Native New Yorker Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning actor, performer and writer known for his groundbreaking Broadway musicals 'In the Heights' and 'Hamilton.'

Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, led America through World War I and crafted the Versailles Treaty's "Fourteen Points," the last of which was creating a League of Nations to ensure world peace. Wilson also created the Federal Reserve and supported the 19th Amendment, allowing women to vote.

John Hickenlooper is best known as the current Democratic governor of Colorado.

Bill Belichick is head coach of the NFL's New England Patriots and widely considered one of the best coaches in football history.

Lawyer Michele Roberts became the first female union leader in major North American sports when she was tapped to head the NBA Players Association in 2014.

Joss Whedon is a writer and director best known as the creator of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

American author Robert Ludlum was an author of spy thrillers best known for writing The Bourne Identity and its sequels which have been translated to film.

Willie Garson is a TV and film actor who hit it big starring opposite Sarah Jessica Parker on Sex and the City .

Melvin Van Peebles was a filmmaker and auteur who pioneered the "blaxsploitation" genre of African American action films in the 1970s.