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Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
film director, playwright, autobiographer, journalist, women's rights activist, philosopher, director
- University of Paris
Jean Genet (1910-1986)
playwright, poet, film director, film editor, military personnel, essayist, political activist
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
playwright, poet, essayist, translator, critic, stage actor, film actor, film director, theatrical director, model, political activist, civil servant
- Graduate Schools for Law and Politics and Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo
Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
activist, politician
- Antioch University, Antioch College
John Henry Mackay (1864-1933)
poet, biographer, anarchist, LGBTQ rights activist, publisher
John Paul II (1920-2005)
Latin Catholic priest, poet, politician, human rights activist, professor, philosopher, transitional deacon, latin catholic deacon, archbishop, Catholic bishop
- Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Theology faculty of the Jagiellonian University
John Elder Robison (born 1957)
activist
Theo van Gogh (1957-2004)
television presenter, program maker, columnist, film director, actor, film producer, presenter, blogger, journalist, film actor, radio personality, television director, television producer, film editor, television actor, activist, director
- University of Amsterdam, Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam