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Henry James (1843-1916)
playwright, poet lawyer, literary critic, editing staff
- Harvard University
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
Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
blogger, actor, composer, poet lawyer, lyricist, researcher
- St. Ignatius College
Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
journalist, playwright, publisher, poet lawyer, autobiographer, opinion journalist
- National University of Colombia
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
poet, journalist, literary critic, poet lawyer, publicist, essayist
- University of Bonn, Frederick William University Berlin
José de Alencar (1829-1877)
journalist, politician, lawyer, literary critic
- Law School, University of São Paulo
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
judge, lawyer, jurist
- Cornell University, Harvard Law School
Thomas Hughes (1822-1896)
judge, cricketer, politician, poet lawyer, lawyer, trade unionist, social reformer, barrister
- Rugby School, Oriel College