Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Author Listing
Orlando A. Battistam, fully Orlando Aloysius Battista, aka O.A. Battista
Canadian-American Chemist and Author
Richard Baxter
English Divine, Puritan Church Leader, Poet, Theologian, Hymn-Writer and Controversialist
J.M. Barrie, fully Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet
Scottish Dramatist, Author, Novelist, best known as creator of Peter Pan
Richard Maurice Bucke, often called Maurice Bucke
Canadian Progressive Psychiatrist and Author, best known for book "Cosmic Consciousness"
Michelangelo, aka Michaelangelo Buonarroti, fully Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni NULL
Italian Renaissance Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Poet and Engineer
Arthur Aughey
Author, Senior lecturer in the School of Economics and Politics at the University of Ulster
Simeon ben Azai, sometimes Ben Azai
Palestinian Rabbi, One of the Compilers of the Talmud who engaged in esoteric speculation
Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch
American Businessman, Statesman, Advisor to U.S. Presidents
Harry Blackmun, fully Harold "Harry" Andrew Blackmun
American Supreme Court Associate Justice, best known as the author of Roe v. Wade
George Dana Boardman "The Younger"
Burmese-born American Baptist Missionary and Clergyman, Founded Boardman Foundation in Christian Ethics
Sarah T. Bolton, fully Sarah Tittle Barrett Bolton
American Poet best known for her poem, "Paddle Your Own Canoe"
Kenneth Boulding, fully Kenneth Ewart Boulding
British-American Economist, Educator, Peace Activist, Poet, Religious Mystic and devoted Quaker
Wernher von Braun, fully Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun
German-American Rocket Scientist, Aerospace Engineer, Space Architect and Developer of Rocket Technology
Wilhelm Büchsel, fully Wilhelm Karl von Gotthilf Büchsel
German Vice-Admiral and Chief of Naval Staff of the Imperial Navy
Leo Burnett
American Advertising Executive, Founder of Leo Burnett Advertising Agency and Chicago School of Advertising
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born Ferdinand Lewis "Lew" Alcinder, Jr.
American Basketball Player, Coach, Actor and Author. NBA all-time leading scorer
Agnon Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, pseudonym of Samuel Joseph Czaczkes
Israeli Writer, Novelist, Shared Nobel Prize in Literature
George Stuart Benson
Missionary to China, Founder and Principal of Canton Bible School, President Harding College, Chancellor Oklahoma Christian University
Philip S. Berg, originally Feivel Gruberger
American Rabbi, Dean of Research Center of Kabbalah and Author