Barry Jones is an international and Australian polymath, writer, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion, former politician and Minister for Science. Born in Geelong (1932), educated at Melbourne University, Barry was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972-77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977-98. Awarded an AO in 1993, he was named as one of Australias 100 living national treasures in 1998 and was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. In 2014 he received an AC for services as a leading intellectual in Australian public life. He is the author of Dictionary of World Biography and Knowledge Courage Leadership also available through Wilkinson Publishing.