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American football coach who led the University of Colorado to its heyday and founded the Promise Keepers movement.

French biologist and writer. He brought the life sciences to a wide public and reflected on the ethics of science.

American novelist who portrayed the lives of Depression-era workers and farmers with unflinching realism. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.

British musician and co-founder of the Beatles. He had an immense influence on 20th-century popular music and was also active as a peace activist.

English dramatist who was active during the Jacobean and Caroline eras. He is known for plays such as A New Way to Pay Old Debts.

Ancient Roman poet born in Hispania (modern-day Spain). He is best known for his witty and satirical epigrams leaving behind twelve books of short pointed poems that offer vivid glimpses of Roman life.

British art critic and novelist. Known for Ways of Seeing, he won the Booker Prize.

American theologian and writer, one of the first generation of women theologians in the United States. Her books include Prayer and the Common Life.

American jurist who broke with legal formalism and shaped legal realism, greatly influencing later law.

Founding emperor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He formed the legendary Oath of the Peach Garden with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

American lawyer and writer. He practices law in Washington, D.C., and his works include A Good Lawyer.

American columnist and etiquette expert widely known by her pen name Miss Manners. She wrote a long-running etiquette column for The Washington Post.