- 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". - Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27 1832 - January 14 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. - Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher. - 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. - Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson (born Paul Bede Johnson on 2 November 1928 in Manchester, England) is a British Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the "New Statesman" magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. - Peter Atkins
Peter William Atkins (b. August 10, 1940) is a Fellow and professor of chemistry at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford, England. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including "Physical Chemistry", "Inorganic Chemistry" and "Molecular Quantum Mechanics", three of the world's most popular chemistry textbooks. Atkins' "Physical Chemistry" which he co wrote with Julio de Paula of Haverford College, … - John Day
John Day D.D., is Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford. He is the editor of In search of pre-exilic Israel and wrote God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea. He is also Fellow, Tutor in Theology, and Dean of Degrees at Lady Margaret Hall. - 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, … - Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn (born 1944) is a British academic philosopher also known for his efforts to popularise philosophy. He attended Clifton College and went on to receive his bachelor's degree in Moral Sciences (i.e. philosophy) in 1965 from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, a position formerly held by such philosophers as Elizabeth Anscombe, G.H. Von Wright, Wittgenstein, and G.E. Moore, and a fellow of Trinity College, … - Matt Ridley
Matthew (Matt) Ridley (born February 7, 1958 at Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English science writer. He received a doctorate in zoology from the University of Oxford before commencing a career in science journalism. Ridley worked as a science correspondent for The Economist and The Daily Telegraph. - Robert Ellis
The Reverend Robert Anthony Ellis, MA, DPhil (born 24 August 1956, is the Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford. Robert Ellis was educated at Regent's Park College, Oxford and received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1984. He is an ordained minister in the Baptist Union of Great Britain and has served congregations in Milton Keynes and Bristol. He is currently Fellow and Tutor in Pastoral Theology and Mission at Regent's Park College, … - Andrew Ashworth
Andrew Ashworth is the Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He is one of the UK's leading criminologists and has authored many prominent texts on the subject. Ashworth was born in 1947 in Rochdale. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in law and then went to Oxford to complete a BCL degree. He is married to his second wife Veronica, … - William Palmer
Sir William Palmer was an Anglican theologian and liturgical scholar of the 19th century. The Rev., afterwards Sir, William Palmer, Bart., of Worcester College, University of Oxford, with author of the "Origines Liturgicæ" and "Treatise on the Church of Christ" (1838). The latter formulated the notion, called the "Branch Theory" that, provided that both the Apostolic Succession, and the Faith of the Apostles are kept intact, then there the Church exists, … - Marina Warner
Marina Warner (born 9 November 1946 London, England) is a British writer. She is a novelist, short story writer and mythographer, known for many non-fiction books relating in various ways to feminism and myth. She was born in London to an English father and Italian mother. Her paternal grandfather was the English cricketer Sir Pelham Warner. She was brought up in Cairo, Brussels and in Berkshire, England, and studied French and Italian at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. - Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson "is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute . He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin : An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007. "Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. - John Bayley
Professor John Bayley CBE, FBA, FRSL (born 1925, Lahore, Pakistan — then known as Lahore, British India) is a British literary critic and writer. From 1974 to 1992, Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford. He is also a novelist and writes literary criticism for several newspapers. He edited Henry James' "The Wings of the Dove" and a two-volume selection of James' short stories. - Robert Burton
Robert Burton was an English scholar and vicar at Oxford University, best known for writing "The Anatomy of Melancholy". - John Hudson
John Hudson, English classical scholar, was born at Wythop in Cumberland. He was educated at the University of Oxford, where the remainder of his life was spent. In 1701, he was appointed Bodley's librarian, and in 1711 principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford. His political views stood in the way of his preferment in the church and university. As an editor and commentator, he enjoyed a high reputation both at home and abroad. - John Selden
John Selden (December 16, 1584 - November 30, 1654) was an English jurist, legal antiquary and oriental scholar. He was known as a polymath of astounding intellectual depth and breadth; even John Milton, one of the greatest luminaries of 17th century England, hailed Selden as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land." He was born at Salvington, in the parish of West Tarring, Sussex (now part of the town of Worthing). His father, another John Selden, had a small farm. - John MacQuarrie
The Reverend Canon John Macquarrie FBA TD (b.June 27, 1919, d. May 28, 2007) was a Scottish theologian and philosopher. - Philip Henry
Philip Henry (August 24,1631 - June 24,1696) was an English Nonconformist clergyman, born in London. He graduated at Oxford in 1652 and was ordained in 1657. His career as a preacher was repeatedly interrupted by the religious persecutions of his time, and it was not until the Act of Toleration was passed in 1687 that he was allowed to pursue his calling unmolested. The remaining years of his life were spent in unceasing labor. - Roger Cashmore
Roger John Cashmore CMG is Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Oxford. His interests include the origin of the masses of particles and the Higgs boson. Cashmore was born on 22 August 1944. He was educated at Dudley Boys Grammar School, St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1965, MA), Balliol College, Oxford, and University College, Oxford (DPhil 1969, Weir Junior Research Fellow, 1851 Research Fellow). - 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, … - John D. Barrow
John David Barrow FRS (born November 29, 1952, London) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Barrow is also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright. Barrow obtained his first degree in Mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974. - Helen Fielding
Helen Elizabeth Fielding (born February 19 1958 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is an English author, best known as the author of the novel "Bridget Jones's Diary" (winner of the 1998 British Book of the Year award) and its sequel "Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason". The Bridget Jones books had their origins in a column published in The "Independent" and The "Daily Telegraph" in 1997 and 1998. - 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). - Os Guinness
Os Guinness is a writer and social critic living in McLean, Virginia. Born in China during World War II where his parents were medical missionaries, he is the great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the famous Dublin brewer. He started school at a boarding school in China, and remained there until 1951 when the communists forced most foreigners to leave. Since then he has lived mostly in England, Switzerland, and the United States. - 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, … - Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Bowen was born in Dublin and later brought to Bowen’s Court in County Cork where she spent her summers. When her father became mentally ill in 1907, she and her mother moved to England, eventually settling in Hythe. After her mother died in 1912, Bowen was brought up by her aunts. She was educated at Downe House. - Helen Wallace
Helen Sarah Wallace, Lady Wallace of Saltaire, CMG is a British expert in European Studies and, by marriage to William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, a peeress. Helen Sarah Rushworth was born on 25 June 1946. She was educated at the University of Oxford (1963-67), where she was President of the Oxford University Liberal Club. Having already met her future husband William Wallace at Oxford, she spent a year at Bruges, Belgium, … - James Beattie
Professor James Beattie (October 25, 1735, Laurencekirk-August 18, 1803, Aberdeen) was a Scottish scholar and writer. He was born the son of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk in the Mearns, and educated at Aberdeen University. In 1760, he was appointed a professor of moral philosophy there as a result of the interest of his intimate friend, Robert Arbuthnot of Haddo. In the following year he published a volume of poems, "The Judgment of Paris" (1765), … - Michael Heller
Michael Heller, (birth: October 14, 1936 - USA) is a professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow, Poland, and an adjunct member of the Vatican Observatory staff. He also serves as a lecturer in the philosophy of science and logic at the Theological Institute in Tarnow. A Roman Catholic priest, Dr. Heller was ordained in 1959. - Henry Mayr-Harting
Professor Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford and Lay Canon of Christ Church, Oxford from 1997 until 2003. On 6 April 1936 Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting was born in Prague to a Viennese couple, Herbert Mayr-Harting and Anna Mayr-Harting, "née" Münzer. Mayr-Harting was educated at Douai School and Merton College, Oxford (BA 1957, MA 1961, DPhil 1961). - Homa Katouzian
Homa Katouzian is an economist, historian, political scientist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies. Katouzian’s formal academic training was in economics and the social sciences but he concurrently continued his studies of Persian history and literature at a professional academic level. He began studying the life and works of the greatest modern Persian writer, Sadeq Hedayat, as well as that of Iran’s Prime Minister in the early 1950s, … - David Wenham
Revd Dr David Wenham is a British theologian and author of several books on the New Testament. David Wenham was born in 1945 and studied theology at Cambridge University before undertaking research under F. F. Bruce. After teaching in Union Biblical Seminary in India he returned to become the Director of Tyndale House (Cambridge)'s Gospels Research Project before moving to the staff of Wycliffe Hall in the University of Oxford (where he has been since 1983). - Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, (January 30, 1902 - August 18, 1983) was a German-born British historian of art and, especially, architecture. He is best known for his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, "The Buildings of England" (1951-74), one of the great achievements of 20th-century art scholarship. - Richard Fitzralph
Richard FitzRalph (c. 1300 - 16 December, 1360) was an Archbishop of Armagh during the 14th century. He was born into a well-off burgess family of Anglo-Norman/Hiberno-Norman descent in Dundalk, Ireland. He is noted as an ex-fellow and teacher of Balliol College, at the University of Oxford in 1325 (which is the earliest known record of him). By 1331 he was a Regent Master in Theology, … - Nevill Coghill
Nevill Coghill was a British literary scholar, known especially for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales". Coghill was a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford; a small bust of him may be found today in the college chapel. In 1948, he was made professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London. He was Merton Professor of English Literature of the University of Oxford from 1957 to 1966. - Henry Wansbrough
The Very Reverend Dom (Joseph) Henry Wansbrough, OSB, MA (Oxon), STL (Fribourg), LSS (Rome), is a monk of Ampleforth Abbey and a biblical scholar. He is also Cathedral Prior of Norwich (2004-), Magister Scholarum of the English Benedictine Congregation (2001-), Member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (1996-), Chairman of the Trustees of the Catholic Biblical Association (1996-), and Emeritus Member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford (1990-).
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