Barry Eugene White (born Barrence Eugene Carter, -) was a Grammy Award winning American record producer, songwriter and singer responsible for the creation of numerous hit soul and disco songs. He released 106 gold and 41 platinum albums, 20 gold singles and ten platinum singles. All inclusive, record sales of White's music with singles, albums, compilation usage and paid digital downloads as a singer, …

Alice Hoffman (born March 16 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel "Practical Magic", which was made into a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.

Peyo Yavorov (born Peyo Totev Kracholov, Пейо Тотев Крачолов; January 1, 1878–October 17, 1914)) was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet, considered to be one of the finest poetic talents in the "fin de siècle" Kingdom of Bulgaria. He was a prominent member of the Misul group. Part of his life and work are closely connected with the liberation movement Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in Macedonia.

Diane Warren (born Diane Eve Warren on September 7, 1956 in Van Nuys, California) is an American songwriter. As of 2006, her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, four Golden Globe nominations, and seven Grammy Award nominations. She finally won a Grammy for Best Song From A Movie for "Because You Loved Me". She is one of the most successful and prolific songwriters to ever work in the music industry.

Paul Adam was a French novelist. Adam wrote a series of historical novels that dealt with the period of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; the first installment in the series, "La Force", appeared in 1899. Together with Jean Moréas, he co-wrote "Les Demoiselles Goubert", which was a novel that marked the transition between Naturalism and Symbolism in French literature.

Syed Thajudeen Shaik Abu Talib was born in 1943 in Alagan Kulam, a village not too far from the temple city of Madurai, South India, where his Malaysian-born parents lived during the Second World War. He joined his family in Penang when he was eleven years old but later went back to India to pursue a course in art at the Madras College of Fine Arts and Crafts (1967-74).

Ibn-e-Safi (also spelled as Ibne Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad (Urdu: اسرار احمد), a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu. The word Ibn-e-Safi is a Persian expression which literally means "Son of Safi", where the word Safi means "chaste" or "righteous". He wrote from the 1940s in India, and later Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947.

W. Warren Wagar (1932 - November 16, 2004) was a historian and futures studies scholar. A specialist in alternative society futures and an expert in the work of pioneering science fiction writer H.G. Wells, Wagar served as history professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York, for 31 years. His courses on the history of the future and World War III earned him the title of Distinguished Teaching Professor at Binghamton.

Kouji Seo is a Japanese manga creator. His two hits, "Suzuka" and "Crossover", both mixed the genres of sports with high school romance. "Suzuka" focused on track and field while "Crossover" used basketball.

Doc Love (real name Thomas Hodges) is a relationship coach for heterosexual men who has authored several books on the subject of how to date women and how to keep them interested in a romantic relationship. He also writes a free weekly column, which is published on AskMen.com among other websites, and conducts a radio talk show which addresses callers' questions on women and dating. He has appeared on a FOX television interview.

"Emma" is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."

Ruggero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14,1908-September 2, 1934), better known by the name Russ Columbo, was an American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love," and the legend surrounding his early death. Columbo was born in Camden, New Jersey, the twelfth child of Italian immigrant parents. He started playing the violin while still very young, …

Harriet Taylor Mill (1807 - 1858) was a philosopher and women's rights advocate. Her extant corpus of writing is very small, and she is largely remembered for her influence on her second husband, John Stuart Mill. Harriet Taylor Mill married her first husband, John Taylor, in 1826, when she was eighteen. With him, she had three children: Herbert, Algernon, and Helen. She met future husband John Stuart Mill in 1830, …