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P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
playwright, librettist, lyricist, humorist
- Elizabeth College, Malvern House Preparatory School
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)
linguist, poet, lyricist, philosopher, politician, translator, astrologer
Hayao Miyazaki (born 1941)
film director, animator, mangaka, film editor, film producer, lyricist, illustrator, environmentalist, director, comics artist, character designer, mechanical designer, animation director
- Gakushuin University
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
playwright, lyricist, theatrical director, poet, librettist, literary critic, film director, director
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
playwright, poet, essayist, literary critic, social critic, lyricist, journalist, critic
- University of Paris, Harvard University
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
Jim Carroll (1949-2009)
singer, poet, diarist, lyricist
- Columbia University, Wagner College
Terence Blacker (born 1948)
journalist, lyricist
- Hawtreys, University of Cambridge