- Max Weber
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (April 21, 1864 - June 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration. He began his career at the University of Berlin, and later worked at Freiburg University, University of Heidelberg, University of Vienna and University of Munich.
- Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao (born December 21, 1942) is currently the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin in the fourth generation leadership of the People's Republic of China.
- Bill Maher
William Maher, Jr., (pronounced:) (born January 20 1956) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He hosted the late-night television talk show "Politically Incorrect" on Comedy Central and ABC, and is currently the star of "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO. On June 1, 2006, he also began hosting an internet-exclusive talk show on Amazon.com entitled "Amazon Fishbowl". Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary.
- Joseph Tainter
Joseph A. Tainter is a U.S. anthropologist and historian. He studied anthropology at the University of California and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975. He is Project Leader of Cultural Heritage Research, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has taught anthropology at the University of New Mexico, and is the author or editor of many articles and monographs.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer -- courtier, diplomat, and poet -- is arguably one of the most important figures in English literature. His philosophically profound, yet at times bawdy, body of work represents true ...
- Zhao Ziyang
Zhao Ziyang (October 17 1919-January 17 2005) was a politician in the People's Republic of China. He was Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1987, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1987 to 1989. As a high-ranking government official, he was a leading reformer who implemented market reforms that greatly increased production and sought measures to streamline the bloated bureaucracy and fight corruption.
- William A. Niskanen
William A. Niskanen is chairman of the Cato Institute, a position he has held since 1985 following service on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. He was formerly professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley and UCLA and was an assistant director of the Office of Management and Budget. Niskanen's most noted work is his Bureaucracy and Representative Government published in 1971, …
- Dwight Waldo
Dwight Waldo (1913 - 27 October 2000) was an American political scientist and is perhaps the defining figure in modern public administration. Waldo's career was often directed against a scientific/technical portrayal of bureaucracy and government that now suggests the term public management as opposed to public administration. Recognized the world over for his contributions to the theory of bureaucratic government, …
- Patrick Dunleavy
Patrick Dunleavy is a professor from the London School of Economics (LSE) in the fields of public policy and government. Dunleavy writes books or written reports in a range of subjects including British Politics, E-Government, the Labour ID cards Proposal and Public Policy and Public Policy Research. Currently he is a professor for the LSE and an LSE MPA programme director.
- Peter Blau
Peter Michael Blau (February 7, 1918-March 12, 2002) was a sociologist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he emigrated to the United States in 1939. He received his PhD at Columbia University in 1952 before moving on to teach at the University of Chicago from 1953 to 1970. In 1970 he returned to Columbia, where he continued to teach until 1988. His sociological specialty was in organizational and social structures, in particular bureaucracy.
- John Cooksey
John Charles Cooksey (born August 20, 1941) is an ophthalmologist from Monroe who was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana from 1997 to 2003. Cooksey was born in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. He graduated from La Salle High School (La Salle Parish) in Olla, where his father operated a sawmill. He attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and received his M.D. degree in 1966.
- Tom Sharpe
Tom Sharpe (born March 30, 1928) is an English satirical author, born in London and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After National Service he moved to South Africa in 1951, doing social work and teaching in Natal, until deported in 1961. His work in South Africa inspired the novels "Riotous Assembly" and "Indecent Exposure". From 1963 until 1972 he was a History lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, …
- Kathy Ferguson
Kathy E. Ferguson is a political science professor, feminist, and anarchist, often associated with post-anarchism. She is perhaps best known for her 1984 work "The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy", in which she criticises bureaucracy from the angle of anarchist feminism, strongly supplemented with the ideas of Michel Foucault. Ferguson currently teaches political science at the University of Hawai`i.
- Aziz Nesin
Aziz Nesin (December 20, 1915-July 6, 1995) was a popular Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books. His birth name was Mehmet Nusret. After serving as a career officer for several years, he became the editor of a series of satirical periodicals with a socialist slant. He was jailed several times for his political views. Nesin provided a strong indictment of the oppression and brutalization of the common man.
- Pyotr Stolypin
Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers - the Prime Minister of Russia from 1906 to 1911. He became known for his heavy-handed attempts to battle revolutionary groups and for instituting agrarian reforms. Stolypin hoped, through his reforms to stem peasant/serf unrest by creating a class of smallholding landowners.
- Harvey Leibenstein
Harvey Leibenstein was an American economist. He introduced the term X-efficiency. The X-efficiency describes the costs of monopolies when they lack competitors. Leibenstein could demonstrate the diffuculties with determine the "market price" of a monopolist’s product which John Maurice Clark used to evaluate the qualitity of monopolies. The Term x-efficiency is also used in the theory of bureaucracy.
- Carl Isett
Carl Hawkins Isett (born March 7, 1957) is a Certified Public Accountant from Lubbock who has been a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1997. Isett was initially elected in House District 84 in 1996 to succeed Robert L. Duncan of Lubbock, who was elected to the Texas State Senate. Isett defeated the Democrat Don Richards in what has become a strongly Republican legislative district.
- Edward Pilgrim
Edward Alexander Pilgrim was a British homeowner and suicide whose death was hastened by bureaucracy. He was a working class individual with a slight education who worked as a milkman before marrying his wife, Margaret, in 1931. In 1949, he moved to Marlborough Road in Romford and worked as a tool maker for ten pound sterling a week.
- Strive Masiyiwa
Strive Masiyiwa (aka "Bill Gates of Africa") is a Zimbabwean businessman and cellphone pioneer, founding Econet Wireless. Strive Masiyiwa was born in what was Southern Rhodesia in 1961. He went to High school in Scotland; he gained a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Cum Laude) at the University of Wales, returning to newly independent Zimbabwe in 1984, where he took a job with the state-owned telephone company.
- A. O. Neville
Auber Octavius Neville (October 20, 1875-April 18, 1954) was a bureaucrat in Western Australia. Born in Northumberland, England, Neville immigrated to Australia as a child. In 1897 he went from Victoria to Western Australia and joined the civil service there, where he quickly rose through the ranks. In 1915 Neville was appointed the second Chief Protector of Aborigines.
- Anders Lange
Anders Lange (September 5, 1904 - October 18, 1974) was the founder of what later became the Norwegian Progress party. Lange was a charismatic public speaker and very much a political rebel known for his loud objections against high taxes, state-regulations and public bureaucracy. In 1973 he founded his own party with the long but telling name Anders Lange's Party for strong reductions of taxes, charges and government intervention.
- Guy Bleus
Guy Bleus is a Belgian artist. The central theme of all of Guy Bleus' artistic work is “Artministration”, being a critical analysis of "administration" and its degeneration into “bureaucracy”. At an administrative art performance in 1979, he was registered with an administrative number, issued by the Benelux Trademark Office, transforming his name of birth “Guy Bleus” into an official brand name under the registration number “42.292”.
- Bodil Malmsten
Bodil Malmsten is a Swedish poet and novelist. She was born close to Östersund in Jämtland, Sweden and grew up at her grandparents. The English translation of her novel, "Priset på vatten i Finistère" ("The Price of Water in Finistère", translated by Frank Perry), was selected as a "Book of the Week" on BBC Radio 4. In the novel, having decided to pack up and leave her country of birth, …
- Wizard Of New Zealand
The Wizard of New Zealand, also known as the Archwizard of Canterbury, is well known in New Zealand as a public speaker, performer, and eccentric. The Wizard (his legally recognised name) has also been recognised as a "living work of art" by the National Gallery of Victoria and the Robert MacDougall Art Gallery, and as "Cosmologer" of the University of Melbourne. He is also the founder of the Imperial British Conservative Party, and Alf's Imperial Army.
- Hans T. Blokland
Hans T. Blokland (1960). Dutch social and political theorist. Author of "Freedom and Culture in Western Society" (1997) and "Modernization and its political consequences" (2006).His work was awarded, among others, the Pieter de la Court-prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of the Arts and Sciences. Central subjects of his work are the meanings of the concepts freedom, autonomy, …
- Arkady Raikin
Arkady Isaakovich Raikin was a Soviet stand up comedian of Jewish descent who led the school of Soviet and Russian humorists for about half a century. Raikin was born in Riga (today's Latvia), then part of Russian Empire. He graduated from the Leningrad Theatrical Technicum in 1935 and worked in both state theatres and variety shows.
- Mikhail Koltsov
Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov, born Mikhail Efimovich Friedland (Михаил Ефимович Фридлянд), was a Soviet journalist. He was the son of a Jewish shoemaker and the brother of Boris Efimov. Koltsov participated in the Russian Revolution of 1917, became a member of the Bolshevik party in 1918 and took part in the civil war.
- Vyacheslav Rybakov
Vyacheslav Rybakov(born January 1954 in Leningrad) is a well known Russian science fiction author and an orientalist, interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China. He received a 1987 Governmental Award of the RSFSR for writing the screenplay "Dead Man's Letters".
- Tayyibe Gülek
Tayyibe Gülek is a Turkish economist and former politician. She was born in 1968 as the first child and the daughter of the popular Turkish politician Kasım Gülek. She grew up in a family house, where politics was the main topic. After finishing the primary education, she was sent to the United States. Tayyibe Gülek graduated from the Trinity School in New York City, New York. In 1987, she attended School of Economics at Harvard University in Cambridge, …
- Guido Buffarini Guidi
Guido Buffarini Guidi (August 17 1895 - July 10 1945) was an Italian politician notable for his involvement in the Fascist regime during the Second World War. Buffarini Guidi was born in Pisa. When Italy entered World War I, he volunteered in an artillery regiment. He was promoted to rank of Captain in 1917, and remained on active duty in the Italian Army until 1923 - in the meantime, he earned his bachelor's degree in law from the University of Pisa in March 1920.
- Fernando Mezzasoma
Fernando Mezzasoma (August 3 1907-April 28 1945) was an Italian fascist journalist and political figure.
- Olavi Mäenpää
Olavi Mäenpää is a Finnish politician and chairman of Suomen Kansan Sinivalkoiset, a far-right political party. He has been a member of the city council of Turku, his home city, since 1992. He works as a private detective and an animal welfare supervisor. In the municipal election of 2004, Mäenpää received a total of 2,208 votes, more than any other candidate in Turku.
- Gregory II of Naples
Gregory II was the Duke of Naples from 766 to his death in 794. He was the eldest son of Stephen II, who augmented his power against his Byzantine suzerains and then abdicated to a monastery, leaving Naples to hsi son. Stephen had unified the civil, military, and religious authority in the hands of the duke and this unified governing structure he handed down to his son, who gratefully maintained it. Gregory was succeeded by another descendant of Stephen, Theophylactus II.
- Bâkî
Bâkî was born to a poor family in Istanbul, his father being a muezzin at the Fatih Mosque. Originally, his family apprenticed him to a harness-maker, but he would often skip work to attend classes at a nearby "medrese", or Islamic school. Because of this, his family eventually allowed him to formally attend school. Bâkî was a good student, and he attended the lectures of many of the famous lecturers of the time.
- Alvin Bellow
- Jon Edwards
- Jane Shepherd
- Myles McLane
- Mr Bird
- Patty Hite