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Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994)
playwright, poet, literary critic, diarist, illustrator, graphic artist
- University of Bucharest, Carol I National College
Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)
graphic designer, cartoonist, illustrator, artist, painter, director
- Art Students League of New York
William Steig (1907-2003)
sculptor, illustrator
William Blake (1757-1827)
painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker, illustrator, philosopher, lithographer, printer, drawer, sculptor, librettist
- Royal Academy Schools, Henry Pars Drawing School
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
- Lycée Condorcet
Shirley Hughes (1927-2022)
illustrator
- West Kirby Grammar School
Tom Holland (born 1968)
historian, dramaturge, performing artist, podcaster
- University of Cambridge, Canford School
Hildegard of Bingen (1097-1179)
naturalist, composer, philosopher, illuminator, physician, nun, poet, theologian, abbess, artist, playwright, botanist, mystic, sexologist, polymath
- Disibodenberg