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Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961)
war correspondent, journalist, poet, librettist, designer, French foreign legionnaire
William H. Gass (1924-2017)
military officer, journalist, essayist, literary critic, critic
- Ohio Wesleyan University, Cornell University
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
television actor, film actor, politician, autobiographer, character actor, military officer, actor, trade unionist, announcer, statesperson, voice actor, diarist, lifeguard, anti-communist, game show host
- Eureka College
Yasmina Khadra (born 1955)
military personnel
JosĆ© MartĆ (1853-1895)
linguist, poet, translator, military personnel, politician, essayist, journalist, painter, revolutionary
- University of Zaragoza
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
Lew Wallace (1827-1905)
military officer, lawyer, diplomat, politician, autobiographer, journalist, poet, jurist, military personnel
Erwan Bergot (1930-1993)
journalist, military personnel