Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
al-Razi |
Doctor |
c. 865 AD |
27-Oct-925 AD |
Persian alchemist |
Leon Battista Alberti |
Architect |
14-Feb-1404 |
25-Apr-1472 |
Ten Books on Architecture |
Graham T. Allison |
Scholar |
23-Mar-1940 |
|
Kennedy School of Government |
Anton Wilhelm Amo |
Philosopher |
1703 |
1784 |
First European-educated African philosopher |
Rasmus B. Anderson |
Scholar |
12-Jan-1846 |
2-Mar-1936 |
America Not Discovered by Columbus |
Ross Anderson |
Scholar |
15-Sep-1956 |
|
Why Cryptosystems Fail |
Aelius Aristides |
Scholar |
117 AD |
189 AD |
Greco-Roman rhetorician, sophist |
Roger Ascham |
Scholar |
1515 |
30-Dec-1568 |
The Scholemaster |
Benjamin R. Barber |
Scholar |
2-Aug-1939 |
|
Jihad vs. McWorld |
A. Doak Barnett |
Scholar |
8-Oct-1921 |
17-Mar-1999 |
China on the Eve of Communist Takeover |
Andrés Bello |
Poet |
29-Nov-1781 |
15-Oct-1865 |
South American intellectual, poet |
Pietro Bembo |
Scholar |
20-May-1470 |
18-Jan-1547 |
Prose della volgar lingua |
Marshall Berman |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1940 |
11-Sep-2013 |
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air |
Mary Frances Berry |
Government |
17-Feb-1938 |
|
Civil Rights Commissioner, 1980-2004 |
Harold Bloom |
Critic |
11-Jul-1930 |
|
Literary critic, Yale professor |
Thomas Bodley |
Scholar |
2-Mar-1545 |
28-Jan-1613 |
Bodleian Library |
Carl Boggs |
Scholar |
1938 |
|
Social Movements and Political Power |
Sissela Bok |
Scholar |
2-Dec-1934 |
|
Ethicist |
Patrick Bond |
Scholar |
17-Nov-1961 |
|
Elite Transition |
Jorge Luis Borges |
Author |
24-Aug-1899 |
14-Jun-1986 |
The Garden of Forking Paths |
Walter Dean Burnham |
Scholar |
15-Jun-1930 |
|
Democracy in the Making |
Judith Butler |
Scholar |
24-Feb-1956 |
|
Gender Trouble |
Samuel Butler |
Scholar |
30-Jan-1774 |
4-Dec-1839 |
Headmaster of Shrewsbury School |
Lawrence E. Cahoone |
Scholar |
31-Aug-1954 |
|
The Dilemma of Modernity |
William Camden |
Scholar |
2-May-1551 |
9-Nov-1623 |
Britannia |
Isaac Casaubon |
Scholar |
18-Feb-1559 |
1-Jul-1614 |
Leading classical scholar |
Lionel Casson |
Scholar |
22-Jul-1914 |
18-Jul-2009 |
The Ancient Mariners |
David Chandler |
Scholar |
11-Jul-1962 |
|
Constructing Global Civil Society |
Mary Ellen Chase |
Scholar |
24-Feb-1887 |
28-Jul-1973 |
Silas Crockett |
Vivek Chibber |
Scholar |
1965 |
|
Locked in Place |
Stephen J. Cimbala |
Scholar |
4-Nov-1943 |
|
Nuclear Weapons and Strategy |
Ariel Cohen |
Scholar |
c. 1964 |
|
Expert on International Relations |
Stephen P. Cohen |
Scholar |
c. 1946 |
|
Foreign policy analyst |
Robert Cotton |
Scholar |
22-Jan-1571 |
6-May-1631 |
Cottonian Library |
James Crichton |
Scholar |
c. 1560 |
Jul-1582 |
The Admirable Crichton |
André Dacier |
Scholar |
6-Apr-1651 |
18-Sep-1722 |
French classical scholar |
Jean Daurat |
Poet |
1508 |
1-Nov-1588 |
French Pléiade poet |
Richard Dawes |
Scholar |
1708 |
21-Mar-1766 |
Miscellanea Critica |
Dionysius Thrax |
Scholar |
170 BC |
90 BC |
Authored first Greek grammar |
Kenneth Dover |
Scholar |
11-Mar-1920 |
7-Mar-2010 |
Greek Homosexuality |
Keith Dowding |
Scholar |
6-May-1960 |
|
Rational Choice and Political Power |
John Duns Scotus |
Religion |
c. 1265 |
8-Nov-1308 |
14th century Scottish scholar |
Michael Eric Dyson |
Scholar |
23-Oct-1958 |
|
Know What I Mean? |
Umberto Eco |
Scholar |
5-Jan-1932 |
19-Feb-2016 |
Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose |
John Hart Ely |
Scholar |
3-Dec-1938 |
25-Oct-2003 |
Democracy and Distrust |
Sir Thomas Elyot |
Scholar |
c. 1490 |
26-Mar-1546 |
Boke named the Governour |
Erasmus |
Scholar |
27-Oct-1469 |
12-Jul-1536 |
In Praise of Folly |
Eratosthenes |
Mathematician |
276 BC |
194 BC |
First to measure the Earth |
Ralph Estes |
Scholar |
c. 1936 |
|
Tyranny of the Bottom Line |
Robert Faurisson |
Scholar |
25-Jan-1929 |
|
French Holocaust denier |
Cornelius Felton |
Scholar |
6-Nov-1807 |
26-Feb-1862 |
Classical scholar of Greek |
Francesco Filelfo |
Scholar |
1398 |
1481 |
Italian humanist |
Norman Finkelstein |
Scholar |
8-Dec-1953 |
|
The Holocaust Industry |
Stanley Fish |
Scholar |
19-Apr-1938 |
|
Deconstructionist literary critic |
Dudley Fitts |
Scholar |
28-Apr-1903 |
10-Jul-1968 |
Translator of Greek literature |
James R. Flynn |
Scholar |
18-Apr-1934 |
|
Flynn Effect |
Michel Foucault |
Philosopher |
15-Oct-1926 |
26-Jun-1984 |
History of Sexuality |
Thomas Gaisford |
Scholar |
22-Dec-1779 |
2-Jun-1855 |
English classical scholar |
Gaius |
Scholar |
fl. 2nd c. AD |
fl. 2nd c. AD |
Roman jurist, Institutes |
James K. Galbraith |
Scholar |
29-Jan-1952 |
|
Economics Professor at UT-Austin |
Ignace J. Gelb |
Scholar |
14-Oct-1907 |
22-Dec-1985 |
A Study of Writing |
James M. Goldgeier |
Scholar |
c. 1961 |
|
America Between the Wars |
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen |
Scholar |
30-Jun-1959 |
|
Hitler's Willing Executioners |
Richard Gotshalk |
Scholar |
4-Sep-1931 |
16-Apr-2009 |
Homer and Hesiod: Myth and Philosophy |
Peter Gowan |
Scholar |
15-Jan-1946 |
12-Jun-2009 |
The Global Gamble |
David M. Halperin |
Scholar |
2-Apr-1952 |
|
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality |
Jean Hardouin |
Scholar |
22-Dec-1646 |
3-Sep-1729 |
Confused Jesuit scholar |
Mildred Fish Harnack |
Spy |
16-Sep-1902 |
16-Feb-1943 |
Guillotined by the Gestapo |
Samuel Hartlib |
Scholar |
c. 1600 |
c. 1662 |
Influential German-English man of letters |
Eric A. Havelock |
Scholar |
3-Jun-1903 |
4-Apr-1988 |
Preface to Plato |
Steven Hayward |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
|
Conservative environmentalism pundit |
Carolyn Heilbrun |
Novelist |
13-Jan-1926 |
9-Oct-2003 |
Amanda Cross, mystery novelist |
Philip K. Hitti |
Scholar |
24-Jun-1886 |
24-Dec-1978 |
History of the Arabs |
T. Rice Holmes |
Scholar |
24-May-1855 |
4-Aug-1933 |
Caesar's Conquest of Gaul |
Luc Holste |
Scholar |
27-Sep-1596 |
2-Feb-1661 |
German humanist and librarian |
François Hotman |
Scholar |
23-Aug-1524 |
12-Feb-1590 |
Franco-Gallia |
Wilhelm von Humboldt |
Scholar |
22-Jun-1767 |
8-Apr-1835 |
Diplomat turned philologist |
Frederick S. Humphries |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Former President, Florida A&M University |
Ulrich von Hutten |
Poet |
21-Apr-1488 |
29-Aug-1523 |
Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum |
Harold Innis |
Scholar |
5-Nov-1894 |
8-Nov-1952 |
Empire and Communications |
Peter H. Irons |
Activist |
11-Aug-1940 |
|
A People's History of the Supreme Court |
M. R. James |
Author |
1-Aug-1862 |
12-Jun-1936 |
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary |
Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1946 |
|
Annenberg Public Policy Center |
Leonard Jeffries |
Scholar |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Controversial blackademic |
Benjamin Jowett |
Scholar |
15-Apr-1817 |
1-Oct-1893 |
Translator of Plato, etc. |
Frederick Kagan |
Scholar |
c. 1969 |
|
Neocon military historian, now at AEI |
Herman Kahn |
Scholar |
15-Feb-1922 |
7-Jul-1983 |
Hudson Institute founder |
Menachem Kellner |
Scholar |
28-Mar-1946 |
|
Maimonidean scholar |
Robert O. Keohane |
Scholar |
3-Oct-1941 |
|
After Hegemony |
Charles R. Kesler |
Scholar |
c. 1956 |
|
Conservative scholar |
Majid Khadduri |
Scholar |
1908 |
25-Jan-2007 |
Middle East scholar |
William R. Kintner |
Scholar |
21-Apr-1915 |
1-Feb-1997 |
Peace and the Strategy Conflict |
Michael T. Klare |
Scholar |
1942 |
|
Resource Wars |
Evan Kohlmann |
Scholar |
? |
|
Founder, Globalterroralert.com |
Richard Landes |
Scholar |
24-Jun-1949 |
|
Center for Millennial Studies |
Gerald A. Larue |
Scholar |
? |
|
The Way of Positive Humanism |
Walter Leaf |
Scholar |
28-Nov-1852 |
8-Mar-1927 |
Classicist, translated Iliad |
Anne Lefèvre |
Scholar |
1654 |
17-Aug-1720 |
Translator of Homer into French |
Giacomo Leopardi |
Poet |
29-Jun-1798 |
14-Jun-1837 |
Despairing Italian classical poet |
Ralph Lerner |
Scholar |
2-May-1928 |
|
The Thinking Revolutionary |
Bernard Lewis |
Scholar |
31-May-1916 |
|
Middle East scholar |
C. S. Lewis |
Novelist |
29-Nov-1898 |
22-Nov-1963 |
Chronicles of Narnia |
S. Robert Lichter |
Scholar |
28-Aug-1948 |
|
Center for Media and Public Affairs |
Leonard P. Liggio |
Scholar |
5-Jul-1933 |
|
Libertarian |
Justus Lipsius |
Scholar |
18-Oct-1547 |
23-Mar-1606 |
Belgian scholar and author |
Bjørn Lomborg |
Scholar |
6-Jan-1965 |
|
The Skeptical Environmentalist |
Eric Lott |
Scholar |
20-May-1959 |
|
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy |
Edward Luck |
Scholar |
? |
|
International Affairs professor at Columbia |
C. B. Macpherson |
Scholar |
18-Nov-1911 |
22-Jul-1987 |
Political Theory of Possessive Individualism |
Rachel P. Maines |
Scholar |
8-Jul-1950 |
|
The Technology of Orgasm |
Edmond Malone |
Scholar |
4-Oct-1741 |
25-Apr-1812 |
Irish Shakespearian scholar |
Charles E. Merriam |
Scholar |
15-Nov-1874 |
8-Jan-1953 |
American Political Ideas |
Ralph Miliband |
Scholar |
7-Jan-1924 |
21-May-1994 |
Parliamentary Socialism |
W. C. Minor |
Scholar |
Jun-1834 |
26-Mar-1920 |
Prolific OED contributor |
Paul Elmer More |
Scholar |
12-Dec-1864 |
9-Mar-1937 |
Shelburne Essays |
Jonathan D. Moreno |
Scholar |
11-Jun-1952 |
|
Undue Risk |
S. Brent Morris |
Scholar |
1950 |
|
Masonic scholar, NSA cryptologist |
Steven W. Mosher |
Scholar |
9-May-1948 |
|
Prominent Sinologist |
Konrad Mutian |
Scholar |
15-Oct-1471 |
30-Mar-1526 |
German pre-Reformation humanist |
Niccolò Niccoli |
Scholar |
1363 |
3-Feb-1437 |
Italian humanist |
Susan Niditch |
Scholar |
1950 |
|
Folklore and the Hebrew Bible |
Ian Nish |
Scholar |
3-Jun-1926 |
|
Japanese Foreign Policy specialist |
Mark Noll |
Historian |
1946 |
|
Christian historian |
Charles Eliot Norton |
Scholar |
16-Nov-1827 |
21-Oct-1908 |
American man of letters |
Michael O'Hanlon |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
|
Brookings Institution |
Michel Oksenberg |
Scholar |
12-Oct-1938 |
22-Feb-2001 |
Leading sinologist |
Walter J. Ong |
Scholar |
30-Nov-1912 |
12-Aug-2003 |
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word |
J. I. Packer |
Religion |
22-Jul-1926 |
|
Biblical scholar |
Thomas L. Pangle |
Scholar |
29-Nov-1944 |
|
Leo Strauss: An Introduction |
Milman Parry |
Scholar |
20-Jun-1902 |
3-Dec-1935 |
Homeric scholar |
Eboo Patel |
Activist |
? |
|
Interfaith Youth Core |
Carole Pateman |
Scholar |
11-Dec-1940 |
|
The Disorder of Women |
Harry Thurston Peck |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1856 |
23-Mar-1914 |
A History of Classical Philology |
Perizonius |
Scholar |
26-Oct-1651 |
6-Apr-1715 |
Animadversiones Historicae |
Petrarch |
Scholar |
20-Jul-1304 |
19-Jul-1374 |
Father of Humanism |
Leo Pfeffer |
Scholar |
25-Dec-1910 |
4-Jun-1993 |
Religious liberty scholar, attorney |
Arthur Pickard-Cambridge |
Scholar |
20-Jan-1873 |
7-Feb-1952 |
Dithyramb: Tragedy and Comedy |
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky |
Scholar |
1943 |
|
Political scientist |
John Playfair |
Mathematician |
10-Mar-1748 |
20-Jul-1819 |
Huttonian Theory of the Earth |
Karl Polanyi |
Scholar |
25-Oct-1886 |
23-Apr-1964 |
The Great Transformation |
Politian |
Scholar |
14-Jul-1454 |
28-Sep-1494 |
Humanist under Lorenzo de Medici |
Kenneth Pollack |
Scholar |
1966 |
|
Brookings Institution |
Michael Porter |
Scholar |
1947 |
|
Competitive Strategy |
Adam Posen |
Scholar |
? |
|
Institute for International Economics |
Richard Posner |
Judge |
11-Jan-1939 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Susan Kaufman Purcell |
Scholar |
c. 1941 |
|
Center for Hemispheric Study |
Lucian W. Pye |
Scholar |
21-Oct-1921 |
5-Sep-2008 |
Sinologist |
Kathleen Raine |
Poet |
14-Jun-1908 |
6-Jul-2003 |
Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake |
Petrus Ramus |
Scholar |
1515 |
26-Aug-1572 |
Scholarum mathematicarum |
Edwin O. Reischauer |
Diplomat |
15-Oct-1910 |
1-Sep-1990 |
US Ambassador to Japan, 1961-66 |
Johann Reuchlin |
Scholar |
22-Feb-1455 |
6-Jun-1522 |
German humanist and Hebraist |
Murray Rothbard |
Economist |
2-Mar-1926 |
7-Jan-1995 |
Anarcho-capitalist |
Philippe Sands |
Scholar |
17-Oct-1960 |
|
Lawless World |
AnnaLee Saxenian |
Scholar |
c. 1954 |
|
Information technologist |
Robert A. Scalapino |
Scholar |
19-Oct-1919 |
31-Oct-2011 |
Longtime Asia scholar at Berkeley |
Joseph Scaliger |
Scholar |
5-Aug-1540 |
21-Jan-1609 |
De emendatione temporum |
August Wilhelm von Schlegel |
Scholar |
8-Sep-1767 |
12-May-1845 |
Über dramatisch Kunst und Literatur |
Cynthia P. Schneider |
Scholar |
16-Aug-1953 |
|
US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1998-2001 |
Gershom Scholem |
Historian |
5-Dec-1897 |
21-Feb-1982 |
Revolutionized the study of Kabbalah |
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey |
Scholar |
5-Jun-1961 |
|
From the Corn Laws to Free Trade |
John Selden |
Scholar |
16-Dec-1584 |
30-Nov-1654 |
English orientalist and jurist |
H. Gordon Skilling |
Scholar |
12-Feb-1912 |
2-Mar-2001 |
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution |
Elliott P. Skinner |
Scholar |
20-Jun-1924 |
1-Apr-2007 |
US Ambassador to Upper Volta, 1966-69 |
Henry Spelman |
Scholar |
c. 1564 |
Oct-1641 |
English antiquary |
Gayatri Spivak |
Scholar |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Postcolonialist theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak? |
Ronald Steel |
Scholar |
25-Mar-1931 |
|
Pax Americana |
Aelius Stilo |
Scholar |
c. 154 BC |
74 BC |
Earliest Roman philologist |
Gerry Stoker |
Scholar |
4-Feb-1955 |
|
Transforming Local Governance |
Alfred Holt Stone |
Scholar |
16-Oct-1870 |
11-May-1955 |
Studies in the American Race Problem |
Raymond Tanter |
Scholar |
? |
|
Iran Policy Committee founder |
R. H. Tawney |
Scholar |
30-Nov-1880 |
16-Jan-1962 |
The Acquisitive Society |
Shibley Telhami |
Scholar |
c. 1952 |
|
Middle East scholar |
James Tenney |
Composer |
10-Aug-1934 |
24-Aug-2006 |
A History of 'Consonance' and 'Dissonance' |
Stephan Thernstrom |
Scholar |
1934 |
|
Neoconservative thinker |
Brian Tierney |
Scholar |
1-May-1922 |
|
Origins of Papal Infallibility |
Giangiorgio Trissino |
Scholar |
8-Jul-1478 |
8-Dec-1550 |
Sofonisba |
Jonathan Turley |
Scholar |
c. 1961 |
|
GWU law professor |
Lorenzo Valla |
Scholar |
1407 |
1-Aug-1457 |
Debunked the Donation of Constantine |
Ernest van den Haag |
Scholar |
15-Sep-1914 |
21-Mar-2002 |
Punishing Criminals |
Gianni Vattimo |
Philosopher |
4-Jan-1936 |
|
Postmodern philosopher |
Gerhard Johann Vossius |
Scholar |
1577 |
19-Mar-1649 |
Dutch classical scholar |
Richard L. Walker |
Scholar |
13-Apr-1922 |
22-Jul-2003 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1981-86 |
Kenneth N. Waltz |
Scholar |
8-Jun-1924 |
12-May-2013 |
Man, the State, and War |
Aby Warburg |
Scholar |
13-Jun-1866 |
26-Oct-1929 |
Founder of the Warburg Institute |
Michael Warner |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
|
Fear of a Queer Planet |
Patricia J. Williams |
Scholar |
28-Aug-1951 |
|
The Alchemy of Race and Rights |
James Q. Wilson |
Scholar |
27-May-1931 |
2-Mar-2012 |
The Moral Sense |
Albert Wohlstetter |
Scholar |
19-Dec-1913 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nuclear strategist |