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The list American psychedelic drug advocates includes Joe Rogan, Steve Jobs, Hunter S. Thompson, Bill Hicks and Paul Kantner. The list consists of 80 members.
  • 1.

    Joe Rogan
    American broadcaster, comedian, and actor (born 1967)
    Joe Rogan
    Overview: Joseph James Rogan (born August 11, 1967) is an American podcaster, UFC color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television host. He hosts The Joe Rogan Experience.
    Date of birth: 11 August 1967
    Age: 57
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Radio Personality
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
    Partner: Jessica Schimmel (Married)
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    Joe Rogan 3T
    Male actors from Newton, Massachusetts 8T
    American interview podcasters 31T
  • 2.

    Steve Jobs
    American businessman and inventor (1955–2011)
    Steve Jobs
    Overview: Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co ...
    Date of birth: 24 February 1955
    Date of death: 5 October 2011
    Age: 56 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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    Time 100 250T
    Disney executives 88T
    Liver transplant recipients 70T
  • 3.

    Paul Kantner
    American musician
    Paul Kantner
    Overview: Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and occasional vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psy ...
    Date of birth: 17 March 1941
    Date of death: 28 January 2016
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Guitarist
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century American guitarists 3,517T
    2016 deaths 9,448T
    American male guitarists 4,296T
  • 4.

    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet and writer (1926–1997)
    Allen Ginsberg
    Overview: Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac ...
    Date of birth: 3 June 1926
    Date of death: 5 April 1997
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Pedophilia in the United States 6T
    Eastside High School (Paterson, New Jersey) alumni 24T
    Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T
  • 5.

    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist and author
    Hunter S. Thompson
    Overview: Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement. He first rose to prominence with the publication of ...
    Date of birth: 18 July 1937
    Date of death: 20 February 2005
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    2005 suicides 47T
    American male writers who committed suicide 108T
    21st-century American male writers 6,269T
  • 6.

    Bill Hicks
    American comedian and social critic
    Bill Hicks
    Overview: William Melvin Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician. His material—encompassing a wide range of social issues including ...
    Date of birth: 16 December 1961
    Date of death: 26 February 1994
    Age: 32 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Comic
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    Religious controversies in stand-up comedy 6T
    Obscenity controversies in stand-up comedy 9T
    Childfree 28T
  • 7.

    Max Cantor
    American actor and journalist
    Max Cantor
    Overview: Michael Cantor (May 15, 1959 – October 3, 1991) was an American journalist and actor in films such as Dirty Dancing (1987) and Fear, Anxiety & Depression (1989).
    Date of birth: 15 May 1959
    Date of death: 3 October 1991
    Age: 32 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Buxton School (Massachusetts) alumni 10T
    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
    People from the Upper West Side 194T
  • 8.

    Timothy Leary
    American psychologist (1920–1996)
    Timothy Leary
    Overview: Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from bold ...
    Date of birth: 22 October 1920
    Date of death: 31 May 1996
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    United States Army Air Forces non-commissioned officers 43T
    Ram Dass 13T
    20th-century American memoirists 453T
  • 9.

    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and visual artist (1914–1997)
    William S. Burroughs
    Overview: William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer, visual artist, spoken word performer and chaos magician credited as a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a ...
    Date of birth: 5 February 1914
    Date of death: 2 August 1997
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    Novelists from Missouri 144T
    United States Army personnel of World War II 4,472T
    American male painters 3,659T
  • 10.

    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer
    Philip K. Dick
    Overview: Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction. He wrote 44 published novels and approximately 121 short stories, most of which ...
    Date of birth: 16 December 1928
    Date of death: 2 March 1982
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Philosophers of literature 95T
    American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
    Novelists from Illinois 359T
  • 11.

    Kary Mullis
    American biochemist (1944–2019)
    Kary Mullis
    Overview: Kary Banks Mullis (December 28, 1944 – August 7, 2019) was an American biochemist. In recognition of his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in C ...
    Date of birth: 28 December 1944
    Date of death: 7 August 2019
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Chemist
    Gender: Male
    Partner: Nancy Lier Cosgrove (Married)
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    2019 deaths 9,204T
    2019 deaths 6,613T
    People from Lenoir, North Carolina 39T
  • 12.

    Abbie Hoffman
    American activist
    Abbie Hoffman
    Overview: Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989), better known as Abbie Hoffman, was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was ...
    Date of birth: 30 November 1936
    Date of death: 12 April 1989
    Age: 52 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    1989 suicides 57T
    American anti-capitalists 93T
    American male writers who committed suicide 108T
  • 13.

    Bill Wilson
    Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
    Bill Wilson
    Overview: William Griffith Wilson (November 26, 1895 – January 24, 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).
    Date of birth: 26 November 1895
    Date of death: 24 January 1971
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Gender: Male
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    People from Dorset, Vermont 11T
    Vermont National Guard personnel 44T
    United States Army personnel of World War I 2,234T
  • 14.

    Terence McKenna
    American ethnobotanist
    Terence McKenna
    Overview: Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic ...
    Date of birth: 16 November 1946
    Date of death: 3 April 2000
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century alchemists 14T
    American alchemists 4T
    People from Paonia, Colorado 7T
  • 15.

    Alex Grey
    American artist
    Alex Grey
    Overview: Alex Grey (29 November 1953) is an American visionary artist, author, teacher, and Vajrayana practitioner. He works in multiple forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture ...
    Date of birth: 29 November 1953
    Age: 71
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Male
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    Artists from Columbus, Ohio 42T
    Whetstone High School (Columbus, Ohio) alumni 5T
    Artists from New York City 1,632T
  • 16.

    Michele Noonan Ross
    Author, reality tv star, cannabis advocate
    Michele Noonan Ross
    Overview: Michele Noonan Ross (born June 16, 1982), also known as Michele Ann Noonan, Michele Osztrogonacz, and Michele Osztrogonacz Ross, is an American neuroscientist, author, and media personality. She is a noted ...
    Date of birth: 16 June 1982
    Age: 42
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Personality
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    LGBT people from New Jersey 220T
    American LGBT scientists 177T
    Big Brother (franchise) contestants 214T
  • 17.

    Sam Harris
    American neuroscientist, author, and podcaster
    Sam Harris
    Overview: Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author, philosopher, neuroscientist, and podcast host. His work touches on a wide range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free ...
    Date of birth: 9 April 1967
    Age: 58
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Male
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    Giving What We Can members 25T
    Conversationalists 14T
    Philosophers of war 30T
  • 18.

    Robert Anton Wilson
    American writer
    Robert Anton Wilson
    Overview: Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized by Discordianism as an Episkopos, Pope ...
    Date of birth: 18 January 1932
    Date of death: 11 January 2007
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    American anti-capitalists 93T
    20th-century memoirists 804T
    People from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 62T
  • 19.

    John Whiteside Parsons
    American rocket scientist
    John Whiteside Parsons
    Overview: John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Associated with the California Institute of T ...
    Date of birth: 2 October 1914
    Date of death: 17 June 1952
    Age: 37 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    American anti-communists 215T
    20th-century apocalypticists 81T
    20th-century American inventors 1,114T
  • 20.

    Ram Dass
    American spiritual teacher (1931–2019)
    Ram Dass
    Overview: Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book ...
    Date of birth: 6 April 1931
    Date of death: 22 December 2019
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Religion
    Gender: Male
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    American bisexual writers 217T
    Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni 201T
    20th-century American psychologists 1,496T
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