Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter I

Was a Romanian linguist and a founding member of the Romanian Academy (Academia Româna). He was bor

Was a Romanian linguist and a founding member of the Romanian Academy (Academia Româna). He was born Ion Floricel in the village of Maxineni, near the Danube port of Braila as the son of a country priest. He changed his name to Maxim derived from the name of his birth place, and then signed his books as I. C. Massimu. The crowning achievement of I.C. Massim's linguistic career was the publication in 1875, together with August Treboniu Laurian, of the first complete dictionary of the Romanian language, a monumental work that included two volumes of words of Latin origin and a comprehensive "Glossary" of words of non-Latin or "foreign" origin in the Romanian language.

A Scottish geologist, Professor of Geoscience Communication at the University of Plymouth, notable f

A Scottish geologist, Professor of Geoscience Communication at the University of Plymouth, notable for his frequent appearances on television to promote the subject. He has presented series such as Journeys From the Centre of the Earth, Earth - The Power of the Planet, Hot Rocks and 10 Things You Didn't Know About.... He has also appeared in the Rough Science programmes. In 2008, he hosted the BBC produced Earth: The Biography, a 5 part series that was presented in the United States on the National Geographic Channel.

Is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierar

Is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.

Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.H

Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1985 and taught at the Universities of Geneva (1985-1993), Bangor (1991-1996) and Stuttgart (1996-2000) before taking up his present position at Cambridge in 2000. He is a fellow of Downing College.Professor Roberts is a generative linguist and enthusiastic adopter of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. He has published widely in the synchronic and diachronic syntax of Romance and Germanic languages and Welsh.A lifelong lover of music, Ian grew up with Van der Graaf Generator, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, King Crimson and Henry Cow, in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, in the shadow of Bryn Euryn.

Australian economist, and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia

Australian economist, and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia

A former BBC weatherman. His Scottish accent, manner of speech, and relentless (some would call unse

A former BBC weatherman. His Scottish accent, manner of speech, and relentless (some would call unseemly) enthusiasm for severe weather made him popular with viewers[citation needed]. He became the most imitated weather presenter in the UK. He went to Queen's Park School (near Queen's Park F.C.) in Glasgow, and then to the University of Glasgow.He joined the RAF in 1959 as part of his National Service and became an airman meteorologist, first in Scotland and then in Cyprus. He left the RAF in 1961 and joined the Met Office, working at Prestwick Airport, in Malta and in Manchester. In 1978, he began working at the BBC Weather Centre. He retired on 31 July 1998.

Was a Canadian-American psychiatrist. His research included reincarnation claims, near-death experie

Was a Canadian-American psychiatrist. His research included reincarnation claims, near-death experiences, apparitions (death-bed visions), the mind-brain problem, and survival of the human personality after death.

Is an Australian applied mathematician

Is an Australian applied mathematician

Was an geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus.He studied at Granada the Qur'an, hadith, law a

Was an geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus.He studied at Granada the Qur'an, hadith, law and literature, and later became secretary to the Almohad governor of that city. During this time he composed many poems. In 1182 he took the decision to perform his duty of pilgrimage to Mecca in order to atone for a sin that he had been compelled to do by the governor of Valencia.

Was a famous North African Arab polymath[1][2]—an astronomer, economist, historian, Islamic schola

Was a famous North African Arab polymath[1][2]—an astronomer, economist, historian, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, hafiz, jurist, lawyer, mathematician, military strategist, nutritionist, philosopher, social scientist and statesman—born in North Africa in present-day Tunisia.[3] He is considered the forerunner of several social scientific disciplines: demography,[4] cultural history,[5] historiography,[6][7] the philosophy of history,[8] sociology,[4][7][8][9][10] and modern economics.[7][11][12] He is sometimes considered to be the "father" of these disciplines, or even the social sciences in general,[13][14] for anticipating many elements of these disciplines centuries before they were founded in the West.

Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail) was an Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath:[1] an Arabic writer, novelist, Islam

Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail) was an Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath:[1] an Arabic writer, novelist, Islamic philosopher, theologian, physician, vizier, and court official.

Was a Japanese economist. He graduated from The Tokyo University of Commerce (now Hitotsubashi Unive

Was a Japanese economist. He graduated from The Tokyo University of Commerce (now Hitotsubashi University) in 1926, and then studied under Joseph Schumpeter in Germany. He was a pioneer of mathematical economics in Japan. After serving as assistant at The Tokyo University of Commerce, he became an assistant professor in 1933, a professor in 1937 and president in 1949 at the same institution. He bacame Chairman of Central Labor Relations Commission of Japan in 1950, and served as the first Chairman of The Tax Commission of Japan from 1959 to 1965. In 1965 he was appointed as a professor emeritus of Hitotsubashi University. In 1968, he was recognized as Person of Cultural Merit.

Was a 19th-century Polish-Lithuanian geologist and mineralogist born in Nesvizh, Imperial Russia (pr

Was a 19th-century Polish-Lithuanian geologist and mineralogist born in Nesvizh, Imperial Russia (present-day Belarus).After a youth spent in partitioned Polish-Lithuanian lands, he participated in the November 1830 Uprising against the Russian Empire. Up

Is a Polish, naturalized French economist. He is also said to be an ecosocioeconomist, due to his id

Is a Polish, naturalized French economist. He is also said to be an ecosocioeconomist, due to his ideas about development as a combination of economic growth, equalitarian increase in social well-being and environmental preservation. The term ecosocioeconomy was created by Karl William Kapp, a German economist and one of the authors who inspired the so-called political economy during the 1970's.

Was a Polish mathematician and geodesist; Piarist. He was a professor and rector of the Collegium No

Was a Polish mathematician and geodesist; Piarist. He was a professor and rector of the Collegium Nobilium.In 1786 Zaborowski published the textbook Jeometria praktyczna (Polish for Practical geometry), where he described methods of geodesic measurement. The book was awarded the Merentibus by Stanislaw August Poniatowski. Zaborowski was an author of Logarytmy dlá szkól narodowych (Polish for Logarithms for national schools) written by order of Commission of National Education and published in 1787. He also wrote Tablice matematyczne (Polish for Mathematical tables) which was published in 1797

Was a German economist and historian, born in Nakel and educated at the universities of Breslau, Ber

Was a German economist and historian, born in Nakel and educated at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, and Göttingen. He became a university docent at Berlin in 1885 and was Leopold von Ranke's assistant in historical work.

Currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He is also known for his time with Combat Zone

Currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He is also known for his time with Combat Zone Wrestling, Major League Wrestling, and other various independent promotions. His stage name is modeled after that of famous Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.Dutt's parents moved to United States of America from India before he was born, though most of his extended family still lives in New Delhi. Dutt graduated from the KYDA Pro Wrestling training school in northern Virginia. He perfected his craft inside the squared circle at KYDA Pro wrestling for the first two years of his professional career.[1]

Was a distinguished Georgian mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, singular

Was a distinguished Georgian mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, singular integral equations, generalized analytic functions and the mathematical theory of elastic shells.

German philosopher from the Prussian city of K

German philosopher from the Prussian city of K

Among the posts that she holds are a member of the committee on vocationalization at the University

Among the posts that she holds are a member of the committee on vocationalization at the University Grants Commission (UGC), member of the International Baccalaureate (IB) education committee and the IB Asia-Pacific regional advisory committee. She has also been a convener for women in management at the Bombay Management Association,

Is a Latvian biologist and politician. He was Prime Minister of Latvia for ten months in 2004, the f

Is a Latvian biologist and politician. He was Prime Minister of Latvia for ten months in 2004, the first Green politician to lead a country in the history of the world. He was Speaker of the Saeima, the Latvian parliament, in 2006—2007. Emsis' political v

Was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936[1], argued that the Earth's core is not one single molten sph

Was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936[1], argued that the Earth's core is not one single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists which has physical properties that are different from those of the outer core[1].After a few years of work in the insurance business she became an assistant to the geodesist Niels Erik Nørlund, who assigned her the task of setting up seismological observatories in Denmark and Greenland. The beginning of her interest in seismology dates back to this time. In 1928 she passed her exam in geodesy and accepted a position as state geodesist and head of the department of seismology at the Geodetical Institute of Denmark, which was led by Nørlund.

Is a German philosopher of religion and theologian. His work is regarded as being on the methodologi

Is a German philosopher of religion and theologian. His work is regarded as being on the methodological borderlines between analytic philosophy, hermeneutics and phenomenology, and he is a recognized expert in issues of contemporary philosophy, philosophy

Was a prominent Czech sociologist and philosopher. Since 1922 the professor of sociology at the Masa

Was a prominent Czech sociologist and philosopher. Since 1922 the professor of sociology at the Masaryk university, Brno, 1950 pensioned. Bláha was the leading figure of the Brno school of sociology and author of the theoretical concept of 'federative functionalism'.

Was a Greek philosopher. In 1920 Theodoracopoulos traveled to Vienna to study Classical Philology an

Was a Greek philosopher. In 1920 Theodoracopoulos traveled to Vienna to study Classical Philology and Philosophy. Subsequently, he continued his studies of philosophy in Heidelberg and receives in 1925 his Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Heidelberg.