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* [[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 also served in the military or related fields in addition to the main source of their fame. Among these can be cited of note (takes breath) [[Christopher Lee]] (Commando in WWII), [[Kurt Vonnegut]] (WWII private and Dresden flattening survivor), [[William Butler Yeats]] (volunteer in WWI), [[Ernest Hemingway]] (volunteered as paramedic in WWI and spy in WWII), bogus director and crossdresser extraordinaire [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]] (war hero in Guadalcanal... [[What the Hell, Hero?|in panties]]), [[Ian Fleming]] (WWII), painters Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and lots of other Germans/Austrian young poor artists (drafted in WWI), Russian writer [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] (tank commander in the [[Great Patriotic War]], decorated twice), B-25 bomber gunner [[Charlton Heston]] (WWII) a whole lot of French enlisted in [[La Résistance]] (mime [[Marcel Marceau]], philosopher Simone Weil, writers [[Marguerite Duras]], [[Albert Camus]], [[Samuel Beckett]], [[Paul Eluard]], [[Louis Aragon]], [[André Malraux]], [[Tristan Tzara]] etc). Technically, Queen Elizabeth II also served in WWII, though not in a fighting capacity - she volunteered for the British women's auxiliary force, thus making her the only current head of state who's a veteran of that war. (A fact which caused some controversy when she wasn't invited to the D-Day commemoration in 2010.)
* 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 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.
* 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 ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.
* 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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