Five People in Five Categories Meme

Jean at Catholic Fire tagged me with the "Five People in Five Categories Meme" several days ago, and I'm just now getting around to posting this:

"If you could meet and have a deep conversation with any five people on earth, living or dead, from any time period, who would they be?" (Explaining why is optional.)

Name five people from each of the following categories:
Saints, Those in the Process of Being Canonized, Heroes from your native country, Authors/Writers, celebrities.

Five Saints:

1. St. Columba
2. St. Thomas More
3. St. Dominic
4. St. Patrick
5. Our Blessed Lady

Those in the Process of Being Canonized:

1. Pope John Paul II
2. Pope Pius XII
3. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
4. Frank Parater
5. James II and VII (hopefully, one day, please God)

Five U.S. Heroes:

1. George Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Alexander Hamilton
4. John Adams
5. Henry Knox
(Historians will recognize this as the bulk of Geo. Washington's first cabinet)

Five Authors/Writers:

1. St. Augustine
2. J.R.R. Tolkien
3. C.S. Lewis
4. G.K. Chesterton
5. St. Thomas Aquinas

Five Celebrities:

1. Adriana Lima
2. Nicole Kidman
3. Mel Gibson
4. Charles Edward Stuart (aka "Bonnie Prince Charlie")
5. Pope Benedict XVI

Tag Five People:

1. Paul at Thoughts of a Regular Guy.
2. Publius at Res Publica et Cetera.
3. Fr. Fox at Bonfire of the Vanities.
4. Darwin & Mrs. Darwin at Darwin Catholic.
5. Fidei Defensor at College Catholic.

Anyone else who would like to respond to this meme is invited to do so. Be sure to tag five people.