| 100% | TOI | 3 | Poet Derricotte, recipient of 2020's Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America |
| 55% | TOI | 3 | ___ Derricotte, 2020 recipient of the Frost Medal awarded by the Poetry Society of America |
| 31% | CHICAGO | 7 | "If You Leave Me Now" rock band and recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 |
| 30% | BEENE | 5 | The Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award namesake |
| 30% | HER | 3 | Recipient of Grammy's 2020 Song of the Year award for "I Can't Breathe" |
| 29% | SANDRABROWN | 11 | "Tailspin" novelist who received the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 (2 wds.) |
| 29% | NORAROBERTS | 11 | "Angels Fall" novelist who received the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 (2 wds.) |
| 29% | BEVERLYJENKINS | 14 | "Second Time Sweeter" novelist who received the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 (2 wds.) |
| 28% | WIND | 4 | Earth, ___ & Fire, "Let's Groove" band and recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 |
| 28% | NIKKIGIOVANNI | 13 | "Knoxville, Tennessee" poet and 1996 recipient of the Langston Hughes Medal (2 wds.) |
| 28% | SNEAD | 5 | 1998 recipient of the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 27% | NTOZAKESHANGE | 13 | "People of Watts" poet and 2016 recipient of the Langston Hughes Medal (2 wds.) |
| 27% | AMIRIBARAKA | 11 | "Monday in B-Flat" poet and 1989 recipient of the Langston Hughes Medal (2 wds.) |
| 27% | DOORS | 5 | The ___, "Roadhouse Blues" band and recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 |
| 27% | VANDYKE | 7 | Dick ___, recipient of the SAG lifetime achievement award in 2013: 2 wds. |
| 26% | JUDYGARLAND | 11 | First female recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award in film |
| 26% | POE | 3 | The Mystery Writers of America's awards are named for him |
| 26% | UNDERGROUND | 11 | The Velvet ___, "Sweet Jane" rock band and recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 |
| 26% | DEAD | 4 | The Grateful ___, "Touch of Grey" rock band and recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 |
| 25% | TALKING | 7 | ___ Heads, "Burning Down the House" rock band and recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 |
| 24% | BIDEN | 5 | Recipient of the most votes ever cast for a U.S. presidential candidate |
| 24% | BLACKHOLES | 10 | Objects of study for Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez, recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics (October, 2020) |
| 24% | MIDDLECHILD | 11 | J. Cole single from the album "Revenge of the Dreamers III" that was nominated for a Best Rap Performance Grammy Award in 2020 (2 wds.) |
| 24% | NRA | 3 | Publisher of the magazine America's 1st Freedom, for short |
| 24% | TORME | 5 | Lifetime Achievement Grammy recipient of '99 |
| 24% | KAMALAHARRIS | 12 | Joint winner of Time's Person of the Year for 2020 |
| 24% | POE | 3 | For whom the Mystery Writers of America named the Edgar Awards |
| 23% | EANNIEPROULX | 12 | "The Shipping News" novelist awarded the 2017 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (3 wds.) |
| 23% | OLDGLORY | 8 | Nickname for the flag of the United States of America |
| 23% | THEY | 4 | American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2015 |