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A. Bartlett Giamatti
American baseball commissioner and academic adminisrator
A. S. Neill
Scottish educator and theorist (1883-1973)
Abraham Flexner
American educator
Alice Freeman Palmer
American educator
Amos Bronson Alcott
American educator (1799–1888)
Anne Sullivan
Teacher and companion of Helen Keller
Anton Makarenko
Ukrainian and Soviet educator and writer
Clark Kerr
American academic
Drew Gilpin Faust
American historian and college administrator
Egerton Ryerson
Canadian educator and Methodist minister (1803–1882)
Eleazar Wheelock
American Congregational minister, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College
Elihu Yale
Welsh merchant and philanthropist
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
Swiss composer, musician, and educator (1865–1950)
Ezra Cornell
American businessman, founder of Western Union and Cornell University
Felix Adler (professor)
German-American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer (1851-1933)
Friedrich Fröbel
German educator
Helen Kim
Korean educator
Horace Mann
American educational reformer and politician
Inés Mendoza
First Lady of Puerto Rico
Isawa Shūji
Japanese educator and bureaucrat
Jaime Escalante
Bolivian educator, teacher and mathematician
James B. Conant
American chemist (1893–1978)
Jane Elliott
American schoolteacher
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Swiss pedagogue
John Harvard
English clergyman and philanthropist (1607–1638)
Kate Douglas Wiggin
American writer (1856-1923)
Konstantin Ushinsky
Russian teacher and writer
Lee Strasberg
American actor, drama teacher, acting coach, theorist
Louis Braille
French educator and inventor of the Braille system
Maria Montessori
19th- and 20th-century Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator and civil rights leader (1875–1955)
Nicholas Murray Butler
American philosopher, diplomat, and educator (1862-1947)
Oscar Browning
British educationalist and historian
Paulo Freire
Brazilian educator (1921–1997)
Stella Adler
American actress and acting teacher (1901–1992)
Syed Ahmad Khan
Indian Muslim educator, philosopher and politician (1817-1898)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
American educator (1787–1851)
Valentin Haüy
Founder of the first school for the blind
William Holmes McGuffey
Early influential American educator
William Huntington Russell
American businessman