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Simon Schama (born 1945)
art historian, historian, television presenter
- University of Cambridge, Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
China Miéville (born 1972)
politician, academic, literary critic, blogger, anthropologist, political scientist
- London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Cambridge
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
poet, philosopher, biographer, professor
- Badminton School, University of Oxford
Alice Walker (born 1944)
poet, essayist, civil rights advocate, educator, actor, film producer, climate activist
- Sarah Lawrence College, Spelman College
Lawrence Lessig (born 1961)
jurist, political activist, lawyer, computer scientist, politician, professor, teacher
- University of Cambridge, Yale Law School
Carlo Maria Martini (1927-2012)
theologian, Catholic priest, biblical scholar, Catholic deacon, Catholic bishop
- Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical Biblical Institute
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
physician, poet
- Harvard Medical School, Phillips Academy
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison