- Louis Pasteur, scientist
- Marlene Dietrich, actor
- Cokie Roberts, newscaster
- Lori DeLozier, my good friend
- Mike Heron, Rock musician
- Pieter de Swart, Dutch architect
- Val Parachin, my mother
- Pope Pius VI, Catholic priest
- Jane Wilde, Irish poet
- Mackenzie Bowell, Canadian Prime Minister