Shochu Sato (1970 - 1970)

Physician. Founder of Juntendo University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Toshiki Sano (1970 - 1970)

Architectural scholar. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Maria Louise Sanford (1836 - 1920)

Educator. Served as professor of English and history at Swarthmore College from 1869 to 1879, and professor of rhetoric and elocution at the University of Minnesota from 1880 to 1909. She is one of two Minnesotans honored with a statue in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol Building.

Rev Mozel Sanders (1924 - 1988)

Educator who trained the unskilled so they could work and fed the hungry. He was best known for establishing the Reverend Mozel Sanders Thanksgiving Dinner service to those in need in the Indianapolis community. A segment of North Belmont Street, on which Reverend Sanders lived and where his pastorate, Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, is located, […]

Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (1803 - 1882)

Canadian clergyman and educator.  “The Father of the Public Education System in Ontario.”  Born into a prominent Loyalist family, he left home at the age of 18 when his Methodist beliefs conflicted with his fathers staunch Anglican leanings.  He quit law school after a serious illness in 1825, studying to become a Methodist minister instead. […]

Alexander Cameron Rutherford (1857 - 1941)

1st Premier of Alberta. A member of the Alberta Liberal Party, he served in this position from September 1905 until May 1910. Born in Osgoode Township, Ontario, Canada, his parents emigrated from Scotland and operated a dairy farm. Following his local education, he attended the Canadian Literary Institute in Woodstock, Ontario, graduating in 1876, and […]

Dr Lorene Lane Rogers (1914 - 2009)

Educator. As President of the University of Texas in the late 1970s, she was the first female head of a major university. Raised in Texas, she obtained a degree in English from North Texas State Teachers College, and was working as a teacher until her husband was killed in an explosion at a New Jersey […]

Fred Rogers (1928 - 2003)

Educator, Television Show Host. He hosted the educational children’s program “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” from 1968 to 2000. His show was watched by millions of children over the years, and was repeatedly hailed by parents and critics for his simple, positive, educational messages. Born Fred McFeely Rogers in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, he was a graduate of Rollins […]

Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (1928 - 1980)

Naturalist. He founded the Spanish Society of Ornitology. He directed television series’ about the nature and the animal life as “Vida Salvaje,” “Planeta Azul” and “El Hombre y la Tierra”. He also wrote “Fauna Ibérica: los Animales Cazadores” and “El Lobo”. He died in an airplane crash in Shaktoolik (Alaska). (bio by: José L Bernabé […]

Henry Crabb Robinson (1970 - 1970)

Journalist, Diarist. His diaries provided information on contemporary poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake. He was the founder of University College in London.

William Marsh Rice (1816 - 1900)

Businessman, Educator. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Little is known about his childhood. He moved to Texas in 1838. In 1840 he started one of many businesses of which he would become involved. Houston and Galveston Navigation Company was established in 1851 and in 1858 Rice was the owner of a brig called the William M. […]

Robert Mantle Rattenbury (1970 - 1970)

Tutor at Trinity and University Registrar. (bio by: David Conway)

Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787 - 1832)

Danish linguist and principal founder of the science of comparative linguistics.

Virginia Estelle Randolph (1874 - 1958)

Educator. She developed an approach to education that focused on community invovlement, industrial and academic training. The Jeanes teacher program was modeled after her successful experiences. She recieved her early education at the Bacon School and the City Normal School in Richmond. At the age of sixteen she was appointed to a teaching job in […]

William Clarke Quantrill (1837 - 1865)

Civil War Confederate Partisan Leader. The leader first of the Missouri Partisan Rangers, then the “Quantrill’s Raiders” guerillas during the Civil War, he won renown for possessing excellent leadership skills, horsemanship and exercised unique warfare tactics. Born in Canal Dover, Ohio (now simply Dover) the oldest of 8 children to a father who labored as […]

William Clarke Quantrill (1837 - 1865)

Civil War Confederate Partisan Leader. The leader first of the Missouri Partisan Rangers, then the “Quantrill’s Raiders” guerillas during the Civil War, he won renown for possessing excellent leadership skills, horsemanship and exercised unique warfare tactics. Born in Canal Dover, Ohio (now simply Dover) the oldest of 8 children to a father who labored as […]

Evan Pugh (1828 - 1864)

Educator. A chemistry professor who studied in Europe, he served as the First President of Penn State University. Today the highest honor the University can bestow on its faculty is title of “Evan Pugh Professor”. (bio by: Russ Dodge)  Family links:  Spouse:  Rebecca Valentine Pugh (1832 – 1921)

Joseph Prior (1970 - 1918)

Senior Fellow of Trinity College. (bio by: David Conway)

John Thomas Lewis Preston (1811 - 1890)

Educator. He was the founder of the Virginia Military Institute in 1839 and one of its first professors. The Preston library at VMI is named for him. His wife, Margaret Junkin Preston is the famed “Poetess of the Confederacy”. Her inspiration to write this poetry came at the expense of VMI being burned by Union […]

Eliza Chappell Porter (1801 - 1888)

Educator. Born November 5, 1807, in Geneseo, New York, she began teaching school at age 16 and had opened a school for mixed-race Indian children in Michigan in 1831. In 1835, she married Jeremiah Porter a Presbyterian clergyman and was the first school teacher in Chicago, Illinois. During the Civil War, she was an organizer […]

Richard Porson (1759 - 1808)

The greatest Classical scholar of his age. Unfortunately also a heavy drinker, which precipitated his early death. (bio by: David Conway) Cause of death: Heart attack

Edward Pococke (1970 - 1691)

Orientalist who became a master of the Arabic, Syrica, Samaritan, Ethiopic and Hebrew languages and whose purchases became the basis of the Bodleian Library’s oriental manuscript collection. Became Oxford’s first Professor of Arabic. Also wrote in 1659 a treatise on coffee. In 1637-1640 acompanied Sir Peter Wyche (q.v.) on his embassy to Constantinople. (bio by: […]

Humphrey Plantagenet (1390 - 1447)

English Royalty. Born the fifth son of Henry IV, King of England and Mary de Bohun. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Garter about 1400 and gained the titles of Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Pembroke in May 1414. He married Jacqueline von Bayern, Comtesse de Hollande, Zélande et Hainault in […]

Robert Phelps (1970 - 1890)

Master of Sidney Sussex College (bio by: David Conway)

Donald Gayton Phelps (1929 - 2003)

Educator, civil rights activist. He was the first black chancellor of the Seattle Community College and, in 1988, became chancellor of the nation’s largest and most diverse community-college district in Los Angeles. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, he was a commentator for KOMO 4 television and radio (Seattle) speaking regularly on race relations. […]

LTC Lemuel Penn (1915 - 1964)

John Mason Peck (1789 - 1858)

Pioneer Baptist missionary, statesman, author, educator & founder of Shurtleff College (now the Southern Illinois University at Alton Dental School). There is a memorial marker is located next to the Robert Wadlow statue on the grounds of Southern Illinois University Dental School, marking the original site of Shurtleff College.  Family links:  Spouse:  Sarah Paine Peck […]

John Pearson (1613 - 1686)

Bishop of Chester 1672/1686. English prelate and scholar. He was a royalist chaplain (1645) in the civil war, but during CromwellÕs regime he lived quietly in London. His Exposition of the Creed (1659), based on sermons he delivered at St. ClementÕs, Eastcheap, reveals PearsonÕs remarkable knowledge, especially of the Church Fathers; with many notes, it […]

Patrick Henry Pearse (1879 - 1916)

Irish Nationalist Revolutionary. A teacher, writer and emotional orator, he was a signatory to the Proclamation of the Republic. The military Commander-in-Chief during the Easter 1916 rising, he gave the unconditional surrender after one week, and was one of fourteen leaders of the uprising to be court-marshaled and executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail […]

Endicott Peabody (1857 - 1944)

Educator, Reverend, mentor of prominent persons.  Born into a prominent New England family, Peabody was educated in England at Cambridge University. He returned to the United States and studied theology at an Episcopal seminary in Cambridge, MA. In 1882, he made a brief move to Arizona Territory, where he organized what is now the oldest […]