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Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
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Stanisław Lem
Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)
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John Donne
English poet and cleric (1572-1631)
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Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
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Richard Matheson
American fiction writer (1926–2013)
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Peter D. Mitchell
British biochemist (1920-1992)
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Q77057
German philosopher (1842–1906)
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Steven Runciman
British historian of the Middle Ages (1903–2000)
Alan Gardiner
English egyptologist and philologist (1879–1963)
Snježana Kordić
Croatian linguist
Barbara Smith
American activist and academic (born 1946)
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Fulcanelli
Fulcanelli (fl. 1920s) was the name used by a French alchemist and esoteric writer, whose identity is still debated. The name Fulcanelli seems to be a play on words: Vulcan, the ancient Roman god of fire, plus El, a Canaanite name for God and so the Sacred Fire.
R. Gordon Wasson
American ethnobiologist (1898-1986)
Hugh Edward Richardson
British diplomat and Tibetologist (1905–2000)
Richard Cobb
British historian (1917–1996)
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch
German cultural studies scholar (1941–2023)
Stephen O. Murray
American anthropologist (1950–2019)
Camilla Gray
British art historian
Dolores LaChapelle
American mountaineer
Nancy Sandars
British archaeologist and prehistorian (1914–2015)
John D. Rateliff
author
Geraint Jennings
Jersey writer (born 1966)
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Rudolf Goldscheid
Austrian penman, philosopher, sociologist (1870-1931)
Ranulph Glanville
British cyberneticist (1946-2014)
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Mary Kitson Clark
british archaeologist