Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. With a church position in south-east France, he also spent...
George Canning (11 April 1770 – 8 August 1827) was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and briefly Prime Minister. Canning was born into an Anglo-Irish family...
William Bradford (March 19, 1590 – May 9, 1657) was an English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and was elected thirty times to be the Governor after John...
Matthew Henry (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714) was an English commentator on the Bible and Presbyterian minister. He was born at Broad Oak,a farmhouse on the borders of Flintshire and...
William Cullen (15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790) was a Scottish physician and chemist. Cullen was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. His father William was a lawyer retained by the Duke of...
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose CSI CIE FRS (Bengali: জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু Jôgodish Chôndro Boshu) (30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Bengali polymath: a physicist, biologist, botanist...
Benjamin Silliman (8 August 1779 – 24 November 1864) was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science (at Yale University), and the first to distill...
Charles Rollin (30 January 1661 – 14 December 1741) was a French historian and educator. He was born in Paris. He was the son of a cutler, and at the age of twenty-two was made a master in...
Henry Sacheverell (1674 – 15 June 1724) was an English High Church clergyman and politician. The son of Joshua Sacheverell, rector of St Peter's, Marlborough, he was adopted by his...
Sir Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, KG (20 February 1631 – 26 July 1712), English statesman, commonly known also by his earlier titles of Earl of Danby and Marquess of Carmarthen, served...
Sir William Petty (27 May 1623 – 16 December 1687) was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He...
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was one of the founders...
Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was an American women's rights advocate and the pioneer who founded the first women's school of higher education. Emma Willard was born in...
John Philip Kemble (1 February 1757 – 26 February 1823) was an English actor. He was born into a theatrical family as the eldest son of Roger Kemble, actor-manager of a touring troupe. His...
Sir Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and 1st Earl Mortimer KG (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was a British politician and statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began...
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of...
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (14 September 1934 - 24 April 2002) was an American journalist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of...
Nichita Stănescu (born Nichita Hristea Stănescu) (March 31, 1933, Ploieşti—December 13, 1983, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet and essayist. He is the most acclaimed contemporary Romanian...
Nichifor Crainic (December 22, 1889, Bulbucata, Giurgiu County—August 20, 1972, Mogoşoaia) was a Romanian writer, editor, philosopher, poet and theologian famed for his traditionalist and...
Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1 June 1956) is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist. Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Romanian language and literature...
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 – January 31, 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the...
Meridel Le Sueur (1900, Murray, IA – 1996, Hudson, WI) was an American writer associated with the proletarian movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Like her counterparts John Steinbeck, Nelson...
Patricia Frances Grace, DCNZM, QSO, (born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1937) is a notable Māori writer of novels, short stories, and children's books. She currently lives in Hongoeka Bay...
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett (Portuguese pronunciation: [aɫˈmɐidɐ ɡaˈʁɛt(ɨ)]; Porto, February 4, 1799 - December 9, 1854) was a...
Indra Sinha (born in 1950 in Colaba, which is part of Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra, India) is a British writer of English and Indian descent. Formerly a copywriter for Ogilvy & Mather...