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Hayao Miyazaki (born 1941)
film director, animator, mangaka, film editor, film producer, lyricist, illustrator, environmentalist, director, comics artist, character designer, mechanical designer, animation director
- Gakushuin University
Steve Martin (born 1945)
television actor, film actor, comedian, street artist, film producer, musician, banjoist, playwright, voice actor, performing artist, art collector
- University of California, Los Angeles, California State University, Long Beach
Chris Van Allsburg (born 1949)
concept artist, illustrator
- University of Michigan, Rhode Island School of Design
Feridun Zaimoğlu (born 1964)
journalist, installation artist
- University of Kiel
Alain-René Lesage (1668-1747)
playwright, lawyer, translator, performing artist
Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861)
painter, poet, anthropologist, artist, playwright, ethnographer, philosopher
- Imperial Academy of Arts
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616)
historian, translator, poet, chronicler, artist, painter
Nachum Gutman (1898-1980)
sculptor, painter, illustrator, mosaicist
- Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design