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
Pretty sure no one can beat John Neumann - mathematician, computer scientist, started game theory, also did some stuff in biology
Bo Jackson was a pro football player and a pro baseball player, and named an all-star in both
Leonardo da Vinci. Galileo Galilei. Benjamin Franklin. I suppose generally anyone regarded as a Renaissance Man or polymath.
Another related question — who are people who trained a secondary skill to improve talent in their "main" skill e.g. Zlatan Ibrahimovic with soccer + taekwondo
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?)
If this topic is of interest to you, I recommend this book. Had detailed examinations of the lives of some polymaths https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Robert-Greene/dp/178125091X
Miyamoto Musashi wrote The Book of Five Rings and he talked about the importance of being a swordsman and a painter and how both made him better at the other.