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Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (February 16, 1866 – July 16, 1949) was a Russian poet and playwright who was a leading figure in the Russian Symbolist movement. He was also a philologist, philosopher, translator, and literary critic.

George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and was a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. In the late 1940s, his writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union, thrusting him into a lifelong role as a leading authority on the Cold War. His writings argued that the Soviet regime was inherently expansionist and its influence had to be "contained" in areas of vital strategic importance to the United States. Kennan also played a leading role in the development of definitive Cold War programs and institutions, most notably the Marshall Plan.