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Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936)
dramaturge, politician, journalist, essayist, literary critic, playwright, philosopher, opinion journalist, film director
- National University of San Marcos, Complutense University of Madrid
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
politician, biographer, finance minister
- St Piran's School
JosƩ Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
philosopher, pedagogue, sociologist, mathematician, literary critic, opinion journalist, politician, poet, translator, essayist
- Universidad Central, University of Deusto
Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
autobiographer, politician, art collector
- Eton College, University of Cambridge
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
politician, playwright, drawer, librettist, essayist, illustrator, poet, art historian, opinion journalist, graphic artist
- University of Paris, LycƩe Louis-le-Grand
Lawrence Lessig (born 1961)
jurist, political activist, lawyer, computer scientist, politician, professor, teacher
- University of Cambridge, Yale Law School
Harold Nicolson (1886-1968)
horticulturist, politician, diplomat, diarist, journalist, biographer
- University of Oxford, Wellington College
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
poet, historian, biographer, politician, translator
- University of Oxford, Westminster School