Abraham Maslow

Agnes Martin

Abstract painter (1912-2004)

Ai Weiwei

Chinese artist and activist (1957-present)

Albert Einstein

Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1879-1955)

Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor and scientist (1847-1922)

Alfred Adler

Amelia Earhart

Aviation pioneer (1897-disappeared 1937)

Amit Ray

Indian spiritual teacher (1960-present)

Amy Chua

Amy Poehler

Andy Warhol

Angela Davis

Ann Patchett

Author (1963-present)

Anna Wintour

Fashion editor (1949-present)

Anne Carson

Anonymous

August Wilson

B. F. Skinner

Benjamin Disraeli

Former U.K. prime minister (1804-1881)

Bertrand Russell

Betty Williams

Bill Watterson

Cartoonist and “Calvin and Hobbes” creator (1958-present)

Billie Jean King

Björk

Icelandic musician (1965-present)

Bob Dylan

Singer-songwriter (1941-present)

Bob Ross

Brené Brown

Researcher and storyteller (1965-present)

Bruce Lee

Martial artist and film actor (1940-1973)

Carlos Castaneda

Anthropologist and writer (1925-1998)

Charlie Kaufman

Screenwriter and film director (1958-present)

Chinua Achebe

Clarice Lispector

Brazilian writer (1920-1977)

Confucius

Chinese philosopher and teacher (c. 551-479 BCE)

Criss Jami

Daisaku Ikeda

Japanese Buddhist philosopher (1928-2023)

Dale Carnegie

Damian Lillard

David Sedaris

Dolores del Río

Mexican actress (1904-1983)

Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy West

E.B. White

Writer and children's book author (1899-1985)

E.M. Forster

Eden Phillpotts

Edward Gibbon

Elaine May

Elbert Hubbard

Writer and publisher (1856-1915)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Humanitarian and former U.S. first lady (1884-1962)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Blackwell

Elton John

Elvis Presley

Singer and actor (1935-1977)

Ernest Hemingway

Nobel Prize-winning writer (1899-1961)

Fay Weldon

English author, essayist, and playwright (1931-2023)

Federico Fellini

Italian director and screenwriter (1920-1993)

Fiona Apple

Francis Bacon

English philosopher and statesman (1561-1626)

Frank Zappa

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd U.S. president (1882-1945)

Fridtjof Nansen

Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher and cultural critic (1844–1900)

Gabriel García Márquez

Gail Sheehy

Georgia O’Keeffe

Modernist painter (1887-1986)

Gloria Steinem

Journalist, feminist, and activist (1934-present)

Gwendolyn Brooks

Hannibal

Helen Keller

Author, educator, and activist (1880-1968)

Herb Brooks

Hunter S. Thompson

I. M. Pei

Iain McGilchrist

Isabel Allende

Chilean American writer (1942-present)

Isabel Ibañez

Issa Rae

J.R.R. Tolkien

English writer and scholar (1892-1973)

Jack Kerouac

Novelist and poet (1922-1969)

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

James Dean

James Dyson

Jane Goodall

Animal scientist and conservationist (1934-present)

Jasper Johns

Painter, sculptor, and printmaker (1930-present)

Jesse Eisenberg

Joan Didion

Writer and journalist (1934-2021)

John A. Shedd

John F. Kennedy

35th U.S. president (1917-1963)

John Irving

John Maxwell

John Steinbeck

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (1902-1968)

Judi Dench

Oscar-winning English actress (1934-present)

Judy Blume

Julie Andrews

English actress, singer, and author (1935-present)

Jóhann Jóhannsson

Katharine Hepburn

Oscar-winning actress (1907-2003)

Katherine Center

Author (1972-present)

Kevin Kelly

Editor and publisher (1952-present)

Laozi

Leonardo da Vinci

Les Brown

Politician and motivational speaker (1945-present)

Lou Andreas-Salomé

Russian German psychoanalyst and writer (1861-1937)

Louis Pasteur

Luvvie Ajayi

Madame de Sévigné

Mae Jemison

Marie Curie

Nobel Prize-winning Polish scientist (1867-1934)

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Marina Abramović

Martha Graham

Dancer and choreographer (1894-1991)

Mary Katrantzou

Mary Schmich

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Mary Shelley

English novelist (1797-1851)

Massimo Bottura

Matt Damon

Actor (1970-present)

Maxine Hong Kingston

May Sarton

Maya Angelou

Poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928-2014)

Meryl Streep

Oscar-winning actress (1949-present)

Michelangelo

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer (1547-1616)

Misty Copeland

Principal ballet dancer (1982-present)

Montesquieu

Morgan Harper Nichols

Musician and artist (1990-present)

Napoleon Hill

Self-help author (1883-1970)

Nelson Mandela

Former president of South Africa (1918-2013)

Nina Simone

Singer and civil rights activist (1933-2003)

Olafur Eliasson

Icelandic Danish artist (1967-present)

Paulo Coelho

Brazilian author (1947-present)

Pema Chödrön

Buddhist nun and teacher (1936-present)

Peter Diamandis

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

English actress, writer, and producer (1985-present)

Quintus Sertorius

Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian poet and novelist (1875-1926)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

Ray Bradbury

Author (1920-2012)

Rita Moreno

Ron Shelton

Rosa Parks

Civil rights activist (1913-2005)

Rumi

Persian poet and mystic (1207–1273)

Ruth Gordon

Actress, playwright, and screenwriter (1896-1985)

RZA

Seneca

Ancient Roman philosopher (c. 4 BCE-65 CE)

Shirley Chisholm

Politician (1924-2005)

Shonda Rhimes

TV producer and screenwriter (1970-present)

Simone Weil

French philosopher (1909-1943)

Sonia Boyce

Squire Bill Widener

Stephen King

Author of horror novels (1947-present)

Steve Jobs

Entrepreneur and Apple co-founder (1955-2011)

Stevie Wonder

Suzy Kassem

Sylvia Plath

Poet and novelist (1932-1963)

T.S. Eliot

Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist (1888-1965)

Ted Hughes

Theodore Roosevelt

26th U.S. president (1858-1919)

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Edison

Inventor (1847-1931)

Trevor Noah

South African comedian, writer, and TV host (1984-present)

Twyla Tharp

Dancer and choreographer (1941-present)

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch postimpressionist painter (1853-1890)

Virgil

Ancient Roman poet (c. 70-19 BCE)

Walt Disney

Animator and entrepreneur (1901-1966)

Wayne Gretzky

William Hazlitt

William James

Philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)

William McFee

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (c. 1564-1616)

Winston Churchill