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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
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
Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
film producer, film director, television producer, basketball player, programmer, director
- Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
Farley Mowat (1921-2014)
environmentalist, biologist
- University of Toronto
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
anthropologist, political scientist, historian, sociologist, philosopher, political theorist, economist
- Yale College
Ed Ricketts (1897-1948)
biologist, philosopher, marine biologist, ecologist, zoologist
Txomin Peillen (1932-2022)
biologist, linguist
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765)
astronomer, geologist, physicist, chemist, linguist, poet, historian, philosopher, inventor, mosaicist, geographer, mathematician, politician, painter, scientist, translator
- Slavic Greek Latin Academy, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy