Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
political
W. E. B. Du Bois
American and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction writer
Charles de Gaulle
French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American author and journalist
Joseph Conrad
Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language
Winston Churchill
British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Best known for his wartime leadership as Prime Minister, Churchill was also a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history
Edmund Burke
Anglo-Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher
Bob Woodward
American investigative journalist
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, socialist, and social theorist