British academic Peter Collins is an author, lecturer, and consultant on gambling and the gaming industry. A graduate of the Universities of Oxford and London, he founded and directed the National Centre for the Study of Gambling at the University of Cape Town in South Africa between 1995 and 1999. In 2000, he relocated to England, where he served as director of the Centre for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Salford, Manchester. In 2002, he was appointed Professor of Public Policy in the university's Salford Business School.

Historical researcher Carol Corbett moved to Las Vegas in 1969. She earned an Associate of Science Degree in data processing at Community College of Southern Nevada and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration/Finance at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She owned her own consulting firm specializing in archival management. Corbett was formerly an archivist for the Women's Archives in the Special Collections Department at UNLV, and a systems analyst and Assistant County Recorder.

Radio reporter and Nevada history enthusiast David Coons was born on September 25, 1939 in Lebanon, Indiana, but he spent most of his life in Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1958 before studying broadcasting in Los Angeles, California. Coons, a longtime member of the Nevada Historical Society, was especially interested in railroads, and he collected memorabilia and ephemera from railroads in the American Southwest. Coons died in 1983 in Las Vegas.

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Entertainer and song writer Anthony (Tony) Costa was born March 25, 1920 in Manhattan, New York. He started taking piano lessons at age eight and attended the famed Julliard School of Music. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music at the Manhattan School of Music. By the time World War II began, Costa was a concert pianist. He joined the Air Force and served in the medical corps in Africa.

Musician, arranger, conductor, and composer Anthony J. Franchini was born on August 2, 1898 in Naples, Italy and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was five years old. With only an 8th grade education, he worked as a music teacher in Massachusetts until he enlisted in the Army during the first World War. When he was discharged, he went to New York City, New York to pursue a career in music.

Bill Friedman taught the course “Casino Operations and Management” at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s College of Hotel Administration from 1970 to 1979. He also managed two Las Vegas strip casinos: Castaways Hotel and Casino and the Silver Slipper Casino. Source: Friedman, Bill. “About the Author Section 1.” Billfriedmanauthor.com. https://www.billfriedmanauthor.com/author-and-research/ (accessed October 26, 2017).