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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Martti Ahtisaari
Head of State
23-Jun-1937   President of Finland, 1994-2000
Kofi Annan
Government
8-Apr-1938   Secretary General of the UN, 1997-2006
Paddy Ashdown
Politician
27-Feb-1941   Leader of Liberal Democrats, 1988-99
Pierre Auger
Physicist
14-May-1899 25-Dec-1993 Auger effect
Lou Barletta
Politician
28-Jan-1956   Congressman, Pennsylvania 11th
Bernard M. Baruch
Business
19-Aug-1870 20-Jun-1965 Coined the term Cold War
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Head of State
2-Mar-1937   President of Algeria
Richard C. Brown
Diplomat
1-Nov-1939 2004 US Ambassador to Uruguay, 1990-93
Ralph Bunche
Diplomat
4-Aug-1904 9-Dec-1971 UN Mediator in Palestine 1948
Lawrence E. Butler
Diplomat
?   US Ambassador to Macedonia, 2002-05
Harlan Cleveland
Government
19-Jan-1918 30-May-2008 Futurist, diplomat
Paulo Coelho
Novelist
24-Aug-1947   The Alchemist
E. J. H. Corner
Botanist
12-Jan-1906 14-Sep-1996 Durian theory
Kemal Derviş
Government
10-Jan-1949   Head of the UNDP
Anatoly Dobrynin
Diplomat
19-Nov-1919 6-Apr-2010 Soviet Ambassador to the US, 1962-86
Ray Milton Dolby
Inventor
18-Jan-1933 12-Sep-2013 Inventor of Dolby stereo
Charles F. Dunbar
Diplomat
1-Apr-1931   US Ambassador to Yemen, 1988-91
William L. Eagleton, Jr.
Diplomat
17-Aug-1926 27-Jan-2011 US Ambassador to Syria, 1984-88
Cynthia G. Efird
Diplomat
c. 1949   US Ambassador to Angola, 2004-07
Jan Egeland
Government
1957   UN Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs
Kenneth P. Green
Government
c. 1961   Environmental analyst, AEI
John Holmes
Diplomat
29-Apr-1951   UN Under Sec. Gen. for Humanitarian Affairs
Arthur Hayden Hughes
Diplomat
25-Sep-1939   US Ambassador to Yemen, 1991-94
Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes
Diplomat
1958   US Ambassador to Suriname
David R. Hunter
Administrator
17-May-1916 25-Nov-2000 Progressive fund advisor
Julian Huxley
Biologist
22-Jun-1887 14-Feb-1975 Evolutionary biologist
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Head of State
16-Feb-1932 13-Mar-2014 President of Sierra Leone, 1998-2007
David Kay
Government
c. 1941   Chief Weapons Inspector
Hendrik Kramers
Physicist
17-Feb-1894 24-Apr-1952 Kramers dispersion theory
Herbert H. Lehman
Politician
28-Mar-1878 5-Dec-1963 Governor of New York, 1933-42
Charles Y. S. Liu
Business
c. 1950   On Capital China Technology Fund
Ruud Lubbers
Head of State
7-May-1939   Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1982-94
William J. McDonough
Business
c. 1934   President of New York Fed, 1993-2003
Sergio de Mello
Government
15-Mar-1948 19-Aug-2003 UN Representative to Iraq killed by carbomb
Edward Mezvinsky
Politician
17-Jan-1937   Congressman from Iowa, 1973-77
F. Bradford Morse
Politician
7-Aug-1921 18-Dec-1994 Congressman from Massachusetts, 1961-72
Gunnar Myrdal
Economist
6-Dec-1898 17-May-1987 Monetary Equilibrium
Michael Novak
Religion
9-Sep-1933   The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Mark Oliphant
Physicist
8-Oct-1901 14-Jul-2000 Deuterium reactions
B. Lynn Pascoe
Diplomat
7-Jul-1943   UN Under Secy. Gen. for Political Affairs
Tom Perriello
Politician
9-Oct-1974   Congressman from Virginia, 2009-11
Sebastián Piñera
Head of State
1-Dec-1949   President of Chile
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Politician
5-Sep-1888 17-Apr-1975 Philosopher-President of India, 1962-67
Joseph Verner Reed
Government
17-Dec-1937   US Ambassador to Morocco, 1981-85
Juan Manuel Santos
Head of State
10-Aug-1951   President of Colombia
Klaus Schwab
Economist
30-Mar-1938   Founder, World Economic Forum
Peter Smith
Educator
31-Oct-1945   President, CSU Monterey Bay, 1995-2005
Ronald Spiers
Diplomat
9-Jul-1925   US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1981-83
Barbara Stallings
Educator
c. 1944   Watson Institute for International Studies
Thorvald Stoltenberg
Politician
8-Jul-1931   Norwegian Foreign Minister, 1990-93
Peter B. Teeley
Diplomat
12-Jan-1940   US Ambassador to Canada, 1992-93
Shashi Tharoor
Government
9-Mar-1956   UN Under Secretary General, 2002-07
Gaston Thorn
Head of State
3-Sep-1928 26-Aug-2007 Prime Minister of Luxembourg, 1974-79
Amadou Toumani Touré
Head of State
4-Nov-1948   President of Mali
William B. Wood
Diplomat
7-Aug-1950   US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 2007-09




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