This section is to be devoted to another area of interest, namely biography and in rare cases autobiography. I say rare with respect to the latter becuase so few people know themselves well enough to write in that style sufficiently honest and critical to make it interesting.
Some lives are exemplary and therefore worthy of study and emulation to some degree. Others are so fully deranged that their lives provide wonderful food for thought. I think it was
Edmund Burke who said that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
So in no particular order of importance here are a few that I would recommend looking further into.
Joseph Campbell (Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell by Stephen and Robin Larsen)
Ludwig Wittenstein (Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk)
Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Russell (Volume 1) The Spirit of Solitude and (Volume 2) The Ghost of Madness by Ray Monk)
Alessandro Volta (Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment by Giuliano Pancaldi)
Mao Tse-tung (Mao by Jung Chang and John Halliday)
Rene Descartes (Descartes by A. C. Grayling)