Vivien Leigh won two Academy Awards for Best Actress — for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) — cementing her status as one of the finest actresses of Hollywood's golden age. Born in Darjeeling, India, she was celebrated for her ethereal beauty and formidable dramatic talent.

Ida Tarbell was a pioneering muckraking journalist whose nineteen-part investigation of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, published in McClure's Magazine from 1902 to 1904, exposed monopolistic practices and contributed to the Supreme Court's 1911 order to break up the company.

Art Garfunkel achieved global fame as one half of Simon & Garfunkel, the folk-rock duo responsible for classics including The Sound of Silence, Bridge over Troubled Water, and Mrs. Robinson. His pure, high tenor voice became one of the most recognizable in popular music.

Bryan Adams became one of Canada's biggest rock stars with a string of arena anthems in the 1980s, including Summer of '69 and Run to You. His ballad (Everything I Do) I Do It for You from the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves soundtrack spent a record 16 weeks at number one in the UK.

Hans Sachs was the most prolific German poet of the 16th century, credited with over 6,000 works including songs, plays, and verse. A shoemaker by trade and a Meistersinger by passion, he championed Martin Luther's Reformation and was immortalized in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.