Robert Bruce Zoellick

(July 25, 1953, Naperville, Illinois-Alive). U.S. Trade Representative, 2001-2005. Deputy U.S. Secretary of State, 2005-2006. President, World Bank, 2007-Current.

Edward Zorinsky

(November 11, 1928, Omaha, Nebraska-March 6, 1987, Omaha, Nebraska). U.S. Senator (D-NE), 1976-1987.

Alan S. Zuckerman

Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Brown University and Research Professor, DIW-German Institute for Economic Research, Berling, Germany. Author of The Politics of Faction: Christian Democratic Rule in Italy and Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure.

Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman

(1937, Montreal, Canada-Alive). Canadian-American businessman, editor, bublisher, and real estate tycoon. Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News and World Report. Publisher and owner, New York Daily News.

Louis Zukofsky

(January 23, 1904, New York, New York-May 12, 1978). American modernist poet. A co-founder of the Objectivist school of poetry characterized by sincerity and objectification. Associate of Ezra Pound. Originally a Marxist, he later turned away from politics toward more domestic concerns. Noted for his epic lifelong work "A."

Adolph Zukor

(January 7, 1873, Risce, Hungary-June 10, 1976, Los Angeles, California). American film mogul. Founder and President, Paramount Pictures, 1912-1936, Chairman, 1936-1959.

Arnold Zweig

(November 10, 1887, Glogau, Silesia-November 26, 1968, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic). German writer and crusader for peace. Lived in exile after Hitler's rise to power. Accepted invitation by Communist government to return to the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1948. Member of Parliament, German Democratic Republic. Received Lenin Peace Prize, 1958.

Stefan Sweig

(November 28, 1881, Vienna, Austria-February 22, 1942, Brazil). Austrian writer. Fled Austria to escape the Nazis, 1934. He and his second wife committed suicide in Brazil, 1942. Noted for his biography of Mary Stuart.