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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
Montesquieu (1689-1755)
philosopher, sociologist, lawyer, judge, encyclopédistes, historian, politician, jurist
- College of Juilly, Lycée Saint-Louis
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
philosopher, translator, jurist, essayist, autobiographer, politician, poet lawyer, French moralist
- College of Guienne, University of Toulouse
Cass Sunstein (born 1954)
jurist, political scientist, economist, lawyer, philosopher
- Harvard Law School, Harvard College
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)
politician, military officer, lawyer
- Harvard College, University of Virginia School of Law
Glenn Greenwald (born 1967)
lawyer, journalist, pundit, blogger, jurist
- George Washington University, New York University School of Law
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787)
composer, Catholic priest, poet, lawyer, Catholic bishop
- University of Naples Federico II
Anthony Hope (1863-1933)
barrister, poet lawyer
- University of Oxford, St John's School, Leatherhead