| 100% | EDDIE | 5 | Comedian Murphy who appeared on "SNL 40" in February |
| 48% | TOMARNOLD | 9 | Comedian who appeared on "The Best Damn Sports Show Period" in the 2000s (2 wds.) |
| 44% | EDDIE | 5 | Comedian Murphy who voiced Donkey in the "Shrek" movies |
| 42% | ALI | 3 | Boxer Laila who appeared on "Chopped All-Stars" in 2013 |
| 41% | CHO | 3 | Comedian Margaret who appeared in "Sharknado 5: Global Swarming" |
| 40% | SAHL | 4 | Comedian who appeared on the cover of Time, 8/15/1960 |
| 40% | KEN | 3 | "Jeopardy!" whiz Jennings who appeared on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in 2014 |
| 40% | BILLNYE | 7 | TV "Science Guy" who appeared on "Dancing With the Stars" in 2013: 2 wds. |
| 40% | WARRENSAPP | 10 | Former NFL player who appeared on "Dancing With the Stars" in 2008: 2 wds. |
| 40% | BABEZAHARIAS | 12 | Golf legend, née Didrikson, who appeared on 18-cent stamps in 1981: 2 wds. |
| 40% | WILMARUDOLPH | 12 | Track and field legend who appeared on 23-cent stamps in 2004: 2 wds. |
| 39% | WANDA | 5 | Comedian ___ Sykes, who appears on the TV shows "Blackish" |
| 39% | MICHAELSAM | 10 | Former NFL draft pick who appeared on "Dancing With the Stars" in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 39% | DALLASCOWBOYS | 13 | Super Bowl champions who appeared on Wheaties boxes four times, starting in 1993: 2 wds. |
| 38% | SINEADOCONNOR | 13 | Irish singer who appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in its 25th year (1992) (2 wds.) |
| 38% | CHADOCHOCINCO | 13 | Former name of an NFL player who appeared on "Dancing With the Stars" in 2010: 2 wds. |
| 38% | FREDDYKRUEGER | 13 | Villain who appears in nine "A Nightmare on Elm Street" films (2 wds.) |
| 38% | BOSTONCELTICS | 13 | NBA champions who appeared on Wheaties boxes in 2008: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ANNEHATHAWAY | 12 | "Interstellar" actress who appears in one of the stories on 27-Across (2 wds.) |
| 37% | ALTHEA | 6 | With 32-Across, tennis legend who appeared on "Forever" stamps in 2013 |
| 37% | CHUCKBERRY | 10 | Rock-and-roll legend who appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in its 50th year (2017) (2 wds.) |
| 36% | JOHNSLATTERY | 12 | "Mad Men" actor who appears in one of the stories on 27-Across (2 wds.) |
| 36% | CILLIAN | 7 | Actor ___ Murphy who played Patricia "Kitten" Braden in "Breakfast on Pluto" |
| 36% | LEVAR | 5 | ___ Burton, "Star Trek" actor who appeared on a "Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun with Flags" segment in "The Big Bang Theory" |
| 36% | ATLANTABRAVES | 13 | World Series champions who appeared on Wheaties boxes in 1995: 2 wds. |
| 35% | ANDYSAMBERG | 11 | Former "SNL" comedian who stars on a sitcom set in an NYPD precinct: 2 wds. |
| 35% | TINA | 4 | Fey of SNL and who starred in this year's "Wine Country" on Netflix |
| 34% | ODIE | 4 | Dog who first appeared on the comic pages in 1978 |
| 34% | ADAM | 4 | Singer Lambert who appears on "Glee" |
| 34% | SUE | 3 | WNBA great Bird who appeared with Megan Rapinoe on the cover of ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue in 2018 |