• Joan Ganz Cooney, founder of the Children’s Television Workshop and Sesame Street

• The late Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. senator; the late Morris K. Udall, U.S. Congressperson; Raúl H. Castro, former governor of Arizona and ambassador to Argentina; Dennis DeConcini, former U.S. Senator; the late Paul Fannin, governor of Arizona; the late Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr., governor of Arizona; the late Stewart Udall, U.S. Congressperson and secretary of the interior; Raúl M. Grijalva, U.S. Congressperson; Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Congressperson; Betsy Bayless, former Arizona Secretary of State; Jon Kyl, U.S. Senator, John Shadegg, U.S. Congressperson; the late Thomas William Murphy, associate justice, High Court of American Samoa; the late John McCarthy Roll, chief judge, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona

• Robert A. Eckert, chair of the board and chief executive officer of Mattel, Inc.; Jeffrey Rein, former president and chief operating officer of Walgreens Company; Terry J. Lundgren, president, CEO, and chair of Federated Department Stores; Ray Oglethorpe, former president of AOL; Karl Eller, Advertising Hall of Fame member; Pamela J. Turbeville, former CEO of the Navistar Financial Corporation; Kathryn L. Reed, medical pioneer

• Andrew Greeley, priest, writer, professor, television personality; J. A. Jance, mystery writer; Kevin Leman, writer, psychologist; Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winner for his novel, Empire Falls; Barbara Kingsolver, author; Aline Kominsky-Crumb, underground comic book creator; the late David Foster Wallace, author; Brian Garfield, author; Kitty Kelley, author

• The late Travis Edmonson, Linda Ronstadt, and Harvey Mason, musicians; the late John Hughes, film director; Ari Sandel, film director; Greg Kinnear, Craig T. Nelson, Valerie Perrine, Sue Scott, and Kate Walsh, actors; Garry Shandling and Caroline Rhea, comedians; Geraldo Rivera, talk-show host and television journalist; Bob Greene, author, health coach, and personal trainer featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show

• The late Fritz Scholder, Native American artist; the late Hal Empie, artist; the late Ted DeGrazia, artist; the late Linda Eastman McCartney, photographer and musician; Brian Stauffer, illustrator

• Richard Carmona, former U.S. Surgeon General; Aleena Hernandez, director of the Department of Education of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe; Ned Norris, former vice chair of the Tohono O’odham Nation, Stanley Feldman, former Arizona Supreme Court justice; Sue Pooler Wagner, Nevada’s first woman lieutenant governor

• Jerry Bruckheimer, film and television producer; Gary LeMel, CEO Warner Sunset Records and president of Worldwide Music for Warner Bros.; Ron Shelton, film director and screenwriter

• The late Richard “Dick” Scobee, astronaut; and Joseph M. “Joe” Acaba, Don Pettit, and Thomas Jones, NASA astronauts

• Bernie Seery, deputy associate administrator for programs in NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research; Janet Fender, science advisor and commander of the U.S.A.F. Air Combat Command; Chris Lewicki, senior flight systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Peter H. Smith, principal investigator for the Phoenix Mars Lander; Brian P. Schmidt, Nobel Prize in Physics winner

• Nancy Cleeland, Paul Giblin, Virginia Escalante, Jose Galvez, Jack McElroy, Richard Russo, and Frank Sotomayor, Pulitzer Prize winners; David Fitzsimmons, Pulitzer Prize nominee

• Arturo Moreno, owner of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Major League Baseball team and outdoor advertising entrepreneur; Robert Sarver, managing partner and majority owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team and director of SkyWest Airlines and Meritage Corporation

• Michael Bates, Olympic bronze-medal winner; Cheri Blauwet, Paralympics champion and Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation Sports for Life spokesperson; Lisa Marie Banta Czechowski, Paralympics gold medal winner; Jennie Finch, Olympic gold medalist and professional women's softball pitcher; Ryk Neethling, Olympic gold medalist and world- record holder; Lacey Nymeyer, Olympic silver-medal winner

• Jim Furyk, Natalie Gulbis, and Annika Sorrenstam, golfers; Ted Bruschi and Chris McAllister, NFL stars; Terry Francona, Boston Red Sox manager; Jason Bates, Chip Hale, Ron Hassey, Jack Howell, and Kenny Lofton, current and former MLB stars; Gilbert Arenas, Mike Bibby, Sean Elliott, Channing Frye, Andre Iguodala, Richard Jefferson, Steve Kerr, Damon Stoudamire, Salim Stoudamire, Jason Terry, Tom Tolbert, and Luke Walton, current and former NBA stars

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