- Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics. - C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism and fiction. He is best known today for his series "The Chronicles of Narnia". Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of "The Lord of the Rings". - John Wesley
John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican minister and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had three rises: the first at Oxford University with the founding of the so-called "Holy Club"; the second while Wesley was parish priest in Savannah, Georgia; and the third in London after Wesley's return to England. The movement took form from its third rise in the early 1740s with Wesley, along with others, … - William Morris
William Morris was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain. His family was wealthy, and he went to school at Marlborough College, but left in 1851 after a student rebellion there. - W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden IPA: ;, who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form, and content. The central themes of his poetry are: personal love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, … - J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon) from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English language and literature from 1945 to 1959. He was a devout Roman Catholic. - Michael Howard
Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC (born 29 November 1922) is a retired British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Howard was educated at Wellington College and Christ Church, Oxford (with service in World War II in between). - Robert Burton
Robert Burton was an English scholar and vicar at Oxford University, best known for writing "The Anatomy of Melancholy". - Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." His previous book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. - Duns Scotus
Blessed John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 - November 8, 1308) was a theologian, philosopher, and logician. Some argue that during his tenure at Oxford, the systematic examination of what differentiates theology from philosophy and science began in earnest. He was one of the most influential theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages, nicknamed "Doctor Subtilis" for his penetrating manner of thought. - N. T. Wright
Nicholas Thomas "Tom" Wright (b. 1 December 1948) is the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and a leading British New Testament scholar. His academic work has always been published under the name N.T. Wright. He is generally perceived as coming from a moderately evangelical perspective. He is associated with the so-called Third Quest for the Historical Jesus and the New Perspective on Paul, … - Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark (born December 23 1944) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in PPE, and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, … - Joseph Nye
Dr. Joseph Nye Jr.is the Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Previously, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, winning two Distinguished Service medals, and the chair of the National Intelligence Council. Dr. Nye joined the Harvard faculty in 1964, serving as director of the Center for International Affairs and associate dean of Arts and Sciences. - Susan Blackmore
Susan Jane Blackmore (born July 29, 1951) is an English freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal, perhaps best known for her book "The Meme Machine". - Eric Foner
Starting October 1, 2001 , Eric Foner will moderate a month-long open discussion on teaching about Reconstruction on the HISTORY MATTERS Web site provided below. From the HISTORY MATTERS home page select "Coming in October: Eric Foner on Reconstruction." To subscribe, choose "Join or leave list." Professor Foner will answer questions and lead a discussion on teaching about Reconstruction. - William Blackstone
Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 - 14 February 1780) was an English jurist and professor who produced the historical and analytic treatise on the common law called "Commentaries on the Laws of England", first published in four volumes over 1765-1769. It had an extraordinary success, reportedly bringing the author £14,000, and still remains an important source on classical views of the common law and its principles. - Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime-writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set on the Gold Coast of Africa, and the Javier Falcon series, set largely in Seville, Spain. He is also the author of the espionage novel "The Company of Strangers" and "A Small Death In Lisbon", which consists of a historically split narrative, … - Jancis Robinson
Jancis Mary Robinson (born in Cumbria on April 22 1950) is a British wine writer and journalist. She studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Oxford University and worked for a travel company after leaving university. She started her wine career writing for the trade magazine Wine & Spirit in 1975. In 1984 she became the first person outside the wine trade to become a Master of Wine. She also served as British Airways's wine consultant, … - Brian Greene
Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia University. Born in New York City, Greene was a prodigy in mathematics. His skill in mathematics was such that by the time he was twelve years old, he was being privately tutored in mathematics by a Columbia University professor because he had surpassed the high-school math level. - Charles Evans
Robert Charles Evans M.D., DSc, Knight, (19 October 1918 - 5 December 1995), was a mountaineer, surgeon, and educator. Born in Liverpool, he was raised in Wales and became a fluent Welsh speaker. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford University, where he studied medicine, he qualified as a doctor in 1942 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corp. - Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), is an Indian-Bengali author known for his work in the English language. He was educated at the Doon School (where he was a younger contemporary of Vikram Seth), St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Delhi University and Oxford University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in social anthropology. Ghosh lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of "In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding" (1993) and a senior editor at Little, … - Michael Rosen
Michael Wayne Rosen (born May 7, 1946 in Harrow, and brought up in Pinner, Middlesex, in England) is a children's novelist and poet and the author of 140 books. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and holds this honour till 2009. Rosen's father was a secondary school teacher before becoming a professor of English at the Institute of Education, London, … - Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, north Wiltshire, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, a boys' independent school in West Lavington, Wiltshire, and then at the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford. He first came to public attention in the 1950s as a presenter of the ITV television programme "Zoo Time". His studies focus on animal and human behaviour, … - Robin Cook
Robert William Arthur "Robin" Cook (12 June, 1931 - 30 July, 1994) was a British novelist who also wrote crime fiction under the pseudonym Derek Raymond. Born in London, Cook was the eldest son of an English textile magnate and went into Eton College. Instead of continuing his career in Oxford University, … - Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24 , 1905 - September 15 , 1989 ) was an American poet and writer. He was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926. He later attended Yale University and obtained his B. Litt . at Oxford University in England in 1930. - Philip Ball
Philip Ball (born 1962) is an English science writer. He holds a degree in chemistry from Oxford and a doctorate in physics from Bristol University. He was an editor for the journal "Nature" for over 10 years. - Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist and journalist. A former "Spectator" Young Writer of the Year, he grew up in Yorkshire and studied at Oxford University. After qualifying as a barrister he became a freelance journalist in which capacity he has written about the North, class, trains, seaside towns and eccentric individuals. He has written for "The Guardian", "The Daily Telegraph", … - Alan Davidson
Alan Eaton Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic "Oxford Companion to Food" (1999). The son of a Scottish tax inspector, Davidson was born in Northern Ireland. He studied classical languages at Oxford. During World War II, he served in the Royal Navy. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, … - Reginald Hill
Reginald Hill (born in 1936 at West Hartlepool in County Durham) is a contemporary English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. - Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and a law professor at Harvard Law School. He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. - Fazlur Rahman
Fazlur Rahman Malik (Urdu: فضل الرحمان ملک was a well-known scholar of Islam; M. Yahya Birt of the Association of Islam Researchers described him as "probably the most learned of the major Muslim thinkers in the second-half of the twentieth century, in terms of both classical Islam and Western philosophical and theological discourse." Rahman was born in the Hazara area of British India (now Pakistan). - Vernon Bogdanor
Vernon Bogdanor CBE (born 1943) is professor of government at Oxford University, England, and a Fellow of Brasenose College. He is one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and has written extensively on political and constitutional issues. He is an advocate of constitutional reform including proportional representation, but supports the retention of the monarchy. - Charles King
Charles King is Ion Raţiu Associate Professor of Romanian Studies, Associate Professor of International Affairs, and Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, where he also serves as Chairman of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is the author of two books, "The Black Sea: A History" (Oxford University Press, 2004) and "The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture" (Hoover Institution Press, … - Charles Rosen
Charles Rosen (born May 5, 1927) is an American pianist and music theorist. He was a piano student of Moriz Rosenthal. In an interview published in the June 2007 edition of "BBC Music Magazine", however, Rosen cites Josef Hofmann, whom he claims to have heard every year from age three, as a greater influence. Rosen recalls having played for Leopold Godowsky at age seven; Godowsky asked Rosen what he would like to be when he grew up, and, to Godowsky's amusement, … - Richard Epstein
Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, the Faculty Director for Curriculum, and the Director, Law and Economics Program at the University of Chicago Law School. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Beginning in 2007, he is a visiting professor of law at New York University Law School. - Kevin Crossley-Holland
Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English children's author and poet. Born in Mursley, North Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns. He attended Oxford University, where after failing his first exams he discovered a passion for Anglo-Saxon literature. After graduating he became the Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds, and from 1972–1977, he lectured in Anglo-Saxon for the Tufts University of London program. - Hew Strachan
Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE is a military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War. Commissioned by Oxford University Press to write a history of the First World War to replace C.R.M.F Cruttwell's one-volume "A History of the Great War, 1914-1918", Strachan completed the first of three volumes, … - Tim Richardson
Tim Richardson, author of "Sweets: The History of Temptation", is the world's first international confectionery historian. He also writes about gardens, landscape and theatre, and contributes to the "Daily Telegraph", "Country Life", "The Idler", "House & Garden" and "Wallpaper". He lives in North London. He wrote and performed comedy at Oxford University in the 1980's in a revue group called The Seven Raymonds with Stewart Lee, … - Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill (born September 3, 1938) is an English writer of stage plays known for her use of non-realistic techniques and feminist themes. She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and a leading woman writer. She is classed as a Post-modern playwright due to her themes and techniques such as use of multi-role and fragmented narrative. - Shmuley Boteach
Shmuley Boteach (born November 19, 1966) Los Angeles, California, USA is an American Orthodox rabbi, radio and television host, and author.
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