Famous Intellectuals & Academics - List of Famous Intellectuals & Academics - page 3

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
Daniel McFadden

Daniel McFadden

Daniel Little McFadden is an American economist and the co-recipient of the 2000 ‘Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences’

AmericanJuly 29, 193775 views

Gary Becker

Gary Becker was an American economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992

Robert Fogel

Robert Fogel was an American economic historian and scientist who won a share of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

AmericanJuly 1, 1926144 views

Douglass North

Douglass North was an American economist who won a share of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Selten is a German economist who won a share of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

PolishOctober 5, 1930121 views

Arthur Keith

Arthur Keith was a distinguished Scottish anatomist and anthropologist

WelshFebruary 5, 1866151 views

David Harvey

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BritishOctober 31, 1935202 views

Strabo

Strabo was a Greek geographer, philosopher and historian who lived more than two thousand years ago, in the early days of the Roman Empire

Greek64 BC110 views

Ferdinand von Mueller

Ferdinand von Mueller was a German-Australian botanist and geographer

AustralianJune 30, 1825157 views

Ronald Coase

Ronald Coase was a highly acclaimed British economist who became the proud recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991

BritishDecember 29, 1910136 views