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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
historian, philosopher, sociologist, social worker, human rights activist, photographer, poet, autobiographer, opinion journalist, teacher, journalist, art historian, economist
- Fisk University, Harvard University
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
architect, historian of technology, historian, sociologist, literary critic, philosopher, journalist, urban planner, architectural theoretician, art historian
- City College of New York, New School
Isaac Deutscher (1907-1967)
historian, sociologist, journalist, biographer
- Jagiellonian University, University of Warsaw
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)
philosopher, historian, diplomat, historian of ideas, sociologist, political scientist
- University of Oxford, St Paul's School
Didier Eribon (born 1953)
sociologist, philosopher, research fellow, journalist, opinion journalist
- University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
historian, journalist, Idist, sociologist
- Royal College of Science, University of London
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist
Joan Mari Torrealdai (1942-2020)
journalist, sociologist, librarian
- Catholic University of Toulouse, Faculty of Arts of Paris