- Christa McAuliffe
Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, better known simply as Christa McAuliffe, and prior to her marriage, Christa Corrigan, was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who was selected from among more than 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space. She died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush and is thereby the First Lady of the United States.
- John Adams
John Adams (September 18, 1772-April 24, 1863) was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools. He was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, 1772 to John Adams and Mary Parker Adams. He graduated from Yale University in 1795. In 1798, he married Elizabeth Ripley, with whom he had ten children. He taught at the Plainfield, New Jersey Academy from 1800-1803, when he took the post as principal of Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut.
- John Adams
John Adams (August 26, 1778 Oak Hill, Durham, New York - September 25, 1854 Catskill, New York) was a United States Congressman from New York. He studied law, and taught school in Durham. He was admitted to the bar in 1805, and began to practice in Durham. He was appointed the surrogate of Greene County, New York in 1810. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1812 to 1813.
- Bill O'Reilly
William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American political commentator, and the host of the cable news program "The O'Reilly Factor". Prior to hosting "The O'Reilly Factor", O'Reilly served as anchor of the entertainment program, "Inside Edition". O'Reilly also hosts "The Radio Factor", a radio program syndicated by Westwood One, and has written six books.
- John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto (born John Gatto) is an American retired school teacher of 29 years 8 months and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President, and in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for designing his Great Society, …
- John Holmes
John Holmes (born 1702 or 1703, died Holt, Norfolk, 22 December 1760), was an 18th century schoolmaster and writer on education, Master of Gresham's School in Norfolk.
- Trent Lott
I was born in Grenada, Mississippi on October 9, 1941. I attended Ole Miss and received a bachelors degree in Public Administration in 1965 and a law degree in 1967. I was president of Sigma Nu fraternity. After receiving my law deg
- Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the presidency of the United States in 1948 under the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party banner. He garnered 39 electoral votes in that race, making him the first third party presidential candidate to receive electoral votes since Robert LaFollette in 1924.
- John Anderson
Roger John Anderson (born February 14, 1956, Waukesha, Wisconsin) is a former American football player who played linebacker for the Green Bay Packers from 1978-89. Anderson attended South High School in Waukesha and the University of Michigan. He was the second of the Packers' two first-round selections in the 1978 NFL Draft (the first being James Lofton). By the end of Anderson's twelve-year career, he was the Packers' all-time team leader in tackles with 1,020, …
- Debra LaFave
Debra Jean Beasley (born August 28, 1980) was a reading teacher at Angelo L. Greco Middle School in Temple Terrace, Florida, when she was charged with several counts of having illegal sexual relations with a minor in 2005.
- Mary Kay Letourneau
Mary Kay Fualaau (born, former married name Mary Kay Letourneau; birth name Mary Katherine Schmitz) is a former schoolteacher known for having a sexual relationship, and two children, with her underage pupil. She was convicted of statutory rape and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American author. She wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood in a pioneer family. Her best-known book is "Little House on the Prairie."
- Michael Savage
Michael Savage is the pseudonym of Dr. Michael Alan Weiner, Ph.D. (born March 31, 1942). Savage is a controversial independent American conservative talk radio host, author and popular political commentator and as of February 5th a possible candidate for the 2008 Republican nomination for President. He holds masters degrees in medical botany and medical anthropology, and earned a PhD from the University of California, …
- George Walker
Professor George Walker is a British educator, and the former director-general of the International Baccalaureate Organisation. He is also a productive author of articles and other works regarding international education and physical chemistry. Walker has studied chemistry at Oxford University, and music at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He has worked as a schoolteacher and headmaster at several UK state schools, …
- Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 - 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British Labour Party. He was known as Robin Cook. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. He resigned from his post as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council on 17 March 2003 in protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- James Murray
James Augustus Henry Murray was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary" from 1879 until his death.
- David Williams
David Williams (1709 - April 5 1784), was an Independent minister and schoolmaster. His pupils included the philosopher David Williams, with whom he is sometimes confused. Williams was born in Pwll-y-pant near Caerphilly. He studied for the ministry at the Carmarthen Academy, and in 1734 became minister of a chapel in Cardiff. In 1739, he took over the newly-built "Watford" chapel, where he entertained Howell Harris shortly afterwards.
- Martha Hyer
Martha Hyer (born August 10, 1924 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American actress. Her first movie role was at age eleven when she appeared in "Thunder Mountain". After completing her education, she next appeared in "The Locket" in 1946. She had roles in "Sabrina" (1954), "Houseboat" (1958), "First Men in the Moon" (1964), and "The Sons of Katie Elder" (1965), among many others.
- Peter Smith
Peter Smith CBE was general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) in the United Kingdom from 1988 to 2002. At the beginning of his tenure, the ATL was a small trade union in a sector traditionally dominated by two large unions, the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers. “Shrewd and sensible, if somewhat offbeat in style, …
- Peter Hall
Peter Ronald Hall (born May 27, 1952) is an Australian politician. He has been a National member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 1988, representing Gippsland Province. He is the current leader of the National Party in the Legislative Council, as well as their spokesperson for the portfolios of Education, Training, Resources, Environment and Energy Industries. Due to the reforms of the Legislative Council introduced by the Bracks Labor Government, …
- Jack McConnell
Jack Wilson McConnell (born June 30, 1960 in Irvine, North Ayrshire) is a former First Minister of Scotland, current leader of the Scottish Labour Party and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency. To date he is the longest serving First Minister in the history of the Scottish Parliament. McConnell became an MSP in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, later holding the positions of Finance Minister, …
- Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School.
- William Jones
William Frederick Jones was a convict transported to Western Australia, and later became one of the colony's ex-convict school teachers. Born in 1827, Jones was the mate on a trading ship in his youth. He eventually qualified as a ship's master, but in March 1856 he arrived in Western Australia on board the "William Hammond", having been transported for fifteen years for uttering a forged bank note.
- Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten (born 1957) is an American labor leader and educator and is the current president of the United Federation of Teachers.
- Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945. Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Indian and European influences.
- Philip Baker Hall
Philip Baker Hall (born September 10, 1931) is an American actor.
- Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler, FRS (30 January 1774 - 4 December 1839), was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel Butler, noted author. He was born at Kenilworth. He was educated at Rugby School, and in 1792 went to St John's College, Cambridge. Butler's classical career was a brilliant one. He obtained three of Sir William Browne's medals, for the Latin (1792) and Greek (1793, 1794) odes, …
- Bill Owens
William Forrester "Bill" Owens (born October 22, 1950) is an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He was the 40th Governor of Colorado. He did not seek reelection in 2006 due to term limits. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Owens has a master's degree in public affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an expert in Soviet affairs and writes and lectures often on Russia.
- Kathleen Blanco
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (born December 15, 1942) is a Democratic politician from and the current governor of Louisiana. She was elected on November 15, 2003, defeating her Republican opponent Bobby Jindal, in the general election, by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent. She became the first woman to hold the office of governor of Louisiana. She is currently the fourth oldest governor in the United States. Blanco became a national figure following Hurricane Katrina.
- Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell (born 31 August 1938, Paisley) is a Scottish politician. He was educated in the town's Paisley Grammar School. He was a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003. In the 1999 Scottish election, he stood as a constituency candidate in West Renfrewshire, where he finished second behind Labour's Trish Godman.
- Ian Black
Ian Black (born 1941) was a Scottish swimmer. He was BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1958 at the age of only seventeen. He achieved this phenomenal feat by winning gold medals in three separate events at the European Championships in Budapest, competing as an adult. He also won a gold medal for Scotland at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games that year, in Cardiff. He holds certain age-related British records to this day.
- James Lloyd
James Henry Lloyd was a convict transported to Western Australia, who later became one of the colony's ex-convict school teachers. Born in Ireland in 1825, nothing is known of his early life. In 1850 he was convicted of stealing a cow, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Lloyd was transported to Western Australia on board the "Robert Small", which arrived in August 1853. After receiving his ticket of leave, in December 1858 he married Johanna Enright, …
- Erin Gruwell
Erin Gruwell (b. 15 August 1969) is an American teacher. The 2007 film "Freedom Writers" was based on her story.
- Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott (born 1933 in Riceville, Iowa) is an American teacher and anti-racism activist.
- Jaime Escalante
Jaime Escalante (b. December 31, 1930) is a professor and teacher of mathematics who gained renown and distinction for his work at Garfield High School in Los Angeles, California in teaching poor minority students calculus, from 1974 to 1991.
- Richard Arnold
Richard Rorbert II "Ricky" Arnold (born November 26, 1963 in Cheverly, Maryland) is a NASA astronaut. Arnold was raised in Bowie, Maryland and is married to Eloise Miller Arnold of Bowie. They have two daughters. He enjoys running, fishing, reading, kayaking, bicycling, ornithology, paleontology, and guitar.
- Irma P. Hall
Irma P. Hall (born Irma Dolores Player Hall on June 3, 1935 in Beaumont, Texas) is a Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winning American character actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows since the 1970s. She is well-known for playing matriarchal figures in films such as "A Family Thing", "Soul Food" and "The Ladykillers".
- John Warren
John Vernon Warren (born 1826, date of death unknown) was a convict transported to Western Australia. He was one of only 39 such convicts from the 9721 convicts transported to the colony to overcome the social stigma of convictism to become schoolteachers. Born in 1826, Warren worked as a clerk in his youth, but in 1850 he was convicted of forging a bill of exchange, and sentenced to a lifetime of penal servitude.