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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
poet, satirist, philosopher, human rights activist, pamphleteer, Anglican priest, essayist, opinion journalist, public figure, priest
- Trinity College Dublin, University of Oxford
Martin Gardner (1914-2010)
journalist, literary critic, magician, philosopher, mathematician, science communicator
- University of Chicago
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
philosopher, judge, politician, lawyer, astrologer, scientist, historian
- University of Cambridge, University of Poitiers
Ernst Jünger (1895-1998)
military personnel, entomologist, philosopher, diarist, journalist, poet
- Leipzig University
Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
philosopher, playwright
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
mathematician, logician, photographer, poet, deacon, diarist, autobiographer, philosopher
- University of Oxford, Rugby School
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
poet, philosopher, sociologist, artist, economist, women's rights activist, editor, suffragist
Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754)
philosopher, playwright, historian, essayist, autobiographer, poet
- University of Copenhagen, Bergen Cathedral School