Prominent Guests & Fellows
- David McCullough, writer, historian and host of The American Experience on public television
- Joyce Carol Oates, national award-winning author
- Robert Ballard, oceanographer, discoverer of RMS Titanic
- Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angela's Ashes
- Carlos Fuentes, Latin American novelist
- Jacques d'Amboise, world renowned dancer with the New York City Ballet Company
- Victor Wooten, Bass guitarist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- Oteil Burbridge, Bass guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band
- Shelby Foote, Author & American Civil War Historian
- Chevy Chase, writer, actor, performer
- Jean-Michel Cousteau, explorer, environmentalist, educator, film producer
- Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Governor of New Jersey
- Donald Johanson, paleoanthropologist, discovered the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton known as "Lucy"
- Brian Greene, physicist and String Theorist
- Bill Bryson, writer A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
- Rep. Shirley Chisholm, (D-NY) first African American woman elected to the United States Congress
- Tom Brokaw, Anchor of the NBC Nightly News
- David Brinkley, American television newscaster
- Carole Simpson, ABC News Anchor
- Gov. Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., (R-CT) U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut
- Bob Feller, Former Major League Baseball pitcher and Hall of Famer.
- George Plimpton, Journalist, writer, editor, and actor
- Benny Goodman, jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader
- Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
- Peter Kaplan, Editor-In-Chief of the New York Observer
- Wade Davis, Noted Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer
- Chuck Hogan, Famous novelist, known for The Prince of Thieves and The Strain Trilogy which he co-writes with Guillermo del Toro
- The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York
- Brian Dennehy, Actor
- Carolyn Porco, Planetary scientist and director of the Cassini Imaging Team
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