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x Howard Hughes Howard Hughes Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, industrialist, film producer and director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained fame in the late 1920s as a maverick film...
x David J. Theroux   Independent Institute  
x K. Eric Drexler K. Eric Drexler in 2001. For a more recent photo see http://www.e-drexler.com/p/idx04/00/0404drexlerBioCV.html Foresight Institute
Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955 in Oakland, California) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at MIT was revised and published as...
x Christine Peterson   Foresight Institute  
x Eliezer Yudkowsky Eliezer Yudkowsky, Stanford 2006 (square crop) Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher concerned with the Singularity, and an advocate of Friendly Artificial Intelligence. Yudkowsky is a co-founder and research fellow of the Singularity...
x C. Fred Bergsten   Institute for International Economics
C. Fred Bergsten (born 1941) is an American economist, author, and political adviser. He has served as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department and has been director of the Peterson Institute for International...
x Paul P. Harris Paul P. Harris Rotary International
Paul Percy Harris (April 19, 1868 - January 27, 1947) was a Chicago attorney best known for founding Rotary International in 1905, a service organization with over one million members worldwide. Harris was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but grew up in...
x Robert Greenstein   Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Robert Greenstein is founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a Washington, DC think tank that focuses on federal and state fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families...
x Henry Smith Richardson Sr.   Smith Richardson Foundation  
x Jim Balsillie Jim Balsillie Centre for International Governance Innovation
James Laurence "Jim" Balsillie (born February 3, 1961) is a Canadian billionaire. He is a Chartered Accountant and co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion. He was born in Seaforth, Ontario, Canada, and raised in Peterborough, Ontario,...
x Mike Lazaridis Mike Lazaridis Centre for International Governance Innovation
Mihalis "Mike" Lazaridis, OC, O.Ont (born March 14, 1961, Istanbul, Turkey) is the founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), which created and manufactures the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He is also a former chancellor of the...
x Nathaniel Branden   Nathaniel Branden Institute
Nathaniel Branden, né Nathan Blumenthal (born 9 April 1930 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada), is a psychotherapist and writer best known today for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A one-time associate of novelist Ayn Rand, Branden had a...
x Landon T. Clay   Clay Mathematics Institute  
x Arthur Jaffe Arthur Jaffe Clay Mathematics Institute
Arthur Jaffe is an American mathematical physicist and a professor at Harvard University. Born on December 22, 1937 he attended Princeton University as an undergraduate obtaining a degree in chemistry, and later Clare College, Cambridge, as a...
x Winston Churchill Winston Churchill European Movement
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955...
x Léon Blum Hashim Atassi signing Franco Syrian treaty 1936 European Movement
André Léon Blum (9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950), was a French politician, usually identified with the moderate left, and three times the Prime Minister of France. Blum was born in the Paris Jewish community: he attended the Lycée Henri IV. There he...
x Alcide De Gasperi Monumento Alcide Degasperi Trento European Movement
Alcide De Gasperi (3 April 1881 – 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule...
x Paul-Henri Spaak Belgian 3 pioneers of the European unification gold coin European Movement
Paul Henri Charles Spaak (25 January 1899 - 31 July 1972) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman. He was born in Schaerbeek to Paul Spaak and Marie Janson. His mother - the daughter of Paul Janson and sister to Paul-Émile Janson, both...
x Alexandre Marc   Union of European Federalists  
x Denis de Rougemont   Union of European Federalists
Denis de Rougemont (September 8, 1906–December 6, 1985) was a Swiss writer, who wrote in French. He studied at the University of Neuchâtel, and then moved to Paris in 1930. There he wrote for and edited various publications, associating with the...
x Henri Brugmans   Union of European Federalists  
x Lawrence Lessig Creative Commons
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society, and will soon re-join the faculty at Harvard Law School....
x Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins in March, 2005 Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford....
x Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte One Laptop per Child
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory
x Larry Bohn Img_bohn.jpg OASIS
As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Larry invests in both new and existing technology businesses. Areas of special interest include: open source, information technology; systems; and software on-demand business models.  Larry...
x Samuel Eells Samuel Eells Alpha Delta Phi
Samuel Eells (1810-1842) was a 19th-Century American philosopher, essayist and orator who founded the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Eells was born in Westmoreland in rural western New York state in 1810...
x Lorenzo Latham   Alpha Delta Phi
Lorenzo Latham (died 1860 in New Orleans) was during his senior year at Hamilton College a founding member of Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ), now an international literary fraternity, with Samuel Eells and John Curtiss Underwood, who were also seniors, and...
x John Curtiss Underwood John Curtiss Underwood Alpha Delta Phi
John Curtiss Underwood (March 14, 1809 - December 7, 1873) was a lawyer, Abolitionist politician, and federal judge. Underwood graduated from Hamilton College in 1832 and was a founding member of the Alpha Delta Phi society. He practiced law from...
x Oliver Andrew Morse      
x Henry Lemuel Storrs      
x Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm Congressional Black Caucus
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an African-American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968,...
x Louis Stokes Louis B. Stokes Congressional Black Caucus
Louis Stokes (born February 23, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives. Born in Cleveland, Stokes and his brother Carl B. Stokes lived in one of the first federally...
x William Lacy Clay, Jr. William Lacy Clay, Jr. Congressional Black Caucus
William Lacy Clay, Jr., sometimes known as Lacy Clay and Wm. Lacy Clay (born July 27, 1956), American politician, was elected as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives in 2000 to represent Missouri's 1st congressional...
x Richard Stallman Free Software Foundation
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms", is an American software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has...
x Dennis Whittle Dennis.jpg GlobalGiving  
x Mari Kuraishi Mari.jpg GlobalGiving  
x August Palm   Swedish Social Democratic Party  
x Arne Johansson   Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna  
x James Gustave Speth James Speth.jpg World Resources Institute
James Gustave (Gus) Speth (born March 4, 1942) is an American environmental lawyer and advocate. He was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1942. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1964, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes...
x Walter W. Naumburg   Walter W. Naumburg Foundation  
x Albert Lasker   Lasker Foundation
Albert Davis Lasker (May 1, 1880 - May 30, 1952) was an American businessman who is often considered to be the founder of modern advertising. Born in Freiburg, Germany when his American parents were visiting their homeland, Albert Lasker was raised...
x Mary Lasker Mary Lasker Lasker Foundation
Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994) was an American health activist. She worked to raise funds for medical research, and founded the Lasker Foundation. Mary Lasker is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 and the Congressional Gold...
x Columbia University Columbia Shield Association of American Universities
Columbia University in the City of New York (commonly known as Columbia University), is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of...
x Cornell University Association of American Universities
Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four state-supported statutory or contract colleges. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of two private land grant...
x Harvard University Shield of Harvard University Association of American Universities
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest...
x Johns Hopkins University Association of American Universities
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Hopkins or JHU, is a world-renowned private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland, Washington, D...
x Princeton University Association of American Universities
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges. Founded in 1746 at Elizabeth, New...
x Stanford University Association of American Universities
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. Stanford was founded in 1885 by former California governor and senator...
x University of California, Berkeley Association of American Universities
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the...
x University of Chicago Shield of the University of Chicago Association of American Universities
The University of Chicago (commonly referred to as UChicago or just Chicago) is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. It credits its establishment to the oil magnate and benefactor John D. Rockefeller,...
x University of Michigan UM Logo Association of American Universities
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, U-M, UM, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university located in the state of Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, which...
x University of Pennsylvania   Association of American Universities
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as UPenn or just Penn) is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Penn is the first university and the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United...
x University of Wisconsin-Madison Association of American Universities
The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison, Madison, or Wisconsin) is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW-Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became...
x Yale University Association of American Universities
Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Yale has educated five U.S....
x The Catholic University of America Association of American Universities
The Catholic University of America (CUA), located in Northeast Washington, D.C., is the national university of the Roman Catholic Church and the only higher education institution founded by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops. Established in 1887 as a...
x Clark University Association of American Universities
Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 by the industrialist Jonas Clark, it is the oldest institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates...
x Hubert Humphrey Hubert Humphrey Americans for Democratic Action
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic...
x Reinhold Niebuhr   Americans for Democratic Action
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was an American theologian. A Protestant, he is best known for his study of the task of relating the Christian faith to the realities of modern politics and diplomacy. He was an important...
x Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ArthurMSchlesingerJrCalcutta Americans for Democratic Action
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger (October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007), was a Pulitzer Prize recipient and American historian and social critic whose work explored the liberalism of American political leaders including...
x John Kenneth Galbraith JohnKennethGalbraithOWI Americans for Democratic Action
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic...