- Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys, FRS (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King James II. His influence was important in the early development of the British Civil Service. - Tam Dalyell
Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (born August 9, 1932), known as Tam Dalyell, is a Scottish politician and was a Labour member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005. Dalyell was born in England but raised in his mother's family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian; his father (Percy) Gordon Loch, C.I.E., a scion of the family of Loch of Drylaw, was an Empire civil servant (Political Agent) and through his mother he is a baronet, … - James Robertson
James Robertson, a British-born political and economic thinker and activist, became an independent writer and speaker in 1974 after an early career as a British civil servant. He studied Greats at Balliol College, Oxford from 1946 to 1950 where he played cricket and rugby football, and ran cross-country for the University. After serving on British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s staff during his "Wind of Change" tour of Africa in 1960, … - Upamanyu Chatterjee
Upamanyu Chatterjee, is a Bengali Indian author. He was born in 1959, at Patna, Bihar, is one of a new generation of Indo-English writers. He graduated from St. Xavier's School, Delhi, and St. Stephen's College, of the University of Delhi. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983. In 1990, he lived as Writer in Residence, at the University of Kent, UK. In 1998, he was appointed Director (Languages) in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, … - Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the "fin de siècle" in international and French poetry. - Bill Sutch
William Ball Sutch (27 June 1907 - 28 September 1975) was a New Zealand writer and civil servant. He gained public recognition when he was accused of trying to pass government secrets to the Soviet Union. He was acquitted. Sutch was born in Southport, England, but his family moved to New Zealand when he was only eight months old. He grew up in the Methodist faith, which was to have a strong influence on him throughout his life. - Elizabeth Wong
Elizabeth Chi Lien "Libby" Wong née Chien (Traditional Chinese: 黃錢其濂) was a civil servant and politician from Hong Kong. Born in Shanghai, China, Wong holds New Zealand citizenship, and is currently residing in Sydney, Australia. She is now a popular fiction writer. Wong served in the Hong Kong Government as the Director of Social Welfare from March 1987 to February 1990, and Secretary for Health and Welfare from February 1990 to 1994. - Ernest Gowers
Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers GCB GBE (2 June1880–16 April 1966) was a British civil servant, now best known for work on style guides for writing the English language. He was was born in London on the younger of the two sons of Sir William Richard Gowers (1845–1915), physician. He was educated at Rugby School and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he gained a a first class in the classical tripos in 1902. - John Cleland
John Cleland ("baptised" September 24, 1709 - January 23, 1789) was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of "Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure". John Cleland was the oldest son of William Cleland (1673/4 - 1741) and Lucy Cleland. He was born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but grew up in London, where his father was first an officer in the British Army and then a civil servant. - Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis, historical novelist, was born in Birmingham, England in 1949. Having taken a degree in English literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall), she became a civil servant. She left the civil service after 13 years, and when a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 "Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize", she decided to become a writer, writing at first romantic serials for the UK women's magazine "Woman's Realm". - N. Vittal
N Vittal (b. 31st January, 1938, belonging to the Indian Administrative Service 1960 batch, is one of the eminent public servants of India, and he has helped people in important positions in the Government of India including the Central Vigilance Commissioner. - Joseph Norman Lockyer
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (May 17, 1836 - August 16, 1920) was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen he is credited with discovering the gas helium. - Constantine P. Cavafy
Constantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes (Greek Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης) (April 29, 1863 - April 29, 1933) was a major Greek poet who worked as a journalist and civil servant. He has been called a skeptic and a neo-pagan. In his poetry he examines critically some aspects of Christianity, patriotism, and homosexuality, … - C. H. Sisson
Charles Hubert Sisson CH (1914 - 2003) was a British writer, best known as a poet and translator. He was also a novelist and critic. He worked as a civil servant, and wrote a standard text "The Spirit of British Administration" (1959) arising from his work and a comparison with other European methods. He was born and brought up in Bristol, and was a student at the University of Bristol where he read English and Philosophy. - Herman Merivale
Herman Merivale CB (8 November, 1806 - 8 February, 1874) was an English civil servant and author. He was the elder brother of Charles Merivale, and father of the poet Herman Charles Merivale. He was born at Dawlish, Devon and educated at Harrow School. In 1823 he entered Oriel College, Oxford. In 1825 he became a scholar of Trinity College and also won the Ireland scholarship, and three years later he was elected fellow of Balliol College. - Philippa Pearce
Ann Philippa Pearce OBE (b. Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, 23 January 1920; d. Durham, 21 December 2006) was an English children's author. Born in 1920, the youngest of four children, she was brought up in the Mill House in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Starting school late at the age of eight because of illness, she went to the Perse School for Girls, Cambridge, and went on to Girton College, Cambridge, … - Séamus Ó Grianna
Séamus Ó Grianna [ʃ̪ʲeː(ə)mʷʊs̪ˠ oː ɟɼiː(ə)n̪ˠə] or known locally as Jimí Fheilimí was an Irish writer, under the pen-name "Máire" (1889-1969). Born into a family of poets and storytellers in Ranafast, County Donegal, Ireland. He attended local primary school until the age of 14. He spent several years at home and as a seasonal worker in Scotland. - Derk Jan Eppink
Derk Jan Eppink (born November 7, 1958 in Steenderen, Gelderland) is a Dutch journalist and former cabinet secretary for European Commissioners Bolkestein and Kallas. Eppink worked for the Dutch newspaper "NRC Handelsblad" before moving to Belgium in 1995, where he obtained work with "De Standaard" newspaper. In 1999, he received position in the cabinet of European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein. - Danielle Pletka
Danielle Pletka Print Mail Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Her research areas include the Middle East, South Asia , terrorism, and weapons proliferation. While at AEI, Ms. Pletka has developed a conference series on rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq and a project on democracy in the Arab world. - Satyendranath Tagore
Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service. He was an author, song composer, linguist and made significant contribution towards the emancipation of women in Indian society during the British Raj. - Qudrat Ullah Shahab
Qudrat Ullah Shahab (Urdu: قدرت اللہ شہاب) was an eminent Urdu writer and civil servant from Pakistan. - James Humphreys
James Humphreys is a writer and political campaigner who was born 1967 in Cambridge, UK. Author of psychological thrillers "Sleeping Partner" and "Riptide". Civil servant in the Department of the Environment (1992-1997) and Prime Minister's Office (1998-2003). Author of "Negotiating in the European Union" and various articles. Currently visiting Professor of Government at City University and director of political campaign consultancy Woodnewton Associates. - Goh Sin Tub
Augustine Goh Sin Tub (born 1927, died November 16 2004) was a well-known pioneer of Singaporean literature and a teacher, civil servant, banker, builder, social worker and former chairman of the St. Joseph's Institution's Board of Governors. Winner of several national short story writing competitions, Goh has more than a dozen books to his name spanning the 1980s to the early 2000s, including a collection of short stories in Malay. - Romesh Dutt
Romesh Chunder Dutt, CIE (Calcutta August 13, 1848 — Baroda November 30, 1909), or R. C. Dutt, was a Bengali writer, civil servant, economic historian, and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata. He was president of the Indian National Congress in 1899. - Arthur Grimble
Sir Arthur Francis Grimble (Hong Kong, 11 June 1888 - London, 13 December 1956) was a British Civil Servant and writer. After joining the Colonial Office, he became a cadet administrative officer in the Gilberts (1914) and became Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony in 1926. Specialist of the myths and oral traditions of Kiribati people, he learned the Gilbertese language. He wrote "A Pattern of Islands" (London, John Murray 1952, … - N. S. Madhavan
N. S. Madhavan is a writer of fiction in Malayalam. He started writing when he was a student. 'Sisu' a short story which won the first prize in a contest organised by a Malayalam weekly magazine, Mathrubhumi in 1971 was his first literary attempt of note. Since then he has come out with four collections of short stories, a novel and two plays. His collections of short fiction are: <nowiki>"Higuita"</nowiki>, <nowiki>"Thiruth"</nowiki>, … - Gheorghe Asachi
Gheorghe Asachi or Asaki (March 1, 1788-November 12, 1869) was a Moldavian-born Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation. Asachi was a respected journalist and political figure, as well as active in technical fields such as civil engineering and pedagogy, and, for long, … - H. Russell Wakefield
Herbert Russell Wakefield (1888 - 1964) was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories. These were published in several collections during the course of his lengthy writing career: "They Return at Evening" (1928), "Old Man's Beard: Fifteen Disturbing Tales" (1929), "Imagine a Man in a Box" (1931), "Ghost Stories" (1932), "A Ghostly Company" (1935), … - Gustave Lanctot
Gustave Lanctot, OC, FRSC, also spelled Gustave Lanctôt, (5 July 1883 - 2 February 1975) was a Canadian historian and archivist. Born in Saint-Constant, Quebec, he studied law at Université de Montréal and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1907. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied political science and history from 1909 to 1911 while at Oxford University. He was also a member of the Oxford Canadian Ice Hockey Team. - Bertram Thomas
Bertram Thomas (June 13, 1892 - December 27, 1950), was an English civil servant who is the first documented Westerner to cross the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). He was born in Easton in Gordano near Bristol and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After working for the Civil Service, he served in Belgium during World War I before being posted to the Somerset Light Infantry in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) between 1916 and 1918. - Arthur Fforde
Sir Arthur Frederic Brownlow fforde, GBE, (23 August 1900-1985) was a solicitor, civil servant, headmaster, writer and businessman. The surname fforde is spelled with two lowercase f's. Arthur fforde was educated at Rugby School (SH 1914-1919, Head of School) and Trinity College, Oxford University. As a solicitor, fforde entered a partnership with law firm Linklaters & Paines (Now known as Linklaters & Alliance) and also had helped establish the Unit Trust. - Mateiu Caragiale
Mateiu Ion Caragiale (also credited as Matei; Mateiŭ is an antiquated version; March 25, 1885-January 17, 1936) was a Romanian poet and prose writer, best known for his novel "Craii de Curtea-Veche", which portrays the milieu of boyar descendants before and after World War I. In addition to his literary contributions, he was a heraldist and graphic artist. - Gurusaday Dutt
Gurusaday Dutt, Esq. (1882-1941) was an ICS officer, folklorist, writer and founder of the Bratachari Movement in Bengal, India and the Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association for women’s work. His Folk Art collection is housed in a Museum in Calcutta that bears his name. - James M. Lindsay
James M. Lindsay (born November 29, 1959, Winchester, Massachusetts), is a leading authority on the American foreign policymaking process and the domestic politics of American foreign policy. He is currently the director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and is the inaugural Tom Slick Chair for International Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. - Maurice Gerard Moynihan
Maurice Gerard Moynihan, (December, 1902-August 21, 1999, was a senior Irish civil servant, co-drafter of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland, Secretary of the Government of the Irish Free State in 1937, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland in 1960, and Knight Commander of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great in 1959. - Wayland Young
Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet (born August 2, 1923) is a British writer and SDP and Labour Party politician. - Bhim Singh Dahiya
Bhim Singh Dahiya (Hindi: भीमसिंह दहिया) was a historian and civil servant belonging to the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). He was born at village Sehri, District Sonipat in Haryana, India around March 19, 1940 (though official records put his birth date as 29th of September, 1940). - Julius Eduard Hitzig
Julius Eduard Hitzig (Berlin, 26 March 1780 - Berlin, 26 November 1849) (born "Isaac Elias Itzig") was a German author and civil servant. Born into the wealthy and influential Jewish Itzig family, he was between 1799 and 1806 a Prussian civil servant, became Criminal Counsel at the Berlin Supreme Court in 1815 and its director in 1825. In 1808 he established a publishing house and later a bookstore. Hitzig was much involved in the Berlin literary life of his period, … - Ion Minulescu
Ion Minulescu was a Romanian avant-garde poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, literary critic, and playwright. Often publishing his works under the pseudonyms I. M. Nirvan and Koh-i-Noor (the latter being derived from the famous diamond), he journeyed to Paris, where he was heavily influenced by the growing Symbolist movement and Parisian Bohemianism. He had a major influence on modern literature in Romania, … - Françoise Chandernagor
Françoise Chandernagor is a French writer, born June 15, 1945. She is the daughter of André Chandernagor. She is a former student of the National School of Administration - École nationale d'administration, and she became a member of the Council of State in 1969. In 1991, Françoise Chandernagor produced the report of the Council of State on judicial public rights. She left the administration and abandoned her career as a civil servant in 1993, …
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