Internationally respected luminaries, including former President Jimmy Carter, Jewish-American scholars Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky, and South Africans Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Constitutional Court Judge (and Zionist) Richard Goldstone, along with humanitarian organizations across the globe, are vociferously decrying Israel's human rights atrocities.
Respected and influential luminaries from the art world, like Jeff Koons, Yvonne Force Villareal, and Roselee Goldberg, also made appearances on Artstar as judges and mentors.
Even before they had played together in a competitive fixture, no less a luminary than highly respected former Barca player and manager Johan Cruyff famously said: "I wouldn't have two captains on the same ship".
Not only did a handful of then relatively obscure wines from California trounce the greatest names in France, but they did so in a blind tasting organised by an Englishman, in Paris, with a panel of judges including highly respected French wine trade luminaries.
I interviewed her a year ago as a Luminary for Inspire Me Today.com.com
The statesman so respected that even other African presidents commonly address him as mwalimu Swahili for "teacher -- was speaking in front of an audience that included six other current or former African heads of state among hundreds of regional luminaries.
In a book published in 1983, Norman Augustine, a luminary of the aerospace industry, drafted a series of lighthearted "laws".
To call him simply a luminary does a great disservice to his contributions.
He would invariably conduct, during the teatime interval, a rooftop interview with an aged luminary of the game.
Cohen is a NSW Greens luminary.
A true luminary of the left.
