Well-known members of Sapindales include citrus ; maples, horse-chestnuts, lychees and rambutans ; mangos and cashews ; frankincense and myrrh ; mahogany and neem.

Well-known categories are denoted by a short capitalized word or abbreviation in bold or italics: examples include Set, the category of sets and set functions ; Ring, the category of rings and ring homomorphisms ; and Top, the category of topological spaces and continuous maps.

Well-known people who have lived in and around Selma include 19th-century inventors Frank Dusy, Abijah McCall and William Deidrick ; the poets William Everson ( Brother Antoninus, 1912 – 94 ) and Larry Levis ( 1946 – 96 ); William R. Shockley ( 1918 – 1945, recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II ; author-historian Victor Davis Hanson ( 1953-); and Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox ( 1941-).

** Lee Wei Song 李偉菘 / 李伟菘 ( 1966 -; born in Singapore ; Hakka pronunciation: Li Vui Siung ) and Lee Shih Shiong 李偲菘 ( 1966 -; born in Singapore ; Hakka pronunciation: Li Sih Siung ), Well-known songwriters

Well-known 1970s-era power trios include the Canadian progressive rock group Rush ; The American band out of Texas ZZ Top, the British heavy metal band Motörhead ; The Jam ; Robin Trower and The Police.

Well-known Australian classical performers include: sopranos Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Joan Hammond, Joan Carden, Yvonne Kenny, Sara Macliver and Emma Matthews ; pianists Roger Woodward, Eileen Joyce, Michael Kieran Harvey, Geoffrey Tozer, Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Leslie Howard and Ian Munro ; guitarists John Williams and Slava Grigoryan ; horn player Barry Tuckwell ; oboist Diana Doherty ; violinists Richard Tognetti and Elizabeth Wallfisch ; cellists John Addison and David Pereira ; organist Christopher Wrench ; orchestras like the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra ; and conductors Sir Bernard Heinze, Sir Charles Mackerras, Richard Bonynge, Simone Young and Geoffrey Simon.

Well-known advocates are primatologist Jane Goodall, appointed a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations to fight the bushmeat trade and end ape extinction ; Richard Dawkins, former Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University ; Peter Singer, professor of philosophy at Princeton University ; and attorney and former Harvard professor Steven Wise.