List of Americans under surveillance

This is a list of some of the prominent U.S. citizens who are known to have been put under surveillance by the federal government of the United States.

Activists

 * Helen Keller
 * Martin Luther King Jr.

Businesspersons

 * Bernard Baruch


 * Howard Hughes

Journalists

 * Art Buchwald, a columnist for The Washington Post
 * David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and historian
 * Ernest Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Norman Mailer, novelist, columnist and The Village Voice co-founder


 * Tom Wicker, a columnist for The New York Times

Congress

 * Sen. Barry Goldwater
 * Sen. Frank Church
 * Sen. Howard Baker
 * Sen. Strom Thurmond

Supreme Court

 * Associate Justice William O. Douglas

White House

 * First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

Science and philosophy

 * Albert Einstein
 * Howard Zinn
 * Noam Chomsky
 * Edward Said

Actors and actresses

 * Jean Seberg
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * Marlene Dietrich

Athletes

 * Muhammad Ali

Composers

 * Aaron Copland

Jazz musicians

 * Duke Ellington
 * Frank Sinatra
 * Louis Armstrong
 * Nat King Cole

Other

 * Robert Hanssen