Names Link to Wikipedia Entries
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Cellist, virtuoso
- Geoffrey West
- Theoretical Physicist, Former President of the Santa Fe Institute
- Frank Gehry
- Architect
- David Blaine
- Magician
- CK Williams
- Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, Princeton University
- Keith Black
- Neurosurgeon, Chairman of Neurosurgery and Director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
- CEO, DreamWorks Animation
- Steven Pinker
- Experimental Psychologist, Cognitive Scientist, Linguist, Author
- David Agus
- Co-Founder, Navigenics; Professor of Medicine and Engineering at University of Southern California
- Benedikt Taschen
- Publisher par excellence
- Lisa Randall
- Theoretical Physicist, Author, Professor Harvard University
- Mike Block
- Multi-genre cellist, composer, and progressive educator. Artistic Director of GALA NYC:"Global Art - Local Art" Music Festival, and founder of Mike Block String Camps.
- Jon Kamen
- Chairman and CEO of @radical.media
- Dave Gallo
- Pioneer in ocean exploration
- Scott Bolton
- Theoretical and experimental Space Physicist
- Herbie Hancock
- Pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer
- Danny Hillis
- Inventor of Parallel Computing; Entrepreneur; Co-Founder, Applied Minds
- will.i.am
- Rapper, musician, songwriter, singer, entrepreneur, actor, DJ and producer
- Moshe Safdie
- Architect
- Mark Cuban
- Maverick
- Matt Groening
- Creator, The Simpsons & Futurama
- Joshua Wurman
- Atmospheric Scientist, Inventor
- Adam Bly
- Founder, Seed; Creator, Visualizing.org; Editor, Science is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society
- Jack Dangermond
- Environmental Scientist & Co-Founder, Environmental Research Systems Institute (ESRI)
- Edward O. Wilson
- Pulitzer Prize winning Biologist, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Founder, MIT Media Lab; Founder, One Laptop Per Child
- Stephen Wolfram
- Scientist, Inventor, Author; Creator, Wolfram|Alpha; Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research
- Damian Woetzel
- Director of Arts Programs at the Aspen Institute; Former Ballet Star; Producer and Director of Dance and Music Performances
- Megan Smith
- Vice President, Google[x]
- Steve Stevens
- American guitarist and songwriter
- Mary Jordan
- Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist; Editor, Washington Post Live
- Bjarke Ingels
- Architect
- Will Wright
- Co-founder, Maxis; Founder and Chief Executive, Stupid Fun Club
- Julie Taymor
- Tony Award Winning Film and Theater Director, and Artist
- Antonio Damasio
- David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience & Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California
- John Maeda
- President, The Rhode Island School of Design
- Dan Ariely
- Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University; Founder, The Center for Advanced Hindsight
- Craig Venter
- Genome Scientist, first sequencer of the human genome and creator of the first synthetic cell. Founder of the J. Craig Venter Institute and Synthetic Genomics Inc.
- David Brooks
- Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
- Norman Lear
- Award Winning Television Producer; Chairman, Act III Communications
- Cristina Pato
- Musician: Gaita (Galician bagpipes), Piano; Composer. Founder and artistic director of Galician Connection: Forum in World Music
- John Mazziotta
- Chair, Department of Neurology; Executive Vice Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
- Todd Oldham
- Distinguished innovator of accessible design. Founder of Todd Oldham Studio, a multifaceted, full-service design studio.
- Peter Raven
- Botanist and environmentalist; President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden