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who are famous people who excelled in more than one discipline? e.g. Nabokov was an accomplished novelist and also a published scientist with entomology papers about butterflies
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Another related question — who are people who trained a secondary skill to improve talent in their "main" skill e.g. Zlatan Ibrahimovic with soccer + taekwondo
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Leonardo da Vinci. Galileo Galilei. Benjamin Franklin. I suppose generally anyone regarded as a Renaissance Man or polymath.
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Bo Jackson was a pro football player and a pro baseball player, and named an all-star in both
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Miyamoto Musashi wrote The Book of Five Rings and he talked about the importance of being a swordsman and a painter and how both made him better at the other.
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GH Hardy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy
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Pretty sure no one can beat John Neumann - mathematician, computer scientist, started game theory, also did some stuff in biology
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The classic example is da Vinci, but some other polymaths come to mind: - Ben Franklin (politics, random inventions, writing, statescraft) - Gottfried Leibniz (calculus, law, philosophy) - Buckminster Fuller (engineering, math, architecture) - Richard Feynman (safe-cracking, bongos, also physics apparently?)
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