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John Ruskin (1819-1900)
art critic, art historian, philosopher, painter, sociologist, poet, literary critic, architect, journalist, aesthetician, daguerreotypist
- University of Oxford, King's College London
Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
philosopher, literary critic, semiologist, sociologist, mythographer, literary theorist, essayist, ontologist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Montaigne
John Wesley (1703-1791)
Methodist pastor, diarist, philosopher, translator, missionary, priest, theologian
- University of Oxford, Charterhouse School
Plutarch (0039-0119)
essayist, priest, magistrate, biographer, historian, philosopher
Erasmus (1466-1536)
translator, philosopher, theologian, essayist, Bible translator, latinist, Latin Catholic priest, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity
- University of Paris, University of Cambridge
Edward Said (1935-2003)
literary critic, journalist, philosopher, musicologist, political scientist, translator, researcher
- Harvard University, Princeton University
Alister McGrath (born 1953)
theologian, educator, church historian, chemist, philosopher, priest, biochemist
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Michael Ignatieff (born 1947)
journalist, historian, politician, philosopher
- University of Oxford, Trinity College