B.K.S. Iyengar (1918 - 2014)

B.K.S. IYENGAR Yoga Master. Born Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja, he was noted as one of the world’s best-known yoga gurus. Referred to as “the father of modern yoga”, he founded the style of Iyengar Yoga which established him as an International teacher. In a 2002 article, the New York Times profiled “no one has done more […]

Yoshiharu Iwamoto (1863 - 1942)

Educator. Served as vice-president of the Meiji Girls’ School. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Keisuke Ito (1803 - 1901)

Scholar and physician. Interested in many subjects, Ito learned Confucianism and medicine from his father, a physician. He was also interested in botany. Ito published seventeen books, among them the well-known “Nippon Sanbutsushi” and “Nippon Shokubutsu Zusetsu Soubu.” He later examined methods of vaccination against smallpox and established a method of vaccination for use in […]

Jun Ishihara (1970 - 1970)

Scholar and ethicist. Ishihara was a well known professor of physics who taught at Tohoku University. One of his important theological teaches was that while people “sense the divine in wondrous natural providence,” things which cannot be understood through the natural sciences ought to be left unknown. He also suggested that it “defies good reason […]

Randai Inoue (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of Confucianism. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Robert Stewart Hyer (1860 - 1929)

Scientist, Educator. He earned a B.A. in physics from Emory in 1881 and immediately became a physics professor at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and later president. Among his scientific achievements, in 1904 he designed the first wireless station in Texas, transmitting a message over a distance of one mile. He moved to Dallas to […]

Ralph Huchenson (1970 - 1606)

President of St. John’s College, Oxford, and one of the translators of the New Testament for the Authorized Version. (bio by: David Conway)

Robert Leslie Howland (1905 - 1986)

Master of St. John’s College, in his youth an Olympic athlete for Britain. (bio by: David Conway)

Heishu Hosoi (1728 - 1801)

Educator. He was one of the great scholars in Edo period. He opened a school in Edo (now Tokyo)and his teachings had a great influence on many people including Yoshida Shoin, an intellectual and hero of the Meiji Restoration, Takamori Saigo, a veteran statesman of the Meiji Restoration and upon whose life “The Last Samurai” […]

John Hope (1868 - 1936)

Kanetane Hirata (1797 - 1879)

Scholar of classical Japanese. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett) Scholar of National Learning (kokugaku) of the late Edo and early Meiji eras. Born in 1799 in Niiya, Iyo Province (present-day Ehime Prefecture), Hirata’s original lineage name was Midorigawa. In 1824 he married Hirata Atsutane’s daughter Chie and subsequently became the great scholar’s adopted son. From […]

Friedrich August von Hayek (1899 - 1992)

Austrian economist. Born in Vienna. The son of August von Hayek, a Prussian doctor in the municipal health service. At his father’s suggestion, Friedrich, as a teenager, read the genetic and evolutionary works of Hugo de Vries and the philosophical works of Ludwig Feuerbach.  In school Friedrich was much taken by one instructor’s lectures on […]

Seiichi Hatano (1877 - 1950)

Philosopher. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Rev John Harvard (1607 - 1638)

Educator. Benefactor of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard students erected this monument in 1838, as his original stone had been lost. (bio by: Eric Thomsen)

Motoko Hani (1970 - 1970)

Literary critic, educator. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Goro Hani (1970 - 1970)

Literary critic, educator. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

James Lempriere Hammond (1970 - 1970)

Fellow of Trinity College, Tutor and Bursar. (bio by: David Conway)

Orata Hamao (1970 - 1970)

Educator. Served and president of Tokyo’s Teikoku University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Gentatsu Hamada (1970 - 1970)

Medical scholar, specialist in obstetrics and gynecology. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Hunter Guthrie (1901 - 1974)

Educator, Clergyman, and Author. Amoung his works were “Modern Trends in American Culture,” and “History of Theology.” He was an ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Recipient of the Freedom award. Co-founder of the Catholic Commission for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs. (bio by: Laurie)

Mentor Graham (1970 - 1970)

Abraham Lincoln’s Tutor.  Family links:  Spouse:  Sarah Rafferty Graham (____ – 1869)* *Calculated relationship

John Gostlin (1970 - 1704)

President of Gonville and Caius College, 1679-1704 (bio by: David Conway)

Daniel Coit Gilman (1831 - 1908)

Educator. He was the first President of Johns Hopkins University, and was instrumental in establishing its hospital in 1889. He began the practice of requiring a college degree as a stipulation for entrance in the college, a practice that adopted by all other medical schools.  Family links:  Parents:  William Charles Gilman (1795 – 1863)  Eliza […]

Bart Giamatti (1938 - 1989)

Major League Baseball Commissioner, Educator. Born Angelo Bartlett Giamatti in Boston, Massachusetts, he was a professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University Connecticut and a master at Stiles College at Yale. In 1978, he was appointed the nineteenth President of Yale University, serving until 1986. He was the youngest President in the history of the […]

Abraham Geiger (1810 - 1874)

As a child, Abraham Geiger started doubting the traditional understanding of Judaism when his studies in classical history seemed to contradict the biblical claims of divine authority. At the age of seventeen, he began writing his first work, a comparison between the legal style of the Mishnah and Biblical and Talmudic law. He also worked […]

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787 - 1851)

American Deaf Education Pioneer. He is remembered as one of the co-founders for the first the first school for the deaf in North America. The son of a Revolutionary War soldier and personal secretary to US President George Washington when the Capitol was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he aspired to become a minister. He attended Yale […]

Toyohachi Fujita (1970 - 1970)

Oriental history scholar. Fujita served as a liaison between Japanese and Chinese students and authors. The Toyohachi Fujita collection of Japanese and Chinese books are a property of Tokyo’s Bunkyo Library. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Rabbi Menachem Froman (1945 - 2013)

Israeli Orthodox rabbi, educator and negotiator. He was one of the few Israelis who spoke with Palestinian Islamists of Hamas and  thought that was  possible peace with this movement that advocates the destruction of Israel. He was the rabbi of the Jewish settlement of Tekoa, south of the occupied West Bank Border, that believed that […]

Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782 - 1852)

Educator. Creator of the Kindergarten System. In 1837 he founded the Play and Activity Institute in Bad Blankenburg, Germany,  changing its name to the Kindergarten (“Children’s Garden”) in 1840.  Froebel was one of the first to use systematized play as a method to stimulate learning among the very young. (bio by: Tom Denardo)

Dr Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)

American economist and Nobel Prize Recipient. Born in New York City to Jewish parents immigrated from Hungary, he began developing his economic theories during the Great Depression, received a PhD from Columbia University in 1946, was Prosessor of Economics at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1976, became a senior research fellow at Stanford […]