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Philip Kerr (1956-2018)
poet lawyer
- University of Birmingham, Stewart's Melville College
David Drake (1945-2023)
lawyer, editor, jurist
- Duke University, University of Iowa
Lawrence Lessig (born 1961)
jurist, political activist, lawyer, computer scientist, politician, professor, teacher
- University of Cambridge, Yale Law School
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
politician, autobiographer, lawyer, political activist, political prisoner
- University of the Witwatersrand, University of Fort Hare
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
James Boswell (1740-1795)
diarist, lawyer, biographer
- University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow
Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
poet, playwright, lawyer, biographer
- Knox College