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Novelists, poets, musicians, actors, directors and designers who made the country's culture.
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Actor 58
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Author 11
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Educator 7
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Executive 4
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Leonard Bernstein 1918–1990MusicConductor, composer, and educator who brought classical music to mass audiences and reshaped American musical theater.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807–1882Literature & DramaThe most widely read American poet of the 19th century, and the most argued over since.
Vladimir Nabokov 1899–1977Literature & DramaAuthor of Lolita, Pale Fire and Speak, Memory
Stella Adler 1901–1992Film, Television & ComedyActing teacher who trained Marlon Brando and broke with Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg 1901–1982Film, Television & ComedyTaught the Method to two generations of American actors, and made affective memory the centre of it.Sanford Meisner 1905–1997Film, Television & ComedyActing teacher who created the Meisner technique
Harold Clurman 1901–1980Film, Television & ComedyCo-founder of the Group Theatre and drama critic of The Nation