- Frederick McCoy
Sir Frederick McCoy, FRS, (1817 – 16 May, 1899) was a British palaeontologist and museum administrator, active in Australia.
- Charles Greeley Abbot
Charles Greeley Abbot (May 31, 1872 Wilton, NH - December 17, 1973, Washington D.C.) was an American astrophysicist, astronomer and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was born in Wilton, New Hampshire.
- Marc Aurel Stein
Sir Marc Aurel Stein, Stein Márk Aurél in Hungarian. In 1901 Stein was responsible for exposing forgeries of Islam Akhun. During his expedition of 1906-1908 while surveying in the Kunlun mountain range in western China, Stein suffered frostbite and lost several toes on his right foot. When he was resting from his extended journeys into Central Asia, …
- Isaac Lea
Isaac Lea (1792 - 1886) was an American conchologist, geologist, and business man, born at Wilmington, Delaware. He was a partner of a large publishing house in Philadelphia, who devoted his leisure time to the collection and study of objects of natural history. He was especially interested in freshwater and land mollusks and during 50 years continued to make contributions to the transactions of the scientific societies of Philadelphia concerning these animals.
- Grace Morley
Dr. Grace Louise McCann Morley was a museologist of global influence. She was the founder of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and its Director for 23 years starting in 1934. Time Magazine carried an article in her twentieth year with the museum, and then another article on her retirement. In an interview with Thomas Tibbs, she is credited with being a major force in encouraging young American artists. During these years, she was active in the art world in the US.
- Frederick Chapman
Frederick Chapman was an English-born Australian Palaeontologist. Chapman was born in Camden Town, London and studied at Royal College of Science, London where he was initially an assistant to John Wesley Judd. Chapman qualified as a teacher of geology and physiography at the college and was encouraged by Judd's study of boring samples from around London. He went on to become a world authority on Foraminifera. Chapman was Palaeontologist to the National Museum, Melbourne, …
- Joseph Rock
Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist. He was born in Vienna, Austria but moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1907, where he became an authority on the flora of these islands. From 1922–1949 he spent most of his time studying the flora, peoples and languages of southwest China, mainly in Yunnan, Sichuan, southwest Gansu and eastern Tibet. Many Asian plants that he collected can be seen in the Arnold Arboretum.
- Kit Chan
Kit Chan, and "Forbidden City: Portrait of An Empress" (where she played the young Empress Dowager Cixi)– first performed in 2002 as part of the Esplanade's opening programme, and again in 2003. Kit has also played the lead in the Dutch-Hong Kong production of "East Meets West", and the Taiwanese musical "What's Love Got to Do with It?". In 2004, she announced an indefinite break from the Chinese pop scene, to pursue her own interests.
- Badri Narayan
Badri Narayan (Born in Secunderabad, India in 1929) is an eminent Indian artist, illustrator, author and story-teller. He started painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954. In the years since, he has had over 50 solo shows and his work is in several collections, including the National Gallery of Modern Art and the National Museum (India) in New Delhi.
- Jan Zajíc
Jan Zajíc was a Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest. He was a student at the technical college, specializing in railroads, and was also interested in poetry and humanities. In 1969 he took part in a hunger strike and a commemoration ceremony by students for Jan Palach near the statue of Saint Wenceslas in Prague. It was probably this event which planted the idea of becoming Palach's successor in Zajíc's mind.
- Kaspar Maria von Sternberg
Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (also: "Caspar Maria", "Count Sternberg", German: "Kaspar Maria Graf Sternberg", Czech: "hrabě Kašpar Maria Šternberk"), 1761-1838, Březina Castle, was a Bohemian theologian, mineralogist, geognost and botanist. He established the Bohemian National Museum in Prague and is deemed to be the founder of modern paleobotany. As of 1820 he was on friendly terms with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- George Perkins Merrill
George Perkins Merrill (1854- ?) was an American geologist, born at Auburn, Me. He was educated at the University of Maine (B.S., 1879; Ph.D., 1889), was assistant in chemistry at Wesleyan University, Connecticut (1879-80), and studied at Johns Hopkins (1886-87). In 1881 he became assistant curator at the National Museum, Washington.
- Ferenc Pulszky
Ferenc Aurél Pulszky de Cselfalva et Lubócz was a Hungarian politician and writer. He was born at Eperjes; after studying law and philosophy at the high schools of his native town and Miskolc, he travelled abroad. England particularly attracted him, and his fascinating book, "Aus dem Tagebach eines in Grossbritannien reisenden Ungarns" (Pesth, 1837), gained for him the membership of the Hungarian Academy.
- Tan Sri Mubin Sheppard
Tan Sri Mubin Sheppard (died Sept 11, 1994) was a historian of Malaysian cultural and heritage. Tan Sri Mubin Sheppard was a founder member of Badan Warisan Malaysia and Sahabat Warisan Malaysia. Sahabat Warisan Malaysia (Friends of the Heritage of Malaysia Trust), was a society set up in 1984 to support Badan Warisan Malaysia in its objectives. The Mubin Sheppard Memorial Prize is a culmination of one of its fundraising efforts.
- Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (January 22, 1820 - October 31, 1897) was an Italian writer and art critic. Cavalcaselle was born in Legnago, northern Italy. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Cavalcaselle participated in the Revolution of 1848 and lived in England for several years. There he published, together with Joseph A. Crowe, their first joint work, "Early Flemish Painters" (1856), …
- Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke
Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke was a German botanist, explorer and naturalist. Born at Alfeld, near Hannover, Germany, Schwacke studied Natural Sciences at the University of Göttingen and Bonn, specializing in botany after graduation. He emigrated to Brazil in 1873 and in March 1874 he was hired as a travelling naturalist ("Naturalista viajante") by the botanical department of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He travelled all over the country, beginning in 1877, …
- Rosalie Gicanda
Queen Dowager Rosalie Gicanda was the wife of Rwandan "Mwami" (King in "Kinyarwanda") Mutara III of Rwanda. She survived the death of the king, and the end of the Rwandan monarchy, and lived in Butare, along with her mother and several ladies-in-waiting. On 20 April 1994, as the Rwandan Genocide began in earnest in Butare, a detachment of soldiers commanded by Lt. Pierre Bizimana, acting under the orders of Capt.
- Josef Ladislav Píč
Josef Ladislav Píč was Czech archaeologist and paleontologist, one of founders of modern Czech archaeology. Píč studied history and Slavic languages at the Charles University in Prague (then called "Karl-Ferdinand University"). In 1883, he become docent of history at the university. Since 1893, he was named custodian and later director of archeologic collection at the National Museum (then named "České museum") in Prague.
- Heneage Finch 4th Earl of Aylesford
Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford, was a British peer. From 1757 until his accession in 1777, he was styled Lord Guernsey. Finch married Lady Louisa Thynne, daughter of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, on 18 November 1781. They had twelve children: *Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786–1859) *Hon. Daniel Finch (25 February 1789 – 17 January 1868), …
- Roger Sant
Roger W. Sant of Washington, D.C., is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of The AES Corporation, having previously served as assistant administrator for energy conservation in the Federal Energy Administration during the Nixon/Ford Administration.
- Bruce Beehler
Bruce Beehler is an ornithologist and tropical ecologist, currently serving as Vice President for Melanesia at Conservation International in Washington, DC. Beehler has spent much of his scientific career studying the birds of the Southwest Pacific and South Asia.
- Morris Gleitzman
Gleitzman's books have been translated into French, Japanese, German, Italian, and Spanish. ... Just Looking: Gleitzman on Television (collected columns), Sun Books (Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia), 1992.
- Alexander Wetmore
Frank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 - December 7, 1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. Wetmore was born at North Freedom, Wisconsin and studied at the University of Kansas. He later studied at George Washington University, receiving his masters degree and doctorate. Wetmore began federal service in 1910, working for the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture. In 1915, he researched the use of lead shot in causing death in waterfowl.
- Rayna Green
Iam a mother of 4 great kids..my baby john is the love of my life...i work at amc,a year finally..lol....my life is my kids and john,i love them to death!!!!
- Lori Piccolo
Lori Piccolo Lori Piccolo has extensive experience in nonprofit fundraising. Currently, she is the Director of Development for the Washington Office on Latin America, where she has been since 1998. Prior to that, in 1996 and 1997, she was the Assistant Director of Development for Foundations and Corporations at People for the American Way.
- Hannah Redler
Hannah Redler is a curator and producer of contemporary art projects, specialising in new media and cross discipline practices. Currently Head of Arts Programme at the Science Museum, London and an advisor to Tate Modern on a interpretive environments, Hannah's interests include the influence and impact of media on people's experience of physical and mental space(s), hybrid creativity, cross-discipline, socially engaged & participatory practices.
- Joanne O'Hagan
Joanne O'Hagan , Office Manager
- Clemens Reichel
Clemens Reichel , who received his PhD in 2001, is a Research Associate at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute where he is Project Coordinator for the publication of the Diyala excavation. In April 2003, following the looting of irreplaceable historic artifacts from the National Museum in Baghdad, he created a web site dedicated to helping identify stolen items. For that achievement, he was named a Chicagoan of the Year 2003 by Chicago Magazine .
- Andreas Andrews
Andreas Andrews Photography.
- Connie
im a madwoman searching for my life's purpose. i am a rose in a stormy sea. A rose with lots of thorns. (Thorns are my true feelings) .... to protect her fragility. i love writing. i love dancing. i love philippine arts.
- Fendi
i desribe myself friendly. loyal....peramah...very open minded and reasonable too.....
- Jim Wertman
Jim Wertman : Managing Partner Scott Wilson: Director Mike O'Leary: Director Dan Stevenson: Director Kent Bray: Director Martin Byrnes: Director David Turner: Director David Mitchell: Director Mike Tuss: Director
- Helen C. Frederick
HELEN C. FREDERICK founded Pyramid Atlantic in 1981 and has played an essential role in its development as an international arts center ever since. Frederick has won international acclaim as a paper, print, and mixed media artist, and received the 2000 Governor's Award in the State of Maryland for excellence in the arts.
- Antun Vrancic
Antun Vrancic (lat Antonius Verantius , hungarized name Antal Verancsics , born in Sibenik in 1504) studied in Padova, Vienna and Krakow. After spending almost 20 years as a secretary and diplomat at the court of Ivan Zapolja, he continued his career at the court of Ferdinand I Habsburg in 1549. As the king's envoy he had a delicate task to negotiate with the Turks (he spent altogether 6 years as a diplomat in Turkey).
- Evelyn Orantes
Evelyn Orantes Cultural Arts Developer, Oakland Museum of California Evelyn Orantes is currently the Cultural Arts Developer for the Oakland Museum of California. She oversees art school programs for the education department as well as serves as the Project Director of the Days of the Dead annual exhibition and related public programs.
- Gayle Hatch
Gayle Hatch , Senior U.S. International Coach Gayle Hatch 's contributions to Olympic-style weightlifting and strength training are quite considerable. He has been active as a weightlifting and strength & conditioning coach for more than thirty years.
- Tara Sanders
TARA SANDERS PRESIDENT/OPERATIONS MANAGER/PROJECT MANAGER tsanderslowe@museumservices.com Tara Sanders has worked full-time for Sanders Associates since 1997 and part-time since 1985. Her degree in Sports-Fitness Management and her Project Management background help motivate and manage the people of Sanders Associates.
- Mork
- Juan Miguel M. Luz
Mr. Luz’s experience prior to joining AIM includes government, NGO, and the private sector. From 1995-1997, he was vice president for corporate affairs at the Far East Bank and Trust Company and was editor of the Bank’s itself. In 1985-87 and 1993-95, he was associate director of Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), the largest social development NGO in the country.
- Greg Mendez
Greg joined Sanders Associates in 1997, after studying Art and Photography. He was co-manager of the hanging of lifesize fish models at the International Game Fishing Museum and was a team member in the installation of an ancient sarchophagus at Princeton University.