Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter B

The Chief Justice of Canada, the first woman to hold that position.In 1981 she was appointed to the

The Chief Justice of Canada, the first woman to hold that position.In 1981 she was appointed to the County Court of Vancouver and then to the Supreme Court of British Columbia. In 1985 she was appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal and in 1988 was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on March 30, 1989 and was made Chief Justice of Canada on January 7, 2000.Upon being sworn in to the Supreme Court of Canada, she also became a Deputy Governor General of Canada together with the other justices of the Supreme Court.

An eminent Dravidianist and the most respected Indian linguist of his generation. He was a former Vi

An eminent Dravidianist and the most respected Indian linguist of his generation. He was a former Vice Chancellor of the Hyderabad Central University (1986-93) and was a professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the Osmania University (1962-86), which he also founded. His magnum opus The Dravidian Languages is considered a landmark volume in the study of Dravidian linguistics. He was a student and a close associate of Prof. Emeneau.

Was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was born near Bijjada Bida (in present day Bijapur di

Was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was born near Bijjada Bida (in present day Bijapur district, Karnataka state, South India) into the Deshastha Brahmin family. Bhaskara was head of an astronomical observatory at Ujjain, the leading mathematical centre of ancient India. His predecessors in this post had included both the noted Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598–c. 665) and Varahamihira. He lived in the Sahyadri region of Western Maharashtra.

Also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian nationalist, jurist, Dalit political leader and a Buddhist re

Also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian nationalist, jurist, Dalit political leader and a Buddhist revivalist. He was also the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Untouchable family, Ambedkar spent his whole life fighting against social discrimination, the system of Chaturvarna - the Hindu categorization of human society into four varnas - and the Indian caste system. He is also credited with having sparked the Dalit Buddhist movement. Ambedkar has been honoured with the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.Overcoming numerous social and financial obstacles, Ambedkar became one of the first "untouchables" to obtain a college education in India. Eventually earning law degrees and multiple doctorates for his study and research in law, economics and political science from Columbia University and the London School of Economics,

A former British weather forecaster and television presenter.He first became interested in meteorolo

A former British weather forecaster and television presenter.He first became interested in meteorology whilst at school in Crediton and joined the Met Office in January 1957 on leaving Bristol College of Science and Technology. From 1961 to 1963 he was based in Germany as an observer with the RAF and between 1968 and 1970 worked as a lecturer at the Met Office's training college.His broadcasting career began in 1972 when he transferred to the London Weather Centre. In 1980 promotion took him back to Bracknell where he worked in public relations but after a few years he returned to lead BBC Television's Met Office forecasting team, on the retirement of Jack Scott.

Was an influential United States judge and judicial philosopher. He served on the Southern District

Was an influential United States judge and judicial philosopher. He served on the Southern District Court of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Hand has reportedly been quoted more often than any other lower-court judge by legal scholars and by the Supreme Court of the United States.[1] Born and raised in Albany, New York, Hand majored in philosophy at Harvard College and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. After a short career as a lawyer in Albany and New York City, he was appointed as a Federal District Judge in Manhattan in 1909 at the age of 37. The profession suited his detached and open-minded temperament, and his decisions soon won him a reputation for craftsmanship and authority

Was an American harness driver and trainer, and one of the most-winning drivers ever. He was one of

Was an American harness driver and trainer, and one of the most-winning drivers ever. He was one of only three drivers to win the Hambletonian four times, the only one to win the Little Brown Jug five times, and the only one to win the Messenger Stakes seven times. With a career record of 4,910 wins and c. $40 in earnings, he was first in annual winnings twelve times – 1952-59, 1963, 1965, 1967 and 1968 – and in heats won from 1953-58.

A Malawi economist, politician, and the current President of Malawi. He took office on May 24, 2004,

A Malawi economist, politician, and the current President of Malawi. He took office on May 24, 2004, after winning a disputed presidential election.He later added the prefix 'wa' between his names to disguise his identity from Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda's state security, even though he was not a political opponent of Dr Banda.[citation needed]Mutharika was the son of a primary school headmaster. He was educated at the University of Delhi, India, where he gained a master's degree in economics. He later obtained a PhD in development economics from unaccredited Pacific Western University, in Los Angeles, California.

Is a Danish linguist, associate professor at the Roots of Europe research center at the University o

Is a Danish linguist, associate professor at the Roots of Europe research center at the University of Copenhagen. She is an expert on Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages in general, especially derivational morphology and the history of Armenian. She has also published important articles on linguistic reconstruction and the history of Latin, Greek, Anatolian and Germanic languages. She is married to Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, and her official surname is Rasmussen, but as a linguist she uses her maiden's name Olsen to avoid confusion in references.[1]

Was an Indian ornithologist who was born in Calcutta, the son of a professor of Geology. In 1947, he

Was an Indian ornithologist who was born in Calcutta, the son of a professor of Geology. In 1947, he was awarded a three year fellowship by Sunderlal Hora, then director of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI). It enabled him to study at the British Museum, at the Berlin Zoological Museum under Erwin Stresemann and also at the American Museum of Natural History under Ernst Mayr.He received a Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Calcutta. He was part of the Daily Mail expedition sent to look for the Yeti around Mount Everest in 1954. He was elected Corresponding Fellow of The American Ornithologists' Union in 1963. He later took charge of the Bird and Mammal Section of the Zoological Survey of India. He won Chapman Grants from the American Ornithologists' Union in 1965, 1966 and 1970, for research at the British Museum. Later, he was Joint Director of the ZSI, until he retired in 1981, and then Emeritus Scientist until 1986.

Is an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra and lattice theory. He is em

Is an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra and lattice theory. He is emeritus Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University and the honorary editor in chief of Algebra Universalis. He received his PhD in 1946

An American professional wrestler and valet, best known for her work in World Wrestling Entertainmen

An American professional wrestler and valet, best known for her work in World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW and SmackDown! brands and in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as a TNA Knockout. She was awarded a contract with WWE after co-winning the second series of the reality television show Tough Enough.As soon as Gayda was awarded the Tough Enough II contract, she worked several matches on the RAW and SmackDown! brands. She was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling for further training. While in OVW, she joined the stable known as "The Revolution",[1] in addition to managing The Basham Brothers and Chris Kanyon. On June 16, 2003 she returned to WWE as Miss Jackie, managing Rico[

The first Indigenous Australian judge

The first Indigenous Australian judge

Is a Polish writer, poet and philosopher.Opposition activist in People's Republic of Poland; receive

Is a Polish writer, poet and philosopher.Opposition activist in People's Republic of Poland; received several awards for his publication, most of which were underground (bibula).Author of over 40 books, including many biographies - for example of Adam Mickiewicz, Józef Pilsudski and John Paul II.

Was a Czech biologist. He specialised in genetics and was known as an expert in determining parentho

Was a Czech biologist. He specialised in genetics and was known as an expert in determining parenthood by the biological-hereditary method.During 1933-45 Sekla was the leader of Czechoslovakian eugenic society (Ceskoslovenská eugenická spolecnost). During the 1950's he needed to defend genetics against Lysenkoism. When this theory got discredited he got the chance to establish and lead modern research institutes (Department of Human and Medical Genetics of the Biological Institute in 1969 and Department of Medical Genetics of the Teaching Hospital in 1970).

Was an Italian mathematician known for Cavalieri's principle, which states that the volumes of two o

Was an Italian mathematician known for Cavalieri's principle, which states that the volumes of two objects are equal if the areas of their corresponding cross-sections are in all cases equal. Two cross-sections correspond if they are intersections of the body with planes equidistant from a chosen base plane. The principle was originally discussed by the 3rd century Chinese mathematician Liu Hui in his commentary on The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art.[1] Cavalieri developed a "method of the indivisibles," which he used to determine areas and volumes. It was a significant step on the way to modern infinitesimal calculus ([1]).

Was a Canadian jurist, who served on the Supreme Court of Canada for fourteen years, including a dec

Was a Canadian jurist, who served on the Supreme Court of Canada for fourteen years, including a decade as its Chief Justice.Despite his superior academic record, Laskin, who was Jewish, was unable to find work at any law firm of note, because of the anti-Semitism that pervaded the English-Canadian legal profession at the time. As a result, his first job after graduating was writing headnotes (i.e., article synoposes) for a legal journal. Ultimately, Laskin decided to pursue his career in academia.From 1940 to 1965 he taught at the University of Toronto (except for the period 1945 - 1949 when he taught at Osgoode Hall Law School). For twenty-three years he served as associate editor of Dominion Law Reports and Canadian Criminal Cases. He also wrote Canadian Constitutional Law and many other legal texts.

Was a French geneticist of Russian origin. He was one of the many famous Jewish life scientists. He

Was a French geneticist of Russian origin. He was one of the many famous Jewish life scientists. He had published two papers in November 1966 which represented a key step in a decade of research in his laboratory. This research helped transform mammalian, and especially human, genetics.Boris started his scientific training as a Russian émigré in 1920. He studied the initiation and regulation of embryological processes by intracellular and extracellular factors. A major strand of his early research concerned the effect of temperature on the development of fertilized sea urchin eggs. In this work he used a micromanipulator, which was developed by Robert Chambers, an American biologist.

Was a Ukrainian mathematician who worked in the areas of complex functions and differential equation

Was a Ukrainian mathematician who worked in the areas of complex functions and differential equations.

Was an English British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist.Lieutenant Boyd Francis Alexander wa

Was an English British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist.Lieutenant Boyd Francis Alexander was the oldest son of Lt Colonel Boyd Francis Alexander. On his mother's side he was the grandson of David Wilson the founder of one of the most famous hotels in India, the Great Eastern Hotel in Calcutta.Lieutenant Alexander was a member of an expedition which travelled across Africa from the Niger to the Nile, exploring the Lake Chad area. Alexander was accompanied by his brother Claud, Captain G. B. Gosling and José Lopes. In February 1904 they set off from the mouth of the Niger, travelling upriver to Lokoja. Claud died in October of enteric fever after making a survey of the Murchison Range

Is a statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major

Is a statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application. The bootstrap was one of the first computer-intensive statistical t

Was an Indian mathematician. He was the author of Karanaprakasa, which is a commentary on the Aryabh

Was an Indian mathematician. He was the author of Karanaprakasa, which is a commentary on the Aryabhatiya by Aryabhata. Its contents deal partly with trigonometry and its applications to astronomy.

Was Croatian economist and politician. He worked a long time at the Institute of Economic Sciences,

Was Croatian economist and politician. He worked a long time at the Institute of Economic Sciences, the former Planning Institute of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was the editor of the journal Economic Analysis and Worker’s Self-Management, and collaborator of the journal Praxis, to which he contributed much from the economic viewpoint, though he was not a member of that group. He was also a member of the Economic Institute of Zagreb.Horvat, whose name means Croat, had tried to unite democratic forces on a common platform, but without much success. He was highly critical of the economic policy of the Franjo Tudman government (as he was before of the communist).

An American linguist noted for his work with endangered Amerindian languages.Galloway received his B

An American linguist noted for his work with endangered Amerindian languages.Galloway received his B.A., C.Phil., and Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1965, 1971, and 1977, respectively. He has done linguistic field work with the Haisla language, Upriver Halkomelem (from 1970), Nooksack (from 1974), the Samish dialect of Northern Straits Salish (from 1984), and Gullah (from 1994). In the case of Nooksack and Samish, he worked with the last surviving fluent speakers known then (one speaker has become a fluent speaker of Nooksack since 2002, and there may be 3 or 4 descendants who speak Samish.

A British evolutionary biologist and editor of Biology Letters.Charlesworth gained a B.A. in natural

A British evolutionary biologist and editor of Biology Letters.Charlesworth gained a B.A. in natural sciences from Queen's College Cambridge, followed by a PhD in genetics from Cambridge in 1969. Postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. University of Liverpool 1971-1974, University of Sussex under John Maynard Smith 1974-82. Returned to Chicago to be professor of ecology and evolution 1985-97. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991 and won its Darwin Medal in 2000. Since 1997 he has been Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IEB), University of Edinburgh.