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Paul Friedrich Reinsch was born on March 21, 1836, in Kirchenlamitz, Germany.

He was a German phycologist, paleontologist, botanist, educator, and author. He studied natural sciences in Munich and Erlangen and became a high school teacher in Erlangen, Zweibrücken, and Baselland. During his stay in Baselland, he collected mosses, being inspired by the work of Wilhelm Philippe Schimper and Philipp Bruch. He spent two years travelling across North America and spent some time in Cyprus. In the last twenty years of his life, he focused his energy on the research of fossil Foraminifera. Following retirement, he settled in Erlangen as a private scholar. He published many articles and books regarding his research and his collections.

He died on January 31, 1914, in Erlangen, Germany.

Carl Reinhardt was born in Montreal, in July 1876. He graduated from McGill University in the early 1900s with a degree in mining engineering. He moved to Ontario and worked as a civil and mining engineer in Cobalt, and Perth. He died in Perth in 1962.

Charles Reiner was born in Budapest, Hungary on April 7, 1924, and died in Montreal on August 19, 2006. He moved to Canada in 1951 as part of the Jewish diaspora caused by persecution in Hungary and became a Canadian citizen. Before he left Europe, he was interned at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria from 1944 to 1945. Afterwards, he returned to Hungary where he attended the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, studying with Arpad Hanak, Arnold Szekely, and Bela Böszörmenyi-Nagy. He won the International Competition for Music Performers in Geneva in 1947 and was awarded the first prize for virtuosity by the Geneva Conservatory the following year. After he came to Canada, Reiner established himself as a successful concert artist and educator. He was particularly adept at collaboration, performing with Hymen Bress, Maureen Forrester, Antonio Janigro, Arthur LeBlanc, Igor Oistrakh, Ruggiero Ricci, Henryk Szeryng, and Richard Verreau, among many others. Reiner frequently performed on CBC Radio and CBC Television during his career, and was a founding member of both the Canadian Piano Quartet and Musica Camerata Montreal. He was a professor at McGill University for 40 years, teaching on the music faculty of the Schulich School of Music.