Abzug, Bella (1920-____) US lawyer, politician

Acton, John Dalberg (1834-1902) English historian

Adams, Henry Brooks (1838-1918) US historian, author

Adams, James Truslow (1878) English historian

Adler, Mortimer (1902-____) US philosopher, educator, editor

Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873) Swiss-USA naturalist, geologist, teacher

Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888) US teacher, philosopher, reformer

Amory, Cleveland (1917-____) US historian, writer

Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975) German-USA political scientist

Arnold, Thomas (1795-1842) English educator

Ashton-Warner, Sylvia (1908-1984) New Zealander educator, writer, novelist, poet

Aubrey, John (1626-1697) English antiquarian, writer

Babson, Roger W. (1875-1967) US statistician, columnist

Bancroft, George (1800-1891) US historian, author

Barzun, Jacques (1907-____) French-USA teacher, historian, author

Beard, Charles A. (1874-1948) US historian

Beard, Mary Ritter (1876-1958) US historian, writer

Beecher, Catharine Esther (1800-1878) US educator, author

Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940) German man of letters, aesthetician

Bird, Rose Elizabeth (1936-____) US justice

Black, Hugo L. (1886-1971) US supreme court justice

Blackmun, Harry A. (1908-____) US supreme court justice

Blackstone, William (1723-1780) English jurist

Bloom, Allan (1930-1992) US educator, actor

Boorstin, Daniel (1914-____) US historian

Borrow, George (1803-1881) English traveler, linguist

Brandeis, Louis (1856-1941) US supreme court justice

Brennan, Jr., William J. (1906-1997) US jurist

Brewster, Jr., Kingman (1919-1988) US educator, diplomat

Bronowski, Jacob (1908-1974) English historian, mathematician

Brooks, Van Wyck (1886-1963) US literary critic, cultural historian

Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925) US lawyer, orator, statesman

Burger, Warren E. (1907-1995) US supreme court justice

Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890) English scholar, explorer

Butler, Nicholas (1862-1947) US educator

Cardozo, Benjamin (1870-1938) US supreme court justice, writer

Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historian

Carnegie, Dale (1888-1955) US teacher, writer

Cole, Johnnetta Betsch (1936-____) US educator, anthropologist, college president

Cooper, Anna Julia (1859-1964) US educator, feminist, writer

Crockett, Davy (1786-1836) US frontiersman, soldier, politician

Darrow, Clarence (1857-1938) US lawyer

Davis, Elizabeth Gould (1910-1974) US librarian, writer

DeLuzy, Dorothée (1747-1830) French actress

Dewey, John (1859-1952) US philosopher, educator

Dewey, Thomas E. (1902-1971) US lawyer, politician

Durant, Will (1885-1981) US historian, author

Erasmus, Desiderius (1469?-1536) Dutch scholar, philosopher, author

Erskine, John (1879-1951) US educator, musician, novelist

Fischer, Bobby (1943-____) US chess player

Frankfurter, Felix (1882-1965) US supreme court justice

Froude, James A. (1818-1894) English historian

Fuller, Thomas (1608-1661) English scholar, preacher

Giamatti, A. Bartlett (1938-1989) US university administrator, baseball executive

Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794) English historian

Goldberg, Arthur J. (1908-1990) US supreme court justice, ambassador

Griswold, Alfred Whitney (1906-1963) US educator, historian

Haliburton, Thomas C. (1796-1865) Canadian jurist, author

Hamilton, Edith (1867-1963) US writer, educator

Hand, Learned (1872-1961) US jurist

Harrison, Jane () English classical scholar, writer, archeologist

Harvey, William (1578-1657) English physician

Hastie, William (1904-1976) US judge, politician

Hayakawa, S. I. (1906-1992) US scholar, university president, politician

Highet, Gilbert (1906-1978) US educator, author, critic

Hillesum, Etty (1914-1943) Dutch lawyer, writer

Hippocrates, (460-370 BC) Greek physician

Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell (1841-1935) US jurist

Hope, John (1868-1936) US educator

Hopkins, Mark (1802-1887) US educator

Hume, David (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, historian

Hutchins, Robert M. (1899-1977) US educator, writer

Jowett, Benjamin (1817-1893) English classical scholar

Le Sueur, Meridel () US writer, historian

Leacock, Stephen (1869-1944) Canadian author, educator, economist, humorist

Lorenz, Konrad (1903-1989) Austro-German ethologist

Lubbock, John (1834-1913) English naturalist, banker, statesman

Lyon, Mary (1797-1849) US educator

Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527) Italian philosopher, statesman, writer

Mann, Horace (1796-1859) US educator, politician

Marshall, Paule (1929-____) US writer, educator

Marshall, Thurgood (1908-1993) US supreme court justice

Maslow, Abraham (1908-1970) US psychologist, philosopher

Mays, Benjamin E. (1895-1984) US educator, clergyman

McAuliffe, Christa (1948-1986) US teacher

Mondale, Walter F. (1928-____) US lawyer, politician

Montagu, Elizabeth (1720-1800) English intellectual, conversationalist

Montesquieu, Charles (1689-1755) French lawyer, political philosopher

Montessori, Maria (1870-1952) Italian educator, reformer

Musashi, Miyamoto (1584-1645) Japanese warrior, strategist

Nizer, Louis (1902-1994) English lawyer

O'Connor, Sandra Day (1930-____) US supreme court justice

Paul, Alice (1885-1977) US lawyer

Pauling, Linus (1901-1994) US chemist

Perkins, Frances (1880-1965) US educator, government official

Peter, Laurence J. (1919-1990) Canadian-USA educator, author

Phelps, William Lyon (1865-1943) US educator, journalist

Pliny the Elder, (23-79 AD) Roman naturalist

Plomer, William (1903-1973) South African-British man of letters

Quintilian, Marcus Fabius (35-90 AD) Roman orator

Robinson, James Harvey (1863-1936) US historian

Rosenberg, Harold (1906-1978) US writer, educator, philosopher

Sagan, Carl (1934-1996) US astronomer

Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965) French theologian, musician, medical missionary

Selden, John (1584-1654) English jurist, scholar

Sivananda, (1887-1963) Indian physician, sage

Spacks, Patricia Meyer (1929-____) US literature scholar, writer

Stael, Germaine de (1766-1817) French-Swiss woman of letters, novelist

Stewart, Potter (1915-1985) US supreme court justice

Sullivan, Anne (1866-1936) US educator

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert (1893-1986) Hugarian-USA biochemist

Thomas, Martha Carey (1857-1935) US educator, feminist

Thurman, Howard (1900-1981) US educator, theologian

Tuchman, Barbara (1912-1989) US historian

Unamuno, Miguel de (1864-1936) Spanish educator, philosopher, author

Vigny, Alfred Victor (1797-1863) French man of letters

Walker, Margaret (1915-____) US writer, educator

Ward, William A. (1921-1994) US college administrator

Warren, Earl (1891-1974) US politician, jurist

Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) US educator, social reformer

Weisstein, Naomi () US psychology professor, activist

Willard, Emma Hart (1787-1870) US educator

Woodson, Carter G. (1875-1950) US historian, editor

de Maintenon, Francoise d'Aubigne (1635-1719) French writer, consort