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Oliver Cromwell

English statesman

Cicero

Roman statesman, scholar, and writer

Clarence Darrow

American lawyer

Alan Dershowitz

American lawyer

F. Lee Bailey

American lawyer

Johnnie Cochran

American lawyer

Gaius Verres

Roman magistrate

William Davison

English royal official

Luther Martin

American lawyer

William Kunstler

American lawyer

Melvin Belli

American lawyer

Henry Marten

English jurist

Sir William Scroggs

English chief justice

Quintus Hortensius Hortalus

Roman orator

Dinarchus

Greek speech writer

John Bradshaw

English jurist

Pierre Cauchon

French bishop

William Moody

United States jurist

Henri-Eugène-Philippe-Louis d’Orléans, duke d’Aumale

French noble

Hannah Arendt

German-born American political scientist