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L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
journalist, film producer, actor, poet, stage actor, editor, film actor, suffragist, playwright
Jules Feiffer (born 1929)
comics artist, journalist, playwright, drawer, actor
- Pratt Institute
Garrison Keillor (born 1942)
radio personality, voice actor, comedian, television producer, humorist, singer
- University of Minnesota
Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007)
playwright, film director, actor, television producer, researcher
- Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
- University College London, St. Xavier's Collegiate School
Matt Groening (born 1954)
animator, film producer, comics artist, actor, cartoonist
- Evergreen State College
John le Carré (1931-2020)
film producer, actor, spy
- University of Oxford, Sherborne School
Michael Grant (1914-2004)
historian, classical philologist, archaeologist, numismatist, classical scholar, administrator, historian of classical antiquity, scientist, academic administrator, actor, film director, opinion journalist, translator
- Harrow School, University of Cambridge