Tagged by the "Deep Conversation" Meme

Tagged by Jeffery Smith, The Roving Medievalist:

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.

Saints

• Thomas Aquinas
• Teresa of Avila
• Mary Magdalene
• Thomas More
• Maximilian Kolbe
  

To be Canonized

• Jacques Marquette
• Junípero Serra
• Francis Xavier Seelos
• John Henry Cardinal Newman
• Fulton J. Sheen
  

American Heroes

• Charles Carroll of Carrollton
• George Washington
• Chuck Yeager
• Thomas Edison
• Ronald Reagan
  

Authors/Writers

• J.R.R. Tolkein, C. S. Lews, and Peter Kreeft, all at once.
• Aristotle and Plato
• John the Evangelist
  

Celebrities

• Pope Benedict XVI
• any other celebrities are either too many or too few to mention!
  

I now tag any reader who wants to play this game!