Famous Intellectuals & Academics - List of Famous Intellectuals & Academics - page 23
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.
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Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
Emily Greene Balch | January 8, 1867 | American | Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist who won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize |
Carlos Castaneda | December 25, 1925 | American | Carlos Castaneda was an American author who penned ‘The Teachings of Dan Juan’ |
Carl Jung | July 26, 1875 | Swiss | Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist famous for founding the school of analytical psychology |
Abraham Maslow | April 1, 1908 | American | Abraham Maslow was a humanistic psychologist best known for his theory of self-actualization |
Alan Watts | January 6, 1915 | British, American | Alan Watts was a famous British philosopher known for his Zen teachings and interpretations of Eastern philosophy |
Abdolkarim Soroush | December 16, 1945 | Iranian | Abdolkarim Soroush is a reformer, thinker, and Rumi scholar belonging to Iran |
Lao Tzu (Laozi) | 601 BC | Chinese | Lao Tzu was a legendary Chinese philosopher who wrote the important “Daodejing” |
Jabir Ibn Hayyan | 721 | Iranian | Jabir Ibn Hayyan was a medieval era polymath |
Randy Pausch | October 23, 1960 | American | Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch was an American professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh |
Thomas Sowell | June 30, 1930 | American | Thomas Sowell is an American economist, syndicated columnist, writer and social theorist |
Maurice Allais
Maurice Allais was a French Economist who won the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Meister Eckhart
Explore this biography to know the profile, childhood, life and timeline of Meister Eckhart, who brought in a great change in Germany with his groundbreaking thesis and ideas.
John C Harsanyi
Read on to know the profile, career, important works, contributions and timeline of the famous American economist and Nobel Laureate, John C Harsanyi.
Jan Tinbergen
Jan Tinbergen was a noted 20th century Dutch economist, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969
James Tobin
James Tobin was one of the foremost economists of the late 20th century
Franco Modigliani
Explore this biography to know about the profile, childhood, life and contribution of the famous Italian economist and Nobel Prize recipient Franco Modigliani.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Boethius was an early 6th century Roman senator and philosopher best known for his treatise ‘Consolation of Philosophy’
George Joseph Stigler
George Stigler was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century