Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Is an Egyptian American sociologist and author. He is one of Egypt's leading human rights and democr

Is an Egyptian American sociologist and author. He is one of Egypt's leading human rights and democracy activists, and a strong critic of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.Ibrahim is credited for playing a leading role in the revival of Egypt's contemporary research-based civil society movement. For most of his professional career Saad Eddin Ibrahim was a professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo. He is the founder of both the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo and the Arab Organization for Human Rights. He is married to Barbara Lethem Ibrahim, director of the Gerhart Center for Civic Engagement and Philanthropy in Cairo. He is on the Board of Advisors to The Project on Middle East Democracy. The Ibrahims have two children, Randa and Amir Ibrahim.

Was a German Jewish philologist. He was educated at the Jewish school of his native town, at the sem

Was a German Jewish philologist. He was educated at the Jewish school of his native town, at the seminary and academy at Münster, and at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, and Paris (Ph.D., Berlin, 1864). In 1866 he became privat-docent, and in 1870 assistant professor, in the University of Heidelberg; and he became professor of Sanskrit there.

Was a noted Argentine physician and epidemiologist.Mazza was born in Rauch, a small pampas town, to

Was a noted Argentine physician and epidemiologist.Mazza was born in Rauch, a small pampas town, to Francesco Mazza and Giuseppa Alfise (both immigrants from Sicily), in 1886. A precocious student, Mazza was accepted into the prestigious, public college preparatory school, the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, as age 10. Upon graduation he appiled for enlistment in the Argentine Naval Academy; but was rejected on medical grounds. He enrolled, instead, at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) School of Medicine, graduating in 1903.[1]

Is a writer and researcher in the field of Tibetan Studies. His work is focused on the study of Tibe

Is a writer and researcher in the field of Tibetan Studies. His work is focused on the study of Tibetan myths, beliefs, Bon religion and religious history. Samten Gyeltsen was born in 1936 in Sharkhog, eastern Tibet. He received religious training in Dzogchen meditation from his uncle. He completed his studies in the Bon monastery in 1955, obtaining the degree of Geshe, and left with a group of friends to the Gelugpa monastery of Drepung, near Lhasa. The monastery was known for its high philosophical training.

Was one of the foremost South African scholars, and an internationally acclaimed expert on South Afr

Was one of the foremost South African scholars, and an internationally acclaimed expert on South African politics.Nolutshungu produced a high number of significant articles, and published three books. His first book, South Africa in Africa: a study in ideology and foreign policy, pubblished in 1975, was his doctoral thesis; this work is considered to be the first major study of South African politics by a black South African. It was followed in 1982 by another work on South African politics, Changing South Africa: political considerations, an analysis of the prospects for non-violent transition to a non-racial society. The study obtained the Johannesburg Sunday Times' Book of the Year Award

Is a former professor of Far Eastern Languages at Yale University and the author of many works on th

Is a former professor of Far Eastern Languages at Yale University and the author of many works on the Korean and Japanese languages.Martin's monumental Reference Grammar of Japanese (1975) is a landmark in the study of the grammar and history of the Japanese language, as is his Japanese Language through Time (1987).

Was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure. He was an English professor, served as p

Was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure. He was an English professor, served as president of San Francisco State University and then a United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was educated in the public schools of Calgary, Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba; received his undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1927; graduate degrees in English from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1928, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1935.

Is an Australian human rights scholar

Is an Australian human rights scholar

Is a American attorney and lecturer from Texas who gained world-wide fame when she and Linda Coffee

Is a American attorney and lecturer from Texas who gained world-wide fame when she and Linda Coffee represented "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark Roe v. Wade case in the United States Supreme Court.

Is a famous Turkologist, and one of the pioneers of Kazakh linguistics. He cultivated the foundation

Is a famous Turkologist, and one of the pioneers of Kazakh linguistics. He cultivated the foundations of Kazakh grammar for all levels of education, and helped create the current Cyrillic Kazakh alphabet. He also helped to create Russian-Kazakh military a

Was the pseudonym of the French writer Maximiani Portaz, of mixed English, Lombard, and Greek ethnic

Was the pseudonym of the French writer Maximiani Portaz, of mixed English, Lombard, and Greek ethnicity. She was married to a dark skinned ethnic indian Asit Krishna Mukherji.She became enamoured with Hinduism and Nazism, trying to synthesise the two, and proclaiming Adolf Hitler an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. Her writings have influenced neo-Nazism and Nazi mysticism. Although mystical in her conception of Nazism, Savitri Devi saw Nazism as a practical faith without the requirement of metaphysics. Among Savitri Devi's ideas was the classifications of "men above time", "men in time" and "men against time". She is credited with pioneering neo-Nazi interest in occultism, Deep Ecology, and the New Age movement. She influenced the Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano. In 1982, Francisco Freda published a German translation of Gold in the Furnace; the fourth volume of his annual review, Risguardo (1980-), was devoted to Savitri Devi as the "missionary of Aryan Paganism".

Is an Egyptian writer and Thinker.Most of his academic dealt with the thorny in the history of Islam

Is an Egyptian writer and Thinker.Most of his academic dealt with the thorny in the history of Islam. Some scholars considered in Islamic history from the viewpoint of Marxism and others consider the ideas were bold in addressing the ideology of the groups who believe in political Islam, while the same Mr. El Qemany and on the tongue from the Al Jazeera television that he thought the outgoing man followed. Many described as an apostate, or trumpet horns of the United States for similar view with the U.S. Administration's view on the need to change the Islamic religious curriculum in Saudi Arabia in particular note that Sayed El Qemany and his tongue had been advocating this change for decades prior to the call of modern America,

Is a Dutch philosopher and writer of popular science and children's literature. He holds the Chair f

Is a Dutch philosopher and writer of popular science and children's literature. He holds the Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Leiden. He also acts as a television presenter for the public broadcasting association RVU.

Is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathe

Is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Born in New York City, she obtained her B.S. (1979) in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.S. (1981) and Ph.D (1983) in computer science from UC Berkeley.

A Persian poet, songwriter, university lecturer, and singer.

A Persian poet, songwriter, university lecturer, and singer.

Was a Persian poet.A few months after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Bonyad returned to Persia (Iran)

Was a Persian poet.A few months after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Bonyad returned to Persia (Iran) but because of his political beliefs could not continue his activities in his homeland.He taught French literature at the University of Shiraz for a while but was sacked by the fundamentalist government.

Was an Iranian poet and literary scholar. He was born in Shiraz in 1938 and received his M.A. in Per

Was an Iranian poet and literary scholar. He was born in Shiraz in 1938 and received his M.A. in Persian literature at Pahlavi University of Shiraz in 1965. He taught Persian language and literature in Bushehr and published two poetry collections in Iran.In 1987 he emigrated to Sweden with his family. In Sweden he has published two poetry collections and three prose works on Persian literature, history and Iranian festivals. He is the father of the Iranian poet Mana Aghaee.

An Iranian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics and head of Mathematical Sciences Departm

An Iranian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics and head of Mathematical Sciences Department at Sharif University of Technology. He headed up the IRNIC registry for the .ir ccTLD until his retirement from that position in late 2008. He has also served as a Director of APTLD (the Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association - www.aptld.org) between 2007 and his retirement from that position in February 2009.

Dr. Siri Gamage was born in Walasmulla, Sri Lanka and had his university education in Sociology at t

Dr. Siri Gamage was born in Walasmulla, Sri Lanka and had his university education in Sociology at the University of Ceylon (1968-72). He obtained an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Hawaii (1977-79) and a Ph. D in anthropology & Sociology from Monash University, Australia. His research focused on social inequality in rural Kandyan highlands. From 1974-1986 he served on the academic staff of the sociology department, University of Peradeniya.

Was a German physician, poet, and philosopher. He had hardly graduated when he found a wide field fo

Was a German physician, poet, and philosopher. He had hardly graduated when he found a wide field for his activity in Altona, whither the inhabitants of the sister city of Hamburg, then occupied by the French troops, had fled to escape the Russian blockade, bringing with them typhus fever, which at that time was raging in the Hanseatic town. In 1845 ill health forced him to abandon a medical career and to betake himself to milder climes. He settled in Rome, returning to his country only twice, in 1845 and 1864. He died May 19, 1866, at Zurich, Switzerland.

Was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist monk and pr

Was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist monk and precursor of the Polish Enlightenment.Konarski studied 1725-27 at the Collegium Nazarenum in Rome, where he became a teacher of rhetoric. After that he travelled through France, Germany and Austria to broaden his education.In 1730 he returned to Poland and began work on a new edition of Polish law, the Volumina legum.From 1736 he taught at the Collegium Resoviense in Rzeszów. In 1740 he founded the Collegium Nobilium, an elite Warsaw school for sons of the gentry (szlachta). He founded the first public-reference library on the European mainland in 1747 in Warsaw. Thereafter he reformed Piarist education in Poland, in accordance with his educational program, the Ordinationes Visitationis Apostolicae... (1755). His reforms became a landmark in the 18th-century struggle to modernize the Polish education system.

Is a United Methodist theologian, ethicist, and professor of law. He received a Ph.D. from Yale Univ

Is a United Methodist theologian, ethicist, and professor of law. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University and an honorary D.D. from the University of Edinburgh, and he has taught at the University of Notre Dame and is currently the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School with a joint appointment at the Duke University School of Law.

Is a German biologist and biochemist.[1] Since 2001, she has been Professor of Experimental Medicine

Is a German biologist and biochemist.[1] Since 2001, she has been Professor of Experimental Medicine and Head of Molecular Cardiology at the University of Frankfurt, and in 2005 she won the 1.55 million euro Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.[1] Before she could receive the prize, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ((German) "German Research Foundation") had to clear her of all allegations of scientific misconduct, which they did on 5 July 2005.[2]

Is a coach and former player of American football. He played the quarterback position, and has worke

Is a coach and former player of American football. He played the quarterback position, and has worked with quarterbacks during most of his coaching career. He is of Armenian descent.

Is the professor of actuarial science and a senior administrator at City University, London.He was e

Is the professor of actuarial science and a senior administrator at City University, London.He was educated at Ilford County High School, Trinity College, Cambridge (MA) and City University (PhD, DSc).