Photography (of course), music, art (participating in and looking at) hiking, traveling, cooking, baking, crocheting scarfs (it's the only thing i can make), the theatre, good movies, the great outdoors etc etc.
The Dali Lama of course
A little bit of everything; Oasis, Travis, String Cheese Incident, Trey, Sufjan Stevens, Leo Kottke, the Real McKenzies, Ryan Adams, Pete Yorn, The Be Good Tanyas, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Camera Obscura, Amy Winehouse, The Weepies, The Mendoza Line, Damien Rice, Coldplay, the shins, Arcade Fire, Taj Mahal, Medeski Martin and Wood, Jack Johnson, The New Pornographers, Neko Case, Gaelic Storm, Neil Diamond (how can you not?), The Pogues, the Verve, Mazzy Star, The Flaming Lips, The Beatles, Athlete, Keller Williams, The Meters, Glen Hansard and really anything british or celtic...and much much more.
Casablanca, A Hard Days Night, Amalie, The Station Agent, Serendipity, An Inconvenient Truth (brilliant!), Breakfast on Pluto, Born into Brothels (even more brilliant), The Princess Bride, Before Sunset (great sequel), Garden State, Little Miss Sunshine, Walk The Line, Stranger Than Fiction, Once, Waitress,War Photographer, Pan's Labyrinth, Juno, Eagle vs. Shark, Pride and Prejudice,
I've become a bit addicted to Lost and Flight of The Chonchords. My guilty pleasures used to be Buffy, Arrested Development and Freaks and Geeks.
As a kid: Half Magic and Cloudy With the Chance of Meatballs. Now: Life of Pi, Naked, She's Come Undone, Round Ireland With a Fridge, Shutterbabe, Memory of Running, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Artist's Way, Marriage of the Sticks, the Harry Potter Series, Jim Harrison novels, anything by William Shakespeare, Eat Pray Love, The Kite Runner, The Other Boleyn Girl...
Anyone who makes the world a better place...even if it's the smallest of actions.