* Alice Walker (The Color Purple)
* Joan Didion (The Year of Magical Thinking)
* Jack London (The Call of the Wild)
* Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay)
* Robert Hass (Time and Materials)
* Nikki Giovanni (Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet)
* Ursula K. Le Guin (A Wizard of Earthsea)
* Tobias Wolff (Old School)
* Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club)
Business People
* Sheryl Sandberg (COO, Facebook)
* Meg Whitman (CEO, Hewlett-Packard)
* John Doerr (venture capitalist)
* Warren Buffett (investor and philanthropist)
* Bill Gates (co-founder of Microsoft)
* Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple)
Entertainers
* Robin Williams (actor and comedian)
* Julia Louis-Dreyfus (actress, Seinfeld)
* George Lucas (filmmaker)
* Francis Ford Coppola (filmmaker)
* Martin Scorsese (filmmaker)
* Quentin Tarantino (filmmaker)
* James Franco (actor)
* Seth Rogen (actor)
* John Krasinski (actor)
Politicians
* Jerry Brown (Governor of California)
* Barack Obama (44th President of the United States)
* Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the United States House of Representatives)
* Dianne Feinstein (U.S. Senator from California)
* Kamala Harris (Vice President of the United States)
* Gavin Newsom (Governor of California)
Scientists
* Ernest Lawrence (inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel laureate in Physics)
* Enrico Fermi (physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics)
* J. Robert Oppenheimer (physicist, director of the Manhattan Project)
* Rosalyn Yalow (biophysicist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine)
* Ahmed H. Zewail (chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry)
*Jennifer Doudna (molecular biologist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry)