Field
Art
120 figures, most prominent first.
Scarlett Johansson
American actress
b. 1984
Stanley Kubrick
directed 2001 and Dr. Strangelove
1928 – 1999
Amy Winehouse
English singer-songwriter
1983 – 2011
Neil Diamond
American recording artist; singer-songwriter
b. 1941
Leonard Cohen
wrote Hallelujah
1934 – 2016
Alanis Morissette
Canadian-American singer
b. 1974
Burt Bacharach
American pianist, composer, producer
1928 – 2023
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist
1898 – 1937
Lou Reed
American rock musician
1942 – 2013
Beck
American musician
b. 1970
Allen Ginsberg
American poet and writer
1926 – 1997
Calvin Klein
American fashion designer
b. 1942
Linda McCartney
American photographer
1941 – 1998
Ludwig Wittgenstein
wrote two philosophies, refuted one
1889 – 1951
Neil Sedaka
American singer
1939 – 2026
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer
1874 – 1951
Art Garfunkel
American singer
b. 1941
Frank Gehry
Canadian and American architect
1929 – 2025
Tony Curtis
American actor
1925 – 2010
Marc Chagall
painted floating fiddlers
1887 – 1985
David Lee Roth
American singer
b. 1954
Man Ray
American and French visual artist
1890 – 1976
Ralph Lauren
American fashion designer
b. 1939
Dinah Shore
American singer and actress
1916 – 1994
Howard Stern
American radio and television personality
b. 1954
Joel Grey
American actor, singer, dancer, director
b. 1932
Nikolaus Pevsner
German-born British scholar
1902 – 1983
Mark Rothko
American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent
1903 – 1970
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian painter and sculptor
1884 – 1920
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist
1908 – 2009
Camille Pissarro
Danish-French painter
1830 – 1903
Jinkx Monsoon
American drag performer
b. 1987
Lucian Freud
British painter and agravar
1922 – 2011
Arthur Rubinstein
Polish-American classical pianist
1887 – 1982
Bill Finger
American comic strip and comic book writer
1914 – 1974
Elmer Bernstein
American composer and conductor
1922 – 2004
Lesley Gore
American singer
1946 – 2015
Eric Carmen
American singer-songwriter
1949 – 2024
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Michael Kors
American fashion designer
b. 1959
Vanessa Carlton
American singer-songwriter
b. 1980
Will Eisner
American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur
1917 – 2005
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Diane von Fürstenberg
Belgian-born American fashion designer
b. 1946
Judy Blume
American children's writer
b. 1938
Louis Kahn
Estonian-American architect
1901 – 1974
Moshe Safdie
Israeli-Canadian architect
b. 1938
Donna Karan
American fashion designer
b. 1948
Erich von Stroheim
Austrian actor and director
1885 – 1957
Harpo Marx
American comedian
1888 – 1964
Leelee Sobieski
American actress and artist
b. 1983
Mervyn LeRoy
American film director and producer
1900 – 1987
Morton Feldman
American composer
1926 – 1987
Richard Serra
American sculptor
1938 – 2024
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian artist
1928 – 2000
Isaac Mizrahi
fashion designer and television personality
b. 1961
Maya Deren
Ukrainian-born American avant-garde filmmaker
1917 – 1961
Nan Goldin
American photographer
b. 1953
El Lissitzky
Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher
1890 – 1941
John Corigliano
American composer
b. 1938
Richard Rogers
British architect
1933 – 2021
Anni Albers
German-American textile artist, weaver and graphic designer
1899 – 1994
Barbara Kruger
American conceptual artist
b. 1945
Daniel Libeskind
Polish-American architect
b. 1946
Louise Nevelson
American sculptor
1899 – 1988
Carolee Schneemann
American visual experimental artist
1939 – 2019
Casey Neistat
American YouTube personality, filmmaker and entrepreneur
b. 1981
Max Liebermann
German painter
1847 – 1935
Chaïm Soutine
Belarusian-French painter
1893 – 1943
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Lee Jaffe
American artist
b. c. 1950
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Norman Maurer
American writer, comic artist, and producer
1926 – 1986
Richard Meier
American architect
b. 1934
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Tory Burch
American fashion designer, businesswoman, and philanthropist
b. 1966
Amrita Sher-Gil
Hungarian-Indian painter
1913 – 1941
Erich Mendelsohn
Jewish-German architect
1887 – 1953
Gabriel Lippmann
luxembourgish physicist nationalized French
1845 – 1921
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Arnold Drake
American comic book writer and screenwriter
1924 – 2007
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Joe Grant
American animator
1908 – 2005
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Kay Thompson
American author, singer, dancer, actress
1909 – 1998
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Sandy Stone
American artist
b. c. 1936
Chris Van Allsburg
American children's writer and illustrator
b. 1949
Dan Slott
American comic book writer
b. 1967
Paul Rand
American graphic designer
1914 – 1996
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Ágnes Keleti
Hungarian-Israeli artistic gymnast
1921 – 2025
Allan Kaprow
American artist
1927 – 2006
Arne Jacobsen
Danish architect and designer
1902 – 1971
Else Lasker-Schüler
Jewish German poet
1869 – 1945
Harry Seidler
Austrian-born Australian architect
1923 – 2006
Hermann Kallenbach
South African architect
1871 – 1945
Jacques Lipchitz
American and French sculptor
1891 – 1973
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Laurie Simmons
American artist, photographer and filmmaker
b. 1949
Lawrence Weiner
American artist
1942 – 2021
Louis Sachar
American writer of children's books
b. 1954
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Peter Eisenman
American architect
b. 1932
Simeon Solomon
British artist
1840 – 1905
Alice Neel
American visual artist
1900 – 1984
Casey Calvert
American actress, model and pornographic actress
b. 1990
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Arnold Lobel
American children's illustrator and writer
1933 – 1987
Arthur Szyk
Polish-Jewish artist
1894 – 1951
David Gelernter
American computer scientist
b. 1955
Emma Sulkowicz
American performance artist and activist
b. 1992
Maira Kalman
Israeli American artist and creator of children's books (
b. c. 1949
Ryan Potter
American actor
b. 1995
Adrian
costume designer
1903 – 1959
Arlene Klasky
American animator and co-founder of Klasky-Csupo
b. 1949
Isaak Brodsky
Russian artist
1883 – 1939
Russell Hoban
American expatriate writer and illustrator
1925 – 2011
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Victor Gruen
Austrian architect
1903 – 1980
Barbara Nessim
American illustrator
b. c. 1939
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Betty Woodman
American artist
c. 1930 – 2018
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Dasha Zhukova
Russian model
b. 1981
Kate Bornstein
American author, playwright, performance artist
b. 1948
Yvonne Rainer
American artist
b. 1934
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Arthur Elgort
American photographer
b. 1940
Denys Lasdun
British architect
1914 – 2001
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Ernő Goldfinger
Hungarian-British architect and furniture designer
1902 – 1987
Jennie Livingston
American film director
b. 1962
Julie Mehretu
Ethiopian American painter
b. 1970
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles
American artist
b. c. 1939
Alfréd Hajós
Hungarian swimmer, footballer, and architect
1878 – 1955
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Frank Auerbach
German-born British painter
1931 – 2024
Anna Marie Tendler
American artist and author
b. 1985