Directory

Some of the people on the record

Members who answer for themselves, verified candidates, and public figures whose documented words we keep on the record. A–Z sample, not a leaderboard — 50 of 960 profiles worth meeting shown here.

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Bill Bailey

Comedian and musician

7 answers United Kingdom b. 1965

Bill Clinton

42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001

18 answers United States b. 1946

Bonnie Raitt

Singer and guitarist

8 answers United States b. 1949

Charles H. Townes

Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of the maser and laser

3 answers United States 1915–2015

Clara Amfo

Broadcaster

6 answers United Kingdom b. 1984

Clive James

Critic, essayist, poet and broadcaster

7 answers Australia 1939–2019

Dolly Parton

American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman

7 answers United States 1946–2026

George H. W. Bush

41st President of the United States, 1989–1993

11 answers United States 1924–2018

Gertrude B. Elion

Biochemist and pharmacologist; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine

3 answers United States 1918–1999

Julius Erving

Basketball player; ABA and NBA champion

3 answers United States b. 1950

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Norman Foster

Architect; founder of Foster + Partners and winner of the Pritzker Prize

3 answers United Kingdom b. 1935

Norman Schwarzkopf

United States Army general; commander of coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War

3 answers United States 1934–2012

Pelé

Brazilian footballer; three-time World Cup winner

3 answers Brazil 1940–2022

Pete Rozelle

Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989

6 answers United States 1926–1996

Philip Johnson

Architect; first winner of the Pritzker Prize

3 answers United States 1906–2005

Robert J. Lefkowitz

Physician and biochemist; Nobel laureate in chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors

3 answers United States b. 1943

Shirley Manson

Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage

10 answers Scotland b. 1966

Ted Turner

Broadcaster and businessman; founder of CNN

3 answers United States 1938–2026

Wynton Marsalis

Trumpeter and composer; artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center

3 answers United States

Yogi Berra

Baseball catcher and manager; ten-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees

5 answers United States

This is a sample, not the whole directory, and it is different on a different day. Anybody who has answered here can be found by name above — unless they have asked not to be listed, in which case their answers still stand on the questions they answered.