A Curious Mind
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Tiffany Bryan: contestant on reality TV show Fear Factor
Jane Buckingham: expert on forecasting trends
Ted Buffington: expert on performance under pressure and on decision making in critical situations
Vincent Bugliosi: deputy Los Angeles district attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson, cowrote Helter Skelter
Ed Bunker: career criminal and author of crime fiction
Tory Burch: fashion designer
James Burke: CEO of Johnson & Johnson during the 1982 Tylenol crisis
Cara-Beth Burnside: pioneer of women’s skateboarding and snowboarding
Chandler Burr: journalist, author, curator of olfactory art at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City
Eugenia Butler, Sr.: art dealer and collector
James T. Butts, Jr.: mayor of Inglewood, former police chief of Santa Monica
David Byrne: musician, founding member of the band Talking Heads
Naomi Campbell: actress, supermodel
Adam Carolla: podcaster, former host of syndicated radio call-in program Loveline
John Carroll: journalist, former editor of the Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun
Sean B. Carroll: evolutionary development biologist, geneticist
Mr. Cartoon: tattoo and graffiti artist
Carlos Castaneda: anthropologist, author of books describing his shamanism training
Celerino Castillo III: DEA agent who revealed the CIA-backed arms-for-drugs trade in Nicaragua
Brian Chesky: cofounder and CEO of Airbnb
Deepak Chopra: author, physician, alternative medicine advocate
Michael Chow: restaurateur
Chuck D: musician, music producer, former leader of Public Enemy
Steve Clayton: research futurist for Microsoft
Eldridge Cleaver: leader of the Black Panther Party, author of Soul on Ice
Johnnie Cochran: defense attorney who represented O. J. Simpson
Jared Cohen: director of Google Ideas
Joel Cohen: population specialist, mathematical biologist
Kat Cohen: university admissions counselor, author of The Truth About Getting In
William Colby: CIA director, 1973–1976
Elizabeth Baron Cole: nutritionist
Jim Collins: management consultant, expert on business and management, author of Good to Great
Robert Collins: neurologist, former chairman of neurology at UCLA School of Medicine
Sean Combs: musician, music producer, fashion designer, entrepreneur
Richard Conniff: author who specializes in human and animal behavior
Tim Cook: CEO of Apple, Inc.
Tatiana Cooley-Marquardt: repeat winner of USA Memory Championship
Anderson Cooper: journalist, author, TV personality, anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360
Norman Cousins: medical guru, author of Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
Jacques Cousteau: oceanographer, pioneered marine conservation
Chris W. Cox: chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association
Steve Coz: former editor of National Enquirer
Donald Cram: professor of chemistry at UCLA, Nobel laureate in chemistry
Jim Cramer: investor, author, TV personality, host of CNBC’s Mad Money
Clyde Cronkhite: criminal justice expert, former police chief of Santa Ana, former deputy police chief of Los Angeles
Mark Cuban: investor, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks
Heidi Siegmund Cuda: journalist, former music critic for the Los Angeles Times
Thomas Cummings: leading expert in designing high-performing organizations and strategic change at USC Marshall School of Business
Fred Cuny: disaster relief specialist
Mario Cuomo: governor of New York, 1983–1994
Alan Dershowitz: attorney, constitutional scholar, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School
Donny Deutsch: advertising executive, TV personality
Jared Diamond: evolutionary biologist, author, professor at UCLA, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Alfred “Fred” DiSipio: record promoter investigated during payola scandal
DMX: musician, actor
Thomas R. Donovan: former CEO of the Chicago Board of Trade
Jack Dorsey: cofounder of Twitter, founder and CEO of Square Inc.
Steve Drezner: specialist in systems analysis and military projects for RAND Corporation
Ann Druyan: author and producer specializing in cosmology and popular science
Marian Wright Edelman: founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund
Betty Edwards: author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Peter Eisenhardt: astronomer, physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Paul Ekman: psychologist, pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions
Anita Elberse: professor of business administration at Harvard Business School
Eminem: musician, music producer, actor
Selwyn Enzer: futurist, former director of USC Center for Futures Research
Susan Estrich: lawyer, author, first female campaign manager of a major presidential campaign (for Michael Dukakis)
Harold Evans: journalist, author, former editor of the Sunday Times, founded Condé Nast Traveler
Ron W. Fagan: sociologist, former professor at Pepperdine University
Barbara Fairchild: editor of Bon Appétit, 2000–2010
Shepard Fairey: artist, graphic designer, illustrator
Linda Fairstein: author, former chief prosecutor of the sex crimes unit for the Manhattan district attorney’s office
John Fiedler: director of communications research for the 1984 Reagan-Bush presidential campaign
Louis C. Finch: former deputy undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness for the U.S. Department of Defense
Henry Finder: editorial director of the New Yorker
Ted Fishman: journalist, author of China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
John Flicker: former president and CEO of the National Audubon Society
William Ford, Jr.: chairman and former CEO of the Ford Motor Company and great-grandson of Henry Ford
Matthew Freud: head of Freud Communications and great-grandson of Sigmund Freud
Glen Friedman: photographer who does a lot of work with skateboarders and musicians, artist, author of Fuck You Heroes
Bonnie Fuller: journalist, media executive, editor of HollywoodLife.com
Bob Garcia: baseball card collector and expert
Howard Gardner: developmental psychologist, developed theory of multiple intelligences
Daryl F. Gates: police chief of Los Angeles, 1978–1992
Vince Gerardis: entrepreneur
David Gibson: philosopher, scholar of ancient Greek philosopher Plato
Françoise Gilot: painter, author of Life with Picasso
Malcolm Gladwell: author, journalist, staff writer at the New Yorker
Rebecca Glashow: digital media executive involved in launching first video-on-demand system
Sheldon Glashow: theoretical physicist, professor emeritus at Harvard University, Nobel laureate in physics
Bernard Glassman: Zen teacher and cofounder of the Zen Peacemaker Order
Barry Glassner: president of Lewis & Clark College, former executive vice provost at the University of Southern California
John Goddard: adventurer, author, first man to kayak the entire Nile River
Russell Goldsmith: CEO of City National Bank
Adam Gopnik: staff writer for the New Yorker and author of Paris to the Moon
Andrew Gowers: former editor of the Financial Times
Robert Graham: sculptor
Brian Greene: theoretical physicist, professor at Columbia University, specialist in string theory
Robert Greene: author and speaker known for books on strategy, power, and seduction
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da Greenhouse: journalist, former U.S. Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Lisa Gula: former scientist, working on missile defense systems at XonTech
Sanjay Gupta: neurosurgeon, chief medical correspondent for CNN
Ramón A. Gutiérrez: professor of history at the University of Chicago, specializing in U.S. race and ethnic relations
Joseph T. Hallinan: journalist, author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting
Dean Hamer: geneticist, scientist emeritus at the National Cancer Institute, specializing in how genes affect human behavior
Dian Hanson: editor of pornographic magazines, editor for Taschen art books
Tom Hargrove: agricultural scientist who was kidnapped in Colombia by FARC narco-guerrillas, inspired the movie Proof of Life
Mark Harris: journalist, former executive editor of Entertainment Weekly
Sam Harris: neuroscientist, author of The End of Faith
Bill Harrison: vision specialist focusing on sports vision training to maximize eye-mind-body reflexes
Reed Hastings: cofounder and CEO of Netflix
Laura Hathaway: national coordinator for American Mensa International, Gifted Children Resource Programs
Zahi Hawass: archaeologist, Egyptologist, former minister of state for antiquities affairs in Egypt
John Hay: Freemason
Lutfallah Hay: former member of parliament in prerevolutionary Iran, Freemason
Susan Headden: former reporter and editor at U.S. News & World Report, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting
Jack Healey: human rights activist, former executive director of Amnesty International USA
Thomas Heaton: seismologist, professor at California Institute of Technology, contributed to the development of earthquake early warning systems
Peter Herbst: journalist, former editor of Premiere and New York magazines
Danette Herman: talent executive for Academy Awards
Seymour Hersh: investigative reporter, author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for uncovering the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War
Dave Hickey: art and cultural critic who has written for Harper’s, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair
Jim Hightower: progressive political activist, radio talk-show host
Tommy Hilfiger: fashion designer, founder of lifestyle brand
Christopher Hitchens: journalist and author who was a critic of politics and religion
David Hockney: artist and major contributor to the Pop art movement in the 1960s
Nancy Irwin: hypnotherapist
Chris Isaak: musician, actor
Michael Jackson: singer, songwriter, his 1982 album Thriller is the bestselling album of all time
LeBron James: NBA basketball player
Mort Janklow: literary agent, founder and chairman of the literary agency Janklow & Nesbit Associates
Jay Z: musician, music producer, fashion designer, entrepreneur
Wyclef Jean: musician, actor
James Jebbia: CEO of the Supreme clothing brand
Harry J. Jerison: paleoneurologist, professor emeritus at UCLA
Steve Jobs: cofounder and former CEO of Apple Inc., cofounder and former CEO of Pixar
Betsey Johnson: fashion designer
Jamie Johnson: documentary filmmaker who directed Born Rich, heir to Johnson & Johnson fortune
Larry C. Johnson: former analyst for the CIA, security and terrorism consultant
Robert L. Johnson: businessman, media magnate, cofounder and former chairman of BET
Sheila Johnson: cofounder of BET, first African American woman to be an owner/partner in three professional sports teams
Steve Johnson: media theorist, popular science author, cocreated online magazine FEED
Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Olympic gold medalist, track star
Paul Kagame: president of Rwanda
Michiko Kakutani: book critic for the New York Times, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism
Sam Hall Kaplan: former architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times
Masoud Karkehabadi: wunderkind who graduated from college at age thirteen
Patrick Keefe: author, staff writer for the New Yorker
Gershon Kekst: founder of the corporate communications company Kekst and Co.
Jill Kelleher: professional matchmaker and founder and CEO of Kelleher & Associates
Robin D. G. Kelley: historian and professor at UCLA, specializing in African American studies
Sheila Kelley: actress and dancer, founder of S Factor pole dancing workout
Philip Kellman: cognitive psychologist and professor at UCLA, specializing in perceptual learning and adaptive learning
Joseph Kennedy II: businessman, Democratic politician, founder of Citizens Energy Corp., son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy
Gayle King: editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine, coanchor of CBS This Morning
Alex Kipman: technical fellow at Microsoft, coinventor of Kinect for Xbox
Robert Kirby: kinesiologist who studies the science of muscular medicine
Henry Kissinger: former U.S. secretary of state, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Calvin Klein: fashion designer
Elsa Klensch: journalist, fashion critic, former host of CNN’s Style with Elsa Klensch
Phil Knight: cofounder, chairman, and former CEO of Nike Inc.
Beyoncé Knowles: musician, actress
Christof Koch: neuroscientist and professor at California Institute of Technology, specializing in human consciousness
Clea Koff: forensic anthropologist who worked with United Nations to reveal genocide in Rwanda
Stephen Kolodny: attorney; practices family law
Rem Koolhaas: architect, architectural theorist, professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design
Jeff Koons: artist
Jesse Kornbluth: journalist, editor of a cultural concierge service
Richard Koshalek: former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Mark Kostabi: artist, composer
Anna Kournikova: former professional tennis player
Lawrence Krauss: theoretical physicist, cosmologist, professor at Arizona State University
Steve Kroft: journalist, correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes
William LaFleur: author, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Japanese culture
Steven Lamy: professor of international relations at the University of Southern California
Lawrence Lawler: former special agent in charge of the Los Angeles field office of the FBI
Nigella Lawson: journalist, author, food writer, TV host
Sugar Ray Leonard: professional boxer who won world titles in five weight divisions
Maria Lepowsky: anthropologist, professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison, lived with the indigenous people of a Papua New Guinea island
Lawrence Lessig: activist for Internet freedom and Net neutrality, professor at Harvard Law School
Cliff Lett: professional race car driver, designer of radio-controlled cars
Robert A. Levine: former economist at RAND Corporation
Ariel Levy: journalist, staff writer at New York magazine
Dany Levy: founder of DailyCandy email newsletter
Roy Lichtenstein: Pop artist
John Liebeskind: former professor at UCLA, leading researcher in the study of pain and its relation to health
Alan Lipkin: former special agent for the criminal investigation division of the IRS
Margaret Livingstone: neurobiologist specializing in vision, professor at Harvard Medical School
Tone Loc: musician, actor
Elizabeth Loftus: cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory, professor at the University of California, Irvine
Lisa Love: West Coast director for Vogue and Teen Vogue
Jim Lovell: Apollo-era astronaut, commander of the cripple
d Apollo 13 mission
Thomas Lovejoy: ecologist, professor at George Mason University, former assistant secretary for environmental and external affairs at the Smithsonian Institution, expert in tropical deforestation
Malcolm Lucas: chief justice of the California Supreme Court, 1987–1996
Oliver Luckett: founder and CEO of social media content company the Audience
Frank Luntz: political consultant and pollster
Peter Maass: author and journalist who covers international affairs, war, and conflict
Norman Mailer: author, playwright, filmmaker, journalist, cofounder of the Village Voice
Sir John Major: prime minister of the United Kingdom, 1990–1997
Michael Malin: astronomer, designer, developer of cameras used to explore Mars
P. J. Mara: former Irish senator and political adviser to Irish prime minister Charles Haughey
Lou Marinoff: philosopher who works with decision theory and political philosophy, professor at the City College of New York
Thom Mayne: architect, cofounder of architecture firm Morphosis
John McCain: U.S. senator from Arizona, Republican nominee for president in 2008
Terry McAuliffe: governor of Virginia, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Kevin McCabe: economic theorist, neuroeconomist, professor at George Mason University
Susan McCarthy: former city manager for Santa Monica
Susan McClary: musicologist who combines musicology with feminist music criticism, professor at Case Western Reserve University
Terry McDonell: editor, media executive, former editor in chief of Esquire
Paul McGuinness: former manager of the band U2
Robert McKee: creative writing instructor, former professor at the University of Southern California
Daniel McLean: classics scholar and lecturer at UCLA
Bruce McNall: sports executive, former owner of the National Hockey League’s Los Angeles Kings
Leonard Mehlmauer: naturopath, researcher who created the term “eyology”
Sonny Mehta: chairman and editor in chief of Alfred A. Knopf publishing company
Steven Meisel: fashion photographer
Susan Meiselas: documentary photographer
Suzy Menkes: British journalist, author, former fashion reporter and editor for the International Herald Tribune
Millard “Mickey” Drexler: CEO and chairman of J. Crew, former president and CEO of the Gap
Jack Miles: editor, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Fellowship recipient