Celebrity guest stars on Sesame Street

Actors

• Kenny Baker as R2-D2
• Jim Carrey
• Bill Cosby*
• Anthony Daniels as C-3PO
• Ellen DeGeneres*
• Robert De Niro
• Danny DeVito
• Fran Drescher
• Jodie Foster
• Mel Gibson
• Whoopi Goldberg
• John Goodman
• Arte Johnson (portraying his Nazi character from Laugh-In)
• James Earl Jones*
• Burt Lancaster*
• Shari Lewis and Lambchop*
• Liam Neeson
• Rosie O'Donnell
• Mandy Patinkin
• Natalie Portman (dressed as an elephant)
• Julia Roberts
• Fred Rogers
• Susan Sarandon*
• Patrick Stewart*
• Ben Stiller
• Robin Williams
• Noah Wyle

Celebrities

• Kofi Annan
• Maya Angelou
• Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Phil Donahue
• Jesse Jackson (who recited I Am - Somebody)
• Ralph Nader
• The Simpsons, including Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.
• Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert
• Barbara Walters

Musicians

• James Galway
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Herbie Hancock
• Kronos Quartet
• Yo-Yo Ma
• Branford Marsalis
• Wynton Marsalis
• Seiji Ozawa
• Itzhak Perlman
• Joshua Redman, possibly in the 12th season, playing his violin in the episode where Telly debuts, and plays his tuba.
• Max Roach
• Isaac Stern

Singers

• Backstreet Boys
• Tony Bennett
• Harry Belafonte*
• Rubén Blades
• Garth Brooks
• Cab Calloway
• Mary Chapin Carpenter*
• Aaron and Nick Carter, two-headed monster skit, aired with Baby Bear's little sibling's birth, second episode.
• Johnny Cash
• Tracy Chapman
• Ray Charles*
• Chubby Checker
• The Dixie Chicks
• Judy Collins
• Bo Diddley
• Plácido Domingo
• Gloria Estefan
• Melissa Etheridge
• José Feliciano
• 14 Karat Soul
• The Four Tops
• Crystal Gayle
• Lena Horne
• Mahalia Jackson
• Waylon Jennings
• Billy Joel*
• Eddie Kendricks (of The Temptations)
• Kid 'N Play
• Gladys Knight and the Pips
• Patti LaBelle
• Queen Latifah
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo
• Ziggy Marley
• Don McClean
• Bobby McFerrin
• Menudo
• Holly Near
• N'Sync
• The Pointer Sisters
• Lou Rawls
• Helen Reddy
• R.E.M., singing Furry Happy Monsters
• Little Richard
• Smokey Robinson
• Linda Ronstadt
• Diana Ross
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Pete Seeger
• Carly Simon
• Paul Simon
• Take 6
• James Taylor
• Randy Travis
• Stevie Wonder
• Joe Williams

Sports Figures

• Arthur Ashe
• Michael Chang
• Julius Erving
• Peggy Fleming
• The Harlem Globetrotters
• Rosie Grier
• Bo Jackson
• Joe Namath
• Martina Navratilova
• New York Giants
• New York Knicks
• New York Mets
• David Robinson
• Isiah Thomas
• Dave Winfield

Pre-Celebrities

The following persons were not celebrities at the time they appeared on Sesame Street, but later became well-known:

• Actor Alan Arkin
• Actor Paul Benedict (as The Number Painter)
• Dancer Savion Glover
• Actor Raúl Juliá
• Actor Charlotte Rae
• Singer Luther VandrossFirst season 1969

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