John Spencer Bassett male, deceased

John Spencer Bassett was a professor at Duke University (then Trinity College) best known today for initiating the Bassett Affair in 1903.

William Preston Few male, deceased

William Preston Few (1867-1940) was the first president of Duke University and the fifth president of its predecessor, Trinity College. Few...

John Hope Franklin male

John Hope Franklin (born January 2, 1915) is a United States historian and past president of the American Historical Association. Professor...

Terry Sanford male, deceased

James Terry Sanford (August 20 1917 - April 18 1998) was a Democratic politician from the Southern United States. A native of North Carolina, he...

Mike Krzyzewski male

Michael William Krzyzewski (in American English transliteration "shuh-"shef"-skee"; born February 13, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois), often referred to...

Fredric Jameson male

Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is a literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary...

Melinda Gates female (Medina, WA, United States)

Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964) is a former unit manager for several Microsoft products: Publisher, Microsoft...

Stanley Fish male

Stanley Fish (born 1938) is a prominent American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is...

Gail Goestenkors female

Gail Ann Goestenkors (born February 26, 1963 in Waterford, Michigan), is the women's basketball head coach for The University of Texas, having...

Richard H. Brodhead male

Richard Halleck Brodhead (b. 1947) currently ninth president of Duke University, is a scholar of 19th-century American literature and an educator.