John Williams

John Williams

male, deceased (1899)
Harvard University, professor, from Massachusetts, trinity college, episcopal church, bishop…Academic
John Williams (1817-99) was an American bishop of the Episcopal church. He was born at Deerfield, Mass., and educated at Harvard and at Trinity...
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
nobel prize in literature, Nobel Prize, From Houston, English, From Lorain, Ohio, Princeton University…Academic
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

male, deceased (1950)
vegetarian, Playwright, teetotaller, Literary critic, oscar, literary criticism…Academic
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...
Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

female, deceased (1975)
Academic, German-American, Binational solution proponents, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Philosophical writer, Wesleyan University faculty
Hannah Arendt was a German Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the...
Ben Bernanke

Ben Bernanke

male, 55 years old
banker, Central Banker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, federal reserve, Federal Reserve Chairman, chopper ben…Academic
Ben Bernanke , the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has studied both the '30's and the Japanese deflationary periods in depth. Fortunately he...

William Gibson

male, 50 years old
Gloucester, Huish’s Grammar School, Richard Huish College, Taunton, St David’s University College, Church, State and Society, 1760-1850, The Church of England 1688-1832 Unity and Accord…Academic
William Thomas Gibson is a historian, academic, and professor who specialises in the history of religion in Britain in the early modern period. The...

Charles Taylor

male, deceased (1908)
Academic, Scholar, University of Cambridge, English, St. John's College, Cambridge, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
Charles Taylor (born in London 1840; died 1908) was an English Christian Hebraist. He was educated at King's College, London, and St. John's...
Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

male, 76 years old
Visva-Bharati University alumni, Economist for Peace and Security, Order of the Companions of Honour, Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge…Academic of the London School of Economics, Academic
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 P...

David Miller

male
Political scientist, Citizenship and National Identity, Nuffield College, Nuffield College, Oxford, University of Oxford, English…Academic
David Miller (born 8 March 1946) is a prominent British political theorist. He received his BA from the University of Cambridge and his BPhil and...
Walter Scott

Walter Scott

male, deceased (1925)
Australian, Academic, mcgill university, Scholar, University of Sydney, Balliol College
Walter Scott was an Australian academic. He was the son of G. I. Scott and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with first-class honours...