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Edwin Abbott

From Wikipedia
Harold Abelson

Joi Ito
Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Brian Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Christopher Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius, 121-180

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
J. L. Austin

Alfred Jules Ayer

Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Roland Barthes

Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Gregory Benford

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
David Bodanis

Edward De Bono

Jorge Luis Borges

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

André Breton

David Brin

By R. Feist
Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Frederick P. Brooks

Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Mark Buchanan

Thomas Bulfinch

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Fritjof Capra

Orson Scott Card

Lewis Carroll

Jackie Chan

U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class
Lee M. McCaskill, Dec. 2, 2002
G.K. Chesterton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Agatha Christie

Arthur Charles Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Susanna Clarke

Jack Cohen

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
John Horton Conway

Prof. John Horton Conway. Photo by Robert P. Matthews, 1987 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Paul Copan

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Frederick Charles Copleston

Clio Cresswell

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Cross

Luigi Novi
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Robertson Davies

Richard Dawkins

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Daniel Clement Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Emanuel Derman

Copyright © Prof Emanuel Derman. All rights reserved.
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
David Deutsch

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Mark Jason Dominus

Julian Cash
Rael Dornfest

Joi Ito
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Dale Dougherty

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Will Durant

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
George Eliot

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
M. C. Escher

William Feller

Paul K. Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Gary William Flake

Dennis Hamilton
Michel Foucault

John Fox

John Fox (3)
Viktor E. Frankl

James George Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann with Maria Eitel (Credit: Pierre Omidyar, Flickr)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

Thomas Gilovich

Nicola Kountoupes
Cornell University Photography
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Paul Graham

photo by Sarah Harlin
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Brian Greene

LeGuin Ursula

Edward Twitchell Hall

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sorrells
Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Robert Harris

John Haugeland

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
S. W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Werner Heisenberg

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
O. Henry

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Göran Hägg

Flinga
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Peter Jackson

Stefan Servos (2003). Photo is of director Peter Jackson, not software writer Peter Jackson.
Ricky Jay

Photo by David Shankbone, April 25, 2008
Jerome K. Jerome

Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Karen Sparck Jones

Courtesy of University of Cambridge (Wikipedia)
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Franz Kafka

David Kahn

from Wikipedia
Daniel Kahneman

Prof. Daniel Kahneman. Photo credit: Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Michio Kaku

Immanuel Kant

Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Brian W. Kernighan

By permission of Brian Kernighan
Søren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Wong Kiew Kit

Sifu Wong Kiew Kit
Donald Ervin Knuth

David Monniaux
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Saul A. Kripke

Prof. Saul A. Kripke. Photo credit: Robert P. Matthews, 1983 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Milan Kundera

George Lakoff

Steven Landsburg

Author
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Rasmus Lerdorf

Photo by Chrys
John Levine

Photo © Esther Dyson
Claude Levi-Strauss

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Steven Levy

Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty, provided by himself
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
Titus Lucretius Carus

Burton G. Malkiel

Prof. Burton Gordon Malkiel. Photo by J.D. Levine/Yale (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Benoit B. Mandelbrot

http://www.maa.org/students/chapter_news/ChapterNewsOct04.htm
Gabriel García Márquez

James Martin

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Groucho Marx

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Harpo Marx

Credit: Vandamm Studio
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marshall McLuhan

David Mertz

David Mertz
Julien Offray de La Mettrie

O. V. Michaelsen

Frank Miller

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Kevin D. Mitnick

Copyright Mitnick Security Consulting
Thomas More, Sir, Saint

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Musashi Miyamoto

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Roger B. Myerson

Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
John F. Nash

Author of photo is Elke Wetzig.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Donald A. Norman

jnd.org
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Linus Pauling

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
F. David Peat

fdavidpeat.com
Heinz-Otto Peitgen

from Wikipedia
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plotinus

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Karl Raimund Popper

William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
Bhaktivedanta

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Diana Preston

Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Thomas Pynchon

Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
W. V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
James Randi

Credit: Steve Jurvetson, 2007
Eric S. Raymond

Photo credit: Russ Nelson , June 3, 2005
Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Rudolf Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stuart J. Russell

No credit given
Gilbert Ryle

Carl Sagan

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Jean-Paul Sartre

Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Thomas C. Schelling

Photo by user Hessam Armandehi / Wikimedia Commons.
Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienE. F Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Randal L. Schwartz

By Derrick Story.
John R. Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bob Shaw

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention), Brighton, England, 1979. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Michael Shermer

Herbert Alexander Simon

from Wikipedia
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Steven S. Skiena

Copyright © Prof Steven Skiena. All rights reserved.
David Sklar

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Stephen M. Stigler

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Nassim Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Credit: GerardM (Wikipedia user), 2006
Richard H. Thaler

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Kip S. Thorne

Keenan Pepper
Alvin Toffler

Robert Basile
J. R. R. Tolkien

John Kennedy Toole

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Laozi

6th cent. B.C. Sunzi

Tom Vanderbilt

© Kate Burton
A.E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Lu�s Fernando Ver�ssimo

Marcello Casal Jr./ABr
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Larry Wall

Hermann Weyl

Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP. G Wodehouse

Edward Yourdon

Zhuangzi

www.iep.utm.edu
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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