Among them are Leonard Bernstein ( in the 1950s ), Comedian Michael Ian Black, Daryl Hall ( of Hall & Oates ), Jascha Heifetz ( in the 1940s ), Charles Ives, Hope Lange, film director Barry Levinson ( a current resident ), rock singer Meat Loaf ( Marvin Lee Aday who was Joel Barlow High School softball coach while his daughters attended the school during the 1990s ), actress Jessica Tandy and her husband Hume Cronyn ( in the 1940s and 1950s ) and Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary.

D ' Holbach was a Parisian social figure who conducted a famous salon widely attended by many intellectual notables of the day, including Denis Diderot, Jean Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Benjamin Franklin.

After the publication of Essays Moral and Political in 1744, Hume applied for the Chair of Pneumatics and Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Despite his acquittal, Hume failed to gain the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

In the late 1930s, he introduced a newcomer, Dinah Shore, a local graduate of Hume Fogg High School and Vanderbilt University.

During the 1930s, an attempt by Mississippi Governor Theodore G. Bilbo to move The University of Mississippi to Jackson, was prevented by then Chancellor Alfred Hume by giving Mississippi legislators a grand tour of Ole Miss and the surrounding city of Oxford.

* Historic maps of Hume in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri

During troubled times at Yale University, president Timothy Dwight saw his students drawn to the radical republicanism and “ infidel philosophy ” of the French Revolution, including the philosophies of Hume, Hobbes, Tindal, and Lords Shaftesbury and Bolingbroke.

John Hume was born in Derry and was a student at St. Columb's College and at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, the leading Catholic seminary in Ireland and a recognised college of the National University of Ireland, where he intended to study for the priesthood.

Bush ( former Trustee of the University ), Ken Burns, Condoleezza Rice, Pervez Musharaff, Colin Powell, Carl Sagan, Desmond Tutu, Bob Dole, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Benjamin Netanyahu, Thomas Friedman, Charles Krauthammer, José María Aznar, Tom Brokaw, John Edwards, Gerhard Schröder, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Kay, Queen Noor, John Glenn, Lord George Robertson, Benazir Bhutto, Lech Wałęsa, Madeleine Albright, Thomas Kean, Brit Hume, Barbara Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Beschloss, Shimon Peres, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, John Updike, Lawrence Eagleburger, Mario Cuomo, William Bennett, Juan Williams, Pierre Salinger, Sam Nunn, Vicente Fox, Dan Rather, Dominique de Villepin, Bill Clinton ( organized by the San Antonio Business Council ) and John Cleese.

Though having gone to separate high schools, Barnes was a friend of fellow Fox News personality Brit Hume in high school, and at The University of Virginia.

Recent Celebrants have included: The Right Reverend Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2012 ); The Reverend Paul Keane, Old Oratorian and Chaplain to the University of Essex ( 2011 ); The Very Reverend Richard Duffield, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory and Promoter of the Cause of Canonisation for John Henry Cardinal Newman ( 2010 ); The Very Reverend Robert Byrne, Provost of the Oxford Oratory ( 2009 ); The Right Reverend Patrick O ' Donoghue, Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster ( 2008 ); The Right Reverend Dom Aidan Bellenger, Abbot of Downside ( 2007 ); Archbishop Maurice Couve de Murville, Archbishop Emeritus of Birmingham ( 2006 ); The Right Reverend Dom Cuthbert Brogan, Abbot of Farnborough ( 2005 ); The Right Reverend Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2004 ); The Right Reverend Bishop George Stack, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2003 ); His Eminence Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O ’ Connor, Archbishop of Westminster ( 2002 ); The Right Reverend Bishop Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds ( 2001 ); Bishop Victor Guazzelli, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster ( 2000 ); The Abbot of Ampleforth ( 1999 ); The Catholic Chaplain to Harrow School ( 1998 ); the Provost of the London Oratory ( 1997 ); the Apostolic Nuncio ( 1996 ); His Eminence George Basil Cardinal Hume ( 1995 ); Dom Stanislaus Hobbs of St Benedict ’ s Abbey, Ealing ( 1994 ); the Master of St Benet ’ s Hall, Oxford ( 1993 ); and the Provost of the Oxford Oratory ( 1992 ).

He was educated at Dalmeny parish school and Edinburgh University, having among his college contemporaries John Home, David Hume, William Robertson, and Adam Smith.

* Hume ( Open University Press, 1983 )

While Chancellor Hume of the University of Mississippi argued the law would force the state's teachers to be intellectually dishonest, the superintendent of the high school in Meridian held a public bonfire to burn all pages about evolution from textbooks used in his school.

Carmel Schrire, Rutgers University, author of Digging through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist, said of Noël Hume's book: " Noël Hume is a household name.

Hume installed landlines from the Elder Conservatorium and Adelaide University, allowing live broadcasts of concerts and lectures.

Donald Livingston is a professor of philosophy at Emory University with an " expertise in the writings of David Hume.

David Hume, originally David Home, son of Joseph Home of Chirnside, advocate, and Katherine Falconer, was born on 26 April 1711 ( Old Style ) in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh.

However, the position was given to William Cleghorn, after Edinburgh ministers petitioned the town council not to appoint Hume because he was seen as an atheist.

Tomb of David Hume in Edinburgh

A statue of Hume by Alexander Stoddart on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included James Boswell, David Hume and Adam Smith.

Among his friends at Edinburgh were the philosophers Adam Ferguson and David Hume and the artist Paul Sandby whom he met in the Highlands.

After residing in Leipzig for a time, he returned to Edinburgh where in January 1757 he succeeded David Hume as librarian to the Faculty of Advocates ( see Advocates ' Library ), but soon relinquished this office on becoming tutor in the family of the Earl of Bute.

Hume Brown, P, Edinburgh, 1901.

On 21 August 1844, 3000 gathered to see Hume lay the monument's foundation stone at the Old Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh.

" ( Ane Historie of the House and Race of Douglas and Angus, David Hume of Godscroft, Edinburgh 1646 ).

* The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Second Series, edited by P. Hume Brown, M. A., LLD., Edinburgh, 1900, vol. 2, 1627-1628, p. 117.

In the Scottish Enlightenment Edinburgh was home to much intellectual talent, including Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith.

* The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Third Series, edited by P. Hume Brown, M. A., LL. D., volume V, Edinburgh, 1912, p. 381.

East Princes Street Gardens originated after a dispute between Edinburgh Corporation ( town council ) and the early New Town proprietors, among whom was the philosopher David Hume who resided in St. David Street, a side street off Princes Street.

He lived in Edinburgh and associated with several major figures of Scottish learned society, including philosopher and historian David Hume, political philosopher and economist Adam Smith, and architect Robert Adam.

Alison Cockburn also Alison Rutherford, or Alicia Cockburn ( 8 October 1712, Selkirkshire, Scotland-22 November 1794, Edinburgh ) was a Scottish poet, wit and socialite who collected a circle of eminent friends in 18th century enlightenment Edinburgh including Walter Scott, Robert Burns and David Hume.

File: Edinburgh Lincoln and Hume 01. jpg | Lincoln Memorial ( 1893 ), Old Carlton Burying Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Devine has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research ( Hume Brown, Saltire and Henry Duncan Prize and Lectureship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the British Academy: the only historian elected to all three national academies in the British Isles.

But at the touch of Hume and Voltaire the noble or hideous visitations which had haunted the mind since Agamemnon's blood cried out for vengeance, disappeared altogether or took tawdry refuge among the gaslights of melodrama.

According to Hume, the creative faculty makes use of ( at least ) four mental operations which produce imaginings out of sense-impressions.

( Hume 1974: 322 ) In explaining how matters of fact are entirely a product of experience, he dismisses the notion that they may be arrived at through a priori reasoning.

One of the earliest accounts relating to a large unknown freshwater animal was in 1818, when Hamilton Hume and James Meehan found some large bones at Lake Bathurst in New South Wales.

Throughout his life Hume, who never married, spent time occasionally at his family home at Ninewells by Chirnside, Berwickshire, which had belonged to his family since the sixteenth century.

It is likely that Hume was sceptical both about religious belief ( at least as demanded by the religious organisations of his time ) and of the complete atheism promoted by such contemporaries as Baron d ' Holbach.

Hume argued that it requires inductive reasoning to arrive at the premises for the principle of inductive reasoning, and therefore the justification for inductive reasoning is a circular argument.

Education in the Arts became a vehicle for the study of humanitarian philosophers like David Hume at that time.

After his house in Môtiers was stoned on the night of 6 September 1765, Rousseau took refuge in Great Britain with Hume, who found lodgings for him at a friend's country estate in Wootton in Staffordshire.

Rousseau's letter to Hume, in which he articulates the perceived misconduct, sparked an exchange which was published in Paris and received with great interest at the time.

These are Lake Hume near Albury-Wodonga ( completed 1936 ), Lake Mulwala at Yarrawonga ( completed 1939 ) and Lake Dartmouth, which is actually on the Mitta Mitta River upstream of Lake Hume ( completed 1979 ).

Since Hume had already made many of the same " moral attacks upon Christianity " that Paine popularized in The Age of Reason, scholars have concluded that Paine probably read Hume's works on religion or had at least heard about them through the Joseph Johnson circle.

It has however also become common, already since David Hume, and more recently since the writings of Freud, to describe reason as actually being a slave to the passions, or at best an arbiter of conflicting desires, rather than their natural monarch.

Another version of this tale has the skeleton discovered at Hume a few years after the battle and re-interred at Holyrood Abbey.

Worried by this renewed French interest in the area and encouraged by Hume and Hovell ’ s reports, Governor Darling ordered a settlement to be established at Western Port.

Though their parties are often at loggerheads, Hume and Paisley worked jointly on behalf of Northern Ireland in the European Parliament and on occasion worked jointly in the British House of Commons.

David Hume and Adam Smith at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery