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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
politician, historian, philosopher, political theorist, military theorist, translator, poet, diplomat, playwright
- University of Florence
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
poet, literary historian, historian, playwright, literary critic, biographer, journalist, radio editor, literary editor, television presenter
- University of Cambridge, Yale University
E. P. Thompson (1924-1993)
historian of Modern Age, historian, journalist, biographer, labor historian, peace activist, anti-nuclear weapons activist
- University of Cambridge, Dragon School
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
politician, playwright, drawer, librettist, essayist, illustrator, poet, art historian, opinion journalist, graphic artist
- University of Paris, Lycée Louis-le-Grand
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
satirist, literary critic, essayist, social critic, autobiographer, journalist, historian, linguist
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Trina Robbins (1938-2024)
comics artist, artist, editor, historian, illustrator