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Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
political activist, Judaic scholar, autobiographer, translator, journalist, humanist, philosopher, playwright
- Faculty of Arts of Paris
Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
politician, comedian, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, professor, essayist, autobiographer, singer, television actor, stage actor, journalist, human rights activist
- California Labor School
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
autobiographer, playwright
- University of Cambridge, King's College London
Temple Grandin (born 1947)
zoologist, academic, activist, biologist
- Franklin Pierce University, Arizona State University
Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021)
entomologist, sociobiologist, ethologist, autobiographer, naturalist, evolutionary biologist, biologist, zoologist, ecologist, myrmecologist
- Harvard University, University of Alabama
Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994)
philosopher, scholar
- London School of Economics and Political Science, Harvard University
Javier MarĆas (1951-2022)
translator, professor, journalist, editor
- Complutense University of Madrid
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
mathematician, theoretical physicist, nuclear physicist, professor, statistician, physicist
- University of Cambridge, Winchester College