| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| George Abbott |
Playwright |
25-Jun-1887 |
31-Jan-1995 |
Damn Yankees |
| John Abizaid |
Military |
1-Apr-1951 |
|
C-in-C, US Central Command, 2003-07 |
| Morton I. Abramowitz |
Diplomat |
20-Jan-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Turkey, 1989-91 |
| Elliott Abrams |
Government |
24-Jan-1948 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State involved in Iran-Contra |
| George S. Abrams |
Attorney |
c. 1932 |
|
Partner, Winer & Abrams |
| M. H. Abrams |
Author |
23-Jul-1912 |
|
The Mirror and the Lamp |
| Jill Abramson |
Journalist |
19-Mar-1954 |
|
New York Times managing editor |
| André Aciman |
Author |
2-Jan-1951 |
|
Out of Egypt |
| Arlene Ackerman |
Government |
1947 |
|
School superintendent of San Francisco |
| Bruce Ackerman |
Scholar |
19-Aug-1943 |
|
We the People |
| Joel Ackerman |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
Partner, Warburg Pincus |
| Brock Adams |
Politician |
13-Jan-1927 |
10-Sep-2004 |
US Senator from Washington, 1987-93 |
| Brooks Adams |
Historian |
24-Jun-1848 |
13-Feb-1927 |
The Law of Civilization and Decay |
| Charles Francis Adams IV |
Business |
2-May-1910 |
5-Jan-1999 |
Former president of Raytheon |
| Charles Francis Adams, Jr. |
Business |
27-May-1835 |
20-May-1915 |
President of Union Pacific, 1884-90 |
| Charles Francis Adams |
Diplomat |
18-Aug-1807 |
21-Nov-1886 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1861-68 |
| Charles Francis Adams III |
Government |
2-Aug-1866 |
11-Jun-1954 |
Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33 |
| Henry Adams |
Historian |
16-Feb-1838 |
28-Mar-1918 |
The Education of Henry Adams |
| John Adams |
Composer |
15-Feb-1947 |
|
Nixon In China |
| John Adams |
Head of State |
30-Oct-1735 |
4-Jul-1826 |
2nd President of the U.S. |
| Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
| Samuel Adams |
Politician |
27-Sep-1722 |
2-Oct-1803 |
Brewer led the Boston Tea Party |
| John Adler |
Politician |
23-Aug-1959 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 3rd |
| Renata Adler |
Journalist |
19-Oct-1938 |
|
Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker |
| James Agee |
Poet |
27-Nov-1909 |
16-May-1955 |
A Death in the Family |
| Conrad Aiken |
Poet |
5-Aug-1889 |
17-Aug-1973 |
Earth Triumphant |
| George Akerson |
Government |
5-Sep-1888 |
? |
First White House Press Secretary |
| Tom A. Alberg |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Madrona Venture Group |
| Winthrop W. Aldrich |
Business |
2-Nov-1885 |
25-Feb-1974 |
Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, 1934-53 |
| Anthony J. Alexander |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of FirstEnergy |
| Christopher Alexander |
Architect |
4-Oct-1936 |
|
A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order |
| Horatio Alger |
Author |
13-Jan-1832 |
18-Jul-1899 |
Ragged Dick |
| Tatyana Ali |
Actor |
24-Jan-1979 |
|
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air |
| Frederick Lewis Allen |
Journalist |
5-Jul-1890 |
13-Feb-1954 |
Editor of Harpers, 1941-53 |
| George V. Allen |
Diplomat |
3-Nov-1903 |
11-Jul-1970 |
US Ambassador to Iran, 1946-48 |
| Hervey Allen |
Poet |
8-Dec-1889 |
28-Dec-1949 |
Ballads of the Border |
| Graham T. Allison |
Scholar |
23-Mar-1940 |
|
Kennedy School of Government |
| Gordon W. Allport |
Psychologist |
11-Nov-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Personality: A Psychological Interpretation |
| Michael Almereyda |
Film Director |
7-Apr-1959 |
|
Hamlet |
| Joseph Alsop |
Journalist |
11-Oct-1910 |
28-Aug-1989 |
Matter of Fact |
| Jonathan Alter |
Columnist |
6-Oct-1957 |
|
Newsweek Senior Editor |
| Emily Altman |
Business |
1955 |
|
Morgan Stanley |
| Sidney Altman |
Chemist |
7-May-1939 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Aida M. Alvarez |
Business |
1950 |
|
SBA Administrator, 1997-2001 |
| Maryanne Amacher |
Composer |
25-Feb-1943 |
|
Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear) |
| Cleveland Amory |
Author |
2-Sep-1917 |
14-Oct-1998 |
The Cat Who Came for Christmas |
| Deborah Amos |
Journalist |
? |
|
NPR foreign correspondent |
| Leroy Anderson |
Composer |
29-Jun-1908 |
18-May-1975 |
Composer of The Syncopated Clock |
| Philip W. Anderson |
Physicist |
13-Dec-1923 |
|
Solid state physics |
| Robert W. Anderson |
Playwright |
28-Apr-1917 |
9-Feb-2009 |
Tea and Sympathy |
| Phil Angelides |
Politician |
11-Jun-1953 |
|
California State Treasurer |
| Rand V. Araskog |
Business |
30-Oct-1931 |
|
CEO of ITT, 1979-98 |
| Adam M. Aron |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Vail Resorts, 1996-2006 |
| Darren Aronofsky |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1969 |
|
Pi, Requiem for a Dream |
| Miguel Arteta |
Film Director |
1965 |
|
Chuck & Buck |
| John Ashbery |
Poet |
28-Jul-1927 |
|
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
| John M. Ashbrook |
Politician |
21-Sep-1928 |
24-Apr-1982 |
Congressman from Ohio, 1961-82 |
| John Jacob Astor |
Philanthropist |
13-Jul-1864 |
15-Apr-1912 |
Died aboard the Titanic |
| Alfred L. Atherton |
Diplomat |
22-Nov-1921 |
30-Oct-2002 |
US Ambassador to Egypt, 1979-83 |
| Brooks Atkinson |
Critic |
28-Nov-1894 |
14-Jan-1984 |
New York Times drama critic |
| Margaret Atwood |
Author |
18-Nov-1939 |
|
The Handmaid's Tale |
| Dennis A. Ausiello |
Doctor |
c. 1945 |
|
Massachusetts General Hospital |
| John H. Austin |
Doctor |
c. 1944 |
|
Arcadian Management Services |
| Irving Babbitt |
Philosopher |
2-Aug-1865 |
15-Jul-1933 |
Early leader of Neohumanism |
| Robert Bacon |
Government |
5-Jul-1860 |
29-May-1919 |
US Ambassador to France, 1909-12 |
| Katherine Baicker |
Economist |
? |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2005-07 |
| F. Lee Bailey |
Attorney |
10-Jun-1933 |
|
Prominent attorney |
| George F. Baker |
Business |
27-Mar-1840 |
2-May-1931 |
"None of the public's business" |
| Robert T. Bakker |
Paleontologist |
1945 |
|
The Dinosaur Heresies |
| John C. Baldwin |
Doctor |
c. 1949 |
|
Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech |
| Roger Baldwin |
Activist |
21-Jan-1884 |
26-Aug-1981 |
Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union |
| W. Scott Bales |
Judge |
c. 1956 |
|
Justice, Arizona Supreme Court |
| Steve Ballmer |
Business |
24-Mar-1956 |
|
CEO of Microsoft |
| Ed Balls |
Politician |
25-Feb-1967 |
|
British MP, Normanton |
| George Bancroft |
Historian |
3-Oct-1800 |
17-Jan-1891 |
A History of the United States |
| Hugh Bancroft |
Publisher |
13-Sep-1879 |
17-Oct-1933 |
President of Dow Jones, 1928-31 |
| Benjamin Barber |
Scholar |
2-Aug-1939 |
|
Jihad vs. McWorld |
| Walworth Barbour |
Diplomat |
4-Jun-1908 |
21-Jul-1982 |
US Ambassador to Israel, 1961-73 |
| James R. Barker |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Interlake Steamship Co. |
| Fred Barnes |
TV Personality |
c. 1943 |
|
Fox News regular |
| Michael Barone |
Pundit |
1944 |
|
Almanac of American Politics |
| Joseph W. Barr |
Government |
17-Jan-1918 |
23-Feb-1996 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1968-69 |
| Barbara M. Barrett |
Attorney |
c. 1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Finland |
| Zvi Barzilay |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of Toll Brothers |
| Walter Jackson Bate |
Critic |
23-May-1918 |
26-Jul-1999 |
Samuel Johnson |
| Robert F. Bauer |
Attorney |
22-Feb-1952 |
|
General Counsel, Obama Campaign |
| Stephen L. Baum |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Sempra Energy, 2000-05 |
| Lucian A. Bebchuk |
Educator |
c. 1955 |
|
Corporate governance scholar |
| Anthony Beilenson |
Politician |
26-Oct-1932 |
|
Congressman from California, 1977-97 |
| Georg von Békésy |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1899 |
13-Jun-1972 |
Mechanism of cochlear stimulation |
| Henry Whitney Bellows |
Religion |
11-Jun-1814 |
30-Jan-1882 |
Unitarian leader, civil reformer |
| Perry Belmont |
Politician |
28-Dec-1851 |
25-May-1947 |
Congressman from New York, 1881-88 |
| Peter Benchley |
Novelist |
8-May-1940 |
11-Feb-2006 |
Jaws |
| Richard Benedick |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US negotiator to the Montreal Protocol |
| Robert Benham |
Judge |
25-Sep-1946 |
|
Justice, Georgia Supreme Court |
| Douglas J. Bennet |
Educator |
23-Jun-1938 |
|
President of Wesleyan University, 1995-2007 |
| Doug Bereuter |
Politician |
6-Oct-1939 |
|
Congressman from Nebraska, 1979-2004 |
| William H. Berkman |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
The Associated Group |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman |
| Leonard Bernstein |
Conductor |
25-Aug-1918 |
14-Oct-1990 |
Conductor, New York Philharmonic |
| Georges Berthoin |
Politician |
17-May-1925 |
|
Trilateral Commission Euro Chair, 1973-92 |
| Michael Beschloss |
Historian |
30-Nov-1955 |
|
The Conquerors |
| Benazir Bhutto |
Head of State |
21-Jun-1953 |
27-Dec-2007 |
Former prime minister of Pakistan |
| Alexander Bickel |
Scholar |
17-Dec-1924 |
7-Nov-1974 |
The Least Dangerous Branch |
| Frank Bidart |
Poet |
1939 |
|
The Book of the Body |
| Francis Biddle |
Government |
9-May-1886 |
4-Oct-1968 |
US Attorney General, 1941-45 |
| Jacob Bigelow |
Botanist |
27-Feb-1786 |
10-Jan-1879 |
American Medical Botany |
| John H. Biggs |
Business |
19-Jul-1936 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1993-2002 |
| Jeff Bingaman |
Politician |
3-Oct-1943 |
|
US Senator from New Mexico |
| Hiram Bingham |
Politician |
19-Nov-1875 |
6-Jun-1956 |
US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu |
| Traci Bingham |
Actor |
13-Jan-1968 |
|
Baywatch, Surreal Life |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| Harry Blackmun |
Judge |
12-Nov-1908 |
4-Mar-1999 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1970-94 |
| Frank Blake |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Home Depot |
| James Blake |
Tennis |
28-Dec-1979 |
|
2nd place, 2006 Tennis Masters Cup |
| Robert O. Blake, Jr. |
Diplomat |
c. 1958 |
|
US Ambassador to Sri Lanka |
| Lloyd C. Blankfein |
Business |
20-Sep-1954 |
|
CEO of Goldman Sachs |
| Julia Chang Bloch |
Diplomat |
1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Nepal, 1989 |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen |
Physicist |
11-Mar-1920 |
|
Nonlinear optics |
| Alfred H. Bloom |
Educator |
27-Feb-1946 |
|
President, Swarthmore College |
| Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. |
Government |
c. 1952 |
|
Asst. Secy. State Politico-Military, 2001-05 |
| Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguist |
1-Apr-1887 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Structural linguistics of Tagalog |
| Roy Blount, Jr. |
Author |
5-Oct-1941 |
|
Humorist |
| Richard Blumenthal |
Government |
13-Feb-1946 |
|
Attorney General of Connecticut |
| Robert Bly |
Poet |
23-Dec-1926 |
|
Iron John: A Book About Men |
| Frederick M. Bohen |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
COO of Rockefeller University, 2002-05 |
| Charles E. Bohlen |
Diplomat |
30-Aug-1904 |
31-Dec-1974 |
US Ambassador to USSR, 1953-57 |
| W. E. B. Du Bois |
Activist |
23-Feb-1868 |
27-Aug-1963 |
Civil rights activist |
| Sissela Bok |
Scholar |
2-Dec-1934 |
|
Ethicist |
| Charles J. Bonaparte |
Government |
9-Jun-1851 |
28-Jun-1921 |
US Attorney General, 1906-09 |
| George Phillips Bond |
Astronomer |
20-May-1825 |
17-Feb-1865 |
Father of astrophotography |
| Daniel Boorstin |
Historian |
1-Oct-1914 |
28-Feb-2004 |
The Creators |
| Leon Botstein |
Educator |
14-Dec-1946 |
|
President of Bard College |
| James Bowdoin |
Politician |
7-Aug-1726 |
6-Nov-1790 |
Governor of Massachusetts 1785-87 |
| Joseph L. Bower |
Business |
21-Sep-1938 |
|
Professor, Harvard Business School |
| Robert R. Bowie |
Government |
1909 |
|
CIA Deputy Director, 1977-79 |
| Robert A. Bowman |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
President and CEO, MLB Advanced Media |
| John Brademas |
Politician |
2-Mar-1927 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 |
| David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
| Robert F. Bradford |
Politician |
15-Dec-1902 |
18-Mar-1983 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1947-49 |
| Ben Bradlee |
Journalist |
26-Aug-1921 |
|
Editor of The Washington Post, 1965-91 |
| Milton Bradley |
Business |
8-Nov-1836 |
30-May-1911 |
Board games |
| Roger D. Branigin |
Politician |
26-Jul-1902 |
19-Nov-1975 |
Governor of Indiana, 1965-69 |
| Donna Brazile |
Author |
15-Dec-1959 |
|
Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager |
| Phil Bredesen |
Politician |
21-Nov-1943 |
|
Governor of Tennessee |
| Walter W. Bregman |
Business |
c. 1933 |
|
President, International Playtex |
| Amy Brenneman |
Actor |
22-Jun-1964 |
|
Judging Amy |
| Percy Williams Bridgman |
Physicist |
21-Apr-1882 |
20-Aug-1961 |
Investigated high pressure physics |
| Andrew Brimmer |
Economist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74 |
| Jenne K. Britell |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Structured Ventures, Inc. |
| David Broder |
Journalist |
11-Sep-1929 |
|
Washington Post reporter |
| Harold Brodkey |
Novelist |
25-Oct-1930 |
26-Jan-1996 |
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode |
| Christopher W. Brody |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Partner, Warburg Pincus, 1971-98 |
| Ernie Brooks |
Bassist |
? |
|
Ex-Bassist for The Modern Lovers |
| Fred Brooks |
Author |
19-Apr-1931 |
|
The Mythical Man-Month |
| Van Wyck Brooks |
Critic |
16-Feb-1886 |
2-May-1963 |
Finders & Makers |
| Heywood Broun |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1888 |
18-Dec-1939 |
Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s |
| Anthony G. Brown |
Politician |
21-Nov-1961 |
|
Lt. Governor of Maryland |
| Michael A. Brown |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Quantum, 1995-2002 |
| William Andreas Brown |
Diplomat |
7-Sep-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to Israel, 1988-92 |
| Bruce C. Bruckmann |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. |
| David Brudnoy |
Radio Personality |
5-Jun-1940 |
8-Dec-2004 |
Boston talk radio host |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
| Charles Bulfinch |
Architect |
8-Aug-1763 |
15-Apr-1844 |
Architect of the U.S. Capitol |
| Ralph Bunche |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1904 |
9-Dec-1971 |
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948 |
| William Bundy |
Government |
24-Sep-1917 |
6-Oct-2000 |
Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ |
| Stephen B. Burbank |
Educator |
c. 1946 |
|
UPenn Law Professor |
| Geoffrey Burbidge |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1925 |
|
Quasi-steady state cosmology |
| Kevin Burke |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Consolidated Edison |
| Kennett F. Burnes |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Cabot, 2001-08 |
| Walter Dean Burnham |
Scholar |
1930 |
|
Democracy in the Making |
| John Burns |
Journalist |
4-Oct-1944 |
|
New York Times correspondent |
| William S. Burroughs |
Author |
5-Feb-1914 |
2-Aug-1997 |
Naked Lunch |
| Dick Button |
Figure Skating |
18-Jul-1929 |
|
Olympic figure skater |
| Caroline Bynum |
Historian |
1941 |
|
Medieval historian |
| Godfrey Lowell Cabot |
Business |
26-Feb-1861 |
2-Nov-1962 |
Founder of Cabot Corporation |
| Thomas Dudley Cabot |
Business |
1-May-1897 |
8-Jun-1995 |
CEO of Cabot, 1922-60 |
| John T. Cahill |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of Pepsi Bottling Group, 2001-06 |
| Frank V. Cahouet |
Business |
25-May-1932 |
|
CEO of Mellon Financial, 1987-98 |
| Felipe Calderón |
Head of State |
18-Aug-1962 |
|
President of Mexico |
| Cass Canfield |
Publisher |
26-Apr-1897 |
27-Mar-1986 |
Harper & Brothers |
| Claude R. Canizares |
Physicist |
1945 |
|
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics |
| Annie Jump Cannon |
Astronomer |
11-Dec-1863 |
13-Apr-1941 |
Census-taker of the sky |
| Walter Bradford Cannon |
Scientist |
19-Oct-1871 |
1-Oct-1945 |
Fight or flight response |
| Mario Capecchi |
Scientist |
6-Oct-1937 |
|
Knock-out mice |
| Andrew Card |
Government |
10-May-1947 |
|
White House Chief of Staff, 2001-06 |
| Prudence E. Carlson |
Relative |
c. 1951 |
|
Daughter of LeRoy T. Carlson |
| Doug Carlston |
Business |
1947 |
|
Co-Founder, Br0derbund Software |
| Dennis W. Carlton |
Economist |
c. 1950 |
|
Economics Professor, University of Chicago |
| Frank Carlucci |
Government |
18-Oct-1930 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1987-89 |
| Leonard Carmichael |
Educator |
9-Nov-1898 |
16-Sep-1973 |
Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64 |
| Robert Caro |
Historian |
30-Oct-1935 |
|
Biographer of Lyndon Johnson |
| Nicholas G. Carr |
Author |
1959 |
|
Does IT Matter? |
| Elliott Carter |
Composer |
11-Dec-1908 |
|
The Defence of Corinth |
| Albert V. Casey |
Business |
28-Feb-1920 |
10-Jul-2004 |
CEO of American Airlines, 1974-85 |
| John Casey |
Novelist |
18-Jan-1939 |
|
Spartina |
| John L. Cassis |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Cross Atlantic Partners |
| David Caute |
Author |
16-Dec-1936 |
|
Comrade Jacob |
| Stanley Cavell |
Philosopher |
1-Sep-1926 |
|
Professor of Aesthetics, Harvard |
| Ana María Cetto |
Scientist |
1946 |
|
Mexican physicist |
| Martin Chalfie |
Scientist |
1947 |
|
Green Fluorescent Protein |
| Margaret F. C. Chan |
Doctor |
1947 |
|
WHO Director-General Elect |
| Alfred Chandler |
Historian |
15-Sep-1918 |
9-May-2007 |
Business historian |
| Edward Channing |
Historian |
15-Jun-1856 |
7-Jan-1931 |
A History of the United States |
| Frederic L. Chapin |
Diplomat |
13-Jul-1929 |
8-Sep-1989 |
US Ambassador to Guatemala, 1981-84 |
| Bruce Chapman |
Government |
1934 |
|
Founder of the Discovery Institute |
| John Jay Chapman |
Essayist |
2-Mar-1862 |
4-Nov-1933 |
Essayist, founder of The Nursery |
| Jean-Marc Chapus |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Trust Company of the West |
| Benjamin D. Chereskin |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Madison Dearborn Partners |
| Michael Chertoff |
Government |
28-Nov-1953 |
|
US Homeland Security Czar |
| Joseph Choate |
Attorney |
24-Jan-1832 |
14-May-1917 |
Attorney, ambassador |
| Alonzo Church |
Mathematician |
14-Jun-1903 |
11-Aug-1995 |
Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis |
| Henry Cisneros |
Politician |
11-Jun-1947 |
|
Secretary of HUD, 1993-97 |
| Grenville Clark |
Attorney |
5-Nov-1882 |
13-Jan-1967 |
World Peace Through World Law |
| Joseph Sill Clark |
Politician |
21-Oct-1901 |
21-Jan-1990 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1956-69 |
| Kim B. Clark |
Business |
20-Mar-1949 |
|
President of BYU-Idaho |
| W. Edmund Clark |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Toronto Dominion Bank |
| James Freeman Clarke |
Religion |
4-Apr-1810 |
8-Jun-1888 |
Ten Great Religions |
| John S. Clarkeson |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Boston Consulting Group, 1986-97 |
| Lacy Clay |
Politician |
27-Jul-1956 |
|
Congressman, Missouri 1st |
| Hal Clement |
Novelist |
20-May-1922 |
29-Oct-2003 |
Mission of Gravity |
| Adam Clymer |
Journalist |
27-Apr-1937 |
|
New York Times major-league asshole |
| Ariel Cohen |
Scholar |
c. 1964 |
|
Expert on International Relations |
| David X. Cohen |
Film/TV Producer |
c. 1966 |
|
Simpsons, Futurama producer |
| Eliot A. Cohen |
Government |
c. 1955 |
|
Prominent neoconservative |
| Rob Cohen |
Film Director |
12-Mar-1949 |
|
The Fast and the Furious |
| Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. |
Administrator |
17-Feb-1949 |
|
President of MLB National League, 1994-99 |
| Lovida H. Coleman, Jr. |
Attorney |
21-May-1949 |
|
Partner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan |
| Robert Coles |
Psychiatrist |
12-Oct-1929 |
|
Children of Crisis |
| J. Barclay Collins II |
Business |
21-Oct-1944 |
|
General Counsel for Hess Corporation |
| James F. Collins |
Diplomat |
1939 |
|
US Ambassador to Russia, 1997-2001 |
| Barry Commoner |
Biologist |
28-May-1917 |
|
Science and Survival |
| James B. Conant |
Educator |
26-Mar-1893 |
11-Feb-1978 |
President of Harvard, 1933-53 |
| Jill Ker Conway |
Educator |
9-Oct-1934 |
|
President of Smith College, 1975-85 |
| Alistair Cooke |
Journalist |
20-Nov-1908 |
29-Mar-2004 |
Alistair Cooke's America |
| John S. Cooper |
Politician |
23-Aug-1901 |
21-Feb-1991 |
US Senator from Kentucky |
| Sam Coppersmith |
Politician |
22-May-1955 |
|
Congressman from Arizona, 1993-95 |
| Allan M. Cormack |
Physicist |
23-Feb-1924 |
7-May-1998 |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
| Jerome Corsi |
Activist |
31-Aug-1946 |
|
Co-Author, Unfit for Command |
| F. Albert Cotton |
Chemist |
9-Apr-1930 |
20-Feb-2007 |
Metal-metal bonds |
| Malcolm Cowley |
Author |
24-Aug-1898 |
27-Mar-1989 |
Exile's Return |
| Archibald Cox |
Government |
17-May-1912 |
29-May-2004 |
Target of Watergate Saturday Night Massacre |
| James Gould Cozzens |
Novelist |
19-Aug-1903 |
9-Aug-1978 |
Guard of Honor |
| Donald J. Cram |
Chemist |
22-Apr-1919 |
17-Jun-2001 |
Synthesis of molecules |
| Jim Cramer |
TV Personality |
10-Feb-1955 |
|
Mad Money |
| F. Marion Crawford |
Novelist |
2-Aug-1854 |
9-Apr-1909 |
Whosoever Shall Offend |
| Robert Creeley |
Poet |
21-May-1926 |
30-Mar-2005 |
Founded Black Mountain Review |
| Michael Crichton |
Novelist |
23-Oct-1942 |
4-Nov-2008 |
Jurassic Park |
| John H. Crimmins |
Diplomat |
26-Nov-1919 |
12-Dec-2007 |
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1973-78 |
| Herbert Croly |
Author |
23-Jan-1869 |
17-May-1930 |
The Promise of American Life |
| Ralph D. Crosby, Jr. |
Business |
23-Sep-1947 |
|
CEO of EADS North America |
| Countee Cullen |
Poet |
30-May-1903 |
9-Jan-1946 |
Harlem Renaissance poet |
| John Culver |
Politician |
8-Aug-1932 |
|
US Senator from Iowa, 1974-81 |
| e. e. cummings |
Poet |
14-Oct-1894 |
3-Sep-1962 |
Majuscule-challenged American poet |
| Rivers Cuomo |
Musician |
13-Jun-1970 |
|
Weezer frontman |
| George E. Curry |
Publisher |
23-Feb-1947 |
|
Emerge editor-in-chief |
| Haskell Curry |
Mathematician |
12-Sep-1900 |
1-Sep-1982 |
Combinatory Logic |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis |
Judge |
4-Nov-1809 |
15-Sep-1874 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1851-57 |
| George Ticknor Curtis |
Historian |
28-Nov-1812 |
28-Mar-1894 |
Constitutional History of the United States |
| Harvey Cushing |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1869 |
7-Oct-1939 |
Cushing's Syndrome |
| Robert Cutler |
Government |
1895 |
1974 |
1950s National Security Advisor |
| Matt Damon |
Actor |
8-Oct-1970 |
|
Good Will Hunting |
| Richard Henry Dana |
Author |
1-Aug-1815 |
6-Jan-1882 |
Two Years Before the Mast |
| Nicholas Daniloff |
Journalist |
1934 |
|
Journalist jailed by Soviet Union |
| Richard Darman |
Government |
10-May-1943 |
25-Jan-2008 |
Carlyle Group member, former OMB Director |
| Guy Davenport |
Author |
23-Nov-1927 |
4-Jan-2005 |
Thasos and Ohio |
| George David |
Business |
7-Apr-1942 |
|
CEO of United Technologies |
| Thayer David |
Actor |
4-Mar-1927 |
17-Jul-1978 |
Jergens in Rocky |
| Jeffrey Davidow |
Diplomat |
26-Jan-1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Mexico, 1998-2001 |
| Donald Davidson |
Philosopher |
6-Mar-1917 |
30-Aug-2003 |
Actions, Reasons And Causes |
| Richard K. Davidson |
Business |
9-Jan-1942 |
|
CEO of Union Pacific, 1991-2006 |
| Artur Davis |
Politician |
9-Apr-1967 |
|
Congressman, Alabama 7th |
| Joseph S. Davis |
Economist |
5-Nov-1885 |
1975 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-58 |
| John Gunther Dean |
Diplomat |
24-Feb-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to India, 1985-88 |
| Robert W. Decherd |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Belo, 1987-2007 |
| Christopher DeMuth |
Activist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Robert E. Denham |
Attorney |
27-Aug-1945 |
|
Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson |
| James M. Derham |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Guatemala |
| Peter A. Derow |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Institutional Investor, Inc. |
| Joseph M. DeThomas |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Estonia, 2001-04 |
| C. Maury Devine |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Former Exxon Mobil executive |
| Peter Diamandis |
Activist |
20-May-1961 |
|
Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation |
| Charles M. Diker |
Business |
1934 |
|
Diker Management LLC |
| C. Douglas Dillon |
Government |
21-Aug-1909 |
10-Jan-2003 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1961-65 |
| S. S. Van Dine |
Novelist |
15-Oct-1888 |
11-Apr-1939 |
The Canary Murder Case |
| Viet Dinh |
Government |
22-Feb-1968 |
|
USA PATRIOT Act mastermind |
| E. J. Dionne |
Journalist |
23-Apr-1952 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Lou Dobbs |
Journalist |
24-Sep-1945 |
|
CNN Moneyline |
| Edward A. Doisy |
Scientist |
3-Nov-1893 |
23-Oct-1986 |
Chemical structure of Vitamin K |
| Elizabeth Dole |
Politician |
29-Jul-1936 |
|
US Senator from North Carolina |
| Shaun Donovan |
Government |
24-Jan-1966 |
|
US Secretary of HUD |
| Joel Dorius |
Educator |
4-Jan-1919 |
14-Feb-2006 |
Professor fired for gay porn arrest |
| Diana Lady Dougan |
Diplomat |
13-Jan-1943 |
|
Former US Ambassador |
| Paul H. Douglas |
Politician |
26-Mar-1892 |
24-Sep-1976 |
US Senator from Illinois, 1949-67 |
| Adolph Dubs |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1920 |
14-Feb-1979 |
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1978-79 |
| Philip N. Duff |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
Front Point Partners |
| Avery Cardinal Dulles |
Religion |
24-Aug-1918 |
12-Dec-2008 |
Fordham Professor, Roman Catholic Cardinal |
| Charles F. Dunbar |
Diplomat |
1-Apr-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1988-91 |
| Arne Duncan |
Educator |
6-Nov-1964 |
|
US Secretary of Education |
| Jeffrey D. Dunn |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Group COO, Nickelodeon Networks |
| Stanley H. Durwood |
Business |
5-Aug-1920 |
15-Jul-1999 |
Father of the multi-screen movie theater |
| Ronald Dworkin |
Philosopher |
11-Dec-1931 |
|
Taking Rights Seriously |
| Esther Dyson |
Business |
14-Jul-1951 |
|
EDventure Holdings, former ICANN director |
| Richard Eberhart |
Poet |
5-Apr-1904 |
9-Jun-2005 |
Collected Poems |
| Otto Eckstein |
Economist |
1-Aug-1927 |
22-Mar-1984 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-66 |
| Walter D. Edmonds |
Novelist |
15-Jul-1903 |
24-Jan-1998 |
Drums Along the Mohawk |
| Luigi R. Einaudi |
Diplomat |
1-Mar-1936 |
|
Secy. General of the OAS, 2004-05 |
| Charles William Eliot |
Educator |
20-Mar-1834 |
22-Aug-1926 |
President, Harvard University, 1869-1909 |
| T. S. Eliot |
Poet |
26-Sep-1888 |
4-Jan-1965 |
The Hollow Men |
| Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. |
Diplomat |
1928 |
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1973-78 |
| Daniel Ellsberg |
Government |
7-Apr-1931 |
|
Pentagon Papers source |
| Charles M. Elson |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Economist, University of Delaware |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Essayist |
25-May-1803 |
27-Apr-1882 |
Essayist, wrote Nature |
| Richard S. Emmet |
Attorney |
8-Apr-1897 |
5-Oct-1969 |
Counsel to the Bank of New York |
| John F. Enders |
Scientist |
10-Feb-1897 |
8-Sep-1985 |
Cultured the polio virus |
| Thomas O. Enders |
Diplomat |
28-Nov-1932 |
17-Mar-1996 |
US Ambassador to Canada, Spain |
| Edward Everett |
Politician |
11-Apr-1794 |
15-Jan-1865 |
Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40 |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Ursula O. Fairbairn |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Former EVP, American Express |
| Philip Falcone |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
Billionaire, Harbinger Capital |
| James Fallows |
Journalist |
2-Aug-1949 |
|
Atlantic Monthly |
| Susan Faludi |
Activist |
18-Apr-1959 |
|
Backlash |
| Martha J. Farah |
Psychologist |
c. 1955 |
|
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UPenn |
| Oliver La Farge |
Author |
19-Dec-1901 |
2-Aug-1963 |
Laughing Boy |
| Paul Farmer |
Doctor |
1959 |
|
Doctor for the world's poorest |
| Chaka Fattah |
Politician |
21-Nov-1956 |
|
Congressman, Pennsylvania 2nd |
| Robert A. Fein |
Psychologist |
? |
|
National Threat Assessment Center |
| Douglas Feith |
Government |
16-Jul-1953 |
|
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 2001-05 |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| Cornelius Felton |
Scholar |
6-Nov-1807 |
26-Feb-1862 |
Classical scholar of Greek |
| Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. |
Government |
28-Oct-1951 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF |
| Frances D. Fergusson |
Educator |
3-Oct-1944 |
|
President of Vassar, 1986-2006 |
| Leslie A. Fiedler |
Critic |
8-Mar-1917 |
29-Jan-2003 |
Love and Death in the American Novel |
| Marshall Field IV |
Business |
15-Jun-1916 |
18-Sep-1965 |
Owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, 1956-65 |
| Glenn Fine |
Government |
c. 1956 |
|
Justice Department Inspector General |
| Jonathan Finer |
Journalist |
c. 1976 |
|
Washington Post reporter |
| Hamilton Fish IV |
Politician |
3-Jun-1926 |
23-Jul-1996 |
Congressman from New York, 1969-95 |
| J. Dudley Fishburn |
Business |
8-Jun-1946 |
|
British MP, Kensington, 1988-97 |
| Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
| Richard W. Fisher |
Business |
18-Mar-1949 |
|
President and CEO, Dallas Fed |
| John Fiske |
Historian |
30-Mar-1842 |
4-Jul-1901 |
Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy |
| Dudley Fitts |
Scholar |
28-Apr-1903 |
10-Jul-1968 |
Translator of Greek literature |
| J. Michael Fitzpatrick |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
President of Rohm and Haas, 1999-2005 |
| Rodman Flender |
Film Director |
9-Jun-1962 |
|
Idle Hands |
| Denise K. Fletcher |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
EVP Finance at Vulcan Energy |
| Abraham Flexner |
Educator |
13-Nov-1866 |
21-Sep-1959 |
The American College |
| Edward T. Fogarty |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
CEO of Tambrands, 1994-97 |
| Thomas C. Foley |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
US Ambassador to Ireland |
| Robert L. Fornaro |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of AirTran Holdings |
| Bill Foster |
Politician |
7-Oct-1955 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 14th |
| Vicente Fox |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1942 |
|
President of Mexico, 2000-06 |
| Ford M. Fraker |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia |
| Jonathan Frakes |
Actor |
19-Aug-1952 |
|
Commander Riker on Star Trek: TNG |
| Barney Frank |
Politician |
31-Mar-1940 |
|
Congressman, Massachusetts 4th |
| Garance Franke-Ruta |
Columnist |
c. 1975 |
|
Senior Editor, The American Prospect |
| David Frankel |
Film Director |
2-Apr-1959 |
|
The Devil Wears Prada |
| Al Franken |
Comic |
21-May-1951 |
|
Bow-tied pundit and ex-SNL player |
| John Hope Franklin |
Historian |
2-Jan-1915 |
25-Mar-2009 |
From Slavery to Freedom |
| Richard Freeman |
Economist |
29-Jun-1943 |
|
Labor economist |
| David B. Frohnmayer |
Politician |
9-Jul-1940 |
|
President, University of Oregon |
| Francis Fukuyama |
Author |
27-Oct-1952 |
|
The End of History and the Last Man |
| Melville W. Fuller |
Judge |
11-Feb-1833 |
4-Jul-1910 |
US Chief Justice, 1888-1910 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller |
Architect |
12-Jul-1895 |
1-Jul-1983 |
Futurist, invented the geodesic dome |
| Jason Furman |
Government |
c. 1970 |
|
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution |
| Paul Fussell |
Historian |
22-Mar-1924 |
|
The Great War and Modern Memory |
| William Gaddis |
Novelist |
29-Dec-1922 |
16-Dec-1998 |
A Frolic of His Own |
| James I. Gadsden |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Iceland, 2002-05 |
| John Gage |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Sun Microsystems |
| James K. Galbraith |
Scholar |
c. 1952 |
|
Economics Professor at UT-Austin |
| Peter Galbraith |
Diplomat |
31-Dec-1950 |
|
The End of Iraq |
| Richard N. Gardner |
Diplomat |
9-Jul-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Spain, 1993-97 |
| William M. Gardner |
Politician |
26-Oct-1948 |
|
New Hampshire Secretary of State |
| Geoff Garin |
Business |
? |
|
Pollster |
| Anne Garrels |
Journalist |
2-Jul-1951 |
|
NPR senior foreign correspondent |
| Bill Gates |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
| Mark Gearan |
Government |
16-Sep-1956 |
|
Peace Corps Director, 1995-99 |
| Clifford Geertz |
Anthropologist |
23-Aug-1926 |
30-Oct-2006 |
Thick Description |
| Frank Gehry |
Architect |
28-Feb-1929 |
|
Postmodern architect |
| C. Daniel Gelatt |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of NMT Corporation |
| Leslie H. Gelb |
Government |
4-Mar-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003 |
| Robert A. Gerard |
Government |
c. 1945 |
|
Assistant Treasury Secretary, 1974-77 |
| Elbridge Gerry |
Politician |
17-Jul-1744 |
23-Nov-1814 |
Patron saint of Gerrymandering |
| Ivan Getting |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1912 |
11-Oct-2003 |
Global Positioning System |
| Samir G. Gibara |
Business |
23-Apr-1939 |
|
CEO of Goodyear, 1996-2002 |
| Walter S. Gifford |
Business |
10-Jan-1885 |
7-May-1966 |
President of AT&T, 1925-48 |
| Gabrielle Giffords |
Politician |
8-Jun-1970 |
|
Congresswoman, Arizona 8th |
| Jarobin Gilbert, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Former NBC executive |
| Walter Gilbert |
Chemist |
21-Mar-1932 |
|
Sequencing techniques for DNA |
| George Gilder |
Pundit |
29-Nov-1939 |
|
Technological futurist pundit |
| Carol Gilligan |
Psychologist |
28-Nov-1936 |
|
In a Different Voice |
| Allan D. Gilmour |
Business |
1934 |
|
Twice Vice Chairman of Ford |
| Todd Gitlin |
Educator |
1943 |
|
Journalism professor, social critic |
| Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| James Glassman |
Publisher |
1-Jan-1947 |
|
Roll Call editor |
| Robert R. Glauber |
Business |
? |
|
National Association of Securities Dealers |
| Roy J. Glauber |
Physicist |
1-Sep-1925 |
|
Quantum optics |
| Sam Goddard |
Politician |
8-Aug-1919 |
1-Feb-2006 |
Governor of Arizona, 1965-67 |
| Terry Goddard |
Politician |
29-Jan-1947 |
|
Attorney General of Arizona |
| Donald J. Gogel |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice |
| Ray A. Goldberg |
Educator |
c. 1927 |
|
Agribusiness professor, Harvard |
| Stephen M. Goldfeld |
Economist |
9-Aug-1940 |
25-Aug-1995 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1980-81 |
| John P. Goldsberry |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CFO of Gateway |
| James Goodby |
Diplomat |
20-Dec-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Finland, 1980-81 |
| Amy Goodman |
Radio Personality |
13-Apr-1957 |
|
Host of Democracy Now! |
| Nelson Goodman |
Philosopher |
7-Aug-1906 |
25-Nov-1998 |
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Historian |
4-Jan-1943 |
|
Team of Rivals |
| S. Bernard Goodwyn |
Judge |
c. 1961 |
|
Justice, Virginia Supreme Court |
| Chris Gordon |
Business |
c. 1973 |
|
Bain Capital |
| Kermit Gordon |
Economist |
1916 |
1976 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-62 |
| Lincoln Gordon |
Diplomat |
1913 |
|
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66 |
| Al Gore |
Politician |
31-Mar-1948 |
|
US Vice President under Clinton |
| Al Gore III |
Relative |
19-Oct-1982 |
|
Al Gore's son |
| Kristin Gore |
Relative |
5-Jun-1977 |
|
Futurama, SNL writer |
| Jamie S. Gorelick |
Attorney |
6-May-1950 |
|
9-11 Commission member |
| Edward Gorey |
Author |
22-Feb-1925 |
15-Apr-2000 |
Amphigorey |
| Benjamin Apthorp Gould |
Astronomer |
27-Sep-1824 |
26-Nov-1896 |
American astronomer and star-catalogist |
| Bill Gradison |
Politician |
28-Dec-1928 |
|
Congressman from Ohio, 1975-93 |
| Laurence S. Grafstein |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Managing Director, Lazard |
| Donald E. Graham |
Journalist |
22-Apr-1945 |
|
Washington Post CEO |
| Fred Grandy |
Actor |
29-Jun-1948 |
|
Congressman, Gopher on The Love Boat |
| Robert Grant |
Novelist |
24-Jan-1852 |
19-May-1940 |
Unleavened Bread |
| C. Boyden Gray |
Government |
6-Feb-1943 |
|
Conservative activist, lobbyist |
| Hanna Holborn Gray |
Educator |
1930 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1978-93 |
| Horace Gray |
Judge |
24-Mar-1828 |
15-Sep-1902 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1882-1902 |
| Jonathan N. Grayer |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
CEO of Kaplan |
| Alan Grayson |
Politician |
13-Mar-1958 |
|
Congressman, Florida 8th |
| Joshua Green III |
Business |
1936 |
|
Joshua Green Corporation |
| S. William Green |
Politician |
16-Oct-1929 |
14-Oct-2002 |
Congressman from New York, 1978-93 |
| Stanley B. Greenberg |
Business |
10-May-1945 |
|
Pollster |
| Brian Greene |
Author |
9-Feb-1963 |
|
The Elegant Universe |
| Jesse L. Greenstein |
Astronomer |
15-Oct-1909 |
21-Oct-2002 |
Co-Discoverer of quasars |
| Andre Gregory |
Theater Director |
11-May-1934 |
|
My Dinner with Andre |
| Joseph Grew |
Diplomat |
27-May-1880 |
25-May-1965 |
US Ambassador to Japan, 1932-41 |
| Kenneth C. Griffin |
Business |
c. 1969 |
|
Citadel Investment Group |
| David J. Gross |
Physicist |
19-Feb-1941 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Ernest Gruening |
Politician |
6-Feb-1887 |
26-Jun-1974 |
US Senator from Alaska, 1959-69 |
| Mandy Grunwald |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Hillary Clinton media adviser |
| Judith M. Gueron |
Administrator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of MDRC, 1986-2004 |
| Gordon Gund |
Business |
15-Oct-1939 |
|
Former owner, Cleveland Cavaliers |
| Amy Gutmann |
Educator |
1949 |
|
President, University of Pennsylvania |
| Fred Gwynne |
Actor |
10-Jul-1926 |
2-Jul-1993 |
Herman on The Munsters |
| John Hagelin |
Activist |
9-Jun-1954 |
|
Natural Law Party |
| David Halberstam |
Journalist |
10-Apr-1934 |
23-Apr-2007 |
The Powers That Be |
| Edward Everett Hale |
Author |
3-Apr-1822 |
10-Jun-1909 |
The Man Without a Country |
| Horatio Hale |
Anthropologist |
3-May-1817 |
28-Dec-1896 |
Ethnologist studied polynesia |
| Donald Hall |
Poet |
20-Sep-1928 |
|
The One Day |
| Mark Halperin |
Journalist |
11-Jan-1965 |
|
TIME senior political analyst |
| John Hancock |
Politician |
23-Jan-1737 |
8-Oct-1793 |
First signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Learned Hand |
Judge |
27-Jan-1872 |
18-Aug-1961 |
Influential American justice |
| Oscar Handlin |
Historian |
29-Sep-1915 |
|
The Uprooted |
| George Russell Harrison |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1898 |
27-Jul-1979 |
Echelle spectrograph |
| Jerry Harrison |
Musician |
21-Feb-1949 |
|
Guitar and keyboard player for Talking Heads |
| C. Lowell Harriss |
Economist |
2-Aug-1912 |
|
Columbia University Economist |
| William Harrop |
Diplomat |
19-Feb-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Israel, 1991-93 |
| Alex W. Hart |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Advanta Corporation, 1995-97 |
| Myra M. Hart |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Co-Founder of Staples |
| Parker T. Hart |
Diplomat |
28-Sep-1910 |
15-Oct-1997 |
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1961-65 |
| Arthur A. Hartman |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1981-87 |
| John Harwood |
Journalist |
c. 1956 |
|
Wall Street Journal political editor |
| William Dodd Hathaway |
Politician |
21-Feb-1924 |
|
US Senator from Maine, 1973-79 |
| John Hawkes |
Novelist |
17-Aug-1925 |
15-May-1998 |
The Blood Oranges |
| Trip Hawkins |
Business |
28-Dec-1953 |
|
Founder of Electronic Arts |
| Ulric Haynes |
Diplomat |
8-Jun-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Algeria, 1977-81 |
| William R. Hearst III |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
San Francisco Examiner Editor, 1984-95 |
| William Randolph Hearst |
Business |
29-Apr-1863 |
14-Aug-1951 |
Newspaper magnate |
| Joel Hefley |
Politician |
18-Apr-1935 |
|
Congressman, Colorado 5th |
| Robert Heilbroner |
Economist |
24-Mar-1919 |
4-Jan-2005 |
The Worldly Philosophers |
| Robert B. Heisler, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
EVP at KeyCorp, 1994-2007 |
| Mark Helprin |
Author |
28-Jun-1947 |
|
Winter's Tale |
| Michael A. Henning |
Business |
1-May-1940 |
|
CEO of E&Y International, 1993-99 |
| Nat Hentoff |
Critic |
10-Jun-1925 |
|
The Jazz Life |
| Enrique Hernandez, Jr. |
Business |
2-Nov-1955 |
|
Inter-Con Security Systems |
| Roland A. Hernandez |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Telemundo Group, 1995-2000 |
| Dudley R. Herschbach |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1932 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Christian Herter, Jr. |
Government |
29-Jan-1919 |
16-Sep-2007 |
First Chairman, New York Urban Coalition |
| Christian Herter |
Politician |
28-Mar-1895 |
30-Dec-1966 |
US Secretary of State, 1959-61 |
| Hendrik Hertzberg |
Publisher |
1943 |
|
The New Yorker |
| John B. Hess |
Business |
5-Apr-1954 |
|
CEO of Amerada Hess |
| Hugh Hewitt |
Radio Personality |
22-Feb-1956 |
|
Conservative talk radio show |
| Andrew Heyward |
Journalist |
1950 |
|
President of CBS News, 1996-2005 |
| Fred Hiatt |
Columnist |
30-Apr-1955 |
|
Washington Post Editorial Page Editor |
| Granville Hicks |
Critic |
9-Sep-1901 |
18-Jun-1982 |
Marxist critic, The Great Tradition |
| J. Tomilson Hill |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Vice Chairman of Blackstone Group |
| Martin J. Hillenbrand |
Diplomat |
1-Aug-1915 |
2-Feb-2005 |
US Ambassador to Germany, 1972-76 |
| David D. Hiller |
Publisher |
12-Jun-1953 |
|
LA Times publisher, 2006-08 |
| Jim Himes |
Politician |
5-Jul-1966 |
|
Congressman, Connecticut 4th |
| Samuel S. Hinds |
Actor |
4-Apr-1875 |
13-Oct-1948 |
It's a Wonderful Life |
| Deane R. Hinton |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1923 |
|
US Ambassador to Panama, 1990-94 |
| George H. Hitchings |
Scientist |
18-Apr-1905 |
27-Feb-1998 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, arthritis |
| Edward Hoagland |
Essayist |
21-Dec-1932 |
|
The Courage of Turtles |
| George F. Hoar |
Politician |
29-Aug-1826 |
30-Sep-1904 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1877-1904 |
| Franklin W. Hobbs |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Warburg Dillon Read |
| Donald Hodel |
Government |
23-May-1935 |
|
Reagan's Secretary of Energy & Interior |
| Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
| John H. Holdridge |
Diplomat |
21-Aug-1924 |
12-Jul-2001 |
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1983-86 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Author |
29-Aug-1809 |
7-Oct-1894 |
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
| Dennis H. Holtschneider |
Educator |
14-Jan-1965 |
|
President, DePaul University |
| Hume Alexander Horan |
Diplomat |
13-Aug-1934 |
22-Jul-2004 |
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1988 |
| Donald F. Hornig |
Educator |
17-Mar-1920 |
|
President of Brown University, 1970-76 |
| H. Robert Horvitz |
Scientist |
8-May-1947 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
| Alanson B. Houghton |
Diplomat |
10-Oct-1863 |
15-Sep-1941 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1925-29 |
| Amo Houghton |
Politician |
7-Aug-1926 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1987-2005 |
| James R. Houghton |
Business |
6-Apr-1936 |
|
CEO of Corning, 2002-05 |
| David F. Houston |
Government |
17-Feb-1866 |
2-Sep-1940 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20 |
| Walter Howe |
Diplomat |
10-Jun-1907 |
8-Apr-1966 |
US Ambassador to Chile, 1958-61 |
| Glenn Hubbard |
Economist |
1958 |
|
George W. Bush economist |
| Franklin P. Huddle |
Diplomat |
9-May-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Tajikistan, 2001-03 |
| Reginald Hudlin |
Film Director |
15-Dec-1961 |
|
Boomerang |
| Roy M. Huffington |
Business |
4-Oct-1917 |
11-Jul-2008 |
Texas Oilman |
| Cameron R. Hume |
Diplomat |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Indonesia |
| Samuel P. Huntington |
Author |
18-Apr-1927 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Clash of Civilizations |
| Leonid Hurwicz |
Economist |
21-Aug-1917 |
24-Jun-2008 |
Mechanism design theory |
| Glenn H. Hutchins |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Co-Founder, Silver Lake Partners |
| Thomas Hutchinson |
Government |
9-Sep-1711 |
3-Jun-1780 |
Last Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Michael Ignatieff |
Author |
12-May-1947 |
|
Blood and Belonging |
| David Ignatius |
Columnist |
1950 |
|
Washington Post op-ed columnist |
| Walter Isaacson |
Author |
20-May-1952 |
|
Former Managing Editor for Time |
| Lawrence V. Jackson |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Wal-Mart executive |
| Rona Jaffe |
Author |
12-Jun-1932 |
30-Dec-2005 |
Mazes & Monsters |
| Hamilton James |
Business |
3-Feb-1951 |
|
President of Blackstone Group |
| William James |
Philosopher |
11-Jan-1842 |
26-Aug-1910 |
The Principles of Psychology |
| Charles H. Jenkins, Jr. |
Business |
1944 |
|
CEO of Publix, 2001-08 |
| Josef Joffe |
Editor |
15-Mar-1944 |
|
Editor of Die Zeit |
| Robert D. Joffe |
Attorney |
c. 1942 |
|
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
| James M. Johnson |
Judge |
c. 1946 |
|
Justice, Washington Supreme Court |
| Philip Johnson |
Architect |
8-Jul-1906 |
25-Jan-2005 |
The Glass House |
| Phillip Johnson |
Author |
1940 |
|
Intelligent Design theorist |
| William Samuel Johnson |
Educator |
7-Oct-1727 |
14-Nov-1819 |
President of Columbia University, 1787-1800 |
| David L. Johnston |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
President, University of Waterloo |
| L. Craig Johnstone |
Diplomat |
1-Sep-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Algeria, 1985-88 |
| Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. |
Publisher |
1946 |
|
Washington Post publisher, 2000-08 |
| Bobby Jones |
Golf |
17-Mar-1902 |
18-Dec-1971 |
Winner of 13 major championships |
| G. Lewis Jones |
Diplomat |
18-May-1907 |
13-Nov-1971 |
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1956-59 |
| Rashida Jones |
Actor |
25-Feb-1976 |
|
Louisa Fenn on Boston Public |
| Richard H. Jones |
Diplomat |
26-Aug-1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Israel |
| Tommy Lee Jones |
Actor |
15-Sep-1946 |
|
Men in Black |
| Dale W. Jorgenson |
Economist |
7-May-1933 |
|
Economist at Harvard |
| Jonathan J. Judge |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Paychex |
| Percy Julian |
Chemist |
11-Apr-1899 |
19-Apr-1975 |
Physostigmine and cortisone |
| Ted Kaczynski |
Criminal |
22-May-1942 |
|
The Unabomber |
| Jeremy Paul Kagan |
Film Director |
14-Dec-1945 |
|
The Journey of Natty Gann |
| Peter R. Kagan |
Business |
c. 1968 |
|
Partner at Warburg Pincus |
| Robert Kagan |
Government |
26-Sep-1958 |
|
Influential neocon, cofounded PNAC |
| Bernard Kalb |
Journalist |
4-Feb-1922 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
| Marvin Kalb |
Journalist |
9-Jun-1930 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
| Eric R. Kandel |
Scientist |
7-Nov-1929 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Peter R. Kann |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Dow Jones, 1991-2006 |
| Joel D. Kaplan |
Government |
c. 1969 |
|
White House policy advisor |
| Justin Kaplan |
Author |
5-Sep-1925 |
|
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
| Jerome Karle |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1918 |
|
X-Ray diffraction studies |
| Martin Karplus |
Chemist |
15-Mar-1930 |
|
Karplus Equation |
| Kevin D. Katari |
Business |
c. 1969 |
|
Watershed Asset Management |
| Juliette Kayyem |
Government |
16-Aug-1969 |
|
Counterterrorism wonk |
| David T. Kearns |
Business |
11-Aug-1930 |
|
CEO of Xerox, 1985-91 |
| David Keene |
Administrator |
? |
|
American Conservative Union |
| Barnaby C. Keeney |
Educator |
17-Oct-1914 |
18-Jun-1980 |
President of Brown University, 1955-66 |
| Donald Kennedy |
Educator |
18-Aug-1931 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Science |
| John F. Kennedy |
Head of State |
29-May-1917 |
22-Nov-1963 |
35th US President, 1961-63 |
| Joseph P. Kennedy |
Business |
6-Sep-1888 |
18-Nov-1969 |
Smuggler and patriarch of the Kennedy clan |
| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
Relative |
17-Jan-1954 |
|
Son of Robert F. Kennedy |
| Robert F. Kennedy |
Politician |
20-Nov-1925 |
6-Jun-1968 |
Slain Presidential candidate |
| Ted Kennedy |
Politician |
22-Feb-1932 |
|
US Senator from Massachusetts |
| Doug Kenney |
Comic |
10-Dec-1946 |
27-Aug-1980 |
National Lampoon cofounder |
| John Kerr |
Actor |
15-Nov-1931 |
|
Tea and Sympathy |
| Cameron Kerry |
Relative |
06-Sep-1950 |
|
John Kerry's younger brother |
| Charles R. Kesler |
Scholar |
c. 1956 |
|
Conservative scholar |
| John Key |
Government |
9-Aug-1961 |
|
Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| Alan Keyes |
Radio Personality |
7-Aug-1950 |
|
Illinois carpetbagger |
| Tracy Kidder |
Author |
12-Nov-1945 |
|
The Soul of a New Machine |
| Leo Kiely |
Business |
16-Jan-1947 |
|
CEO of Molson Coors |
| Ron Kind |
Politician |
16-Mar-1963 |
|
Congressman, Wisconsin 3rd |
| John W. King |
Politician |
10-Oct-1918 |
9-Aug-1996 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1963-69 |
| Thomas Starr King |
Religion |
17-Dec-1824 |
4-Mar-1864 |
Saved California to the Union |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King |
Head of State |
17-Dec-1874 |
22-Jul-1950 |
Three-time Prime Minister of Canada |
| Alfred Kinsey |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1894 |
25-Aug-1956 |
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male |
| Michael Kinsley |
Pundit |
9-Mar-1951 |
|
Slate founder |
| Paul G. Kirk, Jr. |
Attorney |
18-Jan-1938 |
|
DNC Chairman, 1985-89 |
| Lincoln Kirstein |
Author |
4-May-1907 |
5-Jan-1996 |
Co-Founder, New York City Ballet |
| Henry Kissinger |
Government |
27-May-1923 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1973-77 |
| Richard G. Kleindienst |
Government |
5-Aug-1923 |
3-Feb-2000 |
US Attorney General, 1972-73 |
| Kevin Klose |
Government |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of National Public Radio |
| William S. Knowles |
Chemist |
1-Jun-1917 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Kenneth Koch |
Poet |
27-Feb-1925 |
6-Jul-2002 |
On the Great Atlantic Rainway |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
Density-functional theory |
| Gabriel Kolko |
Historian |
1932 |
|
Century of War |
| Mort Kondracke |
Columnist |
28-Apr-1939 |
|
Tolerated by Fox, McLaughlin |
| Arthur Kopit |
Playwright |
10-May-1937 |
|
Mama's Hung You in the Closet |
| Roger D. Kornberg |
Scientist |
24-Apr-1947 |
|
Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription |
| Bruce Kovner |
Activist |
Feb-1945 |
|
Caxton Associates billionaire |
| Jonathan Kozol |
Educator |
1936 |
|
Death at an Early Age |
| Hilton Kramer |
Critic |
25-Mar-1928 |
|
The New Criterion |
| Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
| Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. |
Military |
c. 1950 |
|
The Army and Vietnam |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
Journalist |
27-Apr-1959 |
|
New York Times Op-Ed columnist |
| Bill Kristol |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1952 |
|
Editor of The Weekly Standard |
| George A. Krol |
Diplomat |
1956 |
|
US Ambassador to Belarus, 2003-06 |
| Randall S. Kroszner |
Economist |
22-Jun-1962 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor |
| Thomas Kuhn |
Author |
18-Jul-1922 |
17-Jun-1996 |
Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
| Stanley Kunitz |
Poet |
29-Jul-1905 |
14-May-2006 |
US Poet Laureate, 2000 |
| Lawrence Lader |
Activist |
6-Aug-1919 |
7-May-2006 |
Father of abortion rights activism |
| Anthony Lake |
Government |
2-Apr-1939 |
|
Clinton's National Security Advisor |
| Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
| Thomas W. Lamont |
Business |
30-Sep-1870 |
2-Feb-1948 |
Banker and diplomat |
| Lisa Lampanelli |
Comic |
19-Jul-1961 |
|
Insult Comic |
| Edwin H. Land |
Inventor |
7-May-1909 |
1-Mar-1991 |
Polaroid Land Camera |
| William Leonard Langer |
Historian |
16-Mar-1896 |
26-Dec-1977 |
Our Vichy Gamble |
| Samuel P. Langley |
Astronomer |
22-Aug-1834 |
2-Feb-1906 |
Heavier-than-air flying machine |
| Christopher Lasch |
Author |
1-Jun-1932 |
14-Feb-1994 |
The Culture of Narcissism |
| Owen Lattimore |
Author |
29-Jul-1900 |
31-May-1989 |
Scholar of Mongolia |
| James Laughlin |
Publisher |
30-Oct-1914 |
12-Nov-1997 |
Founder, New Directions Press |
| Bernard Cardinal Law |
Religion |
4-Nov-1931 |
|
Archbishop of Boston, 1984-2002 |
| Edward Lazear |
Economist |
1948 |
|
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt |
Astronomer |
4-Jul-1868 |
12-Dec-1921 |
Cepheid variable |
| John LeBoutillier |
Politician |
26-May-1953 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1981-83 |
| John C. Lechleiter |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Eli Lilly |
| Philip Leder |
Biologist |
19-Nov-1934 |
|
Harvard Geneticist |
| David M. Lee |
Physicist |
20-Jan-1931 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Jennifer 8. Lee |
Journalist |
15-Mar-1976 |
|
New York Times reporter |
| Kewsong Lee |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
Managing Director, Warburg Pincus |
| Yuan T. Lee |
Chemist |
29-Nov-1936 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| David W. Leebron |
Educator |
1956 |
|
President, Rice University |
| Jean-Marie Lehn |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1939 |
|
Synthesis of molecules |
| Tom Lehrer |
Comic |
9-Apr-1928 |
|
Comedic songwriter |
| Jack Lemmon |
Actor |
8-Feb-1925 |
27-Jun-2001 |
The Odd Couple |
| James F. Leonard |
Diplomat |
30-May-1920 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 1977-79 |
| Jeremy Leven |
Film Director |
1941 |
|
Don Juan DeMarco |
| Burton Levin |
Diplomat |
28-Sep-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to Burma, 1987-90 |
| Daniel B. Levin |
Government |
4-Mar-1956 |
|
Justice Department attorney |
| Linda Fayne Levinson |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Vendare Media Corporation |
| Steven Levitt |
Economist |
1968 |
|
Freakonomics |
| Marv Levy |
Football |
3-Aug-1925 |
|
NFL, CFL, and NCAA coach |
| William M. Lewis, Jr. |
Business |
30-Apr-1956 |
|
Co-Chair Investment Banking at Lazard |
| Anthony Lewis |
Author |
27-Mar-1927 |
|
Gideon's Trumpet |
| John P. Lewis |
Economist |
1921 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1963-64 |
| Marlo Lewis, Jr. |
Activist |
c. 1951 |
|
Global Warming critic |
| W. Walker Lewis |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Devon Value Advisers |
| Richard A. Licht |
Politician |
25-Mar-1948 |
|
Lt. Governor of Rhode Island, 1985-89 |
| S. Robert Lichter |
Scholar |
? |
|
Center for Media and Public Affairs |
| Robert Jay Lifton |
Psychiatrist |
16-May-1926 |
|
The Nazi Doctors |
| Charles P. Light, Jr. |
Attorney |
1902 |
1976 |
Prominent Washington attorney, law professor |
| Maya Lin |
Architect |
5-Oct-1959 |
|
Designed Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| Robert Todd Lincoln |
Politician |
1-Aug-1843 |
26-Jul-1926 |
US Secretary of War, 1881-85 |
| Susan L. Lindquist |
Biologist |
5-Jun-1949 |
|
Protein folding |
| Howard Lindsay |
Playwright |
29-Mar-1889 |
11-Feb-1968 |
The Sound of Music |
| Larry Lindsey |
Economist |
18-Jul-1954 |
|
Masterminded GWB's tax cut |
| Ralph Linton |
Anthropologist |
27-Feb-1893 |
25-Dec-1953 |
The Study of Man |
| Walter Lippmann |
Journalist |
23-Sep-1889 |
14-Dec-1974 |
Today and Tomorrow |
| John Lithgow |
Actor |
19-Oct-1945 |
|
TV sitcom star in Third Rock From The Sun |
| Alain Locke |
Author |
13-Sep-1886 |
9-Jun-1954 |
Leader in the Harlem Renaissance |
| Henry Cabot Lodge |
Politician |
12-May-1850 |
9-Nov-1924 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. |
Politician |
5-Jul-1902 |
27-Feb-1985 |
Ambassador, Massachusetts Senator |
| John Davis Lodge |
Politician |
20-Oct-1903 |
29-Oct-1985 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1951-55 |
| Rayford W. Logan |
Historian |
7-Jan-1897 |
4-Nov-1982 |
The Negro in American Life and Thought |
| Donal Logue |
Actor |
27-Feb-1966 |
|
Jimmy the Cab Driver |
| Nicholas Longworth |
Politician |
5-Nov-1869 |
9-Apr-1931 |
Congressman from Ohio, 1903-31 |
| Edward Lorenz |
Scientist |
23-May-1917 |
16-Apr-2008 |
Chaos theory |
| Arthur O. Lovejoy |
Historian |
10-Oct-1873 |
30-Dec-1962 |
The Great Chain of Being |
| Robert A. Lovett |
Government |
14-Sep-1895 |
7-May-1986 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1951-53 |
| A. Lawrence Lowell |
Educator |
1-Jan-1856 |
6-Jan-1943 |
President, Harvard University, 1909-33 |
| James Russell Lowell |
Author |
22-Feb-1819 |
12-Aug-1891 |
The Biglow Papers |
| Percival Lowell |
Astronomer |
13-Mar-1855 |
12-Nov-1916 |
Predicted existence of planet Pluto |
| Robert Lowell |
Poet |
1-Mar-1917 |
12-Sep-1977 |
Lord Weary's Castle |
| Annette Lu |
Politician |
7-Jun-1944 |
|
Vice President of Taiwan |
| Carrie Lukas |
Activist |
? |
|
Independent Women's Forum |
| Robert Luskin |
Attorney |
21-Jan-1950 |
|
Karl Rove's lawyer |
| Douglas Lute |
Military |
c. 1953 |
|
White House War Czar |
| Willem J. Luyten |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1899 |
21-Nov-1994 |
Stellar mortician |
| Princeton Lyman |
Diplomat |
20-Nov-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to South Africa, 1992-95 |
| Richard W. Lyman |
Educator |
18-Oct-1923 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 |
| Cecil B. Lyon |
Diplomat |
8-Nov-1903 |
6-Apr-1993 |
US Ambassador to Chile, Sri Lanka |
| Champ Lyons, Jr. |
Judge |
6-Dec-1940 |
|
Justice, Alabama Supreme Court |
| Yo-Yo Ma |
Cellist |
7-Oct-1955 |
|
Cellist, The Silk Road Ensemble |
| James MacArthur |
Actor |
8-Dec-1937 |
|
Dano from Hawaii 5-O |
| Torbert H. Macdonald |
Politician |
6-Jun-1917 |
21-May-1976 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1955-76 |
| David Lyle Mack |
Diplomat |
10-Jun-1940 |
|
US Ambassador to the UAE, 1986-89 |
| Percy MacKaye |
Playwright |
16-Mar-1875 |
31-Aug-1956 |
The Canterbury Pilgrims |
| Charles MacVeagh |
Attorney |
6-Jun-1860 |
4-Dec-1931 |
US Ambassador to Japan, 1925-28 |
| Lincoln MacVeagh |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1890 |
15-Jan-1972 |
Roosevelt's Ambassador to Greece |
| Miguel de la Madrid |
Head of State |
12-Dec-1934 |
|
President of Mexico, 1982-88 |
| Norman Mailer |
Author |
31-Jan-1923 |
10-Nov-2007 |
Armies of the Night |
| Minoru Makihara |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
President of Mitsubishi, 1992-98 |
| Terrence Malick |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1943 |
|
Badlands |
| Burton Malkiel |
Economist |
28-Aug-1932 |
|
A Random Walk Down Wall Street |
| Mahmood Mamdani |
Author |
? |
|
When Victims Become Killers |
| John P. Marquand |
Novelist |
10-Nov-1893 |
16-Jul-1960 |
The Late George Apley |
| Margaret H. Marshall |
Judge |
1-Sep-1944 |
|
Massachusetts Chief Justice |
| Siri S. Marshall |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
General Counsel for General Mills, 1994-2008 |
| William Moulton Marston |
Inventor |
9-May-1893 |
2-May-1947 |
Invented polygraph, Wonder Woman |
| William Martin |
Novelist |
c. 1950 |
|
Back Bay |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Cotton Mather |
Religion |
12-Feb-1663 |
13-Feb-1728 |
Pastor at Boston North Church |
| Increase Mather |
Religion |
21-Jun-1639 |
23-Aug-1723 |
Massachusetts Puritan leader |
| Jim Matheson |
Politician |
21-Mar-1960 |
|
Congressman, Utah 2nd |
| Harry Mathews |
Author |
14-Feb-1930 |
|
My Life in CIA |
| Sylvia M. Mathews |
Administrator |
1965 |
|
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| F. O. Matthiessen |
Critic |
19-Feb-1902 |
1-Apr-1950 |
American Renaissance |
| Antonia Maury |
Astronomer |
21-Mar-1866 |
8-Jan-1952 |
Stellar classification |
| William Maxwell |
Novelist |
16-Aug-1908 |
31-Jul-2000 |
The Folded Leaf |
| Jonathan Mayhew |
Religion |
8-Oct-1720 |
9-Jul-1766 |
Congregationalist minister, anti-Royalist |
| Thom Mayne |
Architect |
1943 |
|
Architect, 2005 Pritzker Prize winner |
| Wiley Mayne |
Politician |
19-Jan-1917 |
27-May-2007 |
Congressman from Iowa, 1967-75 |
| Barry McCaffrey |
Government |
17-Nov-1942 |
|
White House Drug Czar, 1996-2001 |
| Karen McCarthy |
Politician |
18-Mar-1947 |
|
Congresswoman from Missouri, 1995-2005 |
| Michael McCaul |
Politician |
14-Jan-1962 |
|
Congressman, Texas 10th |
| Mark McClellan |
Government |
26-Jun-1963 |
|
Medicare Chief |
| John J. McCloy |
Military |
31-Mar-1895 |
11-Mar-1989 |
World Bank, Warren Commission |
| Pat McCormick |
Comic |
30-Jun-1927 |
29-Jul-2005 |
Smokey and the Bandit |
| Paul W. McCracken |
Economist |
29-Dec-1915 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| James S. McDonald |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Rockefeller & Co. |
| Neil H. McElroy |
Government |
30-Oct-1904 |
30-Nov-1972 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1957-59 |
| F. Warren McFarlan |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
Baker Foundation Professor |
| Edward McGaffigan |
Government |
8-Dec-1948 |
2-Sep-2007 |
NRC Commissioner, 1996-2007 |
| Henry McGee |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
President of HBO Video |
| James McGreevey |
Politician |
6-Aug-1957 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 2002-04 |
| Raymond J. McGuire |
Business |
1957 |
|
Citigroup M&A executive |
| Scott McNealy |
Business |
13-Nov-1954 |
|
Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems |
| Barbara J. McNeil |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
Harvard Professor of Health Care Policy |
| George Herbert Mead |
Philosopher |
27-Feb-1863 |
26-Apr-1931 |
Pragmatist, social behaviorist |
| Sanjeev K. Mehra |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Partner, Goldman Sachs |
| Ved Mehta |
Author |
21-Mar-1934 |
|
Face to Face |
| Keith A. Meister |
Business |
c. 1973 |
|
Icahn Enterprises |
| Craig C. Mello |
Scientist |
19-Oct-1960 |
|
RNA interference |
| Robert K. Merton |
Sociologist |
4-Jul-1910 |
23-Feb-2003 |
On the Shoulders of Giants |
| Tom Mesereau |
Attorney |
1950 |
|
Defended Michael Jackson |
| Bob Metcalfe |
Business |
1946 |
|
Co-Inventor of Ethernet |
| Mary S. Metz |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
President of Mills College, 1981-90 |
| James W. Michaels |
Journalist |
17-Jun-1921 |
2-Oct-2007 |
Longtime Forbes editor |
| Alexis P. Michas |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Co-Founder, Stonington Partners Inc. |
| Michael W. Michelson |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts |
| J. William Middendorf II |
Diplomat |
22-Sep-1924 |
|
Ford's Secretary of the Navy |
| Richard M. Miles |
Diplomat |
8-Jan-1937 |
|
Former US Ambassador to Georgia, Bulgaria |
| Stanley Milgram |
Psychologist |
15-Aug-1933 |
20-Dec-1984 |
Milgram Experiment |
| David C. Miller |
Diplomat |
15-Jul-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 1984-86 |
| J. Hillis Miller |
Critic |
5-Mar-1928 |
|
Deconstructionist literary critic |
| Merton H. Miller |
Economist |
16-May-1923 |
3-Jun-2000 |
Modigliani-Miller theorem |
| Robert H. Miller |
Diplomat |
8-Sep-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, 1983-86 |
| Stuart A. Miller |
Business |
1957 |
|
CEO of Lennar |
| Karen Gordon Mills |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Solera Capital LLC |
| Ogden L. Mills |
Government |
23-Aug-1884 |
11-Oct-1937 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1932-33 |
| Eric Mindich |
Business |
1967 |
|
Eton Park Capital Management |
| George R. Minot |
Doctor |
2-Dec-1885 |
25-Feb-1950 |
Liver therapy for pernicious anemia |
| Hyman Minsky |
Economist |
23-Sep-1919 |
25-Oct-1996 |
Inherently unstable markets |
| Marvin Minsky |
Scientist |
9-Aug-1927 |
|
Father of Artificial Intelligence |
| Cleta Mitchell |
Attorney |
1950 |
|
Conservative lawyer |
| Elvis Mitchell |
Critic |
1958 |
|
Mumbling ex-New York Times film critic |
| A. Malachi Mixon III |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Invacare |
| Goenawan Mohammad |
Journalist |
29-Jul-1941 |
|
Muckraking Indonesian journalist |
| Thomas L. Monahan III |
Business |
c. 1966 |
|
The Corporate Executive Board Company |
| William H. Moody |
Judge |
23-Feb-1853 |
2-Jul-1917 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1906-10 |
| William Vaughn Moody |
Playwright |
8-Jul-1869 |
17-Oct-1910 |
The Great Divide |
| Gwen Moore |
Politician |
18-Apr-1951 |
|
Congresswoman, Wisconsin 4th |
| Robin Moore |
Author |
31-Oct-1925 |
21-Feb-2008 |
The Green Berets |
| Rodman W. Moorhead III |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former Managing Director, Warburg Pincus |
| Sandra O. Moose |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Ex-VP, Boston Consulting Group |
| Paul Elmer More |
Scholar |
12-Dec-1864 |
9-Mar-1937 |
Shelburne Essays |
| Tom Morello |
Guitarist |
30-May-1964 |
|
Rage Against the Machine |
| J. P. Morgan, Jr. |
Business |
7-Sep-1867 |
13-Mar-1943 |
Banking magnate, J. P. Morgan & Co. |
| Samuel Eliot Morison |
Historian |
9-Jul-1887 |
15-May-1976 |
Rear Admiral and naval historian |
| Robert Morris, Jr. |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1965 |
|
Author of 1988 Huge Internet Worm |
| Jonathan Mostow |
Film Director |
28-Nov-1961 |
|
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines |
| Robert Motherwell |
Painter |
24-Jan-1915 |
16-Jul-1991 |
Abstract expressionist |
| John Lothrop Motley |
Diplomat |
15-Apr-1814 |
29-May-1877 |
The Rise of the Dutch Republic |
| Ben R. Mottelson |
Physicist |
9-Jul-1926 |
|
Determined shapes of nuclei |
| Leo F. Mullin |
Business |
26-Jan-1943 |
|
CEO of Delta Airlines, 1997-2004 |
| Alicia H. Munnell |
Economist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97 |
| James Murdoch |
Business |
13-Dec-1972 |
|
Rupert Murdoch's heir-apparent |
| Richard W. Murphy |
Diplomat |
1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Syria, 1974-78 |
| Charles Murray |
Author |
1943 |
|
The Bell Curve |
| Terrence Murray |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of FleetBoston |
| Roger B. Myerson |
Economist |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Vladimir Nabokov |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1899 |
2-Jul-1977 |
Lolita |
| Ethan Nadelmann |
Activist |
13-Mar-1957 |
|
Drug Policy Alliance |
| Thomas Nagel |
Philosopher |
4-Jul-1937 |
|
What is it like to be a bat? |
| Ajay Naidu |
Actor |
12-Feb-1972 |
|
Samir in Office Space |
| Mira Nair |
Film Director |
15-Oct-1957 |
|
Salaam Bombay! |
| Ogden Nash |
Poet |
19-Aug-1902 |
19-May-1971 |
Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker |
| Victor Navasky |
Publisher |
5-Jul-1932 |
|
Publisher of The Nation |
| Glen D. Nelson |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Vice Chairman of Medtronic, 1988-2002 |
| Ted Nelson |
Designer |
1937 |
|
Hypertext pioneer, Xanadu |
| Hassan Nemazee |
Business |
27-Jan-1950 |
|
Nemazee Capital Corporation |
| Howard Nemerov |
Poet |
1-Mar-1920 |
5-Jul-1991 |
US Poet Laureate, 1987-88 |
| Simon Newcomb |
Astronomer |
12-Mar-1835 |
11-Jul-1909 |
Nautical Almanac |
| Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
| Michael H. Newlin |
Diplomat |
16-May-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to Algeria, 1981-85 |
| Frank N. Newman |
Business |
20-Apr-1942 |
|
CEO of Bankers Trust, 1996-99 |
| Howard H. Newman |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Partner, Warburg Pincus |
| David G. Newton |
Diplomat |
13-Nov-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Iraq, 1984-88 |
| Thomas Niles |
Diplomat |
22-Sep-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to Greece, 1993-97 |
| William Niskanen |
Administrator |
? |
|
Chairman of the Cato Institute |
| Paul Nitze |
Diplomat |
16-Jan-1907 |
19-Oct-2004 |
US cold warrior |
| Grover Norquist |
Activist |
19-Oct-1956 |
|
Washington lobbyist, anti-tax crusader |
| Frank Norris |
Novelist |
5-Mar-1870 |
25-Oct-1902 |
The Octopus |
| Charles Eliot Norton |
Scholar |
16-Nov-1827 |
21-Oct-1908 |
American man of letters |
| B. J. Novak |
Actor |
31-Jul-1979 |
|
Ryan Howard on The Office |
| Michael Novak |
Religion |
9-Sep-1933 |
|
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism |
| Neil S. Novich |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Ryerson, 2006-07 |
| Ryoji Noyori |
Chemist |
3-Sep-1938 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Martha Nussbaum |
Philosopher |
6-May-1947 |
|
The Fragility of Goodness |
| Joseph Nye |
Government |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94 |
| Conan O'Brien |
Talk Show Host |
18-Apr-1963 |
|
Late Night with Conan O'Brien |
| John F. O'Brien |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Allmerica Financial, 1995-2002 |
| Soledad O'Brien |
Journalist |
19-Sep-1966 |
|
CNN newscaster |
| Lawrence O'Donnell |
Journalist |
1955 |
|
MSNBC political analyst |
| Sean O'Faolain |
Novelist |
22-Feb-1900 |
20-Apr-1991 |
Come Back to Erin |
| Frank O'Hara |
Poet |
27-Jun-1926 |
25-Jul-1966 |
Meditations in an Emergency |
| Eugene O'Neill |
Playwright |
16-Oct-1888 |
27-Nov-1953 |
America's greatest playwright |
| Bill O'Reilly |
Talk Show Host |
10-Sep-1949 |
|
The O'Reilly Factor |
| Tim O'Reilly |
Publisher |
1954 |
|
Publisher, O'Reilly Media |
| Bertil Ohlin |
Economist |
23-Apr-1899 |
3-Aug-1979 |
Hecksher-Ohlin model of free trade |
| Tom Oliphant |
Columnist |
c. 1945 |
|
Boston Globe columnist |
| John Ong |
Diplomat |
c. 1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Norway, 2002-05 |
| Ernst J. Öpik |
Astronomer |
23-Oct-1893 |
10-Sep-1985 |
Andromeda Nebula |
| Robert Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1904 |
18-Feb-1967 |
Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project |
| James Otis |
Government |
5-Feb-1725 |
23-May-1783 |
Massachusetts patriot and pamphleteer |
| Henry D. Owen |
Diplomat |
26-Aug-1920 |
|
US Ambassador at Large, 1977-81 |
| Catherine Oxenberg |
Actor |
22-Sep-1961 |
|
Amanda Carrington on Dynasty |
| David W. Oxtoby |
Educator |
1951 |
|
President, Pomona College |
| Mehmet Oz |
Doctor |
11-Jun-1960 |
|
Healing from the Heart |
| Douglas H. Paal |
Diplomat |
? |
|
Director, American Institute in Taiwan, 2002-06 |
| Peter Pace |
Military |
5-Nov-1945 |
|
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2005-07 |
| Robert P. Paganelli |
Diplomat |
3-Nov-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Syria, 1981-84 |
| Elaine Pagels |
Historian |
13-Feb-1943 |
|
The Gnostic Gospels |
| Nell Irvin Painter |
Historian |
2-Aug-1942 |
|
Creating Black Americans |
| George Pake |
Scientist |
1-Apr-1924 |
4-Mar-2004 |
First director of Xerox PARC |
| Anthony Pantaleoni |
Attorney |
c. 1954 |
|
Fulbright & Jaworski |
| Andreas Papandreou |
Head of State |
5-Feb-1919 |
23-Jun-1996 |
Twice Prime Minister of Greece |
| Robert E. Park |
Sociologist |
14-Feb-1864 |
7-Feb-1944 |
Race and Culture |
| Anthony W. Parker |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
GOP activist |
| Francis Parkman |
Historian |
16-Sep-1823 |
8-Nov-1893 |
France and England in North America |
| Vernon Louis Parrington |
Historian |
3-Aug-1871 |
16-Jun-1929 |
Main Currents in American Thought |
| Gram Parsons |
Musician |
5-Nov-1946 |
19-Sep-1973 |
Flying Burrito Brothers |
| John Dos Passos |
Author |
14-Jan-1896 |
28-Sep-1970 |
U.S.A. Trilogy |
| William C. Pate |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
Equity Group Investments |
| Deval Patrick |
Politician |
31-Jul-1956 |
|
Governor of Massachusetts |
| David C. Patterson |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Brandywine Trust Company |
| William J. Patterson |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
SPO Partners & Co. |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
| Endicott Peabody |
Politician |
15-Feb-1920 |
1-Dec-1997 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1963-65 |
| M. Scott Peck |
Author |
22-May-1936 |
25-Sep-2005 |
The Road Less Traveled |
| Merton J. Peck |
Economist |
c. 1926 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69 |
| I. M. Pei |
Architect |
26-Apr-1917 |
|
Designed Louvre's glass pyramid |
| Benjamin Peirce |
Mathematician |
4-Apr-1809 |
10-Jun-1880 |
Idempotent and nilpotent |
| Charles Sanders Peirce |
Philosopher |
10-Sep-1839 |
19-Apr-1914 |
Founder of Pragmatism |
| Herbert C. Pell |
Diplomat |
16-Feb-1884 |
17-Jul-1961 |
US Ambassador to Portugal, 1937-41 |
| Mark Penn |
Government |
c. 1954 |
|
Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign strategist |
| Boies Penrose |
Politician |
1-Nov-1860 |
31-Dec-1921 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1897-1921 |
| Marty Peretz |
Publisher |
c. 1937 |
|
Co-Owner, The New Republic |
| George R. Perkovich |
Author |
c. 1959 |
|
India's Nuclear Bomb |
| Saul Perlmutter |
Astronomer |
1959 |
|
Supernova Cosmology Project |
| Thomas Petri |
Politician |
28-May-1940 |
|
Congressman, Wisconsin 6th |
| William Lyon Phelps |
Critic |
2-Jan-1865 |
21-Aug-1943 |
Essays on Modern Novelists |
| Howard Phillips |
Activist |
6-Feb-1941 |
|
Founder, US Taxpayers Party |
| Irving Pichel |
Film Director |
24-Jun-1891 |
13-Jul-1954 |
Destination Moon |
| Edward Charles Pickering |
Astronomer |
19-Jul-1846 |
3-Feb-1919 |
Photometer inventor and surveyor |
| Timothy Pickering |
Politician |
17-Jul-1745 |
29-Jan-1829 |
US Secretary of State, 1795-1800 |
| Steven Pinker |
Linguist |
18-Sep-1954 |
|
The Language Instinct |
| Daniel Pipes |
Government |
9-Sep-1949 |
|
Influential neocon |
| Walter Piston |
Composer |
20-Jan-1894 |
12-Nov-1976 |
Symphony No. 3 |
| Nicholas Platt |
Diplomat |
10-Mar-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1991-92 |
| George Plimpton |
Author |
18-Mar-1927 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Paper Lion |
| H. David Politzer |
Physicist |
31-Aug-1949 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Carl Pope |
Activist |
c. 1945 |
|
Executive Director, The Sierra Club |
| David H. Popper |
Diplomat |
3-Oct-1912 |
24-Jul-2008 |
US Ambassador to Chile, 1974-77 |
| Charles O. Porter |
Politician |
4-Apr-1919 |
1-Jan-2006 |
Congressman from Oregon, 1957-61 |
| Cole Porter |
Composer |
9-Jun-1891 |
15-Oct-1964 |
I've Got You Under My Skin |
| Michael Porter |
Scholar |
1947 |
|
Competitive Strategy |
| Roger B. Porter |
Educator |
19-Jun-1946 |
|
Professor, Kennedy School of Government |
| Natalie Portman |
Actor |
9-Jun-1981 |
|
Queen Amidala in Star Wars |
| Adam Posen |
Scholar |
? |
|
Institute for International Economics |
| Wesley W. Posvar |
Educator |
14-Sep-1925 |
27-Jul-2001 |
Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh, 1967-91 |
| Trevor Potter |
Attorney |
24-Oct-1955 |
|
FEC Commissioner, 1991-95 |
| Roscoe Pound |
Judge |
27-Oct-1870 |
1-Jul-1964 |
Sociological jurisprudence |
| Kendall J. Powell |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of General Mills |
| Robert Pozen |
Business |
1946 |
|
Fidelity Investments |
| William H. Prescott |
Historian |
4-May-1796 |
28-Jan-1859 |
The Conquest of Mexico |
| Eric Press |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
Apollo Management |
| Penny Pritzker |
Business |
1959 |
|
Founder, Hyatt Classic Residence |
| E. M. Purcell |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1912 |
7-Mar-1997 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Jon Purnell |
Diplomat |
c. 1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Uzbekistan, 2004-07 |
| Nathan M. Pusey |
Educator |
4-Apr-1907 |
14-Nov-2001 |
President of Harvard, 1953-71 |
| Stephen R. Quazzo |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Transwestern Investment Company |
| John A. Quelch |
Educator |
c. 1951 |
|
Professor at HBS |
| Carroll Quigley |
Educator |
9-Nov-1910 |
3-Jan-1977 |
Harvard professor, mentor to Bill Clinton |
| Josiah Quincy |
Educator |
4-Feb-1772 |
1-Jul-1864 |
President of Harvard, 1829-45 |
| Willard Van Orman Quine |
Philosopher |
25-Jun-1908 |
25-Dec-2000 |
Two Dogmas of Empiricism |
| Maxwell M. Rabb |
Attorney |
28-Sep-1910 |
9-Jun-2002 |
US Ambassdor to Italy, 1981-89 |
| Franklin Raines |
Government |
14-Jan-1949 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004 |
| Bruce Ratner |
Business |
23-Jan-1945 |
|
New York City developer |
| Alan Charles Raul |
Government |
9-Sep-1954 |
|
Sidley & Austin |
| Charles Redman |
Diplomat |
24-Dec-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany, 1994-96 |
| Sumner Redstone |
Business |
27-May-1923 |
|
Chairman and CEO of Viacom |
| John Reed |
Activist |
22-Oct-1887 |
19-Oct-1920 |
Ten Days That Shook the World |
| Donald Regan |
Government |
21-Dec-1918 |
10-Jun-2003 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1981-85 |
| Henry Regnery |
Publisher |
5-Jan-1912 |
18-Jun-1996 |
Regnery Publishing |
| William Rehnquist |
Judge |
1-Oct-1924 |
3-Sep-2005 |
US Chief Justice, 1986-2005 |
| Jehuda Reinharz |
Educator |
1944 |
|
President, Brandeis University |
| Edwin O. Reischauer |
Diplomat |
15-Oct-1910 |
1-Sep-1990 |
US Ambassador to Japan, 1961-66 |
| Robert D. Reischauer |
Administrator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of the Urban Institute |
| Stephen Reno |
Educator |
c. 1943 |
|
Chancellor, University System of New Hampshire |
| Nicolas P. Retsinas |
Government |
? |
|
Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard |
| Mel Reynolds |
Politician |
8-Jan-1952 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1993-95 |
| Syngman Rhee |
Head of State |
26-Mar-1875 |
19-Jul-1965 |
First President of South Korea |
| John J. Rhodes |
Politician |
18-Sep-1916 |
24-Aug-2003 |
Congressman from Arizona, 1953-83 |
| Frank Rich |
Columnist |
2-Jun-1949 |
|
New York Times |
| Theodore W. Richards |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1868 |
2-Apr-1928 |
Proved existence of isotopes |
| Elliot Richardson |
Government |
20-Jul-1920 |
31-Dec-1999 |
Refused to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor |
| Tom Ridge |
Politician |
26-Aug-1945 |
|
US Secretary of Homeland Security, 2003-04 |
| Dennis Ritchie |
Computer Programmer |
9-Sep-1941 |
|
Co-Creator of UNIX |
| Michael Ritchie |
Film Director |
28-Nov-1938 |
16-Apr-2001 |
The Candidate |
| Hugh H. Roberts |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Former Kraft Foods executive |
| John G. Roberts, Jr. |
Judge |
27-Jan-1955 |
|
US Chief Justice |
| Philip R. Roberts |
Business |
18-Feb-1942 |
|
Roberts Ventures, LLC |
| Richard J. Roberts |
Scientist |
6-Sep-1943 |
|
Eukaryotic (split) genes |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson |
Poet |
22-Dec-1869 |
6-Apr-1935 |
The Man Against the Sky |
| Eugene H. Robinson |
Journalist |
1955 |
|
Associate Editor, Washington Post |
| James Harvey Robinson |
Historian |
29-Jun-1863 |
16-Feb-1936 |
The Mind in the Making |
| Linda Robinson |
Journalist |
c. 1960 |
|
US News and World Report |
| Mo Rocca |
Comic |
28-Jan-1969 |
|
Senior correspondent, The Daily Show |
| V. Manuel Rocha |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Bolivia, 2000-02 |
| David Rockefeller |
Business |
12-Jun-1915 |
|
Founder of the Trilateral Commission |
| Jay Rockefeller |
Politician |
18-Jun-1937 |
|
US Senator from West Virginia |
| Stephen K. Roddenberry |
Attorney |
c. 1948 |
|
Akerman Senterfitt |
| Buddy Roemer |
Politician |
4-Oct-1943 |
|
Governor of Louisiana, 1988-92 |
| Theodore Roethke |
Poet |
25-May-1908 |
1-Aug-1963 |
The Waking |
| Eddy J. Rogers, Jr. |
Attorney |
1940 |
|
Partner, Andrews Kurth |
| Peter Rojas |
Blogger |
c. 1975 |
|
Gizmodo, Engadget |
| Ann Romney |
First Lady |
16-Apr-1949 |
|
Wife of Mitt Romney |
| Archie Roosevelt |
Relative |
9-Apr-1894 |
13-Oct-1979 |
Conservative leader against New Deal |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Head of State |
30-Jan-1882 |
12-Apr-1945 |
US President during WWII |
| Kermit Roosevelt |
Relative |
10-Oct-1889 |
4-Jun-1943 |
Theodore Roosevelt's son |
| Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. |
Government |
16-Feb-1916 |
8-Jun-2000 |
1953 Iran coup |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
Head of State |
27-Oct-1858 |
6-Jan-1919 |
26th US President, 1901-09 |
| Harvey S. Rosen |
Economist |
29-Mar-1949 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 |
| Stephen A. Ross |
Economist |
c. 1943 |
|
Professor of Financial Economics, MIT |
| Marc Rotenberg |
Activist |
c. 1961 |
|
Electronic Privacy Information Center |
| Nouriel Roubini |
Economist |
29-Mar-1958 |
|
Dr. Doom, Roubini Global Economics |
| Robert E. Rubin |
Government |
29-Aug-1938 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1995-99 |
| George Rublee |
Government |
7-Jul-1868 |
26-Apr-1957 |
Advisor to Woodrow Wilson |
| Neil Rudenstine |
Educator |
21-Jan-1935 |
|
President of Harvard, 1991-2001 |
| Paul Rudolph |
Architect |
23-Oct-1918 |
8-Aug-1997 |
Modernist architect |
| Jeffrey Sachs |
Economist |
5-Nov-1954 |
|
The End of Poverty |
| Jeff Sagansky |
Business |
26-Jan-1952 |
|
President, CBS Entertainment, 1990-94 |
| Edward Said |
Educator |
1-Nov-1935 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Orientalism |
| Kazuhiko Sakamoto |
Business |
1945 |
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Marubeni Corporation |
| Meredith Salenger |
Actor |
14-Mar-1970 |
|
The Journey of Natty Gann |
| Carlos Salinas |
Head of State |
3-Apr-1948 |
|
President of Mexico, 1988-94 |
| Leverett Saltonstall |
Politician |
1-Sep-1892 |
17-Jun-1979 |
US Senator from Masachusetts, 1945-67 |
| Richard Samp |
Activist |
c. 1952 |
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Chief counsel, Washington Legal Foundation |
| Paul Samuelson |
Economist |
15-May-1915 |
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1970 Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Robert J. Samuelson |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1945 |
|
Newsweek columnist |
| Bengt I. Samuelsson |
Scientist |
21-May-1934 |
|
Prostaglandins |
| Sheryl Sandberg |
Business |
c. 1970 |
|
COO of Facebook |
| Steve Sandvoss |
Actor |
23-Jun-1980 |
|
Latter Days |
| Edward Terry Sanford |
Judge |
23-Jul-1865 |
8-Mar-1830 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1923-30 |
| George Santayana |
Philosopher |
16-Dec-1863 |
26-Sep-1952 |
The Realms of Being |
| Ronald L. Sargent |
Business |
1955 |
|
CEO of Staples |
| Jim Sasser |
Politician |
30-Sep-1936 |
|
US Senator from Tennessee, 1977-95 |
| Vicki L. Sato |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, 2000-05 |
| Robert A. Scalapino |
Scholar |
1919 |
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Longtime Asia scholar at Berkeley |
| Howard B. Schaffer |
Diplomat |
21-Jul-1929 |
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US Ambassador to Bangladesh, 1984-87 |
| Sydney Schanberg |
Journalist |
17-Jan-1934 |
|
The Death and Life of Dith Pran |
| Orville Schell |
Author |
20-May-1940 |
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Prominent sinologist |
| Thomas C. Schelling |
Economist |
14-Apr-1921 |
|
The Strategy of Conflict |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
Historian |
15-Oct-1917 |
28-Feb-2007 |
The Age of Roosevelt |
| James R. Schlesinger |
Government |
15-Feb-1929 |
|
Served Nixon, Ford, Carter |
| Jack Schmitt |
Astronaut |
3-Jul-1935 |
|
12th Man on the Moon |
| Bill Schneider |
Pundit |
8-Oct-1944 |
|
CNN senior political analyst |
| Cynthia P. Schneider |
Scholar |
16-Aug-1953 |
|
US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1998-2001 |
| Richard R. Schrock |
Chemist |
4-Jan-1945 |
|
Metathesis |
| Chuck Schumer |
Politician |
23-Nov-1950 |
|
US Senator from New York |
| Delmore Schwartz |
Poet |
8-Dec-1913 |
11-Jul-1966 |
Summer Knowledge |
| Mark Schwartz |
Business |
? |
|
Former CEO, Soros Fund Management |
| Bobby Scott |
Politician |
30-Apr-1947 |
|
Congressman, Virginia 3rd |
| Charles Seeger |
Musicologist |
14-Dec-1886 |
7-Feb-1979 |
American musicologist |
| Pete Seeger |
Singer/Songwriter |
3-May-1919 |
|
We Shall Overcome |
| John F. Seiberling |
Politician |
8-Sep-1918 |
2-Aug-2008 |
Congressman from Ohio, 1971-87 |
| Roger Sessions |
Composer |
28-Dec-1896 |
16-Mar-1985 |
Concerto for Orchestra |
| Joe Sestak |
Politician |
12-Dec-1951 |
|
Congressman, Pennsylvania 7th |
| Marc J. Shapiro |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, 1997-2003 |
| Robert B. Shapiro |
Business |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000 |
| K. Barry Sharpless |
Chemist |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Kathryn L. Shaw |
Economist |
c. 1954 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 |
| Wallace Shawn |
Actor |
12-Nov-1943 |
|
Ate dinner with Andre |
| Harry Shearer |
Comic |
23-Dec-1943 |
|
Almost half the voices on The Simpsons |
| Neil Sheehan |
Journalist |
27-Oct-1936 |
|
A Bright Shining Lie |
| Hugh Shelton |
Military |
2-Jan-1942 |
|
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1997-2001 |
| Robert E. Sherwood |
Playwright |
4-Apr-1896 |
14-Nov-1955 |
Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
| Thomas J. Shields |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Shields & Company |
| Willow B. Shire |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Orchard Consulting Group |
| William Shockley |
Physicist |
13-Feb-1910 |
12-Aug-1989 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Thomas P. Shoesmith |
Diplomat |
25-Jan-1922 |
26-Apr-2007 |
US Ambassador to Malaysia, 1983-87 |
| Bob Shrum |
Activist |
1943 |
|
Democratic political strategist |
| Elisabeth Shue |
Actor |
6-Oct-1963 |
|
Leaving Las Vegas |
| Stanley S. Shuman |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
Allen & Company |
| William Shurcliff |
Physicist |
27-Mar-1909 |
20-Jun-2006 |
Manhattan Project physicist |
| Kenton J. Sicchitano |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former Partner, PWC |
| Laurie A. Siegel |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Senior VP HR at Tyco |
| Richard D. Simmons |
Business |
30-Dec-1934 |
|
President of Washington Post Co., 1981-91 |
| Ruth J. Simmons |
Educator |
3-Jul-1945 |
|
President, Brown University |
| John Simon |
Critic |
12-May-1925 |
|
Reviewer for New York magazine |
| Thomas W. Simons |
Diplomat |
4-Sep-1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1995-98 |
| Ronald L. Skates |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Data General, 1989-99 |
| B. F. Skinner |
Psychologist |
20-Mar-1904 |
18-Aug-1990 |
Radical Behaviorism |
| Barbara Slavin |
Journalist |
1951 |
|
Sr. Diplomatic Reporter, USA Today |
| Carl S. Sloane |
Business |
1937 |
|
Co-Founder, Temple, Barker & Sloane |
| Benjamin A. Smith II |
Politician |
16-Mar-1916 |
6-Sep-1991 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1960-62 |
| Kent Smith |
Actor |
19-Mar-1907 |
23-Apr-1985 |
Cat People |
| Peter Smith |
Educator |
31-Oct-1945 |
|
President, CSU Monterey Bay, 1995-2005 |
| Richard Norton Smith |
Historian |
1953 |
|
Presidential historian |
| Rick Smith |
Business |
c. 1972 |
|
CEO of TASER International |
| Vernon L. Smith |
Economist |
1-Jan-1927 |
|
Experimental economics |
| Lee Smolin |
Physicist |
1955 |
|
The Trouble with Physics |
| Charles W. Socarides |
Activist |
24-Jan-1922 |
25-Dec-2005 |
Deprogrammer of homosexuals |
| Robert M. Solow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1924 |
|
Theory of economic growth |
| Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld |
Educator |
c. 1954 |
|
Chief Executive Leadership Institute |
| Han Duck Soo |
Head of State |
18-Jun-1949 |
|
Prime Minister of South Korea |
| Mira Sorvino |
Actor |
28-Sep-1967 |
|
Mighty Aphrodite |
| David Souter |
Judge |
17-Sep-1939 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Thomas Sowell |
Economist |
30-Jul-1930 |
|
Conservative economist, Hoover fellow |
| Jared Sparks |
Author |
10-May-1789 |
14-Mar-1866 |
Life and Writings of George Washington |
| A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Roger W. Sperry |
Scientist |
20-Aug-1913 |
17-Apr-1994 |
"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology |
| Joel Elias Spingarn |
Critic |
17-May-1875 |
26-Jul-1939 |
Literary critic, NAACP leader |
| Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
| Harley O. Staggers, Jr. |
Politician |
22-Feb-1951 |
|
Congressman from West Virginia, 1983-93 |
| Richard Stallman |
Computer Programmer |
16-Mar-1953 |
|
Founder, GNU software project |
| Craig Stapleton |
Diplomat |
c. 1945 |
|
US Ambassador to France |
| Chauncey Starr |
Physicist |
14-Apr-1912 |
17-Apr-2007 |
Electric Power Research Institute |
| Ronald Steel |
Scholar |
1931 |
|
Pax Americana |
| William H. Stein |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1911 |
2-Feb-1980 |
Studied ribonuclease |
| James B. Steinberg |
Government |
c. 1951 |
|
Deputy National Security Advisor, 1997-2001 |
| George Steiner |
Critic |
23-Apr-1929 |
|
After Babel |
| Tom Stemberg |
Business |
1949 |
|
Founder and CEO of Staples, Inc. |
| Thomas F. Stephenson |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Portugal |
| Daniel H. Stern |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Reservoir Capital Group |
| Paula Stern |
Government |
31-Mar-1945 |
|
Chairman, Int'l. Trade Commission, 1984-86 |
| Richard G. Stern |
Novelist |
25-Feb-1928 |
|
Other Men's Daughters |
| Wallace Stevens |
Poet |
2-Oct-1879 |
2-Aug-1955 |
Harmonium |
| Adlai E. Stevenson III |
Politician |
10-Oct-1930 |
|
US Senator from Illinois, 1970-81 |
| Thomas A. Stewart |
Editor |
c. 1948 |
|
Editor, Harvard Business Review |
| Whit Stillman |
Film Director |
25-Jan-1952 |
|
The Last Days of Disco |
| Henry L. Stimson |
Government |
21-Sep-1867 |
20-Oct-1950 |
US Secretary of War 1911-13, 1940-45 |
| Todd Stitzer |
Business |
Mar-1952 |
|
CEO of Cadbury Schweppes |
| David Stockman |
Government |
10-Nov-1946 |
|
Ronald Reagan's chief economist |
| Gerald L. Storch |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of Toys R Us |
| Joseph Story |
Judge |
18-Sep-1779 |
10-Sep-1845 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1812-45 |
| William Wetmore Story |
Sculptor |
12-Feb-1819 |
7-Oct-1895 |
Cleopatra |
| Samuel S. Stratton |
Politician |
27-Sep-1916 |
13-Sep-1990 |
Congressman from New York |
| Nadine Strossen |
Activist |
18-Aug-1950 |
|
President of the ACLU |
| Gerry Studds |
Politician |
12-May-1937 |
14-Oct-2006 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1973-97 |
| Andrew Sullivan |
Journalist |
10-Aug-1963 |
|
Conservative gay barebacker |
| Lawrence H. Summers |
Economist |
30-Nov-1954 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
| Charles Sumner |
Politician |
6-Jan-1811 |
11-Mar-1874 |
Anti-slavery Senator from Massachusetts |
| James B. Sumner |
Chemist |
19-Nov-1887 |
12-Aug-1955 |
First to crystallize an enzyme |
| Cass Sunstein |
Scholar |
21-Sep-1954 |
|
Why Societies Need Dissent |
| Phillip Swagel |
Government |
c. 1965 |
|
Bush economist |
| Emory C. Swank |
Diplomat |
29-Jan-1922 |
|
US Ambassador to Cambodia, 1970-73 |
| Harold R. Swearer |
Educator |
13-Oct-1932 |
19-Oct-1991 |
President of Brown University, 1977-88 |
| Fife Symington |
Politician |
12-Aug-1945 |
|
Governor of Arizona, 1991-97 |
| Robert A. Taft |
Politician |
8-Sep-1889 |
31-Jul-1953 |
US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53 |
| David K. Y. Tang |
Attorney |
c. 1953 |
|
Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
| Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. |
Astronomer |
24-Mar-1941 |
|
Co-Discovered first pulsar |
| Abigail Thernstrom |
Author |
1936 |
|
Opponent of Affirmative Action |
| Stephan Thernstrom |
Scholar |
1934 |
|
Neoconservative thinker |
| Evan Thomas |
Journalist |
Apr-1951 |
|
Newsweek |
| Jonathan Taylor Thomas |
Actor |
8-Sep-1981 |
|
Randy on Home Improvement |
| Pamela Thomas-Graham |
Business |
24-Jun-1963 |
|
CEO of CNBC, 2001-05 |
| Virgil Thomson |
Composer |
25-Nov-1896 |
30-Sep-1989 |
Four Saints in Three Acts |
| Henry David Thoreau |
Author |
12-Jul-1817 |
6-May-1862 |
Walden |
| John L. Thornton |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
President of Goldman Sachs, 1999-2003 |
| Lester Thurow |
Economist |
7-May-1938 |
|
Sloan School of Management |
| James Toback |
Film Director |
23-Nov-1944 |
|
The Pick-up Artist |
| James Tobin |
Economist |
5-Mar-1918 |
11-Mar-2002 |
Investment behaviorist |
| James R. Tobin |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Boston Scientific |
| Jeffrey Toobin |
Attorney |
c. 1960 |
|
CNN Senior Legal Analyst |
| Pat Toomey |
Politician |
17-Nov-1961 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1999-2005 |
| Malcolm Toon |
Diplomat |
4-Jul-1916 |
12-Feb-2009 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1976-79 |
| Marvin S. Traub |
Business |
c. 1925 |
|
CEO of Bloomingdale's, 1978-92 |
| Laurence Tribe |
Attorney |
10-Oct-1941 |
|
Harvard Law Professor |
| William Monroe Trotter |
Activist |
7-Apr-1872 |
7-Apr-1934 |
Co-founder, Boston Guardian |
| Pierre Trudeau |
Head of State |
18-Oct-1919 |
28-Sep-2000 |
Twice Prime Minister of Canada |
| John Trumbull |
Painter |
6-Jun-1756 |
10-Nov-1843 |
American Revolutionary painter |
| Jonathan Trumbull |
Politician |
12-Oct-1710 |
17-Aug-1785 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1769-84 |
| Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. |
Politician |
26-Mar-1740 |
7-Aug-1809 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1797-1809 |
| Daniel K. K. Tseung |
Business |
c. 1971 |
|
Sun Hung Kai Properties |
| Roger Y. Tsien |
Scientist |
1-Feb-1952 |
|
Green Fluorescent Protein |
| Jim Guy Tucker |
Politician |
13-Jun-1943 |
|
Governor of Arkansas, 1992-96 |
| Royall Tyler |
Playwright |
18-Jul-1757 |
26-Aug-1826 |
The Contrast |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Astronomer |
5-Oct-1958 |
|
Astrophysicist |
| Harlan Ullman |
Columnist |
15-Mar-1941 |
|
Shock and Awe |
| Theodore W. Ullyot |
Attorney |
c. 1968 |
|
Chief of Staff to Alberto Gonzales, 2005 |
| Leonard S. Unger |
Diplomat |
17-Dec-1917 |
|
US Ambassador to Taiwan, 1974-79 |
| Chase Untermeyer |
Diplomat |
7-Mar-1946 |
|
US Ambassador to Qatar |
| John Updike |
Novelist |
18-Mar-1932 |
27-Jan-2009 |
Rabbit, Run |
| Chris Van Hollen |
Politician |
10-Jan-1959 |
|
Congressman, Maryland 8th |
| John H. van Vleck |
Physicist |
13-Mar-1899 |
27-Oct-1980 |
Quantum mechanics of magnetism |
| Courtney B. Vance |
Actor |
12-Mar-1960 |
|
ADA Ron Carver in Law & Order: CI |
| Sheldon B. Vance |
Diplomat |
18-Jan-1917 |
12-Nov-1995 |
US Ambassador to Congo, 1969-74 |
| Harold E. Varmus |
Scientist |
18-Dec-1939 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| Jones Very |
Poet |
28-Aug-1813 |
8-May-1880 |
Religious mystic |
| Peter Viereck |
Poet |
5-Aug-1916 |
13-May-2006 |
Terror and Decorum |
| Richard N. Viets |
Diplomat |
10-Nov-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to Jordan, 1981-84 |
| Kaavya Viswanathan |
Novelist |
c. 1987 |
|
Alleged plagiarist, How Opal Mehta... |
| David J. Vitale |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CAO, Chicago Public Schools |
| David Vitter |
Politician |
3-May-1961 |
|
US Senator from Louisiana |
| Gregory Vlastos |
Philosopher |
27-Jul-1907 |
12-Oct-1991 |
Influential scholar of ancient philosophy |
| Paul Volcker |
Economist |
5-Sep-1927 |
|
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-87 |
| David M. Walker |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
US Comptroller General |
| Chris Wallace |
Journalist |
12-Oct-1947 |
|
Fox News anchor |
| Henry C. Wallich |
Economist |
10-Jun-1914 |
16-Sep-1988 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1959-61 |
| John L. Walsh |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
President of UGI |
| Michael Walzer |
Philosopher |
3-Mar-1935 |
|
Just and Unjust Wars |
| Artemas Ward |
Military |
26-Nov-1727 |
28-Oct-1800 |
Major General of the Continental Army |
| Joseph Warren |
Government |
11-Jun-1741 |
17-Jun-1775 |
American patriot killed at Bunker Hill |
| Alexander F. Watson |
Diplomat |
8-Aug-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to Peru, 1986-89 |
| Diane Watson |
Politician |
12-Nov-1933 |
|
Congresswoman, California 33rd |
| Alan Watts |
Philosopher |
6-Jan-1915 |
16-Nov-1973 |
Zen beat counterculture sage |
| Seth P. Waxman |
Government |
28-Nov-1951 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1997-2001 |
| Robert C. Weaver |
Government |
29-Dec-1907 |
17-Jul-1997 |
US HUD Secretary, 1966-68 |
| Sinclair Weeks |
Government |
15-Jun-1893 |
7-Feb-1972 |
US Commerce Secretary, 1953-58 |
| Andrew Weil |
Author |
8-Jun-1942 |
|
New age ethnopharmacologist |
| Caspar Weinberger |
Government |
18-Aug-1917 |
28-Mar-2006 |
Iran-Contra figure pardoned by Bush |
| Scott Weinger |
Actor |
5-Oct-1975 |
|
Steve Hale on Full House |
| Suzy Welch |
Journalist |
1959 |
|
HBR Editor, now wife of Jack Welch |
| Bill Weld |
Politician |
31-Jul-1945 |
|
Governor of Massachusetts, 1991-97 |
| Sumner Welles |
Diplomat |
14-Oct-1892 |
24-Sep-1961 |
US Under Secretary of State, 1937-43 |
| Cornel West |
Activist |
2-Jun-1953 |
|
Prominent blackademic |
| Katharine Weymouth |
Publisher |
c. 1966 |
|
Washington Post publisher |
| Lally Weymouth |
Journalist |
1943 |
|
Newsweek, The Washington Post |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. |
Business |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92 |
| M. Edward Whelan III |
Activist |
c. 1959 |
|
Ethics and Public Policy Center |
| Bill White |
Politician |
16-Jun-1954 |
|
Mayor of Houston |
| Theodore H. White |
Historian |
6-May-1915 |
15-May-1986 |
The Making of the President |
| George M. Whitesides |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Harvard chemist, highest H-Index |
| William C. Whitney |
Business |
5-Jul-1841 |
2-Feb-1904 |
US Secretary of the Navy, 1885-89 |
| John A. Wickham, Jr. |
Military |
25-Jun-1928 |
|
US Army Chief of Staff, 1983-87 |
| Norbert Wiener |
Mathematician |
26-Nov-1894 |
18-Mar-1964 |
Cybernetics |
| Leon Wieseltier |
Editor |
14-Jun-1952 |
|
The New Republic |
| Michael Wigglesworth |
Poet |
18-Oct-1631 |
10-Jun-1705 |
The Day of Doom |
| Richard B. Wigglesworth |
Government |
25-Apr-1891 |
22-Oct-1960 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1928-58 |
| Richard Wilbur |
Poet |
1-Mar-1921 |
|
Second U.S. Poet Laureate |
| Robert A. Wild |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
President, Marquette University |
| Malcolm R. Wilkey |
Judge |
6-Dec-1918 |
|
US Ambassador to Uruguay, 1985-90 |
| Wesley S. Williams, Jr. |
Attorney |
13-Nov-1942 |
|
Former Partner, Covington & Burling |
| Barry Lawson Williams |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Williams Pacific Ventures |
| Ernest J. Wilson III |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Dean, Annenberg School for Communication |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Father of Sociobiology |
| Kenneth G. Wilson |
Physicist |
8-Jun-1936 |
|
Second-order phase transitions |
| Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Capricorn Holdings |
| Justin Winsor |
Curator |
2-Jan-1831 |
22-Oct-1897 |
Librarian of Harvard University |
| Robert Charles Winthrop |
Politician |
12-May-1809 |
16-Nov-1894 |
Speaker of the 30th Congress |
| Timothy E. Wirth |
Politician |
22-Sep-1939 |
|
US Senator from Colorado, 1987-93 |
| John Wise |
Religion |
1652 |
8-Apr-1725 |
A Vindication of New England Churches |
| Owen Wister |
Author |
14-Jul-1860 |
21-Jul-1938 |
The Virginian |
| John L. Withers II |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Albania |
| Edward Witten |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1951 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
| Peter Woit |
Physicist |
c. 1957 |
|
String Theorist |
| Timothy V. Wolf |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CFO of Molson Coors Brewing |
| Thomas Wolfe |
Novelist |
3-Oct-1900 |
15-Sep-1938 |
Look Homeward, Angel |
| Christian Wolff |
Composer |
8-Mar-1934 |
|
Burdocks |
| David A. Wollard |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Former President, Bank One Colorado NA |
| Robert W. Wood |
Physicist |
2-May-1868 |
11-Aug-1955 |
Physical Optics |
| Robert B. Woodward |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1917 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. |
| Douglas Woolf |
Novelist |
23-Mar-1922 |
18-Jan-1992 |
Fade Out |
| Suzanne H. Woolsey |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
National Academies |
| Sewall Wright |
Biologist |
21-Dec-1889 |
3-Mar-1988 |
Mathematics of evolution |
| Henry M. Wriston |
Educator |
4-Jul-1889 |
7-Mar-1978 |
President of Brown University, 1937-55 |
| Isoroku Yamamoto |
Military |
4-Apr-1884 |
18-Apr-1943 |
Commander of the Japanese Navy |
| Ahmed Zaki Yamani |
Government |
30-Jun-1930 |
|
Former Saudi Minister of Oil |
| John Yoo |
Government |
10-Jun-1967 |
|
Thinks Geneva Conventions are obsolete |
| Harry L. You |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
EVP at EMC |
| Robert M. Young |
Film Director |
22-Nov-1924 |
|
Dominick and Eugene |
| Robert P. Young, Jr. |
Judge |
c. 1952 |
|
Justice, Michigan Supreme Court |
| Tim Zagat |
Critic |
1940 |
|
Zagat Survey |
| Steve Zahn |
Actor |
13-Nov-1968 |
|
Glenn in Out of Sight |
| Fareed Zakaria |
Journalist |
20-Jan-1965 |
|
Newsweek foreign affairs |
| Robert J. Zimmer |
Educator |
5-Nov-1947 |
|
President, University of Chicago |
| Howard Zinn |
Historian |
24-Aug-1922 |
|
A People's History of the United States |
| Edward Zorinsky |
Politician |
11-Nov-1928 |
6-Mar-1987 |
US Senator from Nebraska, 1976-87 |
| Mark Zuckerberg |
Computer Programmer |
14-May-1984 |
|
Founder of Facebook |
| Mark A. Zupan |
Educator |
c. 1959 |
|
Dean of Business, University of Rochester |
| Edward Zwick |
Film Director |
8-Oct-1952 |
|
The Last Samurai |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Henry Adams |
Historian |
16-Feb-1838 |
28-Mar-1918 |
The Education of Henry Adams |
| John Quincy Adams |
Head of State |
11-Jul-1767 |
23-Feb-1848 |
6th President of the U.S. |
| Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
| Jonathan S. Adelstein |
Government |
1962 |
|
FCC Commissioner |
| Louis Agassiz |
Paleontologist |
28-May-1807 |
14-Dec-1873 |
Ichthyologist at Harvard |
| Gordon W. Allport |
Psychologist |
11-Nov-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Personality: A Psychological Interpretation |
| Michael Antonovich |
Politician |
12-Aug-1939 |
|
LA County Board of Supervisors |
| Kwame Anthony Appiah |
Philosopher |
8-May-1954 |
|
The Ethics of Identity |
| Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
| J. Brian Atwood |
Government |
25-Jul-1942 |
|
USAID Administrator, 1993-99 |
| Irving Babbitt |
Philosopher |
2-Aug-1865 |
15-Jul-1933 |
Early leader of Neohumanism |
| Katherine Baicker |
Economist |
? |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2005-07 |
| Kenneth Bainbridge |
Physicist |
27-Jul-1904 |
14-Jul-1996 |
Director of the Trinity atomic test |
| Walter Jackson Bate |
Critic |
23-May-1918 |
26-Jul-1999 |
Samuel Johnson |
| Gregory Bateson |
Anthropologist |
9-May-1904 |
4-Jul-1980 |
Steps to an Ecology of Mind |
| George Beadle |
Scientist |
22-Oct-1903 |
9-Jun-1989 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
| Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
|
The End of Ideology |
| Luciano Berio |
Composer |
24-Oct-1925 |
27-May-2003 |
Italian Avant-garde composer |
| John Berryman |
Poet |
25-Oct-1914 |
7-Jan-1972 |
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet |
| Jacob Bigelow |
Botanist |
27-Feb-1786 |
10-Jan-1879 |
American Medical Botany |
| James Billington |
Historian |
1-Jun-1929 |
|
13th Librarian of Congress |
| Hiram Bingham |
Politician |
19-Nov-1875 |
6-Jun-1956 |
US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
Poet |
8-Feb-1911 |
6-Oct-1979 |
North & South |
| Konrad Bloch |
Scientist |
21-Jan-1912 |
15-Oct-2000 |
Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen |
Physicist |
11-Mar-1920 |
|
Nonlinear optics |
| Bart Jan Bok |
Astronomer |
28-Apr-1906 |
5-Aug-1983 |
Bok globules |
| Derek Bok |
Educator |
22-Mar-1930 |
|
President of Harvard, 1971-91 |
| Sissela Bok |
Scholar |
2-Dec-1934 |
|
Ethicist |
| Edwin G. Boring |
Psychologist |
23-Oct-1886 |
1-Jul-1968 |
A History of Experimental Psychology |
| Robert R. Bowie |
Government |
1909 |
|
CIA Deputy Director, 1977-79 |
| David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
| Marcel Breuer |
Designer |
21-May-1902 |
1-Jul-1981 |
Bauhaus furniture designer |
| Percy Williams Bridgman |
Physicist |
21-Apr-1882 |
20-Aug-1961 |
Investigated high pressure physics |
| Heinrich Bruening |
Head of State |
26-Nov-1885 |
30-Mar-1970 |
Chancellor of Germany, 1930-32 |
| Robert Brustein |
Educator |
21-Apr-1927 |
|
Founder, American Reportory Theatre |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
| Mac Bundy |
Government |
30-Mar-1919 |
16-Sep-1996 |
National Security Advisor, 1961-66 |
| Caroline Bynum |
Historian |
1941 |
|
Medieval historian |
| Kim Campbell |
Head of State |
10-Mar-1947 |
|
Prime Minister of Canada, 1993 |
| Wallace Hume Carothers |
Chemist |
27-Apr-1896 |
29-Apr-1937 |
Inventor of Nylon |
| Stanley Cavell |
Philosopher |
1-Sep-1926 |
|
Professor of Aesthetics, Harvard |
| Edward Channing |
Historian |
15-Jun-1856 |
7-Jan-1931 |
A History of the United States |
| John Ciardi |
Poet |
24-Jun-1916 |
30-Mar-1986 |
How Does a Poem Mean? |
| Robert C. Clark |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
Dean of Harvard Law School, 1989-2003 |
| James Freeman Clarke |
Religion |
4-Apr-1810 |
8-Jun-1888 |
Ten Great Religions |
| Eliot A. Cohen |
Government |
c. 1955 |
|
Prominent neoconservative |
| Robert Coles |
Psychiatrist |
12-Oct-1929 |
|
Children of Crisis |
| James B. Conant |
Educator |
26-Mar-1893 |
11-Feb-1978 |
President of Harvard, 1933-53 |
| Elias James Corey |
Chemist |
12-Jul-1928 |
|
Retrosynthetic analysis |
| Christopher Cox |
Politician |
16-Oct-1952 |
|
Chairman of the SEC |
| e. e. cummings |
Poet |
14-Oct-1894 |
3-Sep-1962 |
Majuscule-challenged American poet |
| Robert F. Curl, Jr. |
Chemist |
23-Aug-1933 |
|
Co-Discovered first fullerine |
| Harvey Cushing |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1869 |
7-Oct-1939 |
Cushing's Syndrome |
| Ram Dass |
Religion |
5-Apr-1931 |
|
Be Here Now |
| Joseph S. Davis |
Economist |
5-Nov-1885 |
1975 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-58 |
| Alan Dershowitz |
Attorney |
1-Sep-1938 |
|
Lawyer, represented Klaus von Bulow |
| Edward A. Doisy |
Scientist |
3-Nov-1893 |
23-Oct-1986 |
Chemical structure of Vitamin K |
| Joel Dorius |
Educator |
4-Jan-1919 |
14-Feb-2006 |
Professor fired for gay porn arrest |
| Linda Douglass |
Journalist |
? |
|
Former journalist, Obama spokeswoman |
| James S. Duesenberry |
Economist |
18-Jul-1918 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1966-68 |
| John T. Dunlop |
Government |
5-Jul-1914 |
2-Oct-2003 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1975-76 |
| George C. Eads |
Economist |
20-Aug-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1979-81 |
| Otto Eckstein |
Economist |
1-Aug-1927 |
22-Mar-1984 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-66 |
| Charles William Eliot |
Educator |
20-Mar-1834 |
22-Aug-1926 |
President, Harvard University, 1869-1909 |
| T. S. Eliot |
Poet |
26-Sep-1888 |
4-Jan-1965 |
The Hollow Men |
| Richard Ellmann |
Critic |
15-Mar-1918 |
13-May-1987 |
James Joyce |
| John F. Enders |
Scientist |
10-Feb-1897 |
8-Sep-1985 |
Cultured the polio virus |
| Edward Everett |
Politician |
11-Apr-1794 |
15-Jan-1865 |
Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40 |
| Daniel A. Farber |
Educator |
16-Jul-1950 |
|
Retained by the People |
| Paul Farmer |
Doctor |
1959 |
|
Doctor for the world's poorest |
| Larry R. Faulkner |
Educator |
1944 |
|
President of UT-Austin, 1998-2006 |
| Drew Gilpin Faust |
Educator |
18-Sep-1947 |
|
President of Harvard University |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| Cornelius Felton |
Scholar |
6-Nov-1807 |
26-Feb-1862 |
Classical scholar of Greek |
| Niall Ferguson |
Historian |
18-Apr-1964 |
|
The House of Rothschild |
| Charles D. Ferris |
Government |
9-Apr-1933 |
|
FCC Chairman, 1977-81 |
| Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
| Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
|
Cliometrics |
| Jeffrey A. Frankel |
Economist |
5-Nov-1952 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1997-99 |
| Richard Freeman |
Economist |
29-Jun-1943 |
|
Labor economist |
| Carlos Fuentes |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1928 |
|
La muerte de Artemio Cruz |
| Naum Gabo |
Sculptor |
5-Aug-1890 |
23-Aug-1977 |
Constructivist, Realistic Manifesto |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
Economist |
15-Oct-1908 |
29-Apr-2006 |
Modern economics renegade |
| Peter Galbraith |
Diplomat |
31-Dec-1950 |
|
The End of Iraq |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Author |
16-Sep-1950 |
|
The Signifying Monkey |
| C. Daniel Gelatt |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of NMT Corporation |
| David Gergen |
Columnist |
9-May-1942 |
|
Advisor to Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton |
| Walter Gilbert |
Chemist |
21-Mar-1932 |
|
Sequencing techniques for DNA |
| Carol Gilligan |
Psychologist |
28-Nov-1936 |
|
In a Different Voice |
| S. Malcolm Gillis |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of Rice University, 1993-2004 |
| Jean Giraudoux |
Novelist |
29-Oct-1882 |
31-Jan-1944 |
The Madwoman of Chaillot |
| Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Roy J. Glauber |
Physicist |
1-Sep-1925 |
|
Quantum optics |
| Nathan Glazer |
Pundit |
25-Feb-1923 |
|
Co-Editor, The Public Interest |
| Thomas Gold |
Scientist |
22-May-1920 |
22-Jun-2004 |
Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel |
| Stephen Goldsmith |
Politician |
12-Dec-1946 |
|
Mayor of Indianapolis 1992-99 |
| Nelson Goodman |
Philosopher |
7-Aug-1906 |
25-Nov-1998 |
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Historian |
4-Jan-1943 |
|
Team of Rivals |
| Lincoln Gordon |
Diplomat |
1913 |
|
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66 |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist |
| Jorie Graham |
Poet |
9-May-1951 |
|
The Dream of the Unified Field |
| Patricia A. Graham |
Educator |
1935 |
|
Dean of Harvard GSE, 1982-91 |
| Asa Gray |
Botanist |
18-Nov-1810 |
30-Jan-1888 |
Botany of the Northern United States |
| Hanna Holborn Gray |
Educator |
1930 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1978-93 |
| Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
| Lani Guinier |
Educator |
19-Apr-1950 |
|
The Tyranny of the Majority |
| Richard Haass |
Government |
1951 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Edwin Hall |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1855 |
20-Nov-1938 |
Discovered the Hall Effect |
| Oscar Handlin |
Historian |
29-Sep-1915 |
|
The Uprooted |
| Hal Hartley |
Film Director |
3-Nov-1959 |
|
Henry Fool |
| John Hawkes |
Novelist |
17-Aug-1925 |
15-May-1998 |
The Blood Oranges |
| Seamus Heaney |
Poet |
13-Apr-1939 |
|
The Spirit Level |
| Dudley R. Herschbach |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1932 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. |
Judge |
25-Feb-1928 |
14-Dec-1998 |
Chief Justice, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Roderick M. Hills |
Politician |
9-Mar-1931 |
|
SEC Chairman, 1975-77 |
| George H. Hitchings |
Scientist |
18-Apr-1905 |
27-Feb-1998 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, arthritis |
| Bert Hölldobler |
Zoologist |
1936 |
|
The Ants |
| Grace Murray Hopper |
Computer Programmer |
9-Dec-1906 |
1-Jan-1992 |
Invented the COBOL compiler |
| Donald F. Hornig |
Educator |
17-Mar-1920 |
|
President of Brown University, 1970-76 |
| Hendrik S. Houthakker |
Economist |
31-Dec-1924 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| David H. Hubel |
Scientist |
27-Feb-1926 |
|
Neurophysiology of vision |
| Samuel P. Huntington |
Author |
18-Apr-1927 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Clash of Civilizations |
| William James |
Philosopher |
11-Jan-1842 |
26-Aug-1910 |
The Principles of Psychology |
| Dale W. Jorgenson |
Economist |
7-May-1933 |
|
Economist at Harvard |
| Martin Karplus |
Chemist |
15-Mar-1930 |
|
Karplus Equation |
| Arthur E. Kennelly |
Physicist |
17-Dec-1861 |
18-Jun-1939 |
Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
| Jeremy R. Knowles |
Business |
1935 |
|
Chemistry Professor, Harvard University |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
Density-functional theory |
| Roger D. Kornberg |
Scientist |
24-Apr-1947 |
|
Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription |
| Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
| Bill Kristol |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1952 |
|
Editor of The Weekly Standard |
| Thomas Kuhn |
Author |
18-Jul-1922 |
17-Jun-1996 |
Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
| Simon Kuznets |
Economist |
30-Apr-1901 |
8-Jul-1985 |
National Income and Its Composition |
| Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
| William Leonard Langer |
Historian |
16-Mar-1896 |
26-Dec-1977 |
Our Vichy Gamble |
| Tom Lehrer |
Comic |
9-Apr-1928 |
|
Comedic songwriter |
| Wassily Leontief |
Economist |
5-Aug-1906 |
5-Feb-1999 |
Structure of the American Economy |
| Larry Lindsey |
Economist |
18-Jul-1954 |
|
Masterminded GWB's tax cut |
| William Lipscomb |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1919 |
|
Investigated boron compounds |
| Seymour M. Lipset |
Sociologist |
18-Mar-1922 |
31-Dec-2006 |
American Exceptionalism |
| Henry Cabot Lodge |
Politician |
12-May-1850 |
9-Nov-1924 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Poet |
27-Feb-1807 |
24-Mar-1882 |
Evangeline |
| James Lovelock |
Scientist |
26-Jul-1919 |
|
The Gaia Theory |
| A. Lawrence Lowell |
Educator |
1-Jan-1856 |
6-Jan-1943 |
President, Harvard University, 1909-33 |
| Bernard Lown |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1921 |
|
Inventor of defibrillator, peace activist |
| Roderick MacKinnon |
Doctor |
19-Feb-1956 |
|
Ion channels of cell membranes |
| Modesto A. Maidique |
Educator |
20-Mar-1940 |
|
President, Florida International University |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
|
Fractal mathematician |
| Greg Mankiw |
Economist |
3-Feb-1958 |
|
George W Bush economist |
| Herbert Marcuse |
Philosopher |
19-Jul-1898 |
29-Jul-1979 |
One-Dimensional Man |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Arno J. Mayer |
Historian |
19-Jun-1926 |
|
Marxist Jew, quasi-revisionist |
| Ernst Mayr |
Naturalist |
5-Jul-1904 |
3-Feb-2005 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| James J. McCarthy |
Scientist |
? |
|
President of AAAS |
| William McDougall |
Psychologist |
22-Jun-1871 |
28-Nov-1938 |
An Introduction to Social Psychology |
| Ross McElwee |
Film Director |
21-Jul-1947 |
|
Idiosyncratic documentary filmmaker |
| Louis Menand |
Critic |
21-Jan-1952 |
|
The Metaphysical Club |
| Perry Miller |
Historian |
25-Feb-1905 |
9-Dec-1963 |
The New England Mind |
| William Vaughn Moody |
Playwright |
8-Jul-1869 |
17-Oct-1910 |
The Great Divide |
| Samuel Eliot Morison |
Historian |
9-Jul-1887 |
15-May-1976 |
Rear Admiral and naval historian |
| Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
| Charles Eliot Norton |
Scholar |
16-Nov-1827 |
21-Oct-1908 |
American man of letters |
| Martha Nussbaum |
Philosopher |
6-May-1947 |
|
The Fragility of Goodness |
| Joseph Nye |
Government |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94 |
| Charles Olson |
Poet |
27-Dec-1910 |
10-Jan-1970 |
The Maximus Poems |
| Andreas Papandreou |
Head of State |
5-Feb-1919 |
23-Jun-1996 |
Twice Prime Minister of Greece |
| Robert E. Park |
Sociologist |
14-Feb-1864 |
7-Feb-1944 |
Race and Culture |
| Talcott Parsons |
Sociologist |
13-Dec-1902 |
8-May-1979 |
The Structure of Social Action |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
| Octavio Paz |
Poet |
31-Mar-1914 |
19-Apr-1998 |
The Labyrinth of Solitude |
| Merton J. Peck |
Economist |
c. 1926 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69 |
| I. M. Pei |
Architect |
26-Apr-1917 |
|
Designed Louvre's glass pyramid |
| Benjamin Peirce |
Mathematician |
4-Apr-1809 |
10-Jun-1880 |
Idempotent and nilpotent |
| William Lyon Phelps |
Critic |
2-Jan-1865 |
21-Aug-1943 |
Essays on Modern Novelists |
| Edward Charles Pickering |
Astronomer |
19-Jul-1846 |
3-Feb-1919 |
Photometer inventor and surveyor |
| Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
| Steven Pinker |
Linguist |
18-Sep-1954 |
|
The Language Instinct |
| Walter Piston |
Composer |
20-Jan-1894 |
12-Nov-1976 |
Symphony No. 3 |
| Roger B. Porter |
Educator |
19-Jun-1946 |
|
Professor, Kennedy School of Government |
| Roscoe Pound |
Judge |
27-Oct-1870 |
1-Jul-1964 |
Sociological jurisprudence |
| E. M. Purcell |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1912 |
7-Mar-1997 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Hilary Putnam |
Philosopher |
31-Jul-1926 |
|
Philosophy of Mind |
| Carroll Quigley |
Educator |
9-Nov-1910 |
3-Jan-1977 |
Harvard professor, mentor to Bill Clinton |
| Willard Van Orman Quine |
Philosopher |
25-Jun-1908 |
25-Dec-2000 |
Two Dogmas of Empiricism |
| Norman F. Ramsey |
Physicist |
27-Aug-1915 |
|
Energy levels of atoms |
| John Rawls |
Philosopher |
21-Feb-1921 |
24-Nov-2002 |
A Theory of Justice |
| Martin Rees |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1942 |
|
President of the Royal Society |
| Edwin O. Reischauer |
Diplomat |
15-Oct-1910 |
1-Sep-1990 |
US Ambassador to Japan, 1961-66 |
| I. A. Richards |
Critic |
26-Feb-1893 |
7-Sep-1979 |
The Meaning of Meaning |
| Theodore W. Richards |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1868 |
2-Apr-1928 |
Proved existence of isotopes |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. |
Government |
16-Feb-1916 |
8-Jun-2000 |
1953 Iran coup |
| Josiah Royce |
Philosopher |
20-Nov-1855 |
14-Sep-1916 |
The Religious Aspect of Philosophy |
| Carlo Rubbia |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1934 |
|
Co-Discovered W and Z particles |
| Neil Rudenstine |
Educator |
21-Jan-1935 |
|
President of Harvard, 1991-2001 |
| Jeffrey Sachs |
Economist |
5-Nov-1954 |
|
The End of Poverty |
| Carl Sagan |
Astronomer |
9-Nov-1934 |
20-Dec-1996 |
Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos |
| Bengt I. Samuelsson |
Scientist |
21-May-1934 |
|
Prostaglandins |
| George Santayana |
Philosopher |
16-Dec-1863 |
26-Sep-1952 |
The Realms of Being |
| George Sarton |
Historian |
31-Aug-1884 |
22-Mar-1956 |
Introduction to the History of Science |
| Vicki L. Sato |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
President of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, 2000-05 |
| AnnaLee Saxenian |
Scholar |
c. 1954 |
|
Information technologist |
| Thomas C. Schelling |
Economist |
14-Apr-1921 |
|
The Strategy of Conflict |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger |
Historian |
27-Feb-1888 |
30-Oct-1965 |
The Rise of the City |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
Historian |
15-Oct-1917 |
28-Feb-2007 |
The Age of Roosevelt |
| Richard L. Schmalensee |
Economist |
1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Bill Schneider |
Pundit |
8-Oct-1944 |
|
CNN senior political analyst |
| Joseph Schumpeter |
Economist |
8-Feb-1883 |
8-Jan-1950 |
Creative Destruction |
| Joe Schwarz |
Politician |
15-Nov-1937 |
|
Congressman from Michigan, 2005-07 |
| Martin Schwarzschild |
Astronomer |
31-May-1912 |
10-Apr-1997 |
Structure and Evolution of the Stars |
| Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
| Amartya Sen |
Economist |
3-Nov-1933 |
|
Poverty and Famines |
| Jeanne Shaheen |
Politician |
28-Jan-1947 |
|
US Senator from New Hampshire |
| Albert Shanker |
Labor Leader |
14-Sep-1928 |
22-Feb-1997 |
American Federation of Teachers |
| Harlow Shapley |
Astronomer |
2-Nov-1885 |
20-Oct-1972 |
Organizer of Heaven |
| Paul Simon |
Politician |
29-Nov-1928 |
9-Dec-2003 |
US Senator, one-time Presidential candidate |
| James Simons |
Mathematician |
c. 1938 |
|
Renaissance Technologies hedge fund |
| Thomas W. Simons |
Diplomat |
4-Sep-1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1995-98 |
| Nicolas Slonimsky |
Musicologist |
27-Apr-1894 |
25-Dec-1995 |
Preeminent musicologist |
| Theobald Smith |
Scientist |
31-Jul-1859 |
10-Dec-1934 |
Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Jared Sparks |
Author |
10-May-1789 |
14-Mar-1866 |
Life and Writings of George Washington |
| A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Joseph Story |
Judge |
18-Sep-1779 |
10-Sep-1845 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1812-45 |
| Kathleen Sullivan |
Scholar |
20-Aug-1955 |
|
Scholar of constitutional law |
| Lawrence H. Summers |
Economist |
30-Nov-1954 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
| Ivan Sutherland |
Engineer |
16-May-1938 |
|
Father of computer graphics |
| Max Theiler |
Scientist |
30-Jan-1899 |
11-Aug-1972 |
Yellow fever vaccination |
| Stephan Thernstrom |
Scholar |
1934 |
|
Neoconservative thinker |
| Evan Thomas |
Journalist |
Apr-1951 |
|
Newsweek |
| George Ticknor |
Educator |
1-Aug-1791 |
26-Jan-1871 |
History of Spanish Literature |
| Paul Tillich |
Religion |
20-Aug-1886 |
22-Oct-1965 |
Systematic Theology |
| Frederick Jackson Turner |
Historian |
14-Nov-1861 |
14-Mar-1932 |
Frontier Thesis |
| John H. van Vleck |
Physicist |
13-Mar-1899 |
27-Oct-1980 |
Quantum mechanics of magnetism |
| John R. Vane |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1927 |
19-Nov-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
| Helen Vendler |
Critic |
30-Apr-1933 |
|
American poetry critic |
| George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Michael Walzer |
Philosopher |
3-Mar-1935 |
|
Just and Unjust Wars |
| Elizabeth Warren |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Law professor, bankruptcy expert |
| Steven Weinberg |
Physicist |
3-May-1933 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Thomas H. Weller |
Scientist |
15-Jun-1915 |
23-Aug-2008 |
Cultured the polio virus |
| Alfred North Whitehead |
Mathematician |
15-Feb-1861 |
30-Dec-1947 |
Metaphysical mathematician |
| George M. Whitesides |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Harvard chemist, highest H-Index |
| Torsten N. Wiesel |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1924 |
|
Neurophysiology of vision |
| Richard Wilbur |
Poet |
1-Mar-1921 |
|
Second U.S. Poet Laureate |
| Thornton Wilder |
Novelist |
17-Apr-1897 |
7-Dec-1975 |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| Andrew Wiles |
Mathematician |
11-Apr-1953 |
|
Proved Fermat's Last Theorem |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1921 |
26-Sep-1996 |
Organometallic sandwich compounds |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Father of Sociobiology |
| James Q. Wilson |
Scholar |
27-May-1931 |
|
The Moral Sense |
| William Julius Wilson |
Sociologist |
20-Dec-1935 |
|
The Declining Significance of Race |
| Christian Wolff |
Composer |
8-Mar-1934 |
|
Burdocks |
| Robert B. Woodward |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1917 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. |
| Janet L. Yellen |
Economist |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
President and CEO, San Francisco Fed |
| Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |
