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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936-2023)
physicist, philosopher, academic, biographer, women's rights activist, biologist, feminist
Delia Owens (born 1949)
zoologist
Julian Huxley (1887-1975)
evolutionary biologist, ethologist, professor, philosopher, physiologist, biologist, film director
Euclides da Cunha (1866-1909)
journalist, engineer, military personnel, sociologist, poet, botanist, historian, physicist, philosopher, geographer, geologist, zoologist, naturalist
George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938)
anthropologist, zoologist, journalist, historian, naturalist
Howard Atwood Kelly (1858-1943)
surgeon, gynaecologist, physician, biographer, botanist
Al-Biruni (0973-1048)
philosopher, chemist, geographer, polymath, mathematician, cartographer, astronomer, translator, anthropologist, physicist, astrologer, historian, linguist, indologist, pharmacist, humanist, botanist