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Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984)
film critic, poet, literary critic, literary historian, film scholar, linguist, literary scholar, critic, essayist
- Saint Petersburg State University
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
historian, philosopher, sociologist, social worker, human rights activist, photographer, poet, autobiographer, opinion journalist, teacher, journalist, art historian, economist
- Fisk University, Harvard University
Plutarch (0039-0119)
essayist, priest, magistrate, biographer, historian, philosopher
Alessandro Barbero (born 1959)
medievalist, historian, television presenter
- University of Turin
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
politician, diplomat, autobiographer, philosopher, revolutionary, military personnel, historian, journalist
- Odesa University
David McCullough (1933-2022)
historian, biographer, journalist
- Shady Side Academy, Yale University
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist
Giovanni Baglione (1565-1643)
painter, art historian, historian, architectural draftsperson, drawer