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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
Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936)
dramaturge, politician, journalist, essayist, literary critic, playwright, philosopher, opinion journalist, film director
- National University of San Marcos, Complutense University of Madrid
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
essayist, philosopher
- University of California, Berkeley
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
playwright, philosopher, pedagogue, essayist, diarist, opinion journalist, Esperantist
- Kazan Imperial University
John Paul II (1920-2005)
Latin Catholic priest, poet, politician, human rights activist, professor, philosopher, transitional deacon, latin catholic deacon, archbishop, Catholic bishop
- Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Theology faculty of the Jagiellonian University
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
philosopher, journalist, essayist, playwright, French resistance fighter, poet, association football player, opinion journalist
- Algiers 1 University
Isabelle de Charrière (1740-1805)
translator, composer, playwright, poet, essayist, philosopher
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813-1851)
poet, priest, philosopher