Founded 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Elliott Abrams |
Government |
24-Jan-1948 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State involved in Iran-Contra |
| Leo Abse |
Politician |
22-Apr-1917 |
19-Aug-2008 |
Labour MP for Torfaen, 1983-87 |
| Kate Ascher |
Author |
c. 1958 |
|
The Works: Anatomy of a City |
| Kenneth J. Bacon |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
EVP at Fannie Mae |
| Cecil Balmond |
Engineer |
1943 |
|
Deputy Chairman, Ove Arup |
| Benjamin Barber |
Scholar |
2-Aug-1939 |
|
Jihad vs. McWorld |
| Pat Barker |
Novelist |
8-May-1943 |
|
Regeneration |
| Samuel D. Berger |
Diplomat |
6-Dec-1911 |
12-Feb-1980 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1961-64 |
| Karan K. Bhatia |
Government |
? |
|
Deputy US Trade Representative |
| Kenneth Bialkin |
Attorney |
1929 |
|
Mergers & Acquisitions lawyer |
| Maurice Bishop |
Head of State |
29-May-1944 |
19-Oct-1983 |
Prime Minister of Grenada. 1979-83 |
| Cherie Blair |
First Lady |
23-Sep-1954 |
|
Wife of Tony Blair |
| Alan S. Blinder |
Economist |
14-Oct-1945 |
|
Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve |
| Clifford G. Bond |
Diplomat |
23-Feb-1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2001-04 |
| Ed Broadbent |
Politician |
21-Mar-1936 |
|
Leader of Canada's NDP, 1975-89 |
| Ralph Bunche |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1904 |
9-Dec-1971 |
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948 |
| Kim Campbell |
Head of State |
10-Mar-1947 |
|
Prime Minister of Canada, 1993 |
| Kitty Carlisle |
Singer |
3-Sep-1910 |
18-Apr-2007 |
A Night at the Opera |
| Ronald H. Coase |
Economist |
29-Dec-1910 |
|
Transactions costs and property rights |
| Cindy Cohn |
Attorney |
c. 1963 |
|
EFF lawyer |
| John Compton |
Head of State |
29-Apr-1925 |
7-Sep-2007 |
Many-time Prime Minister of St. Lucia |
| Rosa DeLauro |
Politician |
2-Mar-1943 |
|
Congresswoman, Connecticut 3rd |
| Kemal Derviş |
Government |
10-Jan-1949 |
|
Head of the UNDP |
| Myron Ebell |
Activist |
c. 1953 |
|
Global Warming cynic |
| Jessica P. Einhorn |
Administrator |
c. 1945 |
|
Dean, School of Advanced International Studies |
| John Hart Ely |
Scholar |
3-Dec-1938 |
25-Oct-2003 |
Democracy and Distrust |
| Edward Evans-Pritchard |
Anthropologist |
21-Sep-1902 |
11-Sep-1973 |
Theories of Primitive Religion |
| Edwin Feulner |
Activist |
12-Aug-1941 |
|
Heritage Foundation founder |
| Sir Raymond Firth |
Anthropologist |
25-Mar-1901 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Economic Anthropology |
| Jason Furman |
Government |
c. 1970 |
|
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution |
| William M. Gardner |
Politician |
26-Oct-1948 |
|
New Hampshire Secretary of State |
| Marc Grossman |
Diplomat |
23-Sep-1951 |
|
US Under Secy. for Political Affairs, 2001-05 |
| Joseph A. Grundfest |
Attorney |
c. 1951 |
|
Stanford law professor |
| Amy Gutmann |
Educator |
1949 |
|
President, University of Pennsylvania |
| David W. Heleniak |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley |
| Genta Hawkins Holmes |
Diplomat |
3-Sep-1940 |
|
US Ambassador to Australia, 1997-2000 |
| Robert E. Hunter |
Diplomat |
c. 1940 |
|
US Ambassador to NATO, 1993-98 |
| Leonid Hurwicz |
Economist |
21-Aug-1917 |
24-Jun-2008 |
Mechanism design theory |
| David Irving |
Activist |
24-Mar-1938 |
|
Notorious Holocaust denier |
| Mick Jagger |
Singer/Songwriter |
26-Jul-1943 |
|
Lead singer of the Rolling Stones |
| Sylvia Jay |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Food and Drink Federation |
| Aubrey Jones |
Politician |
20-Nov-1911 |
10-Apr-2003 |
Former MP, Birmingham Hall Green |
| G. Lewis Jones |
Diplomat |
18-May-1907 |
13-Nov-1971 |
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1956-59 |
| Ruth Kelly |
Politician |
9-May-1968 |
|
UK Minister of Transport |
| Anthony Kennedy |
Judge |
23-Jul-1936 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| John F. Kennedy |
Head of State |
29-May-1917 |
22-Nov-1963 |
35th US President, 1961-63 |
| Jomo Kenyatta |
Head of State |
20-Oct-1892 |
22-Aug-1978 |
President of Kenya, 1964-78 |
| Mwai Kibaki |
Head of State |
15-Nov-1931 |
|
President of Kenya |
| Ron Kind |
Politician |
16-Mar-1963 |
|
Congressman, Wisconsin 3rd |
| Mark Kirk |
Politician |
15-Sep-1959 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 10th |
| Paul Klebnikov |
Journalist |
3-Jun-1963 |
9-Jul-2004 |
Forbes journalist, killed in Moscow |
| Naomi Klein |
Author |
1970 |
|
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies |
| Kenneth B. Kopelman |
Attorney |
21-Jan-1952 |
|
Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel |
| Kurt Kreuger |
Actor |
23-Jul-1916 |
12-Jul-2006 |
The Enemy Below |
| Robert Kuttner |
Editor |
c. 1943 |
|
The American Prospect |
| Abba Lerner |
Economist |
28-Oct-1903 |
27-Oct-1982 |
The Economics of Control |
| Monica Lewinsky |
Government |
23-Jul-1973 |
|
Engaged in Presidential cigar play |
| Arthur Lewis |
Economist |
23-Jan-1915 |
15-Jun-1991 |
Economics of developing nations |
| Michael Lewis |
Author |
15-Oct-1960 |
|
Liar's Poker |
| Richard W. Lyman |
Educator |
18-Oct-1923 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 |
| Bronislaw Malinowski |
Anthropologist |
7-Apr-1884 |
16-May-1942 |
Founder of social anthropology |
| Roy Mason |
Politician |
18-Apr-1924 |
|
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1976-79 |
| Judith Maxwell |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Canadian Policy Research Networks |
| John W. McCarter, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of the Field Museum |
| David McGuinty |
Politician |
25-Feb-1960 |
|
Canadian MP, Ottawa South |
| Nana Mensah |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
PepsiCo Restaurants International |
| Tom Mesereau |
Attorney |
1950 |
|
Defended Michael Jackson |
| Ed Miliband |
Politician |
24-Dec-1969 |
|
British MP, Doncaster North |
| Ralph Miliband |
Scholar |
7-Jan-1924 |
21-May-1994 |
Parliamentary Socialism |
| Brad Miller |
Politician |
19-May-1953 |
|
Congressman, North Carolina 13th |
| Ron Moody |
Actor |
8-Jan-1924 |
|
Fagin in Oliver Twist |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
Politician |
16-Mar-1927 |
26-Mar-2003 |
US Senator from New York, 1977-2001 |
| Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
| Michael L. Mussa |
Economist |
15-Apr-1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1986-88 |
| Ethan Nadelmann |
Activist |
13-Mar-1957 |
|
Drug Policy Alliance |
| K. R. Narayanan |
Head of State |
4-Feb-1921 |
9-Nov-2005 |
President of India, 1997-2002 |
| James B. Nicholson |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of PVS Chemicals, Inc. |
| Jorma Ollila |
Business |
15-Aug-1950 |
|
CEO of Nokia, 1992-2006 |
| Talcott Parsons |
Sociologist |
13-Dec-1902 |
8-May-1979 |
The Structure of Social Action |
| Alice Paul |
Activist |
11-Jan-1885 |
9-Jul-1977 |
Suffragette |
| Sheila A. Penrose |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Former Northern Trust executive |
| Richard Perle |
Government |
16-Sep-1941 |
|
Prince of Darkness |
| Valerie Plame |
Spy |
19-Apr-1963 |
|
CIA operative outed by Bush official |
| Romano Prodi |
Politician |
9-Aug-1939 |
|
Prime Minister of Italy, 2006-07 |
| Philip J. Purcell |
Business |
5-Sep-1943 |
|
CEO of Morgan Stanley, 1997-2005 |
| Navin Ramgoolam |
Head of State |
14-Jul-1947 |
|
Prime Minister of Mauritius |
| Merlyn Rees |
Politician |
18-Dec-1920 |
5-Jan-2006 |
UK Home Secretary, 1976-79 |
| David Rockefeller |
Business |
12-Jun-1915 |
|
Founder of the Trilateral Commission |
| Leo Rosten |
Author |
11-Apr-1908 |
19-Feb-1997 |
The Joys of Yiddish |
| Donald C. Roth |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
EMP Global |
| Robert E. Rubin |
Government |
29-Aug-1938 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1995-99 |
| Chris Ruddy |
Journalist |
c. 1965 |
|
CEO, NewsMax Media |
| Oscar Arias Sanchez |
Head of State |
13-Sep-1941 |
|
President of Costa Rica |
| Lynn Schenk |
Politician |
5-Jan-1945 |
|
US Congresswoman from California, 1993-95 |
| Peter W. Schramm |
Activist |
23-Dec-1946 |
|
Executive Director, Ashbrook Center |
| Naomi O. Seligman |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
The Research Board |
| Eric Sevareid |
Journalist |
26-Nov-1912 |
9-Jul-1992 |
CBS News journalist |
| Moshe Sharett |
Head of State |
15-Oct-1894 |
7-Jul-1965 |
Prime Minister of Israel, 1953-55 |
| Nate Silver |
Blogger |
1978 |
|
Baseball Prospectus, FiveThirtyEight.com |
| Michele J. Sison |
Diplomat |
27-May-1959 |
|
US Ambassador to Lebanon |
| George Soros |
Business |
12-Aug-1930 |
|
Hungarian financial speculator |
| Sergey Stanishev |
Head of State |
5-May-1966 |
|
Prime Minister of Bulgaria |
| John Stonehouse |
Politician |
28-Jul-1925 |
14-Apr-1988 |
British MP, faked his own death |
| Lionel Tiger |
Educator |
1937 |
|
The Decline of Males |
| John Tower |
Politician |
25-Sep-1925 |
5-Apr-1991 |
US Senator from Texas, 1961-85 |
| Pierre Trudeau |
Head of State |
18-Oct-1919 |
28-Sep-2000 |
Twice Prime Minister of Canada |
| Sander Vanocur |
Journalist |
8-Jan-1928 |
|
ABC and NBC correspondent |
| Paul Volcker |
Economist |
5-Sep-1927 |
|
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-87 |
| Dale Wainwright |
Judge |
19-Jun-1961 |
|
Justice, Texas Supreme Court |
| C. David Welch |
Diplomat |
1953 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for the Near East |
| Maureen White |
Activist |
? |
|
DNC National Finance Chair |
| James M. Whitehurst |
Business |
c. 1967 |
|
CEO of Red Hat |
| Michael H. Wilson |
Politician |
4-Nov-1937 |
|
Canadian Ambassador to the US |
| Lee Kuan Yew |
Head of State |
16-Sep-1923 |
|
Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959-90 |