John Wilson Bain, Esq., was born on April 24, 1862, in Glasgow, Scotland.

He was an accountant and auditor in Glasgow, Scotland.

In 1903, he married Georgina Burn Oliver (1863–). He died on January 20, 1940, in Glasgow, Scotland.

William Alexander Bain was born on August 20, 1905, in Dunbar, Scotland.  

He was a Scottish pharmacologist, best known for his early work with antihistamine drugs. In 1928, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh with first-class honours in physiology. In 1930, he won the Ellis Prize in Physiology with an essay on heart hormones. In 1931, Bain was appointed Lecturer in Experimental Physiology at the University of Edinburgh and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1934, Bain was appointed a lecturer at the University of Leeds, where he stayed for 25 years. He was awarded a D.Sc. degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1953 for his work entitled "Contributions to the study of histamine antagonists in man." From 1954 to 1957, Bain was Press Editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy. In 1958, he assumed the directorship of the new Smith, Kline and French Research Institute at Welwyn Garden City, England.

In 1929, he married Bessie Beveridge Smith (1900-1961), and, later, he remarried Freda Dratman (1912–2008). He died on August 24, 1971, in Digswell, England.

Frederick Haigh Bair, Jr., was born on June 27, 1915, in New York City, New York.

He served as 2nd Lt., US Marine Corps during and after World War II, partly in the Army of Occupation in Japan. He was later a city planner in Auburndale, Florida. Bair was the author of several books, e.g. "Mobile home parks and comprehensive community planning" (1960), "Planning maps for small cities; how to make and maintain them" (1967), "Planning cities; selected writings on principles and practice" (1970) and "Mobile Homes and the General Housing Supply" (1970).

He died on February 14, 2005, in Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida.

Spencer Fullerton Baird was born on February 3, 1823, in Reading, Pennsylvania.

He was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. In 1840, he graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania where he also became a professor of natural history in 1845. In 1850, he became the first curator at the Smithsonian Institution and the Permanent Secretary for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He created a museum program for the Smithsonian, focused on the natural history of the United States. Eventually, he became its Assistant Secretary and in 1856, he received his Ph.D. in physical science from Dickinson College. In 1872, he became the manager of the United States National Museum. In 1878, he became the second Secretary of the Smithsonian and in 1880, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He published "Birds" (1858), "Mammals of North America" (1859), and "History of North American Birds" (1875 to 1884).

There are two birds named after him - Baird's sparrow, a migratory bird native to Canada, Mexico, and the United States, and a medium-sized shorebird known as Baird's sandpiper. Baird Auditorium in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is also named in his honour.

He died on August 19, 1887, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.