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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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?)

My controversial opinion is that we'll need more of these polymaths in the future, since human institutions and complex systems become much more interwoven and interdependent through time. 

Therefore, you're going to need more orthogonal primitives from different disciplines to sense-make correctly.

If you're interested in the longer version of this argument: https://nicholasachow.substack.com/p/m-shaped-people