20th-century American academics

The list 20th-century American academics includes Anna J. Cooper and Beryl Williams. The list consists of 2,005 members and 7 sublists.

20th-century American historians
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20th-century American scientists
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20th-century American philosophers
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20th-century African-American academics
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20th-century American musicologists
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20th-century American women academics
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20th-century American social scientists
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1.

Barack Obama

American, Politician

Overview: Barack Hussein Obama II ( bə-RAHK hoo-SAYN oh-BAH-mə; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the ...

Date of birth: 4 August 1961

Age: 63

Nationality: American

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

Partner: Michelle Obama (Married)

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American male feminists 109T

21st-century Illinois politicians 372T

21st-century American legislators 10,508T
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Condoleezza Rice

American diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)

Overview: Condoleezza "Condi" Rice ( KON-də-LEE-zə; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat, political scientist, civil servant, and professor who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford ...

Date of birth: 14 November 1954

Age: 69

Nationality: American

Occupation: Government

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Time 100 250T

Members of the Council on Foreign Relations 382T

21st-century American memoirists 326T
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Gardner McKay

American actor and artist

Overview: George Cadogan Gardner McKay (June 10, 1932 – November 21, 2001) was an American actor, artist, and author. He is best known for the lead role in the TV series Adventures in Paradise, based loosely on ...

Date of birth: 10 June 1932

Date of death: 21 November 2001

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

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Male actors of Scottish descent 224T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

American male short story writers 1,326T
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Stedman Graham

American businessman

Overview: Stedman Graham (born March 6, 1951) is an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. He is the long-term partner of Oprah Winfrey.

Date of birth: 6 March 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: American

Occupation: Personality

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 7" (201 cm)

Partner: Oprah Winfrey (Engaged)

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American men's basketball players 12,404T

Hardin–Simmons University alumni 36T

Hardin–Simmons Cowboys basketball players 8T
5.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist

Overview: Neil deGrasse Tyson (American English: , British English, Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English: ; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, planetary scientist ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: American

Occupation: Astronomer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

Partner: Alice Young (Married)

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Scientists from Manhattan 10T

Figures in sexual harassment scandals 71T

21st-century African-American academics 734T
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Anita Hill

American law professor and accuser of Clarence Thomas

Overview: Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American lawyer and academic. She is a university professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of the uni ...

Date of birth: 30 July 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: American

Occupation: Teacher

Gender: Female

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African-American legal scholars 26T

American women legal scholars 18T

Women legal scholars 331T
7.

James Baldwin

American writer (1924–1987)

Overview: James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of ...

Date of birth: 2 August 1924

Date of death: 30 November 1987

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Writers from Manhattan 74T

New York (state) socialists 58T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Gregory Abbott

American musician (born 1954)

Overview: Gregory Joel Abbott (born April 2, 1954) is an American singer, musician, composer and producer. Although he continues to record to date, he is best known for his singles in the mid-1980s including his ...

Date of birth: 2 April 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: American

Occupation: Songwriter

Gender: Male

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Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni 88T

20th-century male singers 5,297T

21st-century male singers 6,386T
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Angela Davis

American academic and political activist (born 1944)

Overview: Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ideologically a Marxist ...

Date of birth: 26 January 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Gina Dent (Dating)

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American anti-poverty advocates 79T

Time 100 250T

American Marxist writers 49T
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bell hooks

American author and activist (1952–2021)

Overview: Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is borrowed ...

Date of birth: 25 September 1952

Date of death: 15 December 2021

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Sociologist

Gender: Female

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American socialist feminists 110T

21st-century pseudonymous writers 421T

20th-century pseudonymous writers 906T
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Toni Morrison

American novelist

Overview: Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first ...

Date of birth: 18 February 1931

Date of death: 5 August 2019

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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White culture scholars 11T

Women opera librettists 54T

Writers from Syracuse, New York 77T
12.

Jeanette J. Epps

American astronaut

Overview: Jeanette Jo Epps (born November 3, 1970) is an American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut. Epps received both her M. S. and Ph.D degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, where ...

Date of birth: 2 November 1970

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Astronaut

Gender: Female

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Engineers from New York (state) 213T

Women astronauts 85T

African-American engineers 76T
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Marc Lamont Hill

American academic, writer and activist

Overview: Marc Lamont Hill (born December 17, 1978) is an American academic, author, activist, and television personality. He is a Professor of Media Studies and Urban Education at Temple University in Philadelphia ...

Date of birth: 17 December 1978

Age: 45

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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American male television writers 1,879T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

Screenwriters from New York (state) 1,175T
14.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

American baseball commissioner and academic administrator (1938-1989)

Overview: Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti (/dʒiːəˈmɑːti/; April 4, 1938 – September 1, 1989) was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner ...

Date of birth: 4 April 1938

Date of death: 1 September 1989

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

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American people of Campanian descent 89T

People from Edgartown, Massachusetts 21T

Yale College alumni 1,138T
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Mae C. Jemison

Asmerican astronaut

Overview: Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard ...

Date of birth: 17 October 1956

Age: 67

Nationality: American

Occupation: Astronaut

Gender: Female

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African-American women physicians 78T

Space Shuttle program astronauts 353T

African-American female aviators 25T
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Donald Byrd

American jazz trumpeter

Overview: Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation ...

Date of birth: 9 December 1932

Date of death: 4 February 2013

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Jazz Musician

Gender: Male

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Pupils of Nadia Boulanger 44T

American male jazz musicians 3,118T

The Jazz Messengers members 55T
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Carole Simpson

American journalist

Overview: Carole Simpson (born December 7, 1940) is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author. She is the first African-American woman to anchor a major United States network newscast.

Date of birth: 7 December 1940

Age: 83

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV News

Gender: Female

Partner: Jim Marshall (Married)

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20th-century African-American educators 139T

Hyde Park Academy High School alumni 44T

21st-century American women educators 88T
18.

Norton Simon

American industrialist and philanthropist

Overview: Norton Winfred Simon (February 5, 1907 – June 2, 1993) was an American billionaire industrialist and philanthropist based in California. Norton, at that time, was one of the richest men in America. He ...

Date of birth: 2 February 1907

Date of death: 1 June 1993

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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20th-century American Jews 4,542T

Lowell High School (San Francisco) alumni 45T

People associated with the Norton Simon Museum 6T
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Lucy Diggs Slowe

American tennis player

Overview: Lucy Diggs Slowe (July 4, 1885 – October 21, 1937) was an American educator and athlete, and the first Black woman to serve as Dean of Women at any American university. She was a founder of Alpha ...

Date of birth: 4 July 1885

Date of death: 21 October 1937

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women educators 307T

20th-century women educators 647T

People from Berryville, Virginia 14T
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Marjorie Lee Browne

American mathematician, educator

Overview: Marjorie Lee Browne (September 9, 1914 – October 19, 1979) was a mathematics educator. She was one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D in mathematics.

Date of birth: 9 September 1914

Date of death: 19 October 1979

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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20th-century women educators 647T

20th-century women mathematicians 452T

20th-century American educators 1,254T