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John Ruskin (1819-1900)
art critic, art historian, philosopher, painter, sociologist, poet, literary critic, architect, journalist, aesthetician, daguerreotypist
- University of Oxford, King's College London
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
historian, philosopher, sociologist, social worker, human rights activist, photographer, poet, autobiographer, opinion journalist, teacher, journalist, art historian, economist
- Fisk University, Harvard University
Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
philosopher, literary critic, semiologist, sociologist, mythographer, literary theorist, essayist, ontologist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Montaigne
Johan Galtung (1930-2024)
mathematician, political scientist, sociologist
- University of Oslo
Manning Marable (1950-2011)
anthropologist, political scientist, historian, sociologist
- University of Maryland, Earlham College
Slavoj Žižek (born 1949)
philosopher, psychologist, cultural studies scholar, sociologist, essayist, psychoanalyst, cultural critic, politician, theologian, opinion journalist, actor
- Bežigrad Grammar School, University of Ljubljana
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist