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A hall of fame inductee is simply any person, group, or other entity that has been inducted into a hall of fame.

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x Richard M. Powers   2008   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Richard M. Powers (February 24, 1921 – March 9, 1996) was a science fiction illustrator. Born in Chicago 1921 into a Catholic family, Richard Michael Gorman Powers spent most of his early life supported by his mother and aunt. His father left the...
x Jack Williamson 1996   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908–November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson (and occasionally under the pseudonym Will Stewart) was a U.S. writer often referred to as the "Dean of Science Fiction" following the death in 1987 of Robert A...
x A. E. van Vogt The Wizard of Linn Astounding 1996   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded by some as one of the most popular and complex writers of the mid-twentieth century "Golden Age" of the genre. Born on a farm in Edenburg,...
x John W. Campbell The cover of The John W. Campbell Letters, volume 1, with a picture of Campbell drawn by Frank Kelly Freas 1996   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
John Wood Campbell, Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an influential figure in science fiction. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact), from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited...
x Hugo Gernsback Electrical Experimenter Aug 1916 1996   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Hugo Gernsback (August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967), born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the...
x Andre Norton Cover of VoodooPlanet, by Andrew North 1997   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton (b. February 17, 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio – d. March 17, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy author (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction) under the noms de plume Andre...
x Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke 2005-09-09 1997   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of...
x H. G. Wells 1997   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), usually known as H. G. Wells, was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science...
x Isaac Asimov Isaac.Asimov02.jpg 1997   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992; originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов), born in Russia to Jewish parents, was an American author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science...
x Hal Clement   1998   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003) better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. Stubbs was born in Somerville, Massachusetts and died in...
x Frederik Pohl Frederik Pohl Eaton 2008-05-17 1998   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine if, winning the Hugo...
x C. L. Moore Dust jacket illustration for Judgment Night by C. L. Moore, published in 1952 by Gnome Press 1998   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911–April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction...
x Robert A. Heinlein Heinlein-face 1998   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7 1907 – May 8 1988) was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers," he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a...
x Ray Bradbury 1999   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Raymond Douglas "Ray" Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American mainstream, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury is widely considered one of...
x Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg 2005 1999   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is a prolific American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since...
x Jules Verne Jules Verne. Photo by Félix Nadar 1999   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand...
x A. Merritt Abraham-merritt 1999   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Abraham Merritt (January 20, 1884–August 21, 1943), who published under the byline A. Merritt, was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction. Born in New Jersey, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1894. Originally trained in...
x Poul Anderson 2000   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926, Bristol, Pennsylvania – July 31, 2001, Orinda, California) was an American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy. Anderson...
x Gordon R. Dickson Ddb-266-28-wiki 2000   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author. He was born in Canada, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota as a teenager. He is probably most famous for his Childe Cycle and the Dragon Knight...
x Theodore Sturgeon Fantastic Adventures 2000   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo on February 26 1918; died May 8 1985) was an American science fiction author. Though his mainstream success was relatively limited, Sturgeon is now widely recognized as one of the most important and...
x Eric Frank Russell "Sinister Barrier" by Eric Frank Russell 2000   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 - February 28, 1978) was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction...
x Jack Vance Jack Vance Boat Skipper 2001   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3...
x Ursula K. Le Guin UrsulaLeGuin 2001   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (pronounced /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the fantasy and science fiction genres. First...
x Alfred Bester Bester 2001   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987), known to his friends as Alfie, was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these...
x Fritz Leiber FSF 0769 2001   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer. Leiber (first syllable rhymes with "shy") was born Dec 24, 1910...
x Samuel R. Delany delany.gif 2002   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. (born April 1, 1942, New York City) is an American author, professor and literary critic. He is known for his work in science fiction, as well on his works discussing sexuality and society. Many of his works have achieved...
x Michael Moorcock Michael Moorcock 2002   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple...
x James Blish BlishGrave 2002   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
James Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 – Henley-on-Thames, July 30, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr. In...
x Donald A. Wollheim   2002   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Donald Allen Wollheim (October 1, 1914 – November 2, 1990) was a science fiction writer, editor, publisher and fan. As an author, he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell. A founding member of the...
x Wilson Tucker Wilsontucker 2003   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
For the football player, see Bob Tucker (American football). Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker (November 23, 1914 – October 6, 2006) was an American mystery, action adventure, and science fiction writer, who wrote as Wilson Tucker. He was also a prominent...
x Kate Wilhelm   2003   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Kate Wilhelm (née Katie Gertrude Meredith; born June 8, 1928) is an American writer whose works include science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. Wilhelm was born in in Toledo, Ohio. Her work has been published in Quark (the anthology series), Orbit ...
x Damon Knight   2003   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922–April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. Knight's first professional sale was a cartoon drawing to a science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His first story, ...
x Edgar Rice Burroughs E-R-Burroughs 2003   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres. Burroughs was born on...
x Mary Shelley 2004   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus ...
x E. E. Smith October 1939 issue of Astounding 2004   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
E. E. Smith, also Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., E.E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and (to family) Ted (May 2, 1890 - August 31, 1965) was a food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author who wrote...
x Harry Harrison Harry Harrison 2005 2004   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Harry Harrison is the pen name of Henry Maxwell Dempsey (born March 12, 1925), an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green ...
x Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss 2005 2004   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk, England) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by SF...
x Steven Spielberg Spielberg99.jpg 2005   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion. In 2006, the magazine Premiere listed him as the most powerful and...
x Philip K. Dick 2005   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and...
x Chesley Bonestell   2005   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Chesley Bonestell (1 January 1888 – 11 June 1986) was a painter, designer and illustrator. His paintings were a major influence on science fiction art and illustration, and he helped inspire the American space program. He is known as the "Father of...
x Ray Harryhausen   2005   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Ray Harryhausen (born Raymond Frederick Harryhausen on June 29, 1920 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film producer and, most notably, a special effects creator most famous for his brand of stop-motion model animation. Some of his most...
x George Lucas George Lucas photo.jpg 2006   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award-winning American film producer, screenwriter, director and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the epic Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the...
x Frank Herbert 2006   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although also a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and...
x Frank Kelly Freas Kelly Freas 2006   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Frank Kelly Freas (27 August 1922 – 2 January 2005), called the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists," was a prolific and popular science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. Born in Hornell, New York, United States,...
x Anne McCaffrey Anne McCaffrey 1 2006   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Anne Inez McCaffrey, born 1 April 1926 in the United States and long-term resident of Ireland, is a fantasy author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to George Herbert McCaffrey and...
x Gene Wolfe Genewolf1 2007   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic. He is a prolific short...
x Ridley Scott 256px-Scott ridley.svg.png 2007   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear) is a British Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe, Emmy Award and BAFTA Award winning film director and producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail....
x Ed Emshwiller FSF 0769 2007   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Ed Emshwiller (February 16, 1925-July 27, 1990) was a visual artist notable for illustrations of many science fiction magazine covers and for his pioneering experimental films. He usually signed his illustratioins as Emsh but sometimes used the...
x Gene Roddenberry Gene Roddenberry 2007   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of Star Trek, an American sci-fi series known for its influence on popular culture. Roddenberry was...
x Ian Ballantine 2008   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Ian Keith Ballantine (February 15, 1916 – March 9, 1995) was a pioneering American publisher who founded and published the innovative paperback line of Ballantine Books from 1952 to 1974 with his wife, Betty Ballantine. Born in New York City, the...
x Betty Ballantine   2008   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Betty Ballantine (born September 25, 1919) is a publisher who, with her husband Ian Ballantine, formed Bantam Books in 1945 and Ballantine Books in 1952. They became freelance publishers in the 1970s. Their son Richard is an author and journalist...
x Rod Serling 2008   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924–June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was...
x William Gibson 2008   Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
The Maker (Spanish El hacedor) is a collection of prose poems by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, published in 1960 as the ninth volume of his Obras completas (Complete Works), a project he began in 1953. It was published in English as...
x John H. Hammond jhammond.JPG 1986   Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
John Henry Hammond II (December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987) was a record producer, musician and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s. In his service as a talent scout, Hammond became one of the most influential figures in 20th century...
x Jerry Moss Jerry Moss 2004.jpg 2006   Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Jerome S. "Jerry" Moss (The Bronx, New York City, May 8, 1935) is an American recording executive, best known for being the co-founder of A&M; Records (he is the "M" in A&M; Records), along with trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert. After graduating...
x Herb Alpert herb.jpg 2006   Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB for short. He is also famous for being a recording...
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x Frank Barsalona barsalona2_200.jpg 2005   Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Frank Barsalona was an American talent agent, founder of Premier Talent in 1964, the first booking agency to focus on rock performers. He set up the first American concerts by many bands of the British Invasion, including The Yardbirds, The Rolling...
x Nesuhi Ertegün Nesuhi.jpg 1991   Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Nesuhi Ertegun (Turkish: Nesuhi Ertegün; November 26, 1917 – April 15, 1989) was a Turkish-American record producer and executive of Atlantic Records. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Nesuhi and his family, including younger brother Ahmet, moved to...
x Jann Wenner jann_wenner.jpg 2004   Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Jann Simon Wenner (born January 7, 1946, in New York City) is the co-founder and publisher of the music and politics biweekly Rolling Stone, as well as the owner of Men's Journal and Us Weekly magazines. Wenner grew up in a secularized Jewish family...
x Seymour Stein Seymour_stein2.jpg 2005   Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Seymour Stein (born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an entrepreneur in the music industry who has been a part of the business since getting his first job as a clerk for Billboard Magazine in 1958. Stein is a vice president of Warner Bros. Records and...