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George Harrison (1943-2001)
guitarist, singer, actor, horticulturist, film producer, composer, autobiographer, poet, record producer, film score composer, film actor, bass guitarist, musician, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist
- Dovedale Primary School
Bob Dylan (born 1941)
film actor, poet, guitarist, autobiographer, painter, record producer, film director, lyricist, composer, disc jockey, actor, singer, radio personality, designer, musician
- University of Minnesota system, Sidwell Friends School
Dario Fo (1926-2016)
theatrical director, stage actor, composer, playwright, film actor, illustrator, painter, poet, scenographer, satirist, costume designer, actor, visual artist, director, Nobel Prize winner, theater director
- Brera Academy
Bertran de Born (1139-1214)
troubadour, poet, aristocrat, composer
George Gurdjieff (1866-1949)
philosopher, composer, choreographer, teacher
- Tbilisi Theological Seminary
Marie d'Agoult (1805-1876)
salonnière, historian, diarist, poet, essayist, composer
Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
film director, photographer, actor, photojournalist, journalist, film actor, fashion photographer, artist, film producer, composer, poet, director
- Ricker College, Storm King School
Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828)
singer, composer