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Archive of notable figures that have been mentioned, referenced, or discussed in a Viewpoints Radio segment.

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Christopher Nolan

Stephen King

Taylor Swift

J.K. Rowling

Steven Spielberg

Lin-Manuel Miranda

50 Cent

Aaron Burr

Aaron Sorkin

Adam Driver

Adam McKay

Adam Sandler

Adele

Adolf Hitler

Agatha Christie

AJR

Al Pacino

Alan Moore

Alan Sepinwall

Alan Turing

Alan Yang

Alex Garland

Alex Ross Perry

Alex Trebek

Alex Wolff

Alexander Hamilton

Alfonso Cuaron

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Molina

Ali Wong

Ana de Armas

Andrew Garfield

Andy Weir

Ang Lee

Ann Dowd

Anne Frank

Anne Hathaway

Ansel Elgort

Anthony Bourdain

Anya Taylor-Joy

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Archimedes

Arthur Wynne

Ashton Kutcher

Atticus Ross

Aziz Ansari

Barry Jenkins

Baz Luhrmann

Beach Boys

Ben Affleck

Ben Stiller

Benicio del Toro

Bernie Sanders

Beyonce

Bill Lawrence

Billie Eilish

Billy Chizmar

Bing Liu

Blake Crouch

Bo Burnham

Bob Bowman

Bob Marley

Bob Odenkirk

Bong Joon Ho

Brad Pitt

Bradley Cooper

Brandon Breyer

Brandon Flowers

Brent Schlender

Brian Williams

Britney Spears

Bruce Wayne

Cary Fukanaga

Casey Stengel

Cate Blanchett

Chadwick Boseman

Chance the Rapper

Charles Dickens

Charles Manson

Charles Schulz

Charlie Booker

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Kaufman

Charlie Parker

Charlton Heston

Childish Gambino

Chris Hemsworth

Christa Miller

Christian Bale

Christopher Nolan

Chuck Berry

Chuck Klosterman

Claire Foy

Coen Brothers

Cole Cuchna

Common

Dalai Lama

Damar Hamlin

Damien Chazelle

Damon Lindelof

Dan Gilroy

Daniel Craig

Daniel Kaluuya

Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Sackheim

Darcy Carden

Dave Carroll

Dave Eggers

David Letterman

David Lowery

David Lynch

David Milch

David Yates

Denis Villeneuve

Dennis Rodman

Denzel Washington

Dick Cheney

Domhnall Gleeson

Dominic Fike

Don DeLillo

Dr. Dre

Drake

Drew Barrymore

Dwayne Johnson

Ed Harris

Ed Kemper

Ed Sheeran

Edgar Degas

Edgar Smith

Edgar Wright

Edith Wilson

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Oscar Heinrich

Edward Snowden

Edwin Land

Elan Mastai

Elisabeth Moss

Elizabeth Holmes

Elon Musk

Eminem

Emma Seligman

Emma Stone

Emma Thompson

Ernest Withers

Ethan Hawke

Eva Mendes

Fall Out Boy

Felix Haywood

Fibonacci

Florence + the Machine

Fran Kranz

Frances McDormand

Frank Herbert

Frank Ocean

Frank Sinatra

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

Freddie Mercury

Frederick Catherwood

George Floyd

George Harrison

George R. R. Martin

George Washington

Gillian Flynn

Gin Phillips

Glass Animals

Glen Powell

Graham Gordy

Graham Moore

Greg Kinnear

Greta Gerwig

Guillermo del Toro

Hank Green

Hans Zimmer

Harriet Tubman

Harry Styles

Harry Truman

Heath Leger

Henry Clay

Hilary Duff

Hillary Clinton

Hugh Jackman

Iain Reid

Isaac Murphy

Isabelle Fuhrman

J. Robert Oppenheimer

J.J. Abrams

J.K. Rowling

J.K. Simmons

Jack Antonoff

Jack London

Jack the Ripper

Jake Gyllenhaal

Jameela Jamil

James Baldwin

James Cameron

James Corden

James Gray

James Grey

James Madison

James Meredith

Jamie Foxx

Jared Leto

Jason Blum

Jason Hehir

Jason Isaacs

Jason Segel

Jason Sudeikis

Jay Leno

Jean-Francois Champollion

Jeff Bezos

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Wright

Jennifer Carpenter

Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lopez

Jeremy Saulnier

Jeremy Strong

Jijo Reed

Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Stewart

Joaquin Phoenix

Joe Pesci

Joe Weisberg

Joel Fields

Joel Schumacher

Johannes Vermeer

John Bortle

John Candy

John Cho

John F. Kennedy

John Green

John Hughes

John Kraskinski

John Lennon

John Lloyd Stephens

John Quincy Adams

John Steinbeck

Jon Bellion

Jon Hamm

Jonathan Larson

Jordan Peele

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Kosinski

Josh Boone

Joshua Henry

JR Smith

Judah & The Lion

Jude Law

Julianne Moore

Jurnee Smollett

Justin Timberlake

Kacey Musgraves

Kanye West

Karl Schwarzchild

Kate Bush

Kate Winslet

Katharine Hepburn

Katy Perry

Keanu Reeves

Keke Palmer

Kelly Clarkson

Kendrick Lamar

Kenneth Branagh

Kevin Hart

Kid Cudi

Kirsten Dunst

Kobe Bryant

Kristen Bell

Kristen Stewart

Kurkjian

Lady Gaga

Lana Wachowski

Laura Tatsuguchi David

Lauren Hadaway

LeBron James

Lee Sung Jin

Lena Waithe

Leonardo DiCaprio

Lester Holt

Lil Nas X

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Logan Lerman

Logan Paul

Logic

Lorne Michaels

Louisa Adams

Lt. Adolphus Greely

Lupita Nyong’o

Lyndon Johnson

Lynn Shelton

Mahershala Ali

Mandy Moore

Manny Jacinto

Marc Maron

Margot Robbie

Marielle Heller

Marilyn Monroe

Marion Cotillard

Mark Zuckerberg

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin McDonaugh

Martin Scorsese

Marvin Gaye

Mary J. Blige

Mary Lasker

Matt Reeves

Meryl Streep

Michael B. Jordan

Michael Collins

Michael Jordan

Michael Keaton

Michael Lewis

Michael Phelps

Michael Schur

Michelle McNamara

Michelle Obama

Mike Flanagan

Miles Teller

Milicent Patrick

Milo Ventimiglia

Missy LeHand

Mumford & Sons

Murdoch

My Chemical Romance

Nat King Cole

Nat Wolff

Natalie Portman

Natasha Leon

Nathan Fielder

Neal Boulton

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nic Pizzolatto

Nicholas Cage

Nick Offerman

Nicole Kidman

Noah Baumbach

Noah Hawley

NSYNC

Octavia E. Butler

Olivia Colman

Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Wilde

Oprah Winfrey

Oscar Isaac

Pablo Larraín

Paramore

Patricia Arquette

Paul Dano

Paul McCartney

Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi

Paul Schrader

Peter Jackson

Pharrell

Post Malone

President Barack Obama

President Donald Trump

President Joe Biden

Prince Charles

Princess Diana

Queen Elizabeth II

Quentin Tarantino

Rachel Weisz

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rami Malek

Rebecca Hall

Reese Witherspoon

Regina King

Regina Spektor

Rhea Seehorn

Rian Johnson

Richard Branson

Richard Chizmar

Richard Donner

Richard Linklater

Rihanna

Ringo Starr

Robert De Niro

Robert E Lee

Robert Eggers

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Pattinson

Robert Redford

Robin Thicke

Robin Williams

Roger Ebert

Rooney Mara

Ryan Gosling

Sam Dew

Sam Esmail

Sam Raimi

Sam Rockwell

Samuel L. Jackson

Saoirse Ronan

Sarah Paulson

Scott Kelly

Scottie Pippen

Serena Williams

Sissy Spacek

Snoop Dogg

Soledad O’Brien

Sounwave

Spencer Tracy

Stephen Colbert

Stephen King

Sterling K. Brown

Steve Carell

Steve Cohen

Steve James

Steve Jobs

Steve Martin

Steve McQueen

Steven Levenson

Steven Spielberg

Steven Yeun

Stokely Carmichael

Storm Reid

Taylor Swift

Ted Cruz

Ted Danson

The Beatles

The Killers

The Weeknd

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Young

Tiger Woods

Tim Burton

Tim Cook

Timothee Chalamet

Tina Fey

Tobey Maguire

Todd Phillips

Tom Clancy

Tom Cruise

Tom Hanks

Tom Shone

Tomi Adeyemi

Toni Collette

Toni Morrison

Tony Kushner

Trent Reznor

Trey Edward Shults

Tupac Shakur

Twenty One Pilots

Tye Sheridan

Val Kilmer

Vanessa Hudgens

Venus Williams

Veronica Roth

Vice President Dick Cheney

W.E.B. Du Bois

Wes Anderson

Will Ferrell

Will Smith

Willem Dafoe

William Jackson Harper

Winston Churchill

Zack Snyder

Zayne

Zoe Kravitz