If they were alive, even though they're dead: Freidrich Nitzsche, Igor Stravinsky, Herman Wouk, W. Somerset Maugham, Thomas Mann, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Bill Hicks, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Scott Lofaro, Clifford Brown, Woody Shaw, Kenny Kirkland, Michel Petrucciani (lots of jazz musicians), oh yeah and Samuel Barber, Bach, Debussy, Ives, Ravel, Picasso, Kandinsky, Chagall...so many more...Bill Hicks, Heath Ledger, Art Davis...And now, people who are alive and kickin' it: T.C. Boyle, Johnny Depp, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards, David Cross, John Malkovich,