- Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. Indeed, his dedication brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments. His works established and popularized an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the "Baconian method" or simply, the scientific method. - Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) ("Ômorto Kumar Shen") (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (Nobel Prize for Economics) in 1998, for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. From 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, … - Charles Taylor
Charles George Taylor (born 21 November 1816 at Turnham Green, Middlesex; died 10 September 1869 at Frensham Hill, Surrey) was an English cricketer in the mid-19th century who played, as an amateur, mainly for Sussex and MCC, having begun his career at Cambridge University. He was a good all-rounder who batted right-handed and bowled right-arm slow, roundarm style. - Ross Anderson
Ross J. Anderson is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering. He is a professor in security engineering at Cambridge University where he leads the computer security group. In cryptography, he, together with Eli Biham, designed the BEAR, LION and Tiger cryptographic primitives, the block cipher Serpent (with Biham and Lars Knudsen), and the stream cipher Pike. He has also discovered weaknesses in many algorithms (FISH) and security systems. - Simon Baron-Cohen
Dr. Baron-Cohen holds a degree in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford; a Masters in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry; and a Ph.D. in Psychology from UCL. He serves as Director of the Autism Research Centre and as a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. He also is a Director of CLASS , the C ambridge L ifespan A sperger S yndrome S ervice. - George Herbert
George Herbert (April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a good education which led on to him holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament. As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, George Herbert excelled in languages and music. He went to college with the intention of becoming a priest, … - Fred Hoyle
Sir Frederick Hoyle, FRS, (born on June 24, 1915 in Gilstead, Yorkshire, England - August 20, 2001 in Bournemouth, England) was a British astronomer, notable for a number of his theories that run counter to current astronomical opinion, and a writer of science fiction, including a number of books co-authored by his son Geoffrey Hoyle. He spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, and was director of the institute for a number of years. - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999 - Jane Goodall
Dame Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, UN Messenger of Peace, (born April 3, 1934) is an English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. She is best-known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life in Gombe Stream National Park for 45 years, and for founding the Jane Goodall Institute. - 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, … - Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of ten books. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was sixteen and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in Economics. At twenty-one she became President of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. In 2003, she ran for governor as an Independent in California's recall election. - Quentin Skinner
Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940) is Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. He will be a distinguished visiting professor in the humanities at Queen Mary, University of London, in the 2007-2008 academic year and will be professor in the humanities at Queen Mary beginning the 2008-2009 academic year - Simon May
Simon May is a British musician and composer, best known for composing some of British television's best known theme tunes, including "EastEnders" and "Howards' Way". - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, "Lyrical Ballads". Wordsworth's masterpiece is generally considered to be "The Prelude", an autobiographical poem of his early years that was revised and expanded a number of times. It was never published during his lifetime, and was only given the title after his death. - Marshall Hall
Marshall Hall, Jr. (17 September 1910, St Louis, Missouri - 4 July 1990, London) was an American mathematician who made contributions to group theory and combinatorics. He studied mathematics at Yale, graduating in 1932. He studied further at Cambridge University, returning to Yale to take his Ph.D. in 1936 under the supervision of Oystein Ore. He worked in Naval Intelligence during World War II, and in 1946 took a position at Ohio State University. - Roger Williams
Roger Hugh Williams (born January 22, 1948, Crickhowell) is a British Member of Parliament, a Liberal Democrat elected from Brecon and Radnorshire in 2001. Born in the town of Crickhowell, Roger Williams studied at Christ College school in Brecon and Cambridge University. On graduating in natural sciences he returned to Breconshire becoming a livestock farmer. During the mid 1980s he was elected Chairman of the Brecon and Radnorshire branch of the National Farmers Union. - Roger Williams
Roger Williams (December 21, 1603-April 1, 1684) was an English theologian, a notable proponent of the separation of Church and State, an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans, founder of the city of Providence, Rhode Island and co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island. He is the originator of either the first or second Baptist church established in America. - David Harvey
David Harvey (born 1935) is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). A leading social theorist of international standing, he graduated from Cambridge with a PhD in Geography. He is the world's most cited academic geographer (according to Andrew Bodman, see "Transactions of the IBG", 1991,1992), … - Robert Brown
Robert Brown (December 21, 1773-June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. Brown was born in Montrose, Scotland on 21 December 1773. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a classmate of Thomas Dick. He joined the army as a surgeon in 1795. - Douglass North
Douglass Cecil North (born November 5, 1920) is co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics. In the words of the Nobel Committee, North and Fogel were awarded the prize "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change." He was Professor of Economics at the University of Washington from 1950 - 1983. - Lucy Cavendish
Lucy Caroline Cavendish, née Lyttelton was the wife of the assassinated Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and a pioneer of women's education. Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge is named after her. Born into the aristocracy, she became a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria in 1863. The following year she married Lord Frederick Cavendish, the second-eldest son to the Duke of Devonshire. - John Moore
John Moore (1646-1714) was an English cleric, scholar, and book collector. He was bishop of Norwich (1691-1707) and bishop of Ely (1707-1714). At the time of his death, Moore's collection of books and papers contained over 30,000 items, and may have been the largest in England. To celebrate his coronation, King George I caused it to be purchased intact, at a cost of 6,000 guineas, and donated to Cambridge University. - John McCarthy
John McCarthy (b. 1942) has served as Australia's Ambassador to Vietnam (1981-83), Ambassador to Mexico (1985-87), Ambassador to Thailand (1992-94), Ambassador to The United States from (1995-97), Ambassador to Indonesia (1997-2001) and Ambassador to Japan (27 July 2001-2004). He has also served in Damascus, Baghdad and Vientiane. Mr McCarthy took up the appointment of Ambassador to India in 2004. - William Harvey
William Harvey was an English medical doctor, who is credited with being the first to correctly describe, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. This developed the ideas of René Descartes who in his "Description of the Human Body" said that the arteries and veins were pipes which carried nourishment around the body. - John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python, and as the writer and star of the popular television comedy "Fawlty Towers". He has won BAFTA and Emmy awards, and was an Academy Award nominated screen writer for his film, "A Fish Called Wanda". - Nicholas Stern
Sir Nicholas Stern, FBA (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic. He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and is now a civil servant and government economic advisor in the United Kingdom. After attending Latymer Upper School, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and his Doctor of Philosophy in economics at Nuffield College, Oxford. - Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn (born 1944) is a British academic philosopher also known for his efforts to popularise philosophy. He attended Clifton College and went on to receive his bachelor's degree in Moral Sciences (i.e. philosophy) in 1965 from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, a position formerly held by such philosophers as Elizabeth Anscombe, G.H. Von Wright, Wittgenstein, and G.E. Moore, and a fellow of Trinity College, … - Steve Jones
Steve Jones (born March 24, 1944) is a professor of genetics at Galton laboratory of University College London. He is also a television presenter and a prize-winning author on the subject of biology, especially evolution. He is one of the best known contemporary popular writers on evolution. His popular writing shows a wry, sometimes rather dark, sense of humour. In 1996 his writing won him the Royal Society Michael Faraday prize ``for his numerous, … - Jack Goody
Sir John (Jack) Goody (born 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and he's an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Among his main publications are "Death, property and the ancestors" (1962), "The myth of the Bagre" (1972) and "The domestication of the savage mind" (1977). - Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab - November 21, 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in Electro-Weak Theory which is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the Electromagnetic and Weak interactions, the latest stage in the effort to provide a unified description of the four fundamental forces of nature. - Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson (b. April 18, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish historian best known for his views on imperialism and the origins of conflict in the twentieth century. After attending The Glasgow Academy, he was educated as a Demy at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree. After two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin, he took up a Research Fellowship at Christ's College Cambridge University, in 1989, … - John Walker
John Walker (15 September 1826 - 14 August 1885) was an English cricketer. Walker was born in Palmers Green and he was the eldest of seven cricket playing brothers - the Walkers of Southgate. He played as a right-handed batsman and an underarm right-arm slow bowler for Cambridge University (1846-1849), MCC (1847-1863), a Middlesex XI (1850-1863) and Middlesex CCC (1864-1866). His family owned a large estate at Arnos Grove and he founded the John Walker Cricket Ground, … - 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, … - James Stuart
James Stuart (January 1843 - October 12, 1913) was a British educator and politician. He was born in Markinch, Fife, and attended St Andrews University before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. He later became a Fellow of the College and Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics at Cambridge University from 1875; he was also Lord Rector of St Andrews from 1898 to 1901. - John Hughes
Dr Edgar John Hughes (born 27 July 1947) is a British Diplomat who is currently British Ambassador to Argentina. Born in South Wales Hughes went to the London School of Economics. He went on to receive his masters degree from Pennsylvania and his PhD from Cambridge. Hughes was accepted to the foreign office after testing. His first foreign post was to Santiago, Chile. Before leaving Britain he married Lynne Evans. - Peter Scott
Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC, FRS, FZS, (September 14, 1909 – August 29, 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter and sportsman. Peter Scott was born in London, the only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who died when Peter was two years old. He famously left instructions to his wife, the sculptor Kathleen Bruce, regarding Peter, to "try and make the boy interested in natural history if you can". - Neil Turok
Dr. Neil Turok earned his PhD at Imperial College. After a postdoc in Santa Barbara, he was appointed Associate Scientist at Fermilab before moving to Princeton where he became Professor of Physics in 1994. In 1997 he was appointed to the Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at Cambridge. In October, 2008, he moved to the Perimeter Institute as its new Director. - Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber is a French anthropologist, linguist and cognitive scientist, currently a Research Director at the Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS. He is known, amongst other things, for his work on pragmatics and in particular relevance theory; and also for his theory on “epidemiology of representations”. In the early Seventies, Sperber was one of the critics of the French structuralism in anthropology. - John D. Barrow
John David Barrow FRS (born November 29, 1952, London) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Barrow is also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright. Barrow obtained his first degree in Mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974. - John McPhee
John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a writer widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. Like Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, he helped kick-start the "new journalism" which, in the 1960s, revolutionized nonfiction by incorporating techniques from novels and other forms of fiction. McPhee avoided the attention-grabbing streams of consciousness of Wolfe and Thompson, but his detailed description of characters, insatiable appetite for details, …
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