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George Joseph Stigler
George Stigler was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize
Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan was an eminent American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his work on photoelectric effect
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a famous Scottish poet, novelist and travel writer
Robert Graves
Robert Graves was an English poet and novelist best known for his war memoir ‘Good-Bye to All That’
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Thackeray was an English novelist and satirist
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton was an Anglo-American author of French origin who is famous as a poet, a catholic priest, social activist and a great scholar of comparative religion.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar was one of the greatest music maestros from India who familiarized the West with the Indian classical music
William Maugham
William Maugham was an English playwright, writer and novelist