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Terry Jones (1942-2020)
actor
- University of Oxford, Royal Grammar School, Guildford
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
television actor, film actor, politician, autobiographer, character actor, military officer, actor, trade unionist, announcer, statesperson, voice actor, diarist, lifeguard, anti-communist, game show host
- Eureka College
Terry Deary (born 1946)
stage actor, theatrical director, historian
- University of Sunderland, Monkwearmouth Academy
Alice Walker (born 1944)
poet, essayist, civil rights advocate, educator, actor, film producer, climate activist
- Sarah Lawrence College, Spelman College
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)
actor, film director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, essayist, agricultural engineer, director
- Lycรฉe Saint-Louis, Institut national agronomique
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
actor, chess player, painter, sculptor, photographer, poet, librarian, designer, artist, visual artist, film director, philosopher, architectural draftsperson, printmaker, assemblage artist
- Acadรฉmie Julian, Lycรฉe Pierre-Corneille
Slavoj ลฝiลพek (born 1949)
philosopher, psychologist, cultural studies scholar, sociologist, essayist, psychoanalyst, cultural critic, politician, theologian, opinion journalist, actor
- Beลพigrad Grammar School, University of Ljubljana
Michael Moore (born 1954)
film director, television presenter, journalist, comedian, autobiographer, film actor, peace activist, film producer
- University of MichiganโFlint, University of MichiganโDearborn