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Charles Drew, Sr. was born on June 3, 1904, in Washington, D.C.

He was a pioneering blood plasma scientist, surgeon, and teacher. He graduated from McGill University Medical School in Montreal (Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery, 1933), ranking second in a class of 137. During a two-year fellowship at Columbia University's medical school (1938–1940), he researched blood banking, setting up Presbyterian Hospital's first blood bank. He became the first African American to receive the Doctor of Science degree. Drew served as medical director of the Blood for Britain Project in 1940 and a 1941 American Red Cross pilot project involving the mass production of dried plasma. Drew's work proved pivotal to the success of the Red Cross's blood-collection program, a major life-saving agent during World War II. In 1941, he became chairman of Howard University's department of surgery and chief surgeon at Freedmen's Hospital, where he worked tirelessly to build Howard's surgical residency program. Between 1941 and 1950, he trained more than half of the black surgeons certified by the American Board of Surgery. In 1944, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP for his work on the British and American projects. He was given an honorary Doctor of Science degree, first by Virginia State College in 1945 and then by Amherst in 1947. During the war years, Drew had spoken out against the Red Cross's blood segregation policy. When he died at the age of forty-five after an auto accident in North Carolina, a legend sprang up that he had bled to death after being turned away from a whites-only hospital. Although the legend was false, persisting medical discrimination against African Americans perpetuated it. Throughout his career, Drew was committed to making medical care and training available to citizens of all races and economic levels. In 1981, the United States Postal Service issued a 35¢ postage stamp in its Great Americans series to honor Drew.

In 1939, he married Minnie Lenore "Nanny" Robbins (1911–1992), a professor of home economics at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. He died on April 1, 1950, in Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina.

Charles Drinkwater was born in October 1843, in Willows, Lancashire, England.

He was a civil servant. He served Sir John Macdonald as private secretary for nine years and then acquired railway experience in Canada Central Railway. After the incorporation of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in 1881, Drinkwater became its first Secretary-Treasurer and in 1908, he rose to be a senior assistant to the president. As a secretary to Sir John Macdonald, he gained an insight into parliamentary matters that were of great assistance to him and to the company in matters of legislation at Ottawa. There is a village Drinkwater in Saskatchewan, named after him.

He died on April 23, 1908, in Montreal, Quebec.

J.C. Drolet was a merchant who lived in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu in the 1790s.

Thomas Messinger Drown was born on March 19, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1862. After a brief period of practice as a physician, he turned to chemistry as his life work. He went to Germany to study chemistry in Freiberg, Saxony, and mining at the University of Heidelberg. From 1869 to 1870, he was an instructor of metallurgy at Harvard University. In 1870, he started a consulting business in Philadelphia. In 1873, he was elected Secretary of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and retained that position until his resignation in 1883. From 1874 to 1881, he was a professor of Analytical Chemistry at Lafayette College. In 1885, he accepted a professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1895, he proceeded to Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he was made its President in 1897. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Columbia University in 1895. He was elected an honorary member of the Berzelius Society of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University and a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1886. In 1908, Lehigh University opened Drown Hall which now houses Lehigh's English Department.

In 1869, he married Helen Leighton. He died on November 15, 1904, in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.