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Jeffrey Archer (born 1940)
politician, playwright
- University of Oxford, Wellington School
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Herodotus
historian, politician, geographer
Montesquieu (1689-1755)
philosopher, sociologist, lawyer, judge, encyclopédistes, historian, politician, jurist
- College of Juilly, Lycée Saint-Louis
Karl Kautsky (1854-1938)
politician, philosopher, economist, journalist
- University of Vienna, Akademisches Gymnasium
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
diplomat, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, journalist, peace activist, human rights activist, columnist
- New School, Allenswood Boarding Academy
Joel Osteen (born 1963)
Christian minister, politician
- Oral Roberts University
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
journalist, poet, translator, politician, opinion journalist
- First Moscow gymnasium