- Russell Brain 1st Baron Brain
Dr Walter Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain (October 23 1895-December 29 1966) was a British neurologist. He was principal author of the standard work of neurology, "Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System", and longtime editor of the neurological medical journal titled "Brain". He is also eponymised with "Brain's reflex", a reflex exhibited by humans when assuming the quadripedian position.
- William Brain
William Henry Brain (21 July 1870 - 20 November 1934) was an English cricketer and footballer: a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Gloucestershire, Oxford University and MCC in the early 1890s; as well as keeping goal for Headington United (later Oxford United). He is notable as the first man to perform the "wicket-keeper's hat-trick" (three dismissals off consecutive deliveries) and the "only" man to perform a hat-trick of stumpings.
- Dennis Brain
Dennis Brain was a British virtuoso horn player and was largely responsible for popularizing the horn as a solo classical instrument with the post-war British public. With Herbert von Karajan and the Philharmonia Orchestra he made what many still consider the definitive recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's horn concerti.
- Dave Brain
David Leonard (Dave) Brain (January 24, 1879 - May 25, 1959) was an infielder/outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox (1901), St. Louis Cardinals (1903-1905), Pittsburgh Pirates (1905), Boston Beaneaters & Doves (1906-1907), Cincinnati Reds (1908) and New York Giants (1908). Brain batted and threw right handed. He was born in Hereford, England.
- Brian Brain
Brian Maurice Brain (born 13 September 1940 in Worcester) is a former English cricketer whose career with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire stretched over more than two decades. He was capped by Worcestershire in 1966, but was never awarded a cap by Gloucestershire. After turning in some good performances in the Worcestershire second team, Brain was selected to make his first-class debut against Oxford University in late June 1959.
- David Brain
David Hayden Brain (born October 4, 1964, Harare) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played in 9 Tests and 23 ODIs from 1992 to 1995.
- Louis Brain
Louis Karl Brain (born May 9, 1982 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England) is an English-Australian football (soccer) player who plays as an attacking midfielder. He played for Adelaide United in the newly formed Hyundai A-League's inaugural season, but was delisted in the close season. He has represented Australia at both U-17 and U-20 levels.
- Benjamin Brain
Benjamin (“Big Ben”) Brain outweighed most men and even most professional fighters in the England of the 1780s. A coal miner by trade, Brain was a valiant fighter whose career spanned twenty years. Brain was born in the port city of Bristol, in southwestern England. His first recorded fight took place in 1774, when he defeated Jack Clayton, the champion of Kingswood. In 1786, when Brain battled John Boone (“The Fighting Grenadier”), …
- Jimmy Brain
James "Jimmy" Brain was an English football player. Born in Bristol, Brain started his career playing in Wales, having an unsuccessful trial at Cardiff City, before gaining a regular place at Ton Pentre. In 1923, he moved to Arsenal, and in his eight years with the Gunners became one of the club's most successful goalscorers. After a year in the reserve side, Brain started his Arsenal first-team career with a goal on his debut, …
- George Brain
George W Brain was the longest serving Member of the Legislative Assembly for Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia, serving from 1943 until his retirement in 1968. Amongst his many achievements, George W Brain was recognized as one of the primary forces in establishing the Free Library Movement in New South Wales.
- Jonny Brain
Jonny Brain (born February 11, 1983 in Carlisle, England), is an English goalkeeper currently playing for League Two side Macclesfield Town. Brain's previous clubs include Carlisle United, Newcastle United and Port Vale. After playing just nine league games for his new club, Brain suffered a broken leg on Saturday, 25 November 2006 in a game against Stockport County and is not expected to play again until the 2007-2008 season.
- Aubrey Brain
Aubrey Brain (1893-1955) was a British horn player, father of Dennis Brain. The name of Aubrey Brain has been largely eclipsed by that of his more famous son, which is unfortunate since Aubrey Brain probably had a greater impact on the world of British horn playing through his work as Principal Horn at the BBC Symphony Orchestra and as a teacher.
- Charles Kimberlin Brain
Charles Kimberlin Brain (C. K. 'Bob' Brain), born in Zimbabwe in 1931, is an eminent South African paleontologist who has studied and taught African cave taphonomy for more than fifty years.
- Matias Brain
Matias ("Mati") Brain Peña is an athlete from Chile, who competes in triathlon. Nicknamed "Mati", Brain competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took forty-first place with a total time of 1:53:44.90.
- Jeff Hawkins
Jeff Hawkins (born June 1, 1957 in Huntington, New York) is the founder of Palm Computing (where he invented the Palm Pilot) and Handspring (where he invented the Treo). He has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time and has founded the Redwood Neuroscience Institute and published "On Intelligence" describing his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain.
- Michael Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12 1939) is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. In 1961, Gazzaniga graduated from Dartmouth College. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research.
- Betty Edwards
Dr. Betty Edwards taught and did research at the California State University, Long Beach until she retired in the late '90s. While there, she founded the Center for the Educational Applications of Brain Hemisphere Research. Her work has been cited in scholarly journals, and she is also an Art teacher and the author of "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" (originally published in 1979).
- Andy Clark
Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington. Previously, he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and the University of Sussex in England. Professor Clark’s papers and books deal with the philosophy of mind and he is considered a leading scientist in mind extension.
- Eric Jensen
Eric Jensen is the founder and President of Jensen Learning Corporation Inc. (formerly known as Turning Point for Education) in San Diego, California - an international professional training organization which aims to synthesize brain research information with implications and applications for education and learning. A former teacher at all levels, from elementary to university, …
- William H. Calvin
William H. Calvin, Ph.D., (born 30 April 1939) is a Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a well-known popularizer of neuroscience and evolutionary biology, including the hybrid of these two fields, neural Darwinism. He relates abrupt climate change to human evolution and speculates about the future. In his book "How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now", …
- Candace Pert
Candace Beebe Pert (b. June 26, 1946) is a neuroscientist who discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular bonding site for endorphins in the brain. In 1974 she earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the laboratory of Solomon Snyder. Previously, she had completed her undergraduate studies, in biology, cum laude, in 1970, from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr.
- Harvey Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 - October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest neurosurgeons of the 20th century.
- David Marr
David Marr (January 19, 1945 - November 17, 1980) was a British neuroscientist. Born in Essex, and educated at Rugby School, he completed his B.A. in mathematics at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge, staying on to do a Ph.D. in neuroscience under Professor G.F. Brindley. His doctoral dissertation was submitted in 1969 and described his model of the function of the cerebellum based mainly on anatomical and physiological data garnered from a book by J.C. Eccles.
- David Marr
David Marr (January 19, 1945 - November 17, 1980) was a British psychologist. Born in Essex, and educated at Rugby School, he completed his B.A. in mathematics at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge, staying on to do a Ph.D. in neuroscience under Professor G.F. Brindley. His doctoral dissertation was submitted in 1969 and described his model of the function of the cerebellum based mainly on anatomical and physiological data garnered from a book by J.C. Eccles.
- Kim Peek
Kim Peek (born November 11, 1951), is a savant with a photographic or eidetic memory and developmental disabilities, possibly resulting from congenital brain abnormalities. He was the inspiration for the character of Raymond Babbit, played by Dustin Hoffman, in the movie "Rain Man". Kim Peek was born with macrocephaly, damage to the cerebellum, and, perhaps most important, agenesis of the corpus callosum, …
- Thomas Willis
Thomas Willis was an English doctor who played an important part in the history of the science of anatomy, neurology and psychiatry. He was a co-founder of the Royal Society (1662). Born in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, Willis worked as a physician in Westminster, London, and from 1660 until his death was Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford. He was a pioneer in research into the anatomy of the brain, nervous system and muscles.
- Semir Zeki
Semir Zeki is Professor of Neurobiology at the University College, London. He joined the College's teaching staff in 1969 and has been a professor of neurobiology since 1981. He graduated from University College, London in 1964 and earned his Ph.D. in anatomy there in 1967. Zeki specializes in studying the organization of the primate visual brain and, more recently, in studying the relationship between brain activity and artistic appreciation and creativity.
- Richard Fortus
Richard Fortus (born November 17, 1966) is a professional guitarist who has shown his capabilities as a member of the re-formed The Psychedelic Furs, which carried on from his project work in Love Spit Love. Originally from Saint Louis, Fortus cut his teeth throughout the Midwest with his band, The Eyes. The four-piece alternative band independently released "Freedom in a Cage", which was produced by David Probst.
- Arvid Carlsson
Arvid Carlsson (b. January 25, 1923) is a Swedish scientist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. Carlsson won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 along with co-recipients Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard. Carlsson was born in Uppsala, Sweden, son of Gottfrid Carlsson, historian and later professor of history at the Lund University, where he began his medical education in 1941.
- Miguel Nicolelis
Miguel Angelo Laporta Nicolelis, MD, PhD, (São Paulo, March 7, 1961) is a Brazilian physician and scientist, best known for his pioneering work in "reading monkey thought". He and his colleagues implanted electrode arrays into a monkey's brain that were able to detect the monkey's motor intent and thus able to control reaching and grasping movements performed by a robotic arm.
- Patrick Flanagan
G. Patrick Flanagan (b. 1944) is an American inventor. He claims he "holds advanced degrees in nanotechnology, chemistry, bio-sciences and medicine", including an M.D. However, his medical degree originates from Medicina Alternativa, a Sri Lankan organisation which is generally unrecognized as a "bona fide" academic institution and has been called a degree mill. As a child Flanagan was reportedly plagued by a recurring dream in which he was an adult, …
- Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is a primatologist most famous for her work with two bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha, investigating their apparent use of "Great Ape language" using lexigrams and computer-based keyboards. Until recently based at Georgia State University's Language Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, she has now moved to the Great Ape Trust of Des Moines, Iowa.
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
Jennifer Michael Hecht (b. November 23, 1965) is a poet, historian, philosopher, and author. Hecht's scholarly articles and poetry have been published in many journals and magazines. She has also written book reviews for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Scholar and other publications. She has written several columns for The New York Times online "Times Select."
- Camillo Golgi
Camillo Golgi (July 7, 1843 - January 21, 1926) was an Italian physician and scientist. Golgi was born in Corteno now Corteno Golgi, province of Brescia, Italy. His father was a physician and district medical officer. Golgi studied medicine at University of Pavia, where he worked in the experimental pathology laboratory under Giulio Bizzozero, who elucidated the properties of bone marrow. He graduated in 1865. He spent much of his career studying the central nervous system.
- Karl Lashley
Karl S. Lashley, born in Davis, West Virginia, was an American psychologist and behaviorist well-remembered for his influential contributions to the study of learning and memory. His failure to find a single biological locus of memory (or "engram", as he called it) suggested to him that memories were not localized to one part of the brain, but were widely distributed throughout the cortex. While working toward his Ph.D. in genetics at Johns Hopkins University, …
- Franz Joseph Gall
Franz Joseph Gall (March 9, 1758 - August 22, 1828) was a neuroanatomist and physiologist who was a pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain. Gall was born in Grand Duchy of Baden, in the village of Tiefenbronn to a wealthy Roman Catholic wool merchant, the Gall's had been the leading family in the area for over a century.
- Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees (born November 27, 1967, United Kingdom -) is a professor of cognitive neurology at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Institute of Neurology, University College London. After medical training in Cambridge, Oxford and London, he completed his PhD under the supervision of Chris Frith at University College London's Functional Imaging Laboratory in 1999.
- David Rosenbaum
David E. Rosenbaum (March 1, 1942 - January 8, 2006) was an American journalist. After receiving first a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, Rosenbaum worked for a number of publications including the "St. Petersburg Times" and the "Congressional Quarterly". He worked for the "New York Times" for thirty-five years beginning in 1968.
- Martha Farah
Martha Farah has been trying to understand the mechanisms of vision, memory, and executive function in the human brain. In recent years she has shifted her research focus to a new set of issues that lie at the interface between cognitive neuroscience and "the real world." She has enriched the knowledge base in this domain with her book "Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about Normal Vision" (MIT Press, Bradford Books, 1990).
- John Allman
John Allman is a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California and a well recognized expert on primates, cognition and brain evolution. In 2000, Allman's laboratory reported indentification of a class of neurons - large spindle-shaped cells - unique to humans and our closest relatives, the great apes. The spindle neurons were first located in layer V of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and later found in the frontoinsular cortex.