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.

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
Albert Bandura

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'.

BritishJanuary 18, 1779125 views

Averroes

Ibn Rushd was one of the famous thinkers and scientists of medieval era who is known for his commentaries on works of Aristotle

SpanishApril 14, 1126165 views

Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan is an influential American economist

AmericanMarch 6, 1926205 views

Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion is best remembered till date for deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs and Rosette Stone

FrenchDecember 23, 1790158 views

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

BritishNovember 14, 1797149 views

John Colet

John Colet was an English theologian who was a major promoter of Renaissance humanism during the late 15th and early 16th century

BritishJanuary 1, 1467200 views

V. Gordon Childe

Vere Gordon Childe was an Australian historian, linguist and archaeologist

AustralianApril 14, 1892122 views

Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most renowned naturalists who unveiled many unknown facts about natural science

GermanSeptember 14, 1769159 views

Emil Kraepelin

Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist who is known as the founder of psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics

GermanFebruary 15, 1856167 views