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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
poet, literary, painter, philosopher, resistance fighter, illustrator, Nobel Prize winner, bookseller, pacifist, librettist
- Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929)
film director, playwright, film editor, philosopher, poet, theatrical director, mime artist, actor, composer, artist, puppeteer, sculptor, essayist, painter, drawer, director, film producer, comics creator, comics artist, penciller, tarotologist
- University of Chile
John Lennon (1940-1980)
record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist
- Liverpool College of Art, Calderstones School
Jeff Lemire (born 1976)
comics artist, illustrator
Claude Delafosse (born 1951)
illustrator
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
composer, judge, caricaturist, painter, conductor, music critic, drawer, diarist, critic, director
- University of Königsberg
Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870)
anthropologist, archaeologist, historian, translator, politician, painter, playwright, Inspector general of the Historical Monuments, drawer
- Lycée Henri-IV
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