- Manmohan Singh
Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 17<sup>th</sup> and current Prime Minister of India. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is arguably the most educated Indian Prime Minister in history. He is considered one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, … - Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain is a co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and from 1997 to 2000 served as its first executive director. He further holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. Zittrain is the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. - Jeremy Waldron
Jeremy Waldron (born October 13, 1953) is a professor of law and philosophy at the New York University School of Law. He also holds a visiting professorship at Victoria University in his native New Zealand. Waldron is a liberal in both the general and American senses of the word, and a normative legal positivist. He has written extensively on the analysis and justification of private property, the political and legal philosophy of John Locke, … - Richard Peto
Sir Richard Peto, FRS (born 1943) is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. He attended Richard Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequently studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. His career has included important collaborations with Richard Doll beginning at the Medical Research Council Statistical Research Unit in London. He set up the Clinical Trial Services Unit in Oxford in 1975 and is currently co-director. - Robert Anderson
Dr Robert Geoffrey William Anderson, MA, DPhil was Director of the British Museum, London. Robert Anderson studied at St John's College, Oxford University. He has held posts at the Royal Scottish Museum (joining as Assistant Keeper in 1970), the Science Museum, London, the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh and at the British Museum, London (1992–2002). - Herchel Smith
Herchel Smith (1925 - 2001) was the inventor of key intellectual property and patents behind oral and injectable contraceptives. In later life, he was a major benefactor to university science. In England, Cambridge University, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London have been the major beneficiaries. In the US, it has been Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Williams College. - Mark Ridley
Mark Ridley (born 1956), not to be confused with Matt Ridley, is a United Kingdom zoologist and writer on evolution. He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge in the 1980s, was a professor at Emory University, Atlanta, U.S.A., and as of 2005 works at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University. He has worked on the evolution of reproductive behaviour and written a number of popular accounts of evolutionary biology, including articles for the "New York Times", … - Helen Cooper
Helen Cooper is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. She was the first female fellow at University College, Oxford. Before she accepted the position at the University of Cambridge, she was chair of the Oxford English faculty. In 2000, she received a two-year fellowship from the British Academy. In that period, she was also the president of the New Chaucer Society. - Gillian Beer
Dame Gillian Beer, DBE (b. 27 January 1935, Surrey, England) is a British literary critic. Born Gillian Patricia Kempster Burley, Beer studied English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford. She was a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, for 30 years. She was later King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, and later President of Clare Hall. She served as chair of the judges for the Booker Prize in 1997. - James Mirrlees
Professor Sir James Mirrlees, FBA (born 5 July 1936, Minnigaff, Wigtownshire Scotland) is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economics. He was knighted in 1998. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a very active student debater. He taught at both Oxford (1969-1995) and Cambridge (1963- and 1995-). - Colin Clark
Colin Grant Clark (November 2, 1905 - September 4, 1989) was a British economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and who pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP") as the basis for studying national economies. Colin Clark was born in London. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then at Winchester College, and from 1924 at Brasenose College, Oxford where he studied chemistry. - Artur Ekert
Artur Ekert is a Leigh-Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University and a Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. He earned his doctorate in physics at Oxford University(Wolfson College) in 1991. Ekert is one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography. - Jim Bennett
James A. Bennett PhD is a museum curator and historian of science. Jim Bennett is Keeper of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University. He is also a member of the Faculty of History and Linacre College. Previously he was a fellow of Churchill College and curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, both part of Cambridge University. Bennett's interests lie in the history of practical mathematics from the 16th century to the 18th century, … - C. H. Dodd
Charles Harold Dodd was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian. He is known for promoting "realized eschatology", the belief that Jesus' references to the kingdom of God meant a present reality rather than a future apocalypse. He was born in Wrexham, the brother of the historian A. H. Dodd. He studied classics at University College, Oxford from 1902. After graduating in 1906 he spent a year in Berlin, where he was influenced by Adolf Harnack. - Béla Bollobás
Béla Bollobás is a leading Hungarian mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics and graph theory. His first doctorate was for work in discrete geometry in 1967, after which he spent a year in Moscow with Gelfand. After spending a year in Oxford he went to Cambridge, where in 1971 he received a Ph.D. in functional analysis. He is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. - John E. Walker
John Ernest Walker (born January 7, 1941) is an English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. He was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the son of Thomas Ernest Walker, a stone mason and Elsie Lawton, an amateur musician. He was brought up with his two younger sisters in a rural environment and went to Rastrick Grammar School. At school, he was a keen sportsman and specialized in physical sciences and mathematics the last three years. - Sydney Chapman
Sydney Chapman (January 29 1888 - June 16 1970) was a British mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist. He was born in Manchester and educated at the Royal Technical Institute, Salford (now the University of Salford), the universities of Manchester and Cambridge, where he read mathematics. He held the Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1919 to 1924. In his professional life he specialised in mathematics, … - Abdul-Hakim Murad
Abdul-Hakim Murad (born 1960) was born Timothy J. Winters in Britain. He attended Westminster School in London in 1983, as well as the University of Cambridge where he majored in the Arabic language. He went on to study at the al-Azhar University in Egypt where he majored in Islamic studies. In 1989 he returned to Britain and went to the University of London were he studied Turkish and Persian. - Timothy Winter
Timothy Winter (also known as Shaykh Abdal-Hakim Murad) is a prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is a convert to Islam. Winter is one of the very few contemporary Muslim thinkers who is equally well-versed in both the Islamic intellectual disciplines, and the modern Occidental academic method at its very highest level. - Jonathan Shepard
Jonathan Shepard is a British historian specializing in early medieval Russia, the Caucasus, and the Byzantine Empire. He is regarded as a leading authority in Byzantine studies and on the Kievan Rus. Shepard received his doctorate in 1973 from Oxford University and was a University Lecturer in Russian History at the University of Cambridge. Among other works, he is co-author (with Simon Franklin) of "The Emergence of Rus" 750–1200 (1996), … - John Pethica
John Pethica FRS is Science Foundation Ireland (S.F.I.) professor of material science at Trinity College, Dublin, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. In 2001, Pethica was one of the first ten people awarded an S.F.I. principal investigator award. Following the award, he transferred his activities from Oxford to Dublin. John Pethica was a pupil at St Ambrose College, Trafford, Manchester. He received a PhD from the University of Cambridge in the late 1970s. - Julia Golding
Julia Golding is a British novelist. Golding grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. She originally read English at the University of Cambridge. She then joined the Foreign Office and worked in Poland. Her work as a diplomat took her many places including the Tatra Mountains and the bottom of a Silesian coal mine. On leaving Poland, she exchanged diplomacy for academic studies and took a doctorate in the literature of the English Romantic Period at the Oxford University. - Charles Coulson
Charles Alfred Coulson was a prominent researcher in the field of theoretical chemistry. Educated at Cambridge University, Coulson’s interests included mathematics, physics, chemistry and molecular biology. His use of quantum methods to study molecular structure led to election as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. He held academic posts at the University of St Andrews, University College London, King's College London, and Oxford University. - Gerald Heard
Henry Fitzgerald Heard commonly called Gerald Heard (October 6, 1889 - August 14, 1971) was an historian, science writer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many articles and authored over 35 books. Heard was a guide and mentor to numerous well-known Americans, including Clare Boothe Luce and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in the 1950s and 1960s. His work was a forerunner of, and influence on, … - Ernst Boris Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain (June 19, 1906 - August 12, 1979) was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin. Chain was born in Berlin to a Russian father who moved from his birthland to study chemistry abroad, and a German Berliner mother. In 1930, he received his degree in chemistry from Friedrich Wilhelm University. After the Nazis came to power, Chain knew that he, being a Jew, … - Edwin Hatch
Edwin Hatch (1835-1889) was an English theologian born on September 4, 1835 in Derby, England. He is best known as the author of the paper "Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church", which he presented during the 1888 Hibbert Lectures. Hatch attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he studied under James Prince Lee, … - Rodney Robert Porter
Rodney Robert Porter (8 October 1917 - 7 September 1985) was an English biochemist. Born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England, Rodney Robert Porter received his Bachelors of Sciences--with Honours--from the University of Liverpool in 1939 for Biochemistry, going on to receive his Ph. D. in the field from the University of Cambridge in 1948. He worked for the National Institute of Medical Research for eleven years (1949-1960) before joining St. - Daphne Hampson
Margaret Daphne Hampson (1944-) is a British theologian. She is noted for her sometimes controversial Post Christian views, and has asserted that Christianity is both immoral and untrue, a "masculinist religion". Educated at Harvard University and Oxford University, from both of which she obtained doctorates, she is Professor Emerita of Divinity at St Andrews University, and also teaches and researches at Oxford. She is also Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, … - Adolphus William Ward
Adolphus William Ward was an English historian and man of letters. He was born at Hampstead, London, and was educated in Germany and at the University of Cambridge. In 1866 he was appointed professor of history and English literature in Owens College, Manchester, and was principal from 1890 to 1897, when he retired. In 1898, Ward delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford University. He took an active part in the foundation of Victoria University, … - Adam Kendon
Adam Kendon is one of the world's foremost authorities on the topic of gesture. He initially focused on sign systems in Papua New Guinea and Australian Aboriginal sign languages, before developing a general framework for understanding gestures with the same kind of rigorous semiotic analysis as has been previously applied to spoken language. Educated at Cambridge and Oxford Universities in biology and experimental psychology, … - Christopher Tye
Christopher Tye was an English composer and organist, who studied at Cambridge University and in 1545 became a Doctor of Music both there and at Oxford. He was choirmaster of Ely Cathedral from about 1543 and also organist there from 1559. The title page to Tye's "Actes of the Apostles" (London 1553) describes him as "one of the Gentlemen of his grace's most honourable chapel", and he may have been music teacher to King Edward VI, … - Hugh Kawharu
Sir Ian Hugh Kawharu, ONZ, FRSNZ, (18 February 1927 - 19 September 2006) was a distinguished academic and paramount chief of the Ngāti Whātua Māori tribe. Born in Ashburton, New Zealand, he attended Auckland Grammar School. He gained a BSc in geology and physics from the University of Auckland, a MA in anthropology from Cambridge University and a MLitt and DPhil from Oxford University. - Thomas Chaloner
Sir Thomas Chaloner (1521 - 14 October 1565) was an English statesman and poet. He was the son of Roger Chaloner, mercer of London, a descendant of the Denbighshire Chaloners. No details are known of his youth except that he was educated at both Oxford and Cambridge. In 1540 he went, as secretary to Sir Henry Knyvett, to the court of Charles V, whom he accompanied in his expedition against Algiers in 1541, and was wrecked on the Barbary coast. - Paul Badham
Professor Paul Badham is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He is a graduate of both Oxford (starting at Jesus College in 1962) and Cambridge universities, and received his PhD from the University of Birmingham. He is director of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, itself situated in Lampeter - Ann Lambton
Professor Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton, OBE FBA (born 8 February 1912) is a retired British historian and leading figure on medieval and early modern Persian history, Persian language, Islamic political theory, Persian social organisation, a universal authority on land tenure and reform in Iran, Seljuq, Mongol, Safavid and Qajar administration and institutions, and local and tribal histories. Lambton is the eldest daughter of Hon. - Lloyd Best
Lloyd Algernon Best (b. February 27 1934 - d. March 19 2007) was a Trinidadian intellectual, columnist, professor, and economist. Best attended the Tacarigua Anglican School and Queen's Royal College, in Port of Spain. He won an island scholarship and graduated from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University. In 1957 Best joined the Faculty of the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica as a Research Fellow. He remained as a Professor in Economics until 1976, … - Felix Slade
Felix Joseph Slade FRA (6 August 1788 - 29 March 1868), was an English, a collector of glass, books and engravings, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1866) and a philanthropist who endowed chairs of fine art (professorships) at Oxford University and Cambridge University, and at University College London, where he also endowed scholarships which formed the beginning of the Slade School of Art (founded 1871). - John Cyril Smith
Sir John Cyril Smith was a highly respected authority on English criminal law. Together with Brian Hogan he was the author of "Smith & Hogan’s Criminal Law", arguably the most respected undergraduate text on English criminal law. The book is now in its eleventh edition and has been used as persuasive authority in English Criminal courts. Although he earned a scholarship to Oxford University to read history he never took it up, … - Charles Cannon
Charles Reginald Lionel Cannon was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1922 to 1927, and was a cabinet minister in the government of John Bracken. Cannon was born in Southport, Lancashire, England. His grandfather and uncle were mayors of Bolton, Lancashire, and were pioneers in cotton spinning manufacture during the 1850s and 1860s. Cannon was educated at Liverpool College and Harstporpoins College in Sussex, … - Edward Byles Cowell
Professor Edward Byles Cowell (January 231826 - February 9 1903) was a noted translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University. Cowell was born in Ipswich, and became interested in Oriental languages at the age of fifteen, when he found a copy of Sir William Jones's works (including his "Persian Grammar") in the public library. Self-taught, he began translating and publishing Hafez within the year.
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