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Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
journalist, essayist, musicologist, literary critic, diplomat, publisher
Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957)
film director, journalist, diplomat, war correspondent, essayist, playwright
- Sapienza University of Rome, Convitto Nazionale Cicognini
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
politician, lawyer, diplomat, essayist, playwright, biographer, journalist, historian
Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
film actor, film director, diplomat, autobiographer, film producer, television actor, stage actor, actor, theatrical director, television producer, director
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
Dominique Vivant (1747-1825)
art historian, egyptologist, diplomat, drawer, archaeologist, painter, politician, etcher, medalist, graphic artist, visual artist
Herbert Giles (1845-1935)
sinologist, diplomat, translator
- Charterhouse School
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735-1813)
military personnel, diplomat
- University of Caen Normandy