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Benjamin Franklin
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, Founding Father
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
Thomas Paine
English and American political activist
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
German dramatist and playwright
Pierre Beaumarchais
French playwright diplomat and polymath
Alexander Purdie
American newspaper publisher
John Hill
English author and botanist
Pieter 't Hoen
Dutch journalist, poet and politician
Johann Gottfried Herder
German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
Jean-Paul Marat
Politician and journalist during the French Revolution
John Holt
Publisher
Ignacy Krasicki
Writer
Edme-Louis Billardon de Sauvigny
French journalist and poet
Henry Fielding
English novelist and dramatist
August Ludwig von Schlözer
German historian
Joseph Royle
Publisher in Colonial Virginia
Jean-François de La Harpe
French playwright, writer and critic
Andrew Duncan, the elder
Scottish physician and founder of Royal Edinburgh Hospital
John Wilkes
English journalist and politician
Joseph Lavallée
French journalist
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic
Tobias Smollett
18th-century poet and author from Scotland
Jean-François Marmontel
French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement
Louis-Sébastien Mercier
French dramatist and writer
Nicolas Chamfort
French writer
Arthur Young (agriculturist)
English writer on agriculture, economics, and social statistics
William Thomson
Scottish minister and historian
Johann Jakob Moser
German jurist, publicist and researcher
Francisco Mariano Nipho
Spanish writer
Johann Stephan Pütter
German jurist
Gilbert Stuart (writer)
British writer
Augustin Barruel
French Jesuit
Nicolas-Étienne Framery
French music theorist
Charles-Claude-Florent de Thorel de Campigneulles
French moralist, journalist, critic and writer
John Oswald (activist)
Scottish philosopher, writer, poet, social critic and revolutionary
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
German poet
Grigory Kozitsky
Russian writer and journalist of ukraine
Guillaume Thomas François Raynal
French writer
Matthias von Hermansson
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