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Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
playwright, philosopher, literary critic, essayist, journalist
- Saint Petersburg State University
Simon Critchley (born 1960)
philosopher, musician, opinion journalist
- University of Essex, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
philosopher, playwright
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
- University College London, St. Xavier's Collegiate School
Václav Havel (1936-2011)
playwright, politician, director, poet, film director, human rights activist, dissident, essayist, philosopher, opinion journalist
- Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Theatre, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Gerald O'Collins (1932-2024)
theologian, philosopher
- University of Cambridge, University of Melbourne
Bruce Ackerman (born 1943)
philosopher, political scientist
- Harvard University, Yale Law School
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
biologist, linguist, paleontologist, translator, ichthyologist, zoologist, carcinologist, anatomist, photographer, philosopher, anthropologist, physiologist, naturalist, evolutionary biologist
- University College London, Charing Cross Hospital