This is a list of some of the prominent U.S. citizens who are known to have been put under surveillance by the federal government of the United States.

Activists Helen Keller Alice Lee Jemison Martin Luther King Jr.

Businesspersons Bernard Baruch

Howard Hughes

Journalists Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist for Life magazine Art Buchwald, a columnist for The Washington Post David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and historian Ernest Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature Norman Mailer, novelist, columnist and The Village Voice co-founder

Tom Wicker, a columnist for The New York Times

Politicians Congress Sen. Barry Goldwater Sen. Frank Church Sen. Howard Baker Sen. Strom Thurmond

Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas

White House First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

Science and philosophy Albert Einstein Howard ZinnThe FBI’s File on Howard Zinn by Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, July 31, 2010 Noam Chomsky Edward Said

Sports and entertainment Actors and actresses Jean Seberg Marilyn Monroe Marlene Dietrich

Athletes Muhammad Ali

Composers Aaron Copland

Jazz musicians Duke Ellington Frank Sinatra Louis Armstrong Nat King Cole

Other Robert Hanssen

See also Mass surveillance in the United States

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