- Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is the curator of the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Conference, an influential annual conference. Anderson, who is British, was born in Pakistan in 1957. His parents were medical missionaries and he spent most of his early life in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan before going to public school in England. In 1978 he graduated from Oxford University, with a 'First' in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. - John Davenport
John Davenport (April 9, 1597 - March 15, 1670) was a puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony of New Haven. Born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England to a wealthy family, Davenport was educated at Oxford University. His father was Henry Davenport (d. May 29, 1627), draper, alderman, and Mayor of Coventry, son of Edward Davenport, Mayor of Coventry (1551), and Margery Harford. His mother, Winifred Barnaby (1569 - April 12, 1597), … - Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, north Wiltshire, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, a boys' independent school in West Lavington, Wiltshire, and then at the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford. He first came to public attention in the 1950s as a presenter of the ITV television programme "Zoo Time". His studies focus on animal and human behaviour, … - F. R. Scott
Francis Reginald Scott CC, commonly known as Frank Scott or F.R. Scott, (August 1 1899 - January 30 1985) was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. Born and raised in Quebec City, Scott witnessed the riots in the city during the Conscription Crisis of 1917. Completing his undergraduate studies at Bishop's University, in Lennoxville, Quebec, … - Robert P. George
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties and philosophy of law. He also serves as the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He was educated at Swarthmore College (BA), Harvard Law School (JD), Harvard Divinity School (MTS), and New College, Oxford (DPhil). At Oxford he studied under John Finnis and Joseph Raz. - John L. Thornton
John L. Thornton is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is a former President and Co-COO of Goldman Sachs. In 1983, Thornton founded and developed Goldman Sachs' European mergers and acquisitions business. He served as co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International in London from 1995 to 1996. Thornton was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia from 1996 to 1998, where he expanded the firm's regional franchise during the Asian financial crisis. - David Stubbs
David Stubbs is a British journalist. He was born on September 13, 1962 in London, but grew up in Leeds, where he was educated in part at St Michael's College. It was here that he first began to demonstrate his caustic style of music review, in particular a review of Gary Numan's album, Telekon, where he described the opening as "16 consecutive synthesised farts". - Johannes de Sacrobosco
Johannes de Sacrobosco or Sacro Bosco (John of Holywood, c. 1195 - c. 1236) was an English scholar and astronomer/astrologer who taught at the University of Paris and wrote the authoritative mediaeval astronomy text "Tractatus de Sphaera". Although described as English, his birthplace is unknown because Sacrobosco is an otherwise unknown town or region. - Ed Coode
Ed Coode, MBE (born June 19, 1975 in Indian Queens, Cornwall) is a British rower, twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist. Educated at Papplewick School, Ascot, Eton College, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (studying marine biology) and Oxford University, he rowed in the Oxford crew at the 1998 Boat Race. Coode won his first World Championship in 1999, as a substitute in the British men's coxless four, rowing with Steve Redgrave, … - Francis Muir
Francis Muir (born April 27, 1926), also known as fido, ffoulkes, fideaux, or our beloved phydeaux, is a former Research Associate at the Geophysics Department of Stanford University, and a notable Usenetter known for his broad erudition and supercilious airs mainly contributed to the newsgroup rec.arts.books. Muir graduated from Oxford University in 1950 with an MA degree in mathematics. - Philip French
Philip French (born 1933) is a British film critic and former radio producer. French, who was raised in Liverpool and educated at Oxford University, has been film critic of "The Observer" since 1978. Before that, he was deputy film critic to David Robinson at "The Times" for some years. He has also written for "Sight and Sound". - Rebecca Front
Rebecca Front (born June 28, 1965) is an English comedian and actor, perhaps best known for her roles in "The Day Today", "Fist of Fun", "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Time Gentlemen Please". She has also made appearances on "The News Quiz", "Have I Got News For You", "If I Ruled The World", "Monkey Trousers" and "Nighty Night". - Henry Angus
Henry Forbes Angus (April 19, 1891 - September 17, 1991) was a Canadian lawyer and academic. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1911. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University in 1914. He was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship. He fought in India during World War I. After the war, he received a Master of Arts from Oxford University. - James Speth
James Gustave (Gus) Speth (born March 4 1942) is an American environmental lawyer and activist. He was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1942. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1964, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the "Yale Law Journal", in 1969, and was a co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. - Charles A. Small
Charles A. Small is a professor with the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, and the Director of The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism. Professor Small is also the founding director of the nonprofit Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he has a D.Phil from Oxford University, and has taught at the University of London, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University, … - Bill Hopkins
G.W. (Bill) Hopkins was a British composer, pianist and music critic. Hopkins was born in Prestbury, Cheshire and educated at Rossall School, Lancashire; his mother was educationally subnormal and unable to look after him, and he was raised by aunts. An encounter with Luigi Nono at Dartington consolidated his interest in serialism; subsequently he studied at Oxford University with Edmund Rubbra and Egon Wellesz. - David Kahn
David Kahn (born February 7, 1930) is a US historian, journalist and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. Kahn's first book was "The Codebreakers" (1967), widely considered a definitive account of the history of cryptography up to the early 1960s. - Mike Reed
Professor G. Mike Reed is an American computer scientist and Director of UNU/IIST, Macau, part of the United Nations University since 2005. Previously he was at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory where he was also a Fellow in Computation of St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1986–2005). He is interested in theoretical computer science in general and CSP in particular. Reed has a doctorate in pure mathematics from Auburn University, USA, … - Arun Nayar
Arun Nayar (born December 1964 in Foxhill Court, Burmantofts, Leeds) is chairman, CEO and co-founder of Direction Software Solutions. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Oxford University and a Masters degree in Physics from Imperial College, London. He is much better known as the husband of British actress Elizabeth Hurley. - Roger Cohen
Roger Cohen is a columnist for the "International Herald Tribune", a publication of "The New York Times". His columns focus on international politics and relations. Cohen, a graduate of Oxford University, was born on August 2, 1955, in London. He has won numerous awards and honors for his books and for his distinguished foreign correspondence. - Ralph Hartley
Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley was an electronics researcher. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory. Hartley was born in Spruce, Nevada, USA and attended the University of Utah, receiving an A.B. degree in 1909. He became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and received a B.A. degree in 1912 and a B.Sc. degree in 1913. He married Florence Vail of Brooklyn on March 21, 1916. - Maria Aitken
Maria Aitken is a British actress and director, born 12 September 1945 in Dublin to Sir William Aitken (Conservative MP) and socialite Penelope Aitken, daughter of John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. She is a great-niece of newspaper magnate and war-time minister Lord Beaverbrook. As a student at St Anne's College, Oxford in the mid-1960s she was cast in a small part in Richard Burton's production "Faustus" that was also filmed. - Helen Atkinson-Wood
Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 14 March 1955) is an English actress and comedian born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Cheshire, and was a childhood friend of singer-songwriter Ian Curtis. Atkinson-Wood studied fine art at Oxford University, where she performed with Rowan Atkinson, also at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she met Ben Elton. Atkinson-Wood was a regular presenter of Central Television's controversial "O.T.T.", but is probably best known for her role as Mrs. - William B. Rosson
General William Bradford Rosson (August 25, 1918 - December 12, 2004) commanded the U.S. Army, Pacific from October 1970 to January 1973. He was commissioned in 1940 through ROTC and saw combat in World War II, earning the Distinguished Service Cross for valor on the Anzio Beachhead in Italy. He also fought in North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany. Rosson obtained his bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Oregon. - Henry Bridgeman 1st Baron Bradford
Henry Bridgeman, 1st Baron Bradford (7 September 1725 - 5 June 1800) was a British noble and politician. The son of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet and Anne Newport, and therefore grandson of the 2nd Earl of Bradford, was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with a Doctor of Laws (LL.D) in 1769, and University of Oxford, where he graduated with a Doctor of Civil Laws in 1793. Bridgeman was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ludlow from 1748 to 1768, … - Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer and environmentalist. He was born in 1972, in Worcester, England, and currently lives in Oxford. Kingsnorth studied modern history at Oxford University between 1991 and 1994. During this period he was introduced to environmental politics through involvement in the road protest movement at sites including Twyford Down, Solsbury Hill and the M11 link road protest in East London. - Emilia Fox
Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox (born July 31, 1974 in London, England) is a British actress possibly best known for her role as pathologist Nikki Alexander in television series "Silent Witness", having joined the cast on the departure of Amanda Burton. Fox played Jeannie Hurst in the 2000 remake of "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)". In 2003, Fox played Jane Seymour in a two-part television biopic on King Henry VIII, with Ray Winstone as the king, … - Jeffrey Gettleman
Jeffrey A. Gettleman (born 1972) is an American journalist who has been the East Africa bureau chief of "The New York Times", based in Nairobi, Kenya, since 2006. Gettleman graduated from Cornell University in 1994 with a B.A. in Philosophy, after which he became a communications officer for Save the Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and received a. M. Phil. - Sajjad Zaheer
Sajjad Zaheer</sup> (1904 - 1973) was a renowned Urdu writer, Marxist thinker and revolutionary. Educated at the University of Lucknow, University of Oxford (BA, MA, BCL) and the University of London, he was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India and later the following 1948, the Communist Party of Pakistan. He was also a leading figure in the Progressive Writers' Association. - Nigel Barley
Nigel Barley (b. 1947, Kingston upon Thames, England) is an anthropologist famous for the books he has written on his experiences. He studied modern languages at Cambridge University and completed a doctorate in social anthropology at Oxford University. He held a number of academic positions before joining the British Museum as an assistant keeper in the Department of Ethnography, where he remained until 2003. - Roger Sanders
Roger Cobbin Sanders (born June 17, 1936) is an American doctor specializing in Ultrasound and Radiology. Originally from the United Kingdom, he obtained a degree in physiology at Oxford University, from the Oxford Clinical Medical School. In 1970 Sanders traveled to the United States to begin a one-year teaching position at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. During this time the University was presented a bistable ultrasound system, … - Clifford Durr
Clifford Durr (1899 - 1975) was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and others accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras and who represented Rosa Parks in her challenge to the constitutionality of the ordinance requiring the segregation of passengers on buses in Montgomery that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Durr was born into a patrician Alabama family. - Mike Fischer
Mike David Fischer CBE, co-founder of Research Machines. Mike Fischer graduated with a physics degree from Oxford University. In 1973, with Mike O'Regan (who had an economics degree from Cambridge), Fischer co-founded Research Machines, a British microcomputer and then software company for the educational market. He was CEO for 24 years and became a non-executive director and Lifetime President in 1997. He stood down as a non-executive director in 2004, … - John Clarke Whitfield
John Clarke Whitfield (December 13, 1770 - February 22, 1836), English organist and composer, was born at Gloucester, and educated at Oxford under Dr Philip Hayes. In 1789 he was appointed organist of the parish church at Ludlow. Four years later he took the degree of Mus. Bac. at Cambridge, and in 1795 he was chosen organist of Armagh cathedral, whence he removed in the same year to Dublin, … - Julian Coolidge
Julian Lowell Coolidge (September 28 1873 - March 5 1954) was an American mathematician and a professor and chairman of the Harvard University Mathematics Department. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard University and Oxford University. Between 1897 and 1899 Julian Coolidge taught at the Groton School where one of his students was Franklin D. Roosevelt. - Andrew George Lehmann
Andrew George Lehmann, M.A., D.Phil. Emeritus Professor Buckingham University, UK (17 February, 1922 – 9 July, 2006) was a literary critic, academic, and seminal author and essayist in the areas of the Symbolist Movement in France, and the intellectual history of European Romanticism. Born in Chile to Mary Grisel Lehmann nee Bissett and Andrew William Lehmann, a mining engineer, Professor Lehmann was the younger brother of Olga Lehmann and Monica Lehmann Pidgeon. - James Matthew Jones
James Matthew (Jim) Jones (born April 3, 1961) is an American global public health expert and consultant. Jones is the oft-quoted former communications director for U.S. Senator John Kerry. At the forefront of many of the gay rights debates in the U.S. Congress during the 1990s, Jones became known as a fierce advocate of the rights of people living with AIDS as well as gay and lesbian Americans. - Ray Takeyh
Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of specialization are Iran, political reform in the Middle East, and Islamist movements and parties. He is also a contributing editor of the National Interest. - Josef W. Meri
Dr. Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri (born 1969) is a leading specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic cultural and social history and interfaith relations. He received a B.A. (Magna cum laude) from University of California, Berkeley in 1992, an M.A. from State University of New York Binghamton in 1995 and a D.Phil. from Wolfson College, Oxford, Oxford University in 1999. - Philip Ball
Philip Ball (born 1962) is an English science writer. He holds a degree in chemistry from Oxford and a doctorate in physics from Bristol University. He was an editor for the journal "Nature" for over 10 years.
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