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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
playwright, epistemologist, biographer, literary critic, essayist, resistance fighter, philosopher, peace activist, opinion journalist, intellectual, sociologist, lyricist
- Lycée Henri-IV, École Normale Supérieure
Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)
economist, philosopher
- University of Vienna, Akademisches Gymnasium
Angela Davis (born 1944)
human rights activist, philosopher, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, political prisoner, feminist, professor
- University of California, San Diego, Humboldt University of Berlin
Rolf Wiggershaus (born 1944)
philosopher, opinion journalist
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
poet, painter, philosopher
- Académie Julian
František Palacký (1798-1876)
archivist, heraldist, journalist, politician, philosopher, historian, poet, aesthetician, literary scholar, editor, cultural worker, literary historian, literary theorist, translator, editing staff
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
poet, journalist, geologist, philosopher
Rafael Calvo Serer (1916-1988)
politician, philosopher