- John Smith
John Smith QC (13 September 1938 - 12 May 1994) was a Scottish politician who served as leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his sudden death from a heart attack on 12 May 1994. - John Wilson
John Wilson (18 May 1785 - 3 April 1854) was a Scottish writer, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine". He was born at Paisley, the son of a wealthy gauze manufacturer who died when John was eleven years old. He was the fourth child, but the eldest son, and he had nine brothers and sisters. He was only twelve when he entered the University of Glasgow, … - Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva (b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India), is a physicist, ecofeminist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in New Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.<br /> Shiva participated in the nonviolent Chipko movement during the 1970s. The movement, whose main participants were women, adopted the tactic of hugging trees to prevent their felling. - Menzies Campbell
Sir Walter Menzies Campbell, CBE, QC (born 22 May 1941), commonly known as Ming Campbell, is a British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North East Fife and was elected leader of the Liberal Democrat party on 2 March 2006. "Menzies" is pronounced "MING-iss", the "z" being a poor rendition of the yogh originally included in the name; hence "Ming". - Thomas Smith
Sir Thomas (Broun) Smith, QC, FBA, FRSE (3 December 1915 - 15 October 1988) was a lawyer, soldier and academic. Smith was the son of John Smith, DL, JP, and Agnes Smith. He married in 1940, Ann Dorothea Tindall. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, (MA 1937, Boulter exhibitioner, Eldon Scholar). He was called to the English Bar in 1938 and admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland in 1947. - Wayne Lapierre
Wayne LaPierre (born November 8, 1948) is a prominent gun rights advocate and author in the United States. Since 1991, he has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Rifle Association, the largest American gun rights organization. He has authored several books on weaponry topics, ranging from shooting practices to terrorism to gun safety. He also makes appearances promoting the NRA at gun shows and political events. - Appian
Appian ("c." 95 – "c." 165), of Alexandria was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was born ca. 95 in Alexandria. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in the province of Egypt, he repaired to Rome ca. 120, where he practiced as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors. In 147 at the earliest he was appointed to the office of procurator, … - Maude Barlow
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizen's advocacy organization as well as the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world's water. She is also a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization. - Des Browne
Desmond Henry Browne (born 22 March 1952), commonly known as Des Browne, is a Scottish Labour Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock and Loudoun and the Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Scotland in the Cabinet. - Susan Estrich
To learn the answers to questions like these, one need only look through some of the prolific writing of Susan Estrich -- politician, professor, lawyer and writer. - Professor Robert Black
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 Advocate in Scotland since 1972, was in practice at the Bar and became a QC in 1987. - Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. (October 2, 1937 - March 29, 2005) was a defense attorney best known for his role in the legal defense for O.J. Simpson during his highly publicized murder trial. Cochran also represented Sean "Diddy" Combs (during his trial on gun and bribery charges), Michael Jackson, actor Todd Bridges, football player Jim Brown and rappers Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg as well as Reginald Oliver Denny, … - David Drake
David Drake, (1963/1964-), playwright, actor, author. Best-known as the author and original performer of "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me", for which he received a "Village Voice" Obie Award. Born as David Drakula, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, he later began going by David Drake. He has contributed articles to the "Advocate", "Theater-Week", and "Details". One of the longest one-actor plays in Off Broadway history, … - Donald Findlay
Donald Findlay QC, (born March 17 1951 in Cowdenbeath, Fife) is a senior Scottish advocate, twice former Rector of the University of St Andrews and a former vice-chairman of Rangers Football Club. He is well known for a distinctive style of dress and manner, particularly the smoking of a pipe, as well as his staunch support for Unionism in Scotland and the Conservative Party. - John Gilmore
John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU project. As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Support, he accumulated sufficient wealth to take an early retirement and pursue other interests. He is a frequent contributor to free software, and worked on several GNU projects, … - John Clarke
John Clarke (8 October, 1609- 20 April, 1676) was a medical doctor, Baptist minister, co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island and author of its charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in the Americas. Clarke was born at Westhorpe, Suffolk County, England on October 8, 1609, to Thomas and Rose (Kerrich) Clarke. He was one of eight children, six of whom came to America and settled in New England. - James Otis
James Otis, Jr. (February 5, 1725 - May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that led to the American Revolution. The phrase "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" is usually attributed to him. He was born at Sterling Park to James Otis, Sr. and Mary Allyne, the second of thirteen children and the first to survive infancy. His younger sister Mercy Otis Warren, his brother Joseph Otis, … - Mary Scott
Mary Scott, poet, was born in Somerset. Scott's father was a linen draper. Not much else is known about her life before the publication of "The Female Advocate", dedicated to her friend Anne Steele, in 1774. Scott credits John Duncombe's "The Feminead" (1754), a poem in praise of the accomplishments of women writers, as the inspiration for her own poem. The poem consists of 522 lines of rhyming couplets; it supplements Duncombe's, … - David Edward
Professor Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward, KCMG, QC, FRSE, (b 1934) is a Scottish lawyer and academic and sat as a Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities between 1992 and 2004. Sir David read Classics at Oxford and Law at Edinburgh University. After National Service in the Royal Navy he was called to the Scottish Bar in 1962 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1974. - John Preston
John Preston (b. December 11, 1945, Medfield, Massachusetts - d. April 28 1994, Portland, Maine) was an author of gay erotica and an editor of gay nonfiction anthologies. - Roseanna Cunningham
Roseanna Cunningham (born July 27 1951, Glasgow) is a Scottish politician, and member for the Scottish National Party for Perth in the Scottish Parliament. Raised in Australia, she returned to Scotland and was a member of the left-wing 79 Group inside the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the early 1980s, but avoided expulsion as she was not a member of its steering committee (future SNP Convenor Alex Salmond by contrast who served on the 79 Group committee was expelled, … - Rick Rollens
Rick Rollens (b. 1950) is a lobbyist, political consultant and internationally known advocate for autism research. Prior to his son Russell's autism diagnosis, Rollens was the secretary of the California State Senate. Rollens resides in Granite Bay, California, a community beset by what some have described as an autism cluster, from where he runs a consulting business. - Gordon Jackson
Gordon Jackson (born 5 August, 1948) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and was the MSP for Glasgow Govan from 1999 to 2007. He studied law at the University of St Andrews. Since 1990 he has been a QC, and despite his commitments to the parliament, he continued to be a practising lawyer, for which he drew a lot of criticism. - Ted Hayes
Theodore "Ted" Hayes, Jr. is an American advocate for the homeless and an activist for the Republican Party. Hayes' activism began in January 1985, when Justiceville, a community of homeless people in Los Angeles, was founded. It survived for five months, until authorities moved to shut down the shantytown. When they did, Hayes entered 35-day fast in protest. - Abu Salem
Abu Salem (born 1968) is an underworld don originally from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, India. He has been accused in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case and killing of India's music baron Gulshan Kumar 1997. He has unsuccessfully attempted to kill Bollywood film directors Rajiv Rai and Rakesh Roshan. At one time was a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim and later fell off when he seemed too-big-for-his-boots. - George MacKenzie
Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Knt., (1636-1691), known as Bluidy Mackenzie, was a Scottish lawyer, Lord Advocate, and legal writer. - Mitch Snyder
Mitch Snyder (1946 - July 3 or 4, 1990) was an American advocate for the homeless. He was the subject of a 1986 biopic "Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story". Snyder worked in advertising on Madison Avenue in New York City in the early 1960s. At some point he left his wife and children and started hitchhiking west. Police found him in a stolen vehicle, and he was arrested and convicted of grand theft auto. Snyder served two years in federal prison, 1970-1972, … - Mattie Stepanek
Matthew "Mattie" Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek was an American poet and advocate. At the age of 3, Stepanek started to write poetry to cope with the death of his older brother. His first five books are: "Heartsongs", "Journey Through Heartsongs", "Hope Through Heartsongs", "Celebrate Through Heartsongs" and "Loving Through Heartsongs". All five works made the New York Times' Best Seller list. - Michael Ancram
The Mt. Hon. Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, PC QC, MP, (born 7 July 1945), known as Michael (Earl of) Ancram, is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician. He is Member of Parliament for Devizes, and a former member of the Shadow Cabinet. - Diane Levin
Diane Levin is an American author, educator, and advocate known for her work in media literacy and media affects on children. Levin is a professor of education at Wheelock College in Boston. She teaches courses on children's play, violence prevention and media literacy. Together with her colleagues: Gail Dines and Petra Hesse, Levin teaches an annual summer seminar at Wheelock college. - Mick Dodson
New Australian of the Year Professor Mick Dodson has called for a national conversation about changing the date of Australia Day. I think he has a good argument. Australia didn't become Australia until 1st January 1901, the day the states joined in federation. - Abigail Garner
Abigail Garner (born 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American author and advocate for children with same sex parents. Abigail Garner is the creator of FamiliesLikeMine.com, a website for LGBT families. Her writing has appeared in publications throughout the country, including a commentary in "Newsweek" that earned her the Excellence in Journalism Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. - Thomas Craig
Sir Thomas Craig, Knt., (c. 1538 - February 26, 1608) was a Scottish jurist and poet. It is probable that he was the eldest son of William Craig of Craigfintray, or Craigston, in Aberdeenshire, but beyond the fact that he was in some way related to the Craigfintray family nothing regarding his birth is known with certainty. He was educated at the University of St Andrews, where he took the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1555. - Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee, gay American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer. Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kuai, Truk, Guam and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and The Iowa Writers Workshop. His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Best American Erotica 2007, A Fictional History of the US (With Huge Chunks Missing), Men on Men 2000, and His 3, his personal essays in From Boys To Men, Loss Within Loss, Boys Like Us, The M Word, … - Norm Kent
Norman Elliott (Norm) Kent. (born 18 October, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is a South Florida criminal defense attorney, publisher and radio talk show host. The founder and publisher of The Express, in 1999, Florida's largest gay and lesbian weekly newspaper, he was previously the morning drive talk show host for WFTL-1400 AM from 1989-1997. After surviving a bout with lymphoma, he had another stint at the new WFTL-850 AM from 2002-2005 as a daily talk show host, … - Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement, as well as being the youngest President in United States history, at age 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier. - Richard Keen
Richard Keen QC is a Scottish lawyer. Mr Keen graduated LLB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh where he was a Beckman scholar. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1980 and was appointed a QC in 1993. He is treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates. - John Beckett
John Beckett, QC, is a Scottish lawyer and former Solicitor General for Scotland. Beckett was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1993. He was on the defence team for Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi during the Lockerbie trial at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands. He has served as an Advocate Depute and a Senior Advocate Depute since 2003. He took Silk in 2005. He was appointed Principal Advocate Depute from 1 January 2006. - Heinrich Schliemann
Heinrich Schliemann (January 6, 1822 - December 26, 1890) was a German-Russian treasure hunter, an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer, and an important excavator of Mycenaean sites, such as Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns. - Conrad Aiken
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5 1889 - August 17 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, and an autobiography. When he was 11, his physician father killed his mother, then himself because of family financial problems. According to some accounts, Aiken witnessed the killings; other sources say he found the bodies. He was raised by his great-great-aunt in Massachusetts.
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