- Frankie Yale
Francesco Ioele (1893 - July 1, 1928), better known as Frankie Uale or the alias of Yale, was a Brooklyn gangster and original employer of Al Capone, before the latter moved to Chicago to start his own gang. - Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? - Linus Yale Jr.
Linus Yale, Jr. (14 April 1821 - 25 December 1868) was an American mechanical engineer and manufacturer, best known for his inventions of locks, especially the cylinder lock. Linus Yale, Jr. was born in Salisbury, New York. Yale's father, Linus Yale, Sr., opened a lock shop in the 1840s in Newport, New York, specializing in bank locks. His son joined him in the business in 1850, and introduced some combination safe locks and key-operated cylinder locks around 1862. - Linus Yale Sr.
Linus Yale, Sr. was an American inventor and manufacturer of locks. He was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and later moved with his parents to Salisbury, New York. Yale opened a lock shop in the early 1840’s in Newport, New York, specializing in bank locks. In 1850 his son, Linus Yale, Jr. joined him at the lock shop and began working on improving his father’s pin tumbler lock. Patents by Linus Yale, Sr. from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: * 20 Jan 1830 Pat. - Elihu Yale
Elihu Yale, (April 5, 1649 in Boston, Massachusetts, America - July 8, 1721 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales), was the first benefactor of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in the United States. - James Murray Yale
James Murray Yale (1784 - 7 May 1871) was a clerk, and later, a chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) at Fort Langley. Yale was born in Lachine, Lower Canada in 1796. He joined the HBC in 1815, and served first at Fort Wedderburn on Lake Athabasca. In April 1817, he was kidnapped by North West Company men and taken to Great Slave Lake for five months. In 1821, Yale was moved to New Caledonia and put in charge of Fort George until 1824. - William H. Yale
William Hall Yale (November 12, 1831 - January 25, 1917) was a Minnesota lawyer and the 6th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, moved to Minnesota, and became Lieutenant Governor under Governor Horace Austin from January 7, 1870 to January 9, 1874. Married Sarah E. Banks and Mary L. Hoyt. He died in 1917 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. - Kim Yale
Kim Yale was a writer and editor of comic books for multiple comic book companies, including Marvel, DC, First and Warp Graphics. She was married to fellow comics creator, and frequent collaborator, John Ostrander. Yale died of breast cancer in 1997. Friends of Lulu's award for the best new female comics creator is named in her honor. Kim won several awards during her time as a writer, one of which were for Best New Talent. - Joey Yale
Joseph Yamoska (25 December 1949 - 18 April 1986) was an American homosexual pornographic actor who worked under the stage name Joey Yale. Joey started his career in the original "Disney on Parade" traveling show. When he met gay porn director Fred Halsted outside a bar in West Hollywood, Fred convinced him to star in his first pornographic film, "L.A. Plays Itself". - Brian Yale
Brian Yale (born November 14 1968) played bass guitar for the band matchbox twenty. Engaged to longtime girlfriend of 9 years Sarah Schultz Nickname is "Pookie". He loves golf. He used to be in the band "Tabitha's Secret" with Rob Thomas and Paul Doucette. He graduated from Amity High School in Woodbridge, Connecticut. - Marshall Hall
Marshall Hall, Jr. (17 September 1910, St Louis, Missouri - 4 July 1990, London) was an American mathematician who made contributions to group theory and combinatorics. He studied mathematics at Yale, graduating in 1932. He studied further at Cambridge University, returning to Yale to take his Ph.D. in 1936 under the supervision of Oystein Ore. He worked in Naval Intelligence during World War II, and in 1946 took a position at Ohio State University. - Michael Smith
Michael Smith is an American artist born in Chicago, in 1951. He has been an influential figure in performance art, video art, and installation art since the early 1980s. He is best known for his performance persona named Mike, the central figure in an ongoing series of narrative projects. Mike, an innocent character who continually falls victim to trends and fashions and his own naive ambitions, … - Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor. - Robert Smith
Robert Smith was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the province of British Columbia, Canada from its entry into Confederation in 1871 until the provincial election of 1878. Smith represented the Fraser Canyon-Interior riding of Yale. The Yale riding in this period included the Okanagan, Similkameen, Nicola and Shuswap areas. - Stanley Milgram
Dr. Stanley Milgram was a social psychologist at Yale University, Harvard University and the City University of New York. While at Harvard, he conducted the small-world experiment (the source of the six degrees of separation concept), and while at Yale, he conducted the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority. He also introduced the concept of familiar strangers. Although considered one of the most important psychologists of the 20th century, … - Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss was an American philosopher, known for his work in metaphysics and for his efforts to reverse age discrimination policies at American universities. Born in New York City, he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from City College of New York and his doctorate from Harvard (1929), where he studied under Alfred North Whitehead. He taught at several universities, but spent most of his career at Yale, where he eventually held an endowed chair. - Robert A. M. Stern
Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, (born May 23 1939) is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture. Before taking that post, he was professor of architecture at Columbia and director of Columbia's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1960 and a master's degree in architecture from Yale in 1965. - Garry Wills
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and historian, and a frequent contributor to the "New York Review of Books". In 1993, he won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America," which describes the background and effect of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. Wills is an adjunct professor of history, both American and cultural, … - James Boyle
James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School, the co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons. He writes on intellectual property, cyberspace, and social and legal theory. In 2003 he won the World Technology Network Award for Law. He is also a board member of the Public Library of Science. - Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel Phillips Huntington (born April 18, 1927) is a controversial US political scientist known for his analysis of the relationship between the military and the civil government, his investigation of "coups d'etat", his thesis (inspired by Polish scientist Feliks Koneczny) that the central political actors of the 21st century will be civilizations rather than nation-states and, most recently, for his views on US immigration. - Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is an American social critic, intellectual, author and teacher. She is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paglia completed her undergraduate studies at Binghamton University and later, her graduate studies at Yale. - David Swensen
David Swensen has been the Chief Investment Officer at Yale University since 1985. He is responsible for managing and investing the University's endowment assets and investment funds, which total over $22 billion. Realizing an annual return of more than 17.2% on his investments over the last ten years, Swensen has added more than $16 billion to Yale's coffers. Mr. Swensen also outperformed 99% of U.S.-based mutual funds. - Charles Lane
Charles "Chuck" Lane is a journalist and editor who is currently a staff writer for the "Washington Post". He was the lead editor of "The New Republic" from 1997 to 1999. - Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf (Born in Osijek, Croatia - 1956), is an influential Christian theologian and currently the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University Divinity School and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He has been a member in both the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Evangelical Church in Croatia. He is widely known for his works on systematic theology, ethics, conflict resolution, and peace-making. - David Rumsey
David Rumsey is a map collector and the founder of the David Rumsey Map Collection. He is also the president of Cartography Associates. Rumsey has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University and was a founding member of "Yale Research Associates in the Arts", before becaming Associate Director of the "American Society for Eastern Arts" in San Francisco. He was a lecturer in art at the "Yale Art School" for several years. - Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989-1992. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Born into a Jewish family in Lithuania, Kagan grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his family emigrated shortly after the death of his father. - Michael Harrington
Edward Michael Harrington (February 24, 1928 - July 31, 1989) was an American democratic socialist, writer, and political activist. - Silas Deane
Silas Deane (December 24 1737 - September 23 1789), was a delegate to the American Continental Congress and later the United States' first foreign diplomat. He was born in Groton, Connecticut, the son of a blacksmith, graduated from Yale in 1758 and in 1761 was admitted to the bar, but instead of practicing became a merchant in Wethersfield, Connecticut. In Connecticut he taught the future spy Edward Bancroft. - Dr. John Phillips
Dr. John Phillips (1719 - 1795) and his wife, Elizabeth Phillips, founded the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1781. His nephew, Samuel Phillips, Jr., founded the nearby Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1778. These two schools, longtime rivals in interscholastic sports as Harvard is to Yale, are among the oldest and most prestigious preparatory schools in the United States. - Peter Gay
Peter Gay, a Jewish American historian of the social history of ideas, born as Peter Joachim Fröhlich in Berlin, where he was educated at the Goethe-Gymnasium. After witnessing Kristallnacht in 1938, he fled Nazi Germany in 1939. His family initially booked passage on the SS <i>St. - Charles Hill
Charles Hill is the Diplomat-in-Residence and a lecturer in International Studies at Yale University. A career foreign service officer, Ambassador Hill was a senior adviser to George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and Ronald Reagan, as well as Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations. At Yale, he teaches, along with Paul Kennedy and John Gaddis, the prestigious seminar "Studies in Grand Strategy", a rigorous interdisciplinary study of leadership, … - Kenji Yoshino
Kenji Yoshino is a legal scholar, professor and deputy dean of intellectual life at Yale Law School. His work involves Constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, civil and human rights, as well as law and literature, and Japanese law and society. He is very active in several social and legal issues and is also an author. - Robert Storr
Mr. Storr received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1972 and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. He was curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1990 to 2002, where he organized exhibitions on Elizabeth Murray , Gerhard Richter , Max Beckmann , Tony Smith , and Robert Ryman , in addition to coordinating the Projects series from 1990 to 2000. - Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib (born 1950, Istanbul) is a Turkish professor of political science and philosophy at Yale and director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and a well-known contemporary philosopher. She previously taught in the departments of philosophy at Boston University, SUNY Stony Brook, and the New School for Social Research and the Department of Government at Harvard University. - Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC). - Lyman Beecher
Lyman Beecher (October 12, 1775 - January 10, 1863) was a Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader, and the father of several noted leaders, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Catharine Beecher, and a leader of the Second Great Awakening of the United States. Beecher was born in New Haven, Connecticut to David Beecher, a blacksmith, and Esther Hawley Lyman. - Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman (8 August 1779 - 24 November 1864) was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science (at Yale University), and the first to distill petroleum. - Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway, born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is currently a professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. She is the author of "Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology" (1976), "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science" (1989), "Simians, Cyborgs, … - Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah was born in London (where his Ghanaian father was a law student) but moved as an infant to Ghana, where he grew up. He was educated at Cambridge University in England, where he took both BA and PhD degrees in philosophy. His dissertation explored the foundations of probabilistic semantics; once revised, these arguments were published by Cambridge University Press as Assertion and Conditionals . - Bat Ye'Or
Bat Ye'or is a British writer specializing in the history of non-Muslims in the Middle East, and in particular the history of Christian and Jewish dhimmis living under Islamic governments. She is the author of eight books, including "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" (2005), "Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide" (2001), "The Decline of Eastern Christianity: From Jihad to Dhimmitude" (1996), …
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