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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Krugman | Paul Robin Krugman | 1953 | n/a | American | economist and public intellectual, who is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman |
| Steven Pinker | Steven Arthur Pinker | 1954 | n/a | Canadian | cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker |
| Israel Shahak | Israel Shahak | 1933 | 2001 | Israeli | professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor, an intellectual of liberal political bent, and a civil-rights advocate and activist on behalf of both Jews and Gentiles (non-Jews) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Shahak |
| Yuval Noah Harari | Yuval Noah Harari | 1976 | n/a | Israeli | public intellectual, historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari |
| Adam Michnik | Adam Michnik | 1946 | n/a | Polish | historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Michnik |
| Bernard-Henri Lévy | Bernard-Henri Lévy | 1948 | n/a | French | public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard-Henri_Lévy |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1922 | 1975 | Italian | film director, poet, writer, and intellectual, who also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini |
| Alain Finkielkraut | Alain Finkielkraut | 1949 | n/a | French | philosopher and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Finkielkraut |
| Paul Goodman | Paul Goodman | 1911 | 1972 | American | writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Goodman |
| Richard Hofstadter | Richard Hofstadter | 1916 | 1970 | American | historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter |
| Martin Jay | Martin Evan Jay | 1944 | n/a | American | intellectual historian whose research interests have connected history with other academic and intellectual activities, such as the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Jay |
| Amos Oz | Amos Oz (; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) | 1939 | 2018 | Israeli | writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Oz |
| Noah Feldman | Noah R. Feldman | 1970 | n/a | null | Harvard law professor, public intellectual, ethical philosopher & advisor, religious scholar, historian and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Feldman |
| Keith Joseph | Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph | 1918 | 1994 | British | politician, intellectual and barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Joseph |
| Bruno Bettelheim | Bruno Bettelheim | 1903 | 1990 | Austrian | psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and author who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bettelheim |
| Samson Raphael Hirsch | Samson Raphael Hirsch | 1808 | 1888 | German | Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Raphael_Hirsch |
| Raphael Samuel | Raphael Elkan Samuel | 1934 | 1996 | British | Marxist historian, described by Stuart Hall as "one of the most outstanding, original intellectuals of his generation" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Samuel |
| Ernest Gellner | Ernest André Gellner FRAI | 1925 | 1995 | British | philosopher and social anthropologist described by The Daily Telegraph, when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by The Independent as a "one-man crusader for critical rationalism" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Gellner |
| Anthony Lewis | Anthony Lewis | 1927 | 2013 | American | public intellectual and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lewis |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. | 1917 | 2007 | American | historian, social critic, and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Schlesinger_Jr. |
| David Brion Davis | David Brion Davis | 1927 | 2019 | American | intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brion_Davis |
| Stanley Fish | Stanley Eugene Fish | 1938 | n/a | American | literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Fish |
| Rebecca Goldstein | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | 1950 | n/a | American | philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Goldstein |
| Clifton Fadiman | Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman | 1904 | 1999 | American | intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Fadiman |
| Michael Walzer | Michael Laban Walzer | 1935 | n/a | American | political theorist and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Walzer |
| Yeshayahu Leibowitz | Yeshayahu Leibowitz | 1903 | 1994 | Israeli | Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshayahu_Leibowitz |
| Irving Stone | Irving Stone | 1903 | 1989 | American | writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians and intellectuals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Stone |
| Leon Kass | Leon Richard Kass | 1939 | n/a | American | physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Kass |
| Sam Aaronovitch | Sam Aaronovitch | 1919 | 1998 | British | economist, academic, working class intellectual and senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Aaronovitch |
| Isaac Rosenfeld | Isaac Rosenfeld | 1918 | 1956 | American | Jewish writer who became a prominent member of New York intellectual circles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Rosenfeld |
| Guy Sorman | Guy Sorman | 1944 | n/a | French | professor, columnist, author, and public intellectual in economics and philosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Sorman |
| Will Herberg | William Herberg | 1901 | 1977 | American | writer, intellectual and scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Herberg |
| Giorgio Bassani | Giorgio Bassani | 1916 | 2000 | Italian | novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Bassani |
| Stanley Wolpert | Stanley Wolpert | 1927 | 2019 | American | historian, Indologist, and author on the political and intellectual history of modern India and PakistanDr. Stanley Wolpert's UCLA Faculty homepage and wrote fiction and nonfiction books on the topics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Wolpert |
| Michel Gurfinkiel | Michel Gurfinkiel | 1948 | n/a | French | conservative journalist and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Gurfinkiel |
| Hans Blumenberg | Hans Blumenberg | 1920 | 1996 | German | philosopher and intellectual historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blumenberg |
| Ernst Kantorowicz | Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz | 1895 | 1963 | German | historian of medieval political and intellectual history and art, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and The King's Two Bodies (1957) on medieval and early modern ideologies of monarchy and the state | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Kantorowicz |
| Marci Shore | Marci Shore | 1972 | n/a | American | associate professor of intellectual history at Yale University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marci_Shore |
| James Laxer | James Robert Laxer | 1941 | 2018 | Canadian | political economist, historian, public intellectual, and political activist who served as a professor at York University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Laxer |
| Claude Montefiore | Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore | 1858 | 1938 | null | intellectual founder of Anglo-Liberal Judaism and the founding president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature and New Testament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Montefiore |
| Berl Katznelson | Berl Katznelson | 1887 | 1944 | null | one of the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the establishment of the modern state of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berl_Katznelson |
| Gracia Mendes Nasi | Gracia Mendes Nasi | 1510 | 1569 | Portuguese | intellectual and one of the wealthiest Jewish women of Renaissance Europe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracia_Mendes_Nasi |
| Leslie Cannold | Leslie Cannold | null | null | Australian | philosopher, ethicist, educationalist, writer, activist, and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cannold |
| Peter Paret | Peter Paret | 1924 | 2020 | German | cultural and intellectual historian, whose two principal areas of research were war and the interaction of art and politics from 18th to 20th century Europe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paret |
| Irena Veisaitė | Irena Veisaitė | 1928 | 2020 | Lithuanian | theatre scholar, intellectual and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Veisaitė |
| Anita Brenner | Anita Brenner | 1905 | 1974 | null | transnational Jewish scholar and intellectual, who wrote extensively in English about the art, culture, and history of Mexico | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Brenner |
| Albert Goldstein | Albert Goldstein | 1943 | 2007 | null | significant Croatian Jewish intellectual, writer, publisher, poet and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Goldstein |
| Melvin J. Lasky | Melvin Jonah Lasky | 1920 | 2004 | American | journalist, intellectual, and member of the anti-Communist left | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_J._Lasky |
| Paul Bénichou | Paul Bénichou | 1908 | 2001 | null | French/Algerian writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bénichou |
| Tess Slesinger | Tess Slesinger | 1905 | 1945 | American | writer and screenwriter and a member of the New York intellectual scene | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess_Slesinger |
| George Klein (biologist) | George Klein | 1925 | 2016 | Hungarian | microbiologist and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Klein_(biologist) |
| Anatoly Wasserman | Anatoly Aleksandrovich Wasserman | 1952 | n/a | null | politician, journalist and political pundit who has won television intellectual quiz shows | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Wasserman |
| Walter Levin | Walter Levin | 1924 | 2017 | null | founder, first violinist, and guiding spirit of the LaSalle Quartet (active 1947–1987), which was known for its championing of contemporary composers, for its recordings of the Second Viennese School (Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern), as well as for its intellectually penetrating interpretations of the classical and romantic quartet repertory, in particular the late quartets of Beethoven | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Levin |
| Paul Kornfeld (playwright) | Paul Kornfeld | 1889 | 1942 | null | Prague-born German-language Jewish writer whose expressionist plays and scholarly treatises on the theory of drama earned him a specialized niche in influencing contemporary intellectual discourse | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kornfeld_(playwright) |
| William Phillips (editor) | William Phillips | 1907 | 2002 | American | editor, writer and public intellectual who co-founded Partisan Review | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Phillips_(editor) |
| Gyula Háy | Gyula "Julius" Háy; 5 May 1900 – 7 May 1975) | null | null | Hungarian | communist intellectual and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyula_Háy |
| Leon Simon (Zionist) | Sir Leon Simon | 1881 | 1965 | null | leading British Zionist intellectual and civil servant who took part in the drafting of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and served on the Zionist Commission with Chaim Weizmann | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Simon_(Zionist) |
| Max Hirsch (economist) | Maximilian "Max" Hirsch | 1852 | 1909 | German | businessman and economist who settled in Melbourne, Australia, where he became the recognized intellectual leader of the Australian Georgist movement and, briefly, a member of the Victorian Parliament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hirsch_(economist) |
| Morris Dickstein | Morris Dickstein | 1940 | 2021 | American | literary scholar, cultural historian, professor, essayist, book critic, and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dickstein |
| Pierre Goldman | Pierre Goldman | 1944 | 1979 | French | left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and mysteriously assassinated | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Goldman |
| Enzo Sereni | Enzo Sereni | 1905 | 1944 | Italian | Socialist Zionist, co-founder of kibbutz Givat Brenner, celebrated intellectual, advocate of Jewish-Arab co-existence and a Jewish Brigade officer who was parachuted into Nazi-occupied Italy in World War II, captured by the Germans and executed in Dachau concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Sereni |
| Miksa Fenyő | Miksa Fenyő | 1877 | 1972 | Hungarian | writer and intellectual, served as a member of parliament (elected 1931) in the early 1930s, and was appointed as a Minister of Trade and Commerce under the short-lived (24 hours) government cabinet of Prime Minister János Hadik in 1918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miksa_Fenyő |
| Bill Sackter | William Sackter | 1913 | 1983 | American | man with an intellectual disability whose fame as the subject of two television movies and a feature-length documentary helped change national attitudes on persons with disabilities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sackter |
| Carlo Strenger | Carlo Strenger | 1958 | 2019 | Swiss | psychologist, philosopher, existential psychoanalyst and public intellectual who served as professor of psychology and philosophy at Tel Aviv University (at its Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas and School of Psychological Sciences) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Strenger |
| Walter Weyl | Walter Edward Weyl | 1873 | 1919 | null | writer and speaker, an intellectual leader of the Progressive movement in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Weyl |
| Michael E. Rosen | Michael Eric Rosen | 1952 | n/a | British | political philosopher active in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental European intellectual thought | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Rosen |
| Jacob Zeitlin | Jacob Israel Zeitlin | 1902 | 1987 | American | bookseller, publisher, collector, poet and intellectual in Los Angeles in the mid-twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Zeitlin |
| Osip Mikhailovich Lerner | Osip Mikhailovich Lerner | 1847 | 1907 | null | 19th-century Russian Jewish intellectual, writer, and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Mikhailovich_Lerner |
| Adam Rayski | Adam Rayski | 1913 | 2008 | null | Franco-Polish intellectual best remembered for his involvement with the French resistance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rayski |
| Gáspár Miklós Tamás | Gáspár Miklós Tamás | 1948 | n/a | Hungarian | marxist-anarcho-syndicalist philosopher and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gáspár_Miklós_Tamás |
| Georg Iggers | Georg Gerson Iggers | 1926 | 2017 | American | historian of modern Europe, historiography, and European intellectual history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Iggers |
| Leo Stoller | Leo D. Stoller | 1946 | n/a | American | self-styled "intellectual property entrepreneur" based in suburban Chicago, Illinois | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Stoller |
| Berta Fanta | Berta Fanta | 1865 | 1918 | null | literary and intellectual figure from Prague | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_Fanta |
| Liebmann Hersch | Pesach Liebmann Hersch | 1882 | 1955 | null | professor of demography and statistics at the University of Geneva, and an intellectual of the Jewish Labor Bund, whose pioneering work on Jewish migration achieved international recognition in the period after the First World War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebmann_Hersch |
| Yakov M. Rabkin | Yakov M. Rabkin | 1945 | n/a | null | professor emeritus of history at the Université de Montréal, author and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_M._Rabkin |
| Henry Pachter | Henry Pachter | 1907 | 1980 | null | Marxist intellectual and a libertarian socialist activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Pachter |
| Steven Friedman | Steven Eli Friedman | 1953 | n/a | South African | academic, newspaper columnist, intellectual, activist, former trade unionist and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Friedman |
| De Hirsh Margules | De Hirsh Margules | 1899 | 1965 | Romanian | "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hirsh_Margules |
| Pancracio Celdrán | Pancracio Celdrán Gomáriz | 1942 | 2019 | Spanish | professor, intellectual and journalist whose specialties were the history and literature of antiquity and the medieval period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancracio_Celdrán |
| Savas Matsas | Savas Mihail Matsas (or Savas Michael Matsas | null | null | Greek | Jewish intellectual, leader of the Workers Revolutionary Party (Greece) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savas_Matsas |
| Peter Loewenberg | Peter J. Loewenberg | 1933 | n/a | null | teacher of “European cultural, intellectual, German, Austrian history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Loewenberg |
| Ernst Borinski | Ernst Borinski | 1901 | 1983 | German | Jewish sociologist and intellectual, who contributed to undermining Jim Crow laws in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Borinski |
| Moshe Decter | Moshe Decter | 1921 | 2007 | null | New York intellectual, and a prominent activist for Israel and Jewish causes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Decter |
| George Lichtheim | George Lichtheim | 1912 | 1973 | German | intellectual whose works focused on the history and theory of socialism and Marxism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lichtheim |
| Fenia Chertkoff | Fenia Chertkoff de Repetto | 1869 | 1927 | Russian | feminist, intellectual, educator, political activist, and sculptor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenia_Chertkoff |
| Nahum Benari | Nahum Benari | 1893 | 1963 | Israeli | writer and an intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Benari |
| Else Jerusalem | Else Jerusalem | 1876 | 1943 | Austrian | writer and feminist intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Jerusalem |
| Fritz Bamberger (scholar) | Fritz Bamberger | 1902 | 1984 | German | Jewish Scholar, educator and magazine editor who directed the school system for the education of Jews in pre- World War II, was the editor-in-chief of Coronet starting in 1942, and taught and wrote in the areas of philosophy and intellectual history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Bamberger_(scholar) |
| Joanna Semel Rose | Joanna Semel Rose | null | null | American | art patron and collector, publisher, philanthropist, and connector, whose salons and dinners in her New York home brought together an international group of intellectuals, artists, authors and educators | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Semel_Rose |
| Diana Pinto (historian) | Diana Pinto | 1949 | n/a | null | intellectual historian and writer living in Paris | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Pinto_(historian) |
| Larry Greenfield | Larry Greenfield | 1962 | 2022 | null | born in Long Beach, California the son of Judge Leslie H. Greenfield and Alice (née: Lieberman) and was a public intellectual, political commentator, wealth advisor, and columnist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Greenfield |
| Aldo Zargani | Aldo Zargani | 1933 | 2020 | Italian | Jewish writer and public intellectual who lived in Rome | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Zargani |
| Taamrat Emmanuel | Taamrat Emmanuel | 1888 | 1963 | Ethiopian | Jewish public figure, professor, rabbi and intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taamrat_Emmanuel |