68. Dick Wolf
Richard Anthony Wolf (born December 20, 1946), usually billed as simply Dick Wolf, is one of American television's most respected drama series creators and is an Emmy Award-winning producer, specializing in crime dramas. Wolf was born in New York City, the son of Marie G. (née Gaffney), a homemaker, and George Wolf, an advertising executive. As a child, he was an altar boy at St. Patrick's Cathedral when Francis Cardinal Spellman was Archbishop of New York. For middle school, Wolf attended the Saint David's School, an all-boys private Roman Catholic school on the Upper East side of Manhattan. Wolf was enrolled at Phillips Academy, where he was a classmate of George W. Bush, and graduated from The Gunnery. He enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1969. He was a member of Penn's chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity.