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Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943)
journalist, historian, political scientist
- Harvard University, Colby College
Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
playwright, political scientist, historian, journalist, peace activist, labor historian, human rights activist, film director, activist
- New York University, Columbia University
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
politician, historian, philosopher, political theorist, military theorist, translator, poet, diplomat, playwright
- University of Florence
Gerald Durrell (1925-1995)
biologist, conservationist, presenter, naturalist, zoologist, traveler
Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)
inventor, entrepreneur, computer scientist, engineer, civil engineer
- Technische Universität Berlin, Konrad-Zuse-Gymnasium Hoyerswerda
Hans Christian von Baeyer (born 1938)
physicist
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1878-1945)
physicist, chemist, biologist, explorer, anthropologist, linguist, cartographer, journalist, geologist, biochemist, mineralogist
- Imperial St. Petersburg University