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Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
translator, autobiographer, human rights activist, journalist, missionary
- Cornell University, Randolph–Macon College
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
film director, professor, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, journalist, women's rights activist, film critic, theatrical director, human rights activist, historian, opinion journalist
- University of Paris, Harvard University
Jin Yong (1924-2018)
journalist, newspaper proprietor, film director, political activist
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793-1866)
composer, poet, journalist, school teacher, playwright, women's rights activist, priest
- Uppsala University
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887)
translator, historian, playwright, journalist, poet, painter, opinion journalist, drawer, collector, literary critic, national revival activist
- Vilnius University
Manuel Rodríguez Villegas (born 1982)
lexicographer, architect, academic, vexillologist, activist
- National Autonomous University of Mexico, Universidad La Salle Pachuca
Donald Molosi (born 1985)
actor, playwright, activist
- Williams College, University of California, Santa Barbara