A handful of dead people. Just my luck.
The Aviator, A Beautiful Mind, The Pursuit of Happyness, and anything by Pedro Almodovar or the Coen brothers.
Don't have one.
Augusten Burroughs, Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, Milan Kundera, Checkhov, Camus, Hemingway, Bukowski, Dave Eggers, Saul Williams, Daniel Quinn, and many more...
People who've figured out for themselves how to follow their dreams and thrive.