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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
journalist, social critic, playwright, editor, botanist
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
biochemist, autobiographer, journalist
- Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Peter Watts (born 1958)
zoologist, biologist, marine biologist
- University of Guelph
Paul J. McAuley (born 1955)
botanist
- University of Bristol
William Bartram (1739-1823)
botanist, ornithologist, zoologist, entomologist, naturalist
Maria Galina (born 1958)
translator, poet, critic, hydrobiologist
- Odesa University