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