World Biographical Encyclopedia

Anri Morimoto

Anri Morimoto is a Japanese minister, educator, and writer.

John Napier

John Napier was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston.

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French social anthropologist. He was the leading exponent of structuralism, a name applied to the analysis of cultural systems in terms of the structural relations among their elements.

Alfred Mayer

Alfred Marshall Mayer was an American physicist. He made original contributions to acoustics and earned a reputation in Europe, filling a gap in late nineteenth-century American research in acoustics.

John Barrowman

John Barrowman best known as TV actor and presenter and is also a singer and a writer. He is well known for his self-produced program in the CBBC Tonight’s the Night and his role as Captain Jack Harkness in the science fiction series Dr. Who and Torchwood.

Averroes (Ibn Rushd)

Averroes or Ibn Rushd was an influential Islamic religious philosopher and polymath. He integrated Islamic traditions with ancient Greek thought.

Iwan Rheon

Iwan Rheon is a Welsh actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for portraying Simon Bellamy in the E4 series Misfits (2009–11), Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2013–2016) and Ash Weston in the ITV sitcom Vicious (2013–2016).

Arundell Esdaile

Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile was a United Kingdom bibliographer, editor, essayist, Librarian, writer, scholar, author, poet, who was known as a Secretary of the British Museum, as a dominant figure in the affairs of the Library Association during the period 1919-1945, as an editor of the Library Association Record and as a President of the Library Association with an unusually long period of se...

Mathew Brady

Mathew B. Brady was an American photographer, publisher, and pictorial historian.

William McKinley

William McKinley was an American politician and statesman. McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, the last one to have served in the American Civil War. His administration was marked by rapid economic growth and he secured the passage of the Gold Standard Act. He also imposed certain tariffs to protect manufacturers and factory workers from foreign competition and this move made hi...

David Puttnam

David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA is a British film producer and educator. His productions include Chariots of Fire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he is not principally a politician.

Seyyed Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian educator, philosopher, and author of scholarly books and articles. He is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious, and Comparative Studies in the world today. He is the only Muslim to be included in the Library of Living Philosophers and has written over 50 books and over 500 articles.

Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher who has written more than twenty books and hundreds of texts or contributions to volumes, catalogues and journals. His philosophical scope is very broad: from On Kawara to Heidegger, from the sense of the world and the deconstruction of Christianity to the Jena romantics of the Schlegel brothers.