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Marco Polo (1254-1324)
merchant, explorer, diplomat, ambassador, world traveler, traveler, entrepreneur, memoirist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
John Buchan (1875-1940)
journalist, politician, military personnel, biographer, poet, barrister, diplomat
- University of Oxford, University of Glasgow
Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
journalist, essayist, musicologist, literary critic, diplomat, publisher
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
diplomat, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, journalist, peace activist, human rights activist, columnist
- New School, Allenswood Boarding Academy
Robert van Gulik (1910-1967)
linguist, diplomat, translator, illustrator, musician, orientalist
- Leiden University, Utrecht University
Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944)
playwright, diplomat, essayist
- École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Lakanal
Fernando Ortiz Fernández (1881-1969)
anthropologist, musicologist, ethnomusicologist, diplomat
- University of Barcelona, University of Havana