Chambers Dictionary of Great Quotations

Editor: Chambers
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Chambers Harrap

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-47-360812-2
Category: Language & Literature - Quotations
Book Status: Available
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The Chambers Dictionary of Great Quotations is a treasure trove of the wittiest, most insightful, most famous and most important words uttered in history.

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Table of Contents

  • Contributors to the third and previous editions
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations
  • Quotations by Author
  • a
  • Abbott, Diane Julie 1953-
  • Abelard, Peter 1079-1142
  • Abercrombie, Lascelles 1881-1938
  • Abrams, M(eyer) H(oward) 1912-
  • Abse, Dannie 1923-2014
  • Abu’l-’Alá Al-Ma’arri 973-1058
  • Abzug, Bella originally Bella Savitzky 1920-98
  • Accius 170-c.86
  • Ace, Goodman 1899-1982
  • Achebe, Chinua originally Albert Chinualumogo 1930-2013
  • Acheson, Dean Gooderham 1893-1971
  • Ackerman, Diane 1948-
  • Ackroyd, Peter 1949-
  • Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton of Aldenham 1834-1902
  • Adamov, Arthur 1908-70
  • Adams, Abigail 1744-1818
  • Adams, Arthur Henry 1872-1936
  • Adams, Charles Francis 1807-86
  • Adams, Douglas Noël 1952-2001
  • Adams, Gerry (Gerard) 1948-
  • Adams, Henry Brooks 1838-1918
  • Adams, John 1735-1826
  • Adams, John Quincy 1767-1848
  • Adams, Judge Richard 1846-1908
  • Adams, Samuel 1722-1803
  • Adams, Scott 1957-
  • Adamson, Harold 1906-80
  • Adcock, (Karen) Fleur 1934-
  • Addison, Joseph 1672-1719
  • Ade, George 1866-1944
  • Adele (Adele Laurie Blue Adkins) 1988-
  • Adelman, Kenneth Lee 1946-
  • Adenauer, Konrad 1876-1967
  • Adiga, Aravind 1974-
  • Adler, Jerry 1949-
  • Adler, Larry (Lawrence Cecil) 1914-2001
  • Adler, Polly 1900-62
  • Adorno, Theodor 1903-69
  • Aelius Aristides ad 117-189
  • St Aelred of Riveaulx d.1167
  • Aeschylus c.525-c.456 BC
  • Agassi, Andre 1970-
  • Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) 1807-73
  • Agate, James 1877-1947
  • Agawa, Hiroyuki 1920-
  • Agnew, Spiro T(heodore) 1918-96
  • Aguirre y Gil de Biedma, Countess of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, Esperanza 1952-
  • Agustini, Delmira 1886-1914
  • Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud 1956-
  • St Aidan c.600-651
  • Aitken, Jonathan William Patrick 1942-
  • Ai Weiwei 1957-
  • Akers, John Fellows 1934-2014
  • Akihito 1933-
  • Akins, Zoë 1886-1958
  • Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier) 1868-1951
  • Alan of Lille also known as ‘Alanus de Insulis’ c.1114-1202
  • Al-Aswany, Alaa 1957-
  • Alba, Duke of, Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo 1508-82
  • Albee, Edward Franklin III 1928-
  • Prince Albert 1819-61
  • Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-72
  • Albright, Madeleine Korbel originally Marie Jana Korbelová 1937-
  • Alcaeus c.620-c.580 BC
  • Alcott, Louisa May 1832-88
  • Alcuin 735-804
  • Alda, Alan 1936-
  • Aldington, Richard pseudonym of Edward Godfree 1892-1962
  • Aldiss, Brian Wilson 1925-
  • Aldrich, Henry 1647-1710
  • Aldrin, Edwin E(ugene) Jr known as ‘Buzz’ 1930-
  • Alembert, Jean le Rond d’ 1717-83
  • Alexander the Great 356-323 bc
  • Alexander I 1777-1825
  • Alexander II known as ‘the Liberator’ 1818-81
  • Alexander, Cecil Frances 1818-95
  • Alexander Sir William c.1567-1640
  • Algren, Nelson 1909-81
  • Ali, Muhammad formerly Cassius Clay 1942-
  • Allainval, Abbé d’ 1700-53
  • Allen, Henry Southworth 1941-
  • Allen, Tim 1953-
  • Allen, Woody pseudonym of Allen Stewart Konigsberg 1935-
  • Allingham, Margery Louise 1904-66
  • Allingham, William 1824-89
  • Allsop, (Harold) Bruce 1912-2000
  • Almeida, Manuel Antônio de 1831-61
  • Almodóvar, Pedro 1951-
  • Alsop, Stewart 1914-74
  • Alther, Lisa née Reed 1944-
  • Altman, Robert 1925-2006
  • Amado, Jorge 1912-2001
  • St Ambrose c.339-397 ad
  • American Library Association
  • Amerine, Maynard Andrew 1911-98
  • Amery, Leo(pold) Charles Maurice Stennett 1873-1955
  • Amin (Dada), Idi 1925-2003
  • Amis, Sir Kingsley 1922-95
  • Amis, Martin Louis 1949-
  • Ammianus Marcellinus c.330-390 ad
  • Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning 1872-1928
  • Anaxagoras c.500-428 bc
  • Ancona, Ronni 1968-
  • Anderson Admiral George Jr c.1907-1992
  • Anderson, John Edward 1917-2011
  • Anderson, Dame Judith originally Frances Margaret Anderson 1898-1992
  • Anderson, Lindsay 1932-94
  • Anderson, Maxwell 1888-1959
  • Anderson, Poul William 1926-2001
  • Anderson, Robert Woodruff 1917-2009
  • Anderson, Sherwood 1876-1941
  • Andrade, Carlos Drummond de 1902-87
  • Andrade, Mário de 1893-1945
  • Andreas Capellanus fl. late 12c
  • Andrewes, Lancelot 1555-1626
  • Andrews, Julie originally Julia Elizabeth Wells 1935-
  • Angell, Roger 1920-
  • Angelou, Maya originally Maya Johnson 1928-2014
  • Angle, Colin 1967-
  • Annan, Noël Gilroy, Baron 1916-2000
  • Anne, Queen 1665-1714
  • Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise 1950-
  • Annenberg, Walter H 1908-2002
  • Anonymous
  • Anouilh, Jean 1910-87
  • St Anselm 1033-1109
  • Antheil, George 1900-59
  • Anthony, Susan B(rownell) 1820-1906
  • Antiphon 5c bc
  • Apelles 4c bc
  • Apollinaire, Guillaume originally Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki 1880-1918
  • Appel, Jacob M. 1973-
  • Appleton, Sir Edward Victor 1892-1965
  • Appleton, Thomas Gold 1812-84
  • Aquinas, St Thomas 1225-74
  • Arbuthnot, John 1667-1735
  • Archer, Jeffrey Howard Lord 1940-
  • Archer, Mary 1944-
  • Archimedes c.287-212 bc
  • Arenas, Reinaldo 1943-90
  • Aretino, Pietro 1492-1557
  • Arguedas, José María 1911-69
  • Ariosto, Ludovico 1474-1533
  • Aristophanes c.448-c.388 bc
  • Aristotle 384-322 BC
  • Armstrong, Neil A(lden) 1930-2012
  • Armstrong, Robert, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster 1927-
  • Arnald Amaury d.1225
  • Arnold, Matthew 1822-88
  • Arnold, Thomas 1795-1842
  • Arnold, Thurman Wesley 1891-1969
  • Arras, Jean d’ also known as Jean Blondel fl.c.1375
  • Asahi Shimbun
  • Ascham, Roger 1515-68
  • Ashbery, John Lawrence 1927-
  • Ashcroft, John David 1942-
  • Ashdown (of Norton-sub-Hamdon) Paddy Ashdown Baron 1941-
  • Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret 1881-1972
  • Asimov, Isaac 1920-92
  • Aslet, Clive William 1955-
  • Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith 1852-1928
  • Asquith, Margot 1864-1945
  • Asquith of Yarnbury, (Helen) Violet Bonham-Carter Baroness 1887-1969
  • Assange, Julian Paul 1971-
  • Astell, Mary 1668-1731
  • Astley, Sir Jacob 1579-1652
  • Astor (of Hever Castle), Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess née Langhorne 1879-1964
  • Asturias, Miguel Ángel 1889-1974
  • Atatürk, Mustapha Kemal 1880-1938
  • Atkinson, Brooks 1894-1984
  • Atkinson, Kate 1951-
  • Atkinson, Ron 1939-
  • Atlas, Charles 1894-1972
  • Atlas, James 1949-
  • Attenborough, Sir David Frederick 1926-
  • Attlee (of Walthamstow), Clement (Richard) Attlee, 1st Earl 1883-1967
  • Atwood, Margaret Eleanor 1939-
  • Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
  • Aubrey, John 1626-97
  • Auchincloss, Louis Stanton 1917-2010
  • Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) 1907-73
  • St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus AD 354-430
  • Augustus originally Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus 63BC-AD 14
  • Aung San Suu Kyi 1945-
  • Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ad 121-80
  • Austen, Jane 1775-1817
  • Auster, Paul pseudonym of Paul Benjamin 1947-
  • Austin, Alfred 1835-1913
  • Austin, Mary Hunter 1868-1934
  • Austin, Warren R(obinson) 1877-1962
  • Avison, Margaret 1918-2007
  • Ayckbourn, Sir Alan 1939-
  • Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules 1910-89
  • Ayres, Pam 1947-
  • Aytoun, Sir Robert 1570-1638
  • Aytoun, William Edmonstoune 1813-65
  • b
  • Babbage, Charles 1792-1871
  • Babbitt, Bruce Edward 1938-
  • Babel, Isaac 1894-c.1939
  • Babeuf, François Noël 1760-97
  • Bacall, Lauren originally Betty Perske 1924-2014
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750
  • Bach, Richard 1936-
  • Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Albans 1561-1626
  • Bacon, Francis 1909-92
  • Bacon, Martha 1917-81
  • Bacon, Roger known as Doctor Mirabilis c.1214-c.1292
  • Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron 1857-1941
  • Baedeker, Karl 1801-59
  • Baer, George Frederick 1842-1914
  • Bagehot, Walter 1826-77
  • Bailey, David 1938-
  • Bailey, F(rancis) Lee 1933-
  • Bailey, Nathan d.1742
  • Bailey, Philip James 1816-1902
  • Baillie, Robert 1599-1662
  • Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret 1934-2010
  • Bairnsfather, Bruce 1888-1959
  • Baker, Colin 1943-
  • Baker, Howard Henry, Jr 1925-2014
  • Baker, James Addison, III 1930-
  • Baker, John Austin 1928-2014
  • Baker (of Dorking) Kenneth Baker Baron 1934-
  • Baker, Russell Wayne 1925-
  • Bakunin, Mikhail Alekseyevich 1814-76
  • Balazs, Bela originally Hubert Bauer 1884-1949
  • Balcon, Michael 1896-1977
  • Baldwin, James Arthur 1924-87
  • Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl 1867-1947
  • Bale, Christian (Charles Philip) 1974-
  • Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl 1848-1930
  • Ball, George Wildman 1909-94
  • Ball, John d.1381
  • Ballads
  • Ballard, J(ames) G(raham) 1930-2009
  • Balliett, Whitney 1926-2007
  • Balzac, Honoré de 1799-1850
  • Banda, Hastings Kamuzu 1898-1997
  • Bandeira, Manuel 1886-1968
  • Bankhead, Tallulah 1903-68
  • Banks, Iain Menzies 1954-2013
  • Banks, Lynne Reid 1929-
  • Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert 1929-
  • Banting, Frederick Grant 1891-1941
  • Banville, (William) John 1945-
  • Barach, Alvan Leroy 1895-1977
  • Baraka, Amiri adopted name of LeRoi (Everett Leroy) Jones 1934-2014
  • Barbellion, W(illiam) N(ero) P(ilate) pseudonym of Bruce Frederick Cummings 1889-1919
  • Barbirolli, Sir John 1899-1970
  • Barbour, John c.1316-1395
  • Barker, George Granville 1913-91
  • Barkley, Alben William 1877-1956
  • Barlow, Joel 1754-1812
  • Barnard, Frederick R
  • Barnes, Clive Alexander 1927-2008
  • Barnes, Djuna 1892-1982
  • Barnes, Julian Patrick 1946-
  • Barnum, P(hineas) T(aylor) 1810-91
  • Baron Cohen, Sacha (Noam) 1971-
  • Barr, Alfred Hamilton Jr 1902-81
  • Barrie, Sir J(ames) M(atthew) 1860-1937
  • Barrington, Jonah 1941-
  • Barry, Marion Shepilov Jr 1936-2014
  • Barrymore, Ethel 1879-1959
  • Barrymore, John 1882-1942
  • Barrymore, Lionel 1878-1954
  • Barth, John Simmons 1930-
  • Barth, Karl 1886-1968
  • Barthelme, Donald 1931-89
  • Barthes, Roland 1915-80
  • Bartley, Robert Leroy 1937-2003
  • Bartók, Béla 1881-1945
  • Baruch, Bernard Mannes 1870-1965
  • Barzun, Jacques 1907-2012
  • Baselitz, Georg 1938-
  • Basho, Matsuo 1644-94
  • Baskin, Leonard 1922-2000
  • Bastard, Thomas 1566-1618
  • Bates, H(erbert) E(rnest) 1905-74
  • Bates, Katharine Lee 1859-1929
  • Bateson, Gregory 1904-80
  • Batman, John 1801-39
  • Battelle, Phyllis 1922-
  • Baudelaire, Charles 1821-67
  • Baughan, Blanche Edith 1870-1958
  • Baxter, Sir Beverley (Arthur) 1891-1964
  • Baxter, Richard 1615-91
  • Beamer, Todd 1968-2001
  • Bearden, Romare 1914-88
  • Beasant, Dave 1959-
  • Beattie, Ann 1947-
  • Beattie, James 1735-1803
  • Beatty, David, 1st Earl Beatty 1871-1936
  • Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de 1732-99
  • Beaumont, Francis c.1584-1616
  • Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John c.1584-1616,
  • Beaverbrook, Max (William Maxwell Aitken), 1st Baron 1879-1964
  • Beckenbauer, Franz 1945-
  • Becker, Gary Stanley 1930-2014
  • Beckett, Dame Margaret (Mary) 1943-
  • Beckett, Samuel 1906-89
  • Becket, Thomas à, Saint 1118-70
  • Beckham, David 1975-
  • Beckham, Victoria 1975-
  • Bede known as ‘the Venerable’ 673-735
  • Bee, Barnard Elliot 1823-61
  • Beecham, Sir Thomas 1879-1961
  • Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian) 1872-1956
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827
  • Beeton, Isabella Mary née Mayson 1836-65
  • Behan, Brendan Francis 1923-64
  • Behn, Aphra née Amis 1640-89
  • Behrman, S(amuel) N(athaniel) 1893-1973
  • Belasco, David stagename of David Valasco 1859-1931
  • Bell, Alexander Melville 1819-1905
  • Bell, Bernard Iddings 1886-1958
  • Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard 1881-1964
  • Bell, Martin 1938-
  • Bell, Vanessa née Stephen 1879-1961
  • Bellay, Joachim du 1522-60
  • Belli, Carlos Germán 1927-
  • Bellini, Mario 1935-
  • Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre 1870-1953
  • Bellow, Saul 1915-2005
  • Bemelmans, Ludwig 1898-1962
  • Benaud, Richie (Richard) 1930-
  • Benchley, Robert Charles 1889-1945
  • Bendix, Reinhard 1916-91
  • Benedetti, Mario 1920-2009
  • Pope Benedict XVI originally Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger 1927-
  • Benét, Stephen Vincent 1898-1943
  • Benn, Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood) 1925 -2014
  • Bennard, George 1873-1958
  • Bennett, Alan 1934-
  • Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold 1867-1931
  • Bennett, James Gordon, Snr 1795-1872
  • Bennis, Warren Gameliel 1925-2014
  • Benson, A(rthur) C(hristopher) 1862-1925
  • Benson, Stella 1892-1933
  • Bentham, Jeremy 1748-1832
  • Bentley, Edmund Clerihew 1875-1956
  • Bentley, Nicholas Clerihew 1907-78
  • Bentsen, Lloyd Millard Jr 1921-2006
  • Benuzzi, Felice 1910-88
  • Bercow, John (Simon) 1963-
  • Berdyaev, Nicholas 1874-1948
  • Berendt, John 1939-
  • Berenson, Bernard 1865-1959
  • Beresford, Lord Charles 1846-1919
  • Berg, Alban 1885-1935
  • Berger, Bennett Maurice 1926-2005
  • Berger, Gerhard 1959-
  • Berger, John Peter 1926-
  • Bergreen, Laurence 1950-
  • Berkeley, George 1685-1753
  • Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline 1888-1989
  • Berlin, Sir Isaiah 1907-97
  • Berlusconi, Silvio 1936-
  • Bernanos, Georges 1888-1948
  • Bernard of Chartres d. c.1130
  • St Bernard of Clairvaux 1090-1153
  • Bernard, Claude 1813-78
  • Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Jacques-Henri 1737-1814
  • Bernays, Edward 1891-1995
  • Berners, Dame Juliana or Juliana Barnes fl.14c
  • Berners-Lee, Sir Tim(othy John) 1955-
  • Bernhardt, Sarah stage-name of Sarah Henriette Rosine Bernard 1844-1923
  • Bernini, Gianlorenzo 1598-1680
  • Bernstein, Leonard 1918-90
  • Berra, Yogi Lawrence Peter 1925-
  • Berry, Chuck (Charles Edward Anderson) 1926-
  • Berryman, John originally John Allyn Smith 1914-72
  • Berton, Pierre 1920-2004
  • Best, George 1946-2005
  • Bethell, (Mary) Ursula 1874-1945
  • Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von 1856-1921
  • Bethune, Norman 1890-1939
  • Betjeman, Sir John 1906-84
  • Beuys, Joseph 1921-86
  • Bevan, Aneurin 1897-1960
  • Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron 1879-1963
  • Bevin, Ernest 1881-1951
  • Bezos, Jeff(rey Preston) 1964-
  • Bhagavad Gita
  • Bhutto, Bilawal Zardari 1988-
  • Bible (Old Testament)
  • Bible (Apocrypha)
  • Bible (New Testament)
  • Bible (Vulgate)
  • Bickerstaffe, Isaac c.1735-c.1812
  • Biddle, Francis Beverley 1886-1968
  • Biden, Joe (Joseph Robinette) 1942-
  • Biel, Jessica Claire 1982-
  • Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett 1842-c.1914
  • Biko, Stephen 1946-77
  • Billings, Josh pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-85
  • Binyon, (Robert) Laurence 1869-1943
  • Bioy Casares, Adolfo 1914-99
  • Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop 1831-1904
  • Birkenhead, F(rederick) E(dwin) Smith, 1st Earl of
  • Birney, Earle 1904-95
  • Birns, Harold 1914-82
  • Biro, Lajos 1880-1948
  • Bishop, Elizabeth 1911-79
  • Bishop, Jim 1907-87
  • Bismarck, Otto Edward Leopold, Fürst von (Prince of) 1815-98
  • Bissell, Claude T(homas) 1916-2000
  • Black, Arthur 1943-
  • Black (of Crossharbour) Conrad Black, Baron 1944-
  • Black, Hugo LaFayette 1886-1971
  • Blacker, Valentine 1728-1823
  • Blackstone, Sir William 1723-80
  • Blainey, Geoffrey Norman 1930-
  • Blair, Cherie 1954-
  • Blair, Hamish pseudonym of Andrew James Fraser Blair
  • Blair, Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton) 1953-
  • Blake, Eubie James Hubert 1883-1983
  • Blake, Peter 1932-
  • Blake, William 1757-1827
  • Blanc, Raymond 1949-
  • Blanch, Lesley 1904-2007
  • Blanchflower, Danny (Robert Dennio) 1926-93
  • Blass, Bill (William Ralph) 1922-2002
  • Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna 1831-91
  • Blest Gana, Alberto 1830-1920
  • Blinder, Alan 1945-
  • Bliss, Sir Arthur 1891-1975
  • Blix, Hans 1928-
  • Blixen, Karen, Baroness pseudonym Isak Dinesen 1885-1962
  • Bloom, Allan 1930-92
  • Bloom, André Borisovich, Anthony, Metropolitan of Sourozh 1914-2003
  • Bloom, Harold 1930-
  • Bloomberg, Michael Rubens 1942-
  • Blough, Roger M(iles) 1904-85
  • Blunden, Edmund Charles 1896-1974
  • Blunkett, David 1947-
  • Blythe, Ronald George 1922-
  • Boccioni, Umberto 1882-1916
  • Bodenheim, Maxwell 1892-1954
  • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus c.480-524 ad
  • Bogan, Louise 1897-1970
  • Bogarde, Sir Dirk originally Derek Jules Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde 1921-99
  • Bogart, John B 1848-1921
  • Bohlen, Charles Eustis 1904-74
  • Boileau (Despréaux) Nicolas 1636-1711
  • Bok, Derek 1930-
  • Bold, Alan 1943-98
  • Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount 1678 -1751
  • Bolívar, Simón 1783-1830
  • Bolles, Richard Nelson 1927-
  • Bolt, Robert Oxton 1924-95
  • Bolt, Usain St Leo 1986-
  • Bonavia, David 1940-88
  • Bond, Carrie Jacobs 1862-1946
  • Bonds, Barry Lamar 1964-
  • Bone, Sir David 1874-1959
  • Bonham Carter, Helena 1966-
  • Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 1906-45
  • Bono real name Paul Hewson 1960-
  • Book of Common Prayer
  • Bookchin, Murray pseudonym of Lewis Herber 1921-2006
  • Booth, John Wilkes 1839-65
  • Booth, Junius Brutus 1796-1852
  • Booth, Martin 1944-2004
  • Boothby, Sir Robert John Graham, 1st Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head 1900-86
  • Boothroyd, Betty Boothroyd, Baroness 1929-
  • Borah, William Edgar 1865-1940
  • Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso 1608-79
  • Borges, Jorge Luis 1899-1986
  • Borgia, Cesare 1476-1507
  • Borman, Frank 1928-
  • Born, Max 1882-1970
  • Borotra, Jean 1898-1994
  • Borovoy, A Alan 1932-
  • Borrow, George Henry 1803-81
  • Bosquet, Pierre 1810-61
  • Bossidy, John Collins 1860-1928
  • Boswell, James 1740-95
  • Botha, P(ieter) W(illem) 1932-2006
  • Botham, Sir Ian Terence 1955-
  • Bottomley, Gordon 1874-1948
  • Boucicault, Dion(ysus Lardner) originally Dionysius Lardner Bursiquot c.1820-1890
  • Boulanger, Nadia 1887-1979
  • Boulding, Kenneth Ewart 1910-93
  • Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin 1859-1935
  • Bourassa, Henri 1868-1952
  • Bourdillon, F(rancis) W(illiam) 1852-1951
  • Bowen, Catherine Shober née Drinker 1897-1973
  • Bowen, Frank Charles 1894-1957
  • Bowie, David real name David Robert Jones 1947-
  • Bowles, Paul Frederick 1910-99
  • Boycott, Geoffrey 1940-
  • Boyd, L(ouis) M(alcolm) 1927-2007
  • Boyd, William Andrew Murray 1952-
  • Boyer, Charles 1899-1978
  • Boyer, Dr Ernest L 1928-95
  • Boyle, Danny (Daniel) 1956-
  • Boyle, Peter G(erard) 1941-
  • Bracken, Peg 1918-2007
  • Bracken, Thomas 1843-98
  • Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley 1932-2000
  • Bradbury, Ray(mond Douglas) 1920-2012
  • Bradley, Francis Herbert 1846-1924
  • Bradley, Omar Nelson 1893-1981
  • Bradman, Sir Don(ald George) 1908-2001
  • Bradstreet, Anne née Dudley 1612-72
  • Brady, Nicholas F(rederick) 1930-
  • Bragg, Melvyn Bragg, Baron 1939-
  • Brahms, Johannes 1833-97
  • Bramante, Donato 1444-1514
  • Bramston, James c.1694-1744
  • Brand, Jo(sephine Grace) 1957-
  • Brand, Russell Edward 1975-
  • Brando, Marlon 1924-2004
  • Branson, Sir Richard (Charles Nicholas) 1950-
  • Braque, Georges 1882-1963
  • Brasch, Charles 1909-73
  • Brathwaite, Edward Kamau originally Lawson Edward Brathwaite 1930-
  • Bratton, John W(alter) 1867-1947
  • Braudy, Leo Beal 1941-
  • Braun, Wernher von 1912-77
  • Brautigan, Richard 1935-84
  • Brecher, Irving 1914-2008
  • Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich 1898-1956
  • Brenan, Gerald 1894-1987
  • Brennan, William J(oseph) Jr 1906-97
  • Brennus
  • Breslin, Jimmy 1930-
  • Brewster, Kingman, Jr 1919-88
  • Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich 1906-82
  • Bricker, John W(illiam) 1893-1986
  • Bridges, Robert Seymour 1844-1930
  • Bridges, (Henry) Styles 1898-1961
  • Bridie, James pseudonym of Osborne Henry Mavor 1888-1951
  • Bright, John 1811-89
  • Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme 1755-1826
  • Brinkley, David McClure 1920-2003
  • Brisbane, Arthur 1864-1936
  • Britten, Baron (Edward) Benjamin, of Aldeburgh 1913-76
  • Brock, Sir Isaac 1768-1812
  • Brodber, Erna 1940-
  • Brodkey, Harold 1930-96
  • Brodsky, Ioseph 1940-96
  • Brody, Hugh 1943-
  • Bronowski, Jacob 1908-74
  • Brontë, Anne 1820-49
  • Brontë, Charlotte 1816-55
  • Brontë, Emily Jane 1818-48
  • Brooke, Frances née Moore 1724-89
  • Brooke, Rupert Chawner 1887-1915
  • Brookner, Anita 1928-
  • Brooks, Louise 1906-85
  • Brooks, Mel pseudonym of Melvin Kaminsky 1926-
  • Brooks, Van Wyck 1886-1963
  • Brougham Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux 1778-1868
  • Broun, (Matthew) Heywood Campbell 1888-1939
  • Brown, (James) Gordon 1951-
  • Brown, John 1800-59
  • Brown, John Mason 1900-69
  • Brown, Michael DeWayne 1954-
  • Brown, Olympia 1835-1900
  • Brown, Pat (Edmund Gerald, Sr) 1905-96
  • Brown, Rita Mae 1944-
  • Brown, Thomas 1663-1704
  • Brown, Walter fl.15c
  • Browne, Sir Thomas 1605-82
  • Browne, William 1692-1774
  • Browning, Elizabeth née Barrett 1806-61
  • Browning, Guy 1964-
  • Browning, Robert 1812-89
  • Broyard, Anatole 1920-90
  • Brummel, George Bryan called Beau Brummell 1778-1840
  • Brunet, Michel 1917-85
  • Brunner, John Kilian Houston 1934-95
  • Bruno, Frank(lin Roy) 1961-
  • Bryan, Richard H(udson) 1937-
  • Bryan, William Jennings 1860-1925
  • Bryant, David 1931-
  • Bryant, William Cullen 1794-1878
  • Bryson, Bill 1951-
  • Buber, Martin 1878-1965
  • Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir 1875-1940
  • Buchanan, James 1791-1868
  • Buchman, Sidney 1902-75
  • Buchwald, Art 1925-2007
  • Buck, Gene (Edward Eugene) 1885-1957
  • Buck, Pearl née Sydenstricker 1892-1973
  • Bucke, Richard Maurice 1837-1902
  • Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of 1628-87
  • Buechner, (Carl) Frederick 1926-
  • Buffett, Warren Edward 1930-
  • Buford, Bill (William Holmes) 1954-
  • Bukowski, Charles 1920-94
  • Buller, A(rthur) H(enry) Reginald 1874-1944
  • Bullock, Alan Louis Charles, Baron Bullock 1914-2004
  • Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor 1905-93
  • Bülow, Prince Bernhard Heinrich von 1849-1929
  • Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 1803-73
  • Bunting, Basil 1900-85
  • Buñuel, Luis 1900-83
  • Bunyan, John 1628-88
  • Burbank, Luther 1849-1926
  • Burchard, Samuel Dickinson 1812-91
  • Burgess, Anthony real name John Anthony Burgess Wilson 1917-94
  • Burgon, John William 1813-88
  • Burke, Edmund 1729-97
  • Burke, Johnny 1908-64
  • Burke, Kathy 1964-
  • Burke, Kenneth 1897-1986
  • Burke, Tim(othy) c.1942-
  • Burns, Ken Lauren 1953-
  • Burns, Robert 1759-96
  • Burroughs, Edgar Rice 1875-1950
  • Burroughs, William S(eward) 1914-97
  • Burt, Benjamin Hapgood 1880-1950
  • Burton, C(harles) L(uther) 1876-1961
  • Burton, Robert pseudonym Democritus Junior 1577-1640
  • Buruma, Ian 1951-
  • Busby, Sir Matt(hew) 1909-94
  • Bush, Barbara Pierce 1925-
  • Bush, George Herbert Walker 1924-
  • Bush, George W(alker) 1948-
  • Bush, Laura Lane Welch 1946-
  • Bush, Vannevar 1890-1974
  • Bushnell, Candace 1958-
  • Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto 1866-1924
  • Bussy-Rabutin, Comte de 1618-93
  • Butler, Joseph 1692-1752
  • Butler (of Saffron Walden) R(ichard) A(usten) Butler, Baron 1902-82
  • Butler, Samuel 1612-80
  • Butler, Samuel 1835-1902
  • Butler, William 1535-1618
  • Butterfield, Sir Herbert 1900-79
  • Byatt, Dame A(ntonia) S(usan) née Drabble 1936-
  • Byrd, William 1543-1623
  • Byrne, David 1952-
  • Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale 1788-1824
  • Byron, Henry James 1834-84
  • Byron, Robert 1905-41
  • c
  • Cabell, James Branch 1879-1958
  • Cable, (John) Vince(nt) 1943-
  • Cabrera Infante, Guillermo 1929-2005
  • Cadoria, Brigadier General Sherian G(race) 1940-
  • Caesar, Irving 1895-1996
  • Caesar, Gaius Julius 100/102-44 bc
  • Cage, John 1912-92
  • Cagney, James 1899-1986
  • Cain, James M(allahan) 1892-1977
  • Calas, Nicolas 1907-88
  • Caldwell, Philip 1920-2013
  • Calhoun, John Caldwell 1782-1850
  • Caligiuri, Paul 1964-
  • Caligula properly Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus ad 12-41
  • Callaghan (of Cardiff) (Leonard) James Callaghan Baron 1912-2005
  • Callanan, Jeremiah John 1795-1829
  • Callow, Simon Phillip Hugh 1949-
  • Calonne, Charles Alexandre de 1734-1802
  • Calvino, Italo 1923-85
  • Cambronne, Pierre, Baron de 1770-1842
  • Cameron, David William Donald 1966-
  • Cameron, James 1954-
  • Campbell, Donald Malcolm 1921-67
  • Campbell, Kim originally Avril Phaedra Campbell 1947-
  • Campbell, Mrs Patrick née Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner 1865-1940
  • Campbell, (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie 1901-57
  • Campbell, Thomas 1777-1844
  • Campbell, Sir (Walter) Menzies 1941-
  • Campion, Jane 1954-
  • Campion, Thomas 1567-1620
  • Campo, Estanislao de 1834-80
  • Camus, Albert 1913-60
  • Canmore, Malcolm d.1093
  • Cannadine, Sir David 1950-
  • Cannan, Edwin 1861-1935
  • Canning, George 1770-1827
  • Cantillon, Richard c.1680-1734
  • Cantona, Eric 1966-
  • Capello, Fabio 1946-
  • Capote, Truman 1924-84
  • Capp, Al originally Alfred Gerald Caplin 1909-79
  • Capra, Frank 1897-1991
  • Caraway, Hattie Wyatt 1878-1950
  • Carballido, Emilio 1925-2008
  • Cardus, Sir Neville 1889-1975
  • Carew, Thomas 1595-1639
  • Carey, John 1934-
  • Carey, Peter 1943-
  • Carleton, William 1794-1869
  • Carlyle, Jane Baillie née Jane Baillie Welsh 1801-66
  • Carlyle, Thomas 1795-1881
  • Carman, (William) Bliss 1861-1929
  • Carnegie, Andrew 1835-1919
  • Carnegie, Dale originally Dale Carnagey 1888-1955
  • Carpentier, Alejo 1904-80
  • Carr, E(dward) H(allet) 1892-1982
  • Carr, Emily 1871-1945
  • Carr, J(ames) L(loyd) 1912-94
  • Carrà, Carlo 1881-1966
  • Carracci, Annibale 1560-1609
  • Carrigan, Jim R(ichard) 1929-2014
  • Carroll, Lewis pseudonym of Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 1832-98
  • Carson, Edward Henry Baron 1854-1935
  • Carter, Angela Olive 1940-92
  • Carter, Jimmy (James Earl) 1924-
  • Carter, Lillian 1898-1983
  • Cartier, Jacques 1491-1557
  • Cartland, Dame (Mary) Barbara Hamilton 1901-2000
  • Cartwright, John 1740-1824
  • Caruso, Enrico 1873-1921
  • Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel 1888-1957
  • Casal, Julián del 1863-93
  • Casals, Pablo 1876-1973
  • Cassini, Oleg Lolewski 1913-2006
  • Casson, Sir Hugh Maxwell 1910-99
  • Castle (of Blackburn) Barbara Anne Castle Baroness 1910-2002
  • Castle (of Islington) Ted (Edward Cyril) Castle Baron 1907-79
  • Castro (Ruz) Fidel 1927-
  • Caswall, Edward 1814-78
  • Cather, Willa Sibert 1873-1947
  • Cato full name Marcus Porcius Cato known as ‘the Elder’ or ‘the Censor’ 234-149 bc
  • Cattell, Raymond B(ernard) 1905-98
  • Catto, Henry E(dward) 1930-2011
  • Catullus full name Gaius Valerius Catullus c.84-c.54 bc
  • Caulfield, Sir Bernard 1914-94
  • Causley, Charles 1917-2003
  • Cavafy, Constantine pseudonym of Konstantínos Pétron Kaváfis 1863-1933
  • Cavell, Edith Louisa 1865-1915
  • Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle 1624-74
  • Caxton, William c.1422-c.1491
  • Cecil, Lord (Edward Christian) David Gascoy 1902-86
  • Cecil, Robert Arthur James Gascoyne, 5th Marquis of Salisbury 1893-1972
  • Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury 1830-1903
  • Céline, Louis-Ferdinand pseudonym of Louis Ferdinand Destouches 1894-1961
  • Cellini, Benvenuto 1500-71
  • Cennini, Cennino c.1370-c.1440
  • Cervantes, Miguel de 1547-1616
  • Césaire, Aimé Fernand 1913-2008
  • Cézanne, Paul 1839-1906
  • Chalmers, Patrick Reginald 1872-1942
  • Chamberlain, Sir (Joseph) Austen 1863-1937
  • Chamberlain, Joseph 1836-1914
  • Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville 1869-1940
  • Chamberlain, Wilt(on Norman) 1936-99
  • Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas 1741-94
  • Chandler, Raymond 1888-1959
  • Chanel, Gabrielle known as Coco 1883-1971
  • Channing, Carol Elaine 1921-
  • Channon, Sir Henry 1897-1958
  • Chao AD 168-89
  • Chaplin, Charlie (Sir Charles Spencer) 1889-1977
  • Chapman, Arthur 1873-1935
  • Chapman, (Anthony) Colin Bruce 1928-82
  • Chapman, Dinos 1962-
  • Chapman, George c.1559-1634
  • Chapman, Jake 1966-
  • Chapman, John 1900-72
  • Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon 1699-1779
  • Chargaff, Erwin 1905-2002
  • Charles, Elizabeth 1828-96
  • Charles I 1600-49
  • Charles II 1630-85
  • Charles V 1500-58
  • Charles, Prince of Wales 1948-
  • Charlton, Sir Bobby (Robert) 1937-
  • Charlton, Jack (John) 1935-
  • Charpak, Georges 1924-2010
  • Chase, Edna Woolman 1877-1954
  • Chatwin, Bruce 1940-89
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey c.1345-1400
  • Chávez (Frías) Hugo Rafael 1954-2013
  • Cheever, John William 1912-82
  • Chekhov, Anton 1860-1904
  • Chelmsford, Frederick John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount 1868-1933
  • Cheney, Dick (Richard Bruce) 1946-
  • Cher originally Cheryl Sarkisian La Pier 1946-
  • Chereskin, Alvin 1928-
  • Chernow, Ron 1949-
  • Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 1886-1959
  • Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller 1823-86
  • Chesnutt, Charles Waddell 1858-1932
  • Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of 1694-1773
  • Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) 1874-1936
  • Chiang Kai-Shek 1887-1975
  • Chilcott, Gareth 1956-
  • Child, Julia McWilliams 1912-2004
  • Ch’in Chia c.150 bc
  • Chirac, Jacques René 1932-
  • Chirico, Giorgio de 1888-1978
  • Chisholm, Caroline née Jones 1808-77
  • Chocano, José Santos 1875-1934
  • Chomsky, (Avram) Noam 1928-
  • Chopin, Kate (Katherine) née O’Flaherty 1851-1904
  • Christiansen, Arthur 1904-63
  • Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa née Miller 1890-1976
  • Christie, Linford 1960-
  • Christine de Pisan 1364-1430
  • Christopher, Warren Minor 1925-2011
  • Church, Richard 1893-1972
  • Churchill, Charles 1731-64
  • Churchill, Jeanette née Jeanette Jerome 1852-1921
  • Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer 1849-95
  • Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer 1874-1965
  • Ciardi, John 1916-85
  • Cibber, Colley 1671-1757
  • Cicero full name Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 bc
  • Cisneros, Henry 1947-
  • Cixous, Hélène 1937-
  • Clare, John 1793-1864
  • Clark, Alan Kenneth McKenzie 1928-99
  • Clark, Eleanor 1913-96
  • Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie Clark Baron 1903-83
  • Clark, Ralph c.1755-1794
  • Clark, Ramsey 1927-
  • Clark, William R and Michael Grunstein
  • Clarke, Sir Arthur C(harles) 1917-2008
  • Clarke, Kenneth Harry 1940-
  • Claudel, Paul 1868-1955
  • Claudius Caecus, Appius 4c-3c bc
  • Clausewitz, Karl von 1780-1831
  • Clavell, James du Maresq 1924-94
  • Cleaver, Eldridge 1935-98
  • Cleese, John 1939-
  • Clegg, Nick (Nicholas William Peter) 1967-
  • Clemenceau, Georges 1841-1929
  • Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover 1837-1908
  • Cleveland, John 1613-1658
  • Clifford, Clark M(cAdams) 1906-98
  • Clinton, Bill (William) 1946-
  • Clinton, Hillary Rodham 1947-
  • Clive, Kitty 1711-85
  • Clive, Robert, 1st Baron of Plassey 1725-74
  • Clooney, George Timothy 1961-
  • Clough, Arthur Hugh 1819-61
  • Clough, Brian 1935-2004
  • Cobain, Kurt (Donald) 1967-94
  • Cobbett, William 1762-1835
  • Cobden, Richard 1804-65
  • Cockburn, Alison née Rutherford 1713-94
  • Cocker, Jarvis 1963-
  • Cocteau, Jean 1889-1963
  • Coen, Joel 1954-
  • Coetzee, J(ohn) M(axwell) 1940-
  • Coffee, Lenore 1900-84
  • Coffinhal, Jean Baptiste 1754-94
  • Cohan, George M(ichael) 1878-1942
  • Coke, Sir Edward 1552-1634
  • Coke, F T Desmond 1879-1931
  • Cole, Mac
  • Cole, W Sterling 1904-88
  • Cole, William 1919-2000
  • Coleman, Ornette 1930-
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834
  • Colette full name Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 1873-1954
  • Collingwood, Cuthbert, Baron 1748-1810
  • Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge) 1889-1943
  • Collins, Billy 1941-
  • Collins, Charles 1874-1926
  • Collins, Michael 1890-1922
  • Collins, Michael 1930-
  • Collins, Phil 1951-
  • Collins, Suzanne Marie 1962-
  • Collins, William 1721-59
  • Colombo, John Robert 1936-
  • Colton, Charles Caleb 1780-1832
  • Coltrane, John 1926-67
  • Colum, Padraic 1881-1972
  • Columbus, Christopher Spanish name Cristóbal Colón 1451 -1506
  • Comden, Betty pseudonym of Elizabeth Cohen 1919-2006
  • Commoner, Barry 1917-2012
  • Comnena, Anna 1083-1153
  • Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy 1892-1969
  • Comte, Auguste Isidore Marie Françoise 1798-1857
  • Conant, James Bryant 1893-1978
  • Condon, Richard 1915-96
  • Confucius or K’ung Fu-tse, ‘The Master K’ung’ 551-479 bc
  • Congreve, William 1670-1729
  • Conklin, Edwin G(rant) 1863-1952
  • Connally, John Bowden 1917-93
  • Connally, Tom (Thomas Terry) 1877-1963
  • Connell, James 1852-1929
  • Connery, Sir Sean 1930-
  • Connolly, Billy 1942-
  • Connolly, Cyril Vernon 1903-74
  • Connolly, James 1868-1916
  • Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra 1909-67
  • Conrad, Joseph originally Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski 1857-1924
  • Conran, Shirley Ida née Pearce 1932-
  • Conroy, (Donald) Pat(rick) 1945-
  • Constable, John 1776-1837
  • Constant (de Rebecque) (Henri) Benjamin 1767-1830
  • Constantine full name Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus c.274-337 ad
  • Cook, Arthur James 1883-1931
  • Cook, Captain James 1728-79
  • Cook, Peter 1937-94
  • Cook, Robin originally Robert Finlayson Cook 1946-2005
  • Cooke, (Alfred) Alistair 1908-2004
  • Coolidge, (John) Calvin 1872-1933
  • Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851
  • Cooper, William pseudonym of Harry Summerfield Hoff 1910-2002
  • Coover, Robert Lowell 1932-
  • Cope, Wendy 1945-
  • Copland, Aaron 1900-90
  • Coppola, Francis Ford 1939-
  • Cornford, Frances née Darwin 1886-1960
  • Cornforth, Sir John Warcup 1917-2013
  • Corwin, Thomas 1794-1865
  • Cory, William originally William Johnson 1823-92
  • Coryate, Thomas c.1577-1617
  • Costello, Elvis real name Declan Patrick McManus 1954-
  • Cotman, John Sell 1782-1842
  • Coubertin, Pierre de Baron 1863-1937
  • Coué, Émile 1857-1926
  • Coulter, Ann Hart 1961-
  • Coupland, Douglas 1961-
  • Cousins, Norman 1915-90
  • Cousteau, Jacques Yves 1910-97
  • Coventry, Thomas, 1st Baron 1578-1640
  • Coward, Sir Noël Peirce 1899-1973
  • Cowell, Simon (Phillip) 1959-
  • Cowley, Abraham 1618-67
  • Cowley, Hannah 1743-1809
  • Cowley, Malcolm 1898-1989
  • Cowper, William 1731-1800
  • Crabbe, George 1754-1832
  • Craig, Daniel Wroughton 1968-
  • Craik Dinah Maria née Mulock 1826-87
  • Crane, (Harold) Hart 1899-1932
  • Crane, Stephen 1871-1900
  • Cranfield, Ingrid 1945-
  • Cranmer, Thomas 1489-1556
  • Crashaw, Richard c.1613-1649
  • Craster, Mrs Edmund d.1874
  • Crawford, Joan originally Lucille Fay le Sueur 1904-77
  • Crichton, Michael 1942-2008
  • Crick, Francis Harry Compton 1916-2004
  • Cripps, Arthur S(hearly) 1869-1952
  • Cripps, Sir (Richard) Stafford 1889-1952
  • Crisp, Quentin 1908-99
  • Critchfield, Richard Patrick 1931-94
  • Critchley, Sir Julian Michael Gordon 1930-2000
  • Critias c.460-403 bc
  • Croker, John Wilson 1780-1857
  • Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl 1841-1917
  • Crompton, Richmal originally Richmal Samuel Lamburn 1890-1969
  • Cromwell, Oliver 1599-1658
  • Cronenberg, David 1943-
  • Cronkite, Walter 1916-2009
  • Cronyn, Hume 1911-2003
  • Crosby, Bing originally Harry Lillis Crosby 1904-77
  • Cross, Henry Douglass 1920-75
  • Crossman, Richard Howard Stafford 1907-74
  • Crowley, (Edward) Aleister 1875-1947
  • Cruyff, Johan 1947-
  • Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la 1651-95
  • Cuarón, Alfonso 1961-
  • Cullen, Countee 1903-46
  • cummings, e e pen name of Edward Estlin Cummings 1894-1962
  • Cunningham, Allan 1784-1842
  • Cunningham, Roseanna 1951-
  • Cuomo, Mario Matthew 1932-2015
  • Cupitt, Rev Don 1934-
  • Curie, Marie originally Marya Sklodowska 1867-1934
  • Curnow, (Thomas) Allen Munro 1911-2001
  • Curran, Charles
  • Curran, John Philpot 1750-1817
  • Currie, Edwina 1946-
  • Curtis, Lionel 1872-1955
  • Curtis, Richard Whalley Anthony 1956-
  • Curtis, Tony pseudonym of Bernie Schwartz 1925-2010
  • Curtiz, Michael originally Mihaly Kertesz 1888-1962
  • Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel 1859-1925
  • St Cyprian full name Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus c.200-258 AD
  • Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien de 1619-55
  • d
  • Daché, Lilly 1904-89
  • Dafoe, John W 1866-1944
  • Daily Express
  • Daily Mail
  • Daily Mirror
  • Dalai Lama originally Tenzin Gyatso 1935-
  • Dalglish, Kenny 1951-
  • Dalí, Salvador 1904-89
  • Dallek, Robert 1934-
  • Daly, Daniel 1874-1937
  • Daly, John 1966-
  • Daly, Mary 1928-2010
  • St Peter Damian or Pietro Damiani 1007-72
  • Damrosch, Walter Johannes 1862-1950
  • Dana, Charles Anderson 1819-97
  • Danforth, John Claggett 1936-
  • Dangarembga, Tsitsi 1959-
  • Dangerfield, George 1904-86
  • Daniel, Samuel 1562-1619
  • Dante Alighieri originally Durante 1265-1321
  • Danton, Georges Jacques 1759-94
  • Darío, Rubén pseudonym of Félix Rubén García Sarmiento 1867-1916
  • Dark, Eleanor née O’Reilly pseudonym Patricia O’Rane 1901-85
  • Darman, Richard G(ordon) 1943-2008
  • Darnell, Bill c.1940-
  • Darrow, Clarence Seward 1857-1938
  • Darwin, Charles Robert 1809-82
  • Darwin, Sir Francis 1848-1925
  • Daugherty, Harry Micajah 1860-1941
  • David, Hal 1921-2012
  • Davidson, John 1857-1909
  • Davie, George Elder 1912-2007
  • Davies, (Sarah) Emily 1830-1921
  • Davies, Sir John 1569-1626
  • Davies, Nigel 1960-
  • Davies, Ray(mond Douglas) 1944-
  • Davies, Robertson 1913-95
  • Davies, Ron(ald) 1946-
  • Davies, W(illiam) H(enry) 1871-1940
  • da Vinci, Leonardo
  • Davis, Adelle 1904-74
  • Davis, Bette originally Ruth Elizabeth Davis 1908-89
  • Davis, Jefferson 1808-89
  • Davis, Miles Dewey III 1926-91
  • Davis, Sammy, Jnr 1925-90
  • Davis, Steve 1957-
  • Davis, Stuart 1894-1964
  • Davis, Thomas Osborne 1814-45
  • Davison, Emily Wilding 1872-1913
  • Dawkins, Richard 1941-
  • Day, Clarence Shepard 1874-1935
  • Day, Doris originally Doris Kappelhoff 1924-
  • Dayan, Moshe 1915-81
  • Day-Lewis, Cecil 1904-72
  • Dean, John 1938-
  • de Beauvoir, Simone 1906-86
  • de Bernières, Louis 1954-
  • de Botton, Alain 1969-
  • Debray, Regis 1941-
  • Debussy, Claude Achille 1862-1918
  • Decatur, Stephen 1779-1820
  • Deedes, William Francis Deedes Baron 1913-2007
  • Deffand, Marquise du 1697-1780
  • Defoe, Daniel 1660-1731
  • De Forest, Lee 1873-1961
  • Degas, (Hilaire Germain) Edgar 1834-1917
  • de Gaulle, Charles 1890-1970
  • DeGeneres, Ellen (Lee) 1958-
  • Dekanahwideh fl.c.1450
  • Dekker, Thomas c.1570-c.1641
  • de Klerk, F(rederik) W(illem) 1936-
  • de Kooning, Willem 1904-97
  • Delacroix, (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène 1798-1863
  • de la Mare, Walter 1873-1956
  • Delaney, Shelagh 1939-2011
  • DeLillo, Don 1936-
  • Delius, Frederick 1862-1934
  • Deming, W(illiam) Edwards 1900-93
  • Democritus c.460-c.370 bc
  • Dempsey, (William Harrison) Jack 1895-1983
  • Deneuve, Catherine 1943-
  • Dench, Dame Judi(th Olivia) 1934-
  • Deng Xiaoping 1904-97
  • Denham, Sir John 1615-69
  • Deniehy, Daniel Henry 1828-65
  • De Niro, Robert 1943-
  • Denis, Maurice 1870-1943
  • Denman, Thomas, 1st Baron 1779-1854
  • Denning, Alfred Thompson, Lord 1899-1999
  • Dennis, C(larence Michael) J(ames) 1876-1938
  • Dennis, John 1657-1734
  • Depp, Johnny (John Christopher) 1963-
  • De Quincey, Thomas 1785-1859
  • Derby, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of 1799-1869
  • Desai, Anita née Mazumbar 1937-
  • Desbiens, Jean-Paul 1927-2006
  • Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline 1786-1859
  • Descartes, René 1596-1650
  • Deschamps, Yvon 1935-
  • Destouches, Philippe originally Néricault 1680-1754
  • Dettori, Frankie (Lanfranco) 1970-
  • De Valera, Éamon 1882-1975
  • Devlin, Denis 1908-59
  • De Voto, Bernard 1897-1955
  • De Vries, Peter 1910-93
  • Dewar, Donald Campbell 1937-2000
  • Dewey, John 1859-1952
  • De Wolfe, Elsie 1865-1950
  • Diaghilev, Sergei 1872-1929
  • Diana, Princess of Wales 1961-97
  • Díaz, Jorge 1930-2007
  • Diaz, Porfirio 1830-1915
  • Dibdin, Charles 1745-1814
  • Dick, Philip K(indred) 1928-82
  • Dickens, Charles John Huffam 1812-70
  • Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth 1830-86
  • Dickinson, John 1732-1808
  • Diderot, Denis 1713-84
  • Didion, Joan 1934-
  • Dietz, Howard 1896-1983
  • Dillard, Annie 1945-
  • Dillingham, Charles 1868-1934
  • Dillon, Wentworth c.1633-1685
  • DiMaggio, Joe (Joseph Paul) 1914-99
  • Dimbleby, Richard 1913-65
  • Dinesen, Isak
  • Diogenes of Sinope c.410-c.320 bc
  • Dior, Christian 1905-57
  • Dirksen, Everett McKinley 1896-1969
  • Disch, Thomas M(ichael) 1940-2008
  • Diski, Jenny 1947-
  • Disney, Walt(er Elias) 1901-66
  • Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield 1804-81
  • Dobson, (Henry) Austin 1840-1921
  • Dobzhansky, Theodosius G 1900-75
  • Docherty, Tommy (Thomas Henderson) 1928-
  • Doctorow, E(dgar) L(awrence) 1931-
  • Dodd, Christopher J 1944-
  • Dodd, Ken(neth) 1927-
  • Doddridge, Philip 1702-51
  • Dole, Bob (Robert Joseph) 1923-
  • Dole, Elizabeth Hanford 1936-
  • Domínguez Camargo, Hernando 1606-59
  • Donaghy, Siobhan 1984-
  • Donahue, Phil 1935-
  • Donald, David Herbert 1920-2009
  • Donleavy, J(ames) P(atrick) 1926-
  • Donne, John c.1572-1631
  • Donoghue, Denis 1928-
  • Donoso, José 1924-96
  • Doolittle, James Harold 1896-1993
  • Doram-Smith, Sir Reginald Hugh 1899-1977
  • Dorgan, Tad (Thomas Aloysius) 1877-1929
  • Dos Passos, John Roderigo 1896-1970
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich 1821-81
  • Douglas, Lord Alfred Bruce 1870-1945
  • Douglas, Charles 1840-74
  • Douglas, Gavin c.1474-1522
  • Douglas, Keith Castellain 1920-44
  • Douglas, (George) Norman 1868-1952
  • Douglas, Michael Kirk 1944-
  • Douglas, William Orville 1898-1980
  • Douglass, Frederick originally Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey 1817-95
  • Dove, Rita Frances 1952-
  • Dowd, Maureen 1952-
  • Dowland, John 1563-1626
  • Downey, Dr Richard 1881-1953
  • Dowson, Ernest 1867-1900
  • Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 1859-1930
  • Doyle, Charles (Mike) 1928-
  • Doyle, Roddy 1958-
  • Drabble, Margaret 1939-
  • Drake, Sir Francis c.1540-1596
  • Drapeau, Jean 1916-99
  • Drayton, Michael 1563-1631
  • Drennan, William 1754-1820
  • Drescher, Fran(cine Joy) 1957-
  • Drexler, Arthur 1925-87
  • Driberg, Tom (Thomas Edward Neil), Baron of Bradwell 1905-76
  • Drucker, Peter Ferdinand 1909-2005
  • Drummond, Thomas 1797-1840
  • Dryden, John 1631-1700
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  • Hearst, William Randolph 1863-1951
  • Heath, Sir Edward Richard George also called Ted 1916-2005
  • Heat-Moon, William Least originally William Trogdon 1939-
  • Hebbel, Friedrich 1813-63
  • Heber, Reginald 1783-1826
  • Hecht, Ben 1894-1964
  • Hedin, Sven Anders 1865-1952
  • Heffer, Simon 1960-
  • Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831
  • Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976
  • Heifetz, Jascha 1901-87
  • Heine, Heinrich 1797-1856
  • Heinse, Wilhelm 1746-1803
  • Heisenberg, Werner 1901-76
  • Heller, Joseph 1923-99
  • Heller, Walter Wolfgang 1915-87
  • Hellman, Lillian Florence 1907-84
  • Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von 1821-94
  • Helmsley, Leona (Mindy) née Rosenthal 1920-2007
  • Héloïse 1101-64
  • Helpmann, Sir Robert Murray 1909-86
  • Hemans, Felicia née Browne 1793-1835
  • Hemingway, Ernest Millar 1899-1961
  • Hempstone, Smith 1929-2006
  • Henderson, Leon 1895-1986
  • Henderson, Sir Nevile Meyrick 1882-1942
  • Hendrix, Jimi (James Marshall) 1942-70
  • Henley, W(illiam) E(rnest) 1849-1903
  • Henri, Adrian Maurice 1932-2000
  • Henry II 1133-89
  • Henry V 1387-1422
  • Henry VIII 1491-1547
  • Henry, Philip 1631-96
  • Henry, Thierry 1977-
  • Henryson, Robert c.1425-c.1508
  • Henze, Hans Werner 1926-2012
  • Hepburn, Katharine 1907-2003
  • Hepworth, Dame Barbara 1903-75
  • Heraclitus fl.500 bc
  • Herbert, Sir A(lan) P(atrick) 1890-1971
  • Herbert, George 1593-1633
  • Herbert, Xavier 1901-84
  • Herfindahl, Orris C 1918-72
  • Hernández, Felisberto 1902-64
  • Hernández, José 1834-86
  • Herodotus c.485 bc-c.425 bc
  • Herr, Michael 1940-
  • Herrick, Robert 1591-1674
  • Herriot, James pseudonym of James Alfred Wight 1916-95
  • Hersey, John Richard 1914-93
  • Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich 1812-70
  • Herzl, Theodor 1860-1904
  • Herzog, Maurice 1919-2012
  • Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine Baron 1933-
  • Hess, Moses 1812-75
  • Heston, Charlton 1923-2008
  • Hewart, Gordon Hewart, Ist Viscount 1870-1943
  • Hewett, Dorothy Coade later Davies and Lilley 1923-2002
  • Hewlett, Sylvia Ann 1946-
  • Heyerdahl, Thor 1914-2002
  • Heyward, Du Bose 1885-1940
  • Heywood, Thomas c.1574-1641
  • Hicks, Sir Edward Seymour 1871-1949
  • Hicks, Sir John Richard 1904-89
  • Hickson, William Eward 1803-70
  • Highfield, Roger 1958-
  • Higley, Brewster Martin 1823-1911
  • Hill, (Norman) Graham 1929-75
  • Hill, Joe originally Joel Hägglund 1879-1915
  • Hill, Rowland 1744-1833
  • Hillaby, John 1917-96
  • Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival 1919-2008
  • Hillebrand, Fred 1893-1963
  • Hillingdon, Lady Alice 1857-1940
  • Hilton, James 1900-54
  • Hindemith, Paul 1895-1963
  • Hippocrates c.460 bc-c.370 bc
  • Hirohito 1901-89
  • Hirsch, E(ric) D(onald) Jr 1928-
  • Hirschfeld, Al(bert) 1903-2003
  • Hirst, Damien 1965-
  • Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Joseph 1899-1980
  • Hitchens, Christopher Eric 1949-2011
  • Hitchens, Peter Jonathan 1951-
  • Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945
  • Hobbes, Thomas 1588-1679
  • Hobhouse, John Cam, 1st Baron Broughton 1786-1869
  • Hobsbawm, Eric (John Ernest) 1917-2012
  • Hobson, John Atkinson 1858-1940
  • Hoby, Sir Edward 1560-1617
  • Ho Chi Minh originally Nguyen That Thanh 1892-1969
  • Hockney, David 1937-
  • Hodges, Andrew 1949-
  • Hodgson, Ralph 1871-1962
  • Hoffer, Eric 1902-83
  • Hoffman, Abbie 1936-89
  • Hoffman, Dustin 1937-
  • Hoffman, Hans 1880-1966
  • Hoffmann, Heinrich 1809-94
  • Hofstadter, Douglas R(ichard) 1945-
  • Hofstadter, Richard 1916-70
  • Hogarth, William 1697-1764
  • Hogg, James 1770-1835
  • Hoggart, Simon David 1946-2014
  • Holiday, Billie 1915-59
  • Holland, Henry Scott 1847-1918
  • Hollander, Anne 1930-2014
  • Hollinghurst, Alan 1954-
  • Holman, James 1786-1857
  • Holme (of Cheltenham) Richard Holme, Baron 1936-2008
  • Holmes, John Clellon 1926-88
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell 1809-94
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr 1841-1935
  • Holroyd, Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser 1935-
  • Holst, Gustav Theodore 1874-1934
  • Holt, Harold Edward 1908-67
  • Holub, Miroslav 1923-98
  • Homans, George C 1910-89
  • Home of the Hirsel Alec (Alexander Frederick) Douglas-Home Baron 1903-95
  • Homer 8c bc
  • Homer, Winslow 1836-1910
  • Honegger, Arthur 1892-1955
  • Honorius of Autun fl.1106-35
  • Hood, Thomas 1799-1845
  • Hooker, Richard 1554-1600
  • Hoover, Herbert Clark 1874-1964
  • Hoover, J(ohn) Edgar 1895-1972
  • Hope, A(lec) D(erwent) 1907-2000
  • Hope, Anthony pseudonym of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins 1863-1933
  • Hope, Bob originally Leslie Townes Hope 1903-2003
  • Hopkins, Sir Anthony 1937-
  • Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1844-89
  • Hopkins, J Castell 1864-1923
  • Hopper, Edward 1882-1967
  • Hopper, Grace Murray 1906-92
  • Horace full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65 bc-8 bc
  • Horner, Jack (John R) 1946-
  • Hornung, E(rnest) W(illiam) 1866-1921
  • Horsley, Samuel 1733-1806
  • Hoskins, Bob 1942-2014
  • Hosseini, Khaled 1965-
  • Houllier, Gerard 1947-
  • Housman, A(lfred) E(dward) 1859-1936
  • How, William Walsham 1823-97
  • Howard, Thomas, Earl of Surrey and 2nd Duke of Norfolk 1443-1524
  • Howe (of Aberavon) (Richard Edward) Geoffrey Howe Baron 1926-
  • Howe, Gordie (Gordon) 1928-
  • Howe, Joseph 1804-73
  • Howe, Julia Ward 1819-1910
  • Howe, Louis McHenry 1871-1936
  • Hoyle, Edmond 1672-1769
  • Hoyle, Sir Fred 1915-2001
  • Hubbard, Elbert Green 1856-1915
  • Hubble, Edwin Powell 1889-1953
  • Hügel, Friedrich von Baron 1852-1925
  • Hugh of St Victor c.1096-1141
  • Hughes, Howard Robard 1905-76
  • Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston 1902-67
  • Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren 1900-76
  • Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest 1938-2012
  • Hughes, Ted (Edward James) 1930-98
  • Hughes, Thomas 1822-96
  • Hughes, William Morris 1864-1952
  • Hugo, Victor Marie 1802-85
  • Huidobro, Vicente 1893-1948
  • Humboldt, Alexander, Baron von 1769-1859
  • Hume, David 1711-76
  • Humphrey, Hubert Horatio 1911-78
  • Humphries, (John) Barry 1934-
  • Humphry, Derek 1930-
  • Humphrys, John 1943-
  • Hunt, G W 1829-1904
  • Hunt, Johnnie B(ryan) 1927-2006
  • Hunt, Lamar 1932-2006
  • Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh 1784-1859
  • Hunt, Sir Rex 1926-2012
  • Hunter, William 1718-83
  • Hupfeld, Herman 1894-1951
  • Hurt, Sir John Vincent 1940-
  • Hussein, ibn Talal 1935-99
  • Hussein, Saddam 1937-2006
  • Huston, John 1906-87
  • Hutchens, John Kennedy 1905-95
  • Hutcheson, Francis 1694-1746
  • Hutchins, Robert M 1899-1977
  • Huxley, Aldous Leonard 1894-1963
  • Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell 1887-1975
  • Huxley, T(homas) H(enry) 1825-95
  • Huxtable, Ada Louise née Landman c.1921-2013
  • Hyde, Robin pseudonym of Iris Guiver Wilkinson 1906-39
  • Hyde-White, Wilfred 1903-91
  • Hynde, Chrissie 1951-
  • Hytner, Sir Nicholas 1956-
  • i
  • Iacocca, Lee (Lido Anthony) 1924-
  • Ibarruri Gomez, Dolores known as La Pasionaria 1895-1989
  • Ibn Battutah 1304-68
  • Ibsen, Henrik Johan 1828-1906
  • I Ching c.2000 bc
  • Ignatieff, Michael 1947-
  • Ignatow, David 1914-97
  • Ihimaera, Witi Tame 1944-
  • Illich, Ivan 1926-2002
  • Independent on Sunday
  • Inge, William Ralph 1860-1954
  • Ingersoll, Robert 1833-99
  • Ingham, Sir Bernard 1932-
  • Ingram, John Kells 1823-1907
  • Ingrams, Richard Reid 1937-
  • Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique 1780-1867
  • Innis, Harold Adams 1894-1952
  • Pope Innocent III originally Lotario de’ Conti di Segni 1160-1216
  • Inouye, Daniel Ken 1924-2012
  • Ionesco, Eugène 1912-94
  • Irigaray, Luce 1930-
  • Irving, Washington 1783-1859
  • Isaacs, Jorge 1837-95
  • Isaacson, Walter Seff 1952-
  • Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw 1904-86
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo 1954-
  • Issigonis, Sir Alec (Alexander Arnold Constantine) 1906-88
  • Ito, Lance Allan 1950-
  • Ivan IV known as Ivan the Terrible 1530-84
  • Iverson, Allen 1975-
  • Ives, Charles Edward 1874-1954
  • Izzard, Eddie 1962-
  • j
  • Jackson, Jesse Louis 1941-
  • Jackson, Peter 1961-
  • Jackson, Robert Houghwout 1892-1954
  • Jacobs, Andrew, Jr 1932-2013
  • Jacobs, Herman
  • Jacobs, Joe 1896-1940
  • Jacobs, W(illiam) W(ymark) 1863-1943
  • Jagger, Sir Mick and Richards, Keith 1943-, 1943-
  • James I 1394-1437
  • James IV 1473-1513
  • James V 1512-42
  • James, Alice 1848-92
  • James, Clive Vivian Leopold 1939-
  • James, C(yril) L(ionel) R(obert) 1901-89
  • James, E. L. pseudonym of Erika Leonard 1963-
  • James, Henry 1843-1916
  • James (of Holland Park) P(hyllis) D(orothy) James Baroness 1920-2014
  • James, William 1842-1910
  • Janeway, Elizabeth Hall 1913-2005
  • Janowitz, Tama 1957-
  • Jarrell, Randall 1914-65
  • Jarry, Alfred 1873-1907
  • Jason, Sir David 1940-
  • Jaurès, (Auguste Marie Joseph) Jean 1859-1914
  • Jay, Sir Antony Rupert 1930-
  • Jay (of Paddington) Margaret Jay Baroness 1939-
  • Jay, Peter 1937-
  • Jeffers, (John) Robinson 1887-1962
  • Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826
  • Jeffrey, Lord Francis 1773-1850
  • Jenkins, David Edward 1925-
  • Jenkins (of Hillhead), Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron 1920-2003
  • Jensen, Albert D
  • Jerome, Jerome K(lapka) 1859-1927
  • Jerome, William 1865-1932
  • Jerrold, Douglas William 1803-57
  • Jevons, William Stanley 1835-82
  • Jiang Qing or Chiang Ch’ing 1914-91
  • St Joan of Arc 1412-31
  • Jobs, Steve (Steven Paul) 1955-2011
  • Joel, Billy 1949-
  • Johansson, Scarlett 1984-
  • Pope John XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli 1881-1963
  • St John of the Cross originally Juan de Yepes y Álvarez 1542-91
  • John III Sobieski of Poland 1624-96
  • Pope John Paul II originally Karol Jozef Wojtyła 1920-2005
  • John, Sir Elton Hercules originally Reginald Kenneth Dwight 1947-
  • John, Gwen 1876-1939
  • Johns, Jasper 1930-
  • Johnson, Ben 1961-
  • Johnson, Boris 1964-
  • Johnson, Claudia Alta Taylor known as Lady Bird 1912-2007
  • Johnson, Earvin (‘Magic’) 1959-
  • Johnson, Hiram Warren 1866-1945
  • Johnson, Lindley
  • Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ 1908-73
  • Johnson, Michael 1967-
  • Johnson, Paul 1928-
  • Johnson, Pauline 1861-1913
  • Johnson, Philander Chase 1866-1939
  • Johnson, Philip Cortelyou 1906-2005
  • Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson 1709-84
  • Johnston, Brian 1912-94
  • Johst, Hanns 1890-1978
  • Jolie, Angelina born Angelina Jolie Voight 1975-
  • Jolson, Al pseudonym of Asa Yoelson 1886-1950
  • Jonas, George 1935-
  • Jones, Bobby (Robert Tyre) 1902-71
  • Jones, Henry Arthur 1851-1929
  • Jones, James 1921-77
  • Jones, John Paul 1747-92
  • Jones, Quincy Delight 1933-
  • Jones, Rev. Tim 1967-
  • Jones, Tom 1940-
  • Jones, Tommy Lee 1946-
  • Jong, Erica née Mann 1942-
  • Jonson, Ben 1572-1637
  • Joplin, Janis 1943-70
  • Jordan, June 1936-2002
  • Jordan, Michael 1963-
  • Jordan, Neil 1950-
  • Joseph II 1741-90
  • Joseph of Exeter fl.12c
  • Josephus, Flavius ad 37-100
  • Jourdan, Louis originally Louis Gendre 1921-2015
  • Jouvet, Louis 1887-1951
  • Jovanovich, William 1920-2001
  • Jowell, Dame Tessa 1947-
  • Jowett, Benjamin 1817-93
  • Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius 1882-1941
  • Joyce, Nora 1884-1951
  • Joyce, William known as Lord Haw Haw 1906-46
  • Julian of Norwich known as Lady Julian c.1342-1416
  • Jumblatt, Walid 1949-
  • Juncker, Jean-Claude 1954-
  • Jung, Carl Gustav 1875-1961
  • ‘Junius’ possibly the pseudonym of Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818)
  • Just, Ward Swift 1935-
  • Justinian I ad 482-565
  • Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis c.55-c.140 ad
  • k
  • Kael, Pauline 1919-2001
  • Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
  • Kahn, Gus 1886-1941
  • Kaiko, Takeshi 1930-89
  • Kames, Henry Home Lord 1696-1782
  • Kandinsky, Wassily 1866-1944
  • Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804
  • Kapitsa, Peter Leonidovich 1894-1984
  • Kapoor, Sir Anish 1954-
  • Karloff, Boris originally William Henry Pratt 1887-1969
  • Karpov, Anatoly 1951-
  • Karr, Alphonse 1808-90
  • Karsh, Yousuf 1908-2002
  • Karzai, Hamid 1957-
  • Kaufman, George S(imon) 1889-1961
  • Kaufman, Sir Gerald 1930-
  • Kaufmann, Christoph 1753-95
  • Kaunitz-Rietberg, Wenzel Anton, Prince von 1711-94
  • Kavanagh, P(atrick) J(oseph Gregory) 1931-
  • Kazantzakis, Nikos 1883-1957
  • Kazin, Alfred 1915-98
  • Keane, Roy 1971-
  • Keating, Paul John 1944-
  • Keats, John 1795-1821
  • Keble, John 1792-1866
  • Keenan, Brian 1950-
  • Keillor, (Gary Edward) Garrison 1942-
  • Keller, Helen Adams 1880-1968
  • Kelman, James 1946-
  • Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron 1824-1907
  • Kemble, Charles 1775-1854
  • Kemble, John Philip 1757-1823
  • Kempis, St Thomas à c.1380-1471
  • Ken, Thomas 1637-1711
  • Kendall, Henry Clarence 1839-82
  • Kennan, George Frost 1904-2005
  • Kennedy, A(lison) L(ouise) 1965-
  • Kennedy, Edward M(oore) 1932-2009
  • Kennedy, John F(itzgerald) 1917-63
  • Kennedy, Joseph Patrick 1888-1969
  • Kennedy, Joseph P(atrick) II 1952-
  • Kennedy, Nigel 1956-
  • Kennedy, Robert F(rancis) 1925-68
  • Kennedy, Roger George 1926-2011
  • Kennedy, William (Joseph) 1928-
  • Kent, Bruce 1929-
  • Kent, Corita known as ‘Sister Corita’ 1918-86
  • Kent, Rockwell 1882-1971
  • Kerouac, Jack (John) 1922-69
  • Kerr, Jean née Collins 1923-2003
  • Kerry, John F 1943-
  • Kesey, Ken Elton 1935-2001
  • Kethe, William d. c.1608
  • Key, Francis Scott 1779-1843
  • Keynes (of Tilton) John Maynard, 1st Baron 1883-1946
  • Khayyám, Omar c.1050-c.1123
  • Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah 1900-89
  • Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich 1894-1971
  • Kidder, Tracy 1945-
  • Kierkegaard, Sören Aabye 1813-55
  • Killy, Jean-Claude 1943-
  • Kilmer, Joyce 1886-1918
  • Kilmer, Val 1959-
  • Kilpatrick, James J 1920-2010
  • Kim Il Sung 1912-94
  • Kimball, Donald M
  • Kincaid, Jamaica originally Elaine Potter Richardson 1949-
  • King, Anthony 1934-
  • King, Billie Jean née Moffitt 1943-
  • King, Carlyle 1907-88
  • King, Don 1932-
  • King, Martin Luther Jr 1929-68
  • King, Stephen 1947-
  • King, William Lyon Mackenzie 1874-1950
  • Kingsley, Charles 1819-75
  • Kingsley, Mary Henrietta 1862-1900
  • Kington, Miles 1941-2008
  • Kinnock (of Bedwellty) Neil Gordon Baron 1942-
  • Kinsella, W(illiam) P(atrick) 1935-
  • Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard 1865-1935
  • Kirkland, (Joseph) Lane 1922-99
  • Kirkup, James 1923-2009
  • Kishen fl.c.1840
  • Kissinger, Henry Alfred 1923-
  • Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome (Horatio) Herbert, 1st Earl 1850-1916
  • Klee, Paul 1874-1940
  • Klein, Calvin Richard 1942-
  • Kline, Nancy 1955-
  • Kneller, Godfrey 1646-1723
  • Knight, Frank Hyneman 1885-1972
  • Knobel, Steven Maxwell 1965-
  • Knox, John c.1513-1572
  • Knox, Philander Chase 1853-1921
  • Knox, Ronald Arbuthnot 1888-1957
  • Knudsen, Semon Emil 1912-98
  • Koch, Edward I(rving) 1924-2013
  • Koestler, Arthur 1905-83
  • Koffler, Murray 1924-
  • Koh, Harold Hongju 1954-
  • Kohl, Helmut 1930-
  • Kohlberg, Jerome, Jr 1925-
  • Kollwitz, Käthe 1867-1945
  • The Koran
  • Korda, Sir Alexander 1893-1956
  • Korn, Arthur 1891-1978
  • Korthals, Robert 1933-
  • Kosinski, Jerzy Nikodem 1933-91
  • Kramer, Larry (Lawrence) 1935-
  • Krasna, Norman 1909-84
  • Kraus, Karl 1874-1936
  • Krishnamurti, Jiddu 1895-1986
  • Kristol, Irving 1920-2009
  • Kroc, Ray(mond) A 1902-84
  • Kronecker, Leopold 1823-91
  • Kronenberger, Louis 1904-80
  • Kruger, Paulus 1825-1904
  • Krugman, Paul R 1953-
  • Krutch, Joseph Wood 1893-1970
  • Kubrick, Stanley 1928-99
  • Kuhn, Maggie 1905-95
  • Kuhn, Thomas S(amuel) 1922-96
  • Kundera, Milan 1929-
  • Küng, Hans 1928-
  • Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon 1905-2006
  • Kuralt, Charles 1934-97
  • Kurosawa, Akira 1910-98
  • Kushner, Tony 1956-
  • Kurz, Mordecai 1934-
  • Kyd, Thomas 1558-94
  • l
  • Labé, Louise 1526-66
  • Labouchère, Henry Du Pré 1831-1912
  • La Bruyère, Jean de 1645-96
  • Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de 1741-1803
  • Ladd, Alan 1913-64
  • La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne 1634-93
  • La Fontaine, Jean de 1621-95
  • Lagerfeld, Karl 1933-
  • Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de 1790-1869
  • Lamb, Lady Caroline 1785-1828
  • Lamb, Charles 1775-1834
  • Lamb, Marjorie 1949-
  • Lambert, Constant 1905-51
  • Lamming, George Eric 1927-
  • Lamport, Allan 1903-99
  • Lance, Bert 1931-2013
  • Landers, Ann 1918-2002
  • Landor, Walter Savage 1775-1864
  • Landowska, Wanda 1879-1959
  • Lane, Anthony 1962-
  • Lang, Andrew 1844-1912
  • Lang, Fritz 1890-1976
  • Langbridge, Frederick 1849-1923
  • Langland, William c.1332-c.1400
  • Langner, Lawrence 1890-1962
  • Lanier, Sidney 1842-81
  • Lanyer, Aemilia 1569-1645
  • LaPierre, Wayne Robert 1948-
  • Lao-Tzu 6c bc
  • Lardner, Dionysus 1793-1859
  • Lardner, James
  • Lardner, Ring(old Wilmer) 1885-1933
  • Larionov, Mikhail 1881-1964
  • Larkin, Philip Arthur 1922-85
  • La Rochefoucauld, François, 6th Duc de 1613-80
  • Larwood, Harold 1904-95
  • Lasky, Jesse 1880-1958
  • Lassels, Richard c.1603-1668
  • Latimer, Hugh c.1485-1555
  • Lauder, Sir Harry (Hugh MacLennan) 1870-1950
  • Laughlin, J Laurence 1850-1933
  • Laughton, Charles 1899-1962
  • Lauren, Ralph 1939-
  • Laurence, Margaret 1926-87
  • Laurencin, Marie 1885-1956
  • Lautréamont, Comte de properly Isidore Ducasse 1846-70
  • Laver, James 1899-1975
  • Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent 1743-94
  • Law, (Andrew) Bonar 1858-1923
  • Law, William 1686-1761
  • Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) 1885-1930
  • Lawrence, Gertrude 1898-1952
  • Lawrence, T(homas) E(dward) known as Lawrence of Arabia 1888-1935
  • Lawson, Henry Hertzberg 1867-1922
  • Layamon fl.c.1190
  • Layton, Irving 1912-2006
  • Lazarus, Emma 1849-87
  • Leach, Jim (James Albert Smith) 1942-
  • Leacock, Stephen Butler 1869-1944
  • Leadbelly pseudonym of Huddie William Ledbetter 1889 -1949
  • Lear, Edward 1812-88
  • Leary, Timothy Francis 1920-96
  • Lease, Mary Elizabeth Cylens 1853-1933
  • Leavis, F(rank) R(aymond) 1895-1978
  • Leavis, Q(ueenie) D(orothy) 1906-81
  • Le Bon, Gustave 1841-1931
  • Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann) 1951-
  • Leboyer, Frédérick 1918-
  • Le Carré, John pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell 1931-
  • Le Corbusier pseudonym of Charles Édouard Jeanneret 1887-1965
  • Ledger, Heath Andrew 1979-2008
  • Lee, Gypsy Rose stage-name of Rose Louise Hovick 1914-70
  • Lee, (Nelle) Harper 1926-
  • Lee, Hsien Loong 1952-
  • Lee, Kuan Yew 1923-2015
  • Lee, Laurie 1914-97
  • Lee, Robert E 1807-70
  • Lee-Potter, Lynda 1935-2005
  • Lees-Milne, James 1908-97
  • Lees-Smith, Hastings Bernard 1878-1941
  • Leeson, Nick 1967-
  • Léger, Fernand 1881-1946
  • Le Guin, Ursula née Kroeber 1929-
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher Charles Herbert 1934-
  • Lehrer, Tom (Thomas Andrew) 1928-
  • Leisen, Mitchell 1898-1972
  • Lekota, Mosiuoa 1948-
  • LeMay, Curtis Emerson 1906-90
  • Lemmon, Jack (John Uhler) 1925-2001
  • Lemmy (Ian Fraser Kilmister) 1945-
  • L’Engle, Madeleine married name Mrs Hugh Franklin 1918-2007
  • Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov 1870-1924
  • Lennon, John Winston 1940-80
  • Lennon, John Winston and McCartney, Sir (James) Paul 1940-80, 1942-
  • Leno, Jay (James Douglas Muir) 1950-
  • Lenthall, William 1591-1662
  • Leonard, Elmore John 1925-2013
  • Leonard, Sugar Ray 1956-
  • Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
  • Leonidas d.480 bc
  • Lerner, Alan Jay 1918-86
  • Le Sage, Alain René 1668-1747
  • Leslie, David 1601-82
  • Lessing, Doris May née Tayler 1919-2013
  • Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 1729-81
  • L’Estrange, Sir Roger 1616-1704
  • Lette, Kathy 1958-
  • Letterman, David Michael 1947-
  • Leupold, Jakob 1674-1727
  • Levant, Oscar 1906-72
  • Levenson, Michael
  • Levenstein, Ros
  • Leverson, Ada 1895-1936
  • Levertov, Denise 1923-97
  • Levi, Primo 1919-87
  • Levin, (Henry) Bernard 1928-2004
  • Levitt, Steven David 1967-
  • Lévis, Duc de 1764-1830
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1908-2009
  • Lewin, Albert 1895-1968
  • Lewis, C(live) S(taples) 1898-1963
  • Lewis, Esther married name Clark fl.1747-89
  • Lewis, Joe E 1902-71
  • Lewis, John L(lewellyn) 1880-1969
  • Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair 1885-1951
  • Lewis, (Percy) Wyndham 1882-1957
  • LeWitt, Sol 1928-2007
  • Lewontin, Richard Charles 1929-
  • Leybourne, George pseudonym of Joseph Saunders 1842-84
  • Lezama Lima, José 1910-76
  • Li Po 701-62
  • Liberace pseudonym of Wladziu Valentino Liberace 1919-87
  • Liberman, Alexander 1912-99
  • Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph 1742-99
  • Lichtenstein, Roy 1923-97
  • Liebermann, Max 1847-1935
  • Liebman, David 1946-
  • Ligne, Charles Joseph, Prince de 1735-
  • Lillie, Beatrice Gladys stage-name of Constance Sylvia Munston, Lady Peel 1898-1989
  • Lillo, George 1693-1739
  • Lin Yutang 1895-1976
  • Lincoln, Abraham 1809-65
  • Lindbergh, Anne Spencer Morrow 1906-2001
  • Lindbergh, Charles A(ugustus) 1902-74
  • Lindsay, John Vliet 1921-2000
  • Lindsay, (Nicholas) Vachel 1879-1931
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  • Onassis, Jacqueline Lee Kennedy née Bouvier 1929-94
  • Ondaatje, (Philip) Michael 1943-
  • O’Neal, Shaquille 1972-
  • O’Neill, Eugene Gladstone 1888-1953
  • O’Neill, Martin 1952-
  • O’Neill, Molly 1952-
  • O’Neill, Thomas P known as ‘Tip’ 1912-94
  • Onetti, Juan Carlos 1909-94
  • Oppenheimer, J(ulius) Robert 1904-67
  • O’Rahilly, Egan Gaelic name Aodhagán Ó Rathaille 1670-1726
  • O’Rourke, P(atrick) J(ake) 1947-
  • Orozco, José Clemente 1883-1949
  • Ortega y Gasset, José 1883-1955
  • Orton, Joe originally John Kingsley 1933-67
  • Orwell, George pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair 1903-50
  • Osborne, Dorothy 1627-95
  • Osborne, John 1929-94
  • Osler, Sir William 1849-1919
  • Otis, James 1725-83
  • O’Toole, Peter 1932-2013
  • Otway, Thomas 1652-85
  • Oud, J(acobus) J(ohannes) P(ieter) 1890-1963
  • Overbury, Sir Thomas 1581 -1613
  • Overton, Robert fl.1642-68
  • Ovid full name Publius Ovidius Naso 43 bc-ad 17
  • Owen, David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron 1938-
  • Owen, Robert 1771-1858
  • Owen, Wilfred 1893-1918
  • Owens, Jesse James Cleveland 1913-80
  • Ozick, Cynthia 1928-
  • p
  • Pacheco, José Emilio 1939-2014
  • Pacino, Al(fredo James) 1940-
  • Packard, David 1912-96
  • Packard, Vance 1914-96
  • Packer, Herbert Leslie 1925-72
  • Packer, Kerry 1937-2005
  • Packwood, Bob 1932-
  • Paderewski, Ignace Jan 1860-1941
  • Page, Geraldine 1924-87
  • Pagels, Heinz R(udolf) 1939-88
  • Paglia, Camille 1947-
  • Pagnol, Marcel 1895-1974
  • Paige, Satchel (Leroy Robert) 1906-82
  • Paine, Thomas 1737-1809
  • Paisley, Bob 1919-96
  • Paisley, Ian 1926-2014
  • Palacký, František 1798-1876
  • Palafox, José de c.1776-1847
  • Paley, Grace née Goodside 1922-2007
  • Paley, William 1743-1805
  • Palin, Sarah Louise Heath 1964-
  • Palmer, Arnold 1929-
  • Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount 1784-1865
  • Paltrow, Gwyneth Kate 1972-
  • Panama, Norman and Frank, Melvin 1914-2003,
  • Pangkor, Treaty of
  • Pankhurst, Christabel 1880-1958
  • Pankhurst, Emmeline née Goulden 1858-1928
  • Parens, Erik
  • Pareto, Vilfredo 1848-1923
  • Parfitt, Harold Robert 1921-2006
  • Park, Mungo 1771-1806
  • Parker, Charlie known as ‘Bird’ 1920-55
  • Parker, Dorothy née Rothschild 1893-1967
  • Parker, Hubert Lister 1900-72
  • Parker, John 1729-75
  • Parker, Ross and Charles Hugh 1914-74, 1907-95
  • Parker, Stewart 1941-88
  • Parkes, Sir Henry 1815-96
  • Parkinson, C(yril) Northcote 1909-93
  • Parkinson, Norman originally Ronald William Parkinson Smith 1913-90
  • Parks, Rosa Lee née McCauley 1913-2005
  • Parnell, Charles Stewart 1846-91
  • Parra, Nicanor 1914-
  • Parr-Davies, Harry 1914-55
  • Parris, Matthew 1949-
  • Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings 1848-1918
  • Parsons, Talcott 1902-79
  • Parton, Dolly 1946-
  • Parvin, Landon 1948-
  • Pascal, Blaise 1623-62
  • Passell, Peter
  • Pasternak, Boris 1890-1960
  • Pasteur, Louis 1822-95
  • Patchen, Kenneth 1911-72
  • Pater, Walter 1839-94
  • Paterson, Banjo (Andrew Barton) 1864-1941
  • Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton 1823-96
  • Paton, Alan 1903-88
  • St Patrick 5c ad
  • Patrick, John pseudonym of John Patrick Goggan 1905-95
  • Patton, George Smith known as Old Blood and Guts 1885-1945
  • Paul, Leslie 1905-85
  • Pauli, Wolfgang 1900-58
  • Pauling, Linus Carl 1901-94
  • Pavarotti, Luciano 1935-2007
  • Pavlov, I(van) P(etrovich) 1849-1936
  • Pavlov, Valentin Sergeyevich 1937-2003
  • Pavlova, Anna 1882-1931
  • Paxman, Jeremy 1950-
  • Paz, Octavio 1914-98
  • Peace Pilgrim real name Mildred Norman c.1908-1981
  • Peacock, Thomas Love 1785-1866
  • Pearson, Karl 1857-1936
  • Pearson, Lester Bowles 1897-1972
  • Peary, Robert Edwin 1856-1920
  • Peck, M(organ) Scott 1936-2005
  • Peel, Sir Robert 1788-1850
  • Peele, George c.1556-1596
  • Pei, I(eoh) M(ing) 1917-
  • Pelé pseudonym of Edson Arantes do Nascimento 1940-
  • Pelosi, Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro 1940-
  • Penecuik, Dr Alex 1652-1722
  • Penfield, Wilder Graves 1891-1976
  • Peniakoff, Vladimir 1897-1951
  • Penn, William 1644-1718
  • People’s Daily
  • Pepys, Samuel 1633-1703
  • Percy, Walker 1916-90
  • Perdue, Franklin P 1920-2005
  • Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph) 1904-79
  • Peres, Shimon 1923-
  • Pericles c.490-429 bc
  • Perkins, Carl 1932-98
  • Perkins, Frances 1882-1965
  • Perry, Grayson 1960-
  • Persius properly Aulus Persius Flaccus AD 34-62
  • Perth, James, 4th Earl of 1648-1716
  • Pessoa, Fernando António Nogueira 1888-1935
  • Pétain, (Henri) Philippe 1856-1951
  • Peter, Laurence J 1919-90
  • Peters, Richard Stanley 1919-2011
  • Petersen, Henry Edward 1921-91
  • Petersen, Wolfgang 1941-
  • Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) 1304-74
  • Petronius Arbiter d. ad 66
  • Petty, Sir William 1623-87
  • Phelps, Edward John 1822-1900
  • Phelps, Michael Fred 1985-
  • Philby, Kim 1912-88
  • Philip II 1527-98
  • Philips, Ambrose c.1675-1749
  • Philips, Katherine née Fowler 1632-64
  • Phillips, Arthur Angell 1900-85
  • Phillips, Edward O 1931-
  • Phillips, Wendell 1811-84
  • Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y 1881-1973
  • Pickens, T(homas) Boone Jr 1928-
  • Pickford, Mary originally Gladys Mary Smith 1893-1979
  • Pierce, C(harles) S(aunders) 1839-1914
  • Piercy, Marge 1936-
  • Piero della Francesca c.1420-1492
  • Piggott, Lester Keith 1935-
  • Piglia, Ricardo 1941-
  • Pigou, Arthur Cecil 1877-1959
  • Pilger, John 1939-
  • Pindar c.522-440 bc
  • Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto 1915-2006
  • Pinter, Harold 1930-2008
  • Pirandello, Luigi 1867-1936
  • Pirsig, Robert M(aynard) 1928-
  • Pissarro, Camille 1830-1903
  • Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as the Elder 1708-78
  • Pitt, William known as the Younger 1759-1806
  • Pittacus of Mytilene 650-570 bc
  • Pius II real name Enea Silvio de Piccolomini 1405-64
  • Pius XII real name Eugenio Pacelli 1876-1958
  • Pizzaro, Eddie 1961-
  • Planck, Max Karl Ernst 1858-1947
  • Plante, Jacques 1929-86
  • Plath, Sylvia 1932-63
  • Platini, Michel 1955-
  • Plato c.428- c.348 BC
  • Plautus, Titus Maccius c.250-184 bc
  • Pliny full name Gaius Plinius Secundus known as the Elder AD 23-79
  • Plomer, William 1903-73
  • Plout, David
  • Plutarch c.46-c.120 ad
  • Pobedonostsev, Constantin Petrovich 1827-1907
  • Po Chü-I 772-846
  • Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-49
  • Poelzig, Hans 1869-1936
  • Poincaré, (Jules) Henri 1854-1912
  • Poindexter, John Marlan 1936-
  • Polanski, Roman 1933-
  • Pollock, (Paul) Jackson 1912-56
  • Polo, Marco c.1254-1324
  • Pol Pot real name Saloth Sar 1925-98
  • Pol-Roger, Christian 1940-
  • Pomfret, John 1667-1702
  • Pompadour, Madame de full name Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Marquise de Pompadour 1721-64
  • Pompéia, Raul d’Avila 1863-95
  • Pompidou, Georges 1911-74
  • Pop, Iggy 1947-
  • Pope, Alexander 1688-1744
  • Popova, Lyubov Sergeyevna 1889-1924
  • Popper, Sir Karl Raimund 1902-94
  • Porter, Cole 1891-1964
  • Porter, Katherine Anne 1890-1980
  • Porteus, Beilby 1731-1808
  • Portillo, Michael 1953-
  • Pott, Frances 1832-1909
  • Potter, Beatrix 1866-1943
  • Potter, Henry Codman 1835-1908
  • Potter, Stephen 1900-69
  • Pound, Ezra Loomis 1885-1972
  • Pound, (Nathan) Roscoe 1870-1964
  • Poussin, Nicolas 1594-1665
  • Powell, Anthony Dymoke 1905-2000
  • Powell, Colin Luther 1937-
  • Powell, (John) Enoch 1912-98
  • Powell, Michael 1905-90
  • Powys, John Cowper 1872-1963
  • Pratchett, Sir Terry (Terence David John) 1948-2015
  • Prather, Hugh 1938-2010
  • Pratt, Edwin John 1882-1964
  • Prescott (of Kingston upon Hull) John Leslie Baron 1938-
  • Presley, Elvis Aaron 1935-77
  • Preston, James E 1933-
  • Previn, André (George) 1929-
  • Prévost, Abbé Antoine-François 1697-1763
  • Prial, Frank J 1930-2012
  • Price, Raymond 1930-
  • Prichard, Katharine Susannah married name Throssell 1883-1969
  • Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) 1894-1984
  • Prince in full Prince Roger Nelson 1958-
  • Prior, Matthew 1664-1721
  • Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) 1900-97
  • Private Eye
  • Proctor, Adelaide Ann pseudonym of Mary Berwick 1825-64
  • Profumo, John Dennis 1915-2006
  • Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich 1891-1953
  • Propertius, Sextus 1c bc
  • Protagoras c.490-c.420 bc
  • Proudhon, Pierre Joseph 1809-65
  • Proulx, E. Annie 1935-
  • Proust, Marcel 1871-1922
  • Prout, Father
  • Prynne, William 1600-69
  • Pryor, Richard 1940-2005
  • Publilius Syrus 1c bc
  • Puccini, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria 1858-1924
  • Puckett, B Earl 1897-1974
  • Pudney, John Sleigh 1909-77
  • Puig, Manuel 1932-90
  • Pulitzer, Joseph 1847-1911
  • Punch
  • Purdy, Al 1918-2000
  • Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich 1799-1837
  • Pussy Riot
  • Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1952-
  • Putnam, Israel 1718-90
  • Pu Yi 1906-67
  • Puzo, Mario 1920-99
  • Pyke, Magnus 1908-92
  • Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles 1937-
  • Pyrrhus of Epirus 319-272 bc
  • Pythagoras 6c bc
  • q
  • Qaboos, Bin Said 1940-
  • Qian, Zhang
  • Quant, Dame Mary 1934-
  • Quarles, Francis 1592-1644
  • Quayle, Dan (James Danforth) 1947-
  • Quennell, Sir Peter Courtney 1905-93
  • Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas known as ‘Q’ 1863-1944
  • Quin, James 1693-1766
  • Quindlen, Anna 1953-
  • Quine, Willard Van Orman 1908-2000
  • Quinet, Edgar 1803-75
  • Quinn, Jane Bryant 1939-
  • Quintilian properly Marcus Fabius Quintilianus c.35-c.100 AD
  • Quiroga, Horacio 1878-1937
  • r
  • Raban, Jonathan 1942-
  • Rabelais, François c.1494-c.1553
  • Rabi, Isidor Isaac 1898-1988
  • Rabin, Yitzhak 1922-95
  • Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilevich 1873-1943
  • Racine, Jean 1639-99
  • Radcliffe, Daniel Jacob 1989-
  • Radisson, Pierre-Esprit 1636-1710
  • Rado, James 1939-
  • Rae, John 1931-2006
  • Rahner, Karl 1904-84
  • Rainborowe, Thomas 1598-1648
  • Raine, Craig Anthony 1944-
  • Raine, Kathleen Jessie 1908-2003
  • Raleigh, Sir Walter 1552-1618
  • Rambert, Dame Marie 1888-1982
  • Ramón y Cajal Santiago 1852-1934
  • Ramos, Graciliano 1892-1953
  • Ramsey, Sir Alf(red) 1922-99
  • Rand, Ayn 1905-82
  • Randall, Clarence Beldan 1891-1967
  • Randall, Dudley 1914-2000
  • Ranjitsinhji, Prince 1872-1933
  • Rankin, Ian 1960-
  • Rankin, Jeanette 1880-1973
  • Ransom, John Crowe 1888-1974
  • Raphael, Frederic 1931-
  • Rapoport, Anatol 1911-2007
  • Rather, Dan(iel Irvin) 1931-
  • Rattigan, Sir Terence 1911-77
  • Rauschenberg, Robert 1925-2008
  • Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice 1875-1937
  • Ravitch, Diane Silvers 1938-
  • Rawnsley, Andrew 1962-
  • Ray, Dixy Lee 1914-94
  • Ray, James Earl 1928-98
  • Rayburn, Sam(uel Taliaferro) 1882-1961
  • Read, Sir Herbert Edward 1893-1968
  • Reade, Charles 1814-84
  • Reagan, Nancy 1923-
  • Reagan, Ronald Wilson 1911-2004
  • Reardon, Ray 1932-
  • Red Cloud original name Mahpiua Luta 1822-1909
  • Redgrave, Vanessa 1937-
  • Redmond, John Edward 1856-1918
  • Redon, Odilon 1840-1916
  • Redtenbacher, Ferdinand 1818-83
  • Reed, Henry 1914-86
  • Reed, Ishmael Scott 1938-
  • Reed, John 1887-1920
  • Rees-Mogg, William Rees-Mogg, Baron 1928-2012
  • Reeve, Christopher 1952-2004
  • Regan, Donald Thomas 1918-2003
  • Reger, Max 1873-1916
  • Reid, Alastair 1926-2014
  • Reid, Thomas Mayne 1818-83
  • Remarque, Erich Maria 1898-1970
  • Renan, (Joseph) Ernest 1823-92
  • Reno, Janet 1938-
  • Renoir, Jean 1894-1979
  • Renoir, Pierre Auguste 1841-1919
  • Repplier, Agnes 1858-1950
  • Reston, James B(arrett) 1909-95
  • Revlon, Charles Haskell 1906-75
  • Reyes, Alfonso 1889-1959
  • Reynolds, Sir Joshua 1723-92
  • Rhodes, Cecil John 1853-1902
  • Rhys, Jean pseudonym of Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams 1894-1979
  • Ricardo, David 1772-1823
  • Rice, Condoleezza 1954-
  • Rice, Grantland 1880-1954
  • Rice-Davies, Mandy 1944-2014
  • Rich, Adrienne Cecile 1929-2012
  • Richard I known as ‘the Lionheart’ 1157-99
  • Richard of Devizes fl.c.1190
  • Richards, Ann 1933-2006
  • Richards, Sir Gordon 1904-86
  • Richards, I(vor) A(rmstrong) 1893-1979
  • Richardson, Henry Handel pen-name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson née Richardson 1870-1946
  • Richardson, Tony (Cecil Antonio) 1928-91
  • Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Duc de known as Cardinal Richelieu 1585-1642
  • Richler, Mordecai 1931-2001
  • Rickword, Edgell 1898-1982
  • Ridge, W(illiam) Pett 1857-1930
  • Riding, Laura née Reichenthal 1901-91
  • Rifkind, Simon Hirsch 1901-95
  • Rilke, Rainer Maria 1875-1926
  • Rimbaud, (Jean Nicolas) Arthur 1854-91
  • Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreievich 1844-1908
  • Riva, Maria 1924-
  • Rivera, Diego 1886-1957
  • Rivera, José Eustasio 1889-1928
  • Rivers, Joan pseudonym of Joan Alexandra Molinsky 1933-2014
  • Robb, Charles S(pittal) 1939-
  • Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922-2008
  • Robbins, Colonel
  • Robbins, Lionel Charles, Baron Robbins of Clare Market 1898-1984
  • Robbins, Tim 1958-
  • Robert of Clari fl.c.1216
  • Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas 1860-1943
  • Robertson (of Port Ellen), George Islay Macneill Robertson, Baron 1946-
  • Robeson, Paul 1898-1976
  • Robin, Leo 1899-1985
  • Robinson, (Edward) Austin George 1897-1993
  • Robinson, Casey 1903-79
  • Robinson, Edward G pseudonym of Emanuel Goldenberg 1893-1973
  • Robinson, Edwin Arlington 1869-1935
  • Robinson, Joan Violet née Maurice 1903-83
  • Robinson, John Arthur Thomas 1919-83
  • Robinson, Mary 1944-
  • Robson, Sir Bobby 1933-2009
  • Roche, Sir Boyle 1743-1807
  • Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of 1647-80
  • Rockefeller, David 1915-
  • Rockefeller, John D(avison) 1839-1937
  • Rockefeller, John D(avison) Jr 1874-1960
  • Rockefeller, John D(avison) III 1906-78
  • Rockefeller, Laurance S 1910-2004
  • Rockefeller, Nelson A(ldrich) 1908-79
  • Rockefeller, Winthrop 1912-73
  • Rockne, Knute Kenneth 1888-1931
  • Rockwell, Norman 1894-1978
  • Rodchenko, Alexander 1891-1956
  • Roddenberry, Gene 1921-91
  • Roddick, Andy 1982-
  • Roddick, Anita 1942-2007
  • Rodgers, Richard and Hart, Lorenz 1902-79; 1896-1943
  • Rodgers, T(hurman) J(ohn) 1948-
  • Rodó, José Enrique 1872-1917
  • Rodriguez, Richard 1944-
  • Rodriguez, Sue 1950-94
  • Roethke, Theodore 1908-63
  • Rogers, Carl Ransom 1902-87
  • Rogers, Richard George Rogers, Baron 1933-
  • Rogers, Will 1879-1935
  • Rogers, William Pierce 1913-2001
  • Rolleston, Humphrey 1862-1944
  • Rollins, Sonny (Theodore Walter) 1930-
  • Romani, Felice 1788-1865
  • Romney, George W 1907-95
  • Romney, (Willard) Mitt 1947-
  • Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor 1884-1962
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D(elano) 1882-1945
  • Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919
  • Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of 1847-1929
  • Rosenberg, Harold 1906-78
  • Rosenberg, Isaac 1890-1918
  • Rosenblum, Robert 1927-2006
  • Ross, Edward Alsworth 1866-1951
  • Rossetti, Christina Georgina 1830-94
  • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-82
  • Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio 1792-1868
  • Rosso, Medardo 1858-1928
  • Rostand, Jean 1894-1977
  • Rosten, Leo Calvin 1908-97
  • Roth, Guenther 1931-
  • Roth, Henry 1906-95
  • Roth, Philip Milton 1933-
  • Roth, William V Jr 1921-2003
  • Rothko, Mark originally Marcus Rothkovitch 1903-70
  • Rothwell, Talbot 1916-74
  • Rotten, Johnny stage name of John Lydon 1956-
  • Rouault, Georges Henri 1871-1958
  • Rous, Sir Stanley 1895-1986
  • Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1712-78
  • Rowbotham, Sheila 1943-
  • Rowland, Helen 1876-1950
  • Rowling, J K 1965-
  • Roy, Arundhati 1960-
  • Roy, Gabrielle 1909-83
  • Royden, (Agnes) Maude 1876-1956
  • Rubenstein, Helena 1870-1965
  • Ruckelshaus, William D(oyle) 1932-
  • Rudd, Kevin Michael 1957-
  • Rudofsky, Bernard 1905-88
  • Ruether, Rosemary Radford 1936-
  • Ruiz, Juan c.1290-c.1350
  • Rulfo, Juan 1918-86
  • Rumsfeld, Donald 1932-
  • Runcie, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron 1921-2000
  • Runciman, Sir Steven 1903-2000
  • Runge, Philipp Otto 1777-1810
  • Runyon, (Alfred) Damon 1884-1946
  • Rushdie, Sir (Ahmed) Salman 1947-
  • Rushworth, John c.1612-1690
  • Rusk, (David) Dean 1909-94
  • Ruskin, John 1819-1900
  • Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl 1872-1970
  • Russell, Dora 1894-1986
  • Russell, George William pseudonym Æ 1867-1935
  • Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl 1792-1878
  • Russell, John 1919-2008
  • Russell, Mary Annette Russell, Countess née Beauchamp pseudonym Elizabeth 1866-1941
  • Russell, Rosalind 1911-76
  • Russell, Sir William Howard 1820-1907
  • Russell, Willy (William) 1947-
  • Rutherford, Ernest Baron Rutherford of Nelson 1871-1937
  • Ryan, Desmond 1893-1964
  • Rybczynski, Witold Marian 1943-
  • Ryder, Albert Pinkham 1847-1917
  • Ryle, Gilbert 1900-76
  • s
  • Saarinen Aline Bernstein née Loucheim 1914-72
  • Sábato, Ernesto 1911-2011
  • Sachar, Abram Leon 1899-1993
  • Sacks (of Aldgate) Sir Jonathan Baron 1948-
  • Sacks, Oliver Wolf 1933-
  • Sackville-West, Vita (Victoria Mary) 1892-1962
  • Sadat, Anwar el- 1918-81
  • Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de 1740-1814
  • Safer, Morley 1931-
  • Safire, William 1929-2009
  • Sagan, Carl Edward 1934-96
  • Sagan, Françoise 1935-2004
  • Sage, Lorna 1943-2001
  • Saifoutdinov, Anvar 1963-
  • Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de 1900-44
  • Saint Laurent, Louis 1882-1973
  • Saint-Saëns, (Charles) Camille 1835-1921
  • Saki pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro 1870-1916
  • Sala, George Augustus Henry 1828-95
  • Salinger, J(erome) D(avid) 1919-2010
  • Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of 1830-1903
  • Sallust in full Gaius Sallustius Crispus 86-34 bc
  • Salter, Sir (James) Arthur, 1st Baron Salter 1881-1975
  • Salvianus c.400-c.470 ad
  • Sampson, Anthony (Terrell Seward) 1926-2004
  • Samuel, Herbert Louis, 1st Viscount Samuel 1870-1963
  • Samuelson, Paul Anthony 1915-2009
  • Samuelson, Sir Sydney 1925-
  • Sand, George pseudonym of Amandine Aurore Lucille Dupin, Baronne Dudevant 1804-76
  • Sandburg, Carl 1878-1967
  • Sandburg, Sheryl Kara 1969-
  • Sanders, George 1906-72
  • Sandys, George 1578-1644
  • Santayana, George originally Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana 1863-1952
  • Sappho 7c bc
  • Sarduy, Severo 1937-93
  • Sargent, John Singer 1856-1925
  • Sargent, Sir (Harold) Malcolm Watts 1895-1967
  • Sarkozy, Nicolas 1955-
  • Sarnoff, David 1891-1971
  • Saroyan, William 1908-81
  • Sarraute, Nathalie 1902-99
  • Sarton, George A 1884-1956
  • Sarton, May 1912-95
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul 1905-80
  • Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain 1886-1967
  • Satie, Erik Alfred Leslie 1866-1925
  • Sayers, Dorothy L(eigh) 1893-1957
  • Scargill, Arthur 1938-
  • Scève, Maurice c.1510-c.1564
  • Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greely 1877-1970
  • Schaw, Janet b.c.1730
  • Scheckter, Jody 1950-
  • Schiaparelli, Elsa 1890-1973
  • Schiller, Friedrich 1759-1805
  • Schlesinger, Arthur Meier 1888-1965
  • Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier) Jr 1917-2007
  • Schlesinger, James R (odney) 1929-2014
  • Schmitt, Wolfgang Rudolph 1944-
  • Schnabel, Artur 1882-1951
  • Schoenbaum, Thomas J 1939-
  • Schoenberg, Arnold Franz Walter 1874-1951
  • Schopenhauer, Arthur 1788-1860
  • Schreiner, Olive Emily Albertina pseudonym Ralph Iron 1855-1920
  • Schroeder, Patricia Scott 1940-
  • Schulberg, Budd Wilson 1914-2009
  • Schultz, Howard 1952-
  • Schulz, Charles Monroe 1922-2000
  • Schumacher, E(rnst) F(riedrich) 1911-77
  • Schumacher, Michael 1969-
  • Schumpeter, Joseph Alois 1883-1950
  • Schwartz, Eugene M 1927-95
  • Schwartz, Sanford 1946-
  • Schwarzenegger, Arnold 1947-
  • Schwarzkopf, H Norman, Jr 1934-2012
  • Schweikart, Russell 1935-
  • Schweitzer, Albert 1875-1965
  • Scorsese, Martin 1942-
  • Scott, C(harles) P(restwich) 1846-1932
  • Scott, Duncan Campell 1862-1947
  • Scott, F(rancis) R(eginald) 1899-1985
  • Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912
  • Scott, Rose 1847-1925
  • Scott, Sir Walter 1771-1832
  • Scribner, Charles, Jr 1921-95
  • Seaborg, Glenn 1912-99
  • Seacole, Mary c.1805-1884
  • Seaton, George pseudonym of George Stenius 1911 -79
  • Sedaris, David Raymond 1956-
  • Sedighi, Hojatoleslam Kazem 1951-
  • Seeger, Alan 1888-1916
  • Seeger, Pete 1919-2014
  • Seeley, Sir John Robert 1834-95
  • Segal, Erich 1937-2010
  • Segovia, Andrés 1893-1987
  • Seibel, Cathy 1960-
  • Seinfeld, Jerry 1954-
  • Selden, John 1584-1654
  • Self, Will 1961-
  • J(ulian) 1898-1951, 1897-1968
  • Sellars, Peter 1957-
  • Sellers, Peter 1925-80
  • Selye, Hans 1907-83
  • Selznick, David O(liver) 1902-65
  • Seneca full name Lucius Annaeus Seneca called the Younger c.4 BC-65 AD
  • Senghor, Léopold Sédar 1906-2001
  • Senior, Nassau William 1790-1864
  • Senna, Ayrton 1960-94
  • Serling, Rod
  • Service, Robert William 1874-1958
  • Seuss, Dr pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel 1904-91
  • Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de 1626-96
  • Sexton, Anne née Harvey 1928-74
  • Shaffer, Sir Peter 1926-
  • Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
  • Shange, Ntozake originally Paulette Williams 1948-
  • Shankly, Bill (William) 1913-81
  • Shapin, Steven 1955-
  • Sharansky, Natan Anatoly Borisovich 1948-
  • Sharp, William pseudonym Fiona Macleod 1855-1905
  • Sharpe, Tom (Thomas Ridley) 1928-2013
  • Shaw, George Bernard 1856-1950
  • Shawcross, Sir Hartley William Baron Shawcross 1902-2003
  • Shawcross, William 1946-
  • Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis 1878-1916
  • Sheen, Charlie pseudonym of Carlos Irwin Estevez 1965-
  • Sheen, Fulton John 1895-1979
  • Shelley, Mary Godwin 1797-1851
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
  • Sheridan, Philip Henry 1831-88
  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1751-1816
  • Sherman, Richard M and Robert B 1928-, 1925-2012
  • Sherman, William Tecumseh 1820-91
  • Sherriff, R(obert) C(edric) 1896-1975
  • Shevardnadze, Eduard Ambrosievich 1928-2014
  • Shinwell, Emanuel Shinwell, Baron 1884-1986
  • Shipton, Eric Earle 1908-77
  • Shirley, James 1596-1666
  • Shultz, George P(ratt) 1920-
  • Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway 1899-1960
  • Sidgwick, Henry 1838-1900
  • Sidmouth, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount 1757-1844
  • Sidney, Algernon 1622-83
  • Sidney, Sir Philip 1554-86
  • Siegel, Jerome 1914-92
  • Sièyes, Emmanuel Joseph, Comte also called Abbé Sièyes 1748-1836
  • Sigismund 1368-1437
  • Sigourney, Lydia Howard neé Huntley 1791-1865
  • Sihanouk, Prince Norodom 1922-2012
  • Sikorski, Gerry 1948-
  • Sikorsky, Igor Ivan 1889-1972
  • Sillitoe, Alan 1928-2010
  • Silva, José Asunción 1865-96
  • Silvers, Phil originally Philip Silver 1912-85
  • Silvester, David
  • Simon, Caroline K(lein) 1900-93
  • Simon, Herbert A 1916-2001
  • Simon (of Stackpole Elidor) John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount 1873-1954
  • Simon, (Marvin) Neil 1927-
  • Simone, Nina pseudonym of Eunice Waymon 1933-2003
  • Simonides of Ceos c.556-468 bc
  • Simons, Henry C 1899-1946
  • Simple, Peter pseudonym of Michael Wharton 1913-2006
  • Simpson, Alan (Kooi) 1931-
  • Simpson, Kirke L 1881-1972
  • Simpson, O J (Orenthal James) 1947-
  • Simpson, Tom 1938-67
  • Sinatra, Frank (Francis Albert) 1915-98
  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1904-91
  • Singh, Vijay 1963-
  • Sisco, Joseph John 1919-2004
  • Sisson, C(harles) H(erbert) 1914-2003
  • Sitting Bull real name Tatanka Iyotake 1834-90
  • Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa 1887-1964
  • Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert 1892-1969
  • Sixtus V originally Felice Peretti 1521-90
  • Skelton, (Archibald) Noel 1880-1935
  • Skelton, Red (Richard) 1913-97
  • Skelton, Robin 1925-97
  • Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) 1904-90
  • Skinner, Cornelia Otis 1902-79
  • Skinner, John 1721-1807
  • Skirving, Adam 1719-1803
  • Slessor, Kenneth Adolf 1901-71
  • Slezak, Leo 1873-1946
  • Sloan, John French 1871-1951
  • Slovo, Gillian 1952-
  • Small, Albion W 1854-1926
  • Smart, Christopher 1722-71
  • Smiles, Samuel 1812-1904
  • Smith, A J M 1902-80
  • Smith, Adam 1723-90
  • Smith, Al(fred) Emmanuel 1873-1944
  • Smith, Alexander McCall 1949-
  • Smith, Arthur 1954-
  • Smith, Dodie 1896-1990
  • Smith, Godfrey 1926-
  • Smith, Iain Crichton Gaelic name Blain Mac A’Ghobhainn 1928-98
  • Smith, Iain Duncan 1954-
  • Smith, Ian Douglas 1919-2007
  • Smith, John 1938-94
  • Smith, Logan Pearsall 1865-1946
  • Smith, Margaret Chase 1897-1995
  • Smith, Dame Maggie (Margaret Natalie) 1934-
  • Smith, Patti 1946-
  • Smith, Red 1905-82
  • Smith, Samuel Francis 1808-95
  • Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret) 1902-71
  • Smith, Rev Sydney 1771-1845
  • Smith, Sydney Goodsir 1915-75
  • Smith, Walter Chalmers 1824-1908
  • Smollett, Tobias George 1721-71
  • Smuts, Jan Christian 1870-1950
  • Snagge, John 1904-96
  • Snow, Carmel 1887-1961
  • Snow, C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron 1905-80
  • Snow, Clyde Collins 1928-2014
  • Snowden, Ed(ward Joseph) 1983-
  • Snowden, Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount 1864-1937
  • Snyder, Gary Sherman 1930-
  • Socrates 469-399 bc
  • Solon c.640-c.559 BC
  • Solow, Robert M 1924-
  • Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich 1918-2008
  • Somerville, Edith (Anna Oenone) and Martin, Violet Florence née Ross who wrote under the pseudonym Martin Ross 1858-1949; 1862-1915
  • Somoza, (García) Anastasio 1925-80
  • Sontag, Susan 1933-2004
  • Sophocles c.496-405 BC
  • Sorley, Charles Hamilton 1895-1915
  • Soros, George originally György Schwartz 1930-
  • Soule, John Babsone Lane 1815-91
  • Sousa, John Philip 1854-1932
  • Soutar, William 1898-1943
  • Southey, Robert 1774-1843
  • Soyinka, Wole pseudonym of Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka 1934-
  • Spacey, Kevin 1959-
  • Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah neé Camberg 1918-2006
  • Sparshott, Francis 1926-
  • Speke, John Hanning 1827-64
  • Spencer, Charles, Earl 1964-
  • Spencer, Herbert 1820-1903
  • Spender, Sir Stephen Harold 1909-95
  • Spenser, Edmund c.1552-1599
  • Spielberg, Steven 1947-
  • Spillane, Mickey properly Frank Morrison Spillane 1918-2006
  • Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza 1632-77
  • Spock, Dr Benjamin McLane 1903-98
  • Springer, Jerry (Gerald Norman) 1944-
  • Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil Arthur 1858-1918
  • Springsteen, Bruce 1949-
  • Spurgeon, Charles Haddon 1834-92
  • Squire, Sir J(ohn) C(ollings) 1884-1958
  • Staël, Germaine Necker, Baronne de 1766-1817
  • Stalin, Joseph originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili 1879-1953
  • Stallone, Sylvester 1946-
  • Stamp, Sir Josiah Charles, Baron Stamp of Shortlands 1880-1941
  • Stanley, Sir Henry Morton originally John Rowlands 1841-1904
  • Stanton, Elizabeth née Cady 1815-1902
  • Stanwyck, Barbara originally Ruby Stevens 1907-90
  • Stapledon, Olaf 1886-1950
  • Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine 1893-1993
  • Stark, John 1728-1822
  • Starr, Roger 1918-2001
  • Steacie, E W 1900-62
  • Stead, William Thomas 1849-1912
  • Steel, David Martin Scott Steel Baron 1938-
  • Steele, Sir Richard 1672-1729
  • Stefansson, Vilhjalmur 1879-1962
  • Steffens, (Joseph) Lincoln 1866-1936
  • Stegner, Wallace Earle 1909-93
  • Steichen, Edward Jean 1879-1973
  • Stein, Gertrude 1874-1946
  • Stein, Herbert 1916-99
  • Steinbeck, John Ernest 1902-68
  • Steinem, Gloria 1934-
  • Steiner, George 1929-
  • Steinmetz, Charles Proteus 1865-1923
  • Steloff, Frances 1887-1989
  • Stendhal pseudonym of Henri Beyle 1783-1842
  • Stengel, Casey (Charles Dillon) 1890-1975
  • Stephen, J(ames) K(enneth) 1859-92
  • Stephenson, Bette 1924-
  • Sterling, Bruce 1954-
  • Stern, Robert A(rthur) M(orton) 1939-
  • Sterne, Laurence 1713-68
  • Steuart (later Denham) Sir James 1712-80
  • Stevens, Brooks 1911-95
  • Stevens, Roger Lacey 1910-98
  • Stevens, Wallace 1879-1955
  • Stevenson, Adlai E(wing) 1900-65
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-94
  • Stewart, John Innes Mackintosh 1906-94
  • Stigler, George Joseph 1911-91
  • Still, Bayrd 1906-92
  • Stilwell, General Joseph 1883-1946
  • Stinchcombe, Arthur Leonard 1933-
  • Sting originally Gordon Matthew Sumner 1951 -
  • Stipe, Michael 1960-
  • Stockton, Philip
  • Stockwood, (Arthur) Mervyn 1913-95
  • Stoker, Bram 1847-1912
  • Stokowski, Leopold pseudonym of Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawowich 1882-1977
  • Stone, Robert Anthony 1937-2015
  • Stone, Samuel John 1839-1900
  • Stopes, Marie 1880-1958
  • Stoppard, Sir Tom originally Tom Straussler 1937-
  • Storr, Robert 1949-
  • Stowe, Harriet (Elizabeth) née Beecher 1811-96
  • Strachey, (Evelyn) John 1901-63
  • Strachey, (Giles) Lytton 1880-1932
  • Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of 1593-1641
  • Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich 1882-1971
  • Streep, Meryl Louise 1949-
  • Streeton, Sir Arthur Ernest 1867-1943
  • Streisand, Barbra 1942-
  • Strindberg, August 1849-1912
  • Strong, L(eonard) A(lfred) G(eorge) 1896-1958
  • Strong, Sir Roy Colin 1935-
  • Stuart, Francis 1902-2000
  • Stuart, John McDouall 1815-66
  • Stuart, Mary known as Mary, Queen of Scots 1542-87
  • Stubbes, Philip 1543-93
  • Studdert Kennedy, G(eoffrey) A(nketell) known as ‘Woodbine Willie’ 1883-1929
  • Su Wu fl.c.100 BC
  • Suckling, Sir John 1609-41
  • Sugar, Lord Alan Michael 1947-
  • Sullivan, Andrew 1963-
  • Sullivan, Anne 1866-1936
  • Sullivan, Timothy Daniel 1827-1914
  • Sumner, William Graham 1840-1910
  • Sun Tzu c.500-c.320 bc
  • Sun Yat-Sen or Sun Yixian 1867-1925
  • Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of c.1517-1547
  • Surtees, Robert Smith 1803-64
  • Sutherland, Arthur Jr 1902-73
  • Swanson, Gloria originally Gloria May Josephine Svensson 1897-1983
  • Sweetenham, Bill 1950-
  • Sweezy, Paul Malor 1910-2004
  • Swettenham, Sir Frank Athelstane 1850-1946
  • Swift, Graham 1949-
  • Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745
  • Swinburne, Algernon Charles 1837-1909
  • Symington, Stuart 1901-88
  • Synge, John Millington 1871-1909
  • Szasz, Thomas Stephen 1920-2012
  • Szent-Györgyi, Albert von Nagyrapolt 1893-1986
  • Szilard, Leo 1898-1964
  • t
  • Taaffe, Eduard Franz Josef, Graf von 1833-95
  • Tacitus, Cornelius full name Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus ad 55-c.120
  • Taft, Robert A(lphonso) 1889-1953
  • Taft, William Howard 1857-1930
  • Takuboku, Ishikawa 1886-1902
  • Talbot, Godfrey Walker 1908-2000
  • Talese, Gay 1932-
  • Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de, Prince of Benevento 1754-1838
  • Tally, Ted 1952-
  • Talma, François-Joseph 1763-1826
  • Tanaka, Kakuei 1918-93
  • Tannahill, Robert 1774-1810
  • Tarantino, Quentin 1963-
  • Tarkington, (Newton) Booth 1869-1946
  • Tarrant, Chris 1946-
  • Tartt, Donna 1963-
  • Tate, (John Orley) Allen 1899-1979
  • Tawney, R(ichard) H(enry) 1880-1962
  • Taylor, A(lan) J(ohn) P(ercivale) 1906-90
  • Taylor, Dwight 1902-86
  • Taylor, Elizabeth Rosemond 1932-2011
  • Taylor, Graham 1944-
  • Taylor, Jeremy 1613-67
  • Taylor, John Vernon 1914-2001
  • Taylor, Maxwell Davenport 1901-87
  • Teal, Clare 1973-
  • Tebbit, Norman (Beresford) Tebbit Baron 1931-
  • Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri 1944-
  • Teller, Edward 1908-2003
  • Temple, William 1881-1944
  • Templeton, Charles 1915-2001
  • Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron also called Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-92
  • Tenzing Norgay known as Sherpa Tenzing 1914-86
  • Terence full name Publius Terentius Afer 185-159 bc
  • Terentianus Maurus 2/3c bc
  • Terry, Quinlan 1937-
  • Tertullian full name Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus c.160-c.220 AD
  • Tessimond, A(rthur) S(eymour) J(ohn) 1902-62
  • Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-63
  • Tharp, Twyla 1941-
  • Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness 1925-2013
  • Theophrastus c.372-286 bc
  • Theresa (of Calcutta), Mother originally Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu 1910-97
  • Theron, Charlize 1975-
  • Theroux, Paul Edward 1941-
  • Thesiger, Sir Wilfred Patrick 1910-2003
  • Thiers, (Louis) Adolphe 1797-1877
  • Thomas, (Walter) Brandon 1857-1914
  • Thomas, D(onald) M(itchell) 1935-
  • Thomas, Dylan Marlais 1914-53
  • Thomas, (Philip) Edward 1878-1917
  • Thomas, Sir George 1881-1972
  • Thomas, John Parnell 1895-1970
  • Thomas, Michael M 1936-
  • Thomas, R(onald) S(tuart) 1913-2000
  • Thompson, E P 1924-93
  • Thompson, Francis 1859-1907
  • Thompson, Hunter S(tockton) 1939-2005
  • Thompson, James R 1936-
  • Thompson, Robert 1914-97
  • Thompson, Tommy 1913-85
  • Thomson, David 1914-88
  • Thomson, James 1700-48
  • Thomson, James pseudonym ‘BV’, Bysshe Vanolis 1834-82
  • Thomson, Roy Herbert, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet 1894-1976
  • Thomson, Virgil 1896-1989
  • Thoreau, Henry David 1817-62
  • Thorndike, Dame (Agnes) Sybil 1882-1976
  • Thorne, James 1815-81
  • Thorneycroft, Lord (George Edward) Peter 1909-94
  • Thornton, Sir Henry 1871-1933
  • Thorpe, (John) Jeremy 1929-2014
  • Thrasymachus 5c bc
  • Thubron, Colin Gerald Dryden 1939-
  • Thucydides c.460-c.400 bc
  • Thurber, James Grover 1894-1961
  • Thurow, Lester C(arl) 1938-
  • Tilden, Bill (William Tatem II) 1893-1953
  • Tillich, Paul Johannes 1886-1965
  • Tilman, Bill (Harold William) 1898-1977
  • The Times
  • Tintoretto real name Jacopo Robusti 1518-94
  • Tobin, James 1918-2002
  • Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de 1805-59
  • Todd, Mike 1907-58
  • Todd, Ron(ald) 1927-2005
  • Toffler, Alvin 1928-
  • Tóibín, Colm 1955-
  • Tojo, Hideki 1885-1948
  • Tolkien, J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) 1892-1973
  • Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich 1828-1910
  • Tomé Pires c.1480-1525
  • Tomlinson, (Alfred) Charles 1927-
  • Tomlinson, H(enry) M(ajor) 1873-1958
  • Toole, John Kennedy 1937-69
  • Toplady, Augustus Montague 1740-78
  • Torrance, Sam 1953-
  • Toscanini, Arturo 1867-1957
  • Towne, Robert 1936-
  • Townsend, Sue 1945-2014
  • Townshend, Pete 1945-
  • Toynbee, Arnold 1852-83
  • Toynbee, Arnold Joseph 1889-1975
  • Toynbee, (Theodore) Philip 1916-81
  • Toynbee, Polly 1946-
  • Traherne, Thomas c.1636-1674
  • Travers, Ben 1886-1980
  • Travers, P(amela) L(yndon) 1906-96
  • Tree, Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm 1852-1917
  • Treitschke, Georg Friedrich 1776-1842
  • Trevelyan, George Macaulay 1876-1962
  • Trevelyan, John 1904-85
  • Trevino, Lee Buck 1939-
  • Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald, Baron Dacre of Glanton 1914-2003
  • Trillin, Calvin Marshall 1935-
  • Trilling, Lionel 1905-75
  • Trinder, Tommy 1909-89
  • Trollope, Anthony 1815-82
  • Trollope, Joanna 1943-
  • Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein 1879-1940
  • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott 1919-2000
  • Trueman, Fred (Frederick Sewards) 1931-2006
  • Truman, Harry S 1884-1972
  • Trump, Donald 1946-
  • Truss, Lynne 1955-
  • Truth, Sojourner née Isabella c.1797-1883
  • Ts’ao Sung c.830-910
  • Tsongas, Paul Efthemios 1941-97
  • Tu Fu 712-70
  • Tuchman, Barbara W(ertheim) 1912-89
  • Tucker, Sophie pseudonym of Sophia Abuza 1884-1966
  • Turgenev, Ivan 1818-83
  • Turner, Bruce 1922-93
  • Turner, Joseph Mallard William 1775-1851
  • Tutu, Desmond Mpilo 1931-
  • Twain, Mark pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910
  • Tynan, Kenneth 1927-80
  • Tyson, Don(ald) John 1930-2011
  • Tyson, Mike 1966-
  • Tzara, Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock 1896-1963
  • u
  • Uccello, Paolo 1397-1475
  • Umaseo, Tadao 1920-2010
  • Unamuno, Miguel de 1864-1936
  • United Nations Charter
  • Unseld, Siegfried 1924-2002
  • Untermeyer, Louis 1885-1977
  • Updike, John Hoyer 1932-2009
  • Urey, Harold Clayton 1893-1981
  • Ustinov, Sir Peter Alexander 1921-2004
  • Uttley, Alison 1884-1976
  • v
  • Vachell, Horace Annesley 1861-1955
  • Valenzuela, Luisa 1940-
  • Valéry, Paul 1871-1945
  • Valle y Caviedes, Juan del c.1652-?1695
  • Vallejo, César Abraham 1892-1938
  • Vance, Paul and Pockriss, Lee 1929-, 1924-2011
  • van den Berghe Pierre L 1933-
  • Vanderbilt, Amy 1908-74
  • van der Post, Sir Laurens 1906-96
  • van de Wetering, Janwillem 1931-2008
  • Van Druten, John William 1901-57
  • van Gogh, Vincent 1853-90
  • Van Hooijdonk, Pierre 1969-
  • Van Horne, Harriet 1920-98
  • Varèse, Edgar 1883-1965
  • Vargas Llosa, Mario 1936-
  • Vasari, Giorgio 1511-74
  • Vasconcelos, José 1882-1959
  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872-1958
  • Vaughan, Henry 1622-95
  • Vaz de Caminha, Pero late 15c-early 16c
  • Veblen, Thorstein 1857-1929
  • Vega Carpio, Lope Félix de 1562-1635
  • Vegetius full name Flavius Vegetius Renatus fl.c.385-400 AD
  • Venables, Terry 1943-
  • Venturi, Robert Charles 1925-
  • Vergniaud, Pierre Victurnien 1753-93
  • Verlaine, Paul 1844-96
  • Verne, Jules 1828-1905
  • Versace, Donatella 1955-
  • Vespasian full name Titus Flavius Vespasianus ad 9-79
  • Vettel, Sebastian 1987-
  • Vettriano, Jack 1951-
  • Vian, Boris 1920-59
  • Vicious, Sid pseudonym of John Simon Ritchie 1957-79
  • Victoria in full Alexandrina Victoria 1819-1901
  • Vidal, Gore originally Eugene Luther Vidal Jr 1925-2012
  • Vidor, King Wallis 1894-1982
  • Vieira, Antônio 1608-97
  • Villon, François 1431-63
  • St Vincent of Lérins known as Vincentius Lerinensis d.c.450 AD
  • Viner, Jacob 1892-1970
  • Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro 70-19 bc
  • Vitruvius full name Marcus Vitruvius Pollio c.70 BC-25 BC
  • Vlaminck, Maurice de 1876-1958
  • Voltaire pseudonym of François Marie Arouet 1694-1778
  • Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr 1922-2007
  • Vorster, John originally Balthazar Johannes Vorster 1915-83
  • Vreeland, Diana originally Diana Dalziel 1906?-1989
  • Vukovich, Bill 1918-55
  • w
  • Waddington, Miriam 1917-2004
  • Wagner, Otto 1841-1918
  • Wagner, Robert Ferdinand Jr 1944-93
  • Wain, John Barrington 1925-94
  • Waite, Terry (Terence Hardy) 1939-
  • Waits, Tom 1949-
  • Walcott, Derek Alton 1930-
  • Wald, George 1906-97
  • Wald, Jerry 1911-62
  • Waldron, Hicks 1924-
  • Walesa, Lech 1943-
  • Waley, Arthur David 1889-1966
  • Walken, Christopher 1943-
  • Walker, Alice Malsenior 1944-
  • Wall, Mervyn 1908-97
  • Wallace, George Corley 1919-98
  • Wallace, Henry Agard 1888-1965
  • Wallace, William Ross 1819-81
  • Wallach, Eli 1915-2014
  • Waller, Edmund 1606-87
  • Waller, Fats (Thomas Wright) 1904-43
  • Wallis, Hal 1898-1986
  • Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford 1717-97
  • Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford 1676-1745
  • Walters, Julie 1950-
  • Walther Von der Vogelweide c.1170-1230
  • Walton, Izaak 1593-1683
  • Walton, Sir William Turner 1902-83
  • Wang Xizhe 1956-
  • Ward, Artemus pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne 1834-67
  • Warhol, Andy 1928-87
  • Warner, Marina Sarah 1946-
  • Warner, Sir Pelham Plum 1873-1963
  • Warren, Earl 1891-1974
  • Warren, Harry pseudonym of Salvatore Guaragno 1893-1981
  • Warren, Robert Penn 1905-89
  • Washington, Booker Taliaferro 1856-1915
  • Washington, George 1732-99
  • Waterhouse, Keith Spencer 1929-2009
  • Waterman, Pete 1947-
  • Watson, James D(ewey) 1928-
  • Watson, Thomas John 1874-1956
  • Watson, Thomas John Jr 1914-93
  • Watt, James 1736-1819
  • Watts, Isaac 1674-1748
  • Waugh, Auberon Alexander 1939-2001
  • Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St John 1903-66
  • Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1st Earl 1883-1950
  • Waxman, Howard
  • Weatherill, (Bruce) Bernard Weatherill, Baron 1920-2007
  • Webb, (Martha) Beatrice née Potter 1858-1943
  • Webb, Phyllis 1927-
  • Webb, Sidney James 1859-1947
  • Weber, Max 1864-1920
  • Webster, Daniel 1782-1852
  • Webster, John c.1580-c.1625
  • Webster, Margaret 1905-72
  • Wei Jingsheng 1950-
  • Weighell, Sidney 1922-2002
  • Weil, Simone 1909-43
  • Weinberger, Caspar Willard 1917-2006
  • Weizsäcker, Richard Freiherr Baron von 1920-2015
  • Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw 1931-
  • Welland, Colin 1934-
  • Welles, (George) Orson 1915-85
  • Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of 1769-1852
  • Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge) 1866-1946
  • Welsh, Irvine 1958-
  • Welty, Eudora 1909-2001
  • Wenger, Arsène 1949-
  • Wentworth, Peter 1530-96
  • Wentworth, William Charles 1790-1872
  • Werefkin, Marianne 1860-1938
  • Wesker, Sir Arnold 1932-
  • Wesley, Charles 1707-88
  • Wesley, John 1703-91
  • West, Benjamin 1738-1820
  • West, Kanye Omari 1977-
  • West, Mae 1893-1980
  • West, Nathanael pseudonym of Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein 1903-40
  • West, Dame Rebecca formerly Cecily Isabel Fairfield 1892-1983
  • Wharton, Edith Newbold née Jones 1861-1937
  • Whately, Richard 1787-1863
  • Whistler, James (Abbott) McNeill 1834-1903
  • Whitbread, Samuel 1758-1815
  • White, Andrew Dickson 1832-1918
  • White, Edmund 1940-
  • White, E(lwyn) B(rooks) 1899-1985
  • White, George Malcolm 1920-2011
  • White, Patrick Victor Martindale 1912-90
  • White, Theodore H(arold) 1915-86
  • White, Thomas 1550-1624
  • Whitehead, Hal
  • Whitehorn, Katharine 1926-
  • Whitelaw, William Stephen Ian, 1st Viscount 1918-99
  • Whiteman, Paul 1891-1967
  • Whiteread, Rachel 1963-
  • Whiting, George 1884-1943
  • Whitlam, (Edward) Gough 1916-2014
  • Whitman, Christine Todd 1946-
  • Whitman, Walt(er) 1819-91
  • Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807-92
  • Whitton, Charlotte 1896-1975
  • Whymper, Edward 1840-1911
  • Widdecombe, Anne 1947-
  • Wiener, Norbert 1894-1964
  • Wiesel, Elie 1928-
  • Wiggins, Sir Bradley Marc 1980-
  • Wilberforce, Samuel 1805-73
  • Wilbur, Richard 1921-
  • Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 1850-1919
  • Wilde, Jane Francesca née Elgee 1826-96
  • Wilde, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills 1854-1900
  • Wilder, Billy (Samuel) 1906-2002
  • Wilder, Thornton Niven 1897-1975
  • Wilding, Michael 1912-79
  • Wilhelm II, Kaiser 1859-1941
  • Wilkinson, Anne 1910-61
  • Wilkinson, Jonny 1979-
  • Will, George Frederick 1941-
  • William of Poitiers 11c.
  • William of Wykeham 1324-1404
  • William III also called William of Orange 1650-1702
  • William, Duke of Cambridge, Prince 1982-
  • Williams, (Hiram) Hank 1923-53
  • Williams, Harry Abbott 1919-2006
  • Williams, Raymond 1921-88
  • Williams, Robin 1952-2014
  • Williams, Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness 1930-
  • Williams, Tennessee Thomas Lanier 1911-83
  • Williams, Venus 1980-
  • Williams, William Carlos 1883-1963
  • Williamson, Roy 1937-90
  • Willis, Bruce 1955-
  • Willkie, Wendell Lewis 1892-1944
  • Wilmer, Val(erie) 1941-
  • Wilson, A(ndrew) N(orman) 1950-
  • Wilson, Sir Angus Frank Johnstone 1931-91
  • Wilson, Charles called ‘Engine Charlie’ 1890-1961
  • Wilson, David Gordon 1928-
  • Wilson, Edmund 1895-1972
  • Wilson, Edward O(sborne) 1929-
  • Wilson, Ernest 1876-1930
  • Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron 1916-95
  • Wilson, Michael 1937-
  • Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow 1856-1924
  • Wimperis, Arthur 1874-1953
  • Winchell, Walter 1897-1972
  • Winfrey, Oprah 1954-
  • Winkworth, Catherine 1827-78
  • Winner, Langdon 1944-
  • Winner, Michael 1935-2013
  • Winterson, Jeanette 1959-
  • Wisdom, Sir Norman 1915-2010
  • Witte, Sergei Yulevich 1849-1915
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann 1889-1951
  • Wittig, Monique 1935-2003
  • Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville) also known as Plum 1881-1975
  • Wogan, Sir Terry 1938-
  • Wolf, Naomi 1962-
  • Wolfe, James 1727-59
  • Wolfe, Thomas Clayton 1900-38
  • Wolfe, Tom (Thomas Kennerley) 1931-
  • Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin 1759-97
  • Wolpert, Lewis 1929-
  • Wolstenholme, Kenneth 1920-2002
  • Wood, Victoria 1953-
  • Woodcock, George 1912-95
  • Woodman, Marion 1928-
  • Woodroofe, Thomas 1899-1978
  • Woods, Donald 1933-2001
  • Woods, Tiger 1975-
  • Woodsworth, James Shaver 1874-1942
  • Wooldridge, Adrian 1959-
  • Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia née Stephen 1882-1941
  • Woollcott, Alexander Humphreys 1887-1943
  • Wordsworth, William 1770-1850
  • Wotton, Sir Henry 1568-1639
  • Wozniak, Stephen Gary 1950-
  • Wragg, Ted (Edward) Conrad 1938-2005
  • Wright, Sir Almroth Edward 1861-1947
  • Wright, Betsey 1943-
  • Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
  • Wright, James C Jr 1922-
  • Wright, Judith Arundell also known as Judith Wright McKinney 1915-2000
  • Wright, Kenyon 1932-99
  • Wright, Orville and Wright, Wilbur 1871-1948, 1867-1912
  • Wriston, Walter Bigelow 1919-2005
  • Wu-ti 157-87 BC
  • Wyatt, Sir Thomas (the Elder) 1503-42
  • Wycherley, William c.1640-1716
  • Wycliffe, John c.1330-1384
  • Wyeth, Andrew Newell 1917-2009
  • Wylie, Betty Jane 1931-
  • Wyman, Jane originally Sarah Jane Fulks 1914-2007
  • x
  • Xenophon c.435-c.354 bc
  • y
  • Yarborough, Ralph 1903-96
  • Yeats, Georgie née Hyde-Lees 1892-1968
  • Yeats, W(illiam) B(utler) 1865-1939
  • Yellen, Jack 1892-1991
  • Yeltsin, Boris 1931-2007
  • Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich 1932-
  • Yokoi, Shoichi 1915-97
  • York, Sarah, Duchess of 1959-
  • Yost, Elwy 1925-2011
  • Young, Arthur 1741-1820
  • Young, Brigham 1801-77
  • Young, Douglas 1913-73
  • Young, Edward 1683-1765
  • Yourcenar, Marguerite pseudonym of Marguerite de Crayencour 1903-87
  • Yousafzai, Malala 1997-
  • Yüan Mei 1716-98
  • z
  • Zangwill, Israel 1864-1926
  • Zatopek, Emil 1922-2000
  • Zeldin, Theodore 1933-
  • Zel’dovich, Yakov 1914-87
  • Zhang Jie 1937-
  • Zhao Zhenkai pen name Beo Dao 1949-
  • Zhivkov, Todor 1911-98
  • Zhou Enlai or Chou En-Lai 1898-1975
  • Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed 1924-88
  • Zidane, Zinedine 1972-
  • Zoeller, Fuzzy 1951-
  • Zola, Émile 1840-1902
  • Zolotow, Maurice 1913-91
  • Zuckerberg, Mark Elliot 1984-
  • Zuckerman, Solly Zuckerman, Baron 1904-84
  • Zwerin, Mike 1930-2010
  • Selected quotations by theme
  • Preface
  • Art and culture
  • Celebrities
  • Current affairs
  • Freedom
  • History
  • Human nature
  • Insults
  • Language
  • Last words
  • Life and death
  • Literature
  • Love and sex
  • Men and Women
  • Money
  • One-liners
  • Philosophy and religion
  • Politics and politicians
  • Science and technology
  • Society
  • Success and failure
  • War and peace
  • INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR SPEECHMAKERS:
  • Apologies, excuses and expressions of thanks
  • Birthday congratulations
  • Wedding speeches
  • Words of advice and encouragement
  • Subject Index