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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
historian, philosopher, sociologist, social worker, human rights activist, photographer, poet, autobiographer, opinion journalist, teacher, journalist, art historian, economist
- Fisk University, Harvard University
Fernando Savater (born 1947)
professor of philosophy, activist, philosopher, politician
- Complutense University of Madrid
Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007)
philosopher, essayist, playwright, psychologist, poet
- New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
mathematician, logician, photographer, poet, deacon, diarist, autobiographer, philosopher
- University of Oxford, Rugby School
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
poet, philosopher, essayist, autobiographer, diarist, translator, abolitionist, naturalist, ecologist, environmentalist
- Harvard College, Harvard University
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
poet, literary critic, essayist, philosopher, academic
- University of London, University of Ibadan
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
philosopher, politician, entrepreneur, journalist, opinion journalist
- Thetford Grammar School
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
journalist, poet, autobiographer, philosopher, biographer, illustrator, literary historian, essayist, playwright, opinion journalist, historian, literary critic
- University College London, Slade School of Fine Art