Philip Barry is an American playwright best known for writing comedies of life. His most famous play is The Philadelphia Story.
Gwendolyn Brooks was a postwar poet best known as the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, for her 1949 book Annie Allen.
Madeleine Kahn was an actress of stage and screen known for her roles in Mel Brooks' comedies such as Blazing Saddles and High Anxiety.
A leading Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the most famous artists of the early twentieth century.
Charles Ringling co-founded the Ringling Bros., and later co-owned the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th century Scottish writer notable for such novels as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
William Grant Still was a conductor and composer and the first African-American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra in the U.S.