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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
Rudolf Höss (1901-1947)
war criminal, military officer, politician, Beamter
- Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim
Nancy Reagan (1921-2016)
television actor, film actor, autobiographer, politician, stage actor, lawyer, businessperson, actor
- Smith College, Latin School of Chicago
Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
activist, politician
- Antioch University, Antioch College
Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945)
politician, human rights activist
- Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Oxford
Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954)
judge, lawyer, politician, prosecutor
- Princeton University, Yale Law School
Halide Edib Adıvar (1884-1964)
politician, military personnel, journalist
- Üsküdar American Academy
Malalai Joya (born 1978)
politician, women's rights activist