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ORCID holders

Some particularly interesting, noteworthy or well-known ORCID holders:

Alan Coates - CEO, Cancer Council Australia; president of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia
Alan Sokal - pseudo-science critic (see Sokal affair)
Agnes Binagwaho - Minister of Health of the Republic of Rwanda
Anders Björner - Pólya Prize; member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Andreas Küttel - World cup (ski jump) winner
Andreu Mas-Colell - served in the cabinet of the Catalonian government
Andrew Bruce Holmes - chemist, Companion of the Order of Australia
Anthony Monaco - former Professor of Human Genetics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning & Resources) at the University of Oxford. Also Head of the Neurodevelopmental and Neurological Disorders Group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. Now President of Tufts University
Axel Honneth - professor at both University of Frankfurt & Columbia University; director of Institut für Sozialforschung
Azzam Sleit - former Minister of Information and Communication Technology of Jordan
Barbara Partee - one of the founders of contemporary formal semantics
Bengt Nordén - councilor for Science and Technology to the Swedish Government
Bernard Maskit - inaugural fellow, American Mathematical Society; Maskit slice named for him
Bill Thompson (technology writer) - BBC Radio personality
Brian Schmidt - Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow; FRS
Bruce T. Draine - Dannie Heineman Prize; National Academy of Sciences inductee
Bryan Gaensler - 1999 Young Australian of the Year; gave 2001 Australia Day Address to the nation; 2011 Pawsey Medal; Australian Academy of Science
Carlos Frenk - member of the Council of the Royal Society
Cheryl Praeger - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science; president of Australian Mathematical Society; member of the Order of Australia; Centenary Medal of Australia; Erdős number=2
Christer Fuglesang - ESA astronaut
Christopher Gillberg - King's Medal (Sweden); Söderberg Prize for Medicine
Cisca Wijmenga - member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Spinoza Prize
Claire Smith - past President of the World Archaeological Congress
Colin J. N. Wilson, FRS
Dave Goulson = founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Daniel H. Janzen - Albert Einstein World Award of Science & other prizes
Daniel Schacter - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
David de Kretser - former Governor of Victoria
David H. Levy - co-disovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
Professor David C. Hanna, FRS - Max Born Prize
Douglas N. Arnold, Guggenheim Fellowship, ISI Highly Cited
Douglas Gough - Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duncan Haldane - 2016 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Ehud Gazit - Israeli Chief Scientist
Elizabeth A. Fenn - won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Emily Temple-Wood - Wikimedian of the Year, 2016
Emma Johnston - biologist and television presenter
Ewan Birney, FRS FMedSci, joint Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute
Francine Berman - inaugural recipient of the IEEE/ACM-CS Ken Kennedy Award
Ge Wang - TED speaker
George Perry (neuroscientist) - multiple fellowships, over 1,000 works, bountiful external links and IDs
Gerhard Andersson - Nordic prize in medicine; outstanding psychologist prize.
Giulio Superti-Furga - Knight Officer Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy
Hans-Dieter Sues - Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Ian Tattersall - Institute of Human Origins Lifetime Achievement Award
James Mallet - Darwin-Wallace Medal
James Rothman - Kavli Prize, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine
Jeannette Wing - Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research
Jane A. McKeating - Virologist. Multiple awards, including Fleming Award, Wolfson Merit Award
Jens Nielsen - member of: Academy of Technical Sciences (Denmark), National Academy of Engineering (USA), Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, American Academy of Microbiology, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Royal Society of Arts and Sciences (Gothenburg), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Jiayang Li (李家洋) - Chinese Vice Minister of Agriculture
Johan Håstad - member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Gödel Prize winner
John A. Todd (biologist) - FRS
John C. Mather - Nobel Prize in Physics; among Time magazine's '100 Most Influential People in The World'
John Dickie (historian) - Commander of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity
John O'Keefe (neuroscientist) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; FRS, FMedSci
John E. Walker - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1997
John Wilbanks - 'Consent to Research' founder, TEDGlobal speaker.
Jonathan Borwein - Governor at large of the Mathematical Association of America, past president of the Canadian Mathematical Society
Professor Jonathan Mestel - Chess Grandmaster
Julia King - Vice-Chancellor of Aston University
Professor Dame Kay Davies, FRS - governor of the Wellcome Trust, director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function
Kathleen de la Peña McCook - library scholar, large number of aliases
Kevin Warwick
Koen Lenaerts - President of the European Court of Justice.
Kwame Anthony Appiah - novelist
Leroy Cronin - FRS, FRSC, TED speaker
Lee Rogers Berger - led expedition which discovered Homo naledi
Linda A. Morabito - discovered volcanic activity on Io, moon of Jupiter,
Luciano Floridi
Dame Malvina Major - opera singer
Maria Abbracchio - pharmacologist, Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, on Thomson Reuter's list of most cited researchers
Mario Capecchi - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Mark Pepys - FRS
Sir Mark Walport, FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci HonFRSE - UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Michael Benton - FRS
Dame Nancy Rothwell - DBE DL FRS FMedSci FBPhS - President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester; past President of the Royal Society of Biology
Paul D. N. Hebert - OC, FRSC - known as the "father of DNA barcoding"
Peter C. Doherty - Nobel Prize; Australian of the Year; Companion of the Order of Australia
Peter J. Barnes (respiratory scientist) - FRS
Philip Donoghue - FRS, Philip Leverhulme Prize, Bigsby Medal, President’s Medal of the Palaeontological Association
Philip J. Davis - Chauvenet Prize, National Book Award
Pierre Laconte - president of International Society of City and Regional Planners; Honorary Secretary General of International Association of Public Transport; Commander of the Order of Leopold II; UN Habitat Scroll of Honour Award
R. Stanley Williams - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Vice President and Senior Fellow at Hewlett Packard Labs
Randy Schekman, Nobel Prize; Physiology or Medicine, editor of eLife, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Sir Richard Blundell, CBE FBA
Richard James Burgess - record producer
Robert Gaskins - inventor of PowerPoint
Ronald Inglehart - director of the World Values Survey
Sally Davies, FRS - Chief Medical Officer for England; Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Department of Health
Saul Perlmutter - shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Stephen Simpson. FRS, Companion of the Order of Australia, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Stephen L. Brusatte - Chancellor's Fellow in Vertebrate Palaentology at the University of Edinburgh; consultant on "Walking With Dinosaurs"; best-selling books
Steven Cowley, FRS FREng - Chief Executive Officer of the UK Atomic Energy Authority
Steven Pinker - Humanist of the Year; Prospect magazine’s "The World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals"; Foreign Policy's "100 Global Thinkers"; and Time magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today."
Professor Sir Tejinder Virdee - involved in search for Higgs-Boson; Institute of Physics High Energy Physics Prize; Chadwick Medal and Prize; Yuri Milner Special Fundamental Physics Prize; European Physical Society High Energy Physics Prize
Thomas J. Barton - past president, American Chemical Society
Thomas R. Insel - former director of the US National Institute of Mental Health
Sir Tim Hunt, FRS, FMedSc - Nobel Prize
Sir Tim Berners-Lee - engineer and computer scientist; inventor of the World Wide Web; Turing award
Tim Luckhurst, Professor of Journalism; former editor of The Scotsman, and journalist for the BBC
Uta Frith - "pioneered much of the current research in autism and dyslexia"
Václav Hampl - member of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
Vikram Patel - psychiatrist, listed in April 2015 as one of the world's 100 most influential people by TIME magazine
Vladimir Pletser - senior Physicist-Engineer ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre; Guinness world record holder
William Moerner - 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Yoshinori Ohsumi - Nobel Laureate in Physiology

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Notable ORCID holders with no article

Frederick Balagadde - Frederick Balagadde (Q23785270) - http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2796-8874 - senior TED fellow
Brian Connolly (artist) - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5959-8292 - artist with public commissions
Carles Lalueza Fox - Carles Lalueza Fox (Q11912400) - orcid.org/0000-0002-1730-5914 - City of Barcelona prize for scientific research (2007)
Anthony Kinloch - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8752-7184 - FREng, FRS
Ronnie Levine - http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4060-7483 - OBE
Johan Olsen (biologist) - Johan Olsen (Q12319951) - https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8805-6372 - biologist and musician
Andreas Philippou - Andreas Philippou (Q56010496) - https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7430-6115 - former Minister of Education and Member of Parliament of the Republic of Cyprus; former Vice Rector of the University of Patras
Petr Sáha - Petr Sáha (Q17399664) - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1873-4163 - rector, Tomas Bata University in Zlín
Florentin Smarandache - Florentin Smarandache (Q1365019) - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5560-5926 - see Smarandache–Wellin number

Namesakes

James Hansen, climate researcher at Columbia University is not James Hansen, climate researcher at Columbia University
Jeremy Sanders is not Jeremy Sanders, though both work at the University of Cambridge.
David J. Patterson (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2645-7335) is not David J. Paterson (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7399-3256) (count the "t"s!)