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Philip Reeve (born 1966)
illustrator, actor
- Anglia Ruskin University, University of Brighton
Alan Moore (born 1953)
opinion journalist, comics artist, penciller, illustrator
- Northampton School for Boys
Len Deighton (born 1929)
journalist, historian, playwright, photographer, film producer, illustrator
- Saint Martin's School of Art, Royal College of Art
Harry Harrison (1925-2012)
Esperantist, comics artist, drawer
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
- University College London, St. Xavier's Collegiate 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
Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989)
film director, film producer, mangaka, animator, physician, character designer, illustrator, artist, television producer
- Osaka University, Nara Medical University
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
linguist, poet, translator, literary critic, essayist, military officer, historian, illustrator, teacher, philologist
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford