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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
Noam Chomsky (born 1928)
philosopher, linguist, psychologist, anthropologist, human rights activist, educator, media critic, opinion journalist, computer scientist, historian, philologist
- Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
poet, philosopher, essayist, autobiographer, diarist, translator, abolitionist, naturalist, ecologist, environmentalist
- Harvard College, Harvard University
bell hooks (1952-2021)
philosopher
- Stanford University, University of California, Santa Cruz
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
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
journalist, poet, autobiographer, philosopher, biographer, illustrator, literary historian, essayist, playwright, opinion journalist, historian, literary critic
- University College London, Slade School of Fine Art