Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and conservative commentator, most known as host of the popular "Dr. Laura" radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three hours a day on weekdays. Schlessinger is an outspoken critic of practices that she feels have become too prevalent in contemporary American culture.

Anne Rice (born on October 4, 1941) is a best-selling American author of gothic and later religious themed books. Best known for her Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematical focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.

George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for U.S. President Richard Nixon's White House Plumbers unit. Along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy masterminded the first break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in 1972. The subsequent cover-up of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Liddy later became an American radio talk show host, actor and political strategist.

Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman (born October 31, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for "Texas Monthly". He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Receiving 12.6% of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the five-party race.

Francis S. Collins (born April 14, 1950), M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-geneticist, noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, and his leadership of the Human Genome Project (HGP). He is director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). With Collins at the helm, the HGP has attained several milestones, while running ahead of schedule and under budget. A working draft of the human genome was announced in June 2000, …

Ravi Zacharias (full name Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias, born 1946) is an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian philosopher, apologist and evangelist. Zacharias is a descendant of two rich religious traditions, first Hindu priests (of the Nambudiri Brahmin caste), and later as Christian ministers. In one of his lectures, Zacharias asserts that a Swiss-German priest spoke to one of his ancestors about Christianity, …

Joseph Neil Schulman (born April 16, 1953 in Forest Hills, New York, USA) is a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, radio personality, filmmaker, composer, and actor. His works include the novels "Alongside Night" and "The Rainbow Cadenza", both of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel, and the anthology "Nasty, Brutish, And Short Stories".

Gabriel Honoré Marcel was a French philosopher, a leading Christian existentialist, and the author of about 30 plays. Marcel obtained the "agregation" in philosophy in 1910, at the unusually early age of 21. He taught in secondary schools, was a drama critic for various literary journals, and worked as an editor for Plon, the major French Catholic publisher. Marcel was the son of an atheist, and was himself an atheist until his conversion to Catholicism in 1929.

Alister E. McGrath (b. January 23, 1953) is a Christian theologian, with a background in molecular biophysics, noted for his work on historical, systematic and scientific theology In his writing and public speaking, he promotes "scientific theology" and opposes atheism. McGrath was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is currently Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford. He was until 2005 Principal of Wycliffe Hall.

John Lowry Dobson (born September 14, 1915) is a highly influential amateur astronomer. He is most well known in astronomy circles because his name is attached to the popular Dobsonian telescope design. He is credited for inventing the design, which is used by a large number of amateur astronomers. He is lesser known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy through sidewalk astronomy. Dobson's popularity, particularly his association with telescope building, …

Tamsin Greig, born 23 February 1967) is an English actress best known for her comedy performances. As of 2006 she is probably best known for two Channel 4 television comedy parts: Fran Katzenjammer in "Black Books" and Dr. Caroline Todd in "Green Wing". Other notable roles include Alice Chenery in BBC One's comedy drama "Love Soup" and Debbie Aldridge in BBC Radio 4's soap opera "The Archers".

Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism and fiction. He is best known today for his series "The Chronicles of Narnia". Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of "The Lord of the Rings".

The Reverend Professor (John Stephen) Keith Ward (born 22 August 1938) is a British cleric, philosopher, theologian, and scholar. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and (since 1972) an ordained priest in the Church of England. He was a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford until 2003. Comparative theology and the interplay between science and faith and are two of his main topics of interest.

Bruce Douglas Cockburn, OC (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer/songwriter. He has recorded an immense volume of work, his 29th album being released in summer 2006, and has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.

Lee Patrick Strobel, a former legal editor for the Chicago Tribune, is a Christian apologist and former teaching pastor of Willow Creek Community Church. He is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical bestsellers "The Case for Christ", "The Case for Faith", and "The Case for a Creator". Strobel also hosted a television program called "Faith Under Fire" on PAX TV. His daughter, Alison, is also a Christian writer.

John Enoch Powell, MBE (June 16 1912 - February 8 1998) was a British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet. He was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. Controversial throughout his career, his tenure in senior office was brief. He held strong and distinctive views on issues such as race, national identity, immigration, monetary policy, …

Steve Beren "(b. September 9, 1951, New York, New York)" is a speaker, writer, and political activist from Seattle, Washington. Beren has been mentioned as a possible conservative candidate for city council in the Seattle 2007 elections. In 2006, Beren was the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Washington State's 7th Congressional District. Beren received 16% of the vote against incumbent Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott, who received 79%.

Helen Joy Davidman (born April 18 1915 - died July 13 1960) was an American poet and writer, a radical communist, and an atheist until her conversion to Christianity in the late 1940s. Her first husband was the writer William Lindsay Gresham. They had two children together: David and Douglas. Her second marriage was to the writer and Oxford don, C.S. Lewis. Before she and Lewis met, she was separated from her first husband and came to England with her two sons, …

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11 1974) is an American radio host and filmmaker who is best known for his work in promotion of conspiracy theories.

George R. Price was an American population geneticist. Originally a physical chemist and later a science journalist, he moved to London in 1967, where he worked in theoretical biology at the Galton Laboratory, making three important contributions: first, rederiving W.D. Hamilton's work on kin selection with a new Price equation; second, introducing (with John Maynard Smith) the concept of the evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), a central concept in game theory, and third, …

Will Herberg (1901-1977) was an American Jewish writer, intellectual and scholar. He was known as a social philosopher and sociologist of religion, as well as a Jewish theologian. He was brought up in a secular Jewish family in Manhattan, and became a communist, a follower of Jay Lovestone in the American Communist Party. He later turned away from Marxism and became a religious conservative, founding the quarterly "Judaism" with Robert Gordis and Milton Konvitz.

Luca Lionello (born 9 January 1964) is an Italian actor. He played the role of Judas on Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ". He was an atheist until 2004, when he became a Catholic due to his experience filming "The Passion of the Christ"..

Howard Storm (born 1947) is a former art professor and chairman of the art department at the Northern Kentucky University, best known as the author of the book "My Descent Into Death" about his near-death experience (NDE). The book was originally published in 2000, and after being noticed by author Anne Rice and supported by her, was acquired by Doubleday and re-published as a hardback book in 2005.

John C. Wright (John Charles Wright, born 1961) is an acclaimed author of science fiction and fantasy novels. A Nebula award finalist (for the fantasy novel "Orphans of Chaos"), he was called "this fledgling century's most important new SF talent" by "Publishers Weekly" (after publication of his debut novel, "The Golden Age").

Tinatin Mgvdliashvili (1879-1981) was a Georgian poet and dissident. His career as a poet has three phases; socialist, pastoral, and finally religious. Although Mgvdliashvili came from a moderately religious family after he moved to Russia for education he embraced atheism and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. After hearing of the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP he joined the Menshevik side.

William J. Murray is a born again Christian who might be best known to the public for writing "My Life Without God" and heading the William J. Murray Evangelistic Association. He is the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition, a socially conservative organization in Washington, D.C. He has been active on issues related to aiding Christians in Islamic and Communist nations. Murray is the son of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, …

Ignace Lepp (original name: John Robert Lepp was actually born in a ship in the Baltic Sea (since he was the son of the captain of a ship) and lived in it with his mother and brother until he was five years old. Living in France at the age of 15 he joined the communist party after reading "The Mother" of Maxim Gorki, …

Anna Haycraft was the real name of the British writer who wrote as Alice Thomas Ellis (September 9 1932 - March 8 2005). She was the author of numerous novels, and also of some non-fiction, including cookery books. Originally Anna Lindholm, she was half-Finnish, half-Welsh and spent part of her childhood as an evacuee in North Wales, a period she later wrote about in "A Welsh Childhood".