Don Peppers is an American advertising executive, author, and was a founding partner of Peppers & Rogers Group, a global customer-strategy consulting firm.

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theater designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

Thomas Merton, religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion.