Marshall Goodwin Simms Hodgson (April 11, 1922 – June 10, 1968), was an Islamic Studies academic and a world historian at the University of Chicago. He was chairman of the interdisciplinary Committee on Social Thought in Chicago. He was also a practicing Quaker.

Though he did not publish extensively during his lifetime, he has become arguably the most influential American historian of Islam due to his three-volume The Venture of Islam; Conscience and History in a World Civilization. The work is universally recognized as a masterpiece that has radically reconfigured the academic study of Islam and the Civilization of Muslims. In addition to this, his modern importance also rests with his work on world history, which remained relatively unnoticed during his lifetime. Much of it was rediscovered and subsequently published through the efforts of Edmund Burke III of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In The Venture of Islam Hodgson reimagined the terminology and focus of Islamic history and religion: He critiqued terms like tradition for ḥadith and Islamic Law for sharīʿah. The focus on the Arab world that had characterized the Euro-American study of Islam was also rethought by Hodgson who argued that it was the Persianate world (his coinage) that was the locus of the most influential Muslim thought and practice from the Middle Period onwards. Most importantly he distinguished between Islamic (properly religious) and Islamicate phenomena, which were the products of regions in which Muslims were culturally dominant, but were not, properly speaking religious. Thus wine poetry was certainly Islamicate, but not Islamic.

Bruce B. Lawrence (at Duke since 1971) is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at Duke University.

A graduate of Fay School and Princeton University, with a Master of Divinity from Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge), he earned his doctorate at Yale University in History of Religions. There he was trained to engage West Asia (aka the Middle East) and South Asia, with particular reference to the cultures and languages, the history and religious practices marked as Muslim. But he also concerns himself with the non-Muslim religious traditions of Asia, especially Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism, at the same time that he pursues the turbulent reconnections of Europe to Asia forged in colonial, then post-colonial encounters.

Dame Patricia Anne Hodgson, DBE (born 19 January 1947) is the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.

Following an early stint at the Conservative Party research department (1968–1970), Hodgson worked as a producer and journalist and was a founder-member of the distance learning team at the Open University. Between 1983 and 2000 she worked in a variety of positions at the BBC (see below). She served on the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (1993–1999), and was a non-executive member of the London Arts Board and a Trustee of the Prince’s Youth Business Trust. She also served on the Advisory Board of the Judge Institute for Management Studies, Cambridge. She is a former Vice-President of the Royal Television Society and a former member of the Statistics Commission.

From September 2000 to the end of 2003, Hodgson was Chief Executive of the Independent Television Commission, a body which has since been subsumed by the media regulator Ofcom. From 2004–2008 she was a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. During the same period she was a Governor of the Wellcome Trust.

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden (published in 1911), A Little Princess (published in 1905), and Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6).

Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, near Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, the family eventually fell on straightened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870 her mother died and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor after which they lived in Paris for two years where their two sons were born before returning to the US to live in Washington D.C. There she began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowries), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.

Gorden James Tallis (born 27 July 1973 in Townsville, Queensland) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in Australia's premier rugby league competition from 1992 to 2004. He captained Australia and Queensland as well as the Brisbane Broncos club, with whom he won three premierships and one Clive Churchill Medal. Nicknamed the "Raging Bull" for his on-field aggression, at the peak of his career Tallis was considered as the best second-row forward in the world and in 2008 was named in an Indigenous Australian rugby league team of the century. He is currently a commentator and pundit for the Fox Sports network, as well as an NRL Board Member. Tallis was a member of the Board Of Directors for the North Queensland Cowboys and is now forwards coach of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Tallis' father Wally played rugby league briefly for Leigh in the 1960s. Gorden was born in Townsville, North Queensland where he played for the Centrals Tigers club.

Tallis moved to Sydney to make his first grade debut in the Winfield Cup premiership for St. George on 29 August, 1992. He was a reserve in St George's grand final loss to Brisbane in 1993. Tallis was used to good effect off the interchange bench during the 1994 season and also made his representative debut for the Queensland side in the final two State of Origin matches that year. In 1995 he was included in the Tongan squad for the 1995 World Cup but had to withdraw due to injury.