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Barack Obama (born 1961)
politician, lawyer, community organizer, statesperson, jurist, podcaster, academic, memoirist
- State Elementary School Menteng 01, Punahou School
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
anarchist, journalist, political philosopher, women's rights activist, lecturer, publisher, peace activist, autobiographer, nurse, philosopher, politician, pacifist
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
journalist, diplomat, autobiographer, businessperson, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, orator, film editor, caulker, politician
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
entrepreneur, inventor, politician, racing automobile driver, journalist, industrialist, business magnate
- Detroit Business Institute, Bryant & Stratton College
Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949)
politician, diplomat, statesperson, military personnel, political scientist
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management
Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935)
bhikkhu, Lama, politician
- University of Melbourne, University of British Columbia
Tie Ning (born 1957)
politician, poet
Jean-Paul Alata (1924-1978)
politician, French resistance fighter, chartered accountant, fisher, journalist