James I of England

James I of England

male, deceased (1625)
King of Scots, sir francis bacon, buried at Westminster Abbey, Pretenders to the throne of the kingdom of France, Sir Anthony Weldon, Basilikon Doron…Scholar
James Stuart was King of Scots as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567,...
Carol Gilligan

Carol Gilligan

female, 73 years old
Radcliffe College alumni, Social psychologist, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, subject-object problem, ethical relationship, ethical community…Scholar
Carol Gilligan (1936-) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical...
Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin

male, deceased (1975)
Victim of Soviet repressions, Aesthetics, Scholar, structuralist, Philologist, aesthetic
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who wrote influential works of literary and...
William Boyd

William Boyd

male, 57 years old
novelist, Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, Old Gordonstounian, Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford, Order of the British Empire, Alumni of the University of Glasgow…Scholar
William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March, 1952 in Accra, Ghana) is a contemporary Scottish novelist and screenwriter.
Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith

female, 63 years old
Gay Community News, lesbian feminist, Lesbian feminism, Black feminism, Ms. magazine, LGBT African American…Scholar
Barbara Smith is an African-American, lesbian feminist who has played a significant role in building and sustaining Black Feminism in the United...
John Witherspoon

John Witherspoon

male, deceased (1794)
signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, United States Declaration of Independence, immigrant to the United States, Non-fiction writer, Clergy in the American Revolution, from East Lothian…Scholar
Dr. John Witherspoon (February 5, 1723 - November 15, 1794), was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative...
William Ramsay

William Ramsay

male, deceased (1916)
Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Alumni of the University of Glasgow, Scottish, Discoverer of chemical elements, Nobel Laureate, University of Bristol…Scholar
Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 (along with Lord...
Muhammad Asad

Muhammad Asad

male, deceased (1992)
Islam in Ukraine, Scholar, writer, polish, ukrainian, Jewish person
Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss in July 1900 in what was then Lemberg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv in Ukraine; died 1992) was a Jew...
Professor Robert Black

Professor Robert Black

male, 62 years old
FRSA, Legal academic, British, advocate, Pan Am Flight 103, Academic of the University of Edinburgh…Scholar
Professor Robert Black QC, FRSA, FRSE, FFCS, ILTM is the former Professor Emeritus of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh. He has been an...
Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella

male, 44 years old
Libertarian theorist, Movement against intellectual property, LL.M., Master of Laws, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Mises Institute…Scholar
Norman (N.) Stephan Kinsella (born 1965) is an American intellectual property lawyer and libertarian legal theorist. His electronically-published...