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As time goes by, we often stereotype writers and creators as [[Typecasting|filling certain niches]]. [[Stan Lee]] is [[Marvel Universe]], [[Stephen King]] is horror (or at the very least supernatural), [[
▲As time goes by, we often stereotype writers and creators as [[Typecasting|filling certain niches]]. [[Stan Lee]] is [[Marvel Universe]], [[Stephen King]] is horror (or at the very least supernatural), [[Arthur Conan Doyle (Creator)|Arthur Conan Doyle]] is [[Sherlock Holmes]]... as a result, there are some times where we see somebody's name on something and go "wait, WHAT? Are you sure it isn't just [[Name's the Same|a guy with the same name]]?".
These are examples of well-known works (not obscure experiments) of creators that are so far out of their perceived niche that often times people don't immediately realize the person behind it.
Related to [[Playing Against Type]], [[I Am Not Spock]], [[Genre Adultery]] and [[
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=== Actors ===
* [[Julie Andrews]] (''[[The Sound of Music]]'', ''[[Mary Poppins]]'') also writes children's fantasy novels, and has been doing so for some time.
* [[Mr. Bean|Rowan Atkinson]] is an electrical engineer.
* Richard
* Steve Burns, the original host of ''[[
* [[Jackie Chan]] is known worldwide for his action movies, combining martial arts with slapstick choreography. While some fans outside of southeast Asia know he's also a director and producer, very few know that he's also an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IYt2qMj1A accomplished singer].
* [[Charlie Chaplin]] is certainly known best for his classic Mutual shorts and films like ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' and ''[[City Lights]]''. Perhaps that's why so many are surprised by his [[Black Comedy|very dark comedy]] ''[[Monsieur Verdoux]]'', which is about a [[The Bluebeard|Bluebeard]]. No [[Slapstick]], no [[All Love Is Unrequited|bittersweet limerence]], no [[Parody]], just humour centered around a man who robs his many wives of their money, and collects the rest when he kills them. Another way of looking at this film: Did you know [[Orson Welles]] wrote a Chaplin movie?
* [[Misha Collins]] is known for being an actor, but he also did a stint in politics, set up [[The Random Act]] charity, published poems, worked as a carpenter and woodworker, and worked in construction.
* Michael Crawford, who originated the title role in [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' and went on to a successful recording and concert career, was first famous as a light comedy actor, with appearances in several of Richard Lester's films (''The Knack...and How to Get It'', ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'', etc.) and a popular BBC sitcom (''[[Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em]]''). He also played Cornelius in the movie of ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]'', and it's two of his musical numbers that figure prominently in ''[[
* Adrian Edmondson, best known for causing trails of destruction in ''[[The Young Ones]]'' and ''[[Bottom]]'' is also a well-known video director (for ''The Pogues'' among others) and musician with The Bad Shepherds.
* [[Natalia Guseva]] played [[Alice, Girl
* [[Mark Hamill]] is best known as Luke Skywalker from ''[[Star Wars]]''. He has done a ''lot'' more voice work, most famously as [[The Joker]] in [[Batman:
** A small, but amusing example: He cameoed in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' as himself, but he ''also'' played the southern [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] who trains Homer in the same episode.
* And everyone loves how David Hayter, [[Metal Gear Solid|Solid Snake]] himself, is a successful screenwriter who worked on some of the ''X-Men'' movies. He also did a draft of ''[[Watchmen (
* David Hemmings, the star of Antonioni's [[
* Phil Hartman was a renowned graphic designer who came up with the Crosby, Stills & Nash logo and designed album covers for bands like Poco and REO Speedwagon. He also co-wrote the screenplay to Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
* [[Boris Karloff]] started out as a stage-trained character in silent movies, then graduated to playing [[Fu Manchu]], [[Frankenstein]]'s monster, the Mummy, and associated mad scientists and crazy people in horror films. He was also the voice actor for the narration and the Grinch in the animated ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (
* [[Hedy Lamarr]] (no, not [[Blazing Saddles|Hedley]]) was best known as MGM's biggest star. She also had a patent for frequency-hopping spread spectrum, which would eventually lay the groundwork for communications technology that's currently used in wi-fi networks.
* [[Hugh Laurie]], an actor known for his roles on, ''[[Blackdder]]'', ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' and ''[[Jeeves and Wooster]]'', also wrote ''[[The Gun Seller]]'', a novel which parodies the spy genre, and has released a musical CD. He both wrote for and appeared in ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]''.
* Many people don't realize that actress [[Lindsay Lohan]] has her own fashion company called 6126, she also has a brand of tanning lotion called Seven9ine.
* [[Dolph Lundgren]] is a trained chemical engineer. And he [[Science Cocktail|does actually put it to good use]].
* [[Steve Martin]], the Wild and Crazy Guy? He's also an accomplished banjo player who's performed with Earl Scruggs. He also wrote the serious novella ''[[Shopgirl]]'', which he starred in the adaptation of. He also did writing on the thriller ''Traitor''.
* Herbert "Zeppo" Marx of the [[Marx Brothers]] invented a type of watch with a built-in heart-rate monitor, as well as a new kind of heating pad.
* [[Leonard Nimoy]] directed ''[[Three Men
** Many ''[[
** Gates
* Frank Oz is known as the voice of several [[Muppet
* Pauley Perrette has earned a cult following for her role as [[Perky Goth]] forensics expert Abby Sciuto on ''[[
* [[Vincent Price]] is best known for his horror roles, but most of his early work was dramatic, and he also took afew voice acting roles, notably in [[The
* Ariana Richards, most famous as Lex in ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', is an accomplished professional oil painter.
* [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] - the ''[[Terminator]]'', ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'', ''Hercules'', the ''[[Kindergarten Cop]]'' - was Governor of California.
* While known for the voice of [[One Piece|Monkey D. Luffy]] nowadays, in Japan, [[Mayumi Tanaka]] had also been well known for her role in the [[Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru]] franchise <ref>best known in the U.S. for its incarnation as a [[
* [[The Dick Van Dyke Show|Dick Van Dyke]] is well-known for his acting. He's also done 3D computer animation for years, even doing special effects for an episode of ''[[Diagnosis
* Jesse "The Body" Ventura, who appeared alongside Arnie in ''[[Predator]]'' is also a bodybuilder-turned-governor, also known for his time in [[Professional Wrestling]].
* Nancy Walker played Ida Morgenstern on ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' (and its spinoff ''Rhoda''), and appeared in Bounty paper towel commercials. Much of her earlier career was in Broadway musicals, and it was perhaps for this reason that she was chosen to direct the infamous movie musical ''Can't Stop the Music''.
* In addition to voice acting, Paul Winchell was also a puppeteer, an acupuncturist, and an
* Ian Ziering, aka Steve Sanders from ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'', played Edison Trent from ''[[Freelancer]]''. Same goes for John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and Tobias from said game.
* [[Jennifer Tilly]], she of the big-boobed bimbo roles, has also won a bracelet in the World Series of [[Poker]]. In fact, this is a subgenre, as many actors are at least passable in poker (notably Gabe Kaplan, Dick Van Patten (whose son Vince calls the World Poker Tour), and Lou Diamond Phillips, just to name a few).
=== Athletes ===
* Babe Ruth's career as a pitcher. While Baseball fans know this very well, it is not as well known outside of Baseball fandom.
* Ted Williams is widely known as one of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball: but he was also an excellent pilot (John Glenn's wingman), and a master fisherman: he was inducted into the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame (yes, there is a fishing hall of fame).
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=== Comic Books and Manga ===
* Japanese cartoonist Fujio Akatsuka is famous in his home country for gag-oriented and slapstick-heavy mangas such as ''Bakabon the Genius Idiot'' and ''Little Osomatsu''. He's also famous for creating ''Akko's Secret'', a [[Magical Girl
* [[Wilhelm Busch]] of ''[[Max Und Moritz]]'' fame did more (like oil paintings, novels and serious poems) than pictured stories. But even most Germans wouldn't know that, or all of his stories.
* ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'' and ''[[X 1999]]'' is by [[CLAMP|the very same women]] that did ''[[Angelic Layer]]'' and ''[[
* Francesco Marciuliano, the writer of the widely lambasted family-friendly syndicated comic strip ''Sally Forth'', is also the author of ''[http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/ Medium Large]'', a significantly more [[Darker and Edgier|off-beat]] comic that is surprisingly funny.
** Although ''Sally Forth'' [[Growing the Beard|got rather more clever]] when he took it over too.
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* In what could be a trope all its own, the list of people not normally identified with the Comic industry who have done comics is long:
** William Moulton Marston created a lie detector (but not, as is often reported, the polygraph). And [[Wonder Woman]].
** Richard Donner, creator of the Christopher Reeve [[Superman (
** [[Mark Hamill]] did some work. Damn he's everywhere.
** Subversion: Contrary to the running gag at Marvel, the Ralph Macchio who works there is ''not'' the same person who appeared in the ''[[Karate Kid]]'' movies.
** [[Jodi Picoult]], a writer of romance and family drama novels, did a stint on [[Wonder Woman]].
** [[
** [[
** Going a bit further back, there was a lady by the name of Patricia Highsmith who wrote for two different comic companies (Fawcett and Western Comics) between 1943 and 1947. [[Strangers
** [[Jeph Loeb]], as Joseph Loeb III, was one of the screenwriters of the movie ''[[Commando (
** Successful romance novelist Marjorie Liu wrote an [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] novel in 2005, and soon started writing comics for [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] as well.
** Famous science-fiction writer Alfred Bester worked for [[DC Comics]] in the 40s and 50s. He is, in fact, credited with creating the [[Green Lantern|Green Lantern Oath]].
** Actor and comedian [[Patton Oswalt]] has written quite a few comic books, including a one-shot ''[[Firefly]]'' comic featuring Wash.
** Sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison wrote an Avengers/Hulk crossover in the early 1970's. It introduced the (fairly) popular character of Jarella into the Hulk's life.
* [[Dave Sim]], author of ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]'', also signed the [
* [[Ursula Vernon]]: creator of both the webcomic ''[[
=== Directors and Producers ===
* [[Woody Allen]] plays the clarinet, and wrote several humorous essays and short stories.
* Before becoming a director, [[Tim Burton]] was an animator doing animation for films such as the [[Ralph Bakshi]] Lord of the Rings, [[Tron]], [[The Black Cauldron]] (though many of his contributions were cut), and [[The Fox and
* [[Ralph Bakshi]] is known for directing [[Deranged Animation]] set primarily on the streets of New York, like ''[[Fritz the Cat (
* [[Chuck Barris]], most famous for creating ''[[The Dating Game]]'', producing ''[[The Newlywed Game]]'', and creating and hosting ''[[The Gong Show]]'', also wrote the hit song "Palisades Park" for Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon. However, he probably ''wasn't'' a CIA agent as he so claims in his book (later a movie) ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind''.
* [[Mel Brooks]] produced ''[[The Elephant Man]]'', as well as the remake of ''[[The Fly]]''. He deliberately didn't use his name in the marketing of ''[[The Elephant Man]]'' because he didn't want people to think it's a comedy.
* [[Bob Clark]] started out directing horror movies, most notably ''[[
* [[Larry Cohen]] is known for writing and directing low budget independent horror and [[Blaxploitation]] movies, and scripting big budget action-thrillers.
* Besides all those horror films, [[Wes Craven]] directed ''[[Music of the Heart]]''.
* [[Roland Emmerich]], famous for his large-scale sci-fi disaster movies like ''[[Independence Day]]'', ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' and ''[[
* Marc Forster not only directed ''Monster's Ball'' and ''[[Finding Neverland]]'' but ''[[Stay]]'', ''[[The Kite Runner]]'', ''[[
* [[Jim Henson]], the creator of ''[[The Muppets]]'', did a surrealistic teleplay called ''[[The Cube (
* Ishiro Honda directed both the classic film ''[[Godzilla|Gojira]]'' and the unpopular ''Godzilla's Revenge''.
* [[Peter Jackson]], director of gore comedies like ''[[
* Spike Jonze, the director of ''[[Where the Wild Things Are]]'' and ''[[Being John Malkovich]]''? He plays the dirty old lady in skits in the ''[[
* Neil Jordan, director of Oscar winning dramas like ''[[The Crying Game]]'' and ''[[Interview
* Shusuke Kaneko directed not only the 90s ''[[Gamera]]'' trilogy, but also the live-action ''[[
* David Kirschner is responsible for creating and producing several animated childhood classics; ''[[An American Tail]]'', ''[[Once Upon a Forest]]'', ''[[The Pagemaster]]'', ''[[
* Fairly well known, but Ang Lee directed: ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' and ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'', ''[[Hulk (
* ''[[Mad Max]]'' director George Miller was also responsible for ''[[Babe]]'' and ''[[Happy Feet]]''. He's also a medical doctor.
* Acclaimed auteur Alexander Payne, who wrote and directed films such as ''Sideways'', ''[[About Schmidt]]'', and ''Election'', is also credited on the screenplays of ''[[Jurassic Park III]]'' and ''[[I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry]]'', though little of his work on the latter film made it into the finished product.
* [[Rod Serling]] (''[[The Twilight Zone]]'') wrote ''Requiem for a Heavyweight'', which some have said was the point where televised drama [[Grow the Beard|Grew the Beard]]. He also co-wrote ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'', which, while easily falling within the niche people think of him as being in, is often neglected, possibly because he only co-wrote it. He was also a noted boxer and the host for the game show ''Liar's Club.''
* [[J. Michael Straczynski]], producer/writer/director of ''[[
* [[Quentin Tarantino]] directed episodes of ''[[ER]]'' and a ''[[CSI]]'' episode that featured direct dialogue references to his earlier films, and a character even [[Buried Alive|suffers the same fate]] as [[Kill Bill|The Bride]]. He's also an actor as has appeared several movies he's directed. He also co-starred in [[From Dusk
* [[Francois Truffaut|François Truffaut]], the legendary French film director, played the French scientist Claude Lacombe in ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''. This was one of his few acting roles, and his ''only'' one in a movie he didn't direct.
* The [[The Matrix
* Rob Zombie's first professional job in the entertainment business was a set and prop designer for [[Pee
* ''[[Ghost (
** Used in the advertising for the third ''[[
=== Musicians / Composers ===
* Alexander Courage, whose best remembered composition is the [[Theme Tune]] for ''[[Star Trek:
* Music/Video game related, Turbo Lover of [[
** Albeit laced with [[Double Entendre|double entendres]].
** Actually, a majority of the band would fall under this trope. Female lead The Gambler (the voice of Emily, Light's love interest) and lead guitarist Sir Robert Bakker (who are married in real life) form the center (or formed, as the group recently disbanded) of the Nashville-based, dinosaur-centric band 'Happy Birthday Amy'. Before that, The Gambler and lead singer Panther were also in yet another band together. Not to mention current drummer (they've had four) The Reanimator and second guitarist Cobra T. Washington, who also perform as part of Nashville metal band 'Destroy Destroy Destroy'... The band is like a supergroup composed of members from all across the Nashville indie music scene, fighting in an all-out last-ditch effort to save music from itself. Which, now that I think about it, sounds completely awesome.
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** In fact, all three of Elvis' competitive Grammy wins were in the Gospel category.
* The same is true of [[Ray Charles]].
* [[
* Peter Garrett, the lead singer of the band Midnight Oil, was elected to the Australian parliament and now serves as a cabinet minister.
* Contemporary artist Voltaire is most well known for his [[Black Comedy|gallows-humor]] music, but prior to becoming a musician in the late 1990s, he was an award-winning stop-motion animator who did commercials for IKEA, Wendy's, MTV, Nickelodeon and even a Super Bowl commercial for Budweiser. He's also published two non-fiction books and three graphic novels, as well as being a college professor at the School of Visual Arts (New York), and designing toys.
* [[George Harrison]] (you know, of [[The Beatles]]) also was the executive producer for the [[Monty Python]] film ''[[Life of Brian]]'' after the original producers ran off scared. He also had a cameo role in the movie.
* Yoshikazu Mera is a countertenor who has recorded Bach cantatas and other baroque music. He also did the ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'' [[Theme Tune]].
* [[
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] compiled an album of Desi Arnaz's best musical numbers from ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' and directed a number of music videos, both his own and others, and has a degree in architecture.
* [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''Candide'' and ''Mass'' contain minor lyrical contributions from [[Dorothy Parker]] and [[Paul Simon]], respectively.
* [[The B
* Brian May, guitarist for [[Queen]], is also an astrophysicist. At the [[Turn of the Millennium]], he returned to his studies after [[Queen|a break]] and got his [[PHD]]. He is now chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University in England.
** Also John Deacon is an electrical engineer who built an amplifier good enough for Brian to record with it.
* Aleksander Borodin, the Russian 19th-century composer most famous for his opera ''Prince Igor'', was also a notable chemist.
* Sid Ramin did orchestrations for Broadway musicals such as ''[[West Side Story]]'', ''[[Gypsy]]'' and ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'', usually working in collaboration with Irwin Kostal or Robert Ginzler. He also composed the [[Theme Song]] for ''[[The Patty Duke Show]]'', and the [[Top Ten Jingle]] that became "Music to Watch Girls By."
** Ramin's lyricist for the ''Patty Duke'' theme, Bob Wells, is better known for writing the words of "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire)". Two other classic Christmas songs were written by composers who went to write classic TV themes: "Silver Bells" by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (''[[Mister Ed]]''), and "It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year", co-written by George Wyle (''[[
* Gerry Rafferty, best known as the singer and guitarist from Stealers Wheel, was formerly (during [[The Sixties]]) in a folk music duo called The Humblebums. The other person in the group was Billy Connolly, who's better known as a comedian and actor.
* Frederick Hollander composed the [[Marlene Dietrich]] songs in ''[[
* Howard Dietz was a songwriter who often worked with Arthur Schwartz, and many of their songs were featured in the [[Jukebox Musical]] movie ''[[The Band Wagon]]''. But before he started writing songs for musicals, as a Hollywood advertising man he created the world-famous trademark of Leo the Lion. No wonder Dietz revised the lyrics of "Triplets" for the movie ''[[The Band Wagon]]'' to include the line "[[MGM]] has got a Leo."
** And on the subject of ''[[The Band Wagon]]'', the [[Private Eye Monologue]] was written by Alan Jay Lerner, of all people.
* Sure, you've heard "Hotel California" and "Take It Easy" dozens of times. But did you know that the [[Eagles]] also did the theme song from ''[[The
* [[Stephen Sondheim]] was a writer for the series ''[[
* Before becoming the lead guitarist for [[Tool]], Adam Jones was a special effects artist for several feature films such as ''[[Terminator|Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'', ''[[Predator|Predator 2]]'', two of the ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' movies, ''[[Ghostbusters]]'', ''[[Dances
** On a similar note, voice actor [[
* [[
* John Morris, [[Mel Brooks]]' [[Associated Composer]], was also the dance arranger for a number of musicals, including ''[[Peter Pan]]'', ''[[Bells Are Ringing]]'', ''[[Bye Bye Birdie]]'', ''Mack & Mabel'', and two flops on which Brooks worked as a librettist.
* [[Tony Banks]], better known as a founding member of/keyboard player in the [[Progressive Rock|prog rock]] band [[Genesis (
* [[Elton John]] had, prior to making it as a singer-songwriter, worked as a session musician (he played piano on the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", and sang on low-budget soundalike covers of famous songs, which were sold in local department stores; he was basically Drew's Famous before the fact. This is the source material for the unofficial covers album, "Elton John: Chartbusters Go Pop!" Some of these covers include "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry, "Spirit In The Sky" by Norman Greenbaum and..."Young, Gifted And Black" by [[Aretha Franklin]].
** He also came up with the story and produced ''[[Gnomeo and Juliet]]''.
* Sidemen for Joey Dee and the Starlighters ("The Peppermint Twist") included, at one time or another, [[Joe Pesci]] (on guitar!), [[Jimi Hendrix]], Charles Neville of the Neville Brothers and members of The Young Rascals. Often the Ronettes would dance and sing back-up at the Peppermint Lounge.
* Charles Ives is famous now for his innovative musical works, but had the habit of not trying hard to have his stuff performed or published in his lifetime. He was known in his day for his innovative business practices as the head of an insurance company, where he wrote such books as ''Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax''.
* [[Jeremy Soule]] - best known for his work on the soundtracks for ''[[
* Devo is best known as a one-hit wonder with flower-pot hats. However, most people have heard a few of their other works: all of the music on "Rugrats" and most Wes Anderson movies, firstly. They've been composing as Mutato Muzika since the mid-90's.
=== Software ===▼
* [[Twoflower|Stefan Gagne]], best known by us as the author of ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'', best known to the Internets at large as the creator of The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything. Or as the creator of a bunch of popular ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' modules. Or as the creator of the gaming parody, ''Pong Kombat''. Or for his epic ''[[Slayers Trilogy
▲== Software ==
▲* [[Twoflower|Stefan Gagne]], best known by us as the author of ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'', best known to the Internets at large as the creator of The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything. Or as the creator of a bunch of popular ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' modules. Or as the creator of the gaming parody, ''Pong Kombat''. Or for his epic ''[[Slayers Trilogy (Fanfic)|Slayer Reflect/Chaos/Rebirth]]'' trilogy or for the creation of ''[http://www.mtcffultra.com/ MTCFF Ultra]''. More recently he's gone into original fiction released for free online with [[Unreal Estate (Literature)|Unreal Estate]] and [[Anachronauts (Literature)|Anachronauts]].
* Steven Frank, the creator of [[Spamusement]], is also one of the developers of Macintosh FTP app Transmit.
* Michael Land who composed the wacky music of ''[[Monkey Island]]'' also made the soulful and beautiful music for ''[[The Dig]]''.
* Hideki Kamiya is the game designer responsible for ''[[Resident Evil]] 2'', the ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' series, ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', ''[[Okami]]'' and ''[[Bayonetta]]''. He also voiced [[Ace Attorney|Godot]].
* Al Lowe, he of ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'' fame, started off developing Disney licensed games. After he became famous for LSL, he then did...the kid-friendly ''[[
* [[Hideo Kojima]], the creative mind behind the ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series, ''[[Snatcher]]'', ''[[Policenauts]]'', ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'' and ''[[
** Similary, Koji Igarashi alias "IGA", and Mikio Saito alias "Metal Yuhki", both big names in the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series (the first as the man in charge of the series, and the second as the music composer of popular entry ''[[Castlevania
* The writers of [[Happy Tree Friends]] wrote the script for the bloody Wii game [[
=== Writers / Poets ===
* [[
* [[Dave Barry]] is known most for his humorous books and newspaper columns, and Ridley Pearson is known very well for his thriller and suspense novels. You wouldn't expect these two to overlap in any way, right? Well, not only has Ridley Pearson written several children's books by himself (Namely ''[[The Kingdom Keepers]]'' and ''[[Steel Trapp]]''), but he and Barry have actually written five books together. Four of them being ''[[Peter and
* [[Lewis Black]], he of the foul-mouthed, politically-bent standup comedy routine, is an accomplished playwright, having written over 40 plays.
* Pierre Boulle, the French novelist most famous for writing ''[[The Bridge Over the River Kwai]]'', also wrote ''[[Planet of the Apes]]''.
* [[Ray Bradbury]] wrote a great deal of non-SF in addition to his famous SF works. He also wrote and narrated ''[[The Halloween Tree]]'', and adapted [[Moby Dick]] into a screenplay for [[John Huston]]'s film.
* Anthony Burgess, the writer of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
* [[Orson Scott Card]] wrote the famous [[You Fight Like a Cow|Insult Fights]] from the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' games, as well as the script for ''[[The Dig]]''. He also wrote for Marvel Comics.
* [[
* [[
* Ray Comfort, author of ''The Way Of The Master'' Christian book series, also wrote a humor book on plane travel.
* [[Michael Crichton]], of ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' and ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'' fame, also created ''[[ER]]''. Of course, he had a medical degree, he just never practiced due to publishing a runaway bestseller novel when he was barely out of medical school.
* [[
* [[Roald Dahl]], today best-known for his children's books, was chosen to write the screenplay to ''[[
* [[Richard Dawkins]], a British zoologist who is now probably most known for his outspoken atheism and criticism of religion, is also known in the scientific community for his contributions to the gene-centered view of evolution. He also coined the term [[Memetic Mutation|"meme"]].
* [[August Derleth]] is best known for founding Arkham House and writing various [[Lovecraft Lite]] short stories with a controversial [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of the denizens of the [[Cthulu Mythos]]. He also penned several volumes of detective stories starring [[Solar Pons]], a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Sherlock Holmes]].
* Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a famous Victorian British mathematician, author of some prominent works on logic, also wrote [[Lewis Carroll|some]] children's books.
* [[
* [[Ian Fleming]] also did a travelogue book, entitled ''Thrilling Cities''. To enhance sales, he put a [[James Bond]] short story at the end of it. James Bond's gadget-filled Aston-Martin was the literary cousin of ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'', a children's book also authored by Fleming.
* C. S. Forester wrote both the [[Horatio Hornblower]] books and ''The African Queen''. He also wrote ''Payment Deferred'', a crime novel that was adapted into a play and movie.
* Alexander Griboyedov, a Russian 19th century playwright, was more famous at the time as a brilliant diplomat. And also wrote music.
* [[L. Ron Hubbard]], the sci-fi author who wrote [[Battlefield Earth]], is the same author of ''Dianetics'', a self-help book, and is the founder of a certain religion associated with Dianetics.
* Nikolay Gogol also wrote books on religion and mysticism.
* Brain Jacques, best known for authoring the Young Adult Fantasy Series ''[[Redwall]]'', wrote a lot of and portraits about his hometown Liverpool and Merseyside and a couple of autobiographical pieces about his life there, in which he worked as a police constable, a lorry driver, a merchant sailor, a bus driver, a longshoreman, a boxer, a postmaster, a milkman, a railway fireman, a stand-up comedian, a folk singer, a radio host and as a writer of humorous short stories.
* [[
* Thriller novelist [[Dean Koontz]] has scripted (but not drawn) ''In Odd We Trust'', a manga-style comic book prequel to his ''Odd Thomas'' series.
* Mikhail Lermontov, a Russian 19th-century poet, was also a talented landscape painter.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft
* Vladimir Mayakovskiy, a famous Soviet poet, was also a [
* R.L. Stine, well known for his horror books such as the ''[[Fear Street]]'' and ''[[Goosebumps]]'' series, also published various humor books (such as the [[Novelization]] of ''[[
* [[
* Naomi Novik, author of the ''[[Temeraire]]'' series of novels, was originally a prolific writer of ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' [[Fan Fiction]].
* Mystery novelist Anne Perry's real name is Juliet Hulme. That's right, she's the same Juliet Hulme of [
* [[
* The Philip Reeve who wrote the ''[[Mortal Engines]]'' quartet (a [[Sliding Scale
* [[Shel Silverstein]] wrote children's poetry such as [[The Giving Tree]] and ''Where the Sidewalk Ends''. He also wrote novelty songs such as: "The Great Smoke Off", "The Cover of Rolling Stone", "A Boy Named Sue" and its sequel "The Father of a Boy Named Sue".
* In addition to writing ''[[The Jungle]]'', Upton Sinclair also wrote the Children's book ''The Gnome-Mobile''.
* [[Dr. Seuss]] used to be [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924165439/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/politicaldrseuss/seuss_fla.html a political cartoonist] during [[World War II]], creating many hilarious cartoons about the defeat of Hitler and more than a few [[Unfortunate Implications|horrifying caricatures of Japanese people]].
* Walter Tevis, author of ''[[The Hustler (film)|The Hustler]]'' and ''[[The Color of Money]]'', also wrote ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]''.
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* E.B. White, author of beloved children's books ''[[Stuart Little]]'' and ''Charlotte's Web'', is also the "White" of "Strunk and White", the handbook more formally known as ''The Elements of Style''.
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* Aside from writing acclaimed speculative fiction novels such as the ''[[Book of the New Sun]]'' and ''[[Book of the Long Sun]]'', [[Gene Wolfe]] also developed the machine that cooks Pringles potato chips.
* Apparently, the Paul Zindel who won a Pulitzer Prize for the play ''[[The Effects Of Gamma Rays On Man In The Moon Marigolds]]'' is the same one who wrote such horror novels as ''The Doom Stone'' and ''Reef of Death''.
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* [[Miley Cyrus|Miley Cyrus']] late grandfather, Ron Cyrus could count as this. United States Senator for 21 years, Little League coach, Armco steel rigger, Kentucky Colonel, executive secretary and treasurer of the Kentucky AFL-CIO, served in the U.S. Air Force in Japan, worked as a regional representative for Alan Greenspan of the Federal Reserve Board, sang bluegrass with the Crownsmen Quartet, and was a member of the Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse Association.
* Albert Schweitzer is remembered by most people as a physician and humanitarian, but he was also a musician (organist), musicologist (who wrote studies of the works of J.S. Bach), theologian, Lutheran minister, and philosopher.
* Alfred Nobel (yes, ''that'' Nobel) invented dynamite and owned huge weapons factories. He created the Nobel prizes after a scathing obituary was written about him being a "merchant of death" (after a mix-up where his brother died and that paper thought it was Alfred). He willed the bulk of his estate to awarding the prizes so he wouldn't be remembered that way.
* Noted film critic [[Roger Ebert]] co-wrote the screenplay for notorious shlock-fest ''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls''. Even more jarringly, among his bibliography of film guides, criticism and collections of reviews is [http://www.amazon.com/Pot-How-Use-Mystery-Romance/dp/0740791427?tag=rogerebcom-20&linkCode=as2 a cookbook for electric rice-cookers].
* Pablo Picasso was most famous for his cubist work, but he was also a major player amongst futurists, expressionists, surrealists, neoclassicists, artists of New Objectivity, [[
* James Lipton of ''Inside the Actor's Studio'' wrote the opening theme for ''[[
* [[Shigesato Itoi]], the man responsible for the ''[[MOTHER]]''/''[[
* Louis Farrakhan: leader of the Nation of Islam religious group, political activist...[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|former calypso singer?]]
* Herb Kohl (D-WI)is not only a respected long serving United States Senator, and before that president of the retail chain Kohl’s, he is also the owner of an NBA [[Basketball]] team the Milwaukie Bucks.
* Former United States Senate Majority Leader and current special envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell (D-ME), between holding those jobs he became the Chairman of [[Walt Disney]], Chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast [[Northern Ireland]], lead the Baseball steroid investigation, was president of the international law firm DLA Piper, helped negotiate peace in Ireland, and was a board member of several companies including the Boston Red Sox, and held several diplomatic post.
* [[Countdown
* Dr. Benjamin Spock, the famous child care specialist also won an Olympic gold medal in rowing back in 1924.
* Albert Speer, the architect responsible of the Nazi monumental architecture, was also the creator of the Volkswagen (ironically known as a hippie-culture icon).
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* Henry Agard Wallace was FDR's Agriculture Secretary, Vice President and Commerce Secretary, in that order. While he is remembered more for his political work, he was among the first to breed hybrid corn (and other things from strawberries to chickens), and wrote a number of works on agriculture. In addition, he edited both The New Republic (after he left government) and Wallaces' Farmer (before he went into government).
* [[Audie Murphy]] is probably best known as a highly decorated WWII veteran who earned most of his medals by doing [[Crazy Awesome]] things in combat. But he also cowrote (with the help of an uncredited journalist friend) a best-selling war memoir, ''To Hell And Back'', which he parlayed into an acting career that spanned 44 movies in 20 years, mostly lead roles in b-westerns. During the [[Korean War]], he served stateside as a training instructor in the Texas National Guard. He also became a breeder of racing Quarter Horses, and contributed significantly to the development of the breed. He ''also'' occasionally rode as a jockey and won two novelty races. He sought catharsis for his war experiences by writing poetry, and from there he branched out into writing lyrics for [[Country Music]] songs. In addition, he occasionally worked as an undercover agent for the police, investigating drug dealers and possibly the mafia. And this was a guy who didn't live to see retirement age!
* Both World Wars pretty much ensured that a large number of famous people from two generations
* History has seen a lot of [[Warrior Poet|Warrior Poets]], along with Warrior Philophers, and Warrior Artists.[[Older Than Feudalism|Socrates]] fought against the invading Persians, Xenophon was a Greek mercenary, Thucydides experienced first-handedly the Peloponnesian Wars, Horace fought in the Roman Civil Wars, a sharp decrease can be seen during the Dark Ages (where the ruling caste were often barbarian invaders) and the Middle Ages (where the feudal lords were sometimes literate and sometimes not and usually had enough on their plates politically to keep them busy). Things go booming during the last years of the High Middle Ages, where knights were supposed to be poets as well, while still being actually efficient and ruthless iron-clad warriors. The heyday of the [[Warrior Poet]], some examples includes Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Mallory, and very notably [[Dante Alighieri]], who incidentally had to exiled from Florence and became a [[Hired Guns|rogue knight]] who fought for many different lords, [[Leonardo
* probably half of the United States Presidents fought in some war. Even if one limited it to the ones who held the rank of general it would take some time to list them all. The most famous are, of course, Washington, Jackson and Grant, whose pictures appear on the currency. But Taylor, Eisenhower and Harrison (the one who died of pneumonia) also had very successful military careers before going into politics.
* Chaim Weizmann was a Zionist leader and the first President of Israel. He was ''also'' a notable chemist, "who developed the ABE-process which produces acetone through bacterial fermentation" (Wikipedia).
* Árpád Göncz, the first president of post-Communist Hungary, was previously a writer who translated many books into Hungarian, including ''[[
* Pioneering goresploitation film director Herschell Gordon Lewis leads a double-life as an advertising copywriter and has written dozens of books about direct-market advertising ([[Berserk Button|don't you]] '''''dare''''' [[Berserk Button|call it "junk mail" in his presence]]).
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* [[Our Elves Are Better|Zal]] of ''[[Quantum Gravity]]'' primarily does Mode X (think rock/alternative) stuff, but when he was starting out, he did a lot of different stuff. Naming it all is a task better put to a page detailing music genres.
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