Social critics

The list Social critics includes Whoopi Goldberg, Corey Taylor, William S. Tribell, Jim Jefferies and Taís Araújo. The list consists of 552 members.

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Whoopi Goldberg

American actor, comedian, and television personality (born 1955)

Overview: Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), is an American actor, comedian, author and television personality. A recipient of numerous accolades, she is one ...

Date of birth: 13 November 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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National Arts Club Medal of Honor Recipients 1T

American writers with disabilities 314T

American activists with disabilities 260T
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Corey Taylor

American heavy metal singer

Overview: Corey Todd Taylor (born December 8, 1973) is an American singer, musician, songwriter and author. He is known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the bands Slipknot and Stone Sour.

Date of birth: 8 December 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: American

Occupation: Vocalist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Alicia Dove (Married)

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American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent 351T

Teenage Time Killers members 9T

Male actors of German descent 670T
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William S. Tribell

American poet (born 1977)

Overview: William Stephen Tribell (born August 15, 1977) is an American poet. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, magazines and journals and online under the pseudonyms Walton S. Tissot, and Wilbur ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Works banned in China 51T

Film producers from Kentucky 16T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T
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Jim Jefferies

Comedian

Overview: Geoff James Nugent (born 14 February 1977), known professionally as Jim Jefferies, is an Australian-American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He created and starred in the American FX sitcom Legit ...

Date of birth: 14 February 1977

Age: 48

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Australian men podcasters 17T

21st-century Australian comedians 13T

Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T
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Taís Araújo

Brazilian actor

Overview: Taís Bianca Gama de Araújo (Portuguese pronunciation: born 25 November 1978) is a Brazilian actress, TV host and model.

Date of birth: 25 November 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: Brazilian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Lázaro Ramos (Married)

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Brazilian theatre managers and producers 2T

African-Brazilian television hosts 3T

Activists from Rio de Janeiro (city) 4T
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Richard Pryor

American comedian and actor (1940–2005)

Overview: Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling ...

Date of birth: 1 December 1940

Date of death: 10 December 2005

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Film directors with disabilities 64T

American LGBT comedians 196T

African-American United States Army personnel 395T
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David Cross

American stand-up comedian

Overview: David Cross (born April 4, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, director, and writer, known primarily for his stand-up performances, the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show (1995–1999), and his ...

Date of birth: 4 April 1964

Age: 61

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

Partner: Amber Tamblyn (Married)

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Male actors of English descent 380T

Jewish American male comedians 179T

Stand Up! Records artists 62T
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Doug Stanhope

American comedian (born 1967)

Overview: Doug Stanhope (born March 25, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, author, political activist, and podcast host.

Date of birth: 25 March 1967

Age: 58

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Partner: Amy Bingaman (Dating)

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Stand Up! Records artists 62T

21st-century American comedians 1,986T

20th-century American comedians 1,226T
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Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

Overview: Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use ...

Date of birth: 25 January 1882

Date of death: 28 March 1941

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Pipe smokers 77T

Lost Generation writers 38T

20th-century LGBT people 3,252T
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Stephen King

American author

Overview: Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

Partner: Tabitha King (Married)

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Schoolteachers from Maine 21T

Horror templates 2T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
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Billy Connolly

British comedian

Overview: Sir William Connolly CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish artist, musician, presenter, actor, and retired stand-up comedian. He is sometimes known, especially in his homeland, by the Scots nickname ...

Date of birth: 24 November 1942

Age: 82

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Pamela Stephenson (Married)

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Scottish male guitarists 77T

21st-century Scottish comedians 22T
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Ricky Gervais

English comedian (born 1961)

Overview: Ricky Dene Gervais ( jər-VAYZ; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for co-creating, writing, and acting in the British television series The ...

Date of birth: 25 June 1961

Age: 63

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Jane Fallon (Long-Term)

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Childfree 28T

Best Comedy Performance BAFTA Award (television) winners 14T

British men podcasters 65T
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Arthur Miller

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

Overview: Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a ...

Date of birth: 17 October 1915

Date of death: 10 February 2005

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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21st-century American Jews 3,208T

20th-century American Jews 3,239T

Special Tony Award recipients 130T
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Tim Minchin

British-Australian comedian, actor and musician (born 1975)

Overview: Timothy David Minchin AM (born 7 October 1975) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician, and songwriter. He was born in Northampton, England, to Australian parents, and raised in Perth, Western ...

Date of birth: 7 October 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts alumni 26T

British male pianists 182T
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Aleister Crowley

English occultist (1875–1947)

Overview: Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of ...

Date of birth: 12 October 1875

Date of death: 1 December 1947

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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British psychedelic drug advocates 17T

Ceremonial magicians 20T

English LGBT novelists 87T
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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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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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David Attenborough

British, Scientist

Overview: Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine ...

Date of birth: 8 May 1926

Age: 98

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Mass media people from Leicester 20T

21st-century British essayists 67T

20th-century British essayists 136T
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Allen Ginsberg

American poet and writer (1926–1997)

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
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Edgar Allan Poe

American writer and critic (1809–1849)

Overview: Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales ...

Date of birth: 19 January 1809

Date of death: 7 October 1849

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T

Novelists from Pennsylvania 345T

Novelists from Massachusetts 401T