The Mentor Hall of Fame.
Quelle: Peer Resources - The Mentors Corporation, Canada
Actors, Comedians, Producers and Directors (Stage, Screen and TV)
Actors, Comedians, Producers and Directors (Stage, Screen and TV)
- Jack Lemmon mentor to Kevin Spacey
- Gary David Goldberg mentor to Michael J. Fox
- Warren Beatty mentor to Diane Keaton
- Gilda Radner mentor to Catherine O'Hara
- Philip Burton (schoolteacher) mentor to Richard Burton
- Jonathan Winters mentor to Robin Williams
- Lee Stasberg mentor to Ellen Burstyn
- Roman Polanski mentor to Nastassja Kinski
- James Dean mentor to Dennis Hopper
- Mauritz Stiller (movie maker) mentor to Greta Garbo
- Richard Burton mentor to Sir Anthony Hopkins
- Sir John Gielgud mentor to Sir Alec Guiness
- Sir Alec Guinness (British actor) mentor to Timothey Findley (Canadian novelist)
- Alfred Lunt (actor) mentor to Montgomery Clift
- Adam Farrar mentor to Leonardo DiCaprio
- Anne Jackson (actress) mentored by her sister, Katherine
- Bill Cosby mentor to Sinbad
- Robinson Stone (acting teacher) mentor to Denzel Washington
- Sue Carol (actor and agent) mentor to Alan Ladd (actor)
- John Ford (motion picture director) mentor to John Wayne
- Erwin Piscator mentor to Walter Matthau
- Cecil Pickett (drama coach) mentor to Brent Spiner (actor and Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation)
- Herbert Brodkin (TV producer) mentor to William Shatner
- John Cassavetes and Michael Powell mentors to Martin Scorsese
- Peter Bogdanovich (filmaker) mentor to Cybill Shepherd
- Jean Cocteau (French writer-director) mentor to Jean Marais (French actor)
- Steve Ross mentor to Steven Spielberg
- James L. Brooks (writer, director) mentor to Cameron Crowe (writer, director)
- Don Siegel (Film director) mentor to Clint Eastwood
- Stanley Kubrick mentor to Steven Spielberg
- David Cronenberg (motion picture director) mentor to Atom Egoyan (motion picture director)
- Ernst Lubitsch mentor to Billy Wilder
- Alf Sjoberg (Swedish filmmaker) mentor to Ingmar Bergman (film director)
- John Sayles mentor to Karyn Kusama
- Qui-Gon Jinn (Jedi master) mentor to Obi-Wan Kenobi (characters in Star Wars trilogy)
- Jann Arden (singer and songwriter) mentored by her parents
- Max Martin (Backstreet Boys) mentor to Britney Spears
- Mike Appel (manager) mentor to Bruce Springsteen
- Lucinda Williams (singer, songwriter) mentored by her father, Miller (biology teacher)
- Whitney Houston mentored by her mother, Cissy Houston
- Dizzy Gillespie mentor to David Sanchez (jazz sax player)
- Wynton Marsalis (jazz trumpeter) mentor to Roy Hargrove, Terence Blanchard and Harry Connick, Jr.
- Hugh Masekela mentor to Anansa
- Joe (King) Oliver mentor to Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong
- James P. Johnson mentor to Fats Waller
- John Coltrane mentor to McCoy Tyner and Wayne Shorter
- Stan Getz mentor to Diane Schuur
- Wes Montgomery mentor to George Benson
- Gertrude Ma Rainey mentor to Bessie Smith
- John Christian Bach mentor to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Clive Davis mentor to Whitney Houston
- Captain Lou Albano mentor to Cyndi Lauper
- Jim Hall mentor to Pat Metheny
- Jimmy Cliff mentor to Bob Marley
- Tony DeFries (manager) mentor to John Mellencamp
- Chantal Kreviazuk (singer and songwriter) mentored by her mother
- Mariah Carey mentor to Christina Aguilera
- Tina Turner mentor to Mick Jagger
- Berry Gordy (creator of Motown Records) mentor to Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross
- Hank Snow mentor to Elvis Presley
- Albert King mentor to Big Clara McDaniel
- Andres Segovia mentor to John Williams (guitarist)
- Chris Barber mentor to Lonnie Donegan
- Box Car Willie mentor to Dolly Parton
- Patsy Cline mentor to Loretta Lynn
- Chet Atkins mentor to Suzy Bogguss
- Michael Meldrum (singer/songwriter) mentor to Ani DiFranco
- Chick Webb (jazz drummer and band leader) mentor to Ella Fitzgerald
- Tony Williams (drummer with Miles Davis) mentor to Herbie Hancock
- Carl Perkins mentor to George Harrison
- Tony Trischka (banjo teacher) mentor to Bela Fleck (composer)
- Woody Guthrie mentor to Bob Dylan
- Isaac Stern mentor to Pinchas Zukerman (Israeli violinist and conductor), Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried
- Shlomo Mintz, Sergui Luca and Yo-Yo Ma
- Joseph Joachim (violinist) mentor to Artur Rubinstein (pianist)
- Ingolf Dahl (conductor) mentor to Michael Tilson Thomas (pianist and conductor)
- June Levant (wife of Oscar Levant) mentor to Michael Feinstein (pianist and singer)
- Hans Swarowsky mentor to Claudio Abbado (permanent conductor, Milan Opera House)
- Maestro Tulio Serafin mentor to Maria Callas
- James Levine (artistic director, Metropolitan Opera) mentor to Kathleen Battle
- Grace Moore (American soprano) mentor to Dorothy Kirsten (American opera singer)
- Alexander Schneider (violinist) mentor to Pamela Frank (violinist)
- Katharine Susannah Prichard (Australian writer) mentor to David Helfgott (Australian pianist)
- Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano) mentor to Barbara Hendricks (operatic soprano)
- Giulio Ricordi mentor to Giacomo Puccini (Italian composer)
- Nicolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov mentor to Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
- Sergey Prokofiev mentored by his mother
- Oscar Hammerstein II mentor to Stephen Sondheim
- Celia Franca (dance coach) mentor to Karen Kain (National Ballet of Canada)
- Rudolf Nureyev mentor to Linda Maybarduk (former dancer, National Ballet of Canada)
- Martha Graham (American dancer and choreographer) mentor to Agnes de Mille
- Ruth St. Denis (dance innovator) mentor to Doris Humphrey (pioneer in modern dance)
- Pamela Wallin (Canadian TV host) mentored by her sister Bonnie George
- Russ Froese (Broadcaster) mentor to Suzette Meyers (News anchor Global)
- Christian Dior mentor to Yves Saint Laurent
- Victor Skrebenski (photographer) mentor to Cindy Crawford (fashion model)
- Edward Kosner (Editor of the New York Daily News and former Editor of Newsweek and Esquire) mentor to Tony Schwartz (Author of What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America and Life/Work Contributing Editor for FastCompany
- Marshall McLuhan mentor to Neil Postman
- V.S. Naipaul mentor to Paul Theroux
- Eugene Norris (high school English teacher) mentor to Pat Conroy (novelist)
- Ruth Graham (spouse of Billy Graham) mentor to Patricia Cornwell (writer)
- Marianne Moore (American poet) mentor to Elizabeth Bishop (US poet)
- Adelaide Fogg mentor to Maureen Murdoch (artist, photographer)
- J. Douglas MacFarlane mentor to Sandy Naiman
- James Chace (publisher) mentor to Caleb Carr (novelist)
- Ezra Pound mentor to T.S. Eliot
- Andy Warhol mentor to Tama Janowitz
- Harrison Salisbury mentor to Liu Yadong
- Fred Bridgen (landscape artist) mentor to Glen Loates (Canadian wildlife artist)
- Jean Griffith (potter) mentor to Rosette Gault (ceramic Artist)
- Edward Garnett mentor to D.H. Lawrence (author)
- James Joyce mentor to Anthony Burgess
- D.H. Lawrence mentor to Lady Dorothy Brett
- Paulo Freire mentor to Jonathan Kozol
- Don Pedro mentor to Claudio (characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing)
- Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Russian novelist) mentor to the Serapion Brothers
- Boris Pasternak mentor to Andrei Voznesensky (Russian poet)
- Miguel Costa i Llobera (Catalonian poet and orator) mentor to Josep Maria de Sagarra (Catalonian poet, novelist and playwright)
- Wayne Fairhead (high school drama teacher) mentor to Mira Friedlander (Canadian theatre critic)
- William Gillies (landscape artist) mentor to Elizabeth Blackadder (contemporary painter)
- Paul Rubens (17th century master) mentor to David Teniers (Flemish painter)
- George III mentor to John Hoppner (English portrait painter)
- Lorenzo de' Medici mentor to Luigi Pulci (Italian poet)
- Cosimo de' Medici mentor to Benedetto Varchi (Italian poet and historian)
- Gustavus III mentor to Carl Michael Bellman (18th century Swedish poet)
- Paul Verlain (French poet) mentor to Arthur Rimbaud (French poet)
- William Dean Howells (American novelist and former editor of The Atlantic Monthly) mentor to Henry James (brother of William James and American novelist), Mark Twain, Thorstein Veblen and Stephen Crane
- Ralph Waldo Emerson mentor to Henry David Thoreau
- Ed Ricketts mentor to John Steinbeck
- Robert Penn Warren (writer) mentor to Larry Leavitt (friend of Rey Carr)
- Arthur Krock (editor) mentor to James Reston (Pulitzer Prize author and writer)
- Hermann Hesse mentor to Hans Carossa (German poet and novelist)
- Walter Ufer (Taos artist) mentor to Carl Woolsey (artist)
- G.H. Lewes mentor to George Eliot (English novelist)
- Stella Linden (actress) mentor to John Osborne (British playwright and film producer)
- George William Russell (poet) mentor to Pamela Lyndon Travers (creator of Mary Poppins)
- Margaret Mead (anthropologist) mentor to Gail Sheehy (writer)
- Frank Sargeson (New Zealand writer) mentor to Janet Frame (New Zealand novelist) and Maurice Duggan
- H.P. Lovecraft mentor to Robert Bloch (writer of the screenplay Psycho) and August Derleth (American author and editor)
- Henry Tilney mentor to Catherine Morland (characters in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey)
- Rueben Hurricane Carter mentor to Lesra Martin
- Jim Brown mentor to Rockhead Johnson
- Phil Jackson mentor to Michael Jordan
- Frank Sedgman (former world tennis champion) mentor to Margaret Court (six time number one world tennis champion)
- Craig Pollock mentor to Jacques Villeneuve
- Jud Heathcote mentor to Mike Deane (Lamar College basketball coach)
- Raymond Floyd (former US Ryder Cup captain) mentor to Fred Couples (golfer)
- Uschi Kescler (coach) mentor to Elvis Stojko
- George Stewart (coach) mentor to Steve Podborski (World Champion skier)
- Pedro Almodovar mentor to Cecila Roth
- Anna Forder McLaughlin (coach) mentor to Barbara Underhill (Champion figure skater)
- Eleanor Tennant (tennis coach) mentor to Alice Marble (US spy and winner of 12 US Open and 5 Wimbeldon titles)
- Hank Aaron mentor to Dusty Baker
- Rosemary Casals (tennis champion) mentored by her father, Manual Casals y Bordas
- Hamaas Abdul-Khaalis (Hanafi Muslim leader) mentor to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Ernie Banks mentor to Dick Allen
- Chuck Dressen mentor to Sparky Anderson
- Johnny Bench mentored by his father
- Jim Leyland (baseball manager) mentor to Barry Bonds (All-Star baseball player)
- Percy Rosberg (tennis teacher) mentor to Bjorn Borg
- Bernard Hinault (French cyclist) mentor to Greg LeMond (first American to win the Tour de France)
- Tom Tellez (University of Houston coach) mentor to Carl Lewis (world-class track and field athlete)
- Lou Holtz (Notre Dame football coach) mentored by his uncle, Lou Tychonievich
- Paul Major (US ski team coach) mentor to Picabo Street (Olympic and World Cup skier)
- Alain Mimoun (French track star) mentor to Michel Jazy (French track star and former world record
- holder)
- Ryne Sandberg (baseball All-Star second baseman) mentored by his older brother, Del Sandberg
- Bob Geigel (wrestling promoter) mentor to Jesse Ventura (governor of Minnesota)
- Tony Palafox (Davis cup winner and tennis coach) mentor to John McEnroe
- Percy Cerutty (track coach) mentor to Herbert Elliott (Australian and world record holder for the mile)
- Bryan Trottier (All-Star hockey player) mentored by his brother father, Eldon
- Rick Macci (tennis coach) mentor to Jennifer Capriati and Mary Pierce
- Gunther Bosch (tennis coach) mentor to Boris Becker
- Dr. Walter Johnson (physician and tennis patron) mentor to Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe
- Buddy Ryan (Chicago Bear coach) mentor to Mike Singletary (NFL All-Star)
- Cus D'Amato (trainer) mentor to Floyd Patterson (World champion boxer)
- Paul Bear Bryant (football coach, Alabama) mentor to Jim Kelly (NFL quarterback)
- Waldermar de Brito (soccer player and coach) mentor to Pele
- Bill Walsh (NFL football coach) mentor to Joe Montana (retired NFL quarterback SF 49ers) and Kenny Anderson (NFL quarterback Cincinnati Bengals)
- Rocky Marciano (world heavyweight boxing champion) mentor to Ingemar Johansson (Swedish boxer and world heavyweight champion)
- Lou Brock mentor to Keith Hernandez (best fielding first baseman in baseball)
- Richard Steele (boxing coach) mentor to Mitch Halpern (professional boxing referee)
- Dwight Gooden (record-holding baseball pitcher) mentored by his father, Dan
- Bob Kersee (track coach) mentor to Florence Joyner Griffith (Olympic athlete)
- Robert Stanfield mentor to Joe Clark (former Prime Minister of Canada)
- Maurice Strong mentor to Paul Martin (Minister of Finance, Canada)
- Brian Mulroney (former Prime Minister of Canada) mentor to Kim Campbell (first woman Prime Minister of Canada)
- Mike Harcourt (former Premier of British Columbia) mentor to Moe Sihota (British Columbia politician)
- John Munro (former Canadian cabinet minister) mentor to Sheila Copps
- Jean Lesage (former Premier of Quebec) mentor to Robert Bourassa (Quebec politician)
- Konrad Adenauer (former chancellor of Germany) mentor to Helmut Kohl
- Pierre Mendes-France mentor to Pierre Beregovoy (former Prime Minister of France)
- James A. Garfield (20th President of the US) born in Mentor, Ohio
- Lyndon B. Johnson (36th President of the US) mentor to John B. Connolly (former US cabinet member)
- Sir Edward Peacock (banker) mentor to Michael Wilson (former Finance Minister of Canada)
- Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (former Liberal Prime Minister of Australia) mentor to Malcolm Fraser (former Prime Minister of Australia)
- John P. Altgeld (social activist) mentor to Clarence Darrow (reformer and lawyer)
- William Lloyd Garrison (abolitionist) mentor to Frederick Douglass (foremost Black leader of the 19th century)
- Victor Raul Haya de la Torre (political activist in Peru) mentor to Alan Garcia Perez (former president of Peru)
- Adnan Menderes (former Premier of Turkey) mentor to Fatin Rustu Zorlu (former Foreign Minister of Turkey)
- Richard Nixon (37th President of the US) mentor to George Bush (41st President of the US)
- Thomas J. Pendergast (political party activist) mentor to Harry S. Truman (33rd President of the US)
- Luis Munoz Marin (former governor of Puerto Rico) mentor to Rafael Hernandez Colon (former governor of Puerto Rico)
- Park Chung Hee (assassinated president of South Korea) mentor to Chun Doo Hwan (Vietnam veteran and former president of South Korea)
- Robert Menzies (Australian statesman) mentor to Harold Holt (former Prime Minister of Australia)
- Mohammed Ayub Khan (former president of Pakistan) mentor to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1971 president of Pakistan)
- Sir Keith Joseph mentor to Margaret Thatcher
- George Wallace (former presidential candidate) mentor and husband to Lurleen Wallace (former
- governor of Alabama)
- Richard Johnson (vice-president of the US under Martin Van Buren and reputed to have killed
- Tecumseh) middle name was Mentor
- William Fulbright (former US Senator) mentor to Bill Clinton
- Cyrus Vance (former US Secretary of State during Carter administration) mentor to Warren Christopher (US Secretary of State during Clinton administration)
- Hugh Casson mentor to Prince Charles
- Anne Sullivan mentor to Helen Keller
- Eugene V. Debs mentor to John Gardner
- Zellig Harris (linguistics professor) mentor to Noam Chomsky (writer, political activist)
- Philip Burton (former congressman) mentor to Willie Brown (mayor of San Francisco)
- George Stigler and Milton Friedman mentors to Gary Becker (Nobel prize winner in Economics)
- John F. Kennedy mentor to Rey A. Carr
- John Dewey (philospher and educator) mentor to Sidney Hook (American educator and social activist) and Max Eastman
- Dr. Benge Atlee (Halifax physician) mentor to Dr. Murray Davis
- Sigmund Freud mentor to C.G. Jung
- Josef Breuer mentor to Sigmund Freud
- Dr. Martin Luther King mentor to Jesse Jackson and John Lewis (civil rights activist
- Dr. Benjamin E. Mays mentor to Dr. Martin Luther Ling Jr.
- Antisthenes of Athens mentor to Diogenes
- Art Smith mentor to Ralph Klein (Alberta Premier)
- Yitzhak Rabin mentor to Ehud Barak
- Jacques Chirac (former Prime Minister of France) mentor to Édouard Balladur
- Georges Pompidou mentor to Francois Mitterrand (Prime Minister of France)
- Georges Clemenceau (French republican leader) mentor to Georges Ernest Boulanger (French general and politician)
- Andre Cools (late vice prime minister of Belgium) mentor to Alain Van de Biest (regional minister in Belgium)
- Goukouni Weddeye (President of Chad) mentor to Hissen Habre (defense minister of Libya)
- George Wythe (jurist, legal scholar) mentor to Thomas Jefferson (who as a result created a mentors program at the University of Virginia)
- Thomas Jefferson mentor to Meriwether Lewis
- Thurlow Weed (American journalist and founder of the Whig Party) mentor to Millard Fillmore (13th US President)
- Roscoe Conkling (former US Senator) mentor to Chester A. Arthur (21st President of the US) and
- Thomas Collier Platt (19th century American legislator)
- G.I. Gurdjieff (Russian philosopher) mentor to William Charles Segal (painter and magazine publisher)
- Vissarion Belinsky (father of Russian radical intelligentsia) mentor to Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
- (Russian writer)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson mentor to Henry David Thoreau
- Hermann Hesse mentor to Hans Carossa (German poet and novelist)
- Thomas Cromwell mentor to Richard Grafton (16th century London publisher and printer)
- Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams (British envoy) mentor to Catherine II (Empress of Russia)
- Thomas Becket mentor to King Henry II
- Cardinal Richelieu (French prelate and statesman) mentor to Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (French poet and dramatist)
- Margaret of Navarre mentor to Bonaventure Des Périers (French humanist)
- Marie de' Medici mentor to Cardinal Richelieu (Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu)
- Annie Besant (English social reformer and theosophist) mentor to Jiddu Krishnamurti (Indian religious figure)
- Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov mentor to Vladimir Illich Lenin
- Boris Yeltsin mentor to Vladimir Putin
- Joseph Stalin mentor to Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
- Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (Soviet leader) mentor to Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (Soviet political
- leader)
- Yuri Vladimirovich Adropov (Soviet communist leader) mentor to Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorhachev
- William O. Douglas (US Supreme Court Justice) mentor to Abe Fortas (former US Supreme Court
- Justice)
- Malcolm X mentor to Louis Farrakhan
- Dr. Alexis Carrel mentor to Charles Lindbergh
- Moshe Arens mentor to Benjamin Netanyahu
- David Ben-Gurion (former Prime Minister of Israel) mentor to Moshe Dayan (soldier and statesman) and Shimon Peres (former Prime Minister of Israel)
- Zbigniew Brezinski mentor to Madeleine Allbright
- Margaret Thatcher mentor to John Major
- Syngman Rhee (former Korean president) mentor to Yun Po Sun (Korean president, 1960-62)
- Deng Xiaoping mentor to Hu Yaobang (Chinese political leader) and Zhao Ziyang (general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party)
- Qu Qiubai mentor to Mao Zedong
- Ayub Khan (military leader and president of Pakistan) mentor to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (late Pakistani
- political leader)
- Dadabhai Naoroji (19th century Indian nationalist and leader) mentor to Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian political and spiritual leader)
- Prince Hirobumi Ito (20th century Japanese leader) mentor to Prince Kimmochi Saionji (Japanese
- statesman)
- Lyndon B. Johnson mentor to Barbara Charline Jordan (US lawyer, politician and teacher)
- Richard B. Russell (late US Senator/Georgia) mentor to Lyndon B. Johnson
- Richard J. Dayley (late mayor of Chicago) mentor to Jane M. Byrne (first women mayor of Chicago)
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie (late US senator/Maine and presidential candidate) mentor to George John Mitchell (former US senator)
- George Catlett Marshall (American general and cabinet minister) mentor to Dwight David Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Mark Clark and Joseph Stillwell
- Johann de Kalb (American general at Valley Forge with George Washington) mentor to Lafayette
- Sam Rayburn (late member of the US House of Representatives/Texas) mentor to Carl Albert (former speaker of the US House of Representatives)
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide mentor to Rene Preval (President of Haiti)
- Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the US) mentor to William Howard Taft (27th President of the US)
- John Dewey mentor to Sidney Hook (American educator and social philosopher)
- Sir Richard Rees mentor to George Orwell
- Prince von Metternich mentor to Friedrich Gentz
- Prince von Metternich mentor to Francis Joseph (Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary)
- John Cateret (Earl of Granville) mentor to King George II
- King Louis I (Poland) mentor to Charles of Durazzo (conquerer of Naples)
- Augustin de Robespierre mentor to Napoleon Bonaparte
- Elijah mentor to Elisha (Israelite prophet)
- Saul (first king of the ancient Hebrews) mentor to David (king of ancient Israel)
- Socrates mentor to Plato
- Archimedes mentor to Galileo
- Galileo mentor to Ferdinand II (Grand Duke of Tuscany)
- Lorenzo de Medici (Florentine statesman) mentor to Politan (Italian poet)
- Brunetto Latini mentor to Dante Alighieri (of Firenze)
- Polybius (Roman explorer) mentor to Scipio Aemilianus (Roman general)
- Johann von Staupitz mentor to Martin Luther
- Lino Oviedo (military general) mentor to Raúl Cubas Grau (President of Paraguay)
- Julius Caesar mentor to Mark Antony and Caius Trebonius (Roman politician)
- Julian (4th century Roman emperor) mentor to Eutropius (Roman historian)
- John Stuart Mill mentor to Jeremy Bentham
- Jack Cockwell mentor to Kevin Benson
- Alf Pouois (former CEO of Noranda) mentor to Bill James (retiring CEO of Inmet Mining)
- George Gallup mentor to David Ogilvy
- Bill Gates mentored by the board games "Risk" and "Monopoly"
- Warren Buffet (financier) mentor to Donald Graham (publisher, Washington Post)
- Joanne Rossman (designer) mentored by Lillian Gilbert (Manager, Joseph Magnin)
- John L. Lewis (late president of the United Mine Workers Union) mentor to W.A. (Tony) Boyle (president of the United Mine Workers)
- Gordon Moore (founder of Intel) mentor to Andrew Grove (co-inventor of the microprocessor)
- Barry Diller mentor to Edgar Bronfman
- Robert Gagne mentor to Bruce Tuckman
- Jerome Bruner mentor to Berry Brazelton
- Simon Flexner (Rockefeller Institute) mentor to Alex Carrel (1944 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine)
- Dr. Roland Scott (physician) mentor to Angela Ferguson (distinquished African American
- scientist-physician)
- Alfred Adler mentor to Viktor Frankl
- Gregory Bateson (social theorist) mentor to his daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson (anthropologist)
- Kingman Brewster (President of Yale) mentor to Derek Bok (President of Harvard)
- Robert McNamara (former US Secretary of Defense) mentor to Lee Iacocca
- J. Leslie Rollins (president of the Bendix Corporation) mentor to William Agee (former president of the Bendix Corporation)
- William Agee (former president of the Bendix Corporation) mentor to Mary Cunningham (business
- executive with Seagrams, Semper Corporation, and Bendix)
- Walter Shewhart (mathematician) mentor to W. Edwards Deming (business leader and mathematical
- physicist)
- Sidney Weinberg mentor to Henry Ford
- Earl Nightingale mentor to Jim Cathcart
- Sir Humphry Davy mentor to Michael Faraday (English physicist and creator of electromagnetism)
- Neils Bohr mentor Werner Heisenberg
- Alexander von Humboldt (German naturalist) mentor to Max Eisenstein (German mathematician)
- Christiaan Huygens (17th century astronomer) mentor to Gottfried Leibniz (father of calculus)
- Hermann von Helmholtz mentor to Max Planck
- Leucippus of Miletus (Greek philosopher) mentor to Democritus of Abderra (created the theory of
- atoms)
- Otto Stern (1943 Nobel prize in physics) mentor to Isidor Rabi (1944 Nobel prize in physics)
- Bernard Maybeck (architect) mentor to Julia Morgan (architect)
- William Le Baron Jenney (architect and inventor of the term skyscaper) mentor to Louis Sullivan (father of modern US architecture)
- William Eliot (former president of Harvard) mentor to William Lyon Mackenzie King (former Prime Minister of Canda)
- Joshua Lederberg (Nobel laureate and genetics resercher) and Gerard Kuiper (astronomer) mentors to Carl Sagan (astrophysicist and writer)
- Dr. Helen Singer Kaplan mentor to Dr. Ruth Westheimer (psychologist, sex counselor)
- Charles Cobb (former director of CORE) mentor to Benjamin Chavis (former director of the NAACP)
- Thomas Francis (epidemiologist) mentor to Jonas Salk (physician and developer of polio vaccine)
- James Durham (former dean of Temple University) mentor to Robert K. Merton (sociologist, writer)
- Benjamin E. Mays (former president of Morehouse College) mentor to David Satcher (physician and Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Thomas Sowell (economist) mentor to Clarence Thomas (US Supreme Court justice)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (former US Supreme Court justice) mentor to Alger Hiss (lawyer, peace activist)
- Donald Kendall (former CEO of PepsiCo) mentor to John Scully (former CEO of Apple)
- Harland Sanders (the Colonel) mentor to Dave Thomas (founder of Wendy's)
- John Rowe Workman (Brown University classics professor) mentor to Ted Turner
- Conrad Black (Canadian businessman) mentored by his father, George (businessman)