marcello Mastroianni, actor who appeared in 142 films
Jerry Mathers, actor of “Leave It To Beaver” fame
Mary Tyler Moore, actress and star of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”
Richard Mulligan, actor on the television show “Empty Nest”
Minnie Pearl, entertainer, actress on the variety show “Hee Haw”
Ehster Rolle, actress on the TV Show “Good Times”
George C. Scott, Academy Award-winning actor
Jean Smart, actress on “Designing Women”
Kate Smith, singer, actress who sang “God Bless America”
Spencer Tracy, famous leading man of Hollywood movies
Mae West, actress
Jane Wyman, actress on “Falcon Crest”
Political Leaders
Yuri Andropov, former premier of Soviet Union
Menachem Begin, Israeli prime minister
Lucille B. Chapman, a five-time Menominee Indian tribal chairwoman
James Farmer, civil rights pioneer
Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet premier
Janet Jagan, president of Guyana
Fiorello LaGuardia, New York mayor and the airport’s namesake
Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid leader
Anwar Sadat, Egyptian leader
Business Leaders
James Conkling, founder of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Bill and John Davidson, heads of Harley Davidson motorcycles
Tom Foster, former head of Foster Poultry Farms
W.L. Gherra, of Payless Drugs
Howard Hughes, industrialist
Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s fast food restaurants
Musicians
Nat Adderley, jazz trumpeter
Ray Anderson, jazz trombonist
Hoyt Axton, folksy baritone, songwriter and actor
Syd Barrett, of the rock group Pink Floyd
Johnny Cash, legendary country singer, known as “the man in black”
Carol Channing, Tony Award-winning singer/actress in “Hello Dolly”
Mark Collie, contemporary country star
David Crosby, member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Miles Davis, legendary jazz great
Freddy Fender, actor and country singer
Ella Fitzgerald, jazz vocalist
Mick Fleetwood, singer in rock band Fleetwood Mac
Jerry Garcia, lead singer of The Grateful Dead
Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter
Mahalia Jackson, singer
Waylon Jennings, country singer
B.B. King, rhythm and blues star
Patti LaBelle, pop singer
Peggy Lee, ’50s songster
Tommy Lee, of heavy metal band Motley Crue
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway composer
Meat Loaf, singer
Bret Michaels, lead singer of the rock group Poison
The Pump Girls