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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
historian, philosopher, sociologist, social worker, human rights activist, photographer, poet, autobiographer, opinion journalist, teacher, journalist, art historian, economist
- Fisk University, Harvard University
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
politician, historian, philosopher, political theorist, military theorist, translator, poet, diplomat, playwright
- University of Florence
Emma Donoghue (born 1969)
literary historian, playwright
- University of Cambridge, University College Dublin
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
physician, essayist, playwright, historian
- Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall, Stonyhurst College
Harry Turtledove (born 1949)
historian
- University of California, Los Angeles, California Institute of Technology
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
- University of Marburg
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
poet, musicologist, historian, journalist, biographer, trade unionist
- Lombard College