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Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (March 31 [O.S. 19 March] 1872 – March 9, 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat, and Marxist theoretician. Serving as the People's Commissar for Welfare in Vladimir Lenin's government in 1917–1918, she was a highly prominent woman within the Bolshevik party. Kollontai was a leading figure in the foundation of the Zhenotdel, the new women's department of the Central Committee that was aimed at improving the status of women in the Soviet Union.

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore also served in the House of Representatives (1977–1985) and the U. S. Senate (1985–1993), representing Tennessee. Gore was the Democratic nominee for president in the 2000 election, ultimately losing to the Republican candidate George W. Bush in spite of winning the popular vote. A prominent environmental activist, Gore was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." He also starred in the Academy Award - winning documentary on the topic of global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.