academic, faculty member, academician - an educator who works at a college or university

lecturer, lector, reader - a public lecturer at certain universities

head teacher, school principal, principal, head - the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"

professional, professional person - a person engaged in one of the learned professions

schoolmaster - any person (or institution) who acts as an educator

instructor, teacher - a person whose occupation is teaching

Bethune, Mary McLeod Bethune - United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955)

Braille, Louis Braille - French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-152)

Carnegie, Dale Carnegie - United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955)

Comenius, Jan Amos Komensky, John Amos Comenius - Czech educational reformer (1592-1670)

John Dewey, Dewey - United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)

Friedrich Froebel, Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel, Froebel - German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852)

Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851)

Hopkins, Mark Hopkins - United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)

Hutchins, Robert Maynard Hutchins - United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977)

Laney, Lucy Craft Laney - United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933)

Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Lowell - United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)

Horace Mann, Mann - United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)

McGuffey, William Holmes McGuffey - United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873)

Maria Montesorri, Montessori - Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952)

James Naismith, Naismith - United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939)

Carl Orff, Orff - German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982)

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody, Peabody - educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894)

Pitman, Sir Isaac Pitman - English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)

Anne Mansfield Sullivan, Anne Sullivan, Sullivan - United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936)

Booker T. Washington, Booker Taliaferro Washington, Washington - United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)

Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White, White - United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)

Emma Hart Willard, Willard - United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870)

John Witherspoon, Witherspoon - American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794)