Aw jeez, how long a post can you stand? In no particular order, except maybe the order my eye fell on things by or about them on the shelves in my study:
Marion Anderson, Paul Robeson, Abraham Lincoln, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Jim Brown, William Manchester, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Orson Scott Card, Michael Shermer, John Shelby Spong, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, John Irving, James Michener, Noam Chomsky, William Blum, Susan Faludi, Jared Diamond, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Jay Gould, Ernst Mayr, P.J. O'Rourke, Ray Bradbury, John Allen Paulos, Loren Eiseley, Paul Simon, Phil Plait, Robert Carroll, Martin Gardner, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, John von Neumann, LInus Pauling...
...and thousands more who are widely and rightly loved and honoured.