2. Besides helping preserve Yosemite Park as a public space, this 19th century landscape architect designed New York’s Central Park and Boston’s Emerald Necklace, substantially defining the way we look at cities.

3. Formerly editor of Sassy magazine, she now edits a hip, hot monthly for young people that is so her it actually bears her first name as its title. (Hint: It’s not Oprah.)

4. Once a New York house painter, this former PA wrestler became a giant of abstract impressionism. Today he is widely known for his large-scale sculpture for public spaces.

5. Namesake of Phillips Academy’s library, he was a literary leader and doctor in 19th century New England. One of his poems led to the preservation of an ancient battleship that’s now a major tourist attraction in Boston.

6. The first celebrated U.S. sculptor, he was a Harvard student when he won a public competition by designing a familiar Boston obelisk. Later, the neoclassicist shocked Yankee sensibilities by rendering George Washington nude in marble.

7. As a top-level editor, he has penned 100-plus cover stories for Newsweek on subjects ranging from war to politics to celebrity profiles. A biographer of Robert Kennedy and John Paul Jones, he’s been seen on “Meet the Press,” “Today,” “Face the Nation,” “Nightline” and “Good Morning America.”

8. PA’s past high commissioner of stickball, he went on to own a baseball team. Today he plays a higher-stakes game on a much wider field.

9. When he was only in his 30s, this pop culture icon unexpectedly inherited his father’s title, profession and prized associates—including a singing frog, a pig and a grouch.

10. Biographer of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, this literary luminary won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography of novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s wife.