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Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)
historian
- Yale University, Hotchkiss School
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
physician, essayist, playwright, historian
- Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall, Stonyhurst College
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)
historian, environmentalist, biographer, naturalist
- University of Iowa, University of Utah
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist
André Maurois (1885-1967)
philosopher, essayist, historian, literary critic, biographer, critic
- Lycée Pierre-Corneille
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
poet, historian, translator, journalist, anthropologist, literary critic, essayist, collector of fairy tales, folklorist, scholar
- University of Oxford, University of St Andrews
Michael Grant (1914-2004)
historian, classical philologist, archaeologist, numismatist, classical scholar, administrator, historian of classical antiquity, scientist, academic administrator, actor, film director, opinion journalist, translator
- Harrow School, University of Cambridge