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Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
film director, playwright, autobiographer, journalist, women's rights activist, philosopher, director
- University of Paris
Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)
economist, philosopher, historian, political scientist
- University of Vienna
Martin Gardner (1914-2010)
journalist, literary critic, magician, philosopher, mathematician, science communicator
- University of Chicago
Alain Badiou (born 1937)
philosopher, playwright, editor, sociologist, mathematician, scientist
- École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Drucilla Cornell (1950-2022)
philosopher, political scientist, playwright, feminist, jurist
- University of California, Los Angeles
Wladislaw Hedeler (born 1953)
historian, opinion journalist, translator, philosopher, editing staff
Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968)
art historian, poet, philosopher, anarchist, literary critic, critic
- University of Leeds
Augustine of Hippo (0354-0430)
philosopher, theologian, autobiographer, music theorist, preacher, historian, poet, Catholic priest, titular bishop, Catholic bishop