| |  | John Brown (1736-1803) was an American merchant and statesman from Providence, Rhode Island and founder of Brown University. Born in Providence,... |  | John Carter Brown (1797-1874) was a book collector whose library formed the basis of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. His father,... |  | Saleem H. Ali is a Pakistani American scholar who is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School... |  | Nicholas Brown, Jr. (1769-1841) was a Providence, Rhode Island businessman and philanthropist. He graduated from the College of Rhode Island in... |  | Eugene Charniak is a Computer Science and Cognitive Science professor at Brown University. He has an A.B. in Physics from The University of Chicago... |  | Vartan Gregorian (born April 8, 1934 in Tabriz, Iran) is a distinguished American academic, currently serving as the president of Carnegie... |  | Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945 in Grapeland, Texas), is the 18th president of Brown University and first black president of an Ivy League institution.... |  | Kenneth R. Miller (born 1948) is a biology professor at Brown University. Miller, who is Roman Catholic, is particularly known for his opposition... | | | John Hope (June 2, 1868 - February 20, 1936), born in Augusta, Georgia, was an African-American educator and political activist. He was the son of... |  | Moses Brown, was a New England abolitionist and industrialist, who designed and built the first factory houses for spinning machines during the... | |
