Samuel D. (Samuel Dennis) Warren

Born in Boston in 1852, he was the son of paper manufacturer S. D. Warren and was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. At law school he graduated near the top of his class alongside his friend Louis D. Brandeis, and the two later helped found a Boston law firm that became Nutter McClennen & Fish.

He is remembered above all as the co-author, with Brandeis, of the 1890 Harvard Law Review article The Right to Privacy. The essay became one of the foundational texts in American privacy law and is still widely discussed for the way it argued that people should be protected from unwanted public exposure.

Warren was also a businessman and civic figure, serving in leadership roles connected with his family's paper interests and in public service in Massachusetts. He died in 1910, but his reputation has lasted largely because of the enduring influence of his work on privacy and the law.