- John Smith
John Smith (1618-52) was an English educator, born at Achurch, Northamptonshire. He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1636, took his B.A. in 1640 and his M.A. in 1644, at which time he was chosen fellow of Queens' College. His health seems to have been precarious from the first. His labors were princepally confined to his office as teacher, for which he had remarkable qualifications. His preaching was with a rare degree of eloquence, … - John Smith
John Smith (born 1927) is a Canadian poet. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Smith earned a degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Toronto. He then studied philosophy in London, and returned to Toronto to earn an MA in English. Smith remained in Toronto and taught high school English for seven years. Later, he moved to Prince Edward Island to teach at Prince of Wales College. He served a term as Dean of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island, … - Carol Brown
Carol Brown was President and CEO of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, a $50 million private, nonprofit agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1986 to 2000. The Trust, established in 1984, promotes the cultural and economic growth of downtown Pittsburgh through the development of a fourteen-block arts and entertainment center in downtown Pittsburgh-the Cultural District. Brown's leadership of urban redevelopment in the district has been widely praised. - 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. - John Anderson
John Duncan Anderson (born 14 November 1956) is an Australian politician. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the rural-based National Party of Australia from July 1999 to July 2005. - James Wilson
James Wilson (September 14, 1742 - August 21, 1798), was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, twice elected to the Continental Congress, a major force in the drafting of the nation's Constitution, a leading legal theoretician and one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the United States Supreme Court in 1789. - Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith (1615-1702) was an English clergyman, who served as Dean of Carlisle, 1672-1684, and Bishop of Carlisle, 1684-1702. He graduated MA from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1639 and served as chaplain to King Charles II. - John Douglas
John Douglas (July 14, 1721-May 18, 1807) was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop. Douglas was born at Pittenweem, Fife, the son of a shopkeeper, and was educated at Dunbar, East Lothian, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his MA degree in 1743. As chaplain to the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, he was at the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745. He then returned to Balliol as a Snell Exhibitioner; became Vicar of High Ercall, … - John Graham
David John Graham CBE (born January 1, 1935, in Stratford, New Zealand) is the current president of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union and a former All Black loose forward who played 22 Tests between 1958 and 1964, including 3 as captain. He was headmaster of Auckland Grammar School from 1973 to 1993, New Zealand cricket team manager from 1997 to 1999, Auckland University Chancellor from 1999 to 2004, and was elected president of the NZRFU in April, 2005. - David Lewis
David Lewis (born Losz), CC, MA (June 23, or October 1909 -May 23, 1981) was a Russian-born Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1936 to 1950, and was one of the key architects of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1961. He was the NDP's national leader from 1971 to 1975. His politics were heavily influenced by the Jewish Labour Bund and because of that, … - John Turner
John Napier Turner, PC, CC, QC, MA, BCL, LLD (born June 7, 1929) was the seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada from June 30, 1984 to September 17, 1984. He is the oldest living former Prime Minister. According to Canadian protocol, as a former Prime Minister, he is styled "The Right Honourable" for life. - David Watson
David C. C. Watson, M.A., (1920–2004) was an English creationist and author. Watson studied in Cambridge where, in 1947, he graduated as a Senior Scholar from Trinity College. After serving as a missionary in India, he returned to England to teach. He was dismissed from his post in Rickmansworth because he held a creationist position. He lost his court battle for reinstatement. - David Walker
David Walker (born August 1, 1947) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997, as a member of the Liberal Party. Walker was born in Sudbury, Ontario. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton University (1970), a Master of Arts from Queen's University (1974), and a Ph.D. from McMaster University (1976). He was a professor of Political Science at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba from 1974 to 1988, … - Robert Greene
Robert Greene, BA, MA, (1558 – September 3, 1592) was an English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer. He was born in Norwich, England, and attended Cambridge University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1580, and a Master of Arts in 1583. - David White
David Vines White, MA (Cambridge) MA (London) is Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in London. He was president of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society when he was at university. He later became the research assistant to Theobald Mathew, Windsor Herald, and in 1995 was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant. In 2004 he was appointed Somerset Herald. - John Baker
Sir John (Hamilton) Baker, LLB PhD London MA LLD Cambridge LLD honoris causa Chicago Barrister-at-Law Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn Honorary Bencher Inner Temple QC FBA FBS FRHistS, Downing Professor of the Laws of England from 1998, English legal historian. Baker was born 10 April 1944 in Sheffield, the son of Kenneth Lee Vincent Baker, and Marjorie Baker (nee Bagshaw). He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, and University College London. - Northrop Frye
Herman Northrop Frye, CC, MA (Oxon), DD, D.Litt., FRSC (July 14, 1912 - January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary critics and literary theorists of the twentieth century. - Joe Clark
Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, PC, CC, AOE, MA, LLD (born June 5, 1939) was the sixteenth prime minister of Canada, from June 4, 1979, to March 3, 1980. Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal politics, entering the House of Commons in the 1972 election and winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976. He came to power in the 1979 election, defeating Pierre Trudeau and ending sixteen continuous years of Liberal rule, … - J. I. Packer
James Innell Packer (born July 22, 1926 in Gloucester, England) is a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the Calvinistic Anglican tradition. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is considered to be one of the most important evangelical theologians of the late 20th century. The son of a clerk for the Great Western Railway, Packer won a scholarship to Oxford University. - Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, MA, LLD, FRSC (18 October, 1919 – 28 September, 2000), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April, 1968 to 4 June, 1979, and from 3 March, 1980 to 30 June, 1984. Trudeau was a charismatic figure who, from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, … - Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American journalist, best known as the former anchorman for ABC's "Nightline". - Martin Martin
Martin Martin was a Scottish writer best known for his work "A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland" (1703). This book is particularly noted for its information on the St Kilda archipelago. Martin's description of St Kilda had also been published some years earlier as "A Late Voyage to St Kilda" (1698). A native of Bealach, near Duntulm, Skye, his work has some authenticity thanks to the fact that he was raised in Gaeldom. - Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith (born December 9, 1973) is an American politician and academic from Missouri. He is currently the Senator from Missouri's 4th District, representing the western portion of the City of St. Louis. Smith was raised in the St. Louis suburb of Olivette, Missouri and graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School. - Lester B. Pearson
Lester Bowles Pearson, often referred to as "Mike", PC, OM, CC, OBE, MA, LL.D. (April 23, 1897 - December 27, 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who was made a Nobel Laureate in 1957. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963, until April 20, 1968, as the head of two back-to-back minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965. - George Buchanan
George Buchanan, BA, MA (February, 1506 - September 28, 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. He was part of the Monarchomach movement. - Chen Yi
Chen Yi is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts (M.A.) in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She is also a violinist. Chen grew up in Guangzhou, China, into a talented family. Her parents were doctors and musicians; her mother played the piano, and her father the violin. - Walter Burley
Walter Burley (or Burleigh), c.1275-1344/5, was a medieval English logician. He was a Master of Arts at Oxford in 1301, and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford until 1305. He studied theology in Paris from before 1310, and by c.1320 he was a doctor of theology at Paris. He was a fellow of the Sorbonne by 1324. - Baden Powell
Baden Powell, MA, FRS, FRGS (22 August 1796 - 11 June 1860) was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. After his death his family changed their surname to Baden-Powell in his memory. His son, Sir George Baden-Powell was a politician, and served in the Colonial Service. Another son, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, was the founder of the world scouting movement. - Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace is an American historian. He is currently the director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. He is also Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, where he has taught since 1971. Wallace received a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. In 1999, he won the Pulitzer Prize for History, along with co-author Edwin G. Burrows, for "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898". - James A. Baker
James A. Baker is an American government official at the Department of Justice, serving as Counsel for the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review. James A. Baker is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received a J.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan. He joined the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice as a federal prosecutor during the Clinton administration. - Mark Driscoll
Mark Driscoll (born October 11, 1970 in Grand Forks, ND) is an American minister and author. The co-founder and teaching pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, he also co-founded the Acts 29 Network, and has contributed to the "Faith and Values" section of the Seattle Times. He also recently helped to start The Resurgence, a repository of missional theology resources. Driscoll graduated in 1989 from Highline High School, … - Jack Davis
John (Jack) Davis, PC, MLA, BA, B.A.Sc, MA, Ph.D, D.Sc (July 31 1916 - March 27 1991) was a Canadian politician from British Columbia who was elected both federally and provincially. Born in Kamloops General Hospital, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Davis grew up in Tranquille Valley on a 160-acre homestead where he attended school in a one room log cabin. - Lloyd Axworthy
Lloyd Norman Axworthy, PC, OC, OM, Ph.D, MA (born December 21, 1939, in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian politician. He is best known for having served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Axworthy is currently President of the University of Winnipeg. He is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specificially on the link between exclusion, poverty and law. - Robert Ellis
The Reverend Robert Anthony Ellis, MA, DPhil (born 24 August 1956, is the Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford. Robert Ellis was educated at Regent's Park College, Oxford and received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1984. He is an ordained minister in the Baptist Union of Great Britain and has served congregations in Milton Keynes and Bristol. He is currently Fellow and Tutor in Pastoral Theology and Mission at Regent's Park College, … - Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones was a London-born British phonetician. A pupil of Paul-Édouard Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), Daniel Jones is considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century. In 1900, Jones studied briefly at William Tilly's Marburg Language Institute in Germany where he was first introduced to phonetics. In 1903 he received his BA degree in mathematics at Cambridge, … - James Price
James Price was a British chemist and alchemist, who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to perform the conversion in front of credible witnesses he instead committed suicide by drinking prussic acid. - Patrick Walsh
Patrick Joseph Walsh D.D. M.A. S.T.L., is Catholic Bishop of The Diocese of Down and Connor. He was born in 1931 at Cobh, Republic of Ireland. - Michael Burns
Michael Burns, Ph.D., was born on December 30, 1947, in Mineola, Long Island, New York. He is professor emeritus in history at Mount Holyoke College. Burns began his career as a child actor, starring on the television program "Wagon Train" as the character "Barnaby West" in the 1960s. He appeared as a guest star in over 35 television series in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly westerns. - Carol Shields
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel "The Stone Diaries", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award - Dennis Lee
Dennis Lee, CM, MA (born 31 August 1939) is a Canadian children's writer and poet who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Lee has a bachelors and masters degree in English from the University of Toronto. While a serious poet, he is best known for his children's writings. His best known work is, perhaps, "Alligator Pie" (1974). He also wrote the lyrics to the theme song of the television show "Fraggle Rock" and, with Philip Balsam, many of the other songs for that show.
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