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Jimmy Wales
co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)
Larry Sanger
American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects (born 1968)
Gerard Kuiper
Netherlands-born American astronomer (1905–1973)
Mortimer J. Adler
American philosopher, author and educator (1902–2001)
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
American Wikipedia editor, focused on closing its gender gap; Knight of Serbia
Eric W. Weisstein
American mathematician
Jason Moore
American digital strategist and Wikimedian
Lisa Tuttle
American-British writer (born 1952)
Isidore Singer
American encyclopedia editor and political activist (1859–1939)
Cyrus Adler
Jewish American historian, scholar, religious leader (1863–1940)
Bill Mallon
American orthopedic surgeon, golfer, and historian (born 1952)
Daniel Coit Gilman
American educator and academic (1831–1908)
Robert McHenry
Encyclopedia editor
Samuel Johnson
President of Columbia University (1696-1772)
John L. Heilbron
American historian of science (1934–2023)
Alexander Harkavy
American author, linguist, and lexicographer
Michael Berenbaum
American scholar, author, historian and rabbi (born 1945)
Frank Moore Colby
American historian
John Michael Greer
American essayist, independent scholar, blogger, religious leader and writer
Julius Eisenstein
Polish-American anthologist, diarist, encyclopedist, Jewish scholar, historian and philanthropist (1854–1956)
Matthew Simpson
American Methodist bishop and academic (1811–1884)
E. Lee Spence
German anthropologist, photographer, archaeologist, historian, photojournalist and academic
Henry Smith Williams
American medical doctor, lawyer, encyclopedist, and author (1863–1943)
Warren Allen Smith
American encyclopedist (1921-2017)
Max Seligsohn
Russian linguist
Mila Rechcigl
American researcher
George Edwin Rines
United Stated editor (1860-1951)