- Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, is known as the first Baby Boomer president. - C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism and fiction. He is best known today for his series "The Chronicles of Narnia". Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of "The Lord of the Rings". - J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon) from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English language and literature from 1945 to 1959. He was a devout Roman Catholic. - Robert Burton
Robert Burton was an English scholar and vicar at Oxford University, best known for writing "The Anatomy of Melancholy". - Peter Robinson
Peter M. Robinson (born 1957) is an American author, a research fellow, a television host and a former speechwriter for George Bush and Ronald Reagan. Robinson grew up in Vestal, New York. He attended Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1979, where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and wrote for "The Dartmouth". He majored in English and graduated "summa cum laude", then continued his studies at Oxford University, England, … - Brian Greene
Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia University. Born in New York City, Greene was a prodigy in mathematics. His skill in mathematics was such that by the time he was twelve years old, he was being privately tutored in mathematics by a Columbia University professor because he had surpassed the high-school math level. - Duns Scotus
Blessed John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 - November 8, 1308) was a theologian, philosopher, and logician. Some argue that during his tenure at Oxford, the systematic examination of what differentiates theology from philosophy and science began in earnest. He was one of the most influential theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages, nicknamed "Doctor Subtilis" for his penetrating manner of thought. - Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and a law professor at Harvard Law School. He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. - Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27 1959 in Yamhill, Oregon) is an American political scientist, author, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist specializing in East Asia. He is currently a columnist for "The New York Times" and previously served as the as The New York Times' Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He has written a number of books on Asia, … - Colin Blakemore
He studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of California in Berkeley. After 11 years in the Department of Physiology at Cambridge, he became Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford in 1979 and was Director of the MRC IRC for Cognitive Neuroscience for 8 years. His research is concerned with vision and the early development of the brain. - Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a renowned historian, columnist, essayist and author. He is currently director of the European Studies Centre and a Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University , a fellow of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts and a governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. - Charles King
Charles King is Ion Raţiu Associate Professor of Romanian Studies, Associate Professor of International Affairs, and Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, where he also serves as Chairman of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is the author of two books, "The Black Sea: A History" (Oxford University Press, 2004) and "The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture" (Hoover Institution Press, … - David Deutsch
David Deutsch (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is a physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory. He pioneered the field of quantum computers, and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. - Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), is an Indian-Bengali author known for his work in the English language. He was educated at the Doon School (where he was a younger contemporary of Vikram Seth), St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Delhi University and Oxford University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in social anthropology. Ghosh lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of "In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding" (1993) and a senior editor at Little, … - Hari Kunzru
Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist, author of the novels "The Impressionist", "Transmission" and "My Revolutions". Of mixed English and Kashmiri Pandit ancestry, he grew up in Essex. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford University, then gained an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in East London. - Marc Kielburger
Marc Kielburger has inspired young people around the globe to become socially involved and change the world on local, national and international levels. At a young age, life took an unexpected turn for Kielburger when he arrived in Thailand to teach English and work with AIDS patients. He realized the extent to which he could help others, especially children, around the world. - Shmuley Boteach
Shmuley Boteach (born November 19, 1966) Los Angeles, California, USA is an American Orthodox rabbi, radio and television host, and author. - Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi (born 1946) is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory, notably on the origins and effects of trustworthy government. Levi graduated with a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and completed a Ph.D. degree in government at Harvard University in 1974. Since then, she has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, … - Kevin Crossley-Holland
Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English children's author and poet. Born in Mursley, North Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns. He attended Oxford University, where after failing his first exams he discovered a passion for Anglo-Saxon literature. After graduating he became the Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds, and from 1972–1977, he lectured in Anglo-Saxon for the Tufts University of London program. - Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born essayist and novelist. Iyer was born in Oxford, England, to Indian parents, who were both teachers of philosophy. When he was seven, his family moved to California, and for more than a decade he moved back and forth several times a year between schools and college in England and his parents' home in California. He won academic scholarships to Eton, Oxford University and Harvard, graduating with a Congratulatory Double First at Oxford, … - Edward Lucas
Edward Lucas (born 1962) is a British journalist. Lucas works for "The Economist", the London-based global newsweekly. He has been covering eastern Europe since 1986, and was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002. He is now the central and east European correspondent. He speaks English, German, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian and Czech. He was educated at Winchester College and the London School of Economics. - Chesa Boudin
Chesa Boudin is a 25-year-old itinerant activist, writer and student. He recently began his second Masters degree in public policy in Latin America at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship. In 2003 he graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with honors in the history department. - Robin Harris
Dr. Robin Harris (born 22 June, 1952) is a British author and journalist. He has written for "The Daily Telegraph" and "Prospect". He has a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University. Harris was Director of the Conservative Research Department from 1985 to 1988 and a member of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1989 to 1990. He helped draft the Conservative Party manifesto for the 1987 general election. It was initially thought that Mrs. - Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubyn (born 1960 in Cornwall) is a British author and journalist. He attended Westminster School and Oxford University. St Aubyn is the author of the Patrick Melrose trilogy ("Never Mind", "Bad News", "Some Hope", published collectively in the UK as "Some Hope: A Trilogy"), and more recently, "On The Edge", "A Clue to the Exit" and "Mother's Milk" (shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize). - Tom Standage
Tom Standage is a journalist and author from England. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked as a science and technology writer for "The Guardian", as the business editor at "The Economist", has been published in "Wired", "The New York Times", and "The Daily Telegraph", and has published four books. - Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray (born 1948) is a Canadian historian and author. Born in England and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, Gray came to Canada in 1979. She worked for a number of years as a journalist, writing a regular column on national politics for "Saturday Night" and appearing regularly on radio and television discussion panels. She has also written for "Chatelaine", "The Globe and Mail", … - Adam Hart-Davis
Dr. Adam John Hart-Davis (born 4 July 1943) is an English scientist,author, photographer, historian and broadcaster, well-known in the UK for presenting the BBC television series "Local Heroes" and "What the Romans Did for Us", the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, and the Stuarts. The most recent version of this series is called "What the Ancients Did for Us". - Martin Kettle
Martin James Kettle is a British journalist and author. The son of two prominent communist activists Arnold Kettle (best remembered as a literary critic) (1916-86) and Margot Kettle (née Gale) (1916-95), Martin Kettle was educated at Leeds Modern School and Balliol College, Oxford University. Kettle worked for the National Council for Civil Liberties as a research officer from 1973. - Paul Kearney
Paul Kearney is a fantasy author. He was born in Portglenone, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in 1967 and studied Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and Old Norse at Oxford University before spending several years in both the USA and Denmark before returning to Northern Ireland. He currently lives and writes in County Down. Kearney made his name with the stand-alone novels "The Way to Babylon" (1992), … - Richard Marsh
Richard Marsh (1857-1915) was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldman. He is best known for his supernatural thriller "The Beetle", published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula and initially even more popular. "The Beetle" remained in print until 1960. Heldman was educated at Eton and Oxford University. He began to publish short stories, mostly adventure tales, … - Mike Cadogan
Emergency Physician, Rugby Doctor and internet entrepreneur. CEO of HealthEngine.com.au, an health search engine designed to provide rapid contact with health professionals in Australia. CIO of Popfossa.com a world medical and allied health conference / scientific meeting resource. Emergency physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and resuscitation doctor for the Western Force. Passionate about medical education and running LifeInTheFastLane.com to help disseminate medical education. - Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame (March 8, 1859 - July 6, 1932) was a British writer, mainly of the sort of fiction and fantasy written for children but enjoyed equally if not more by adults. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney movie. - James Reston Jr.
James Reston Jr. (1941 -) is an American author of both fiction and non-fiction literature whose works cover mostly historical and political topics. - Aharon Megged
Aharon Megged (born 1920; Hebrew year 5680) is an Israeli author and playwright. Aharon Megged was born in 1920 in Poland, and in 1926 immigrated with his parents to the Mandatory Palestine. He grew up in Ra'anana, attending the Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv. After graduation, he joined a Zionist pioneering youth movement, training at Kibbutz Giv'at Brenner. He was a member of Kibbutz Sedot Yam for twelve years. Megged, along with a group of writer friends, … - Barry Nalebuff
An economist, game theory expert, and consultant to multinational corporations and politicians, Barry Nalebuff '80 knows a successful strategy when he sees one. His latest endeavor involves a simple premise: improve the world, one clever idea at a time. - Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman is a British author and novelist. - Laurence Rees
Laurence Rees (born 1957) is Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC, a documentary filmmaker, and the author of five books on war and historical atrocities. Most recently, he wrote and produced the six-hour BBC/KCET documentary Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State. His books include The Nazis: a Warning from History; Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II; War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin; and Auschwitz: a New History. - Vyvyan Holland
Vyvyan Holland, born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde, was a British author and translator. He was the second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, after his brother Cyril. After Wilde was convicted of the charge of "gross indecency" and imprisoned, Lloyd changed her surname, and those of their sons, to Holland. Due to antipathy to Wilde, Holland was denied admittance to Oxford University. - Sagarika Ghose
Sagarika Ghose is an Indian journalist, author and Television personality. She is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, erstwhile director of Doordarshan, India's Government TV Channel. She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where she gained a BA and M.Phil in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford and St Antony's College. She has been a journalist in India since 1991 and worked in The Times Of India, Outlook magazine and The Indian Express. - Linda Davies
Linda Davies is a British author of thriller fiction. Linda Davies read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University graduating in 1985, then worked for seven years as an investment banker in New York, London and Eastern Europe. Inspired by her City career, she left to write her first novel, Nest of Vipers. She spent three years living in Peru, and then moved to London with her husband, merchant banker Rupert Wise, and their two sons Hugh and Tommy.
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