- Kaavya Viswanathan
Kaavya Viswanathan (born January 16, 1987) is an Indian-American undergraduate student at Harvard College. She came to public attention when her debut novel, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life", was revealed to have been plagiarized from multiple sources. She was born in Chennai, India, and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, and later in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, United States. - Ben Domenech
Originally from Mississippi, Ben Domenech began his career as a political journalist covering Capitol Hill. In 2002, he was sworn in as the youngest Schedule C political appointee in the Bush Administration, where he served for a year before spending two as the chief speechwriter for a U.S. Senator. Ben has worked as a book editor, ghostwriter, and consultant (though not necessarily in that order). He is the editor in chief of The Critical , a quarterly journal. - Stewart Home
Stewart Home (born 1962) is a writer, subcultural pamphleteer, underground art historian, and activist. His mother, Julia Callan-Thompson, was a model and hostess who was associated with the radical arts scene in Notting Hill Gate. She knew such people as the writer and Situationist Alexander Trocchi. Stewart was put up for adoption soon after his birth. Home is probably best known for his parodistic pulp fictions "Pure Mania", "Red London", "No Pity", … - Jean Schmidt
Jeannette "Jean" Marie Hoffman Schmidt (born November 29, 1951) is a Member of the United States Congress. A Republican, she represents the Second District (map) of Ohio, stretching from eastern Cincinnati to Portsmouth. Schmidt gained national attention two months into her first term for suggesting on the House floor that a fellow Representative, the 38-year Marine Corps veteran Jack Murtha, was a "coward" during a debate about the Iraq War. - Glen Rangwala
Glen Rangwala is a University Lecturer and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University in England. Trained in political theory and international law, he completed a doctorate on political and legal rhetoric in the Arab Middle East. His academic work focuses on Palestinian politics from 1967 to 1977, and the rhetorical relations between the West Bank resident population and the leadership of the Palestinian resistance movement in exile. - Michael Olesker
Michael Olesker (born 1945) was a longtime columnist for the "Baltimore Sun" newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland. He resigned on January 4, 2006, after allegations that his columns contained sentences or passages that he had plagiarized from articles by journalists at the "Sun" and at other newspapers. Many writers and journalists defended Mr. Olesker's practices as commonplace in daily newsrooms. Olesker was known for his liberal viewpoints and, recently, … - William Cowper
William Cowper (c.1666 - March 8, 1709) was an English surgeon and anatomist, famous for his early description of what is now known as the Cowper's gland. Cowper was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, and he was apprenticed to a London surgeon, William Bignall, in March of 1682. He was admitted to the Barber-Surgeon's Company in 1691 and began practicing in London the same year. In 1694, he published his noted work, "Myotomia Reformata, … - Paul Twitchell
Paul Twitchell (d. 1971) was an American spiritual author best known as the creator and guru of the religion he called Eckankar. Twitchell claimed the title of Mahanta (the Living ECK Master) from 1965 until his death in 1971, through several books and lectures. Some critics, such as David C. Lane have charged that Twitchell was one of the greatest plagiarists of the 20th century, … - Nancy Stouffer
Nancy Kathleen Stouffer, also known as N. K. Stouffer, is an American author who wrote children's books in the 1980s. She is best known for accusing J. K. Rowling, author of the "Harry Potter" books, of plagiarism, claiming that Rowling infringed on her trademark to the term "Muggles" and on her copyright to illustrations of a character named "Larry Potter". Rowling filed a lawsuit against Stouffer in the United States to stop the claims, … - Blair Hornstine
Blair Hornstine is a woman from Moorestown Township, New Jersey, who achieved notoriety in 2003 by suing Moorestown High School in an effort to name her as its sole valedictorian. She won the lawsuit, but amid the publicity, it was revealed that she had plagiarized repeatedly in a newspaper column, prompting Harvard University to revoke its offer of admission. - Brad Vice
Brad Vice (born November 14, 1973) is a fiction writer whose short story collection, "The Bear Bryant Funeral Train", won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press. When the Press discovered that one of the stories in the collection was based on a section of the 1934 book "Stars Fell on Alabama" by Carl Carmer, … - John Douglas
John Douglas (July 14, 1721-May 18, 1807) was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop. Douglas was born at Pittenweem, Fife, the son of a shopkeeper, and was educated at Dunbar, East Lothian, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his MA degree in 1743. As chaplain to the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, he was at the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745. He then returned to Balliol as a Snell Exhibitioner; became Vicar of High Ercall, … - Gerald M. Boyd
Gerald Michael Boyd was an American journalist. He was the first African American metropolitan editor and managing editor at "The New York Times" and received a Nieman Fellowship. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he won a full scholarship to the University of Missouri–Columbia, with a guaranteed job to follow at the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" upon graduation in 1973. - Blythe Brown
Blythe Newlon Brown (born c. 1952) is an American writer and illustrator, and a collaborator on bestselling novels with her husband Dan Brown. During a plagiarism trial in England in March 2006, it was revealed that she is one of the primary researchers for the art and history in his novels, such as "The Da Vinci Code". Newlon was born in Palmdale, California. - John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas) is an American writer, actor, and director. He is best known for his motion pictures "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Shortbus". - Dorothy Lewis
Dr. Dorothy Lewis is an American psychiatrist specializing in the study of serial killers. Dr. Lewis has worked with death row victims. She is a psychiatry professor at Yale and New York universities and is the co-author of "Guilty by Reason of Insanity", a book she wrote with neurologist Jonathan Pincus. In 2004, she alleged that portions of British playwright Bryony Lavery's hit Broadway play "Frozen" were plagiarized from Lewis' book. - Stephen B. Oates
Stephen B. Oates (born 1936) is a former professor of history at the University of Massachusetts' Amherst campus, specializing in nineteenth century United States history. Oates has written sixteen books during his career, including biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and John Brown, and an account of Nat Turner's slave rebellion. His "Portrait of America", a compilation of essays about United States history, … - Christopher Jon Bjerknes
Christopher Jon Bjerknes (born 1965) is an amateur historian of science, best known for his claims that Albert Einstein plagiarized some of his most significant contributions to theoretical physics. He has also written and spoken about world, and in particular, Jewish history and politics. He has conducted numerous television and radio interviews on these subjects. - Barclay Littlewood
UK entrepreneur Barclay Littlewood (1978 --) sold essays and other academic work over the internet to students in the UK, USA and Western Europe. After training as a barrister at Gray's Inn, Littlewood set up his operation in 2001. His companies claim to offer work of a quantifiable academic standard - 2:1 and 1st Class level - that is unpublished and scanned using university plagiarism detection software. - Dean Menta
Dean Menta served as the guitarist for the rock band Faith No More from 1995 to 1997. <br /> Menta had been a keyboard tech for the band and was recruited to handle guitar duties after Trey Spruance declined to tour for the album "King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime". He appears in their videos for "Digging The Grave", "Ricochet" and "Evidence." Concurrently, Menta was a member of the band Duh! He was replaced by Jon Hudson. - Asim Kurjak
Dr. Asim Kurjak is a famous Bosnian doctor working at the University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia. Kurjak is one of the most famous gynecologists in ex-Yugoslavia. He has published numerous books both in English and Croatian. Professor Kurjak has 246 citations in MEDLINE. He is the founder and current director of the Ian Donalds school of Ultrasound which has branches internationally. He is considered to be a world authority in Maternal-Fetal medicine. - Masashi Kishimoto
is the Japanese creator and author of the popular manga "Naruto". Nicknamed "Kishi" affectionately by most western fans. Born on November 8, 1974 in the Okayama Prefecture on Honshū Island, Japan, his first work as a manga artist was "Karakuri", which he submitted to Shueisha in 1996. In 1999, "Naruto" was serialized in the weekly "Shonen Jump" manga magazine, winning its monthly "Hop Step Award". - Hadassa Ben-Itto
Hadassa Ben-Itto (born 1926, Poland) is an author and a jurist. She is best known for her scholarly work, "The Lie That Would Not Die", "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (2005), … - Brian Joseph Davis
Brian Joseph Davis (b. 1975-) is a Canadian artist and writer. <br /> His work confronts popular culture, specifically music, and utilizes plagiarism and sampling to create new, conceptual works. Some examples include Minima Moralia, a punk rock 7 inch purported to be by Theodor Adorno and 10 Banned Albums Burned Then Played, where Davis burned ten randomly chosen "banned" albums then sampled whatever sound could be found to create new songs. - Mantak Chia
Mantak Chia is an author, teacher and self-described healer. He is known for his books and teachings on Taoism, qigong and Taoist sexuality. Mantak Chia is a controversial figure in Taoism, alternately praised for public disclosure of long-held secrets and condemned for idiosyncrasies such as giving undue weight to sexual practices and lore. His wife Maneewan Chia is the co-author of many of his books. - William Lauder
William Lauder (died 1771) was a Scottish literary forger, the second son of Dr William Lauder (1652 - 1724), one of the original 21 Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, by his spouse Catherine Brown (d.1698). Dr William Lauder was a son of Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet of Fountainhall. While yet a boy, Lauder suffered amputation of one of his legs, in consequence of having accidentally received a stroke from a golf ball on his knee. - Elizabeth Nickson
Elizabeth Nickson is a Canadian writer and journalist who has been published widely for the past twenty years. Nickson was European bureau chief of Life Magazine in the late 80's, and early 90's. During that time she arranged photo stories and interviewed Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, the Dalai Lama, and dozens of other leaders, movie and pop starts, politicians and royalty, as well as torture victims, political prisoners and criminals. - Eupolis
Eupolis (ca. 446 BC-411 BC) was an Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, that flourished in the time of the Peloponnesian War. Nothing whatever is known of his personal history. With regard to his death, he is said to have been thrown into the sea by Alcibiades, whom he had attacked in one of his plays, but it is more likely that he died fighting for his country. He is ranked by Horace, along with Cratinus and Aristophanes, as the greatest writer of his school. - Richard de Mille
Richard De Mille is an investigative journalist and author, and a former Professor of psychology. He wrote "Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory" (publ. 1976), a book describing the detective work through which he proved that controversial author Carlos Castenada was a charlatan and plagiarist. He edited a second book on he same subject, "The Don Juan Papers" (publ. - Cesare G. de Michelis
Cesare G. De Michelis, scholar and professor of Russian Literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy — "not to be confused with his omonimous cousin, Cesare De Michelis, professor of Italian Literature at the University of Padua, Italy." He is also an authority on the notorious plagiarism known as Protocols of Zion. - Matvei Golovinski
Matvei Vasilyevich Golovinski (alternatively Mathieu; ; 1865-1920) was an operative of Imperial Russian secret service, a writer and journalist. Based on evidence, it is currently believed that it was he who was the author of the infamous and notorious plagiarism, and hoax, the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". - George Shanks
George Shanks. The true first translator--identified in only 1978--of the Protocols of Zion into the English language for publication by The Britons. Victor E. Marsden's name only came to be associated with the British English language translation of the Protocols in pamphlet or book form only one or two years after he died in 1920. Shanks was the son of a well-known English merchant who resided in Moscow. - Colin Holmes
Colin Holmes (b. 1938) is a British scholar and author. He has done much research on the subject of anti-Semitism. He has also done original research on the English language British editions of the notorious plagiarism known as the "Protocols of Zion". His original, archival, research on the subject has been published in 1977 and 1978 in the journal, "Patterns of Prejudice". - Morris Albert
Morris Albert is a Brazilian singer and songwriter, famous for his 1975 hit single "Feelings". Albert began his career singing and playing guitar for a number of bands. In 1973, at a time when many Brazilian artists were using anglicised names in attempts to break into the US market, he released his first album, which featured "Feelings", the song that would eventually bring him worldwide success. - Phrynichus
Phrynichus was a poet of the Old Attic comedy and a contemporary of Aristophanes. His first comedy was exhibited in 429 BC. He composed ten plays, of which the "Solitary" (") was exhibited in 414 along with the "Birds" of Aristophanes and gained the third prize. The "Muses" carried off the second prize in 405, Aristophanes being first with the "Frogs", in which he accuses Phrynichus of employing vulgar tricks to raise a laugh, … - Natalie de Bogory
Natalie de Bogory, (also deBogory), is primarily known for her notorious work in translating from the Russian language into the English language, and subsequently distributing and participating in having published the first or second American edition in the United State of the infamous Plagiarism known as the Protocols of Zion. There were two different editions printed in the United States in 1920. - Dănuţ Marcu
Dănuţ Marcu is a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest in 1981. He claims to have authored 383 scientific papers. Marcu is frequently accused of plagiarism. The editors of "Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Informatica" decided to ban Marcu from their journal for this reason, as did the editors of "4OR: A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research" and the editors of "Geombinatorics". - Kim Byong-Joon
Kim Byong-joon was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Human Resources Development of South Korea. He resigned on August 2, 2006 for a Plagiarism scandal 13 days after he was appointed to be Deputy Prime Minister. - René Diekstra
René Diekstra is a Dutch psychologist. Apart from being a scientist, he is also well known as an author of popular psychology books. He is also the developer of many psychological programs for policy and well-being and writes for the Staatscourant and a couple of magazines. From 1987 to 1989 he was appointed manager of the programme on Psychosocial and Behavioral aspects of Health and Development of the World Health Organisation in Geneva. - James A. Mackay
James Alexander Mackay is a Scottish historian and philatelist, twice accused of wholesale plagiarism. He was born in Inverness in 1936. His parents moved to Glasgow, where he went to school and university. Interested in stamps and the postal system from an early age, he wrote two acclaimed histories of the Scottish posts; one limited to St. Kilda and, in 1978, his "History of Scottish Postmarks, 1693-1978", the definitive work on the subject.
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