He traveled all over Europe, socializing with some of the best-known intellectuals and artists in Europe, and becoming a charter member of the Lost Generation.

Professor Said said that Professor Abu-Lughod became the best-known Palestinian intellectual in the Middle East.

His parents were Mary Robertson (Walsh) and Henry James, Sr., who was one of the best-known intellectuals in mid-19th-century America.

Among these recruits were many of the group's best-known intellectuals and leaders such as Cliff Slaughter and Brian Pearce.

Donald Horne, one of Australia's best-known public intellectuals, believed rising prosperity in post-war Australia influenced the decline in church-going and general lack of interest in religion.

In addition, late last week, the Chinese Public Security Bureau put out an all-points bulletin on seven of this country's best-known intellectuals.

The writer William Hazlitt was among its pupils, sent aged 15 to prepare for the Unitarian ministry, and some of the best-known Dissenting intellectuals spent time on its staff.

Zhu Xueqin, a history professor at Shanghai University who is one of China's best-known liberal intellectuals, told me that he wants more, not fewer, market reforms.

Some of the best-known intellectuals associated with Solidarity, like Bronislaw Geremek, the historian and former foreign minister, formed the Freedom Union, further to the right.

Jose Vasconcelos, still one of Mexico's best-known intellectuals, wanted Mexico to get in step with the "direction of history," which he believed was indicated by Germany's Adolf Hitler.