- 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. - Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Glenn Seaborg worked his way through UCLA in a variety of ways - as stevedore, night watchman, apricot picker and linotype mechanic apprentice, earning his B.A. degree in 1934. Later he attended UC Berkeley where he became a faculty member and chancellor. Seaborg talked about the influence of "John Mead Adams of UCLA who taught a course in atomic physics in which I learned about nuclear physics. After that course, I knew that I wanted to get into nuclear research." - Jack Balkin
Jack M. Balkin (born August 13, 1956 in Kansas City, Missouri) is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Balkin is the founder and director of the Yale Information Society Project (ISP), a research center whose mission is "to study the implications of the Internet, telecommunications, and the new information technologies on law and society." He also writes political and legal commentary at a weblog, Balkinization. - Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi, is a chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill (OCP). He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E. Miramontes and Hungarian George Rosenkranz, of the progestin norethindrone—which, unlike progesterone, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring hormone. - Laurence Tribe
Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. He also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Tribe is generally recognized as one of the foremost constitutional law experts and Supreme Court practitioners in the United States. He is the author of "American Constitutional Law" (1978), the most frequently cited treatise in that field, … - John Sherman Cooper
John Sherman Cooper was a liberal Republican United States Senator from Kentucky who served a total of twenty years (1946-1949, 1952-1955, 1956-1973). He was a captain in the United States Army, and served as a member of the Warren Commission, and as U.S. ambassador to India and Germany. - Charles Hartshorne
Charles Hartshorne (June 5, 1897 - October 9, 2000) was a prominent American philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He developed the neoclassical idea of God and produced a modal proof of the existence of God that was a development of St. Anselm's Ontological Argument. Hartshorne is also noted for developing Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy into process theology. - Elfego Baca
Elfego Baca was a legendary lawman, lawyer, and politician in the closing days of the American wild west. Elfego Baca was born in New Mexico just before the end of the American Civil War. His family later moved to Topeka, Kansas when he was a young child. Upon his mother’s death in 1880, Baca returned with his father to Belen, New Mexico where his father became a marshal. In 1884, at age 19, Baca stole some guns, bought a mail-order sheriff’s badge, … - John Wieners
John Wieners was a United States lyric poet. He attended St. Gregory’s in Dorchester, MA and Boston College High School. From 1950-1954 he studied at Boston College, where he earned his A.B. In 1954 he heard Charles Olson read at the Charles Street Meeting House on Beacon Hill in the midst of a hurricane. He decided to enroll at Black Mountain College where he studied under Olson and Robert Duncan from 1955 to 1956. - Lawrence B. Lindsey
Lawrence B. Lindsey was Director of the National Economic Council (2001-2002), and the Assistant to the President on Economic Policy for the U.S. President George W. Bush. He played a leading role in formulating President Bush's $1.35 billion tax cut plan, convincing candidate Bush that he needed an "insurance policy" against an economic turndown. - Daniel Pinkham
Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Jr. (born June 5, 1923 in Lynn, Massachusetts, died December 18, 2006 in Natick, Massachusetts) was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist. Pinkham was one of America's most active composers during his lifetime. - Dan'L Lewin
Dan'l Lewin is corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, responsible for managing worldwide strategic business relationships with venture capitalists and emerging venture-capital-backed businesses, as well as managing the business relationship with leading global industry partners such as SUN, Adobe, Intuit and BEA to ensure their applications interoperate with and run well on the Microsoft platform - for the benefit of the companies' common customers. - Raymond Pearl
Raymond Pearl (3 June 1879 - 17 November 1940) was an American biologist, who spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Pearl was a prolific writer of academic books, papers and articles, as well as a committed populariser and communicator of science. At his death, 841 publications were listed against his name. - Henry Beston
Henry Beston (born June 1, 1888 in Boston; died April 15, 1968 in Nobleboro, Maine) was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of "The Outermost House", written in 1925. - Harold W. Attridge
Harold W. Attridge has been the Dean of the Yale Divinity School since 2002. His educational background includes a A.B. from Boston College, a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He was a fellow of the Jesus Seminar. - Alexander Rich
Alexander Rich, MD (American; born "c." 1925) is a biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. ("magna cum laude") and an M.D. ("cum laude") from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling along with James Watson. He has over 600 publications to his name. Rich is the founder of Alkermes Inc. - Gregory Breit
Gregory Breit (July 14, 1899 - September 11, 1981) was an Russian-born American physicist, professor at universities in New York, Wisconsin, Yale, and Buffalo. Together with Eugene Wigner he gave a description of particle resonant states, and with Edward Condon, he first described proton-proton dispersion. He is also credited with deriving the Breit equation. In 1921, he was Paul Ehrenfest's assistant in Leiden. - Wayne Flynt
Wayne Flynt is "Professor Emeritus" in the Department of History at Auburn University. He has won numerous teaching awards and been a Distinguished University Professor for many years. His research focuses on Southern culture, Alabama politics, Southern religion, education reform, and poverty. He is now Editor-in-Chief of the new Online "Encyclopedia of Alabama". Dr. Flynt received his A.B. from Howard College (now Samford University), … - Brink Lindsey
As Cato's vice president for research, Brink Lindsey helps to oversee the Institute's current research agenda and develops new research programs. From 1998 to 2004, he was director of Cato's Center for Trade Policy Studies , helping to make it a leading voice for free trade. An attorney with extensive experience in international trade regulation, Lindsey was formerly director of regulatory studies at Cato and senior editor of Regulation magazine. - David B. Frohnmayer
Dave Frohnmayer (born July 9 1940, Medford, Oregon) is the 15th President of the University of Oregon. Appointed on July 1 1994, he is now the second-longest serving UO president behind John Wesley Johnson. He is the first native of the U.S. state of Oregon to run the University of Oregon. - Alexander H. Leighton
Alexander H. Leighton (July 17, 1908) is a sociologist and psychiatrist of dual citizenship (United States, by birth, and Canada, since 1975). Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, he received a B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1932, an M.S. from Cambridge University in England in 1934, and an M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1936. As of 1999, he has been Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, … - Mina Bissell
Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-American biologist and a world-recognized leader in the area of the role of extracellular matrix (ECM) and microenvironment in regulation of tissue-specific function, with special emphasis on breast cancer. She was brought up in a well-educated and well-to-do family. By the time she graduated high school, Bissell was the top graduate in her year in Iran. A family friend, through the American Friends of Iran, … - John J. McEleney
John J. McEleney, S.J. was the 1st President of Fairfield University. During his tenure, the Fairfield College of St. Robert Bellarmine, Inc. purchased two adjoining estates in Fairfield, Connecticut and the Fairfield College Preparatory School opened classes in a four-year program. - Ab Demarco Jr.
Ab DeMarco, Jr. (born February 27, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 344 games in the National Hockey League and 47 games in the World Hockey Association. He was born in the United States while his father Ab DeMarco Sr. was playing for the Cleveland Barons. However, DeMarco Jr. was raised in North Bay, Ontario and represented Canada at the 1969 Ice Hockey World Championship. DeMarco Jr. played for the St. Louis Blues, … - Robert Lowie
Robert Henry Lowie (June 12, 1883 - September 21, 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist. An expert on North American Indians, he was instrumental in the development of modern anthropological theory. Lowie was born in Vienna, but came to the United States in 1893, graduated from the College of the City of New York (A.B.) in 1901, and from Columbia University (Ph.D.) in 1908, where he studied under Franz Boas. - Manjul Bhargava
Manjul Bhargava is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. His research interests span algebraic number theory, combinatorics, and representation theory. He graduated from Harvard University in 1996 and received his doctorate from Princeton in 2001, working under Andrew Wiles. His breakthrough Ph.D. thesis surprised the mathematical community by generalizing the classical Gauss composition law for quadratic forms to many other situations. - Thomas Gordon McLeod
Thomas Gordon McLeod (December 17, 1868 - December 11, 1932) was Democratic Governor of South Carolina from 1923 to 1927. Born in Lynchburg, South Carolina to William J. McLeod, a former captain in the Confederate Army, and Amanda McMillan Rogers McLeod, he attended Lynchburg Academy and graduated from Wofford College and the University of Virginia Law School. - Ab McDonald
AB (Alvin Brian) McDonald (born February 18, 1936 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward. McDonald started his National Hockey League career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1958 and ended in 1972. He also played with the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, and St. Louis Blues. During his time with Montreal, McDonald won three Stanley Cups and another with Chicago. - Ab Box
Albert George "Ab" Box (March 8, 1909 - July 30, 2000) was a Canadian professional football halfback, quarterback and punter. Born in Toronto, Box attended Malvern Collegiate Institute where he played on the football team and later on the Malvern Grads junior team from 1928-1929 under coach Ted Reeve. Box then moved to the senior Ontario Rugby Football Union, again playing under Reeve with the Toronto Balmy Beach from 1930-1931, winning the Grey Cup in 1930. - Ab Klink
Abraham Klink (born 2 November 1958) is a Dutch politician for Christian Democratic Appeal. He is minister of Public Health, Wellbeing and Sports in the Fourth cabinet Balkenende. Klink was born in Stellendam, and attended MAVO, HAVO and VWO-education. Between 1978 and 1984 he studied sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. After his studies he worked for the scientific institute of the CDA (between 1984 and 1992). - Ab Demarco
Ab DeMarco (May 10, 1916 - May 25, 1989) was a Canadian ice hockey forward. Born in North Bay, Ontario, DeMarco started his National Hockey League career with the Chicago Blackhawks. He would also play with the New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs. His career lasted from 1938 to 1947. His son Ab Jr. also played in the NHL. - Ab Crentsil
A B Crentsil is a Ghanaian musician of substance, his career has been a smooth one with the public always appreciating in totality the numerous albums that he has released and continues to release over the years. With 15-20 years of experience in the music business Mr. Crentsil has won numerous Ghanaian Music Awards including the Fontomfrom Evergreen Award which is a special honor bestowed upon a musician with 15-20 years of continuous music experience. - James Collip
James Bertram Collip (November 20, 1892 - June 19, 1965) was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin. Born in Belleville, Ontario, he served as the Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario from 1947-1961, where he was also a member of the Kappa Alpha Society. He enrolled at Trinity College at the University of Toronto at the age of 15, and studied physiology and biochemistry. He obtained a Ph.D in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto in 1916. - Jack O. Bovender Jr.
Jack O. Bovender, Jr. is the chairman and CEO of HCA. He graduated from Duke University in 1967, with an A.B in psychology and in 1969 with an A.M. in healthcare administration. Bovender currently teaches at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. - Kenojuak Ashevak
Kenojuak Ashevak (born October 3, 1927) is a Canadian Inuit artist. - Allan Border
Allan Robert Border AO (born July 27 1955 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a former Australian cricket captain. His playing nickname was "A.B.". He played 156 Tests in his career, a record until it was passed by fellow Australian Steve Waugh. Border still retains the world record for the number of consecutive Test appearances of 153 and the number of Tests as captain. - Stephen Coonts
Stephen Coonts (born July 19, 1946) is an American thriller and suspense novelist. Coonts grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a small coal-mining town and earned an A.B degree in political science at West Virginia University in 1968. He entered the Navy the following year and flew an A-6 Intruder medium attack plane during the Vietnam War, where he served on two combat cruises aboard the USS "Enterprise" (CVN-65). After being honorably discharged from duty in 1977, … - Robert Douglas Coe
Robert Douglas Coe was the second son of William Robertson Coe and Mai Huttleston Rogers Coe. He attended St. Paul's School; later he received an A.B. in fine arts from Harvard University, and completed an M.A. at Magdalen College, Oxford, England. Although his father hoped young Robert would pursue a career in law or banking, Bob Coe instead intended to become an architect, and took drawing lessons from Robert Chanler and Everett Shinn. - Luigi R. Einaudi
Luigi R. Einaudi is a U.S. career diplomat. He assumed the post of Acting Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) in October 2004 upon the resignation of Secretary General Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. He had served as Assistant Secretary General since his election to that post in June 2000 by a 27-7 vote of the member states at the 30th regular session of the OAS General Assembly, held in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. - Deroy Murdock
Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford ...
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