Nelson Algren, writer
Elmer Bernstein, composer and conductor
David Bohm, physicist and philosopher
Charlie Chaplin, actor and director
Aaron Copland, composer
Bartley Crum, attorney
Howard Da Silva, actor
Jules Dassin, director
Dolores del Río, actress
W. E. B. Du Bois, civil rights activist and author
Howard Fast, writer
John Garfield, actor
Jack Gilford, actor
Ruth Gordon, actress
Lee Grant, actress
Dashiell Hammett, author
Elizabeth Hawes, clothing designer, author, equal rights activist
Lillian Hellman, playwright
Lena Horne, singer
Langston Hughes, writer
Sam Jaffe, actor
Theodore Kaghan, diplomat
Garson Kanin, writer and director
Benjamin Keen, historian
Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and stripper
Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and physicist
Arthur Laurents, playwright
Philip Loeb, actor
Joseph Losey, director
Burgess Meredith, actor
Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist
Zero Mostel, actor
J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, scientific director of the Manhattan Project
Dorothy Parker, writer
Linus Pauling, chemist, winner of two Nobel prizes
Samuel Reber, diplomat
Martin Ritt, actor and director
Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, writer, political activist
Edward G. Robinson, actor
Waldo Salt, screenwriter
Pete Seeger, folk singer
Artie Shaw, jazz musician
Irwin Shaw, writer
William L. Shirer, journalist
Lionel Stander, actor
Paul Sweezy, economist and founder-editor of Monthly Review
Charles W. Thayer, diplomat
Tsien Hsue-shen, physicist
These are a few of them, but for more, go to the links below.
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