- Ramsin Canon
Ramsin Canon is a Chicago-based writer. According to his biography on Gapers Block, he is Assyrian and lives on the Near West Side of Chicago. - James Cañón
James Cañón is a Colombian-American novelist. Born and raised in Ibagué, Colombia, Cañón has lived in New York since the mid 1990s. His first novel, "Tales from the Town of Widows" (ISBN: 0061140384), was originally written in English, his second language, and published in New York by Harper Collins in January of 2007. - Johann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel (baptized September 1, 1653 - March 3, 1706) was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque. - Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. She is currently the second ranked player in the world. At the end of 2006, she was the world's highest-paid female athlete. Sharapova has won two Grand Slam singles titles. She is the reigning U.S. Open champion, having defeated Justine Henin in the final of the 2006 U.S. Open. Two years earlier, she defeated Serena Williams in the final at Wimbledon. - Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialog, and richly detailed African American characters; among the best known are her novels "The Bluest Eye", "Song of Solomon", and "Beloved", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. - John Marshall
John Marshall (or Marshal was a Bishop of Llandaff in South Wales. John was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford and a canon of Windsor. On 6 September 1478, he was consecrated Bishop of Llandaff. He is well remembered for having repaired the damage done to the cathedral during Owain Glyndŵr's reign. He also erected a new bishop's throne and a reredos, parts of which survives. - Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard or Petrus Lombardus was a scholastic theologian and bishop and author of "Four Books of Sentences", which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he is also known as Magister Sententiarum. Peter Lombard was born in Lumellogno near Novara, Lombardy, to a poor family on the dole. His date of birth was likely between 1095 and 1100. Nothing is known for certain in regard to his origins, his social background, … - Robert Wright
Robert Wright (1560-1643) was an English Bishop. Wright was born of humble parentage in St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1560, and probably attended the refounded free school there (now St Albans School), where preference was given to poor scholars of the borough. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1574 at the age of 14, was elected to a scholarship in 1575, and graduated as a B.A. in 1580, becoming a fellow the next year. He proceeded to obtain an M.A. in 1584, … - John Cameron
John Cameron was a 15th century Scottish cleric, bishop of Glasgow, and Keeper of the Privy Seal. A licentiate in decrees (law), and provost of Lincluden, he became an official of the bishopric of St Andrews, and a canon of Glasgow, as well as secretary to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Wigtown, who secured for him the living of Rector of Cambuslang. He transferred into the service of King James I as a secretary in July 1424, and became Keeper of the Privy Seal. - James Kennedy
James Kennedy was a 15th century Bishop of Dunkeld and Bishop of St. Andrews, who participated in the Council of Florence and was the last man to govern the diocese of St. Andrews purely as bishop. Originally from the chief Gaelic kindred of Carrick, be became the principle figure in the government of the minority of King James II of Scotland, as well as founder of St Salvator's College, St Andrew. - Edward King
Edward King (1829 - 8 March, 1910) was an English bishop. King was the second son of the Reverend Walker King, Archdeacon of Rochester and rector of Stone, Kent. King graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1854, and four years later became chaplain and lecturer at Cuddesdon Theological College (now Ripon College (Cuddesdon). He was principal at Cuddesdon from 1863 to 1873, … - Melito Of Sardis
Saint Melito of Sardis (died c.180) was the bishop of Sardis, near Smyrna in Asia Minor, and a great authority: Jerome, speaking of the Old Testament canon established by Melito, quotes Tertullian to the effect that he was esteemed a prophet by many of the faithful. His feast is celebrated on April 1. Aside from a homily "Concerning the Passover" in the Bodmer Papyri, only fragments of his works survive, Melito was a prolific early Christian writer, … - Gore Verbinski
Gregor Verbinski (b. March 16, 1964), is an American film director and writer. - Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Scott Reed (February 22, 1938) is an American poet, essayist and novelist. Reed is one of the best-known African American writers of his generation, and along wth Amiri Baraka is one of the most controversial (and politically left-wing). His work consistently satirizes the American right-wing (and often the left as well), highlighting domestic political and cultural oppression. While some have found Reed's work a vivid, comic depiction of non-white America, … - Thomas Taylor
Rev. Thomas Taylor (26 February 1858 - 5 July 1938]) was a Priest, historian and scholar of Celtic culture. Taylor was born in Thurvaston, Derbyshire, England. He attended King Edward VI School, Macclesfield becoming head boy in 1874. He matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1877, and graduated in the Mathematics Tripos in 1881, receiving his MA in 1886. Taylor took Holy Orders on going down from Cambridge, … - Naim Ateek
The Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek is a Palestinian Christian who lives and serves in Israel. He went to school to the Nazareth Baptist school where he also taught after graduation. He was the first to articulate a Palestinian theology of liberation in his book; "Justice, and only Justice, a Palestinian Theology of Liberation", published by Orbis in 1989. - Christopher Hill
The Right Reverend Christopher John Hill (born 1945), is Lord Bishop of Guildford (from 2004) and Clerk of the Closet in the Ecclesiastical Household of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 2005. Hill was educated at King's College London. He served his first curacy at Tividale in the diocese of Lichfield from 1969 to 1973; he was then curate of Codsall from 1973 to 1974. - Andrew Young
Andrew John Young was a Scottish poet and writer on botanical subjects, and a Presbyterian minister who later became an Anglican clergyman. He was born in Elgin, and educated in Edinburgh, where he went to school, then Edinburgh University and New College for theological training. He was ordained in the United Free Church of Scotland in 1912. Later, in 1920, he moved to Hove in Sussex. He joined the Church of England and became a parish priest as vicar of Stonegate, … - Walter Hilton
Walter Hilton (d. 24 March1396) was an English Augustinian mystic. Little is known of his life. He was the head of a house of Augustinian Canons at Thurgarton Priory, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire. He was closely in touch with the Carthusians, though not a member of that order. His spiritual writings were widely influential during the fifteenth century in England. The most famous of these is the "Scala Perfectionis", or "Ladder of Perfection", in two books, … - Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid who wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, Ovid was generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet. His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, … - Henry Scott Holland
Henry Scott Holland (27 January 1847-17 March 1918) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He was born at Ledbury and educated at Eton where he was a pupil of the influential Master William Johnson Cory, and University of Oxford where he took a first class degree in Greats. He had the Oxford degrees of DD, MA, and Honorary DLitt. After graduation, he was elected as a Student (fellow) of Christ Church, … - Thomas Hill
Thomas Hill (September 11,1829 - June 30, 1908) was an important American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the California landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire. - Canon John Collins
John Collins (1905-1982) was an Anglican clergyman who was active in several radical political movements in the United Kingdom. Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent and at the University of Cambridge, he served as a chaplain in the Royal Air Force during World War II and was radicalised by the experience. In 1946 he founded the organization Christian Action to work for reconciliation with Germany. He was appointed as a Canon to St Paul's Cathedral, London, in 1948, … - John Pearson
John Pearson (born May 10, 1930) is a writer best associated with James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Pearson was Fleming's assistant at the London "Sunday Times" and would go on to write the first biography of Ian Fleming, 1966's "The Life of Ian Fleming". Pearson would also become the third official James Bond author of the adult-Bond series, writing in 1973 "James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007", … - Agostino Vallini
Agostino Cardinal Vallini JUD (born 17 April, 1940) is an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and Cardinal Deacon. Born in Poli, Italy, Lazio, he studied for the priesthood in Naples and at the Pontifical Lateran University, where he obtained doctorates in canon and civil law. He was ordained to the priesthood on 19 July 1964 in Naples. He taught canon law, including at the Pontifical Lateran University, and was later appointed Rector of the Major Archdiocesan Seminary in Naples. - Wace
Wace (c. 1115 - c. 1183) was an Anglo-Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the "Roman de Rou" that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of Bayeux. His extant works include: *"Roman de Brut" - a verse history of Britain *"Roman de Rou" - a verse history of the Dukes of Normandy *Other works, also in verse, include lives of Saint Margaret and Saint Nicholas. - Caius
Caius, Presbyter of Rome (also known as "Gaius") was a Christian author who lived and wrote towards the beginning of the 3rd century A.D.. Only fragments of his works are known, which are given in the collection entitled "The Ante-Nicene Fathers." However, the Muratorian fragment, an early attempt to establish the canon of the New Testament, is often attributed to Caius and is included in that collection. - Marilyn McCord Adams
The Reverend Professor Marilyn McCord Adams (born1943) is an American philosopher of religion, a theologian and a writer on medieval philosophy. Since 1 January 2004 she has been the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. Before this she was Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale University and also taught at UCLA for a number of years. - John Colet
John Colet (January 1467 - September 10, 1519) was an English churchman and educational pioneer. - David Adam
David Adam was born in Alnwick, Northumberland. When he left school at 15, he went to work underground in the coal mines for three years before training for the ministry at Kelham Theological College. He was vicar of Danby in North Yorkshire for over twenty years, where he began of writing prayers in the Celtic pattern, and he later became vicar of Holy Island, Lindisfarne, where he ministered to thousands of pilgrims and other visitors. - Archibald
Archibald (d. 1298) was a 13th century Scottish prelate. His Flemish name could indicate a connection with the "de Douglas" or "de Moravia" families either by kinship or geography, but there is no other direct evidence of this. His origins are not known, but he was almost certainly the Archibald who was Dean of Moray in the years before 1253. In that year he was consecrated as the successor of Simon de Gunby and Radulf of Lincoln as Bishop of Moray. - Silas
Silas or Silvanus (flourished 1st century) was a leading member of the first Christian community in Jerusalem and later became a companion of Paul in his first missionary journey to Antioch, and also in Paul's second missionary journey to Galatia. Silas is listed as a co-author or co-sender of Paul's First and Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, a part of the canon of the New Testament. - Thomas Stewart
Thomas Stewart was an illegitimate son of King Robert II of Scotland. Thomas was one of dozens of Robert's children, and, as with his other bastards, the father earnestly sought a career for his son. In 1380, Avignon Pope Clement VII provided Thomas with the Archdeaconry of the Bishopric of St. Andrews, as well as the canonry (and prebend) of Stobo in the Bishopric of Glasgow. - Stephen Sykes
The Right Reverend Professor Stephen Whitefield Sykes (b. 1 August 1939) retired as Principal of St John's College, Durham at the end of August 2006. He was formerly the Church of England Bishop of Ely, and has held professorial chairs in divinity at both Durham and Cambridge universities. He is also one of the pre-eminent Anglican ecclesiologists of his generation. Sykes studied at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1961. - Jane Shaw
The Revd Canon Dr Jane Alison Shaw (born 1965) is a British priest and scholar. Shaw read Modern History at Regent's Park College, Oxford, (BA 1985, MA 1991), Theology at Harvard University (MDiv 1988), and completed a PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley (1994). She has also received honorary doctorates from the Graduate Theological Foundation and Episcopal Divinity School. She was a Fellow of Regent's Park from 1994 to 2001 (Dean 1998-2001). - Richard Barnes
Richard Barnes (1532-August 241587) was an Anglican priest who served as a bishop in the Church of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He was born in Bold which was then a village in south Lancashire. He attended Farnworth grammar school and then was admitted to Brasenose College, Oxford. Here he was elected a fellow in 1552, and received his BA in 1553. This was followed by a BD and then a MA in 1557. Finally he became a DD in 1579. - Christopher Herbert
Christopher William Herbert is the present Bishop of St Albans. He was born in Lydney in the Forest of Dean. His father helped run the family road haulage business, but was also very proud of his roots as a foundryman in a local iron works. Bishop Christopher was educated at Monmouth School and went on to read Biblical Studies and Philosophy at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He studied for the ordained ministry at Wells Theological College, … - Alexander Gordon
Alexander Gordon (d. 1518) was a late medieval Scottish churchman. He was member of the kindred of the Earl of Huntly, being cousin to the reigning earl. He was the third son of James Gordon, laird of Haddo. From at least 1504, probably earlier, until 1516, he was Precentor (chanter) of the diocese of Moray. After the death of William Elphinstone (d. October 24, 1514), the canons of Aberdeen prepared to elect a successor. - Kevin Patrick Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, film director and the founder of View Askew Productions. He has also enjoyed some success as a comic book writer and actor. Smith's films are often set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, do feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon, the View Askewniverse. - John Bowker
John Westerdale Bowker (born July 30, 1935) is a professor of religious studies who has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. He is an Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, a consultant for UNESCO, as well as a BBC broadcaster and author and editor of several books.
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