- 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. - Cecil Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL, (July 5 1853 - March 26 1902) was a British-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today controls 60% of the world's diamonds and at one time controlled 90% of the world's diamonds. He was an ardent believer in colonialism and was the coloniser of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him. - Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark (born December 23 1944) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in PPE, and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, … - Bill Bradley
William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former U.S. Senator from New Jersey and presidential candidate, who challenged Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2000 election. - Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative who makes frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs. - Dean Rusk
David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909 - December 20, 1994) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was the second-longest serving Secretary of State, behind Cordell Hull. Dean Rusk Middle School in Canton, Georgia is named in his honor. - Edwin Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He was born to an insurance executive in Marshfield, Missouri and moved to Wheaton, Illinois in 1898. In his younger days, he was noted more for his athletic prowess rather than his intellectual abilities, although he did earn good grades in every subject, except for spelling. He won seven first places and a third place in a single high school track meet in 1906. That year he also set a state record for high jump in Illinois. - Strobe Talbott
Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio to Jo & Bud Talbott) is an American journalist associated with "Time" magazine, political scientist and diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 until 2001. He has also been a friend of Bill Clinton since their days as fellow Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford, where he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English. - Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol is the conscience of American public education. The prolific author comes to Seattle's Central Library on Saturday to discuss his latest book, "Letters to a Young Teacher." - John Hood
Dr John Hood has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 5 October 2004. He is the first Vice-Chancellor to be elected from outside Oxford's academic body, and the first to have addressed the scholars' congregation via a webcast. - David Kirk
David Edward Kirk, MBE, (born 5 October 1961 in Wellington; grew up in Palmerston North) is a former New Zealand rugby player best known for having been the captain of the All Blacks when they won the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987. Interestingly, he would not have been captain but for a practice injury suffered by regular captain Andy Dalton just prior to the World Cup that kept the latter out of the tournament. - 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, … - Alain Leroy Locke
Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1886 - June 9, 1954) was an African American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. He is best known for his writings on and about the Harlem Renaissance. He is unofficially called the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance." His philosophy served as a strong motivating force in keeping the energy and passion of the Movement at the forefront. - Geoff Gallop
Professor Geoffrey Ian Gallop (born 27 September 1951), Australian academic and former politician, was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006. Gallop was born in Geraldton and joined the Australian Labor Party in 1971. After studying economics at the University of Western Australia (UWA), he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1972, and as an undergraduate studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at St John's College, … - Lester Thurow
Lester Carl Thurow (1938) is a former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on mainstream economics. Thurow was born on in Livingston, Montana. He got his B.A. in political economy from Williams College in 1960, where he was Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, and a Tyng Scholar. Thurow was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and went to Balliol College, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating in 1962 with first class honors. - Arthur Mutambara
Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara (born May 25, 1966) has served as the President of a breakaway faction of the Movement for Democratic Change since February 2006. He has worked as the Managing Director and CEO of Africa Technology and Business Institute since September 2003. - Michael Spence
Michael Spence (born November 7, 1943) is an American-born, Canadian-raised economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, along with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, for their work on the dynamics of information flows and market development. He conducted this research while at Stanford University. In the current technological environment - with ever more abundant information flows about market development, prices, profit margins, … - Danny Williams
Daniel "Danny" Williams, QC, LL.B, BA, MHA (born August 4, 1949 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian businessman and politician. He is currently the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. Williams first attended Saint Bonaventure's College then Gonzaga High School in St. John's, and then Memorial University, where he received a degree in political science and economics. In 1969, he was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship and went to Oxford University, … - Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart (born 1971) is a journalist and editor-at-large for "The New Republic", having served as editor of TNR from November 1999 until March 2006. He is a graduate of the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School and a member of the class of 1993 at Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union. - Ira Magaziner
Ira Magaziner (born November 8, 1947?) was an aide to President Clinton and later became his chief Internet policy advisor. He is perhaps best known for starting what later became ICANN. Magaziner was first known for leading, along with Hillary Clinton, the failed Task Force to Reform Health Care in the early Clinton administration. Despite calls from some that he step down after the Health Care Program died in Congress, … - Howard K. Smith
Howard Kingsbury Smith was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman and commentator, and one of the original Murrow boys. Born in Ferriday (Concordia Parish) in eastern Louisiana, Smith graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1936, with both a bachelor's degree and an L.L.D. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (Merton College) from which he graduated in September 1939. - Norman Washington Manley
Norman Washington Manley MM QC National Hero of Jamaica (July 4 1893 - September 2 1969), was a Jamaican statesman. A Rhodes Scholar, Manley became one of Jamaica's leading lawyers in the 1920s. With his cousin, Alexander Bustamante, Manley was an advocate of the universal suffrage that was granted the colony in 1944. He founded the left-wing People's National Party which later was tied to the Trade Union Congress and the National Workers' Union, together with Bustamante, … - 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. - Rex Murphy
Rex Murphy (born March, 1947, Carbonear, Newfoundland) is a noted Canadian commentator. Murphy was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland 105 kilometres west of St. John's and is the second of five children of Harry and Marie Murphy. He graduated from Memorial University in 1968, and promptly went to England to study at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar (at the same time as Bill Clinton). - 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. - Larry Sabato
Dr. Sabato is Director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, and along with being the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, he is one of just a half-dozen University Professors at U.Va. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and Danforth Fellow. - Rex Nettleford
Ralston Milton Nettleford OM (Jamaica) (b. 3 February, 1933, Falmouth, Jamaica) better known as Rex Nettleford is a Jamaican scholar, social critic and choreographer. Nettleford was a recipient of the 1957 Rhodes Scholarship, and returned to Jamaica in the early 1960s to take up a position at the University of the West Indies. - John Searle
John Rogers Searle (born July 31 1932 in Denver, Colorado) is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, and for his views on practical reason and the characteristics of socially constructed versus physical realities. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize and the Jovellanos Prize in 2000, and the National Humanities Medal in 2004. - Adam Von Trott Zu Solz
Adam von Trott zu Solz was a lawyer and diplomat who opposed the Nazi regime. Born in Potsdam, Germany, he was the fifth child of leading Prussian civil servant August von Trott zu Solz. Adam went to the UK in 1931 on a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Balliol College, Oxford where he became close friends with David Astor. Following his studies at Oxford, von Trott went on to spend six months in the United States. He was a great-great-great grandson of John Jay, … - Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price (born February_1, 1933, as Edward Reynolds Price) is a American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price has had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Price was born in Macon, North Carolina and, after attending public schools of his native state, … - Walt Whitman Rostow
Walt Whitman Rostow (also known as Walt Rostow or W.W. Rostow was an American economist and political theorist who served as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Lyndon Baines Johnson. Prominent for his role in the shaping of American policy in Southeast Asia during the 1960s, he was a staunch opponent of Communism, and was noted for a belief in the efficacy of capitalism and free enterprise. - Wasim Sajjad
Wasim Sajjad Wasim Sajjad was born on March 30, 1941 in Jalandhar. He is the son of late Justice Sajjad Ahmad Jan. Wasim Sajjad has excellent academic credentials; he graduated in 1961 from Punjab University with first class honors in English. He topped and secured gold medals in several other exams at the University including F. E. L., L. L. B. and M. A. in Political Science in 1964. Wasim Sajjad was not only outstanding in his academics but also in sports and debates. - Mel Reynolds
Melvin Jay "Mel" Reynolds (born January 8, 1952) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois. Reynolds was born in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and he graduated from University of Illinois, Harvard University, and Oxford University. An academic achiever, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Lincoln College in the University of Oxford. - Robert K. Massie
Robert K. Massie (born 1929) is an American historian, writer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and a Rhodes Scholar. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1929, Massie spent much of his youth in Nashville, Tennessee and currently resides in Westchester County, New York in the village of Irvington. He studied American history at Yale University and modern European history at Oxford University on his Rhodes Scholarship. - Michael McFaul
Michael A. McFaul (born 1965 in Montana) is a professor of Political Science and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He earned his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Slavic and East European Studies from Stanford in 1986. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he completed his Ph.D. in International Relations in 1991. He is an advisor on matters of democracy and Russia. - Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, currently serving as editor of "Slate" magazine and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and connector celebrated in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point". Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a prominent Chicago lawyer and, later, judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison. - Chris Laidlaw
Christopher Robert Laidlaw (born November 16, 1943), Rhodes Scholar, All Black, diplomat, MP, talk radio host, author, is a 20th century New Zealand figure. Laidlaw attended Otago University from 1962 to 1966, after which he went overseas with the All Blacks. In 1969 Laidlaw took up his Rhodes Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford. In 1972, Laidlaw joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and served as Assistant to Commonwealth Secretary-General Sonny Ramphal. - Rod Eddington
Sir Rod Eddington (born 1950, Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian businessman. He is currently a director of News Corporation, continuing his long association with that company. - James Gobbo
Sir James Augustine Gobbo, AC CVO QC (b. 22 March 1931, Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian jurist and was the 25th Governor of Victoria. - Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan (born 1961) is an author, historian and film director from Tasmania, Australia. He was president of the Tasmania University Union and a Rhodes Scholar.
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