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George W. Bush (born 1946)
politician, motivational speaker, autobiographer, painter, rugby union player, military officer, statesperson, businessperson, financier, governor
- Yale College, The Kinkaid School
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
playwright, actor, essayist, literary critic, politician, journalist, opinion journalist
- Phillips Exeter Academy, Sidwell Friends School
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
diplomat, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, journalist, peace activist, human rights activist, columnist
- New School, Allenswood Boarding Academy
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
pastor, preacher, civil rights advocate, human rights activist, peace activist, pacifist, politician
- Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
politician, judge, businessperson, military officer, diarist
- University of Missouri–Kansas City
E. H. Carr (1892-1982)
historian, journalist, diplomat, political scientist, professor, politician
- University of Cambridge
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
politician, diarist, justice of the peace, judge
- University of Cambridge, St Paul's School
Salvador de Madariaga (1886-1978)
diplomat, historian, biographer, essayist, poet, engineer, opinion journalist, literary critic, politician, journalist, academic
- Lycée Chaptal, École polytechnique