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Janusz Korczak (1878-1942)
pedagogue, pediatrician, teacher, physician, educator, human rights activist, philosopher, opinion journalist
- University of Warsaw, Imperial University of Warsaw
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
naturalist, astrologer, protestant theologian, mathematician, astronomer, musicologist, physicist, cosmologist, music theorist, philosopher, teacher, inventor
- University of Tübingen, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Rubem Alves (1933-2014)
journalist, philosopher, theologian, poet, pedagogue, psychoanalyst
- Union Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary
Russell Jacoby (born 1945)
historian, teacher, art historian, opinion journalist
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Chicago
Edvard Beneš (1884-1948)
lecturer, politician, association football player, diplomat, sociologist, teacher
- University of Paris, Sciences Po
Gudrun Pausewang (1928-2020)
teacher, primary school teacher
Antonio Machado (1875-1939)
poet, playwright, teacher, intellectual
- Universidad Central
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956)
economist, politician, constitutionalist, barrister, jurist, sociologist, anthropologist, pedagogue, philosopher, social reformer, journalist, revolutionary, professor, political scientist, scholar, orator, freedom fighter, historian, newspaper editor, civil rights advocate, humanitarian, human rights activist, educational theorist, spiritual leader, peace activist, autobiographer, theologian, painter, women's rights activist, bibliographer, essayist, scholar
- Columbia University, London School of Economics and Political Science