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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
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
inventor, explorer, physicist
- King's College London, Richard Huish College, Taunton
Steve Jones (born 1944)
geneticist, scientist, television presenter, professor
- University of Edinburgh, University of Chicago
René Descartes (1596-1650)
philosopher, mathematician, musicologist, physicist, astronomer, music theorist, correspondent, mechanical automaton engineer, military personnel
- collège Henri-IV de La Flèche, Leiden University
Jay Lake (1964-2014)
programmer, manager
- University of Texas at Austin
Aliette de Bodard (born 1982)
software engineer, engineer
- Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle
Alan E. Nourse (1928-1992)
physicist
- Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania
[sarah] Cavar
scientist, researcher, poet
- University of California, Davis