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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
- Xaverian College, Victoria University of Manchester
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Bob Dylan (born 1941)
film actor, poet, guitarist, autobiographer, painter, record producer, film director, lyricist, composer, disc jockey, actor, singer, radio personality, designer, musician
- University of Minnesota system, Sidwell Friends School
Mike Oldfield (born 1953)
composer, guitarist, singer, record producer, musician, aircraft pilot, game designer
- Elvian School, The Highlands School, Reading
Grace Jones (born 1948)
actor, model, singer, film actor, recording artist, composer, musician
- Onondaga Community College
Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)
poet, playwright, librarian, chess composer
- Lycée Henri-IV