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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
politician, postmaster, lawyer, statesperson, farmer, military officer
Jeffrey Archer (born 1940)
politician, playwright
- University of Oxford, Wellington School
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
politician, diplomat
- homeschooling, Boston Latin School
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
philosopher, politician, anthropologist, photographer, pedagogue, professor, sociologist, psychologist, mythographer, ethnologist, researcher
- Paris Law Faculty
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
politician, historian, philosopher, political theorist, military theorist, translator, poet, diplomat, playwright
- University of Florence
Gyles Brandreth (born 1948)
politician, Scrabble player, publisher, broadcaster, journalist
- University of Oxford, Bedales School
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
journalist, diplomat, autobiographer, businessperson, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, orator, film editor, caulker, politician
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
pastor, preacher, civil rights advocate, human rights activist, peace activist, pacifist, politician
- Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary