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John Ruskin (1819-1900)
art critic, art historian, philosopher, painter, sociologist, poet, literary critic, architect, journalist, aesthetician, daguerreotypist
- University of Oxford, King's College London
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
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
playwright, epistemologist, biographer, literary critic, essayist, resistance fighter, philosopher, peace activist, opinion journalist, intellectual, sociologist, lyricist
- Lycée Henri-IV, École Normale Supérieure
Stuart Woods (1938-2022)
actor, sociologist
- University of Georgia
José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
philosopher, pedagogue, sociologist, mathematician, literary critic, opinion journalist, politician, poet, translator, essayist
- Universidad Central, University of Deusto
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
philosopher, psychiatrist, essayist, sociologist, politician
- University of Lyon, Jean Moulin University - Lyon 3
Julián Marías (1914-2005)
philosopher, essayist, politician, sociologist
- Complutense University of Madrid
Neil Postman (1931-2003)
sociologist, essayist, pedagogue, media critic, communication scholar, journalist
- Columbia University, State University of New York at Fredonia