Mark Edward Pope (born September 11, 1972 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a American basketball coach and is currently an assistant coach for Brigham Young University. A former college and professional player, he played for the national championship Kentucky Wildcats and later the Indiana Pacers, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Denver Nuggets of the NBA.

Pope was a high school star in Seattle and played two years at the University of Washington. He earned Pac-10 Freshman of the Year honors in 1992 after setting a UW freshman single-season record with 8.1 rebounds per game. He transferred to the University of Kentucky and was a member of Kentucky's 1996 NCAA Men's Basketball Champion team. Pope was a second round pick of the Pacers in the 1996 NBA Draft. The last year of his career was the 2004-05 season as he was cut in training camp with the Nuggets the following season.

Pope enrolled in medical school in 2006 at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. In 2009, he left medical school and joined the staff of Mark Fox at the University of Georgia. Fox was an assistant coach when both were at the University of Washington. The following season (2010–11), Pope moved to Wake Forest University to serve as an assistant under Jeff Bzdelik.

Anthony J. Terlato is an American wine expert. He is considered one of the icons of the American wine industry and has been called “one of most accomplished wine personalities on the planet.”. Terlato gained fame in the 1980s as the American importer who brought the Italian Pinot Grigio varietal to the United States and made it the most popular imported wine in U.S. history.

Terlato was born on May 11, 1934 in Brooklyn and grew up in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York City. In 1955, at the age of 21, he moved with his parents to Chicago and began working in his father's retail wine shop, Leading Liquors, one of Chicago’s first self-service retail stores. The shop carried and sold fine wines, including Burgundy and Bordeaux. In 1957 Terlato joined his father-in-law's Chicago based bottling and distribution firm, Pacific Wine Company, and over the course of six years, transformed the bottling company into a distributor of fine wines, including those of Alexis Lichine and Frank Schoonmaker — long considered pioneer importers of the time. In 1963, Terlato was named president of the Pacific Wine Company. In the late 1960s, while Pacific continued to grow, Terlato chose Paterno Imports — their family-owned and -operated wine importing company — to build his fine wine import business. At the time, Chianti in a flask was the Italian wine most recognized by the American wine consumer. Over the course of the next 15 years, Terlato assembled a world-class wine collection from Italy’s finest producers. By the mid-1980s, Paterno was a major U.S. importer of premiere Italian wines.

Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th Pope, a position in which he serves dual roles as Sovereign of the Vatican City State and leader of the Catholic Church. As pope he is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter. Benedict XVI was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship.

After a long career as an academic, serving as a professor of theology at various German universities—the last being the University of Regensburg—he was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1977. In 1981, he settled in Rome when he became Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, one of the most important dicasteries of the Roman Curia. From 2002 until his election as Pope, he was also Dean of the College of Cardinals, and as such the primus inter pares among the cardinals. Prior to becoming Pope, he was "a major figure on the Vatican stage for a quarter of a century" as "one of the most respected, influential and controversial members of the College of Cardinals"; he had an influence "second to none when it came to setting church priorities and directions" as one of Pope John Paul II's closest confidants.

Blessed Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (Polish: [ˈkarɔl ˈjuzɛf vɔjˈtɨwa]; 18 May 1920, Wadowice, Republic of Poland – 2 April 2005, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523.

John Paul II was acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. He was instrumental in ending communism in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe. John Paul II significantly improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. Though criticised by progressives for upholding the Church's teachings against artificial contraception and the ordination of women, and by traditionalists for his support of the Church's Second Vatican Council and its reform, he was also widely praised for his firm, orthodox Catholic stances.