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Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
explorer, military officer, politician, statesperson, army officer
- United States Military Academy
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
journalist, diplomat, autobiographer, businessperson, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, orator, film editor, caulker, politician
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
poet, lyricist, politician, playwright, autobiographer, translator, military personnel, diarist, librettist, aristocrat, philhellene
- Harrow School, University of Cambridge
Gordon Brown (born 1951)
politician, journalist, biographer, autobiographer, academic, historian
- University of Edinburgh, Acland Burghley School
José de Alencar (1829-1877)
journalist, politician, lawyer, literary critic
- Law School, University of São Paulo
Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613-1679)
Catholic priest, memoirist, politician, Catholic bishop
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Paolo Volponi (1924-1994)
poet, politician, actor
- University of Urbino
Zamfir Arbore (1848-1933)
linguist, librarian, geographer, historian, journalist, statistician, sociologist, biographer, translator, politician, philologist