Neil Patrick Jordan

(born 25 February 1950) is an Irish filmmaker and fiction writer. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game. He also won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy.

Ellen Lee DeGeneres

 
(born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, film actress, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She has won thirteen Emmys and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. In November 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named her a Special Envoy for Global AIDS Awareness.

Pierre-Jules Renard

 
(February 22, 1864 – May 22, 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte (Carrot Top) (1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Nature Stories) (1896)

Federico Fellini

 

(January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness, he is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century, and is widely revered.

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

 (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) A British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955…Source | More | Paintings | Memorial

John Miur

 (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States.

Louis “Studs” Terkel

 
(May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008)
He was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for “The Good War”, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago

Bertrand Arthur William Russell

(May 18 1872 – February 2 1970) A British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, & social critic. He spent most of his life in England, he was born in Wales, and died there at the age of 97.

Stephen Sutton

 
(16 December 1994 – 14 May 2014) A British blogger, charity activist, diagnosed with terminal cancer age 15. Known for his blog Stephen’s Story & Fundraising efforts for the Teenage Cancer Trust  for the aid of teenagers with cancer. As of 14 May 2014, Sutton had raised £3.4 more than 300 times the original goal.

Luigi Pirandello

 
(June 28th 1867 – December 10th 1936) Italian dramatist, novelist, poet & short story writer. Awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage”. Pirandello’s works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays…source

Haruki Murakami

(born January 12, 1949)

is a contemporary Japanese writer. Murakami is translated into 50 languages and his best-selling books have been published in millions of copies. His most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-1995), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–2010)

Theodore Roosevelt

 
(October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) 26th President United States,
(09/14/1901 – 03/4/1909.) Remembered for his energetic personality, range of interests & achievements, model of masculinity, & his “cowboy” image. A leader of the Progressive Movement & the Republican Party.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

 
(March 2, 1904 - September 24, 1991) 
An American writer and cartoonist most widely known for his children’s books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone. He published 44 children’s books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter. His most celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

William Henry Cosby, Jr.

 (July 12, 1937) An American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action show, I Spy. He later starred in his own series, the situation comedy The Bill Cosby Show. He was one of the major characters on the children’s television series The Electric Company for its first two seasons, and created the educational cartoon comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in the city. Cosby has also acted in a number of films.

Henry Charles Bukowski

(August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

 
(born 1 September 1868 in Bellefontaine, Ohio – died: 26 December 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist better known by his pen name “Kin” Hubbard.

Carl Gustav Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as “by nature religious” and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and symbolization. 

Christopher Taylor Buckley

(born December 24, 1952) is an American political satirist and the author of novels including Thank You for Smoking, Little Green MenNo Way to Treat a First Lady, and Supreme Courtship. He is the son of William F. Buckley Jr. and Patricia Buckley.

Albert Camus

 
(7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960 (age 46) A French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, after Rudyard Kipling, and the first African-born writer to receive the award.