Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) English author and playwright; friend of the Inklings
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Prime Minister and author
Pope Shenouda III (1923-present) 117th Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States of America
Rasputin (1869-1916) Russian mystic and influence on the last Russian Czars.
Charles Williams (1886-1945) Author, poet, scholar, member of the Inklings
J. R. R. "Tollers" Tolkien (1892-1973) author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, member of the Inklings
C. S. "Jack" Lewis (1898-1963) literary scholar, author, poet, member of the Inklings
Warren "Warnie" Lewis (1895-1973) historian and brother of C. S. Lewis, member of the Inklings
Owen Barfield (1898-1997) Philosopher and author, member of the Inklings
Nevill Coghill (1899-1980) playwright, literary scholar, member of the Inklings
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), author, poet
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States of America
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scotland's greatest novelist
Robert "Rabbie" Burns (1759-1796) Scotland's greatest poet
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) Irish author
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author
John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) Scottish novelist and politician, Governor General of Canada
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English poet
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), English poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and literary critic
George MacDonald (1824-1905) Scottish author and poet
Queen Victoria (1819-1901, reigned 1837-1901) Longest reigning British monarch in history
Charles Lutwidge Dodson, aka Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) English author, mathematician, logician, and photographer
Samuel Langhorn Clemens, aka Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer and humorist
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) American poet and novelist
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer
Herman Melville (1819-1891), American novelist
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), English poet
Robert Browning (1812-1889), English poet
Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), English preacher
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English preacher and author
Homer (8th cent. B.C.) Greek poet
Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) Roman military and political leader
Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.) Roman statesman
Colin Firth as Fitzwilliam Darcy (1960-present) actor
Mary Abraham, aka Queen Nefertiti (1989-present), Queen of the Schola Birthday Committee 2003-2006
Elmer Keith (1899-1984) author, firearms developer, inventer of the .44 Magnum
Philip Schaff (1819-1893), first great American (Swiss-born) historian of the Christian Church
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), poet, dramatist, literary critic
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Scots-Irish author, inventor of Sherlock Holmes
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor and businessman
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish novelist
B. B. Warfield (1851-1921), American theologian, head of Princeton Seminary
Baroness Orczy (1865-1947), British novelist, creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel
A. A. Milne (1882-1956), British author, creator of Winnie the Pooh.
Carrie Nation (1846-1911), violent member of the termperance movement
John Brown (1800-1859), abolitionist
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), British comic author
Pancho Villa (1878-1923), Mexican revolutionary
Richard Wagner (181301883), German composer
James A. H. Murray (1837-1915), Scottish lexicographer and chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918-present), Russian author and historian
Patrick Henry (1736-1799), Virginian and leader in American Revolution
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Badon-Powell (1857-1941), British military office and founder of Scouting
Robert Frost (1874-1963), American (New England) poet and Poet Laureate from 1958-1959
Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794), French Revolutionary leader
James Boswell (1740-1795), biographer of Samuel Johnson
Helen Keller (1880-1968), deaf and blind American author and socialist activist
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish Transcendentalist philosopher and author
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), English poet, courtier, and soldier
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), American revolutionary, pamphleteer
King Kamehameha I (1758 – 1819), first king and unifier of the Hawaii islands
Sam Houston (1793-1863), Virginian, President of Republic of Texas, later governor of the state, opponent of secession
Condoleeza Rice (1954-present), U.S. Secretary of State, 2005--
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), English poet and priest
General George S. Patton (1885-1945), American general in WWII.
J. C. Ryle (1816-1900), evangelical Anglican bishop of Liverpool
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Italian artist
Mark Antony (83 B.C.-30 B.C.), Roman politician and general, member of Second Triumvirate
St. Patrick (5th century), British missionary to Ireland
Billy Sunday (1862-1935), American baseball player turned fundamentalist preacher
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist and popularizer of the theory of evolution
Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), Irish missionary to India
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1831-1924), American classicist
Richmond Lattimore (1906-1984), American classicist and translator, especially of Homer
Edith Hamilton (1868-1963), American classicist, teacher, and populizer of the classics
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), American preacher, theologian, and missionary
Yogi Berra (1925-present), MLB catcher, coach, and malaprop artist.
Henry Clay (1777-1852), American statesman and orator
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), conservative British statesman, orator, and author
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Classical era composer
William Wilberforce (1759-1833), British statesman and leader of abolition of slavery in England
Samuel Colt (1814-1862), American inventor, industrialist, promoter of the revolver
St. Luke, Evangelist, author of the Gospel of Luke and Acts, patron saint of physicians and surgeons
Lillian (1893-1993) and Dorothy (1898-1968) Gish, American actresses.
Isaac Watts (1674-1748), prolific English hymn-writer
Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-present), President of France, 2007-present
George VI (1895-1952), King of England from 1936-1952
Peter the Great (1672-1725), ruler of Russia
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist
Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), self-taught American mathematician, astronomer, and financier
John Milton (1608-1674), shown here at age 10, English poet and prose author.
Wes Callihan (1958-present), owner, tutor, and Benevolent Dictator of Schola Classical Tutorials.
Dr. Norman Lund, owner, tutor, and resident rapper of Oxford Classical Tutorials
John Steinbeck (1902-1968), American novelist
Archbishop Peter Akinola (1944-present), evangelical Anglican Primate (archbishop) of the Church of Nigeria.
Al Mohler (1959-present), American evangelical leader, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Muammar Khaddafi (1942-present), leader of Libya
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), English writer and intellectual
Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish renaissance author of Don Quixote
J. I. Packer (1926-present), British-born Canadian conservative evangelical theologian
Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss (1904-1991), American cartoonist and author of children's books
"Bloody" Mary Tudor (1516-1558), queen of England from 1553-1558, daughter of Henry VIII, sister of Elizabeth I, and fourth Tudor monarch
Justinian I (483-565), Emperor of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire
Petrarch (1304-1374), Italian poet and Renaissance humanist
Henry Purcell (1659-1695), English Baroque composer
John Harrison (1693-1776), English mechanic and clockmaker, inventor of the first successful marine chronometer
Dwight Moody (1837-1899), American evangelist, founder of Moody Bible Institute
Clement of Alexandria (about 150-215), first famous theologian of the church of Alexandria
John of Damascus (676-749), Syrian monk, chief administrator to the Islamic ruler of Damascus, wrote widely; the last of the early church fathers
St. Nicholas (3rd-4th century), bishop of Myra and origin of "Santa Claus" legends
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), English Reformer and author of the Book of Common Prayer
Susanna Wesley (1669-1742), mother of John and Charles Wesley
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against the Nazis
Cotton Mather (1663-1728), American Congregationalist minister, author, scientist
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British author, friend of G. K. Chesterton
George Grant (1954-present), American evangelical educator, Reformed scholar, and Presbyterian Church in America pastor
Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), businessman, excavator of Troy, popularizer of archaeology
George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain from 1760-1820
John Mason Neale (1818-1866), English clergyman and hymn writer and translator
Richard Starkey, aka Ringo Starr (1940-present), musician, actor, drummer for the Beatles
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964), American author
Lester Flatt (1914-1979) and Earl Scruggs (1924-present), bluegrass duo
Francis Foucachon, Reformed pastor, owner and chef at West of Paris restaurant, Moscow, ID
Catherine the Great (1729-1796), empress of Russia
Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI (1927-present)
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian-born inventor, physicist, electrical engineer
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), Dutch Calvinist theologian, statesman, prime minister of Holland
H. (Sir Henry) Rider Haggard (1856-1925), English adventure novelist
George Herbert (1593-1633), English Anglican pastor and poet
Mother Theresa (1910-1997), Roman Catholic nun, missionary to Calcutta, India
John Owen (1616-1683), English Puritan theologian
Richard Nixon (1913-1994), 37th president of the United States
Fr. Junipero Serra (1713-1784), Franciscan friar and founder of missions in California
Schola Summer Academy 2008 group at Marland Mansion in Ponca City, Oklahoma.
Henry Wesley Wells (2008-present), Mr. Callihan's 1st grandchild.
Emily Joy Stauffer (May 8, 1994-September 27, 2008), beloved daughter of Terry and Juanita Stauffer and sister of Schola student Josh Stauffer (2006-2008).
John 11:25, 26
I Corinthians 15:54
John Donne (1572-1631), English poet of the "Metaphysical" style.
Sarah Palin (1964-present), Alaska governor and U.S. vice-presidential candidate in 2008 presidential election
Barack Obama (1961-present), Illinois senator and U.S. presidential candidate in 2008 presidential election
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), promiscuous French Romantic author.
Hernando Cortez (1485-1547), Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico.
Henry Ford (1863-1947), inventor, founder of Ford Motor Company, creator of assembly line production system
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007), American author, teacher, and (like George McDonald) universalist
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author
Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898), Presbyterian theologian, pastor, and Confederate army chaplain under Stonewall Jackson
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd president of the U.S.A.
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), English Romantic poet
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian author
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), English painter
G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), English author and poet
P. T. Barnum (1810-1891), American showman and circusman.
Barbara Reynolds (1914-present), English scholar, poet, and translator.
Faith Callihan (1990-present), Mr. Callihan's 4th daughter
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), Italian navigator and explorer
St. Brendan (484-587), Irish monastic saint and discoverer of America
Mr Callihan and Robert
Josephus (A.D. 37- >100), Jewish historian
Dick Cheney (1941-present), 46th Vice-President of the U.S., 2001-2009
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), English poet