- Harry Reid
Harry Mason Reid (born December 2, 1939) is the senior United States Senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party. Reid is the U.S. Senate Majority Leader in the 110th Congress. He assumed majority leadership after the Democratic Party won seated majority of the Senate in the 2006 congressional elections. Reid is the first Mormon to serve as Senate Majority Leader.
- J. Reuben Clark
Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr. (1871-1961) was an American attorney, civil servant, and a prominent leader (General Authority) in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was born September 1, 1871, in Grantsville, Utah. Clark was a prominent attorney in the Department of State, and Undersecretary of State for president Calvin Coolidge. In 1930 Clark was appointed ambassador to Mexico.
- Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is the current President of The George Washington University. He has announced his retirement effective July 2007. He will be replaced by Steven Knapp, provost of Johns Hopkins University. Trachtenberg also sits on the board of directors of Riggs Bank, where he has sparked controversey by opposing efforts to close the accounts of such Riggs clients as former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Trachtenberg is a native of Brooklyn, NY.
- Hossein Nasr
Nasr is an internationally acclaimed scholar .Seyyed Hossein Nasr, (1933-), a University Professor of the department of Islamic studies at George Washington University, is a leading Iranian Muslim philosopher. He is the author of many scholarly books and articles. Nasr is a Persian philosopher and renowned scholar of comparative religion, a lifelong student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and a prominent authority in the fields of Islamic esoterism, Sufism, …
- Ivan Eland
Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute and Assistant Editor of The Independent Review. Dr. Eland is a graduate of Iowa State University and received an M.B.A. in applied economics and Ph.D. in national security policy from George Washington University.
- Daniel J. Solove
Daniel J. Solove is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. He is well known for his academic work on privacy and for popular books on how privacy relates with information technology.
- Karl Hobbs
Karl Hobbs is the head coach of the George Washington University Colonials men's basketball team. He has won two Atlantic 10 Conference championships, and has led the Colonials to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Hobbs is known for his high-energy, frenetic coaching style. He often spends entire games pacing up and down the sidelines yelling and whistling to his players.
- Steven Knapp
Steven Knapp has been a professor provost at Johns Hopkins University since 1996 and dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1994 to 1996.. He was named the 16th president of The George Washington University on December 5, 2006 succeeding Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. He will become president of the university on August 1, 2007. Knapp is a 1973 graduate of Yale University. He did his graduate work at Cornell University, …
- Robert Wexler
(Washington, DC) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the United States Congress, released the following statement regarding the government of Israel's ongoing military efforts in the Gaza strip. Wexler supports the government of Israel's efforts to prevent Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian terrorist organizations from launching rockets and mortars into Israel.
- Henry Farrell
Henry Farrell is a political scientist at George Washington University. He previously taught at the University of Toronto and earned his PhD from Georgetown University. His research interests include, trust and co-operation; E-commerce; the European Union; and institutional theory. Farrell is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog. In this connection, he has been quoted extensively in mass media, including the Christian Science Monitor, …
- Jeff Jacoby
Jeff Jacoby (b. February 10, 1959) has been a "Boston Globe" opinion/editorial columnist since 1994. Born in Cleveland, he is a graduate of George Washington University and the Boston University School of Law. From 1987 to 1994, he was chief editorial writer for the Boston Herald. He generally writes from a conservative perspective, but his columns have been described as "a must-read" by the left-leaning Boston Phoenix.
- Mike Hall
Michael Horus Hall (born June 5, 1984 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Washington Wizards of the NBA. He attended Alan B. Shepard High School in Palos Heights, Illinois. Hall, a four year starter at George Washington University from 2002 through 2006 was a tri-captain his senior season on a team that went 27-3. Undrafted after his senior season, Hall joined the Tulsa 66ers of the NBA Development League.
- John Miller
John Ripin Miller (born 23 May 1938), an American politician, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the First Congressional District of Washington as a Republican. Miller did not run for re-election in 1992. Prior to being elected congressman, he was active in state and municipal governments, …
- Leon Fuerth
Leon Sigmund Fuerth (born 1939) was a former diplomat and national security adviser to Vice President Al Gore. He was succeeded by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in 2001. He has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in History from New York University. He also holds an M.P.A. from Harvard. Mr. Fuerth spent many years working for Al Gore in a variety of capacities. Before his service to the future Vice President began, he also worked for the U.S. State Department, …
- John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954.
- Stanley Greenspan
Stanley Greenspan (born 1941) is an American child and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who is currently a Clinical Professor at George Washington University Medical School. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1962 he earned a A.B at Harvard University, and four years later graduated from the Yale Medical School. In 1975, he became a founder of the Zero to Three Foundation, the national centre for children and families, and was president of that foundation until 1984.
- Kent Conrad
Gaylord Kent Conrad (generally known as Kent Conrad) (born on March 12 1948) is a United States senator from North Dakota. He is a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, the North Dakota affiliate of the Democratic Party. He is the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
- Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari (born 12 September 1966) is the Iranian-American co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X PRIZE. On September 18, 2006, just a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first female and fourth overall space tourist, the first female Muslim, and first Iranian in space.
- Daniel Inouye
Daniel Inouye is the eldest son of Japanese immigrants who worked on the Hawaiian sugar plantations where Daniel was born and raised. He lived in what he described as a Japanese-American ghetto. He went to the local Hawaiian school, at which the student body was 90% ethnic Japanese. As a young boy, Daniel accidentally fell and broke his left arm in a terrible compound fracture. The local doctor, an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, set the arm. It mended, but not well.
- Frank Sesno
Frank Sesno is a professor of public policy and communication at the George Mason University, School of Media and Public Affairs and is an Emmy Award-wining special contributor to CNN. He is a 1977 graduate of Middlebury College and currently serves as one of its trustees. During his long CNN career, he served in many parts of the world, as well as Washington bureau chief. He has also worked with PBS, producing several shows about political topics, …
- Marvin Kalb
Marvin Kalb (born June 9 1930) is an American journalist. Marvin Kalb is a Senior Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Faculty Chair for the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Washington programs. Kalb was the Shorenstein Center's Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy (1987-1999). The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University.
- Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of "Wired Magazine", which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase "The Long Tail" in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and four young children. Before joining "Wired" in 2001, he worked at "The Economist", …
- Lance Hoffman
Lance J. Hoffman is Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science at The George Washington University (GW) in Washington, DC. He initiated and taught the first course on computer security in a regular accredited degree program in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley in 1970 and established the computer security program there and at GW and led GW’s to national recognition as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.
- Pops Mensah-Bonsu
Nana Papa Yaw Mensah-Bonsu, generally known as Pops Mensah-Bonsu (born September 7, 1983 in London), is a British basketball player and former star at the George Washington University in the Atlantic 10 Conference. He is a graduate of the St. Augustine College Preparatory School, in Richland, New Jersey. Upon graduating from college in 2006, Mensah-Bonsu entered the 2006 NBA Draft, but was not drafted. He now plays for the Dallas Mavericks.
- Roy Richard Grinker
Roy Richard Grinker is an author and Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Human Sciences at The George Washington University. Grinker is an authority on North and South Korean relations. He also spent two years living with the Lese farmers and the Efé pygmies in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Fulbright scholar, and has conducted epidemiological research on autism in Korea. Grinker is also editor of "Anthropological Quarterly".
- Warren Brown
Warren Brown is the host of the Food Network show, Sugar Rush. He was a lawyer until he decided to become a pastry chef, and is the founder and owner of bakery CakeLove and Love Café in Washington, DC and attended Brown University and The George Washington University Law School.
- Eric Cantor
Eric Ivan Cantor (born June 6, 1963) is an American politician who has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing Virginia's 7th congressional district (map). Cantor is the sole Jewish Republican in the House. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Cantor attended George Washington University, received his J.D. from the College of William and Mary, and did graduate work at Columbia University.
- Margaret Truman
Mary Margaret Truman Daniel (born February 17, 1924 in Independence, Missouri) is an American writer and the author of biographies, books on the White House and several best-selling mystery novels.
- John Duncan
I am a US House Representative for the state of TN. I am a Republican. My religion is Presbyterian. I am Married. I received my BS from University of Tennessee. I received my JD from George Washington University. I live in Knoxville. I was born in Lebanon, TN. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "800 Market St., Ste. 110, Knoxville, TN 37902".
- Dana Bash
Dana Bash is a CNN reporter and anchorwoman. She currently covers the Capitol Hill beat alongside Andrea Koppel. Previous to this assignment, Bash was a White House correspondent for the network. After completing her undergraduate degree at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., she joined CNN. Before becoming an on-air reporter, Dana was a producer for CNN on Capitol Hill, specializing in coverage of the U.S. Senate.
- Derek Bok
Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University. Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1951), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1954),...
- Mike Brown
Michael "Mike" Brown (born July 19, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey) is a former professional basketball player. A durable 6'9" power forward/center, he played at George Washington University in the early 1980s, where he received the nickname "The New Washington Monument." After four years of college ball, Brown was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the third round of the 1985 NBA Draft. Brown would go on to play eleven seasons (1986-1997) in the NBA as a member of the Bulls, …
- Bill Gertz
Bill Gertz (b. March 21, 1952) is an American reporter and analyst for "The Washington Times" and Fox News. He is the author of four books and co-writes a weekly column on the Pentagon and national security issues with Rowan Scarborough, called "Inside the Ring".
- Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary author of the Open Source Definition, a founder of Software in the Public Interest, founder and first project leader of the Linux Standard Base project, the initial author of BusyBox, a founder of the UserLinux project, and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Perens also has a book series with Prentice Hall PTR called the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series.
- Michael Enzi
I am a US Senator for the state of WY. I am a Republican. My religion is Presbyterian. I am Married. I received my BS from George Washington University. I received my MBA from University of Denver. I live in Gillette. I was born in Bremerton, WA. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "400 South Kendrick Ave., Ste. 303, Gillette, WY 82716".
- James N Rosenau
James N Rosenau is a politics scholar, specialized in the dynamics of world politics, international relations, and globalization. He has held the office of President of the International Studies Association, and remains active in said association. Rosenau has written 35 books, the most known being "Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity" (Princeton, …
- Neal D. Barnard
Neal D. Barnard is an American physician, author, clinical researcher, and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a national network of physicians and lay supporters who promote preventive medicine, especially good nutrition, conduct clinical research, and promote higher standards in research. He is also president of the Cancer Project, an organization promoting cancer prevention, research, and nutritional assistance to patients.
- Kate Martin
Kate Martin is the director of the Center for National Security Studies. She is an expert in national security and civil liberties issues, including government secrecy, intelligence, terrorism, and enemy combatant detentions. She was formerly a lecturer at Georgetown University Law School, and has also worked in the position of general counsel to the National Security Archive, a research library located at George Washington University.
- Abe Pollin
Abe Pollin (born December 3, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is the current owner of the NBA's Washington Wizards, and former owner of the NHL's Washington Capitals and WNBA's Washington Mystics. Pollin graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1945, where he was a member of Zeta Beta Tau, a historically Jewish fraternity. A successful construction contractor in the Washington area, …
- Steve Israel
Steven "Steve" Israel (born May 30, 1958) is an American politician from the state of New York, currently representing the state's 2nd congressional district (map), in the U.S. House of Representatives