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Alicia Keys (born 1981)
singer, composer, pianist, record producer, poet, actor, art collector, presenter, recording artist, film director
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
painter, scenographer, drawer, sculptor, artist
John Lennon (1940-1980)
record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist
Henry Rollins (born 1961)
musician, actor, blogger, human rights activist, singer, television actor, poet, journalist, film actor, peace activist, voice actor, radio personality, recording artist, spoken word artist, lyricist
David Hunter Strother (1816-1888)
illustrator, topographer, diplomat
Edmund de Waal (born 1964)
ceramicist, printmaker, art critic, visual artist, potter
Jaron Lanier (born 1960)
computer scientist, composer, programmer, essayist, artificial intelligence researcher, businessperson, philosopher, pianist, visual artist
Philippe Soupault (1897-1990)
journalist, poet, playwright, librettist, political activist, essayist, critic, radio personality, publisher, artist, drawer, actor, broadcast journalist
