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Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic (1854–1920)
Alexandru Macedonski was a Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted lots of French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement during its early decades.
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Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and aviator, Air Force major general, writer, and artist.
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Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, was a French diplomat, political philosopher and historian.
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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.
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Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny was a French poet and an early French Romanticist.
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Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher.
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Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and illustrator.
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Alfred Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter, born in Paris to British expatriate parents.
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet.
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