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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopƩdistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
philosopher, essayist, encyclopƩdistes, art critic, playwright, literary critic, correspondent, translator, historian, political scientist, lexicographer, art theorist, literary theorist
- LycƩe Louis-le-Grand, LycƩe Saint-Louis
Bill Gates (born 1955)
entrepreneur, programmer, philanthropist
- Lakeside School, Harvard College
Lawrence Lessig (born 1961)
jurist, political activist, lawyer, computer scientist, politician, professor, teacher
- University of Cambridge, Yale Law School
Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji (born 1950)
publisher, physicist
- University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nancy Fraser (born 1947)
philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, feminist
- CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011)
physicist, painter, essayist, poet, teacher
- National University of La Plata, Harvard University
C. P. Snow (1905-1980)
physicist, politician, literary critic
- University of Cambridge, University of Leicester