China
Ai Weiwei (1957- )
Cai Yuanpei (1863-1940)
Jackie Chan (1954- )
Confucius (551 BC-479 BC)
14th Dalai Lama [Tenzin Gyatso] (1935- )
Ding Ling (1904-1986)
Du Fu (712-770)
Gao Xingjian (1940- )
Hong Xiuquan (1814-1864)
Hu Shi (1891-1962)
Kang Youwei (1858-1927)
Laozi (fl. 6th cent. BC)
Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
Lin Biao (1907-1971?)
Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017)
Lu Xun (1881-1936)
Mao Dun (1896-1981)
Mencius (c.371 BC-c.289 BC)
Mo Yan (1956- )
Peng Dehuai (1898-1974)
Sunzi (fl. 5th cent. BC)
Yang Liwei (1965- )
Zheng He (c.1371-1433)
Zhu De (1886-1976)
Zhuge Liang (181-234)
Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885)
India
B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956)
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)
Amitabh Bachchan (1942- )
Vinoba Bhave (1895-1982)
Gautama Buddha (c.6th cent-c.4th cent BC)
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (1931-2015)
Kalidasa (fl. 5th cent.)
Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011)
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972)
Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)
Mahavira (c.599 BC-527 BC)
Lata Mangeshkar (1929-2022)
Guru Nanak (1469-1539)
Panini
Aishwarya Rai (1973- )
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970)
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)
Satyajit Ray (1921-1992)
Arundhati Roy (1961- )
Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833)
Dayananda Saraswati (1824-1883)
Amartya Sen (1933- )
Vandana Shiva (1952- )
Shivaji (1627/30-1680)
Ram Singh (1816-1885)
Ranjit Singh (1780-1839)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Sachin Tendulkar (1973- )
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Tulsidas (1543?-1623)
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917?-2008)
Indonesia
Ki Hadjar Dewantara (1889-1959)
Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879-1904)
Munir (1965-2004)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-2006)
Pakistan
Aga Khan III (1877-1957)
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (1948- )
Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1894-1975)
Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928-2016)
Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938)
Asma Jahangir (1952-2018)
Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936-2021)
Imran Khan (1952- )
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997)
Iqbal Masih (1983-1995)
Abul A'la Maududi (1903-1979)
Abdus Salam (1926-1996)
Malala Yousafzai (1997- )
Nigeria
Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (1937-1998)
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
King Sunny Adé (1946- )
Aliko Dangote (1957- )
Fela Kuti (1938-1997)
Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967)
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900-1978)
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-1995)
Wole Soyinka (1934- )
Dick Tiger (1929-1971)
Amos Tutuola (1920-1997)
Brazil
José de Alencar (1829-1877)
Jorge Amado (1912-2001)
Leonardo Boff (1938- )
Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994)
Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife (1909-1999)
Paulo Coelho (1947- )
Lúcio Costa (1902-1998)
Euclides da Cunha (1866-1909)
Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908)
Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012)
Pelé (1940-2022)
Marcos Cesar Pontes (1963- )
Cândido Rondon (1865-1958)
Sebastião Salgado (1944- )
Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Bangladesh
Muhammad Yunus (1940- )
Russia
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (1930-2019)
Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (1894-1940)
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (1946-2013)
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828-1889)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Sergey Pavlovich Dyagilev (1872-1929)
Aleksandr Ivanovich Gertsen (1812-1870)
Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852)
Maksim Gorky (1868-1936)
Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky (1963- )
Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov (1804-1860)
Prince Pyotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921)
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765)
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960)
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936)
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Prokhorov (1965- )
Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin (1869-1916)
Andrey Dmitryevich Sakharov (1921-1989)
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)
Mexico
Lucas Alamán (1792-1853)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651?-1695)
Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
Japan
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)
Ōe Kenzaburō (1935-2023)
Philippines
José Rizal (1861-1896)
Ethiopia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Egypt
Saint Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (c.293-373)
Hassan Fathy (1900-1989)
Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)
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Origen (c.185-c.254)
Philo (15/10 BC-45/50)
Ptolemy (c.100-c.170)
Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016)
Vietnam
Iran
Ibn Sina (980-1037)
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Zoroaster
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Jakob Böhme (1575-1624)
Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785-1860)
Ignaz von Döllinger (1799-1890)
Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814)
Sebastian Franck (c.1499-c.1542)
Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Günter Grass (1927-2015)
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)
Fritz Haber (1868-1934)
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)
Otto Hahn (1879-1968)
Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803)
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Baron Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Bishop of Mainz (1811-1877)
August von Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832)
Philipp Lenard (1862-1947)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560)
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)
Count Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891)
Count Helmuth von Moltke (1848-1916)
Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)
Justus Möser (1720-1794)
Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776-1831)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938)
Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)
Max Planck (1858-1947)
Baron Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694)
Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923)
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Thomas à Kempis (1379/80-1471)
Heinrich von Treitschke (1834-1896)
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Walther von der Vogelweide (c.1170-c.1230)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768)
Turkey
Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople (347-407)
Anna Comnena (1083-c.1153)
Orhan Pamuk (1952- )
Ulfilas, Bishop of the Goths (c.311-c.382)
Korea
Thailand
Sulak Sivaraksa (1933- )
France
Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
Alain de Lille (c.1128-1202)
François Arago (1786-1853)
Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
Maurice Barrès (1862-1923)
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857)
Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Jean Bodin (1530-1596)
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux (1627-1704)
Comte de Buffon [Georges-Louis Leclerc] (1707-1788)
John Calvin (1509-1564)
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
Alexis Carrel (1873-1944)
Vicomte de Chateaubriand [François-René de Chateaubriand] (1768-1848)
Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 1165-1180)
Christine de Pizan (1364-c.1430)
Paul Claudel (1868-1955)
Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Marquis de Condorcet [Nicolas de Caritat] (1743-1794)
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
Victor Cousin (1792-1867)
Marie Curie (1867-1934)
Baron Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
René Descartes (1596-1650)
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870)
Victor Duruy (1811-1894)
François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651-1715)
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Charles Fourier (1772-1837)
Anatole France (1844-1924)
Jean Froissart (1333?-c.1400)
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889)
Comte Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882)
Jean Hardouin (1646-1729)
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Léon Jouhaux (1879-1954)
Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu [Charles-Louis de Secondat] (1689-1755)
Jean Mabillon (1632-1707)
Comte Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)
Jules Michelet (1798-1874)
Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914)
Molière (1622-1673)
Luc Montagnier (1932-2022)
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637)
Charles Perrault (1628-1703)
Saint-John Perse (1887-1975)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)
François Rabelais (c.1494-1553)
Jean Racine (1639-1699)
Ernest Renan (1823-1892)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Comte de Saint-Simon [Claude-Henri de Rouvroy] (1760-1825)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609)
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Stendhal (1783-1842)
Eugène Sue (1804-1857)
Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Jules Verne (1828-1905)
François Villon (1431-af.1463)
Vincent of Beauvais (c.1190-1264)
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879)
Comte de Volney [Constantin-François de Chassebœuf] (1757-1820)
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Émile Zola (1840-1902)
United Kingdom
The Lord Acton [John Dalberg-Acton] (1834-1902)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
The Lord Adrian [Edgar Adrian] (1889-1977)
Alcuin (c.732-804)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Thomas Arnold (1795-1842)
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Roger Bacon (c.1220-1292)
The Lord Baden-Powell [Robert Baden-Powell] (1857-1941)
William Baffin (c.1584-1622)
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893)
Sir J.M. Barrie, Baronet (1860-1937)
Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
The Earl of Beaconsfield [Benjamin Disraeli] (1804-1881)
Saint Bede (672/73-735)
Aphra Behn (1640?-1689)
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Annie Besant (1847-1933)
The Lord Blackett [Patrick Blackett] (1897-1974)
Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
William Blake (1757-1827)
James Boswell (1740-1795)
Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825)
Sir John Bowring (1792-1872)
The Lord Boyd-Orr [John Boyd Orr] (1880-1971)
William Bradford (1590-1657)
Anne Bradstreet (c.1612-1672)
Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
The Viscount Bryce [James Bryce] (1838-1922)
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
The Lord Byron [George Gordon Noel] (1788-1824)
Sir Hall Caine (1853-1931)
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
William Caxton (c.1422-1491)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1342/43-1400)
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
William Cobbett (1763-1835)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Francis Crick (1916-2004)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
Sir Humphry Davy, Baronet (1778-1829)
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
John Donne (1572-1631)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
John Duns Scotus (c.1266-1308)
Sir Robert G. Edwards (1925-2013)
George Eliot (1819-1880)
John Eliot (1604-1690)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Adam Ferguson (1723-1816)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
George Fox (1624-1691)
John Foxe (1516-1587)
Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bishop of St Asaph (?-1155)
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Sir W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
William Godwin (1756-1836)
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940)
Sir H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
The Lord Herbert of Cherbury [Edward Herbert] (1583-1648)
Peter Higgs (1929- )
Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977)
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994)
Richard Hooker (1554?-1600)
Thomas Hughes (1822-1896)
David Hume (1711-1776)
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (1954- )
Saint John Henry [Cardinal] Newman (1801-1890)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
The Lord Kames [Henry Home] (1696-1782)
John Keats (1795-1821)
The Lord Kelvin [William Thomson] (1824-1907)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
John Knox (c.1514-1572)
Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
The Lord Lytton [Edward Bulwer-Lytton] (1803-1873)
The Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] (1800-1859)
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)
George MacDonald (1824-1905)
Sir Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972)
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872)
Sir Peter Medawar (1915-1987)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
John Milton (1608-1674)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Gilbert Murray (1866-1957)
Sir V.S. Naipaul (1932-2018)
Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
The Lord Noel-Baker [Philip Noel-Baker] (1889-1982)
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)
Robert Owen (1771-1858)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Matthew Paris (?-1259)
Mungo Park (1771-1806)
William Penn (1644-1718)
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?-1618)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
David Ricardo (1772-1823)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
The Earl Russell [Bertrand Russell] (1872-1970)
The Viscount St Alban [Francis Bacon] (1561-1626)
Sir Walter Scott, Baronet (1771-1832)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
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Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
John Hanning Speke (1827-1864)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Edmund Spenser (1552/53-1599)
Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)
William Thomas Stead (1849-1912)
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729)
Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
The Lord Tennyson [Alfred Tennyson] (1809-1892)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Saint [Sir] Thomas More (1478-1535)
The Lord Todd [Alexander R. Todd] (1907-1997)
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917)
William Tyndale (c.1490/94-1536)
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
John Wesley (1703-1791)
William Whewell (1794-1866)
George Whitefield (1714-1770)
Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester (1805-1873)
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
William of Ockham (c.1285-1347/49)
Roger Williams (1603?-1683)
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (470/75?-524)
Saint Bonaventure, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (c.1217-1274)
Leonardo Bruni (c.1370-1444)
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BC?-44 BC)
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798)
Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Marcus Porcius Cato (234 BC-149 BC)
Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC)
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
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Dario Fo (1926-2016)
Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226)
Pietro Giannone (1676-1748)
Horace (65 BC-8 BC)
Flavius Josephus (37/38-100)
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)
Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Principe di Montenevoso [Gabriele D'Annunzio] (1863-1938)
Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
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Ovid (43 BC-17)
Petrarch (1304-1374)
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Pliny the Elder (23-79)
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Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459)
Marco Polo (c.1254-1324)
Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855)
Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)
Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.4 BC-65)
Suetonius (69-af.122)
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-c.120)
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274)
Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457)
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Virgil (70 BC-19 BC)
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Myanmar
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J.M. Coetzee (1940- )
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Ibn Rushd (1126-1198)
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Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811)
Judah Halevi (c.1075-1141)
Bartolomé de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapas (1474/84-1566)
Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)
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Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888)
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