| 100% | KALB | 4 | Journalist Bernard ___ who co-authored "The Last Ambassador" |
| 51% | IDABWELLS | 9 | Journalist who co-founded the NAACP |
| 50% | DANA | 4 | Journalist Bash who co-hosts CNN's "State of the Union" |
| 47% | ERICHSEGAL | 10 | Author who co-wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" |
| 46% | ANDERSON | 8 | Journalist Cooper who co-wrote the memoir "The Rainbow Comes and Goes" with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt |
| 45% | PEELE | 5 | Actor/director Jordan who co-created the sitcom "The Last O.G." |
| 45% | PEELE | 5 | Jordan who co-created "The Last O.G." |
| 44% | KRIS | 4 | Composer Bowers who co-directed the Academy Award-winning 2023 short “The Last Repair Shop” |
| 43% | KATEBOLDUAN | 11 | CNN journalist who co-hosts the morning show "New Day" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | DESOCONNOR | 10 | Late entertainer who authored the 2001 autobiography Bananas Can't Fly! |
| 43% | JORDANPEELE | 11 | "Get Out" director who co-created the TBS comedy "The Last O.G.": 2 wds. |
| 42% | NAOMI | 5 | Author Klein who wrote last year's "On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal" |
| 42% | RODERICKTHORP | 13 | Author who wrote "Nothing Lasts Forever," the novel on which movie in 17a was based: 2 wds. |
| 42% | CARMICHAEL | 10 | Stokely who co-authored the 1967 article “Black Power,” which coined the term “institutional racism” |
| 42% | PUZO | 4 | The Last Don author |
| 42% | ALICIAKEYS | 10 | American musician who co-founded and is the Global Ambassador of the nonprofit organization "Keep a Child Alive": 2 wds. |
| 41% | TANEHISICOATES | 14 | Author and journalist who wrote “The Case for Reparations” (2014) |
| 41% | TORRE | 5 | Baseball manager who co-authored “The Yankee Years” |
| 41% | SHAW | 4 | George Bernard ___, author of "Pygmalion" who funded the creation of a new alphabet to make spelling easier |
| 41% | JAMESCORDEN | 11 | English late night show host who was the co-creator of BBC's Gavin & Stacey: 2 wds. |
| 41% | EZRA | 4 | Journalist Klein who co-founded Vox |
| 41% | EZRA | 4 | Journalist Klein who co-founded "Vox" |
| 40% | ALROKER | 7 | TV personality who co-authored "The Morning Show Murders" |
| 39% | JIMMYKIMMEL | 11 | American late night show host who was the co-host of Comedy Central's "The Man Show": 2 wds. |
| 39% | EZRA | 4 | Journalist Klein who co-founded Vox in 2014 |
| 39% | DALTREY | 7 | The Who co-founder |
| 38% | HAILEY | 6 | Bieber who co-hosted “Drop the Mic” |
| 38% | COOPER | 6 | "The Last of the Mohicans" author |
| 38% | ABBIE | 5 | Hoffman who co-founded the Yippies |
| 38% | STAN | 4 | Lee who co-created the Avengers |