Bradley (Brad) Alexander Branson Maas (born September 24, 1958 in Harvey, Illinois) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. He was a 6'10" and 220 lb (100 kg) forward.

After being selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 1980 NBA Draft, Branson played in two NBA seasons for the Cleveland Cavaliers (1981-82) and Indiana Pacers (1982-83).

Adam Lyons is a British relationship coach and pickup artist

Lyons claims he had limited success with women until his mid-twenties, and was voted 'least likely to ever get a girlfriend' in school by his classmates at age 15. As a teenager, he was obsessed with Star Wars, Magic The Gathering, Star Trek and especially the role-playing and strategy game Dungeons and Dragons. He was introduced to the seduction community by Neil Strauss' book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists.

In 2006, FHM covered Lyons and his involvement in Seduction School, a new company whose instructors would later play a central part in Richard La Ruina's PUA Training. In 2007, Lyons was featured in a Channel 4 documentary entitled The Rules Of Seduction. This film examined the activity of the seduction community in Britain, and explored Lyons and his ability to handle intimacy. In 2008, Lyons was featured in The Independent which covered his background, and featured a critique of the seduction community by psychologist Oliver James. Lyons has also been featured in NBC, CBS,thelondonpaper,Arena, The Mirror,Fox News,Maxim, Kerrang and some other publications and television programs.

Richard La Ruina is a London-based entrepreneur, author and dating coach.

La Ruina has featured in the media, appearing on several television shows, national radio and in internet publications.

La Ruina was born in London of Spaniard descent and raised in Cambridge where he describes his childhood as being academically and socially problematic. At school, La Ruina was bullied and changed schools because of it, however this problem continued. He describes himself as having developed a talent for the stock market at age 18, where he used his life savings successfully to earn himself a comfortable sum of money. He claims that it was here that he acquired the nickname Gambler.

By his own admission, La Ruina was unsuccessful with women throughout his early life, by age 21 he had never kissed a woman. Fueled by desperation and the fear of being alone for the rest of his life, La Ruina visited London's bars and clubs to meet women. It was at this time where he met other pick-up artists. La Ruina viewed pick-up artists such as Erik von Markovik a.k.a. Mystery as great role models but they only provided him with an attitude and not a complete structure for meeting women. This set La Ruina on the path of producing his own method of seducing women.

Mark Sisson is an American fitness author and blogger, and a former distance runner, triathlete and Ironman competitor. Sisson finished 4th in the February 1982 Ironman World Championship. He has written several books, including The Primal Blueprint, which incorporates aspects of the popular Paleolithic diet. The Primal Blueprint is his fifth book. Sisson also blogs at his website Mark's Daily Apple.

Sisson was born in Maine and is the oldest of four siblings. He attended Williams College, where he was a pre-med candidate and earned a biology degree.

In the 1970s, Sisson was a record-setting runner for the Portland (Maine) Track Club.

Sisson had a top-5 finish in the 1980 U.S. National Marathon Championships and earned a qualifying spot for the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials.

Sisson served for 15 years as chairman of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) Anti-Doping Commission and as the ITU's liaison to the International Olympic Committee.

Sisson currently lives in Malibu, California and owns the dietary supplement company Primal Nutrition.

Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an internationally bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with elements including cancer, death, pirates, and love. Seven have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, The Last Song, and most recently The Lucky One.

Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Patrick Michael Sparks, a professor, and Jill Emma Marie (née Thoene) Sparks, a homemaker and an optometrist's assistant. He was the middle of three children, with an older brother Michael Earl "Micah" Sparks (1964–) and a younger sister, Danielle "Dana" Sparks (1966–2000), who died at the age of 33. Sparks has said that she is the inspiration for the main character in his novel A Walk to Remember.

Sparks was raised Roman Catholic and is of German, Czech, English and Irish ancestry. He and his wife are devout Catholics, and are raising their children in the Catholic faith. "I was raised Catholic, baptized, confirmed, Sunday School, went to Notre Dame, go to confession, go to church weekly," the author says. "My oldest son is an altar boy. All my children go to the Catholic school. My wife Catherine was raised Catholic. We were married in the Catholic Church. God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it."