Nat Rothschild living
Financier, investor, chairman of Volex, JNR Limited
1971- (53)
twitter.com
Viktor Orbán living
Fidesz (Federation of Young Democrats) party politician, lawyer, attorney, statesman, prime minister of Hungary since 2010, and from 1998-2002
1963- (61)
britannica.com
Desmond Kuek living
Lieutenant general, military veteran of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), president and CEO of the SMRT Corporation from 2012-2018
1963- (61)
Philipp Hildebrand living
Banker, financier, vice chairman of BlackRock, chairman of Financial Markets Advisory
1963- (61)
Christopher, Lord Geidt living
Principal private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 2007-2017, Crossbench party politician, member of the UK House of Lords, chairman of the Council of Kings College London
1961- (63)
kcl.ac.uk
Ghislaine Maxwell living
Mossad intelligence officer, socialite who speaks 4 languages, philanthropist at TerraMar oceanic research, submarine pilot, madame for Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring, convicted offender, her sister (Karine) died at 3, brother (Michael) died at 15
1961- (63)
vanityfair.com
J.L. Schellenberg living
Theologian, study of atheism, philosopher, author, professor of Philosophy at Mount Saint Vincent University
1959- (65)
jlschellenberg.com
Timothy Garton Ash living
Bestselling author of 10 books (including Free Speech), historian, professor of European Studies at Oxford University, political commentator, politics
1955- (69)
timothygartonash.com
Nigel Sheinwald living
UK Ambassador to the United States of America from 2007-2012, diplomat, plenipotentiary, UK special envoy in 2014, intelligence officer
1953- (71)
Peter Mandelson living
British Labour Party politician, UK House of Lords since 2008, Secretary of State from 2009-2010, president of the Board of Trade in 1998 and 2008-2010
1953- (71)
Christine Maxwell living
Internet pioneer, entrepreneur, co-founder of Magellan search engine (sold to Excite) with her twin sister Isabel, founder of PROMIS software, Chiliad, co-founder and CEO of Techtonic Insight, director at Commtouch (Cyren), created the New Riders' Official Internet Directory
1950- (74)
isgap.org
Bill Drayton living
founder & CEO of Ashoka changemakers, father of social entrepreneurship (1970)
1943- (81)
R. James Woolsey living
Venture capitalist at Lux Capital, financier, former head director of the CIA from 1993-1995
1941- (83)
montgomery.dartmouth.edu
John Agyekum Kufuor living
President of the Republic of Ghana from 2001-2009
1938- (86)
kufuorfoundation.org
Sir Walter Bodmer
Professor of Genetics at Oxford University, geneticist, microbiologist, director at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF)
1936-1986 (50)
Allan Gotlieb
Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 1981-1989, diplomat, civil servant
1928-2020 (92)
international.gc.ca
Margaret Thatcher
Conservative Party politician, pioneer in trade unions, deregulation, first woman to hold office, longest serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979-1990 (11 years)
1925-2013 (88)
Miles Copeland Jr.
CIA intelligence officer at the Game Center, author of The Game of Nations, pioneer in game theory at the RAND Corporation, musician
1916-1991 (75)
Theodor W. Adorno
Enlightenment philosopher, sociologist on discrimination, psychologist, co-author of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, pioneer in social/aestheic theory and negative dialectics, Marxist theorist, critical theorist of society, musicologist, music critic, composer
1903-1969 (66)
britannica.com
Henry Luce
Founder of FORTUNE magazine, after co-founding TIME magazine with Briton Hadden
1898-1967 (69)
Earnest Hooton
Anthropologist of Somatology, excavation of burial grounds of Viking boats, historian aka Earnest Hooton, Rhodes scholar, pioneer of racial classification, member of the Committee on the Negro, creator of the Hooten Plan to imprison Nazi army officers & politicians for life, author of Up From The Ape
1887-1954 (67)
Charles Webster
Historian, foreign diplomat, member of the League of Nations (United Nations)
1886-1961 (75)
Lionel Curtis
Lobbyist aka Lord Curtis, diplomat, pioneer of the Christian socialist movement and British federalism, co-founder of Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), co-founder of the Council on Froeign Relations (CFR), Institute of Pacific Relations, author of The Commonwealth of Nations, leader of Milner's Kindergarten
1872-1955 (83)
spartacus-educational.com
Cecil Rhodes
Prime Minister of Cape Colony (Transvaal Republic) from 1890-1896, statesman aka Colossus of Africa, co-founder of Rhodesia (modern day Zimbabwe and Zambia) with Sir Alfred Beit, industrialist, mining mogul, owner of De Beers diamond mines in South Africa, pioneer of the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford University, co-founder of the British South Africa Company, author of Confession of Faith
1853-1902 (49)
Spenser Wilkinson
Military historian, professor of military history at Oxford University
1853-1937 (84)
Lewis Carroll
poet, mathematician, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ("Alice in Wonderland"), Through the Looking Glass
1832-1898 (66)
John Ruskin
Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford University, writer, author of The Stones of Venice in 1851, philosopher, literary critic of Venetian Gothic style, Victorian art critic
1819-1900 (81)
britannica.com
Dr. E.B. Pusey
Anglican cleric, theologian, Ascot Priory, scholar, professor of Hebrew Studies
1800-1882 (82)
britannica.com
John Owen
Puritan theologian, administrator at the University of Oxford, nonconformist church leader of Puritans, theologian
1616-1683 (67)
johnowen.org
Thomas Morley
Composer of Now Is the Month of Maying, organic, music theorist, singer
1557-1602 (45)
biography.yourdictionary.com
Saint Thomas More
Lord High Chancellor of England from 1529-1532, judge, lawyer, social philosopher, author of Utopia in 1516, statesman, Renaissance humanist who was put on trial in 1535
1478-1535 (57)
britannica.com
John Wycliffe
Roman Catholic priest, medieval philosopher, theologian, scholar, printed the first English bible, clergyman, Protestant dissident of Roman Catholicism
1329-1384 (55)
Will MacAskill
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University, philosopher, pioneer of the Effective Altruism movement, author of Doing Good Better, Moral Uncertainty, What We Owe The Future
williammacaskill.com
Michael C. Bonello
Economist, chairman of Lombard Bank Malta since 2013, governor of the Central Bank of Malta from 1999-2011
bis.org
Dr. Burzynski
Biologist, pioneer of "The Cancer Cure" or antineoplaston therapy at the Burzynski Clinic in 1976
Albert Einstein
theoretical physicist aka Albert Einstein, inventor of the Theory of Relativity, philosopher of science and modern physics
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), making the Internet useful to everyone, co-founder and CTO of Inrupt
w3.org
Gareth Penny
Chairman at Norilsk Nickel, Ninety One
uk.linkedin.com
Scott D. de Hart
Author of Transhumanism
drdehart.com
Guy Hands
Private equity investor, billionaire, gas stations, founder of Terra Firma Capital Partners, infamously lost billions on EMI record label
terrafirma.com
Nick Bostrom
Philosopher, author of Superintelligence, professor at Oxford, futurist
nickbostrom.com
Naomi Wolf
Author of The Beauty Myth, Outrages, The End of America, feminist writer, journalist, feminism
drnaomiwolf.com
Myles Allen
Physicist at Oxford Martin School, Oxford University
oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk