Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As sole owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world.

Norman Rufus Colin Cohn, (born in London 12 January 1915) is a British academic, historian and writer, now Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. Born into a Jewish family in London, Cohn was educated at Gresham's School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a scholar and research student at Christ Church between 1933 and 1939, then served for six years in the British Army from 1939. After the war he taught in universities in England, Scotland, Ireland, …

Maurice Joly was a Jewish French satirist and lawyer. He was born in Lons-le-Saunier to a French father and an Italian mother. He studied law, but stopped in 1849 in order to go to Paris where he worked at the Ministry of State for ten years. He successfully completed his legal studies and was finally admitted to the Paris bar in 1859. His most famous work of fiction was the unattributed source material of the anti-Semitic forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Marc Levin (born in 1951) is an American filmmaker who is perhaps best known for his film "Slam" (1998) which won both the Sundance Film Festival's Dramatic Feature Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes Film Festival's Golden Camera award. Levin recently finished his new movie, "The Protocols", which is about resurgent anti-Semitism following the terrorist attacks of September 11th. The film focuses on "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", …

Sergei Alexandrovich Nilus ; Russian language: Сергей Александрович Нилус; 1862-1929) was a Russian religious writer and self-described mystic. He was responsible for publishing for the first time "in full" "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in Russia in 1905 as "Chapter XII" (the last chapter) to an edition of his book about the coming of the anti-Christ; in 1903 an alleged "abridged" version had been published in Znamya (newspaper).

Philip Perceval Graves (February 25 1876 - June 3 1953) was a British journalist and writer. While working as a foreign correspondent of "The Times" in Constantinople, he exposed "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as anti-Semitic fraud. Born in Ballylickey Manor, Cork County, Ireland, into a prominent Anglo-Irish family, Graves studied in Haileybury and Oxford University and became a prominent journalist and author.

Victor Emile Marsden (1866 - 1920) was a journalist and translator. He is known primarily for the translation of the most widespread English language version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". The first English language publication of this text was in London in 1920. However, prior to its publication, the "Morning Post", in 1920, utilized the text as a basis of 17, or 18 (depending on which authority is cited), …

Hadassa Ben-Itto (born 1926, Poland) is an author and a jurist. She is best known for her scholarly work, "The Lie That Would Not Die", "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (2005), …

Pierre-André Taguieff, born in 1946 in Paris, is a philosopher and political economist, and director of research at CNRS (in an "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)" laboratory, the CEVIPOF). He is the author of many essays in sociology, mainly concerning the questions of racism, racialism (or "scientific racism"), antisemitism and historical revisionism.

Nesta Helen Webster (Mrs Arthur Webster) (August 24, 1876 - May 16, 1960) was a controversial historian, occultist, and aristocratic author who revived conspiracy theories about the Illuminati.. She argued that the secret society’s members were occultists, plotting communist world domination, using the idea of a Jewish cabal, the Masons and Jesuits as a smokescreen. According to her, their international subversion included the French Revolution, 1848 Revolution, …

Sir John Retcliffe was the pseudonym of the German writer Hermann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche (February 12 1815 Trachenberg, Silesia - November 8 1878 Warmbrunn, today Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój in Jelenia Góra) primarily remembered for his antisemitism and the extent to which his fiction indirectly contributed to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

Boris Leo Brasol (or Brazol) (b. 1885 - d.?), a White Russian, Russian immigrant to the United States, and formerly a Lieutenant in the Tsar's military, is the person primarily responsible, together with Natalie de Bogory, for the first, annotated, USA edition, in book or booklet form, of the notorious Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, published in Boston, in 1920, by the prestigious publishing house of Small, …

Vladimir L'vovich Burtsev (November 17 1862 - August 21 1942), was a revolutionary activist, scholar, publisher and editor of several Russian language periodicals. He became famous by exposing a great number of agents provocateurs, notably Yevno Azef in 1908. Because of his own revolutionary activities and his harsh criticism of the imperial regime, including personal criticism of emperor Nicholas II, he was imprisoned several times in various countries.

Matvei Vasilyevich Golovinski (alternatively Mathieu; ; 1865-1920) was an operative of Imperial Russian secret service, a writer and journalist. Based on evidence, it is currently believed that it was he who was the author of the infamous and notorious plagiarism, and hoax, the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

Pavel Aleksandrovich Krushevan (–) was a journalist, editor, publisher and an official in the Imperial Russia. He was an active Black Hundredist and was known for his far-right, ultra-nationalist and openly antisemitic views and was the first publisher of infamous fraud "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Born Pavolaki Krushevan into a family of impoverished Russianized Moldavian aristocrats in the village Gindeshty (now Ghindeşti, …

Michael Hagemeister (born 9 January 1951, Ellwangen, Germany) is a contemporary German scholar, historian and slavist, and one of the world's foremost authorities on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and on Sergei Nilus, who first published "The Protocols" in book form in 1905. Hagemeister was employed at the universities of Marburg, Bochum, Basel, Innsbruck, Frankfurt (Oder) ("Viadrina European University"), and Berlin.

George Shanks. The true first translator--identified in only 1978--of the Protocols of Zion into the English language for publication by The Britons. Victor E. Marsden's name only came to be associated with the British English language translation of the Protocols in pamphlet or book form only one or two years after he died in 1920. Shanks was the son of a well-known English merchant who resided in Moscow.

Walid Rabah is a New Jersey-based Arab American publisher. In 2002 Walid Rabah was accused of anti-Semitism after he published in his Arabic-language newspaper "The Arab Voice" excerpts from "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", an anti-Semitic forgery purporting to be the outline of a Jewish plot for world domination. Rabah printed the excerpts to suggest Jewish culpability for the September 11, …

Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky (1853-1910) was the chief of Imperial Russia's secret service (known as the Okhranka). He was based in Paris from March 1885 to November 1902.

Clyde J. Wright, infamous antisemite, editor/publisher of a 1934 imprint of the notorious Protocols of Zion. He is responsible for the following imprint: <blockquote&gt; LC Control No.: 34018166 Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.) Uniform Title: "Protocols of the wise men of Zion." Main Title: Protocols of the meetings of the learned elders of Zion; Victor E. Marsden’s translation of the Nilus documents, edited by Clyde J. Wright.

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 - 20 March 1945) was a poet, a translator and a prose writer, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet.

David Frankfurter is best known for assassinating Swiss Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936. Born in Daruvar, former Austria-Hungary, today's Croatia, Frankfurter was the son of the town's rabbi "Moshe (Moritz) Frankfurter" and the mother "Rebekka, (née Pagel)". He was a sickly child and suffered an incurable periostitis for which he underwent seven operations between the ages of six and twenty-three, …

Major C. H. (Clifford Hugh) Douglas MIMechE, MIEE, (January 20 1879 -September 29 1952) son of Hugh Douglas and Louisa Hordern, was an engineer and pioneer of the Social credit concept. Born at Stockport, Greater Manchester, and taught at Stockport Grammar School, after a period in industry he went up to Cambridge University at the age of 31, but stayed only four terms and left without graduating. He worked for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation of America, …

Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1895 - February 4, 1936) was the German leader of the Swiss NSDAP (Nazi) party; he founded the Swiss branch of the party at Davos in 1932. Gustloff, who worked as a Swiss government meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1929 and put much effort in the distribution of the anti-Semitic book Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the point that members of the Swiss Jewish community sued the book's distributor, the Swiss Nazi Party, for libel.

Robert Singerman is a professor, a recognized Judaica bibliographer. He is often cited by Judaica rare book dealers. He holds the position of University Librarian, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, where he was the bibliographer for Jewish Studies, Anthropology, and Linguistics. For 27 years Singerman served as the University of Florida, Judaica librarian and bibliographer. He retired in June of 2006.

Colonel Norihiro Yasue (1886-1950) was an Imperial Japanese Army officer who played a crucial role in the so-called Fugu Plan, in which Jews were rescued from Europe and brought to Japanese-occupied territories during World War II. Believing strongly in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", he was known as one of the "Jewish experts", along with Capt. Koreshige Inuzuka.

Captain "'"'(d. 1965) was the head of the Japanese Imperial Navy's Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs from March 1939 until April 1942. Like his army counterpart, Col. Yasue Norihiro, he held to an anti-Semitic ideology, believing strongly in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"; but these beliefs led him to think that attracting Jews to settle in Japanese-controlled Asia was in Japan's best interests.

Saqr Abu Fakhr is an Arab writer living in Lebanon who is the Assistant Editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. He is the author of the article "Seven Prejudices about the Jews" published in Al-Hayat newspaper (November 12, 13, 14 1997). After criticizing Arab ignorance and narrow-mindedness, and the denial of science and facts, he set out to prove how Arab thought about the Jews and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict was full of misconceptions and myths, …

Mikhail Raslovlev was a Russian monarchist emigre who met Philip Graves and gave him a copy of Maurice Joly's book, "Dialogue aux Enfers entre Montesquieu et Machiavel", thereby demonstrating that the infamous "Protocols of Zion" was a forgery. At the time, Raslovlev was employed by the American Red Cross in the capital of Turkey, and Graves was a journalist, the Constantinople correspondent for "The Times" (London).

Vsevolod Vladimirov was an author and historian who wrote about Finland's Revolution in early 20th century, during the Russian Revolution of 1905. His opus on the topic, published in 1911, was translated by Victor E. Marsden, who also translated the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion.