- Andrew Herbert
Andrew Herbert is Managing Director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. Herbert took a BSc in computational science at Leeds University (1975), then worked on "A Microprogrammed Operating System Kernel" for his PhD from Cambridge University (1978). His research interests include computer networking, operating systems, distributed computing, programming languages and large-scale data driven systems. - Alan MacDiarmid
Alan Graham MacDiarmid ONZ (April 14 1927 - February 7 2007) was a chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000. - Fred Frith
Fred Frith (born February 17, 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor. Probably best-known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-garde rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew. He has collaborated with a number of prominent musicians, including Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, Lars Hollmer, The Residents, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Bill Laswell, … - John Oliver
John Oliver (born 1977) is a British comedian and correspondent on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart". His previous credits include "The Department" with Chris Addison and Andy Zaltzman, "Political Animal", "Fighting Talk", "My Hero", and "Mock the Week". He is a graduate of Cambridge University in England, … - Asa Briggs
Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (born 7 May 1921) is a British historian, one of the most respected historians who has written on the Victorian era. In particular, his trilogy, "Victorian People", "Victorian Cities" and "Victorian things" made a lasting mark on how historians view the nineteenth century. He was made a life peer in 1976. He was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire on 7 May 1921. He was educated at Keighley Grammar School, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA 1941), … - Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor at Arizona State University. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. - Allama Mashriqi
Allama Mashriqi (Urdu: علامہ مشرقی) (Inayatullah Khan) (Urdu: was an Islamic scholar and founder of the Khaksar movement. Mashriqi was a noted intellectual who became a college Principal at the age of 25, and then became an Under Secretary, at the age of 29, in the Education Department of the Government of India. He wrote an exegesis of the Qur'an which was nominated for the 1925 Nobel Prize. - Richard Holmes
Edward Richard Holmes CBE TD JP (born March 29 1946), known as Richard Holmes, is a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly well-known through his many television appearances. Holmes was educated at the University of Cambridge, as well as Northern Illinois University and the University of Reading. In 1964, he enlisted in the Territorial Army, the part-time volunteer reserve organisation of the British Army. - Markus Kuhn
Dr. Markus G. Kuhn (born 1971 in Munich) is a German computer scientist, currently teaching and researching at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He graduated from the University of Erlangen (Germany), Purdue University (Indiana, US), and the University of Cambridge (England), and is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Kuhn's main research interests include computer security, in particular the hardware and signal-processing aspects of it, … - Paul Saffo
Paul Saffo (born in 1954 in Los Angeles) is a technology forecaster. He is the Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. He is also a board member of the Long Now Foundation. He has degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. Saffo is frequently quoted in leading publications on issues ranging from high technology to global lifestyles. - Tim Hunt
Sir Richard Timothy (Tim) Hunt, FRS, (b. February 19,1943) is a British biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and Sir Paul M. Nurse for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases. After attending the Dragon School and Magdalen College School (both in Oxford) Hunt received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1968. - Neil Wiseman
Neil Wiseman was an engineer and a pioneer in computer graphics. He was born in Cowlinge, Suffolk, and gained a first degree in Engineering at Queen Mary College, London, followed by a Masters in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois. In 1961, after working for two years at the computer company Elliott Brothers, he was appointed Chief Engineer in the Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge, now the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. - Princess Sarvath
Princess Sarvath El Hassan was born in Kolkata on July 24, 1947, to a prominent Muslim family of the Indian subcontinent. - John Adair
John Adair is recognized as being one of the most influential authorities on leadership and his work is regarded in line with motivational theorists such as Maslow, McGregor and Herzberg. - Todd Tucker
Todd Tucker is a Washington, D.C.-based policy analyst who is research director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. His work focuses on the legal, economic and political implications of the WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and other trade agreements, and also on U.S. foreign policy issues. Tucker is a frequent media commentator on international economic and policy issues who has been cited and published by radio, print and Internet outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, … - Anurag Singh
Anurag Singh (born September 9, 1975 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India) is a cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off spin bowler. Singh was born in India, but moved to England and attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. He began his cricketing career at Warwickshire and represented England at U-19 level in 1994 and 1995 alongside players such as Marcus Trescothick, Michael Vaughan and Andrew Flintoff. - Carlos Frenk
Professor Carlos S. Frenk (born October 27, 1951) is a world-famous Mexican-British cosmologist who has given invited lectures at major international conferences thoroughout the world. His main interests lie in the field of cosmology, galaxy formation and computer simulations of cosmic structure formation. - Peter Bazalgette
Peter Bazalgette is the founder of the television production company Bazal, which produced the popular BBC2 "Food and Drink" programme from 1983 to 2000. Bazalgette took a third class degree in Law at Cambridge University where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society. He started in BBC News and then worked on "That's Life!" as a researcher in the seventies. He later reported for several programmes and ran a corporate video company. - David Braben
David Braben is a British computer programmer, best known for co-writing "Elite", a hugely popular and influential space trading computer game, in the early 1980s. "Elite" was written in conjunction with Ian Bell while both were undergraduate students at Cambridge University. Another seminal game written by Braben was "Zarch" for the Acorn Archimedes (later released on some other platforms as Virus), … - John Edensor Littlewood
John Edensor Littlewood (9 June 1885 - 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician, best known for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy - Alan Leong
Alan Leong Kah Kit, SC (born February 22, 1958) is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, representing the Kowloon East geographical constituency and the vice-chairperson of the Independent Police Complaints Council. - Sarvadaman Chowla
Sarvadaman D. Chowla (22 October 1907, London-10 December 1995, Laramie, Wyoming) was a prominent British-Indian-American mathematician, specializing in number theory. He was born in London, since his father, Gopal Chowla, a professor of mathematics in Lahore, was then studying in Cambridge. His family returned to India, where he received his masters degree in 1928 from the Government College in Lahore. In 1931 he received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge, … - John Dugard
John Dugard (born in 1936 in Fort Beaufort ) is a South African professor of international law . He has served as Judge ad hoc on the International Court of Justice and as a Special Rapporteur for both the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the International Law Commission . His main academic specializations are in Roman-Dutch law , public international law , jurisprudence , human rights , criminal procedure and international criminal law . - Tim Hodgkinson
Tim Hodgkinson (born 1 May 1949) is an English experimental music composer and performer, principally on reeds and keyboards. He is best known as one of the core members of the British avant-garde rock group Henry Cow, which he formed with Fred Frith in 1968. After the demise of Henry Cow, he participated in a number of bands and projects, including a solo recording career. - Jon Canter
Jon Canter is an English television comedy scriptwriter writing for Lenny Henry and other leading comedians. Canter was born and brought up in the Jewish community of Golders Green, North London and studied law at the University of Cambridge where he became President of Footlights. After a spell in advertising copywriting (and as a housemate of Douglas Adams) he became a freelance scriptwriter, setting up home in Aldeburgh with his wife, painter Helen Napper. - Samuel Hartlib
Samuel Hartlieb (ca. 1600 - 1662), was a polymath - meaning an expert in many subjects. He was interested in science, medicine, agriculture, politics, education... the list is endless. He is better known as Samuel Hartlib in England, where he settled permanently, married and died. Hartlib set out with the goal "To record all human knowledge and to make it universally available for the education of all mankind". - Harish-Chandra
Harish-Chandra, was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. |Princeton]]. - Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine (born Lisa Anne Bronowski, April 12 1944) is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She has authored several books including "The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London", "Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution" and "On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren". - Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (born 1933) is a British author, known for biographies, including one of Alfred Kinsey, and books of social history on the British nanny and public school system. For his autobiography, "Half an Arch", he received the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 2005. He has also written novels and children's literature. He was brought up in London, and educated at Bryanston and Cambridge. - Akhtar Hameed Khan
Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999) was a development activist and social scientist credited for pioneering microcredit and microfinance initiatives, farmers' cooperatives, and rural training programmes in the developing world. He also promoted rural development activities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and in other developing countries, and advocated community participation in development. - John Chisholm
Sir John Chisholm, FREng (born August 1946) is the Executive Chairman and former Chief Executive of QinetiQ. He attended Cambridge University on a scholarship from General Motors. After completing his studies, he worked at GM, and later at BP's computer-consultancy firm Scicon before forming a software company called CAP Scientific Ltd in 1979. CAP was sold in 1988 to Sema, a French company. - John Clerk
John Clerk (d.3 January, 1541) was a Catholic bishop. He was educated at Cambridge University, and went on to serve under Cardinal Wolsey in a variety of capacities. He was also useful in a diplomatic capacity to both Wolsey and Henry VIII of England. - Leon Morris
Leon Lamb Morris (March 15, 1914 - July 24, 2006) was a New Testament scholar. Born in Lithgow, New South Wales, Morris received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England on the subject which became his first major book, "The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross". He served as Warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge (1960-64); Principal of Ridley College in Melbourne, … - Richard K. Guy
Richard Kenneth Guy (born 1916, Nuneaton, Warwickshire) is a British mathematician, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Calgary. He is best known for co-authorship (with John Conway and Elwyn Berlekamp) of "Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays" and authorship of "Unsolved Problems in Number Theory" (ISBN 0-387-94289-0), but he has also published over 100 papers and books covering Combinatorial game theory, … - Horace Lamb
Sir Horace Lamb FRS (November 29, 1849 - December 4, 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them "Hydrodynamics" (1879) and "Dynamical Theory of Sound" (1910). Both of these books are still in print. He studied at Stockport Grammar School and Cambridge University and in 1872 was 2nd Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos. His professors included James Clerk Maxwell and George Gabriel Stokes. - Edward Shearmur
Edward Shearmur (sometimes known as Ed Shearmur) (born 1966) is a British film composer. Born in London, England, at age 7 he sang in the boys choir at Westminster Cathedral. Educated at Eton College, he studied at the Royal College of Music and went on to a scholarship at Cambridge. He further honed his craft as assistant to Michael Kamen (on such films as "License to Kill", "Die Hard", … - Malcolm Brenner
Malcolm K. Brenner is a British clinical scientist working mostly in the field of gene therapy and immunotherapy applied to malignancy. He received his medical degree and subsequent Ph.D. from Cambridge University, England. He became part of the UK brain-drain in the 1970s, when he left the UK to work in St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. - Adam Kuper
Adam Kuper (born 1941) is a British anthropologist most closely linked to the school of social anthropology. In his works, he often treats the notion of "culture" skeptically, focusing as much on how it is used as on what it means. Born and raised in South Africa, he took his first degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His doctorate, from the University of Cambridge, was based on field research in the Kalahari desert in what is now Botswana. - John Bowes
John Bowes (1811-1885) was an English art collector and thoroughbred racehorse owner who founded the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, Teesdale. Born at Streatlam Castle into the wealthy coal mining descendants of George Bowes, he was the child of John Lyon-Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1769-1820) and Mary Milner. Because his parents were unmarried at the time of his birth, he did not inherit the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne title. - Benny Morris
Benny Morris (born in 1948) is an Israeli historian and unofficial leader of the New Historians, a group of scholars who dispute the mainstream historical view of the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Known for his work on the history of Palestinian refugees and his refusal to perform reserve duty in the West Bank, Morris was widely seen as an Israeli sympathizer of the Palestinian cause, and his work was very often cited and praised by pro-Arab writers.
|
| |