Jerome David Salinger was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.

Jonathan David Haidt is an American social psychologist and author.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance.

Born in Nagasaki and raised in Britain from the age of five, **Sir Kazuo Ishiguro** has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.

Born in ancient Athens around 428 BC, **Plato stands as one of history's most influential philosophers**, a student of Socrates whose ideas would shape Western thought for millennia.