Cornel West

Cornel West

male, 56 years old
Princeton University faculty, public intellectual, philosopher, religion, Scholar, African American…African-American studies scholar
And he's been impressing people for quite a while. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude in only three years in 1973, the Sacramento native...
Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

female, 70 years old
Feminist, writer, Sex and Destiny The Politics of Human Fertility, Australian women writer, Women writer, The Change Women, Ageing and the Menopause…Scholar
Germaine Greer (born January 29, 1939) is an Australian-born writer, broadcaster and retired academic, widely regarded as one of the most...
Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan

male, deceased (1980)
Rhetoric theorist, media theory, Futurologist, Literary critic, media ecology, Educator…Scholar
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English...

Mike Davis

male, 63 years old
Planet of Slums, University of California, Irvine, Student for a Democratic Society, social class, MacArthur Fellowship, Getty Center…Scholar
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his...
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

male, 83 years old
suicide bombing, Muslim, ash-Shariah wal-Hayat, universal human rights, Islam The Future Civilization, The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam…Scholar, Sunni Muslim Islamic scholar
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an Egyptian Muslim scholar and preacher best known for his popular al Jazeera program, "ash-Shariah wal-Hayat" ("Shariah and...
John Muir

John Muir

male, deceased (1882)
from Fatehpur, Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, From GLASGOW, British, sanskrit, Sanskrit-English translator…Scholar
John Muir, born 1810, Glasgow, Scotland, died, 1882, Edinburgh, Scotland, was a Scottish sanskritist. He arrived in India in 1828 as a civil...

Simon Guggenheim

male, deceased (1941)
Central High School of Philadelphia, politician, Denver, Jewish American, from Pennsylvania, philanthropist…Scholar
Simon Guggenheim (December 30, 1867 - November 2, 1941) was an American businessman and philanthropist. The son of Meyer Guggenheim and younger...
Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich

female, 68 years old
Feminist, socialist, From Butte, Montana, Breast cancer patients, In These Times, political activist…Scholar
Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26 1941, in Butte, Montana) is a prominent American writer, columnist, feminist, socialist and political activist.
Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison

male, deceased (1994)
Tuskegee University alumni, African-American, New York writer, music critic, Essayist, invisible man…Scholar
Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913 - April 16, 1994) was a scholar and writer. He was born Ralph Waldo Ellison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his...
Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh

male, deceased (1922)
Princeton University, Brown University, Litt.D., Doctor of Letters, princeton, brown…Scholar
Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (September 5, 1861 - May 13, 1922) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author. Raleigh was educated at the City...