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Tom DeLonge (born 1975)
guitarist, singer, musician, composer, actor, record producer
David Mitchell (born 1969)
linguist, translator, actor, composer, teacher
- University of Kent
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
- Xaverian College, Victoria University of Manchester
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Raymond Benson (born 1955)
composer
- University of Texas at Austin
Satyajit Ray (1921-1992)
film director, composer, film producer, film editor, lyricist, journalist, painter, cinematographer, poet, film critic, director
- University of Calcutta, Visva-Bharati University
Diana L. Paxson (born 1943)
composer, journalist
- Mills College at Northeastern
Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960)
poet, journalist, composer, essayist, playwright, politician, translator, literary
- University of Turin