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=== Real Life Examples
== 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 ''[[Blue's Clues]],'' is also an indie rocker. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuSX53L66iU Here he is covering a] [[They Might Be Giants]] song.
* [[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].
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* [[Leonard Nimoy]] directed ''[[Three Men And A Baby]]'' and ''The Good Mother'' (as well as the less-surprising ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''). He has also released five albums, directed music videos, acted in many non-[[Star Trek]]-related roles, and (most notably) he is a succesful photographer.
** Many ''[[Star Trek]]'' alumni have made the jump to the director's chair. Jonathan Frakes has directed episodes of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', ''[[Leverage]]'', ''[[Persons Unknown]]'', and most recently ''[[Covert Affairs]]''; Robert McNeill has directed many episodes of ''[[Chuck]]''; and Roxann Dawson has directed ''[[The Closer]]''. Dawson also has an incredibly prolific career as a TV Producer.
** 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 ''[[NCIS]]''. Many people don't know that she (the actress, Perrette) actually holds a Master's Degree in Forensic Science. Play what you know, I suppose.
* [[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 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo]] and [[The Great Mouse Detective]]. He was also well-known as an art collector (he donated 90 pieces of art to a community college, making it the first community college to have such a collection), and as a noted gourmet cook (authoring several cookbooks, and once giving a demonstration on ''[[The Tonight Show]] Starring Johnny Carson'' of how to poach a fish in the dishwasher). He also spoke several languages and was an opera grade singer. During a segment on ''What's My Line'' where the blindfolded regulars were supposed to guess his identity by listening to his voice and his answers to their questions, he [[Beyondhe Impossible|''sang all his answers in French'']] to keep them from recognizing his distinctive voice.
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* 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 ''[[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).
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* [[Led Zeppelin]] could qualify for this trope. While casual listeners may know them strictly for their rock songs, the band has done other songs (especially folk) that are so far removed from rock they cannot even be properly classified as the genre. ''Especially'' "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXbLlxJO5Uc That's The Way]".
* 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 (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]]''.
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== Writers / Poets ==
* [[Isaac Asimov]] is known as a sci-fi writer, but also dabbled in lots of other genres, and published books on history, [[The Bible]], [[William Shakespeare]], [[Gilbert and Sullivan]], and several collections of dirty [[Limerick
* [[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 the Starcatchers]]'' books, the other being ''[[Science Fair]]''.
* [[Lewis Black]], he of the foul-mouthed, politically-bent standup comedy routine, is an accomplished playwright, having written over 40 plays.
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* 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 ''[[Thundercats]]''.
* [[Shigesato Itoi]], the man responsible for the ''[[MOTHER]]''/''[[Earthbound]]'' series, is ridiculously versatile and has dabbled in pretty much everything in the past thirty years, ''MOTHER'' being just another dabbling. He's also known for his fishing games, doing guest-judging on ''[[Iron Chef]]'', and for voicing the father on ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]''. His actual profession is writing essays and copywriting, in his signature writing style and idiosyncrasies. In Japan, that's what you think when you hear the name [[Shigesato Itoi]], but in America, ([[Needs More Love|if at all]]), it's ''[[Earthbound]]''. ''[[MOTHER]]'' was just Itoi experimenting into a new medium after being inspired by playing [[Dragon Quest]], and its sales in Japan [[Celebrity Endorsement|are largely based on the fact that he made it]], and it and its sequels' slogans were also a factor, of course. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQUN7QAnMp0 TV commercial] even specifically says that it was by him, invoking [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]] without actually using it. Its sequels' sales were also boosted by the fact that they were sequels to the games before them.
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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 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 da Vinci]] was contracted as a military engineer in Venice, [[Miguel De Cervantes]] was a young officer and war hero at Lepanto and so it goes.
* 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.
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=== In-Universe Examples
* [[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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