- Michael Scholar
Sir Michael Charles Scholar KCB is President of St John's College, Oxford. Michael Charles Scholar was born on 3 January 1942. He was educated at St Olave's Grammar School, St John's College, Cambridge (BA Classics and Moral Sciences 1964, MA, PhD, Research Fellow, Honorary Fellow 1999). He held positions at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Leicester. - Colin Powell
General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) is a former American military leader and statesman. He became the first African-American to be confirmed as United States Secretary of State. As the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-05) under President George W. Bush, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States. - Gordon Brown
Dr James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Minister for the Civil Service, the current Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and the Leader of the Labour Party since 27 June 2007. Before this, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007. - Walter Scott
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 in classics and the Ireland, Craven and Derby scholarships. From 1879 he was a fellow of Merton College, and in 1884 was appointed professor of classics at the University of Sydney; his inaugural lecture, 'What is Classical Study', delivered on 23 March 1885, was published as a pamphlet. - Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of Independent India. He was also a key figure in International politics in the post-war period, and was one of the founding figures of the non-alignment. Popularly referred to as Panditji ("Scholar"), Nehru was also a writer, scholar and amateur historian, … - Phyllis Chesler
Phyllis Chesler (born October 1 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is known as a feminist psychologist, and is the author of thirteen books, including the best-seller "Women and Madness", and the recent publications "The Death of Feminism" and "The New Anti-Semitism". - Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trade ... - Charles Taylor
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 College, Cambridge, of which he became Master in 1881. In 1874 he published an edition of "Coheleth"; in 1877 "Sayings of the Jewish Fathers", an elaborate edition of the "Pirḳe Abot" (2 ed., 1897); and in 1899 a valuable appendix giving a list of manuscripts. - William Smith
Very Revd. Dr William Smith (1711-1787), Dean of Chester, Greek and Latin scholar and first translator of the works of Thucydides. Smith was born in Worcester in 1711, the son of the rector of St Nicholas' Church. He was sent to RGS Worcester after which he proceeded to New College, Oxford in 1728. He remained here for many years gaining four degrees including D.D. in 1758. He became headmaster of Brentwood School, Essex, in 1748, … - Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong (b. November 14 1944 in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England) is an author who writes on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. Armstrong is a former nun, now a "freelance monotheist". She has advanced the theory that fundamentalist religion is a response to and product of modern culture. She was born into a family with Irish roots who after her birth moved to Bromsgrove and later to Birmingham. - Cornel West
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 launched himself headfirst into academia, earning his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1980, then teaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In 1987, he returned to Princeton as a professor of religion and head of the department of African-American studies. - Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born January 29, 1939) is an Australian-born writer, broadcaster and retired academic, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the 20th century. Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her ground-breaking "The Female Eunuch" became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her overnight into a household name and bringing her both adulation and criticism. - Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is well-known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village". - Mike Davis
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Born in Fontana, California and raised in El Cajon, California, Davis' education was punctuated by stints as a meat cutter, truck driver, and a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activist. - Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an Egyptian Muslim scholar and preacher best known for his popular al Jazeera program, "ash-Shariah wal-Hayat" ("Shariah and Life"), and IslamOnline, a website that he helped to found in 1997. He has also published some fifty books, including "The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam" and "Islam: The Future Civilization". - John Muir
John Muir, born 1810, Glasgow, Scotland, died, 1882, Edinburgh, Scotland, was a Scottish sanskritist. He arrived in India in 1828 as a civil servant in Bengal, and after finally rising to the position of judge in Fatehpur, left the Indian Civil Service in 1853 and returned to the United Kingdom. In India Muir wrote in English, Sanskrit and other Indian languages on a variety of topics, but especially on Christianity, … - Simon Guggenheim
Simon Guggenheim (December 30, 1867 - November 2, 1941) was an American businessman and philanthropist. The son of Meyer Guggenheim and younger brother of Daniel Guggenheim and Solomon R. Guggenheim, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Simon Guggenheim settled in Denver and was a Republican senator for Colorado from 1907 to 1913. During his time as a senator, he also served as a chairman of the Committee to Establish a University of the United States. - Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26 1941, in Butte, Montana) is a prominent American writer, columnist, feminist, socialist and political activist. - Ralph Ellison
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 father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel "Invisible Man" (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote "Shadow and Act" (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and "Going to the Territory" (1986). - Walter Raleigh
Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (September 5, 1861 - May 13, 1922) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author. Raleigh was educated at the City of London School, Edinburgh Academy, University College London, and King's College, Cambridge. He was Professor of English Literature at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh (1885-87), Professor of Modern Literature at the University College Liverpool (1890-1900), … - Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels, is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the gnostic gospels. - William Tyndale
William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindall or Tyndall) (ca. 1494-September 6, 1536) was a 16th century Protestant reformer and scholar who translated the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. Although a number of partial and complete English translations had been made from the 7th century onward, Tyndale's was the first to take advantage of the new medium of print, which allowed for its wide distribution. - Bell Hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins (born on September 25, 1952), better known as bell hooks is an African-American intellectual, feminist, and social activist. Hooks focuses on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She has published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures. - Duns Scotus
Blessed John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 - November 8, 1308) was a theologian, philosopher, and logician. Some argue that during his tenure at Oxford, the systematic examination of what differentiates theology from philosophy and science began in earnest. He was one of the most influential theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages, nicknamed "Doctor Subtilis" for his penetrating manner of thought. - Judith Butler
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the present chair of the Rhetoric Department. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, … - Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including "She Came to Stay" and "The Mandarins", and for her 1949 treatise "The Second Sex", a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. - Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali (Urdu: طارق علی is a British-Pakistani writer and filmmaker. He is a member of the editorial committee of the "New Left Review", and regularly contributes to "The Guardian", "Counterpunch" and the "London Review of Books". He is the author of "Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope" (2006), "Conversations with Edward Said" (2005), "Bush in Babylon" (2003), … - W. E. B. du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced) (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, … - Peter Suber
Peter Suber Professor of Philosophy Earlham College - Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
Ahmed ibn Hanbal was an important Muslim scholar and theologian. He is considered the founder of the Hanbali school of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). His full name was Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal Abu `Abd Allah al-Shaybani - David Gregory
David Gregory (June 3, 1659-October 10, 1708) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, Savilian Professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford, and a commentator on Isaac Newton's "Principia". Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the nephew of astronomer and mathematician James Gregory, Gregory studied at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, from 1671 to 1675, beginning when he was only 12 years old. - Liu An
Líu Ān was an advisor to his nephew Emperor Wu of Han (武帝) China and the legendary inventor of tofu. Noted for his literary ability, Liu An was reputed to be able to compose an elaborate prose after he woke up and finish it before breakfast. He was a grandson of the founding Han (漢朝) emperor Liu Bang (劉邦), he became the King of Huainan (literally "south of the Huai River"), at the age of 16 after his father, Liu Chang (劉長) died. - Ahmed Ali
Ahmed Ali (1910 in New Delhi - 14 January 1994 in Karachi) was a Pakistani novelist, diplomat and scholar, who was responsible for writing arguably the greatest novel ever written about Delhi. Born in Delhi, India, he was involved in progressive literary movements as a young man. He contributed to "Aangarey" ("Red Hot Embers", 1933), a collection of short stories that caused an uproar among fundamentalist Muslims. - Zakir Naik
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (born October 18, 1965) is a Muslim Indian public speaker, debater of Konkani descent,, and writer on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. By profession, he is a medical doctor, attaining a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Maharashtra, but since 1991 he has focused on preaching Islam. - Yoginder Sikand
Yoginder Sikand (born 1967) is an intellectual from India and the author of several books about Islam and allied issues. He is the editor and primary writer of "Qalandar", a monthly electronic publication covering relations between Muslims and followers of other religions. Yogi Sikand is describes himself as agnostic). Sikand holds a Master's Degree in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and a PhD in history from the University of London. - Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (March 31 1844, Selkirk - July 20 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at St Andrews University are named for him. - Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker (August 24 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts - May 10 1860, Florence, Italy) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. In 1850, Parker was the first to use the phrase, "of all the people, by all the people, for all the people" which later influenced Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. In words made famous by Martin Luther King, Jr. a century later, … - John Shelby Spong
John Shelby Spong (born 16 June 1931 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is the retired Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark (based in Newark, New Jersey). He is a liberal theologian, biblical scholar, religion commentator and author. He promotes traditionally liberal causes, such as racial equality. He also calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief, away from theism and from the afterlife as reward or punishment for human behavior. - Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has been teaching for over 15 years. He completed his undergraduate work at Wheaton College and received his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Prior to taking his position at UNC, Professor Ehrman taught at Rutgers University. - Ahmed Deedat
Sheikh Ahmed Hussein Deedat (July 1, 1918 - August 8, 2005), was a Muslim scholar of Comparative religion, an author, lecturer, and an orator. He was best known for witty inter-religious public debates.His writings have been criticized as fundamentalist, antisemitic, anti-Christian and anti-Hindu, though his supporters deny this. What differentiated Deedat's approach from his contemporaries, apart from eloquence in English language, …
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