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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
poet, playwright, politician, mystic, astrologer
- National College of Art and Design
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
politician, lawyer, diplomat, essayist, playwright, biographer, journalist, historian
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
- University of Marburg
Antje Vollmer (1943-2023)
politician, theologian
Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870)
anthropologist, archaeologist, historian, translator, politician, painter, playwright, Inspector general of the Historical Monuments, drawer
- Lycée Henri-IV
Dominique Vivant (1747-1825)
art historian, egyptologist, diplomat, drawer, archaeologist, painter, politician, etcher, medalist, graphic artist, visual artist
L. Neil Smith (1946-2021)
politician
Petronius (0026-0066)
politician, military personnel, poet, philosopher