Famous Intellectuals & Academics - List of Famous Intellectuals & Academics - page 30

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
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was a renowned British philosopher, logicians and mathematician

BritishMay 18, 1872188 views

John Locke

John Locke was a 17th century English philosopher and physician known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism"

BritishAugust 29, 1632369 views

Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker was an Austrian-American management consultant, academician, author and a self-defined “social ecologist”

AmericanNovember 19, 1909145 views

Sam Harris

Sam Harris is an author, neuroscientist, philosopher, and critic of religion

AmericanApril 9, 1967196 views

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a famous 19th century German philosopher and philologist

GermanOctober 15, 1844282 views

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was an Italian Astronomer and Scientist

ItalianFebruary 15, 1564271 views

Hippocrates

Hippocrates was a Greek physician

Greek460 BC226 views

David Suzuki

David Suzuki is a Canadian academic and science broadcaster

CanadianMarch 24, 1936345 views

David McCullough

David McCullough, known as the ‘master of the art of narrative history’, is an American author, narrator, historian and lecturer

AmericanJuly 7, 1933161 views

David Hume

David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, essayist and historian, known for his radical philosophical scepticism and empiricism

ScottishApril 26, 1711322 views