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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
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
politician, diplomat
- homeschooling, Boston Latin School
John Buchan (1875-1940)
journalist, politician, military personnel, biographer, poet, barrister, diplomat
- University of Oxford, University of Glasgow
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
diplomat
- Bowdoin College
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
journalist, diplomat, autobiographer, businessperson, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, orator, film editor, caulker, politician
Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004)
poet, diplomat, essayist, translator, pedagogue, literary historian
- Vilnius University
Keith Laumer (1925-1993)
military officer, diplomat
- University of Illinois system