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1. Value Investor Billionaire Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett Yale University Stanford University Harvard University University of Nebraska

2. Actor Governor of California ArnoldSchwarzenegger UCLA University of Wisconsin Harvard University Northwestern University

3. First African American justice of the United States Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall Stanford University Boston College University of Pennsylvania Lincoln University

4. Ethologist Dian Fossey San Jose State University University of Pennsylvania Princeton University Columbia University

5. Writer, poet, philologist Author, The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Cambridge University City University London Kingston University University of Oxford

6. U.S. Delegate to the United Nations Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Wellesley College Princeton University Columbia University UCLA

7. Secretary General, United Nations Kofi Annan Macalester College La Sorbonne Oxford University Columbia University

8. Founder, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Bill Gates Harvard University (dropout) Dartmouth University Yale University Columbia University

9. Reporter Emmy Winner CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour UCLA University of Rhode Island Harvard University Northwestern University

10. Journalism Major Fashion Designer Co-Founder Kate Spade New York Kate Spade Emory Arizona State University University of Oregon Carnegie Mellon

11. Comedian Television Host David Letterman Yale University University of Notre Dame Ball State University (Indiana) Georgetown University

12. Founder of YouTube Chad Hurley Indiana University of Pennsylvania Pepperdine University University of Notre Dame University of Chicago

13. New Jersey Governor EPA Director Christie Whitman Wheaton College, MA UC Berkeley Tulane University Vassar College

14. Musician Grammy Winner Norah Jones Dartmouth University University of Notre Dame University of North Texas Brown University

15. United States Senator John McCain US Naval Academy, Annapolis Arizona State University University of South Carolina Air Force Academy

16. Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump Georgetown University Dartmouth University Northwestern University Fordham University

17. Four-Star General Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Secretary of State Colin Powell Stanford University Northwestern University Harvard University City College of New York

18. Stanford University Provost National Security Advisor Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Harvard University Yale University University of Denver University of Pennsylvania

19. Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Peace Prize Linus Pauling MIT Oregon State University Northwestern University Dartmouth University

20. Author Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Nobel Prize in Literature Toni Morrison Princeton University Harvard University Columbia University Howard University

21. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Columbia University New York University Wellesley College Cornell University

22. Founder of CNN Founder, Turner Broadcasting System Ted Turner Boston College UC Berkeley Brown University, expelled Yale University

23. American Astronaut US Air Force Colonel First female pilot & commander of a Space Shuttle Eileen Collins Corning Community College, NY SUNY New Paltz Hunter College, NY Ithaca College

24. Vice President Joe Biden University Massachusetts Amherst University of Delaware Trinity College Penn State

25. Entrepreneur Owner, Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban Indiana University Georgetown University Stanford University Yale University

26. Actress Television Host Oprah Winfrey USC Tennessee State University Northwestern University Princeton University

27. United States Senator Barbara Boxer Stanford University Yale University Brooklyn College Columbia University

28. Founder of Burton Snowboards Jake Burton Carpenter University of Colorado at Boulder NYU Burlington College Daniel Webster College, NH

29. Civil Rights Activist Nobel Peace Prize Martin Luther King, Jr. Boston College Morehouse College University of Pennsylvania Columbia University

30. Entrepreneur Martha Stewart Barnard College Harvard University Princeton University Dartmouth College

31. Photographer Annie Leibovitz USC Columbia University Princeton University San Francisco Academy of Art

32. Comedian Television Host Jon Stewart The College of William and Mary Yale University Stanford University Northwestern University

33. President of the United States Barack Obama Harvard University Princeton University Occidental College Cornell University

34. Teacher United States Presidential Medal winner Jaime Escalante Stanford University California State University, Los Angeles University of Pennsylvania MIT

35. Actor Emmy Winner James Gandolfini Rutgers University USC University of Pennsylvania Yale University

36. Athlete Olympic Gold Medalist Mia Hamm Cornell University Georgetown University Yale University University of North Carolina

37. NASA Astronaut James Pawelczyk Georgia Institute of Technology University of Rochester Texas A&M University California Institute of Technology

38. Pulitzer Prize winner Author, The Color Purple Alice Walker Wellesley College New York University Davidson College Sarah Lawrence

39. Congressman Secretary of Defense Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney Princeton University Harvard University Columbia University University of Wyoming

40. Educator, songwriter, minister Host, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Fred Rogers Indiana University Knox College Rollins College University of Miami

41. Director of the Peace Corps President of the United Way Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao University of Pennsylvania Yale University Mount Holyoke College Columbia University

42. Alaska Governor Vice-Presidential Candidate Fox News Analyst Sarah Palin University of Alaska, Fairbanks North Idaho College Hawaii Pacific University University of Idaho

43. Hall of Fame Basketball player and coach Six-time NCAA College Basketball Coach of the Year John Wooden Stanford University Princeton University University of Notre Dame Purdue University

44. Comedian Television Host Jay Leno Stanford University Emerson College (Boston) UCLA Columbia University

45. Emmy Award Nominated Actress Lucy Liu Ohio State University Syracuse University University of Michigan Arizona State University

46. Governor of California President of the United States Ronald Reagan UCLA Eureka College (IL) Northwestern University Georgetown University

47. President of Old Navy Jenny Ming Cal State San Jose Art Center College of Design Pomona College UC San Diego

48. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders College of the Southwest, NM Philander Smith College, AR Whittier College Rice University

49. Fashion designer Calvin Klein Cornell University California Institute of Fashion & Technology The New School Fashion Institute of Technology

50. Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation Anne Mulcahy Marymount College Stanford University Harvard University Georgetown University