Famous Intellectuals & Academics - List of Famous Intellectuals & Academics - page 9
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 |
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura is the most influential psychologist of all times
Peter Mark Roget
Peter Mark Roget was an English physician and philologist who is most celebrated for 'Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases'.
Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion is best remembered till date for deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs and Rosette Stone
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell was a pioneering geologist from Britain, who studied the underlying forces which shaped the earth’s surface to its present day form
John Colet
John Colet was an English theologian who was a major promoter of Renaissance humanism during the late 15th and early 16th century
V. Gordon Childe
Vere Gordon Childe was an Australian historian, linguist and archaeologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most renowned naturalists who unveiled many unknown facts about natural science
Emil Kraepelin
Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist who is known as the founder of psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics