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Woody Allen (born 1935)
film director, comedian, film actor, film producer, clarinetist, playwright, jazz musician, character actor, journalist, composer, director, actor
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
David Mitchell (born 1969)
linguist, translator, actor, composer, teacher
- University of Kent
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
playwright, occultist, autobiographer, mountaineer, astrologer, chess player, organizational founder, chess composer
- University of Cambridge, Tonbridge School
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Benjamin Hoff (born 1946)
photographer, composer, photojournalist, journalist
- Evergreen State College
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, economist, journalist, radio personality, literary historian
- University of Pennsylvania, Hamilton College
Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
film director, photographer, actor, photojournalist, journalist, film actor, fashion photographer, artist, film producer, composer, poet, director
- Ricker College, Storm King School
Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944)
composer
- University of California, Berkeley