Famous Intellectuals & Academics - List of Famous Intellectuals & Academics - page 2

Intellectuals are people using their intelligence and thinking as a professional or as an individual. They generally work in such an environment such as academics wherein their mind is the key player involving learning, critical thinking and analysis, researching and reasoning. Their skills are required in many different fields like literature, medicine, law and scientific research. Intellectuals demonstrate the capacity to show the different aspects of human thinking and try to focus on the value of thinking. Historically, the intellectuals or the thinking class were usually the privileged few who could afford an education. It was the likes of upper rich classes like Rousseau or Marx who expressed their views in such a way that they led their ways of thinking to be developed into theories, which resulted in a couple of these schools of thought being named after them. In the present day, anyone can become an intellectual if he or she has the knack for knowledge and learning. Despised by few and idolized by others, intellectuals have always played a critical role in the development of the world. Discover this space for the list of famous Intellectuals of the world with their biographies that include trivia and interesting facts about them and also tracing their timeline and life history.

The Most Famous Intellectuals & Academics

NameBirthdayNationalityBio
Emily Greene BalchJanuary 8, 1867AmericanEmily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist who won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize
Carlos CastanedaDecember 25, 1925AmericanCarlos Castaneda was an American author who penned ‘The Teachings of Dan Juan’
Carl JungJuly 26, 1875SwissCarl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist famous for founding the school of analytical psychology
Abraham MaslowApril 1, 1908AmericanAbraham Maslow was a humanistic psychologist best known for his theory of self-actualization
Alan WattsJanuary 6, 1915British, AmericanAlan Watts was a famous British philosopher known for his Zen teachings and interpretations of Eastern philosophy
Abdolkarim SoroushDecember 16, 1945IranianAbdolkarim Soroush is a reformer, thinker, and Rumi scholar belonging to Iran
Lao Tzu (Laozi)601 BCChineseLao Tzu was a legendary Chinese philosopher who wrote the important “Daodejing”
Jabir Ibn Hayyan721IranianJabir Ibn Hayyan was a medieval era polymath
Randy PauschOctober 23, 1960AmericanRandolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch was an American professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh
Thomas SowellJune 30, 1930AmericanThomas Sowell is an American economist, syndicated columnist, writer and social theorist
Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson was an American art historian, an expert on Italian Renaissance paintings and drawings

AmericanJune 26, 1865129 views

Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen was the founder of scientific natural history in Germany

GermanSeptember 16, 1098118 views

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist, considered to be the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud

FrenchApril 13, 1901294 views

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a famous German philosopher who lived in the 18th century

GermanAugust 27, 1770118 views

Robert Mundell

Robert Mundell is a Canadian economist who received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999

CanadianOctober 24, 1932149 views

Robert C. Merton

Robert C

AmericanJuly 31, 1944193 views

Myron Scholes

Myron Scholes is a Canadian-American economist who won the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1997

CanadianJuly 1, 1941183 views

Robert Lucas Jr.

Robert Lucas Jr

AmericanSeptember 15, 1937135 views

James Mirrlees

Sir James A

BritishJuly 5, 1936119 views