- Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. The offspring of a prominent political family, Gore is an outspoken critic of the American political establishment. Gore wrote the "The City and the Pillar" in 1948, which created controversy as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality.
- Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan , a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001), and The Anarchist in the Library (Basic Books, 2004). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including The Chronicle of Higher Education , The New York Times Magazine , MSNBC.COM , Salon.com , openDemocracy.net , and The Nation .
- Robert Brown
Robert Brown (December 21, 1773-June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. Brown was born in Montrose, Scotland on 21 December 1773. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a classmate of Thomas Dick. He joined the army as a surgeon in 1795.
- Michael Gorman
Michael Gorman (b. 1941), grew up in London, England and gained an interest in libraries in part through his experiences at the Hendon library run by Eileen Colwell. He attended Ealing Technical College (now Thames Valley University) in London from 1964-1966.
- Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley b. Phoebe Ann Mosey was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and luck led to a starring role in "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar. Using a .22 caliber rifle at 90 feet (27 m), Oakley could split a playing card edge-on and put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground.
- John Mills
John Mills (1806 - 1889), entrepreneur and amateur astronomer, was a manufacturer of Linen and twine in the city of Dundee. As a young man and a member of the Original session Kirk, he had been greatly influenced by the Reverend Thomas Dick, philosopher and author of a number of books on Astronomy and Christian Philosophy. Rev. Dick attempted to harmonize science and religion, and believed that the greatness of God could best be appreciated by the study of astronomy, …
- Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey (December 10, 1851-December 26, 1931) was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for library classification. Dewey was born Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey in Adams Center, New York in the United States. He attended Amherst College, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He graduated in 1874 with a bachelor's degree and received a master's degree from Amherst in 1877.
- Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky (b. June 8, 1947 in Ames, Iowa) is a contemporary American author of detective fiction. Paretsky was raised in Kansas. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, writing on The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War, …
- Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951, in Port Huron, Michigan) is an African-American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was sixteen. She received her BA in journalism in 1986 from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work is characterized by strong female protagonists. Her first book, "Mama", was self-promoted. She achieved national attention in 1992 with her third novel, "Waiting to Exhale", …
- David Lister
David Lister (born 1930, Grimsby, United Kingdom) is an eminent British Origami Historian. He was a founder member of the British Origami Society, writing the constitution and was its president from 1998 - 2002. Lister was educated at a state school in Grimsby, before going to university at Downing College at the University of Cambridge where he gained a degree in law. After this Lister's professional career was spent as a solicitor in Grimsby, but he is now retired.
- Henry Spencer
Henry Spencer is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote 'regex', a widely-used Library for regular expressions, and co-wrote C News. He also co-authored "The Ten Commandments for C Programmers". Whilst working at the University of Toronto he ran the first active Usenet site outside the US, starting in 1981. His records from that period were eventually acquired by Google to provide an archive of Usenet in the 1980s.
- Alvin Schwartz
Alvin Schwartz (born April 25 1927, in Brooklyn, New York; died March 14, 1992) was the author of books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and wordplay, many of which were intended for young readers. He is often confused with another Alvin Schwartz, who wrote Superman and Batman daily comics strips and a novel titled 'The Blowtop'. Schwartz graduated from Colby College and received a graduate degree from Northwestern University.
- Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal, Assurbanipal or Sardanapal, in Akkadian "Aššur-bāni-apli", (b. 685 BCE – d. 627 BCE) (reigned 669 – ca. 631 BC or 627 BC), the son of Esarhaddon and Naqi'a-Zakutu, was the last great king of ancient Assyria. He is famous as one of the few kings in antiquity who could himself read and write. Assyrian sculpture reached its apogee under his rule (Northern palace and south-western palace at Nineveh, battle of Ulai).
- Jon Udell
Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and groupware evangelist. He has been an independent consultant, was BYTE Magazine's editor-at-large, executive editor, and Web maven, and once upon a time was a developer at Lotus. In June 2002 he joined InfoWorld as lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief. He also writes a monthly column for the O'Reilly Network.
- Brian Paul
Brian Paul is a computer programmer who wrote and continues to maintain the source code for the Open Source Mesa graphics library. Paul began programming initial source code in August 1993. Mesa is a free software/open source graphics library that provides a generic OpenGL implementation for rendering three-dimensional graphics on multiple platforms. Though Mesa is not an officially licensed OpenGL implementation, the structure, …
- Kate Sharpley
Kate Sharpley (1895-1978) was a Deptford-born anarchist and anti-World War I activist. She is chiefly known today through the work of the library named in her honour.
- Apollodorus
Apollodorus (born ca. 180 BC) was a Greek language grammarian, a writer most famous for his verse "Chronicle" of Greek history from the fall of Troy in the 12th century BC to 144 BC. He was a pupil of the scholar Aristarchus of Samothrace and Panaetius the Stoic. He left Alexandria around 146 BC for Pergamum and eventually settled in Athens. Apollodorus' "Chronicle" gave dates by referring to the archons of Athens. Most archons only held office for one year, …
- John Avery
John Keith Avery was the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police from 1984 to 1991. He succeeded Cecil Roy Abbott to the position and was himself succeeded by Anthony Raymond Lauer. John Keith Avery was the 16th leader of the organisation and the 10th person known under the title of Commissioner of Police. John Keith Avery was one of the longest serving and more popular Commissioners of Police to serve the State of New South Wales.
- Stef Penney
Stef Penney (born 1969 in Edinburgh) is a film-maker and writer. She grew up in the Scottish capital and turned to film-making after a degree in Philosophy and Theology from Bristol University. She made three short films before studying Film and TV at Bournemouth College of Art, and on graduation was selected for the Carlton Television New Writers Scheme. She has also written and directed two short films, …
- Henry Reynolds
Henry Reynolds (born March 1, 1938) is an eminent Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlement of Australia and indigenous Australians.
- Elmer L. Andersen
Elmer Lee Andersen (June 17, 1909 - November 15, 2004) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and the 30th governor of Minnesota, serving a single term from January 2, 1961 to March 25, 1963 as a Republican. At the time, the governor's term was only two years. Born in 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, he lost his bid for re-election in the closest statewide race in Minnesota history. The election was held on November 6, 1962 but the results were not known until March 21, …
- Michael Horowitz
Michael Horowitz is an American author and archivist in San Francisco. He is the husband of Cynthia Palmer and the father of Winona Ryder. A former close associate of Timothy Leary, he is responsible With his wife for the creation of the world's largest library of drug literature, the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library. Horowitz and actor Leonardo di Caprio are planning a biopic about Leary to be written by Craig Lucas.
- Chris Cobb
Chris Cobb is Pro Vice-Chancellor at Roehampton University, London, England. His responsibilities include management of the Estate, Information Technology, Library & Learning Services, HR, Business Process Review and Commercial Services. He was previously at London School of Economics where he was Director of Business Systems and Services. He has expertise in developing business processes and information systems, particularly aimed at improving the student experience.
- Margaret Hedstrom
Margaret Hedstrom is an information science researcher and a pioneer of research into the area of longevity of digital materials including electronic records. Since 1995 she has been a member of the faculty of the University of Michigan’s School of Information and faculty coordinator of the Archives and Records Management specialization within the Master of Science in Information program. She holds a BA from Grinnell College, and MS in Library Science and MA in History, …
- Sean McMullen
Sean Christopher McMullen (born 1948 in Victoria) is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author. He has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University (1974) and a postgraduate degree in library and information science. He was a professional musician in the 1970s, concentrating on singing and guitar playing. His first novel was originally published in Australia as two separate books, "Voices In The Light" (1994) and "Mirrorsun Rising" (1995).
- Apollonius Of Rhodes
Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius, early 3rd century BC - after 246 BC, was an epic poet, scholar, and director of the Library of Alexandria. He is best known for his epic poem the "Argonautica", which told the mythological story of Jason and the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece, and which is one of the chief works in the history of epic poetry.
- Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Kathleen de la Peña McCook is Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida. She has also been on the faculties of the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University and of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her MA at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, …
- Michael Buckland
Michael Buckland is an Emeritus Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and Co-Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. Michael Buckland was born and grew up in England. He entered library work as a trainee at the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford after studying History at that University. After taking his professional qualification in librarianship from the University of Sheffield, …
- Johannes Trithemius
Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 - 13 December 1516) was born Johann Heidenberg. The name by which he is more commonly known is derived from his native town of Trittenheim on the Mosel in Germany. He studied at the University of Heidelberg. Travelling from university back to his home town in 1482, he was surprised by a snowstorm and took refuge in the Benedictine abbey of Sponheim near Bad Kreuznach. He decided to stay and was elected abbot in 1483, …
- Samuel Robinson
Samuel Robinson (1794-1884) was an English scholar and industrialist who founded the Dukinfield Village Library in 1833. Robinson was a Unitarian, and is often called the "foremost promoter of education in the district" by the people of Dukinfield.
- James Edward Smith
Sir James Edward Smith (December 2, 1759 - March 17, 1828) was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society. Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world. During the early 1780s he enrolled in the medical course at the University of Edinburgh where he studied chemistry under Prof Joseph Black and natural history under Prof John Walker.
- Adem
Adem Ilhan is an English musician from South London, who releases music under the name Adem (pronounced "AR"-dem). His music is sometimes described as being part of the nu-folk movement. He is also the bassist in the post-rock band Fridge, with Kieran Hebden, who is better known as the electronica artist Four Tet.
- Mellody Hobson
Mellody Hobson President, Ariel Capital Management, LLC Chairman, Ariel Mutual Funds Board of Trustees Mellody is responsible for firmwide management and strategic planning, overseeing all operations of Ariel’s business outside of research and portfolio management. Last fall, she was elected Chairman of Ariel Mutual Funds Board of Trustees. Mellody has become an important and nationally recognized voice on financial literacy and investor education.
- Linda O. Johnston
Linda O. Johnston is an American author of mystery and romance novels. Johnston’s first published fiction appeared in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for Best First Mystery Short Story of the Year. Since then, she has had several more short stories published as well as numerous romance novels. Johnston is a practicing attorney who splits her time between legal work and writing fiction.
- Lydia Cabrera
Lydia Cabrera which was the first major anthropological study of Afro-Cuban traditions. Upon her death, she donated her research collection to the library of the University of Miami. A section in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's book, Tres Tigres Tristes, has a section written under Lydia Cabrera's name, in a comical rendition of her literary voice
- Adam Curle
Adam Curle was a British academic and Quaker peace activist. His full name was Charles Thomas William Curle; he was known as "Adam" after the the town where he was born, L’Isle-Adam, north of Paris. After serving in the British army during World War II, Curle became an academic, working as a lecturer in social psychology at the University of Oxford and then, from 1952, as professor of education and psychology at the then University College of the South-West of England, …
- Ceolfrid
Saint Ceolfrid or Ceolfrith (c.640 to 717) was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and saint. He was leader of the monastic community at Wearmouth and Jarrow after Benedict Biscop, and mentor to Bede. Ceolfrid, according to Bede, accompanied Benedict on at least one of his journeys to Rome. Sharing his master's love of books, Ceolfrid continued to develop the library at Wearmouth, which amounted to 300 volumes-the largest in Anglo-Saxon England.
- Lee Killough
Lee Killough is an American programmer who has contributed to the development of source ports for the computer game "Doom". He was part of the Boom team and is the author of Marine's Best Friend. Lee Killough notably added many performance optimizations to the Doom engine. The single most important efficiency improvement was replacing the linear search used for looking up game data resources with a hash table algorithm.
- Isaac Vossius
The Dutch scholar and manuscript collector Isaak Vossius, sometimes anglicised Isaac Voss (Leiden 1618-London February 21, 1689), was the son of the better-known humanist Gerhard Johann Vossius. Isaak formed what was accounted the best private library in the world (Massil 2003). He had a contemporary reputation for eccentricity, refusing the sacrament on his deathbed, it was reported, …
- Thomas Bartholin
Thomas Bartholin (Thomas Bartolinus was a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian. He is best known for his work in the discovery of the lymphatic system in humans and for his advancements of the theory of refrigeration anaesthesia, being the first to describe it scientifically. Thomas Bartholin came from a family that has became famous for its pioneering scientists, twelve of whom became professors at the University of Copenhagen.