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.

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
Maurice Allais

Maurice Allais

Maurice Allais was a French Economist who won the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

FrenchMay 31, 1911207 views

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.

German1260242 views

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.

HungarianMay 29, 1920243 views

Jan Tinbergen

Jan Tinbergen was a noted 20th century Dutch economist, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969

DutchApril 12, 1903283 views

James Tobin

James Tobin was one of the foremost economists of the late 20th century

AmericanMarch 5, 1918252 views

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.

ItalianJune 10, 1918220 views

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Boethius was an early 6th century Roman senator and philosopher best known for his treatise ‘Consolation of Philosophy’

Italian480417 views

George Joseph Stigler

George Stigler was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century

AmericanJanuary 17, 1911212 views