#54526: your quote: "It is a little awkward to do it this way. The A in the first is in the first name, and the Z in the second is in the last name. Is there a celebrity with either an A last name or a Z first name that you could substitute? If not, then it still works." Found new celebrity!
New sentence: ...a host of distinguished personalities from A to Z Wally Amos (Famous Amos), Arianna Huffington to Fareed Zakaria, and many others in between.
Wanted to keep Arianna H. in because she is a woman and a very well known personality. Is the sentence okay? Thx. :-)