Diane Rehm
Radio Host
Famous for her National Public Radio (NPR) program The Diane Rehm Show, this popular host interviewed such prominent political figures as Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Also a writer, she published several autobiographical works, including Finding My Voice and Toward Commitment: A Dialogue about Marriage.
She began her career in the early 1970s with a radio program called The Home Show. She later became the host of Kaleidoscope, a popular program that was subsequently renamed The Diane Rehm Show.
She continued her radio career in spite of an ongoing battle with a speech-compromising laryngeal disorder known as spasmodic dysphonia.
She grew up in Washington, D.C. in a Greek Orthodox Arab family with Turkish and Syrian roots. Her second marriage -- to John Rehm -- lasted from 1959 until his death in 2014.
She conducted an emotional interview with Fred Rogers just prior to the Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood star's 2003 death.