Here is the REAL list of people the characters of FF8 were modeled after:

Squall-Carrot Top
Quistis-Bea Arthur
Zell-A lemur
Rinoa-Heidi Fleiss
Irvine-RuPaul
Selphie-Stacy London from "What Not to Wear"
Seifer-Stephen Hawking
Cid-Abe Vigoda
Edea-A brick of head cheese
Ellone-Bill Nye "The Science Guy"
Laguna-Rosie O'Donnell
Kiros-Scott Baio and Bret Michaels making out
Ward-Dave Coulier giving The Big Show a piggyback ride

All other lifeless and utterly useless characters were modeled directly after Vin Diesel, and I happen to think this was the best character modeling in the entire game because they were spot on. By other characters I'm obviously alluding to the ones who walk around for absolutely no reason and have no dialogue.

This is the actual confirmed list I received from SquareEnix upon a request I had made to know exactly whom the characters were modeled after. So that's that; it's final. If you disagree with this list then I truly believe that you are playing an entirely different game.