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George Washington (1732-1799)
politician, farmer, cartographer, geometer, engineer, statesperson, revolutionary, army officer
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)
actor, film director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, essayist, agricultural engineer, director
- Lycée Saint-Louis, Institut national agronomique
Ross J. Anderson (1956-2024)
cryptographer, mathematician, computer scientist
- University of Cambridge
Homer Hickam (born 1943)
flight engineer, autobiographer, soldier, coal miner, scuba diver, aerospace engineer
- Virginia Tech
Jaron Lanier (born 1960)
computer scientist, composer, programmer, essayist, artificial intelligence researcher, businessperson, philosopher, pianist, visual artist
- New Mexico State University
Pavel Florensky (1882-1937)
mathematician, inventor, physicist, philosopher, engineer, priest, poet
- Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University
Salvador de Madariaga (1886-1978)
diplomat, historian, biographer, essayist, poet, engineer, opinion journalist, literary critic, politician, journalist, academic
- Lycée Chaptal, École polytechnique
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, economist, philosopher, engineer, astronomer
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge