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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
Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917-2008)
politician, diplomat, journalist
- Trinity College Dublin, Sandford Park School
Stephen Hagan (born 1959)
diplomat
- University of Southern Queensland
Stendhal (1783-1842)
autobiographer, diarist, biographer, diplomat, art historian
Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
explorer, diplomat, historian, military personnel, photographer, traveler, botanical collector
- University of Oxford, Eton College
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755)
courtier, memoirist, diplomat
Vassilis Vassilikos (1933-2023)
poet, journalist, diplomat, politician
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Anatolia College
James Madison (1751-1836)
politician, diplomat, philosopher, lawyer, statesperson
- Princeton University