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This type is primarily for people who have founded organizations. However, many organizations can be seen as having been founded by groups of other...
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| Howard Hughes |
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Person | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, industrialist, film producer/director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained fame in the late 1920s as a maverick film producer...
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| David J. Theroux | Independent Institute | |||
| K. Eric Drexler |
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Person | Foresight Institute |
Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955 in Oakland, California) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s.His 1991 doctoral thesis at MIT was revised and published...
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| Christine Peterson | Foresight Institute | |||
| Eliezer Yudkowsky |
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Person | Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (born in 1979) is an American artificial intelligence research concerned with the Singularity, and an advocate of Friendly Artificial Intelligence.
Yudkowsky is a co-founder and research fellow of the Singularity Institute for...
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| C. Fred Bergsten | Person | Institute for International Economics |
C. Fred Bergsten (born 1941) is an American economist, author, and political adviser. He has served as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department and has been director of the Peterson Institute for International...
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| Paul P. Harris |
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Person | Rotary International |
Paul Percy Harris (April 19, 1868 - January 27, 1947) was a Chicago attorney best known for founding Rotary International in 1905, which is a service organization that boasts over one million members worldwide. Harris was born in Racine, Wisconsin...
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| Robert Greenstein | Person | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities |
Robert Greenstein is founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a Washington, DC think tank that focuses on federal and state fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families...
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| Henry Smith Richardson Sr. | Person | Smith Richardson Foundation | ||
| Jim Balsillie | Person | Centre for International Governance Innovation |
James Laurence Balsillie (born February 3, 1961) is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and co-CEO of Research In Motion. He was born in Seaforth, Ontario and raised in Peterborough, Ontario, where his family relocated in 1966. He received a Bachelor of...
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| Mike Lazaridis |
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Person | Centre for International Governance Innovation |
Mihal "Mike" Lazaridis, OC, O.Ont (born March 14, 1961, Istanbul, Turkey) is the founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), which created and manufactures the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He is also the chancellor of the University of...
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| Nathaniel Branden | Person | Nathaniel Branden Institute |
Nathaniel Branden, né Nathan Blumenthal (born 9 April 1930 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada) is a psychotherapist and writer best known today for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A one-time associate of novelist Ayn Rand, Branden had a...
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| Landon T. Clay | Board Member | Clay Mathematics Institute | ||
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| Arthur Jaffe | Person | Clay Mathematics Institute |
Arthur Jaffe is an American mathematical physicist and a professor at Harvard University. Born on December 22, 1937 he attended Princeton University as an undergraduate obtaining a degree in chemistry, and later Clare College, Cambridge, as a...
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| Winston Churchill |
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Person | European Movement |
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the...
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| Léon Blum |
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Person | European Movement |
André Léon Blum (9 April 1872 30 March 1950), was a French politician, usually identified with the moderate left, who was the Prime Minister of France three times:
Blum was born in the Paris Jew community: he attended the Lycée Henri IV. There he...
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| Alcide De Gasperi | Person | European Movement |
Alcide De Gasperi (3 April 1881 – 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician. He is considered to be one of the Founding fathers of the European Union, along with the Frenchman Robert Schuman and the German Konrad Adenauer.
De Gasperi...
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| Paul-Henri Spaak | Person | European Movement |
Paul Henri Charles Spaak (January 25, 1899 - July 31, 1972) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman.
Born in Schaerbeek, Paul-Henri was the son of Paul Spaak, grandson of the Liberal politician Paul Janson and nephew of another Liberal...
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| Alexandre Marc | Person | Union of European Federalists | ||
| Denis de Rougemont | Person | Union of European Federalists |
Denis de Rougemont (September 8, 1906–December 6, 1985) was a Swiss writer, who wrote in French.
He studied at the University of Neuchâtel, and then moved to Paris in 1930. There he wrote for and edited various publications, associating with the...
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| Henri Brugmans | Union of European Federalists | |||
| Lawrence Lessig |
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Person | Creative Commons |
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is founding board member of Creative Commons and is a board...
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| Richard Dawkins |
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Person | Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science |
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRSL, FRS (born 26 March, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer. He holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford and is a...
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| Nicholas Negroponte |
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Person | One Laptop per Child |
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop...
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| Larry Bohn |
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Person | OASIS |
As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Larry invests in
both new and existing technology businesses. Areas of special interest
include: open source, information technology; systems; and software
on-demand business models. Larry...
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| Samuel Eells |
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Person | Alpha Delta Phi |
Samuel Eells (1810-1842) was a 19th-Century American philosopher, essayist and orator who founded the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
Eells was born in Westmoreland in rural western New York state in...
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| Lorenzo Latham | Person | Alpha Delta Phi |
Lorenzo Latham (died 1860 in New Orleans) was during his senior year at Hamilton College a founding member of Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ), now an international literary fraternity, with Samuel Eells and John Curtiss Underwood, who were also seniors, and...
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| John Curtiss Underwood |
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Person | Alpha Delta Phi |
John Curtiss Underwood (March 14, 1809 - December 7, 1873) was a lawyer, Abolitionist politician, and federal judge.
Underwood graduated from Hamilton College in 1832. He practiced law from 1839-1856. Originally from New York, he married a...
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| Shirley Chisholm |
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Person | Congressional Black Caucus |
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first...
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| Louis Stokes |
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Person | Congressional Black Caucus |
Louis Stokes (born February 23, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives.
Born in Cleveland, Stokes and his brother Carl B. Stokes lived in one of the first federally...
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| William Lacy Clay, Jr. |
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Person | Congressional Black Caucus |
William Lacy Clay, Jr., sometimes known as Lacy Clay (born July 27, 1956), American politician, was elected as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives in 2000 to represent (map). The district includes the northern two-thirds...
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| Richard Stallman |
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Person | Free Software Foundation |
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms", is an American software freedom activist, hacker (programmer), and software developer.In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating...
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| Dennis Whittle |
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Person | GlobalGiving | |
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| Mari Kuraishi |
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Person | GlobalGiving | |
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| August Palm | Swedish Social Democratic Party | |||
| Arne Johansson | Board Member | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna | ||
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| James Gustave Speth | Person | World Resources Institute |
James Gustave (Gus) Speth (born March 4 1942) is an American environmental law and advocate.
He was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1942. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1964, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes...
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| Walter W. Naumburg | Person | Walter W. Naumburg Foundation | ||
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| Albert Lasker | Person | Lasker Foundation |
Albert Davis Lasker (May 1, 1880 - May 30, 1952) was an American businessman who is often considered to be the founder of modern advertising.
Born in Freiburg, Germany when his American parents were visiting their homeland, Albert Lasker was raised...
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| Mary Lasker |
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Person | Lasker Foundation |
Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994) was an American health activist. She worked to raise funds for medical research, and founded the Lasker Foundation. Mary Lasker is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal.
She was married to Albert Lasker. One of...
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| Columbia University |
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Educational Institution | Association of American Universities |
Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. The university is now legally known...
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