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Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
philosopher, journalist, autobiographer, political scientist
- TU Wien
Temple Grandin (born 1947)
zoologist, academic, activist, biologist
- Franklin Pierce University, Arizona State University
Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021)
entomologist, sociobiologist, ethologist, autobiographer, naturalist, evolutionary biologist, biologist, zoologist, ecologist, myrmecologist
- Harvard University, University of Alabama
Richard Dawkins (born 1941)
evolutionary biologist, ethologist, science communicator, essayist, theoretical biologist, epistemologist, sociobiologist, biologist, zoologist, actor, geneticist
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
journalist, essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, political scientist
- University of Oxford, The Leys School
Gerald Durrell (1925-1995)
biologist, conservationist, presenter, naturalist, zoologist, traveler
Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011)
physicist, painter, essayist, poet, teacher
- National University of La Plata, Harvard University
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
philosopher, politician, diarist, scientist
- University of Edinburgh