academics
24 notable academics on file — 4 still here, 20 not.
still with us
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Masoud Pezeshkian
alive9th President of Iran (2024-) and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran (in 2026)
born 1954
Mehmet Öz
aliveTurkish-American surgeon, TV host, and government official
born 1960
Donald J. Harris
aliveJamaican-American economist
born 1938
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Ghazala Hashmi
aliveAmerican politician, academic administrator and educator
born 1964
gone
Michael J. Flynn
deadAmerican computer scientist
1934 – 2025
Iván Szelényi
deadHungarian-American sociologist
1938 – 2026
Lee Shulman
deadAmerican educational psychologist
1938 – 2024
Bernard Widrow
deadAmerican artificial intelligence researcher
1929 – 2025
László Somfai
deadHungarian musicologist
1934 – 2026
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Kenneth Keith
deadNew Zealand jurist and legal scholar
1937 – 2026
Umar Chapra
deadSaudi Arabian economist
1933 – 2026
József Finta
deadHungarian architect
1935 – 2024
Richard Ellis
deadAmerican marine biologist and illustrator
1938 – 2024
Renato Rosaldo
deadAmerican anthropologist
1941 – 2026
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Tarsy Carballas
deadSpanish scientist
1934 – 2026
Olufemi Majekodunmi
deadBritish architect
1940 – 2026
James Ferguson
deadAmerican anthropologist
1959 – 2025
Cornelius Adebayo
deadNigerian politician
1941 – 2025
Syed Manzoorul Islam
deadBangladeshi literary critic
1951 – 2025
Nermin Abadan Unat
deadTurkish politician, lawyer and sociologist
1921 – 2025
Theodore L. Brown
deadAmerican scientist known for research, teaching, and writing in the field of physical inorganic chemistry, a university administrator, and a philosopher of science
1928 – 2026
Antony Jameson
deadBritish aerospace engineer
1943 – 2026
Lowitja O'Donoghue
deadAustralian nurse, public administrator and Indigenous rights activist
1932 – 2024
Peter Conrad
deadPhD; Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences, Brandeis University, United States
1945 – 2024