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Terry Jones (1942-2020)
actor
- University of Oxford, Royal Grammar School, Guildford
Stan Lee (1922-2018)
publisher, editor, film producer, journalist, film actor, soldier, television presenter, business executive, voice actor, executive producer
Garrison Keillor (born 1942)
radio personality, voice actor, comedian, television producer, humorist, singer
- University of Minnesota
Terry Deary (born 1946)
stage actor, theatrical director, historian
- University of Sunderland, Monkwearmouth Academy
Alice Walker (born 1944)
poet, essayist, civil rights advocate, educator, actor, film producer, climate activist
- Sarah Lawrence College, Spelman College
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
Matt Groening (born 1954)
animator, film producer, comics artist, actor, cartoonist
- Evergreen State College
Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)
poet, composer, singer, film score composer, cartoonist, illustrator, actor
- University of Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago