- Winston Churchill, Ex-Prime Minister of UK
- Barack Obama, President of US
- Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers
- Larry Page, Co-founder of Google
- Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation
- Vaclav Havel, 1st President of Czech Republic
- Daniel S. Goldin, Ex-Administrator of NASA
- Biz Stone, Twitter Co-founder
- Chetan Bhagat, Bestselling Author, Columnist & Speaker
- Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
- His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama, Spiritual & Temporal Leader of Tibetans
- Thomas L. Friedman, Internationally Renowned Author, Reporter & Columnist
- Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo
- Bono, Irish Singer & Activist
- Derek Sivers, Founder of CD Baby
- J.K.Rowling, Writer of Harry Porter Series
- Al Gore, Ex-Vice President of US
- Carly Fiorina, Businesswoman & Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- Brian J. Dyson, Businessman, Former CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises
- Brian Schmidt, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, 2011
- David L. Calhoun, CEO of Nielsen
- Bradley Whitford, American Film & Television Actor
- Ruth Westheimer, Sex Therapist, Media Psychologist and Professor
- Oprah Winfrey, Multi-awarded Talk Show Host, Actress, Producer and Philanthropist
- Randy Pausch, Co-founder of CMU’s ETC & Creator of ETC’s “Building Virtual Worlds” course
- Arriana Huffington, Greek American author & Syndicated Columnist
- Joe Paterno, Ex- Head Football Coach at Penn State University
- Ellen DeGeneres, American stand-up comedienne, Television Host & Actress
- Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Location and Local Services at Google
- Fareed Zakaria, Editor-at-Large, Time Magazine
- Meryl Streep, American Actress
- Paul Hawken, Activist, Entrepreneur & author
- Toni Morrison, Nobel & Pulitzer Prize-winning American Novelist
- Jerry Zucker, Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Actor, President & CEO of the InterTech Group
- Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor & “The King of Bollywood”
- Michael Bloomberg, American businessman & Politician, currently Mayor of New York City
- Jon Stewart, American political satirist, Writer, Television Host, Actor & Stand-up Comedian
- Conan O’Brien, American Television Host, Comedian, Writer, Producer & Performer
- Brooke Shields, American actress & Model
- Sergio Marchionne
, CEO of Fiat S.p.A., Chairman & CEO of Chrysler Group LLC
- Doug Marlette, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial Cartoonist & Writer
- Bill Watterson, Cartoonist & Author of popular comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes”
- Woody Hayes, Raging Perfectionist, Football Player & Coach
- Alan Alda, Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Author and Activist
- Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize winning Author, Journalist & opinion Columnist
- Michael Uslan, Movie producer, Originator of the Batman movies & Comic Writer
- Mark S. Lewis, Professor, clinical psychology & Chief Strategy Officer , EMC Corporation
- Billie Jean King, Professional Tennis Player, Winner of 12 Grand Slam Single Titles
- Amy Poehler, American Actress, Comedian, Producer & Writer
- Chris Waddell, Most decorated male Skier in Paralympic history