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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
Woody Allen (born 1935)
film director, comedian, film actor, film producer, clarinetist, playwright, jazz musician, character actor, journalist, composer, director, actor
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
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
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, economist, journalist, radio personality, literary historian
- University of Pennsylvania, Hamilton College
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Gerard Way (born 1977)
singer, comics artist, composer, illustrator
- School of Visual Arts
Edmund Crispin (1921-1978)
composer, literary critic, film score composer
- University of Oxford
Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
painter, composer