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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
historian, philosopher, sociologist, social worker, human rights activist, photographer, poet, autobiographer, opinion journalist, teacher, journalist, art historian, economist
- Fisk University, Harvard University
Harold Bloom (1930-2019)
literary historian, professor, literary critic, journalist, literary theorist
- Yale University, Cornell University
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
carpenter, publisher, essayist, printer, nurse, school teacher, journalist, poet
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
poet, literary historian, historian, playwright, literary critic, biographer, journalist, radio editor, literary editor, television presenter
- University of Cambridge, Yale University
Fidel Castro (1926-2016)
politician, lawyer, partisan, journalist, revolutionary, statesperson
- University of Havana, Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
Karen Kingsbury (born 1963)
journalist
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
translator, essayist, journalist, philosopher, biographer, opinion journalist
- Military Engineering-Technical University, Nikolay engineering school
Slavoj Žižek (born 1949)
philosopher, psychologist, cultural studies scholar, sociologist, essayist, psychoanalyst, cultural critic, politician, theologian, opinion journalist, actor
- Bežigrad Grammar School, University of Ljubljana