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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
Raymond Benson (born 1955)
composer
- University of Texas at Austin
Fernando Morais (born 1946)
journalist, politician, composer
Dolly Parton (born 1946)
guitarist, country singer, actor, banjoist, autobiographer, businessperson, television actor, multi-instrumentalist, country musician, record producer, voice actor, film producer, composer, film actor, recording artist
Jaron Lanier (born 1960)
computer scientist, composer, programmer, essayist, artificial intelligence researcher, businessperson, philosopher, pianist, visual artist
- New Mexico State University
Hildegard of Bingen (1097-1179)
naturalist, composer, philosopher, illuminator, physician, nun, poet, theologian, abbess, artist, playwright, botanist, mystic, sexologist, polymath
- Disibodenberg
Noël Coward (1899-1973)
actor, composer, film producer, playwright, lyricist, singer, theatrical director, film score composer, stage actor, film actor, film director, television director, SOE agent, producer
- Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts