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George Eliot (1819-1880)
translator, philosopher, poet, journalist, essayist, editor
- Bedford College, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
philosopher, poet, essayist, diarist, biographer, Unitarian pastor, Christian minister, orator, abolitionist
- Harvard Divinity School, Harvard College
Charles Taylor (born 1931)
philosopher, sociologist, political scientist
- McGill University, University of Oxford
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
mathematician, logician, photographer, poet, deacon, diarist, autobiographer, philosopher
- University of Oxford, Rugby School
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
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
philosopher, politician, entrepreneur, journalist, opinion journalist
- Thetford Grammar School
Derrick Jensen (born 1960)
environmentalist, philosopher
- Colorado School of Mines, Eastern Washington University
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
poet, philosopher, historian, librarian, playwright, translator, journalist, physician, military physician, aesthetician
- Karlsschule Stuttgart, University of Jena