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Jeffrey Archer (born 1940)
politician, playwright
- University of Oxford, Wellington School
Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
politician, comedian, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, professor, essayist, autobiographer, singer, television actor, stage actor, journalist, human rights activist
- California Labor School
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
poet, diplomat, politician, lyricist, autobiographer
- University of Chile
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
politician, historian, philosopher, political theorist, military theorist, translator, poet, diplomat, playwright
- University of Florence
Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
poet, lyricist, diplomat, philosopher, translator, essayist, politician
- University of California, Berkeley, Colegio Williams
John Locke (1632-1704)
philosopher, politician, physician, scientist, philosopher of law
- University of Oxford, Westminster 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