Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878–1969, American religious leader
France, Anatole, 1844–1924, French author
Frank, Anne, 1929–1945, German author, Holocaust victim
Frankl, Viktor, 1905–1997, Austrian psychologist, Holocaust survivor
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706–1790, American statesman, author
Fromm, Erich, 1900–1980, German American psychoanalyst
Fuller, Thomas, 1608–1661, British author
Fuller, Margaret, 1810–1850, American reformer
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 1869–1948, Indian social reformer
Gandhi, Indira, 1917–1984, Indian prime minister
Gibbons, James, 1834–1921, American cardinal
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749–1832, German author
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730–1774, British author
Goodman, Ellen, 1941– , American author
Half, Robert, 1918– , American businessman
Halle, Louis J, 1910– , American author
Hamilton, Alexander, 1755–1804, American statesman
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905–1961, Swedish statesman, U.N. president
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804–1864, American author
Hellman, Lillian, 1905–1984, American author
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961, American author
Henley, William Ernest, 1849–1903, British author
Heraclitus, 540–480 B.C., Greek philosopher
Herodotus, 484–420 B.C., Greek historian
Heywood, John, 1497–1580, British author
Highwater, Jamake, 1930– , American choreographer, author
Hillesum, Etty, 1914–1943, Dutch author, Holocaust victim
Hoffman, Abbie, 1936–1989, American author, political activist
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809–1894, American jurist
Homer, 9th century B.C., Greek poet
Horace, 65–8 B.C., Roman poet
Hughes, Langston, 1902–1967, American author
Hugo, Victor, 1802–1885, French author
Iacocca, Lee, 1924– , American businessman
James, William, 1842–1910, American psychologist
Joan of Arc, 1412–1431, French heroine
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784, British author
Jones, Effie, 1928– , American educator
Jordan, David Starr, 1851–1931, American naturalist
Kaiser, Henry John, 1882–1967, American industrialist
Keats, John, 1795–1821, British poet
Keller, Helen, 1880–1968, American lecturer
Kempis, Thomas à, 1379–1471, Dutch religious leader
Kennedy, John F., 1917–1963, 35th American president
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813–1855, Danish philosopher
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929–1968, American clergyman
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936, British author
Kissinger, Henry, 1923– , American statesman
Kronenberger, Louis, 1904–1980, American author
Laertius, Diogenes, 412–323 B.C., Greek philosopher
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621–1695, French author
Lamb, Charles, 1775–1934, British author
Landers, Anne, 1918– , American author
Lao tsu, 604–531 B.C., Chinese philosopher
La Rochefoucauld, François, 1613–1680, French author
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929– , American author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865, 16th American president
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906– , American author
Lin Yutang, 1895–1976, Chinese author, philologist
Liu Bang, 256–195 B.C., founder of the Han dynasty
L’Engle, Madeleine, 1918– , American author
Mandela, Nelson, 1918– , South African statesman, president
Mann, Horace, 1796–1859, American educator
Marshall, Sybil, 1913– , British author, educator
Marshall, Peter, 1902–1949, American religious leader
Marx, Groucho, 1890–1977, American comedian
Maslow, Abraham, 1908–1970, American psychologist
Massinger, Philip, 1583–1640, British dramatist
Meir, Golda, 1898–1978, Israeli prime minister
Michelangelo, 1475–1564, Italian artist
Mill, John Stuart, 1806–1873, British philosopher
Montagu, Mary Wortley, 1689–1762, British author
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533–1592, French author
Mother Teresa, 1910–1997, Roman Catholic nun
Musashi, Miyamoto, 1584–1645, Japanese Samurai warrior
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892–1971 American theologian
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844–1900, German philosopher
Nightingale, Florence, 1820–1910, British nurse, reformer
Nin, Anaïs, 1903–1977, French American author
Parkinson, Cyril Northcote, 1909–1993, British political scientist
Pascal, Blaise, 1623–1662, French mathematician, philosopher
Peck, M. Scott, 1936– , American psychotherapist, author
Peter, Laurence J., 1919– , Canadian American educator, author
Phelps, William Lyon, 1865–1943, American educator, author
Plath, Sylvia, 1932–1963, American author
Plato, 428–347 B.C., Greek philosopher
Pliny the Elder, A.D. 23–79, Roman scholar
Porter, Eleanor H., 1868–1920, American author
Preston, Margaret, 1820–1897, American author
Ptahhotep, 24th century B.C., Egyptian philosopher
Publilius Syrus, 42 B.C., Latin author
Quin Guanshu, 1929– , Chinese botanist
Rand, Ayn, 1905–1982, Russian American author, philosopher
Rockefeller, John D., 1874–1960, American philanthropist
Rogers, Will, 1879–1935, American humorist
Roland, Jeanne-Marie, 1754–1793, French political activist
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884–1962, American First Lady, author
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858–1919, 26th American president, author
Rusk, Dean, 1909– , American statesman
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900, British author
Russell, Bertrand, 1872–1970, British author
Rutledge, Archibald, 1883–1973, American author
Santayana, George, 1863–1952, Spanish American educator, philosopher
Satir, Virginia, 1916–1988, American educator, psychologist
Savile, George, 1633–1695, British statesman
Scherer, Paul, 1946– , American theologian
Schweitzer, Albert, 1875–1965, German humanitarian, missionary
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832, Scottish author, poet
Shaef, Anne Wilson, 1934– , American author
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616, British author, poet
Shaw, George Bernard, 1856–1950, Irish author
Sheehy, Gail, 1937– , American journalist
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797–1851, British author
Sills, Beverly, 1929– , American soprano
Smiles, Samuel, 1812–1904, Scottish author
Sockman, Ralph W., 1889–?, American theologian
Socrates, 470–399 B.C., Greek philosopher
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 1918– , Russian author
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, 1834–1892, author, religious leader
Staël, Germaine de, 1766–1817, French author, literary critic
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815–1902, American social reformer, feminist
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850–1894, Scottish author, poet
Sun tzu, 4th century B.C., Chinese military strategist
Szent-Györgyl, Albert, 1898–1986, Hungarian American biochemist
Tannen, Deborah, 1945– , American sociolinguist, author
Tattlewell, Mary, (fl.1640) British author, pseudonym only
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862, American author, poet
Thurber, James, 1894–1961, American author, humorist
Tolstoy, Leo, 1828–1910, Russian author
Truth, Sojourner, (c. 1797–1883) American lecturer, author, slave, abolitionist
Twain, Mark (Samuel Longhorn Clemens), 1835–1910, American author, humorist
Van Buren, Abigail, 1918– , American author
Van Doren, Mark 1894–1972, American author
Vinci, Leonardo da, 1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect
Waitley, Denis, 1924– , American businessman, author
Washington, Booker T., 1856–1915, American author, educator
Wayne, John, 1907–1972, American actor
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807–1892, American poet
Wiesel, Elie, 1928– , Romanian American author, Holocaust survivor
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850–1919, American author
Wilde, Oscar, 1854–1900, Irish author, poet
Wilkinson, Jemima, 1752–1819, American religious leader
Williams, Tennessee, 1911–1983, American author
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856–1924, 28th American president, author
Zanuck, Darryl F., 1902–1979 American film producer