Helen Elsie Austin (May 10, 1908– Oct 26, 2004) was an American attorney and civil rights activist, and served for 10 years as a US Foreign Service Officer in Africa. The first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Cincinnati School of Law, and George J. Austin; both parents taught and lived at the Tuskegee Institute. They had married June 10, 1906. They encouraged their children to become educated and to work for advancement of their race. Her father was reported in 1914 to be sensitive to issues of colorism and was considered an advocate of women. His sister Jennie Austin, was among African American students who were admitted to the University of Cincinnati in the early 20th century; she was class of 1911. Austin's mother was the daughter of teacher and minister, Rev. Mentor Dodson. In 1872 Rev. Dodson was elected as a Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives, during Reconstruction. Austin believed that her mother was highly regarded by Booker T. Washington and his wife because of Rev. Dodson's achievements. At Tuskegee her father George Austin served as Commandant of Men; he was a veteran of the Spanish–American War. Helen Elsie Austin was born at Tuskegee. The United States S Index says that she was born in Washington, DC. She had a brother, George J. Austin Jr. The family was still at Tuskegee in 1910, according to the US Census, From at least 1912, her father worked as Commandant of Men at the Prairie View Normal School in Austin, Texas. This normal school, initially founded to train teachers for lower grades, developed over time as Prairie View A&M University. When the Great War started, George Austin sought to enlist for officer training at Citizens' Military Training Camp in New York. He was not accepted., where he was denied for no technical reason other than the policy of the US War Department, He entered Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School as a first lieutenant for training which ran June to October, 1917. Like other men of a range of ages, he registered for the draft. He was later credited with serving with the 65th Machine Gun Company (which might be the UK unit of the same name). After the war, the family settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, by January 1920. Her father also was director of a civic league supported by the black community in Port Huron, Michigan, located on Lake Huron of the Great Lakes. After Michigan her father became director of a civic center serving students of an interracial community in Zanesville, Ohio. Her mother Mary Louise Austin worked at Stowe School, named after Harriet Beecher Stowe. Austin is known to have interrupted a class in high school by giving an extended description of the contributions of Africans to civilization, while correcting a textbook. She shared an oral history recording including the anecdote about her first day at Walnut High School: (After a reading by the teacher from a textbook about the contributions by all the races, but that said the black race made no significant contribution and had been created to be subservient to the more fortunate races.) Can you imagine? Two little black girls in a school full of white children, and a classroom of white children, and with all the candor and cruelty of the young, the entire class looked at us and there were of course a few snickers and grins. It was then that I remembered my grandmother. I felt as if the klan was standing there with the guns trained on me. With great resentment and resolve I stood up and said 'I was taught in a black school that Africans worked iron before Europeans knew anything about it. I was taught that they knew how to cast bronze in making statues and that they worked in gold and ivory so beautifully that the European nations came to their shores tho buy their carvings and statues. That is what I was taught in a black school. There was an electrical silence. But friends can you imagine; if there had been no protest, what ingrained prejudice and hostility would have been implanted in the minds of those children, and what humiliation and degradation would have been stamped upon us." Austin graduated from Walnut Hills High School, in the suburb of that name, now part of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1924.

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (; American Spanish: [raˈul moˈðesto ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro. One of the military leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Castro served as the minister of the Armed Forces from 1959 to 2008. His ministerial tenure made him the longest-serving minister of the armed forces. Castro was also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba, the highest decision-making body, from 1965 until 2021. Because of his brother's illness, Castro became the acting president of the Council of State in a temporary transfer of power from 31 July 2006. Castro was officially made president by the National Assembly on 24 February 2008, after his brother, who was still ailing, announced on 19 February 2008 that he would not stand again. He was re-elected president on 24 February 2013. Shortly thereafter, Castro announced that his second term would be his final term, and that he would not seek re-election in 2018. He stepped down from the presidency on 19 April 2018 after his successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel was elected by the National Assembly following parliamentary elections. Castro remained the first secretary of the Communist Party; he was still considered the de facto leader of the country, retaining oversight over the president. Castro announced at the Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, which began on 16 April 2021, that he was retiring. His successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel, was voted in on 19 April. Castro remains head of the constitutional reform commission, and also continues to have a seat representing Santiago de Cuba's Segundo Frente municipality in the National Assembly.

Elie Samaha (Arabic: إيلي سماحة; born May 10, 1955) is a film producer in Los Angeles, with production credits beginning with The Immortals in 1995. He has produced over 83 works, primarily films along with some video games. He produced The Boondock Saints (1999), Battlefield Earth (2000), Driven (2001), 3,000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Heist (2001), The Pledge (2001), Spartan (2004), among many others. Samaha built his reputation in Hollywood first as the owner of Celebrity Cleaners and then with his nightclub on Sunset Strip, the Roxbury. Parlaying the Hollywood friendships he formed through his clubs, Samaha was given a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Pictures in 1999.

Helen Elsie Austin (May 10, 1908– Oct 26, 2004) was an American attorney and civil rights activist, and served for 10 years as a US Foreign Service Officer in Africa. The first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Cincinnati School of Law, and George J. Austin; both parents taught and lived at the Tuskegee Institute. They had married June 10, 1906. They encouraged their children to become educated and to work for advancement of their race. Her father was reported in 1914 to be sensitive to issues of colorism and was considered an advocate of women. His sister Jennie Austin, was among African American students who were admitted to the University of Cincinnati in the early 20th century; she was class of 1911.

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (; American Spanish: [raˈul moˈðesto ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro. Castro remains head of the constitutional reform commission, and also continues to have a seat representing Santiago de Cuba's Segundo Frente municipality in the National Assembly.