- Albert Fall: Secretary of Interior who planned the Teapot Dome scandal
- Charles Darwin: British scientist, who claimed that all life had evolved from simpler forms over a long period of time
- Charles Forbes: head of the Veterans Bureau but he was later convicted of stealing money
- Charlie Chapline: the most popular Hollywood star of all
- Clarence Darrow: Chicago lawyer who defended scope
- Claude Mckay: poet. "If we must die"
- Ernest Hemingway: shows disgust of war "A Farewell to Arms"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Show frivolity and searching "The Great Gatsby"
- John Scope: Biology teacher who taught evolution to his class
- League of Women Voter: Organization estaablished in 1920 to promote rights for women
- Ohio Gang: Harding's friends who saw government service as a way to enrich themselves
- Sinclair Lewis: shows conflict between old and new "Babbit &Main Street"
- William Jennings Bryan: against Scope
- Zora Neale Hurston: wrote novels, essays, and short stories. “was disappearing without the world realizing it had ever been” “Mules and Men”