- Isaiah Berlin
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM (June 6 1909 – November 5 1997), was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century. Born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire, he was the first Jew to be elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. From 1957 to 1967, he was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. - John Rhys
Sir John Rhys, (21 June 1840 - 17 December 1915) was a Welsh scholar, fellow of the British Academy, celticist and the first Professor of Celtic at Oxford University. - Mortimer Wheeler
Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, FBA, FSA (September 10, 1890 Glasgow – July 22, 1976 London), was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and London University where he achieved an MA degree in 1912. In 1913 he won the studentship for archaeology established jointly by the London University and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of Augustus Wollaston Franks. - Peter Hennessy
Peter Hennessy is an English historian of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. From the early 1970s, he was a journalist. He wrote leaders for "The Times", for whom he was also its Whitehall Correspondent. He was "The Financial Times"' Lobby Correspondent at Westminster and he wrote for "The Economist". - Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams, PC, DPhil, DD, FBA, (born 14 June 1950) is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, metropolitan of the province of Canterbury, Primate of All England and head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Williams is a distinguished theologian and poet. - Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin, QC, FBA (born 1931) is an American legal philosopher, and currently professor of Jurisprudence at University College London and the New York University School of Law. He is known for his contributions to legal philosophy and political philosophy. His theory of "law as integrity" is one of the leading contemporary views of the nature of law. - Michael Howard
Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC (born 29 November 1922) is a retired British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Howard was educated at Wellington College and Christ Church, Oxford (with service in World War II in between). - Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking, CC, Ph.D., FRSC, FBA (born February 18, 1936 in Vancouver) is a Canadian university professor and philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science. He has undergraduate degrees from the University of British Columbia (1956) and the University of Cambridge (1958), where he was a student at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Hacking also took his Ph.D. at Cambridge (1962), under the direction of Casimir Lewy, a former student of Wittgenstein's. - John Davis
John Horsley Russell Davis (1938-) is a British anthropologist, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford. John Davis was born in London on 9 September 1938. He was educated at University College, Oxford (BA Modern History 1961, MA) and the London School of Economics (PhD Social Anthropology 1968). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1988. - Brian Harrison
Professor Sir Brian Harrison (b. July 9, 1937) was the editor of "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" from January 2000 to September 2004 (succeeded by Lawrence Goldman) and Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was appointed knight bachelor in the 2005 New Year's Honours, and he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy on July 30, 2005. - Nicholas Stern
Sir Nicholas Stern, FBA (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic. He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and is now a civil servant and government economic advisor in the United Kingdom. After attending Latymer Upper School, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and his Doctor of Philosophy in economics at Nuffield College, Oxford. - John Morrill
John Morrill is a British historian who specialises in the political, religious, social and cultural histories of early-modern Britain. He is Professor of British and Irish history at Cambridge University, Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy. According to the BBC he was President of the Cromwell Association, "a body that seeks to promote public knowledge about and interest in Cromwell and his age" for 10 years. - Keith Ward
The Reverend Professor (John Stephen) Keith Ward (born 22 August 1938) is a British cleric, philosopher, theologian, and scholar. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and (since 1972) an ordained priest in the Church of England. He was a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford until 2003. Comparative theology and the interplay between science and faith and are two of his main topics of interest. - Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp is an art historian based at the University of Oxford who specialises in the work of Leonardo da Vinci. He has written widely on Leonardo's work and on other aspects of Renaissance art. His current job title in Oxford is Professor of the History of Art. He is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and an honourary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. - John Bayley
Professor John Bayley CBE, FBA, FRSL (born 1925, Lahore, Pakistan — then known as Lahore, British India) is a British literary critic and writer. From 1974 to 1992, Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford. He is also a novelist and writes literary criticism for several newspapers. He edited Henry James' "The Wings of the Dove" and a two-volume selection of James' short stories. - Oliver Taplin
Professor Oliver Taplin FBA is a fellow and tutor of Classics (Literae Humaniores) at Magdalen College, Oxford. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University. Once described as "the Paddington Bear of the classics-teaching world", Taplin is author of several books, including 'Greek Fire', a celebration of the capacity of Ancient Greek culture to stand the test of time and influence modern art, thought and society. - Thomas Smith
Sir Thomas (Broun) Smith, QC, FBA, FRSE (3 December 1915 - 15 October 1988) was a lawyer, soldier and academic. Smith was the son of John Smith, DL, JP, and Agnes Smith. He married in 1940, Ann Dorothea Tindall. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, (MA 1937, Boulter exhibitioner, Eldon Scholar). He was called to the English Bar in 1938 and admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland in 1947. - Diarmaid MacCulloch
Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch (born 31 October 1951, in Kent, England) is Professor of the History of the Church in the University of Oxford (since 1997) and Fellow (formerly Senior Tutor) of St Cross College, Oxford (since 1995). MacCulloch read history at Churchill College, Cambridge (B.A. 1972, M.A. 1976). He took a Diploma in Archive Administration at Liverpool University in 1973, … - David Butler
Dr. David Butler (born 17 October 1924) is a Social Scientist and Psephologist. His most important work is the Nuffield Election Studies of each United Kingdom General Election since 1945. Since 1974, these studies have been co-written with Dennis Kavanagh. He was an on-screen expert on the BBC's election coverage from the 1950 election to the 1979 election, and was a co-inventor of the swingometer. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. - Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton (sometimes Anthony T. Grafton) (born 21 May 1950) is a Jewish American historian and the current Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. He is noted for his wide learning, and in particular for his studies of the classical tradition from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and in the history of historical scholarship. He was educated at the University of Chicago, where he took his A.B. and Ph.D. in rapid succession. - Ernst Gombrich
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE (30 March 1909 - 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian, who spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, into an assimilated bourgeois family of Jewish origin. He was educated at Theresianum secondary school in Vienna and at Vienna University before coming to Britain in 1936 where he took up a post as a research assistant at the Warburg Institute, University of London. - Ian Hodder
Ian Hodder is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology. As of 2005, he is Dunlevie Family Professor and Chair of the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University in the United States. - Alan Wilson
Sir Alan Geoffrey Wilson is a British scientist and social scientist. He was born in Bradford in 1939, and educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Darlington and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read Mathematics. He converted in the 1960s from theoretical physics to the social sciences through research on the mathematical modelling of cities (working in Oxford and London). - David Cox
Sir David Roxbee Cox (born 1924 in Birmingham) is an English statistician. He studied mathematics at St. John's College of the University of Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in 1949. He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds, and from 1950 to 1956 worked at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. - Archie Brown
Archie Brown is a British academic and historian. From 2005, he became Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St. Anthony's College, Oxford, where he was a Professor of Politics and Director of St. Anthony's Russian and East European Centre. He has also been the Chair of the Political Studies Section of the British Academy from 1999 to 2002. - Jack Goody
Sir John (Jack) Goody (born 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and he's an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Among his main publications are "Death, property and the ancestors" (1962), "The myth of the Bagre" (1972) and "The domestication of the savage mind" (1977). - Noel Malcolm
Noel Robert Malcolm (born 26 December 1956) is an English writer, historian and journalist, known for his polymathy, and his polyglottism. Malcolm was educated at Eton College, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge, has a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, and was for a time Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. - James Mirrlees
Professor Sir James Mirrlees, FBA (born 5 July 1936, Minnigaff, Wigtownshire Scotland) is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economics. He was knighted in 1998. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a very active student debater. He taught at both Oxford (1969-1995) and Cambridge (1963- and 1995-). - Owen Chadwick
William Owen Chadwick, OM, KBE, FBA, FRSE (born 20 May 1916) is a British professor, writer and prominent historian of Christianity. He is a former Master of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Brother of the Very Reverend Professor Henry Chadwick, also a distinguished historian of the early Church and a former Dean of Christ Church, University of Oxford, and of the late Sir John Chadwick, British High Commissioner to Australia. - Michael Roberts
Michael Roberts (1908-1997) was a British historian specializing in the early modern period and particularly known for his studies of Swedish history. Roberts was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England and educated at Brighton College. He taught at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown, South Africa from 1935, served in the army in East Africa during World War II and headed the British Council in Stockholm 1944-1946. - Martin Millett
Martin John Millett BA, DPhil, FSA (born 30 September 1955) is currently the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Professor Millett is a world-renowned archaeologist who currently excavates a Roman-period site in Yorkshire (with Peter Halkon), directs the Roman Towns Project (with Simon Keay and the British School at Rome), and directs the Greek Colonization and Archaeology of European Development project. - Raymond Firth
Sir Raymond William Firth, CNZM, FBA, (25 March, 1901 - 22 February, 2002) was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies (social organization) is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society (social structure). He was a long serving Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics, and is considered to have singlehandedly created a form of British economic anthropology. - Edmund Leach
Sir Edmund Ronald Leach was a British social anthropologist. He was provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966-1979, was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972 and knighted in 1975. He introduced Claude Lévi-Strauss into British social anthropology. - Ben Pimlott
Professor Ben Pimlott (4 July, 1945 - April 10, 2004) was a leading historian of the post-war period in Britain. He made a substantial contribution to the literary genre of political biography. Educated at Rokeby school, in Wimbledon, south-west London, Marlborough College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he took a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a BPhil in politics. Bill Clinton was a contemporary of his there. - Kenneth Dover
Sir Kenneth James Dover, FRSE, FBA (born March 11, 1920) is a distinguished British academic who was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1981 until his retirement in December 2005. - Peter Birks
Peter Birks (3 October 1941- 6 July 2004) was the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is widely credited as having sparked academic enthusiasm for the English law of Restitution. Before taking up his Oxford post, he had held chairs at Edinburgh (1981-87) and, briefly, at Southampton. Prior to that, he was a tutorial fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford (1971-81), … - George Holmes
George Holmes is Chichele Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of Oxford. He has been a History Delegate to Oxford University Press. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. - John Sloboda
John Sloboda is the Executive Director of the Oxford Research Group, an NGO that seeks to develop non-violent approaches to national and international security issues. He is also one of the founders of the Iraq Body Count Project. He is also Professor of Psychology and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Politices, International Relations and the Environemnt (SPIRE) at Keele University, UK. - Henry Bradley
Henry Bradley (1845 – 1923) was a Victorian philologist and lexicographer who succeeded James Murray as senior editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. - Ivana Markova
Ivana Markova (born 1938) is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Stirling, known for her work on language and the constructs of communication. She was born in Czechoslovakia and studied philosophy and psychology at Charles University in Prague. In 1968 she moved to the United Kingdom. She initially worked as Research Fellow at Industrial Training Research Unit, …
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