Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter G

Is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. He served as Minister

Is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. He served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister from May 27, 2003 until February 22, 2007 in the Cabinets Balkenende II and III. He served earlier as Minister of Finance in the Cabinets Kok I and II from August 22, 1994 until July 22, 2002. After his term as Minister of Finance ended in 2002 he was selected by the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy to succeed retiring Party leader and Chair of the Parliamentary Party in House of Representatives Hans Dijkstal.

Is a Dutch academic. Born in Aalsmeer, Netherlands in February 1954, Gert Spaargaren is currently an

Is a Dutch academic. Born in Aalsmeer, Netherlands in February 1954, Gert Spaargaren is currently an environmental policy professor for sustainability and patterns of consumption at Wageningen University, Netherlands. He is also a member of the Environmental Policy Group.

Was a Tatar educator and an Islamic theologian or Jadidist. He was a brother of Gäbdelxaliq Qursawí /ghab-del-khah-leeq/. He studied at Machkara (Malmyzhsky District) village madrassah and later at Mir-Arab madrassah in Bukhara. From 1794 to 1808 he was imam of the mosque in Yughary Qursa village of Kazan and the headmaster of his own madrassah. His surname is, actually, a derivative of "Qursa" in arabic manner, which means "from Qursa". He is credited with the revival of Islam (or Jadidism) among the Tatars, and was the author of numerous articles about religion. He died during the hajj and is buried in Istanbul.

An Iranian graphic designer.He graduated in 1966 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of

An Iranian graphic designer.He graduated in 1966 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran. He then spent several years acquiring practical experience in graphic art before earning a master's degree from Pratt University, New York, in 1980. Then after creating original works over several decades, he achieved a graphic art with an Iranian flavor, which indeed prompted museums and collectors across the world to add his works to their collections.

S a professor of physics, and a member of the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, at New York

S a professor of physics, and a member of the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in high energy physics and cosmology from Tbilisi State University, Georgia in 1992. Before joining the NYU faculty in 1

Is a Lebanese academic, writer, socialist and antiwar activist. He lived in Lebanon until moving to

Is a Lebanese academic, writer, socialist and antiwar activist. He lived in Lebanon until moving to France in 1983. He taught politics and international relations at the University of Paris VIII until 2003, when he took up a position at the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin. Since August 2007, Achcar has been Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

Is a French academic known for its work on the imagination and mythology. He was teacher of philosop

Is a French academic known for its work on the imagination and mythology. He was teacher of philosophy from 1947 to 1956, then professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Grenoble II. Gilbert Durand was the co-founder - with Léon Cellier and Paul Deschamps in 1966 - and the director of the Centre de recherche sur l'imaginaire[1] and a member of Eranos. He participated in the resistance in the Vercors.

Is a French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world. He has written works on Radical I

Is a French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world. He has written works on Radical Islam including Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam . He is currently the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs for 2009-10 at LSE IDEAS (Centre for Diplomacy & Strategy)[1], at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Was an American college football coach best known as the head coach at the University of Michigan, w

Was an American college football coach best known as the head coach at the University of Michigan, where he coached the Wolverines from 1969 through the 1989 season. Schembechler won a total of 234 games; only Joe Paterno and Tom Osborne have recorded 200 victories in fewer games. A consummate "coach's coach", Schembechler combined superb technical command of the game with a fiery disposition. Schembechler's Michigan teams were known for their fundamentally sound, physical, and fierce style of play. Under his watch, the Wolverines traditionally featured strong defense, dominating offensive lines, and a power-running attack. In the words of one commentator, Schembechler coached a "remorseless and punishing" brand of football.[citation needed] If he perceived a weakness in the opponent, his teams hammered at it time and time again. Though somewhat combative during games -- he was prone to sideline outbursts -- he was generally regarded by his peers as having great personal integrity. He coached at the major conference level for twenty-one seasons without a hint of scandal.

An Argentine writer, lawyer, professor, and an accomplished musician. She is the author of Con los P

An Argentine writer, lawyer, professor, and an accomplished musician. She is the author of Con los Pies en el Escenario: Trayectoria del Grupo Arte Dramático y su Director Salo Lisé (2003), a book based on the life of her father, and Viene Clareando (2005),[1] which was chosen by Argentina’s National Commission for the Protection of Public Libraries for distribution to the country’s public libraries. Viene Clareando, whose title refers to Atahualpa Yupanqui’s famous song of the same name, will be published in the United States as Departing at Dawn by The Feminist Press at CUNY in 2009[2].

Is a professor of Psychiatry

Is a professor of Psychiatry

Is currently Professor of Law and Economics at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlingto

Is currently Professor of Law and Economics at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia.A native of Rockford, Illinois, Tullock received his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1947 and an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1994. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association (1998). He has published more than 150 papers and 23 books, including The Politics of Bureaucracy (1965), Private Wants, Public Means (1970), The Logic of the Law (1971), The Vote Motive (1976; 2006), Autocracy (1987), Rent Seeking (1993), The Economics of Non-Human Societies (1994) and On Voting: A Public Choice Approach (1998).

Is an Australian professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland

Is an Australian professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland

He was previously the head coach at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Southern Methodist University,

He was previously the head coach at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Southern Methodist University, and Colorado College, and was an assistant with the national team. On Monday October 22, 2007 U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati announced that Ryan's contract would not be extended past its December 31, 2007 expiration date.

Is a Greek management scientist and professor at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Is a Greek management scientist and professor at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is the head of the Information Management Unit[1], a multi-disciplinary research group at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems[2]. He was the main developer of the Knowledge Asset Management approach to Knowledge Management.

A key architect of Polish economic reforms, professor of economics, renowned economist specializing

A key architect of Polish economic reforms, professor of economics, renowned economist specializing in development economy, system reforms and public finances, currently heading a think-tank TIGER, Transformation, Integration and Globalizaction Economic Research, at Kozminski University.He took part in Polish Round Table talks. He held positions of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance four times between 1994 and 2003, under four different Prime Ministers. He is a consultant for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, United Nations and OECD.

Was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations betw

Was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999.[1]Guido José Mario di Tella was born in Buenos Aires, 1931. His father, Torcuato di Tella, was an Italian Argentine immigrant who had become a prominent local industrialist, producing industrial machinery and home appliances through the Siam di Tella establishment. Guido lost his father at age 17, and per his wishes, the young man pursued an engineering degree at the University of Buenos Aires with the intention of later managing the family industrial firm (an employer of 5,000). He also took an interest in politics, becoming a co-founer of the Christian Democratic Party of Argentina, in 1954. Graduating in 1955, he was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned a degree in Economics in 1959.

Was a Sri Lankan professor, scholar and diplomat. He was the first Ceylon Ambassador to the Soviet U

Was a Sri Lankan professor, scholar and diplomat. He was the first Ceylon Ambassador to the Soviet Union,Ceylon High Commissioner in Canada, Ceylon High Commissioner to United Kingdom and Ceylon Representative to the United Nations in New York.As a school boy, young George Pieris Malalasekera as he was known then, was sent to St. John's College, Panadura, (now the Cyril Jansz Vidyalaya) for his English education. It was a leading school in the English medium in Panadura under the principalship of Cyril Jansz, an reputed educationist of the colonial era. After receiving his education in that school from 1907-17, he joined the Ceylon Medical College, Colombo to qualify as a doctor with a Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery (LMS).

Was a German histologist and medical author, and father of Max Born. His wife Gretchen Kauffmann die

Was a German histologist and medical author, and father of Max Born. His wife Gretchen Kauffmann died when Max was just four, on 29 August 1886. He received his education first at the gymnasium of Görlitz, Prussian Silesia, where his father practised as a physician and held the position of Kreisphysicus (district physician), and afterward at the universities of Breslau, Bonn, Strassburg, and Berlin, graduating as physician from Breslau in 1876. In the same year he was appointed assistant prosector and Privatdozent at the University of Breslau, and in 1877 prosector. In 1886 he was elected assistant professor, and in 1898 professor of histology and comparative anatomy, at the same university, receiving the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle of the fourth class in the latter year.

Was a German philologist and historian, born in Dresden, where he frequented the Kreuzschule, before

Was a German philologist and historian, born in Dresden, where he frequented the Kreuzschule, before studying philology at Leipzig in 1862-66. He then taught at the Nikolai Gymnasium in Leipzig until 1881, when appointed director of the municipal archives and city librarian. From 1879 he was also associate editor of the Grenzboten and in 1897 received the title of professor. Much opposition was aroused by his publication Allerhand Sprachdummheiten, Kleine deutsche Grammatik des Zweifelhaften, des Falschen und des Häßlichen (1891; fourth edition, 1908). Besides a collection of poems, entitled Als der Großvater die Großmutter nahm (1886; fourth edition, 1905), he edited a new adaptation of Borchardt's Die sprichwörtlichen Redensarten im duetschen Volksmund nach Sinn und Ursprung erläutert (fifth edition, 1895).

Was a French scholar and academic, who served as the first Marshal Foch Professor of French Literatu

Was a French scholar and academic, who served as the first Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford from 1920 until 1949. Rudler was heavily influenced by Lanson's work and approach to literary criticism, and this was displayed in some of his work such as books on textual criticism published in 1902 and 1923. This approach was not to all tastes, and his influence in Britain led to a "scientific" approach to the study of French that was not appreciated by all