List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 932 verified.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
Natural Sciences
Mr. Knut Sindre Mølmen

I have begun to doubt some stories in the history of Mr. Shakespeare, after I saw Petter Andersen's movie.

08/19/13
Donald F. Nelson, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Physics

04/09/07
Prof. Anthony John Pointon, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor; formerly Director of Research, Univ. of Portsmouth & Chairman, International Dickens Fellowship; author, "The Man Who Was Never Shakespeare"

03/29/10
James R. Preer, Ph.D.

Professor

07/15/08
Prof. Prem raj Pushpakaran, Ph.D.

Professor NITC

04/15/21
Geir Magne R. Bringsjord

05/02/11
Dr. Lorenzo Resca, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 20064

07/28/14
Prof. Sidney Roberts, Ph.D.

Who's Who in the World

09/09/07
Dr. Roland P. Schmitz, Ph.D.

Microbiologist at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany

06/28/12
Dale Reynolds Snider, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

08/10/13
Prof. Peter A. Sturrock, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University; author, "AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question"

03/19/13
Lowell James Swank, Ph.D.

I wrote an article about Frederik Rosenkrantz and Knud Gyldenstierne, two Danish Noblemen who visited London in 1592. SOS Newsletter, 2003.

11/29/14
Prof. Frank Robert Tangherlini, Ph.D.

Retired physics professor; also poet with poem by "Puck" about authorship

02/16/10
John Taylor, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, University of Montana

02/10/12
Ms. Bonnie R. Thompson, M.A.

Glendale Community College, Chemistry Educator, Retired

01/03/14
Peter D. Usher, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State Universtity; author of "Hamlet's Universe" (2006)

04/16/07
Dr. Gary C. Vezzoli, Ph.D.

Research physicist; author of Shakespeare paper published in The Elizabethan Review, connecting the life of Edward de Vere to The Winter's Tale.

09/09/07
Dr. Wolfgang Willner

Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria.

12/31/16
Mr. Jonathan C. Wright, Ph.D.

California

04/15/16
H. Nicole Young, Ph.D.

I may one day be notable for being one of two determined female scientists who exposed the most truth about 9/11. See http://shoes4industry.blogspot.com

09/09/07
Other / Unspecified
Ms. Natasha Bauman, M.F.A.

Book coming out next summer -- may soon be famous author?!

09/09/07
Mr. Matthew P. Colton, M.Ed.

VA

11/21/14
Mr. Philip E. Crowley

10/23/12
Sarah Ellem

07/31/19
Dr. Leigh Dawes Farrell, Ph.D.

Ph.D in Comparative Literature

04/25/16
Stephen Fleming

Vice Provost, Georgia Institute of Technology

04/15/09
Mr. Tom Patrick Haddigan, M.Sc.

Edward de Vere wrote the Shakespeare canon of works.

08/29/21
Prof. Kimberly S. Hall, M.A.

Associate Professor of English, Harrisburg Area Community College

04/04/17
Mr. Øyvind Hansen

All in all, I find it incredible that Mr. Shakspere was alone behind the lyrics.

08/16/13
Mr. Henning Hornnæss

08/19/13
Dr. Richard F Huff, Ph.D.

09/09/07
Wade Keller, M.P.A.

A strong cases by Tom Regnier, several posted on YouTube

05/31/16
Mr. Allyne Knox

12/18/14
Dr. Johannes Kuechler

Former Professor, Theory and History of Landscape Development, Technische Universität Berlin

10/19/07
Mr. John C. Meeks, M.A.

Former faculty member of Emerson College, Sussex, England.

07/26/12
Mr. Alexander Nitzberg, M.A.

Austrian poet and translator of literature from Russian and English into German (e.g. the complete sonnets of Edmund Spenser, works of Anna Akhmatova etc.)

12/14/12
Prof. Emily Grace Nolan III, Ph.D.

Trust no one.

05/25/22
Mr. Eoghain W. Ormiston

English Language Teacher, University of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire

01/11/16
Mr. Constantin Cristian Petrache

Just a curious mind.

03/22/20
Mr. Marcus V. Renner, M.S.

04/08/07
Mrs. Sandra Reynolds, M.S.

Senior chemistry teacher at The University of South Australia, and at University Senior College, Adelaide.

09/16/07
Mr. Amiel Moshe Schotz, M.F.A.

Retired teacher, author and poet, actor, student of theatre arts

07/23/19
Prof. Dennis L. Swibold, M.A.

Retired professor at the University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.

12/05/24
Richard Toth

NY

08/02/09
Mr. William Turner

09/03/16
Mrs. Estelle Van Zyl, M.A.

Teacher and sceptic.

03/07/22
Karl P. Wiberg

I suppose there's no "smoking gun" (de Vere's Geneva Bible?); but the Everest of circumstantial evidence for Oxford is decisive -- freelance journalist.

11/16/10
Mr. Jinglin Zuo, M.A.

There is "room for doubt", and other reasonable scenarios are possible.

11/19/07
Other Humanities
Mr. Antonio Acuna, M.A.

Keeping Shakespeare's identity as it is only benefits those who make money off of it.

09/09/07
Prof. Peter Atterton, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy, San Diego State University; Ph.D. from University of Essex, England.

04/09/18

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