Political satirist and host of his own talk show on Comedy Central; also the author of I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)

You could call him James Bond, Henry Jones, Marko Ramius, or Allan Quartermain

He was on American Idol before venturing astray to lead trio of judges on The X Factor

Author of the best-selling young adult series The Hunger Games

Jolly gift-bearer and reindeer enthusiast

Actor who starred in, among many others: Dinner for Schmucks, Get Smart, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and The Office (U.S.)

Mark Twain

Socially-awkward scientific genius whose lines are delivered by Jim Parsons on The Big Bang Theory (Bazing!)

Patented the revolver and made its mass production viable for the first time

Canadian hockey player with the Pittsburgh Penguins, drafted with the first overall pick in the 2005 NHL draft

TomKat's daughter

SpongeBob's karate-kicking air-breathing tree-dome-dwelling friend

Left-handed pitching Hall of Famer and 4-time Cy Young award winner who spent 15 seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies

Critically acclaimed author of the Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage

Musician whose 2002 album C'mon, C'mon featured the song Steve McQueen, which won her a Grammy

Her son John was born after John sent Kyle Reese back in time to stop SkyNet from murdering her

1983 Nobel laureate in physics after whom the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star is named

Danny Williams in the 2010 re-imagining of Hawaii Five-0, one of Ocean's Eleven, and the son of Santino 'Sonny' Corleone

French military engineer whose work with heat engines laid the groundwork for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

He was both Ki-Adi-Mundi and Nute Gunray in the Star Wars prequel series, as well as the voice of Ood in Doctor Who

Rachel Berry's birth mother, Beth's adoptive mother, and Vocal Adrenaline's Season 1 coach

3-time Emmy award winner and 1-time Tony award winner, best known for playing Betty Rizzo in the film adaptation of Grease

Speaker of the House from 1863-1869 and Vice President from 1869-1873 under Ulysses S. Grant

He takes the guillotine for Charles Darnay, thinking '…it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever know.'

South Korean student who opened fire in April 2007, killing 32 people at Virginia Tech

Dominican Chicago Cubs shortstop, twice voted to the All-Star game

Taiwanese-born internet entrepreneur, co-founder and one-time CTO of YouTube

American author with Hispanic heritage who wrote The House on Mango Street (or La Casa en Mango Street)

Emmy award-winning comic actor who portrayed Coach Calhoun in the film version of Grease and its sequel

His most famous stand-up characters include Alan Partridge, Paul Calf, and his promiscuous sister Pauline