Shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003

Authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls; renowned scholar in Semitics and Near Eastern Studies

Developed Apgar score used to assess health of newborns

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer

Actor (movie, television, and stage); best-known for his role as Gomez in The Addams Family

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times; host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre

Novelist; professor

Grammy Award-winning guitarist

Writer/director of "Spellbound" and "Rocket Science"

Journalist; CNN anchor

108th mayor of the city of New York; founder of Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Radio

Principal cellist, New York Philharmonic; soloist

U.S. Surgeon General 1956-61; first federal official to publicly identify cigarette smoke as a cause of lung cancer

Under secretary of state for political affairs beginning in March 2005; previously ambassador to NATO, ambassador to Greece and, during the Clinton administration, State Department press spokesman

Biologist; ecologist; author

Author

Taiwan public official and minister of health

Pioneer of tuberculosis control and treatment

World-renowned cardiac surgeon; performed first successful human heart transplant in the U.S. and the first implantation of a total artificial heart in a human

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author

Horror film director; best-known for Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream trilogy

Five-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer

American philosopher, social critic and educator

First woman mayor of Baltimore

Author

Nobel Prize in Economics 1993

First woman state superintendent of schools in Maryland

NASA administrator beginning in April 2005

Led WHO effort that eradicated smallpox

Composer, first prize in American Composers Awards (1996)

Taiwan minister of health

Business correspondent for Fox News Channel

Diplomacy correspondent for National Public Radio

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York journalist

President of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

Founded U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service

Medical geneticist; author of Mendelian Inheritance in Man, the definitive source of information on human genes and genetic disorders

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author

Former President, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

U.S. economist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1990)

Two-time Oscar-winning film editor and sound mixer

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for international reporting for The Washington Post

Composer, arranger, performer, winner of two Emmys and assistant conductor of the "Tonight Show" band

Physician and former surgeon general under President George H. W. Bush (1990-1993)

Journalist, political satirist and author

Chairman of the board and chief executive officer, IBM Corp.

Pianist; winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition, 1992

Vocal coach to pop and movie stars and opera singers

Nobel Prize in Medicine 1994

NPR business reporter

NPR health policy correspondent

Nobel Prize in Medicine 1978

Discovered link between vitamin A deficiency and child mortality, establishing vitamin A as a cost-effective means of reducing child deaths in the developing world

Influential historian, best known for the Frontier Thesis

World-renowned concert pianist

Physicist who helped develop nuclear fission, studied general relativity and coined the term "black hole."

Founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL); winner of Nobel Peace Prize (1997)

28th President of the United States (1913-1921); winner of Nobel Prize in Peace (1919)

World-renowned water treatment expert; invented modern water treatment techniques