List of important and famous Baby Boomers
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This is a list of important or famous Baby Boomers.
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[edit] 1946
- Kathleen Casey – Born 1 second after midnight on January 1, 1946. Generally regarded as the "First Baby Boomer"[citation needed]
- Bill Clinton – 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001), Rhodes scholar at Oxford
- Dolly Parton – country singer and songwriter, actress
- Gregory Hines – dancer, actor - deceased
- Peter Sutherland – Attorney General of Ireland, Chairman BP Plc
- Donald Trump – entrepreneur, real estate developer
- José Carreras – Spanish tenor
- Andre the Giant – born: André René Roussimoff - Professional Wrestler - Eighth Wonder of the World - deceased
- Reggie Jackson – HOF baseball player, HR hitter
- George W. Bush – 43rd President of the United States (2001- )
- Tommy Lee Jones – actor, VP Al Gore's roommate at Harvard
- Laura Bush – former Texas First Lady, and current U.S. First Lady
- Cher – singer and entertainer
- Naomi Judd – country singer
- David Lynch – surrealist film director
- Gene Siskel – film critic-deceased
- Colin Matthews – British composer
- Margot Adler – NPR journalist
- Tim Curry – British actor and vocalist
- John Piper – theologian
- Thelma Houston – soul and gospel singer
- Cheech Marin – ethnic and drug comedian, actor, Cheech & Chong
- Sylvester Stallone – actor, Rocky
- Danny Glover – actor
- John Wood – actor
- Oliver Stone – film director
- Tim O'Brien – author
- Elfriede Jelinek – Austrian author
- Pat Sajak – TV game show host, Wheel of Fortune
- Ivan Reitman – film director and producer, Animal House, Czech
- Sally Field – actress
- Sandy Skoglund – photographer
- Gianni Versace – fashion designer-deceased
- Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker(1962), President of the Screen Actors Guild 1985-88
- Steven Spielberg – preeminent American film director, Eagle Scout
- Alice Aycock – sculptor
- Jimmy Buffett – singer-songwriter
- Patti Smith – feminist punk-rocker
- Marianne Faithfull – British singer
- Linda Ronstadt – singer
- Rafi Zabor – novelist
- Suzanne Somers – actress
- Freddie Mercury – musician, Queen - deceased
- Judy Woodruff – news reporter/anchor
- George Best – soccer player - deceased
- Michael Clarke – born: Michael Dick, drummer/original member of "The Byrds" - deceased
- Gordon Eubanks – microcomputer pioneer, wrote 1st compiler for Gary Kildall's CP/M OS
- Bobby Bonds – MLB player, father of Barry - deceased
- Talia Shire – actress (Godfather / Rocky), sister of Francis Ford Coppola
- John Spencer – actor (West Wing, L.A. Law)
[edit] 1947
- Paula Deen – TV cook
- Dan Quayle – former US Vice President
- Dave Barry – American humorist
- Tom Daschle – former US Senator [D-Iowa]
- Hillary Rodham Clinton – New York Senator and former First Lady
- Stephen King – author
- Emmylou Harris – musician, singer and songwriter
- Arnold Schwarzenegger – body builder, actor, and Governor of California
- Arlo Guthrie – folk singer
- Ai – poet
- David Bowie – English rock musician
- Warren Zevon – singer-songwriter
- Laura Schlessinger – columnist and pop psychologist
- Farrah Fawcett – Charlie's Angels actress; sex symbol
- Billy Crystal – Jewish-American comedian and actor
- Glenn Close – American actress
- Tom DeLay – American Republican politician
- Tom Clancy – political thriller writer
- Martha Nussbaum – philosopher
- David Letterman – entertainer/comedian, TV host
- Salman Rushdie – Indian author
- John Hoagland – war photographer-deceased
- O.J. Simpson – NFL HOF football player (RB), USC, Buffalo Bills
- Larry David – comedian, television actor and producer
- Carlos Santana – Mexican rock-guitarist
- Norma McCorvey – Roe v. Wade plaintiff
- Kevin Kline – actor
- P.J. O'Rourke – humorist and satirist
- Thomas R. Cech – chemist
- Ted Danson – television actor
- Iggy Pop – rock musician
- Marilynne Robinson – author
- Paul Auster – playwright, poet, and novelist
- Dick Ebersol – TV producer SNL: Saturday Night Live
- Nolan Ryan – MLB HOF pitcher 101 mph, aka: The Ryan Express, Strikeout KING, Texan
- Thurman Munson – Yankee AL-ROY/MVP captain/catcher - deceased in plane crash
- Johnny Bench – Cincinnati Reds MLB HOF catcher, NL ROY/MVP
- Darrell Waltrip – NASCAR champion driver/announcer
- Tim Matheson – actor
[edit] 1948
- James Taylor – Singer-songwriter, performer, Godfather of 1970s Singer songwriter movement
- Bobby Orr – NHL HOF hockey player/defenseman, Boston Bruins
- Bernadette Peters – actress, singer, entertainer
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – composer
- Al Gore – former US Vice President, 2000 Prez candidate, only VP born in D.C.
- Stevie Nicks – singer-songwriter of Fleetwood Mac
- John Carpenter – film director and composer
- Mikhail Baryshnikov – Russian ballet dancer and actor
- Alice Cooper – rock musician
- Ronnie Van Zant – rock musician Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Christopher Guest – film actor, director, writer, and composer
- Steven Tyler – rock musician Aerosmith
- Brian Eno – English musician and record producer
- Cat Stevens – singer-songwriter
- Garry Trudeau – Doonesbury cartoonist
- Olivia Newton John – Australian singer, actress
- Dennis Prager – commentator
- Robert Plant – musician Led Zeppelin
- Mutt Lange – record producer
- Johnny Ramone – singer The Ramones, died 2004
- Ozzy Osbourne – musician Black Sabbath and solo singer
- Gerard Depardieu – French actor
- Donna Summer – disco diva
- Jeremy Irons – British Actor
- Terry Bradshaw – NFL HOF QB, Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl QB, NFL TV sportscaster
- Jack Tatum – NFL / Super Bowl defensive back (Oakland Raiders), "The Assassin"
[edit] 1949
- Bonnie Raitt – rock and blues musician
- John Belushi – actor and comedian - deceased
- George Foreman – boxer, Olympic Gold '72, Heavyweight Champion
- Bruce Springsteen – rock and roll musician, songwriter
- Christopher Durang – playwright
- Wolfgang Puck – Austrian chef and restaurateur
- Linda Lovelace – porn star and anti-porn activist
- Brandon Tartikoff – NBC television executive
- Robert Palmer – British singer
- Andy Kaufman – comedian - deceased
- Peter Agre – biologist
- Nick Lowe – rock musician
- Billy Joel – singer-songwriter
- Rick Wakeman – Yes
- Harry Turtledove – alternate history author
- Hank Williams Jr. – country singer
- Alan Menken – Broadway and film composer
- Martin Amis – British author
- Shelley Long – actress
- Richard Gere – actor
- Gloria Gaynor – disco singer
- Benjamin Netanyahu – Israeli prime minister
- Sigourney Weaver – actress
- Jeff Bridges – actor
- Sissy Spacek – actress
- Meryl Streep – actress
- Tom Waits – American singer, composer, and actor
- Richard Russo – author
- Tony Kornheiser – American sportswriter, radio & TV talk show host MNF on ESPN
- Bob Frankston – co-author of VisiCalc spreadsheet for PC
- John Riggins – HOF NFL rb (NY Jets & Washington Redskins), Super Bowl MVP
[edit] 1950
- Mark Spitz – Jewish-American Olympic swimmer, Gold Medal winner
- Bill Murray – actor, comedian
- David Cassidy – actor and singer
- Peter Gabriel – rock and roll musician
- Richard Dean Anderson – television actor (MacGyver and Stargate SG-1)
- Arianna Huffington – author
- Natalie Cole – singer
- John Hughes – teen film producer and director
- Neil Jordan – Irish film director and producer
- Karen Carpenter – singer The Carpenters-deceased
- Peter Hain – British cabinet minister
- William H. Macy – actor
- William Hurt – actor
- Ken Griffey, Sr. – baseball player
- Jay Leno – comedian and TV talk-show host
- Howard Ashman – Broadway and film composer-deceased (AIDS)
- Stevie Wonder – blind renowned musician
- Mark Mothersbaugh – Devo
- Bill Murray – comedian and actor
- John Sayles – independent film director
- Jody Williams – teacher and aid worker
- John Candy – Canadian comedian and actor - deceased
- Jane Pauley – news anchor and journalist
- Leonard Maltin – film critic
- Tom Petty – rock musician
- John Patrick Shanley – playwright
- Stephen Wozniak – "Woz", American computer engineer, co-founded Apple Computer
[edit] 1951
- Bertie Ahern – Taoiseach of Ireland
- Mary McAleese – President of Ireland
- Phil Collins – musician
- Lucie Arnaz – actress
- Keb Mo – musician
- Kirstie Alley – actress
- Max Weinberg – rock and roll drummer of The E Street Band
- Anjelica Huston – actress
- Lee Atwater – GOP political consultant - died 1991
- Beverly D'Angelo – actress
- Rush Limbaugh – Conservative Radio Talk Show Host, The Rush Limbaugh Show
- Tony Danza – actor, TV talk show host
- Tommy Hilfiger – fashion designer
- Kurt Russell – actor
- Carl Wieman – physicist
- Karen Kain – Canadian ballerina
- Sally Ride – astronaut
- Dale Earnhardt Sr. – Champion NASCAR race-car driver, "Intimidator"-deceased
- John Mellencamp – rock singer
- Bootsy Collins – funk musician and songwriter
- Julie Kavner – voice actress, The Simpsons
- Cicciolina – Italian porn star and politician
- Sting – British singer, The Police
- Edward P. Jones – author
- Robin Williams – actor and comedian
- Al Franken – TV writer SNL, author, Harvard grad
- James Brown – aka: JB, NFL TV host/sportscaster, Harvard grad
- Steve Prefontaine – premier American long distance runner, 1st to sign w/ Nike - deceased
- Dan Bricklin – co-author of VisiCalc spreadsheet for PCs
- Mark Roth – PBA HOF Pro Bowler, father of the power game, cranker
- Karen Allen – actress
[edit] 1952
- Laraine Newman – comedian and former Saturday Night Live star
- Amy Tan – writer
- Herb Ritts – photographer
- Liam Neeson – actor
- Marilyn Chambers – porn actress
- Mr. T. – born: Lawrence Tureaud, actor
- Rick James – musician
- David Byrne – Talking Heads, etc.
- Vikram Seth – Indian novelist
- John Tesh – musician
- Joe Strummer – The Clash
- Christopher Reeve – actor-deceased
- Dan Aykroyd – Canadian comedian, original cast of Saturday Night Live
- Roberto Benigni – Italian actor
- Michael Cunningham – novelist
- Tovah Feldshuh – actress
- Bill Frist – heart surgeon and Republican senator
- Jean-Paul Gaultier – French fashion designer
- Jeff Goldblum – actor
- David Hasselhoff – actor, Baywatch
- Beth Henley – playwright
- John Goodman – actor (Roseanne)
[edit] 1953
- Pat Benatar – musician and singer
- Guy Verhofstadt – Prime Minister of Belgium
- Pierce Brosnan – actor
- Tim Allen – Comedian, TV and movie actor
- Tony Blair – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Paul Allen – entrepreneur, Microsoft co-founder
- Jim Jarmusch – independent film director
- Ron Jeremy – Jewish-American porn star
- Isabelle Huppert – French actress
- Chaka Khan – singer
- Danny Elfman – pop musician and film composer
- Alfred Molina – British actor
- Tony Shalhoub – actor, Monk
- Alex Grey – artist
- Kim Basinger – actress
- Ben Bernanke – economist
- Stanley "Tookie" Williams – early Crips gang leader-executed
- Leon Spinks – boxer, Hvwywt champ, Olympic gold
- Mark Stephens – aka: Robert X. Cringely, computer author/writer
[edit] 1954
- Howard Stern – radio personality, Shock Jock
- Christie Brinkley – model
- Patricia Hearst – heiress and former kidnapping victim
- Nancy Wilson – musician from the rock band Heart.
- Ron Howard – actor and director
- Oprah Winfrey – TV talk show host, producer, publisher
- Matt Groening – cartoonist (creator of The Simpsons)
- John Travolta – actor
- Godzilla – movie monster
- Freddie Prinze – comedian (died 1977)
- Condoleezza Rice – Secretary of State
- Stevie Ray Vaughan – musician - (died 1990)
- Jerry Seinfeld – comedian
- Michael Moore – filmmaker
- Dennis Quaid – actor
- Al Sharpton – civil-rights activist
- Denzel Washington – actor
- Barry Williams – actor (aka Greg Brady)
- Jackie Chan – actor
- Elvis Costello – musician
- Joan Allen – actress
- Ang Lee – film director
- Angela Merkel – German Chancellor
[edit] 1955
- Steve Earle – alternative country musician, songwriter
- Bruce Willis – film actor
- Dana Carvey – actor, comedian
- Glenn Danzig – musician The Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig
- Reba McEntire – country singer
- Steve Jobs – Apple Computer co-founder, entrepreneur
- Bill Gates – entrepreneur, Chairman and chief software architect / co-founder of Microsoft Corporation
- Yo-Yo Ma – cellist
- Kevin Costner – actor, movie star
- Edward Van Halen – Van Halen
- John Grisham – popular novelist
- Arsenio Hall – talk-show host
- Jeff Daniels – actor
- Dee Snider – Twisted Sister
- Angus Young – AC/DC
- Dave Winer – pioneering software programmer
- Masaharu Morimoto – Japanese television chef
- Isabelle Adjani – French actress
- Billy Bob Thornton – actor
- Rowan Atkinson – British actor
- Greg Norman – Australian golfer
- David Lee Roth – Van Halen
- Maurizio Bianchi – experimental musician
- Whoopi Goldberg – actress and comedian
- John Kricfalusi – animator / cartoonist
- Ray Liotta – actor
- Barbara Kingsolver – author
- Phil Simms – NFL / Super Bowl QB (NY Giants), NFL TV sportscaster
- Miguel Ferrer – actor
- Richard Schiff – actor (West Wing)
- Jimmy Smits – actor (L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, West Wing)
- Michael O'Keefe – actor
[edit] 1956
- Geena Davis – actress
- Larry Bird – NBA HOF basketball legend
- Bjorn Borg – tennis player
- Paula Zahn – TV journalist
- Joan Allen – actress
- Andy Garcia – actor
- Sugar Ray Leonard – boxing champion, Olympic Gold
- Tom Hanks – actor
- Tony Kushner – Jewish-American gay playwright
- David Guterson – author
- David Sedaris – humorist and memoirist
- Marin Alsop – orchestra conductor and professional musician
- Mel Gibson – actor and director
- Joe Montana – HOF NFL Super Bowl QB, football legend
- Bill Maher – commentator and comedian
- Patricia Cornwell – detective novel author
- Lars von Trier – Danish film director
- Ian Curtis – British musician Joy Division-deceased
- Fran Drescher – Jewish-American comedienne
- Martina Navratilova – Czech tennis player
- Kim Cattrall – Actress
- Joe Satriani – American Guitarist
- Jimmy Barnes – Australian singer
- Michael Spinks – boxer, brother of Leon
- Steve Ballmer – Microsoft CEO, friend of Bill Gates, magna cum laude Harvard grad
- Vincent Don Vito Margera – Famous for being the show Viva La Bam.
[edit] 1957
- Katie Couric – Today Show host
- Matt Lauer – Today Show host
- Princess Caroline of Monaco
- Spike Lee – film director
- Gloria Estefan – pop singer
- Donny Osmond – entertainer
- Osama bin Laden – Saudi-born Islamic extremist
- Daniel Day-Lewis – Anglo-Irish actor
- Sid Vicious – English bassist, The Sex Pistols
- Siouxsie Sioux – British singer
- Scott Adams – Dilbert cartoonist
- Theo van Gogh – Dutch film director
- Melanie Griffith – actress
- Denis Leary – Irish-American comedian
- Wolfgang Ketterle – German physicist
- Ray Romano – actor and comedian
- Jean-Marie Messier – French businessman
- Nick Faldo – British golfer
- Nancy Cartwright – cartoon vocalist
- Timothy Busfield – actor (West Wing, Field of Dreams, 30-Something)
[edit] 1958
- Jamie Lee Curtis – actress
- Ellen DeGeneres – actress, comedienne
- Mary Chapin Carpenter – country singer, songwriter
- Madonna – singer, actress
- Michael Jackson– singer and entertainer
- Thurston Moore – Sonic Youth
- Prince – singer
- Sharon Stone – actress
- Holly Hunter – actress
- Gary Oldman – English actor
- Alec Baldwin – actor
- Benjamin Zephaniah – Jamaican-British poet, musician, and author
- Michelle Pfeiffer – actress
- Annette Bening – actress
- Drew Carey – comedian
- Jello Biafra – musician and political activist, The Dead Kennedys
- Magnus Lindberg – Finnish composer
- Esa-Pekka Salonen – Finnish conductor and composer
- Kate Bush – British singer-songwriter
- Mark Cuban – entrepreneur and business mogul, NBA owner
- Andrea Bocelli – Italian tenor
- Tim Robbins – actor
- Simon Le Bon – Duran Duran
- Viggo Mortensen – actor
- Nikki Sixx – Mötley Crüe
- Bebe Neuwirth – actress
- Andy Gibb – musician/singer The Bee Gees
- Kayo Hatta – film director
- Richard Greenberg – playwright
- Michael Wilbon – American sportswriter, columnist, and TV talk show host
[edit] 1959
- Magic Johnson – NBA HOF basketball legend
- Suzanne Vega – singer and songwriter
- Rosanna Arquette – actress
- William Vollmann – author
- Jonathan Franzen – author
- Nastassja Kinski – German actress
- Sade Adu – British-Nigerian singer
- Luc Besson – French film director/producer/writer
- Flavor Flav – rapper Public Enemy
- Richie Sambora – guitarist of Bon Jovi
- Robert Smith – The Cure
- Brian Setzer – rockabilly and swing guitarist and songwriter
- John Linnell – They Might Be Giants
- Ruud Janssen – Dutch experimental artist
- Kevin Spacey – actor
- Vincent d'Onofrio – actor
- Stephen Wolfram – British scientist
- Benjamin Sehene – Rwandan-Canadian author
- Ken Watanabe – Japanese actor
- "Weird Al" Yankovic – comedy musician
- Val Kilmer – actor
- John McEnroe – tennis champion
- Koichi Tanaka – Japanese scientist
- Lawrence Taylor – NFL HOF LB (NY Giants), his defense changed offenses
- Walter Ray Williams Jr. – PBA HOF Pro Bowler, horseshoe pitcher
- Allison Janney – actress (West Wing)
- Bradley Whitford – actor (West Wing)
- Mare Winningham – actress
[edit] 1960
- Antonio Banderas – actor
- Bono – musician (U2)
- Kenneth Branagh – Irish-British actor and film director
- John Elway – NFL HOF Super Bowl QB / football player
- Jeffrey Eugenides – author
- Hugh Grant – actor
- John F. Kennedy, Jr. – son of JFK & Jackie O, publisher / lawyer, died 1999
- Branford Marsalis – jazz musician
- Sean Penn – actor
- Kirby Puckett – Baseball Hall of Famer, died 2006
- Cal Ripken, Jr. – baseball player
- Ayrton Senna – Formula One driver
- Kim Wilde – British singer
- Ivan Lendl – Czechoslovakian tennis champion
- Julianne Moore – actress
[edit] Note: on cultural vs. statistical boomers
(Note that Howe and Strauss divide the Boom Generation from the Thirteener Generation between 1960 and 1961 on the grounds of a difference of temperament. Persons born in 1961 or later could not possibly have participated in the cultural ferment of the 1960s and 1970s and were generally more hurt than helped by the tendencies of the time. Thirteeners tend to rely, furthermore, upon pure entrepreneurialism as opposed to religion or political activism for solutions to their lives and are much more politically conservative than Boomers born somewhat earlier, even if the numerical Baby Boom did not end until the mid-1960s.
[edit] 1961
- George Clooney – actor
- Nadia Comaneci – Romanian gymnast
- Ann Coulter – neoconservative writer, polemicist, lawyer
- Douglas Coupland – Canadian writer/journalist "Generation X" -- 1991
- Diana, Princess of Wales (died 1997)
- The Edge – rock guitarist, U2
- Enya – new age vocalist
- Melissa Etheridge – rock vocalist
- Philip Gourevitch – Jewish-American journalist
- k.d. lang – rock vocalist
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus – actress
- Michael J. Fox – actor
- Wayne Gretzky – NHL legend
- Sean Hannity – conservative TV/radio personality
- Peter Jackson – filmmaker
- Greg LeMond – cyclist, three–time Tour de France winner
- Carl Lewis – track & field legend
- Heather Locklear – actress
- George Lopez – actor/comedian
- Dan Marino – NFL quarterback, Miami Dolphins
- Dylan McDermott – actor
- Rick Moody – author
- Eddie Murphy – actor/comedian
- Dave Mustaine – rock vocalist/guitarist, Megadeth; Metallica
- Barack Obama – United States Senator
- Ralph E. Reed, Jr. – conservative political figure, former head of the Christian Coalition
- Dennis Rodman – NBA forward, Detroit Pistons; Chicago Bulls; San Antonio Spurs; Los Angeles Lakers
- Henry Rollins – rock vocalist, Black Flag; Rollins Band
- Tim Roth – actor
- Meg Ryan – actress
- Isiah Thomas – NBA guard, Detroit Pistons
- Irvine Welsh – writer
- Reggie White – NFL defensive lineman, Philadelphia Eagles; Green Bay Packers - deceased
- Steve Young – NFL Super Bowl/HOF QB, San Francisco 49ers
[edit] 1962
- Paula Abdul – pop vocalist
- Matthew Broderick – actor
- Garth Brooks – country vocalist
- Jon Bon Jovi – rock vocalist, Bon Jovi
- Cliff Burton – rock bassist, Metallica
- Jim Carrey – actor
- Steven Curtis Chapman – contemporary Christian music vocalist
- Roger Clemens – MLB pitcher
- Tom Cruise – actor
- Joan Cusack – actress
- Sheryl Crow – rock vocalist
- Clyde Drexler – NBA guard, Houston Rockets
- Anthony Edwards – actor
- Emilio Estevez – actor
- Patrick Ewing – NBA center, New York Knicks; Seattle SuperSonics, 1st NBA draft lottery selection (1985)
- David Fincher – filmmaker
- Flea – rock bassist, Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Doug Flutie – CFL & NFL quarterback, Calgary Stampeders; Toronto Argonauts; Buffalo Bills; San Diego Chargers
- Jodie Foster – actor
- Bobcat Goldthwait – actor
- MC Hammer – (also known as Hammer) rapper
- John Hannah – actor
- Steve Irwin – herpetologist and TV personality (The Crocodile Hunter) (died 2006)
- Eddie Izzard – comedian
- Bo Jackson – MLB & NFL player
- Craig Kilborn – comedian/TV talk show host
- Andrew McCarthy – actor
- Dylan McDermott – actor, theatrical director
- Demi Moore – actress
- Rosie O'Donnell – comedian/actress/TV talk show host, "The Rosie O'Donnell Show"
- Chuck Palahniuk – novelist
- Jerry Rice – NFL receiver, San Francisco 49ers; Oakland Raiders; Seattle Seahawks
- Axl Rose – rock vocalist, Guns N' Roses
- Ally Sheedy – actress
- Jon Stewart – comedian/actor
- John Stockton – NBA point guard, Utah Jazz
- Pete Weber – PBA HOF Pro Bowler, son of Dick Weber
- Anthony Edwards – actor (E.R., Top Gun)
[edit] 1963
- Charles Barkley – NBA forward, Phoenix Suns
- Len Bias – NBA player (died 1986)
- Michael Chabon – author
- Jack Del Rio – NFL coach, Jacksonville Jaguars
- Johnny Depp – actor
- Eazy-E – rapper (died 1995)
- Whitney Houston – pop vocalist
- Randy Johnson – MLB pitcher, Seattle Mariners; AZ Diamondbacks; NY Yankees, "The Unit"
- Michael Jordan – NBA guard, Chicago Bulls; Washington Wizards
- Daryn Kagan – CNN "Live Today" anchor
- Garry Kasparov – Russian world chess champion
- Julian Lennon – vocalist; son of John Lennon
- Karl Malone – NBA forward, Utah Jazz; Los Angeles Lakers
- Mark McGwire – MLB player, Oakland Athletics; St. Louis Cardinals
- Natalie Merchant – rock vocalist, 10,000 Maniacs
- Joel Murray – actor/comedian, younger brother of Brian-Doyle and Bill
- Mike Myers – actor
- Hakeem Olajuwon – NBA center, Houston Rockets
- Conan O'Brien – comic/TV talk show host, "NBC's Late Night"; "Saturday Night Live" writer, Harvard grad (Lampoon)
- Tatum O'Neal – actress
- Ann Patchett – author
- Brad Pitt – actor
- Valerie Plame – CIA, focus of an American political scandal
- Magnus Rosén – Bassist for the Swedish Power Metal band Hammerfall
- Vijay Singh – PGA golfer
- Steven Soderbergh – filmmaker
- Quentin Tarantino – filmmaker
- Vinny Testaverde – NFL QB, NY Jets; Dallas Cowboys; Heisman Trophy
- Jeanne Tripplehorn – actress
[edit] 1964
- Laura Linney – actress
- Tracy Chapman – singer
- Clive Owen – British TV and film actor
- Janeane Garofalo – actress and comedienne
- Bonnie Blair – Olympic Gold Medal speed skater (ice)
- Amy Brenneman – television actress (Judging Amy)
- Russell Crowe – New Zealand-born actor
- Nicholas Cage – actor, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola
- Dan Savage – journalist, gay rights activist
- Chris Farley – comedian and former Saturday Night Live star-deceased
- Miguel Indurain – Spanish cyclist (Tour de France)
- Rob Lowe – actor
- Trisha Yearwood – country singer
- Hank Azaria – vocal comedian, actor
- Sandra Bullock – actress
- Barry Bonds – MLB HR hitter, (OF) Pittsburgh Pirates, SF Giants
- Tom Morello – Guitar player for Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine
- Chris Cornell – Singer. Currently in Audioslave. Formerly in Soundgarden