* Stith Thompson, American folklore scholar, was born and grew up in Bloomfield.

Thomas L. Thompson, a leading minimalist scholar for example has written

* Sir J. Eric S. Thompson ( John Eric Sidney Thompson, 1898 – 1975 ), English archeologist and Mayan scholar

Biblical scholar Thomas L. Thompson notes that the methods of " biblical archaeology " have also become outmoded: " and Albright's historical interpretation can make no claim to be objective, proceeding as it does from a methodology which distorts its data by selectivity which is hardly representative, which ignores the enormous lack of data for the history of the early second millennium, and which wilfully establishes hypotheses on the basis of unexamined biblical texts, to be proven by such ( for this period ) meaningless mathematical criteria as the ' balance of probability ' ..."

William Hepworth Thompson ( 27 March 1810 – 1 October 1886 ) was an English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

It was not until a return trip to Coba that Morley was persuaded by Thompson ’ s readings, marking his emergence as a prominent scholar in the field of Maya epigraphy.

* Robert Thompson ( media scholar ) ( born 1959 ), American media historian

Sir D ' Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE ( 2 May 1860, Edinburgh – 21 June 1948, St Andrews ) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar.

* William Hepworth Thompson ( 1810 – 1886 ), English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

Charles Thompson was a Greek scholar, and before the American Revolution, had been a teacher at several prominent schools.

Robert Thompson ( media scholar ), of Syracuse University, called the Ginsu advertising campaign " the pitch of all pitches.

Robert Farris Thompson, an art historian and African Diaspora scholar, detailed the transformation and reemergence of this fraternal order in his classic Flash of the Spirit.

After recovering from a country-wide low point in schooling in the eighteenth century, headmasters from William Pirie to George Thompson successively raised standards, such that in 1904, when the school had 110 pupils, six OCs held open awards at Oxford or Cambridge, and another was a City and Guilds scholar.

Anna was noted for her education by the medieval scholar, Niketas Choniates who wrote that Anna “ was ardently devoted to philosophy, the queen of all sciences, and was educated in every field.

In 1977 Knox's niece, Penelope Fitzgerald published a composite biography, The Knox Brothers, which devoted equal weight to him and his three brothers ( E. V. Knox, the editor of the humorous magazine Punch, Dillwyn Knox, a mathematician, and Wilfred Knox, an Anglican monk and New Testament scholar ).

He led a simple life as an independent scholar who was devoted to researching the field of logic and related areas in philosophy, and never held a permanent position, earning a living by temporary teaching assignments at universities and night-schools.

Without being a great Greek scholar, Gail was a hard worker, devoted to his favourite studies, and effectively rescued Greek from the neglect into which it had fallen during the revolutionary period.

Educated at the Lycée Condorcet, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Ecole des Sciences Politiques, he had a brilliant career as a scholar, and was called to the Parisian bar, where he practised from 1881 to 1886, but eventually devoted himself to the study of numismatics.

A brilliant scholar, he devoted his life mainly to the study of Chinese classic texts.

He was also a scholar and cleric at the Congregation San Salvatore at Bologna, and remained throughout his life devoted to his teacher Gioseffo Zarlino ( the principal music theorist of the late sixteenth century ).

In an issue that asks " What If the X-Men Had Stayed in Asgard ," Cypher devoted himself to studying long-forgotten texts and lore, written in languages forgotten to the Asgardians, gaining respect as a scholar amongst the population for doing so.

While Duff was a highly skilled scholar who was devoted to India, his evangelist ideals and western prejudice may have influenced his students in ways that he did not anticipate.

In the 1940s and 50s the American scholar Nelson Glueck devoted special attention to the discussion of whether Tell Abu al-Kharaz in the Jordan Valley close to the area where the Wadi el-Yabis ( the River Yabis ) emerges into the plane of the Jordan Valley, or Tell al-Maqlub, located further east along the Wadi Yabis, was the Biblical site of Jabesh Gilead.

Despite his civic duties, Camber retains the studious manner of a scholar throughout his life, and he is especially devoted to researching and recovering the lost Deryni texts of the past.

The years from 1776 to 1782 were devoted to the studies of jurisprudence and ecclesiastical history in the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome, where he had among other professors the Jesuit scholar, Zaccaria.

Lagarde was easily the most renowned Septuagint scholar of the nineteenth century, and he devoted himself ardently to oriental scholarship.

Forbes was a good scholar, a scientific theologian and a devoted worker, and was much beloved.

According to South Korean scholar Park Youngsoon, subjects such as Korean language, mathematics, physical education, drawing, and music constitute the bulk of instruction in people's schools ; more than 8 percent of instruction is devoted to the " Great Kim Il Sung " and " Communist Morality.

Robert Dick Wilson ( February 4, 1856 – October 11, 1930 ) was an American linguist and Presbyterian scholar who devoted his life to prove the reliability of the Hebrew Bible.

Clarke was " a scholar devoted to redressing what he saw as a systematic and racist suppression and distortion of African history by traditional scholars.

Gallus was a man of great learning, an excellent Greek scholar, and in his later years devoted himself to the study of astronomy, on which subject he is quoted as an authority by Pliny.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

The first scholar to give Peirce his considered professional attention was Royce's student Morris Raphael Cohen, the editor of an anthology of Peirce's writings titled Chance, Love, and Logic ( 1923 ) and the author of the first bibliography of Peirce's scattered writings.

Graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, as a Westminster scholar in 1860, he was entered at Lincoln's Inn but gave his attention chiefly to drama, producing Diamonds and Hearts at the Haymarket Theatre in 1867 ; this was followed by other light comedies.

Jokes of this type attracted the attention of a scholar in the USA as early as 1944.

There are several Carmelite figures who have received significant attention in the 20th century, including Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of only three female Doctors of the Church, so named because of her famous teaching on the " way of confidence and love " set forth in her best-selling memoir, " Story of a Soul "; Titus Brandsma, a Dutch scholar and writer who was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp because of his stance against Nazism ; and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ( née Edith Stein ), a Jewish convert to Catholicism who was also imprisoned and died at Auschwitz.

Li Ao, a scholar, poet, and official, used and brought attention to the Great Learning.

His renown as a scholar and his fame at having defeated a group of thieves who tried to break into his family home was great, and caught the attention of Kondō Shūsuke, the third generation master of the Tennen Rishin-ryū.

Waley also suggests a comparison of the several poems present in the Jin Ping Mei to the poetic production of Xu Wei, and draws attention to the fact that the circulation of the work from Soochow in the XVIII century began from the only known complete copy of a manuscript in the possession of the Xu family, attributed to a scholar of the Jiajing period ; which would, Waley observe, perfectly fit Xu Wei himself.

In 2001, scholar Philip Jenkins drew attention to a popular novel by James Hunter entitled The Mystery of Mar Saba, that first appeared in 1940.

Rhys Davids was the first western scholar to draw attention to the list of pañcavidha niyama, in her little book of 1912 entitled simply Buddhism.

Although the modern street newspaper began with the 1989 publication of Street News in New York City, newspapers sold by the poor and homeless to generate income and to bring attention to social problems date back to the late 19th century ; journalism scholar Norma Fay Green has cited The War Cry, created by the Salvation Army in London in 1879, as an early form of " dissident, underground, alternative publication ".

According to Nigerian scholar Kolawole Ogungbesan, Mine Boy became " the first African novel written in English to attract international attention.

This seems to mirror the healing of the narrator's mind, as his attention turns from his inner struggles and the intellectual ideas that fascinate him towards the real world outside and the real options offered by his current situation – not having to be a scholar, the possibility of starting afresh with Ramona, and so on.

As Anthony Pym, professor of sociolinguistics and sociological scholar of translation and intercultural studies, points out, a shift within the field from descriptivism towards tendencies of globalisation can be observed that draw the attention to questions of cross-cultural communication.

As a lay Buddhist scholar and teacher, he has increasingly turned his attention to the earliest teachings of Buddhism as recorded in the Pali canon.

The American media scholar Wilbur Schramm noted in 1964 that the flow of news among nations is thin, that much attention is given to developed countries and little to less-developed ones, that important events are ignored and reality is distorted.

Hyde, who was one of the first to direct attention to the vast treasures of Oriental antiquity, was an excellent classical scholar, and there was hardly an Eastern tongue accessible to foreigners with which he was not familiar.

If in Bucharest, alongside Ramiro Ortiz, Călinescu realized his vocation as a creative artist and scholar, his attention in Rome was focused on Vasile Pârvan, the director of the Accademia di Romania.

As Peter Jimack, the noted Rousseau scholar, argues “ Rousseau consciously sought to find the striking, lapidary phrase which would compel the attention of his readers and move their hearts, even when it meant, as it often did, an exaggeration of his thought .” And, in fact, Rousseau ’ s pronouncements, although not original, effected a revolution in swaddling and breast-feeding.

From then until the late 1990s, The Romantic Manifesto and Rand's aesthetic theory in general received little attention, leading Rand scholar Chris Matthew Sciabarra to refer to it as " a nearly forgotten book in the Randian canon ".

Modern renewal of interest in his writings followed after poet and scholar Alamgir Hashmi drew attention to this author in the 1970s and 1980s.

They describe Wilson as " a scholar of indubitable integrity ", adding that " Wilson displays a scrupulous attention to detail within a broad theoretical approach that not only educates and illuminates, but also stimulates his readers.

John Marco Allegro ( 17 February 1923, London-17 February 1988 ) was a scholar who challenged orthodox views of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible and the history of religion, with books that attracted popular attention and scholarly derision.