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Noam Chomsky (born 1928)
philosopher, linguist, psychologist, anthropologist, human rights activist, educator, media critic, opinion journalist, computer scientist, historian, philologist
- Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
philosopher, anthropologist, physicist, librarian, pedagogue, mathematician, philosopher of law
- University of Königsberg, Collegium Fridericianum
E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934)
anthropologist, archaeologist, egyptologist
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
- University of Marburg
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
biologist, linguist, paleontologist, translator, ichthyologist, zoologist, carcinologist, anatomist, photographer, philosopher, anthropologist, physiologist, naturalist, evolutionary biologist
- University College London, Charing Cross Hospital
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, historian, marine biologist, adventurer, film director, sailor, ethnographer, world traveler
- University of Oslo
Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987)
anthropologist, sociologist, poet, painter, journalist, politician, historian
- Columbia University, Baylor University
Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)
lexicographer, anthropologist, librarian, law librarian, pedagogue, linguist, literary scholar, Germanist, jurist, mythographer, collector of fairy tales, philologist
- University of Marburg, Humboldt University of Berlin