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Mark Matousek (born February 5, 1957) is an American memoirist, teacher, and journalist.

Michael Patrick MacDonald (born March 9, 1966) is an Irish American activist against crime and violence. He is also an author of the bestselling memoir. In his memoir, All Souls: A Family Story From Southie, MacDonald combines his traumatic past experiences with his passion for the anti-violence movement to build a coalition with the Boston's gun-buyback program enlisting the survivors and organizers.They then gear their one voice towards transforming traumatic experience into a voice becaming the founder of the South Boston Vigil group. A local community that works to honor Southie's victims of gun violence.In 1999,he received Daily Point of Light Award, which honors people who connect Americans through community service. MacDonald has also been awarded an Anne Cox Chambers Fellowship award at the MacDowell Colony, a Bellagio Center Fellowship through the Rockefeller Foundation, and residencies at the Blue Mountain Center and Djerassi Artists Residency Program. He received the Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey for his courage and committed efforts to stem the tide of inner city violence through the establishment of the gun-buyback program in Boston.
As of MacDonald lives in Brooklyn, New York and devotes his time to writing and public speaking on topics ranging from "Race and Class in America" to "Trauma, Healing, and Social Change." MacDonald is also a writer in Residence at Northeastern University in Boston.

Susannah McCorkle (January 1, 1946 – May 19, 2001) was an American jazz singer.

Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈpaskoli]; 31 December 1855 – 6 April 1912) was an Italian poet, classical scholar and an emblematic figure of Italian literature in the late nineteenth century. Alongside Gabriele D'Annunzio, he was one of the greatest Italian decadent poets.

Herculine Adélaïde Barbin, later known as Abel Barbin (November 8, 1838 – February 1868), was a French intersex person who was assigned female at birth and raised in a convent, but was later reclassified as male by a court of law, after an affair and physical examination. She is known for her memoir, Herculine Barbin, which was studied by Michel Foucault. Her birthday is marked as Intersex Day of Remembrance.

Mazarine Marie Pingeot (born 18 December 1974) who changed her name to Mazarine Marie Mitterrand Pingeot in November 2016, is a French writer, journalist and professor.