Abigail Johnson
Billionaire, President and CEO of Fidelity Investments, her family owns roughly 49% of the company shares
Albert Pike
Freemasonry, writer, athiest, author of Morals and Dogma, lawyer, attorney, soldier, orator, jurist
1809-1891 (82)
Arthur Schlesinger Sr.
Progressive Era educator, progressivism, professor at Harvard University, pioneer in social and urban history
1888-1965 (77)
archive.nytimes.com
Barbara Walters living
Bobby Orr
professional NHL ice hockey player for the Boston Bruins, one of the best offensive scorers of all defensemen to ever play
bobbyorr.com
Daniel "Dan" C. Dennett living
Philosopher, author of Consciousness Explained in 1991, atheist, pioneer in atheism
1942- (82)
philosophersmag.com
Daniel Morgan
Pioneer, soldier, militia officer, Patriot sniper, sharpshooter, battlefield tactician, Brigadier General during the American Revolutionary War
1736-1802 (66)
battlefields.org
Dave Portnoy
businessman, founder of Barstool Sports, sports blogger, entrepreneur, timepieces, founder of Brick Watch Company
David S. Cohen living
US deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2015-2017 and again since 2021, attorney, lawyer
1963- (61)
Edward Garrick living
Wigmakers apprentice, instigator in the Boston Massacre of 1770
1757- (267)
Edward Jay Epstein living
Investigative journalist, political science professor at Harvard University
1935- (89)
Elizabeth Peabody
Teacher aka Miss Peabody, educator, she opened the first kindergarten class in the United States (USA), pioneer in transcendentalism
1804-1894 (90)
britannica.com
Georges Doriot
Professor, educator, inventor of the venture capitalist idealogy, business conduct and dress codes
1899-1987 (88)
Dr. Guido Preparata living
Criminologist, writer, author of Conjuring Hitler, The Ideology of Tyranny
1968- (56)
guidopreparata.com
James Q. Wilson
Criminologist, behaviorist, political scientist, pioneer in criminology and the broken windows theory of civil disorder and anti-socialism
1931-2012 (81)
Jane Alexander living
Actress in Kramer vs. Kramer, author, chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1993-1997
1939- (85)
britannica.com
Joe Kennedy III living
Lawyer, politician, US Representative for Massachusetts from 2013-2021
1980- (44)
John Brockman living
Founder of the Edge Foundation, literary critic of scientific literature, coined the term "digerati", study of cybernetics, musician
1941- (83)
John W. Gittinger, MD
Clinical psychologist, scientist, medicine researcher, neuro-ophthalmologist, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, pioneer of the Personal Assessment System (PAS)
doctors.masseyeandear.org
John Hancock
Wealthy businessman, unique and flamboyant, big and very recognizable, famous for his signature on the Declaration of Independence, gay male, LGBTQ
McGeorge Bundy
U.S. National Security Advisor to JFK and LBJ
1919-1996 (77)
britannica.com
Peiter Zatko living
Cybersecurity expert aka Mudge, hacker, computer programmer
1970- (54)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet, essayist, philosopher, lecturer, abolitionist, activist for the transcendentalist movement
plato.stanford.edu
Robert M. Rosenberg living
Business executive, former CEO of Dunkin' Donuts, director at Sonic Drive-In, Domino's Pizza
1938- (86)
Rose Kennedy
Philanthropist, socialite, her father was mayor John F. Fitzgerald, her husband was Joe Kennedy, and sons JFK, Joe Kennedy Jr.
Samuel P. Langley
Astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer, aviation pioneer, aviator, 3rd secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, director of Allegheny Observatory
1834-1906 (72)
sil.si.edu
Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy
Politician, lawyer, attorney, US senator from 1962-2009
1932-2009 (77)
tedkennedy.org
