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Johan Huizinga (1872-1945)
cultural historian, historian, resistance fighter, linguist, philosopher, art historian, anthropologist
- University of Groningen, Leiden University
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
- University College London, St. Xavier's Collegiate School
James Randi (1928-2020)
philosopher, magician, illusionist
- Sunday school
Hanna Delf von Wolzogen (born 1950)
philosopher, literary scholar
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
journalist, poet, autobiographer, philosopher, biographer, illustrator, literary historian, essayist, playwright, opinion journalist, historian, literary critic
- University College London, Slade School of Fine Art
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Michael Psellos (1018-1078)
philosopher, politician, historian, poet, physician, astronomer
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
journalist, biographer, philosopher
- University of Edinburgh