- The woman who started Susan G. Koman for the Cure
- A Hispanic physician in Florida who serves the homeless
- A terribly brilliant and terribly disabled physicist
- A dead white male Republican
- A frequently drunk and currently dying U.S. Senator who left a woman to die in his sinking car
- A lesbian former tennis champion
- A Native American professor
- A dead gay activist
- The first woman Supreme Court justice
- A black actor and lefty activist
- The first female president of Ireland and the driving force behind the infamous and anti-Semitic 2001 Durban Conference
- A brilliant female scientist to help discover the cause of leukemia
- The black South African Anglican Archbishop an avowed lefty
- A muslim banker from Bangladesh
Looks like they pretty much managed to check all the boxes on the quota form. Several are highly deserving of the award. Several are highly suspect. You can read the names and bios here.
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