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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
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
war correspondent, journalist, playwright, poet
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
poet, playwright, translator
- German University in Prague, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
James Joyce (1882-1941)
poet, teacher, journalist, literary critic
- University College Dublin, Clongowes Wood College
Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
journalist, playwright, publisher, poet lawyer, autobiographer, opinion journalist
- National University of Colombia
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
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
historian, playwright, poet, public figure, opinion journalist, school teacher, military personnel, militant, full member of RAS, teacher
- Rostov State University
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
philosopher, journalist, essayist, playwright, French resistance fighter, poet, association football player, opinion journalist
- Algiers 1 University