The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Editor: Knowles, Elizabeth
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-19-966870-0
Category: Language & Literature - Quotations
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Includes over tens of thousands of quotations for all occasions, from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- History of the Dictionary
- Introduction to the First Edition
- How to Use this Work
- A
- Raid Abdul Ridhar Mohammed –
- Peter Abelard 1079–1142
- Dannie Abse 1923–2014
- Abu Bakr 573–634
- Accius 170–c.86 BC
- Goodman Ace 1899–1982
- Chinua Achebe 1930–2013
- Dean Acheson 1893–1971
- Lord Ackner 1920–2005
- Lord Acton 1834–1902
- Abigail Adams 1744–1818
- Ansel Adams 1902–84
- Charles Francis Adams 1807–86
- Douglas Adams 1952–2001
- Frank Adams and Will M. Hough
- Franklin P. Adams 1881–1960
- Henry Brooks Adams 1838–1918
- John Adams 1735–1826
- John Quincy Adams 1767–1848
- Samuel Adams 1722–1803
- Sarah Flower Adams 1805–48
- Harold Adamson 1906–80
- Jane Addams 1860–1935
- Joseph Addison 1672–1719
- George Ade 1866–1944
- Konrad Adenauer 1876–1967
- Adi Granth
- Alfred Adler 1870–1937
- Polly Adler 1900–62
- Theodor Adorno 1903–69
- Advertising slogans
- Æ (George William Russell) 1867–1935
- Aeschylus c.525–456 BC
- Aesop
- The African Queen
- Herbert Agar 1897–1980
- James Agate 1877–1947
- Agathon b. c.445 BC
- Agesilaus 444–360 BC
- Spiro T. Agnew 1918–96
- Agnolo di Tura b. c.1300
- Maria, Marchioness of Ailesbury d. 1902
- Alfred Ainger 1837–1904
- Arthur Campbell Ainger 1841–1919
- Airplane!
- Jonathan Aitken 1942–
- Max Aitken
- Mark Akenside 1721–70
- Anna Akhmatova 1889–1966
- Zoë Akins 1886–1958
- William Alabaster 1567–1640
- Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier) 1868–1951
- Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban) 1886–1914
- Edward Albee 1928–2016
- Prince Albert (Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) 1819–61
- Scipione Alberti
- Mary Alcock c.1742–98
- Amos Bronson Alcott 1799–1888
- Louisa May Alcott 1832–88
- Alcuin c.735–804
- Richard Aldington 1892–1962
- Brian Aldiss 1925–
- Henry Aldrich 1647–1710
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836–1907
- ‘Buzz’ Aldrin (Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jnr) 1930–
- Alexander the Great 356–323 BC
- Alexander II (‘the Liberator’) 1818–81
- Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) 1431–1503
- Cecil Frances Alexander 1818–95
- William Alexander, Lord Stirling 1577–1640
- Alfonso ‘the Wise’ 1221–84
- Alfred the Great AD 849–899
- Nelson Algren 1909–81
- Ali ibn-Abi-Talib c.602–661
- Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) 1942–2016
- Alien
- All About Eve
- Abbé d’Allainval 1700–53
- Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol) 1903–86
- Iyad Allawi 1945–
- Fred Allen (John Florence Sullivan) 1894–1956
- William Allen d. 1867, Michael Larkin d. 1867, and William O’Brien (‘the Manchester Martyrs’) d. 1867
- Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg) 1935–
- Svetlana Alliluyeva 1925–2011
- William Allingham 1824–89
- William F. Allman
- All the President's Men
- St Alphonsus (Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori) 1696–1787
- Joseph Alsop 1910–89
- Robert Altman 1922–2006
- Luis Walter Alvarez 1911–88
- St Ambrose c.339–397
- American Graffiti
- Leo Amery 1873–1955
- Fisher Ames 1758–1808
- Kingsley Amis 1922–95
- Anacharsis
- Hans Christian Andersen 1805–75
- Maxwell Anderson 1888–1959
- Maxwell Anderson 1888–1959 and Lawrence Stallings 1894–1968
- Robert Anderson 1917–2009
- Lancelot Andrewes 1555–1626
- Norman Angell 1872–1967
- Maya Angelou 1928–2014
- Paul Anka 1941–
- Anna Christie
- Anne, Princess Royal 1950–
- Annie Hall
- Anonymous
- Another Fine Mess
- Jean Anouilh 1910–87
- Christopher Anstey 1724–1805
- F. Anstey (Thomas Anstey Guthrie) 1856–1934
- Susan Brownell Anthony 1820–1906
- Minna Antrim 1861–1950
- Apelles
- Apocalypse Now
- Guillaume Apollinaire 1880–1918
- Edward Appleton 1892–1965
- Thomas Gold Appleton 1812–84
- Arabian Nights Entertainments, or the Thousand and one Nights
- William Arabin 1773–1841
- Yasser Arafat 1929–2004
- Louis Aragon 1897–1982
- Diane Arbus 1923–71
- John Arbuthnot 1667–1735
- Archilochus
- Archimedes c.287–212 BC
- Elizabeth Arden c.1880–1966
- Robert Ardrey 1908–80
- Hannah Arendt 1906–75
- Comte d’Argenson (Marc Pierre de Voyer d’Argenson) 1696–1764
- Marquis d’Argenson (René Louis de Voyer d’Argenson) 1694–1757
- Ludovico Ariosto 1474–1533
- Aristophanes c.450–c.385 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
- Lewis Addison Armistead 1817–63
- Harry Armstrong 1879–1951
- John Armstrong 1709–79
- Louis Armstrong 1901–71
- Neil Armstrong 1930–2012
- Robert Armstrong 1927–
- Arnald-Amaury d. 1225
- Peter Arno
- Edwin Arnold 1832–1904
- George Arnold 1834–65
- Matthew Arnold 1822–88
- Samuel James Arnold 1774–1852
- Thomas Arnold 1795–1842
- Raymond Aron 1905–83
- Antonin Artaud 1896–1948
- Lev A. Artsimovich 1909–73
- Roger Ascham 1515–68
- John Ashcroft 1942–
- Daisy Ashford 1881–1972
- Jackie Ashley 1954–
- Isaac Asimov 1920–92
- Anne Askew 1521–46
- The Asphalt Jungle
- Elizabeth Asquith (Princess Antoine Bibesco) 1897–1945
- Herbert Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith 1852–1928
- Margot Asquith 1864–1945
- Mary Astell 1668–1731
- Jacob Astley 1579–1652
- Nancy Astor 1879–1964
- Kemal Atatürk 1881–1938
- Brooks Atkinson 1894–1984
- Farid al-Din Attar d. c.1220
- David Attenborough 1926–
- Clement Attlee 1883–1967
- Margaret Atwood 1939–
- Henriette Auber 1773–1862
- John Aubrey 1626–97
- Auctoritates Aristotelis
- W. H. Auden 1907–73
- Émile Augier 1820–89
- St Augustine of Hippo AD 354–430
- Augustus (Octavius Caesar) 63 BC–AD 14
- Aung San Suu Kyi 1945–
- Marcus Aurelius AD 121–180
- Decius Magnus Ausonius c.AD 309–392
- Jane Austen 1775–1817
- J. L. Austin 1911–60
- Earl of Avon
- Revd Awdry (Wilbert Vere Awdry) 1911–97
- Alan Ayckbourn 1939–
- A. J. Ayer 1910–89
- Ayesha fl. 1492
- Pam Ayres 1947–
- Robert Aytoun 1570–1638
- W. E. Aytoun 1813–65
- B
- Charles Babbage 1791–1871
- Isaac Babel 1894–1940
- Lauren Bacall 1924–2014
- Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
- Francis Bacon 1561–1626
- Francis Bacon 1909–92
- Roger Bacon c.1220–c.92
- Lord Baden-Powell
- Karl Baedeker 1801–59
- Joan Baez 1941–
- Walter Bagehot 1826–77
- Abdul Baha 1844–1921
- Baha’ullah 1817–92
- Bahya ibn Paquda fl. 1080
- David Bailey 1938–
- Philip James Bailey 1816–1902
- Bruce Bairnsfather
- Henry Williams Baker 1821–77
- Michael Bakunin 1814–76
- James Baldwin 1924–87
- Stanley Baldwin 1867–1947
- Arthur James Balfour 1848–1930
- Ballads
- J. G. Ballard 1930–2009
- Whitney Balliett 1926–2007
- Honoré de Balzac 1799–1850
- George Bancroft 1800–91
- Tallulah Bankhead 1903–68
- Iain Banks 1954–2013
- Joseph Banks 1743–1820
- Roger Bannister 1929–
- Théodore Faullain de Banville 1823–91
- Imamu Amiri Baraka (Everett LeRoi Jones) 1934–2014
- Yevgeny Baratynsky 1800–44
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld 1743–1825
- Mary Barber c.1690–1757
- John Barbour c.1320–95
- Alexander Barclay c.1475–1552
- R. H. Barham (‘Thomas Ingoldsby’) 1788–1845
- Sabine Baring-Gould 1834–1924
- Frederick R. Barnard
- Julian Barnes 1946–
- Peter Barnes 1931–2004
- William Barnes 1801–86
- Richard Barnfield 1574–1627
- Phineas T. Barnum 1810–91
- Amelia E. Barr 1831–1919
- J. M. Barrie 1860–1937
- Sebastian Barry 1955–
- Ethel Barrymore 1879–1959
- John Barrymore 1882–1942
- Karl Barth 1886–1968
- Roland Barthes 1915–80
- Edmund Barton 1849–1920
- Bernard Baruch 1870–1965
- Jacques Barzun 1907–
- Matsuo Basho 1644–94
- William Basse d. c.1653
- Thomas Bastard 1566–1618
- Edgar Bateman and George Le Brunn
- H. M. Bateman
- Katherine Lee Bates 1859–1929
- Jean Batten 1909–82
- Charles Baudelaire 1821–67
- Jean Baudrillard 1929–2007
- Yehuda Bauer 1926–
- L. Frank Baum 1856–1919
- Beverley Baxter 1891–1964
- Thomas Haynes Bayly 1797–1839
- Beachcomber
- Todd Beamer 1968–2001
- James Beattie 1735–1803
- David Beatty 1871–1936
- Topham Beauclerk 1739–80
- Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 1732–99
- Francis Beaumont 1584–1616
- Francis Beaumont 1584–1616 and John Fletcher 1579–1625
- Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook) 1879–1964
- Carl Becker 1873–1945
- Samuel Beckett 1906–89
- William Beckford 1759–1844
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803–49
- The Venerable Bede (St Bede) AD 673–735
- Harry Bedford and Terry Sullivan
- Barnard Elliott Bee 1823–61
- Thomas Beecham 1879–1961
- H. C. Beeching 1859–1919
- Max Beerbohm 1872–1956
- Ethel Lynn Beers 1827–79
- Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
- Isabella Beeton 1836–65
- Brendan Behan 1923–64
- Aphra Behn 1640–89
- John Hay Beith
- Lord Belhaven 1656–1708
- Alexander Graham Bell 1847–1922
- Clive Bell 1881–1964
- George Bell 1883–1958
- Gertrude Bell 1868–1926
- Francis Bellamy 1856–1931
- St Robert Bellarmine 1542–1621
- Hilaire Belloc 1870–1953
- Saul Bellow 1915–2005
- Du Belloy (Pierre-Laurent Buirette du Belloy) 1725–75
- Robert Benchley 1889–1945
- Julien Benda 1867–1956
- Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) 1927–
- Peter Benenson 1921–2005
- Stephen Vincent Benét 1898–1943
- William Rose Benét 1886–1950
- Judah P. Benjamin 1811–84
- Tony Benn (Anthony Wedgwood Benn) 1925–2014
- George Bennard 1873–1958
- Alan Bennett 1934–
- Arnold Bennett 1867–1931
- Jill Bennett 1931–90
- A. C. Benson 1862–1925
- Stella Benson 1892–1933
- Henry A. Bent 1926–
- Jeremy Bentham 1748–1832
- Edmund Clerihew Bentley 1875–1956
- Eric Bentley 1916–
- Richard Bentley 1662–1742
- Wilson A. Bentley 1865–1931
- Lloyd Bentsen 1921–2006
- Pierre-Jean de Béranger 1780–1857
- Lord Charles Beresford 1846–1919
- Henri Bergson 1859–1941
- George Berkeley 1685–1753
- Irving Berlin (Israel Baline) 1888–1989
- Isaiah Berlin 1909–97
- Hector Berlioz 1803–69
- J. D. Bernal 1901–71
- Georges Bernanos 1888–1948
- Bernard of Chartres d. c.1130
- St Bernard of Clairvaux 1090–1153
- Claude Bernard 1813–78
- Bill Bernbach 1911–82
- Eric Berne 1910–70
- Lord Berners 1883–1950
- Tim Berners-Lee 1955–
- Leonard Bernstein 1918–90
- Yogi Berra 1925–2015
- Wendell Berry 1934–
- John Berryman 1914–72
- Pierre Berton 1920–2004
- Charles Best fl. 1602
- Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg 1856–1921
- John Betjeman 1906–84
- Bruno Bettelheim 1903–90
- Aneurin Bevan 1897–1960
- William Henry Beveridge 1879–1963
- Ernest Bevin 1881–1951
- Beyond the Forest
- Theodore Beza 1519–1605
- Bhagavadgita
- Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007
- The Bible (Authorized Version, 1611)
- The Bible (Vulgate)
- Isaac Bickerstaffe 1733–c.1808
- E. H. Bickersteth 1825–1906
- Francis Biddle 1886–1968
- Ambrose Bierce 1842–c.1914
- Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk 1245–1306
- Steve Biko 1946–77
- Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) 1818–85
- Maeve Binchy 1940–2012
- Laurence Binyon 1869–1943
- Bion c.325–c.255 BC
- Nigel Birch 1906–81
- Lord Birkenhead
- Earle Birney 1904–95
- Augustine Birrell 1850–1933
- Harrison Birtwistle 1934–
- Billy Bishop 1894–1956
- Elizabeth Bishop 1911–79
- Otto von Bismarck 1815–98
- James Black 1924–2010
- Valentine Blacker 1728–1823
- William Blackstone 1723–80
- Blade Runner
- Robert Blair 1699–1746
- Tony Blair 1953–
- Eubie Blake (James Hubert Blake) 1883–1983
- William Blake 1757–1827
- Susanna Blamire 1747–94
- Jean Joseph Louis Blanc 1811–82
- Lesley Blanch 1904–2007
- Danny Blanchflower 1926–93
- Fanny Blankers-Koen 1918–2004
- Blazing Saddles
- Philip Paul Bliss 1838–76
- Hans Blix 1928–
- Karen Blixen
- Alexander Blok 1880–1921
- Reginald Blomfield 1856–1942
- Gebhard Lebrecht Blücher 1742–1819
- Judy Blume 1938–
- Edmund Blunden 1896–1974
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840–1922
- Robert Bly 1926–
- Ronald Blythe 1922–
- Boccaccio 1313–75
- John Ernest Bode 1816–74
- Thomas Bodley 1546–1613
- Ivan F. Boesky 1937–
- William J. H. Boetcker 1873–1962
- Boethius c.AD 476–524
- Louise Bogan 1897–1970
- Humphrey Bogart 1899–1957
- John B. Bogart
- Niels Bohr 1885–1962
- Nicolas Boileau 1636–1711
- Eavan Boland 1944–
- Alan Bold 1943–
- Henry, St John, Lord Bolingbroke 1678–1751
- Heinrich Böll 1917–85
- Robert Bolt 1924–95
- Usain Bolt 1986–
- Edmund Bolton c.1575–c.1633
- Ludwig Boltzmann 1844–1906
- Bolus of Mendes (Pseudo-Democritus)
- Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte 1785–1879
- Laetitia Bonaparte 1750–1836
- Andrew Bonar Law 1858–1923
- St Bonaventura (Giovanni di Fidanza) 1221–74
- Carrie Jacobs Bond 1862–1946
- David Bone 1874–1959
- Violet Bonham Carter 1887–1969
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–45
- St Boniface 680–754
- Bonnie and Clyde
- The Book of Common Prayer 1662
- Daniel Boone 1734–1820
- John Wilkes Booth 1838–65
- Paul Booth
- William Booth 1829–1912
- Frances Boothby fl. 1670
- Robert Boothby 1900–86
- James H. Boren 1925–
- Jorge Luis Borges 1899–1986
- Cesare Borgia
- George Borrow 1803–81
- Pierre Bosquet 1810–61
- John Collins Bossidy 1860–1928
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet 1627–1704
- James Boswell 1740–95
- Horatio Bottomley 1860–1933
- Lucien Bouchard 1938–
- Dion Boucicault (Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot) 1820–90
- Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe 1761–1840
- Pierre Boulle
- Harold Edwin Boulton 1859–1935
- Matthew Boulton 1728–1809
- Henri Bourassa 1868–1952
- F. W. Bourdillon 1852–1921
- Paul Bourget 1852–1935
- E. E. Bowen 1836–1901
- Elizabeth Bowen 1899–1973
- Lord Bowen 1835–94
- David Bowie (David Jones) 1947–2016
- William Lisle Bowles 1762–1850
- Maurice Bowra 1898–1971
- George Box 1919–2013
- Boy George 1961–
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon 1837–1915
- John Bradford c.1510–55
- F. H. Bradley 1846–1924
- Omar Bradley 1893–1981
- Don Bradman 1908–2001
- John Bradshaw 1602–59
- Anne Bradstreet c.1612–72
- Ernest Bramah (Ernest Bramah Smith) 1868–1942
- James Bramston c.1694–1744
- Louis D. Brandeis 1856–1941
- Willy Brandt 1913–92
- Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807
- Georges Braque 1882–1963
- Richard Brathwaite c.1588–1673
- John W. Bratton and James B. Kennedy
- Wernher von Braun 1912–77
- Bertolt Brecht 1898–1956
- Gerald Brenan 1894–1987
- William J. Brennan, Jr. 1906–97
- Sydney Brenner 1927–
- Jane Brereton (née Hughes) 1685–1740
- Nicholas Breton c.1545–1626
- Aristide Briand 1862–1932
- Percy Williams Bridgeman 1882–1961
- The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
- Edward Bridges 1892–1969
- Robert Bridges 1844–1930
- John Bright 1811–89
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 1755–1826
- Vera Brittain 1893–1970
- Benjamin Britten 1913–76
- Paul Broca 1824–80
- Russell Brockbank
- Tom Brokaw 1940–
- Alexander Brome 1620–66
- Jacob Bronowski 1908–74
- Charlotte Brontë 1816–55
- Emily Brontë 1818–48
- Patrick Brontë 1777–1861
- Frances Brooke 1724–89
- Henry Brooke 1703–83
- Rupert Brooke 1887–1915
- Anita Brookner 1928–2016
- Gwendolyn Brooks 1917–2000
- J. Brooks
- Phillips Brooks 1835–93
- Thomas Brooks 1608–80
- Robert Barnabas Brough 1828–60
- Lord Brougham 1778–1868
- Heywood Broun 1888–1939
- Heywood Hale Broun 1918–2001
- Christy Brown 1932–81
- Gordon Brown 1951–
- H. Rap Brown (Hubert Geroid Brown) 1943–
- Henry Box Brown b. 1815
- John Brown 1715–66
- John Brown 1800–59
- Joseph Brown 1821–94
- Lew Brown (Louis Brownstein) 1893–1958
- Rita Mae Brown 1944–
- T. E. Brown 1830–97
- Thomas Brown 1663–1704
- Cecil Browne 1932–
- Sir Thomas Browne 1605–82
- William Browne 1692–1774
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806–61
- Frederick ‘Boy’ Browning 1896–1965
- Robert Browning 1812–89
- Lenny Bruce 1925–66
- Robert Bruce 1554–1631
- Beau Brummell (George Bryan Brummell) 1778–1840
- Frank Bruno 1961–
- Giordano Bruno 1548–1600
- Mary Brunton 1778–1818
- William Jennings Bryan 1860–1925
- Bill Bryson 1951–
- Zbigniew Brzezinski 1928–
- Martin Buber 1878–1965
- John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) 1875–1940
- Frank Buchman 1878–1961
- Georg Büchner 1813–37
- Art Buchwald 1925–2007
- Gene Buck (Edward Eugene Buck) 1885–1957 and Herman Ruby 1891–1959
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham 1628–87
- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby 1648–1721
- H. J. Buckoll 1803–71
- J. B. Buckstone 1802–79
- Warren Buffett 1930–
- Comte de Buffon (George-Louis Leclerc) 1707–88
- Edward Bullard 1907–80
- Arthur Buller 1874–1944
- Gerald Bullett 1893–1958
- Bernhard von Bülow 1849–1929
- Edward Robert Bulwer, Earl of Lytton
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1st Baron Lytton) 1803–73
- Alfred ‘Poet’ Bunn c.1796–1860
- Basil Bunting 1900–85
- Luis Buñuel 1900–83
- John Bunyan 1628–88
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard 1812–91
- Julie Burchill 1960–
- James Bland Burges 1752–1824
- Anthony Burgess 1917–93
- Gelett Burgess 1866–1951
- Lord Burghley
- John William Burgon 1813–88
- John Burgoyne 1722–92
- Edmund Burke 1729–97
- Johnny Burke 1908–64
- Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849–1924
- Thomas E. Burnett, Jnr 1963–2001
- Fanny Burney (Mme d’Arblay) 1752–1840
- John Burns 1858–1943
- Robert Burns 1759–96
- Aaron Burr 1756–1836
- John Burroughs 1837–1921
- William S. Burroughs 1914–97
- Benjamin Hapgood Burt 1880–1950
- Nat Burton
- Richard Burton 1821–90
- Robert Burton 1577–1640
- Wilhelm Busch 1832–1908
- Hermann Busenbaum 1600–68
- Barbara Bush 1925–
- George Bush 1924–
- George W. Bush 1946–
- Comte de Bussy-Rabutin 1618–93
- Joseph Butler 1692–1752
- Nicholas Murray Butler 1862–1947
- R. A. (‘Rab’) Butler 1902–82
- Samuel Butler 1612–80
- Samuel Butler 1835–1902
- William Butler 1535–1618
- Mary Butts 1890–1937
- A. S. Byatt 1936–
- William Byrd 1543–1623
- Liam Byrne 1970–
- John Byrom 1692–1763
- Lord Byron 1788–1824
- C
- James Branch Cabell 1879–1958
- George Cadbury 1839–1922
- Caecilius Statius d. after 166 BC
- Irving Caesar 1895–1996
- Julius Caesar 100–44 BC
- Octavius Caesar
- John Cage 1912–92
- James Cagney
- Herman Cain 1945–
- James M. Cain 1892–1977
- Pedro Calderón de La Barca 1600–81
- Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus) AD 12–41
- James Callaghan 1912–2005
- Callimachus c.305–c.240 BC
- Charles Alexandre de Calonne 1734–1802
- C. S. Calverley (born Blayds) 1831–84
- Italo Calvino 1923–85
- Helder Camara 1909–99
- Pierre, Baron de Cambronne 1770–1842
- Lord Camden 1714–94
- David Cameron 1966–
- Julia Margaret Cameron 1815–79
- Alastair Campbell 1957–
- Jane Montgomery Campbell 1817–78
- Mrs Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Tanner) 1865–1940
- Roy Campbell 1901–57
- Thomas Campbell 1777–1844
- Thomas Campion 1567–1620
- Albert Camus 1913–60
- Elias Canetti 1905–94
- George Canning 1770–1827
- Hughie Cannon 1877–1912
- Moya Cannon 1956–
- Eric Cantona 1966–
- Robert Capa 1913–54
- Truman Capote 1924–84
- Al Capp (Alfred Gerard Caplin) 1907–79
- Francesco Caracciolo 1752–99
- Ethna Carbery 1866–1902
- Ernesto Cardenal 1925–
- Neville Cardus 1889–1975
- Richard Carew 1555–1620
- Thomas Carew c.1595–1640
- George Carey 1935–
- Henry Carey c.1687–1743
- James B. Carey 1911–73
- Jane Carlyle (née Welsh) 1801–66
- Thomas Carlyle 1795–1881
- Stokely Carmichael 1941–98
- Stokely Carmichael 1941–98 and Charles Vernon Hamilton 1929–
- Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919
- Dale Carnegie 1888–1955
- Julia A. Carney 1823–1908
- Mark Carney 1965–
- Caroline of Ansbach 1683–1737
- Joseph Edwards Carpenter 1813–85
- Emily Carr 1871–1945
- J. L. Carr 1912–94
- Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) 1832–98
- William Herbert Carruth 1859–1924
- Edward Carson 1854–1935
- Rachel Carson 1907–64
- Angela Carter 1940–92
- Henry Carter d. 1806
- Howard Carter 1874–1939
- James Earl ‘Jimmy’ Carter 1924–
- Sydney Carter 1915–2004
- Jacques Cartier 1491–1557
- Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908–2004
- Barbara Cartland 1901–2000
- Cartoon captions
- John Cartwright 1740–1824
- Elizabeth Tanfield Cary 1585–1639
- Joyce Cary 1888–1957
- Casablanca
- Giovanni Jacopo Casanova 1725–98
- Roger Casement 1864–1916
- Johnny Cash 1932–2003
- A. M. Cassandre 1901–68
- Mary Cassatt 1844–1926
- Frederic Cassidy 1907–2000
- Barbara Castle 1910–2002
- Ted Castle 1907–79
- Fidel Castro 1927–2016
- Edward Caswall 1814–78
- Catchphrases
- A Catechism of Christian Doctrine 1898
- Willa Cather 1873–1947
- St Catherine of Siena c.1347–80
- Catherine the Great 1729–96
- Cato the Elder (‘the Censor’) 234–149 BC
- Carrie Chapman Catt 1859–1947
- Catullus c.84–c.54 BC
- Charles Causley 1917–2003
- Constantine Cavafy 1863–1933
- Edith Cavell 1865–1915
- Margaret Cavendish (Duchess of Newcastle) c.1624–74
- Count Cavour (Camillo Benso di Cavour) 1810–61
- William Caxton c.1421–91
- Lord David Cecil 1902–86
- Lord Edward Cecil 1867–1918
- Lord Hugh Cecil 1869–1956
- Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury 1563–1612
- William Cecil (Lord Burghley) 1520–98
- Paul Celan 1920–70
- Susannah Centlivre c.1669–1723
- Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) 1547–1616
- Paul Cézanne 1839–1906
- John Chalkhill c.1600–42
- Jason Chamberlain fl. 1811
- Joseph Chamberlain 1836–1914
- Neville Chamberlain 1869–1940
- Haddon Chambers 1860–1921
- Jack Chambers 1931–78
- William Chambers 1726–96
- Nicolas-Sébastien Chamfort 1741–94
- John Chandler 1806–76
- Raymond Chandler 1888–1959
- Coco Chanel (Gabrielle Bonheur) 1883–1971
- Henry (‘Chips’) Channon 1897–1958
- Charlie Chaplin (Charles Spencer Chaplin) 1889–1977
- Arthur Chapman 1873–1935
- George Chapman c.1559–1634
- John Jay Chapman 1862–1933
- Charles I 1600–49
- Charles II 1630–85
- Charles V 1500–58
- Charles, Prince of Wales 1948–
- Pierre Charron 1541–1603
- Salmon Portland Chase 1808–73
- François-René Chateaubriand (Vicomte de Chateaubriand) 1768–1848
- Geoffrey Chaucer c.1343–1400
- Anton Chekhov 1860–1904
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1882–1959
- Mary Chesnut 1823–86
- Lord Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield) 1694–1773
- G. K. Chesterton 1874–1936
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- Duc de Choiseul 1719–85
- Noam Chomsky 1928–
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- Agatha Christie 1890–1976
- Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan 1522–90
- David Christy 1802–c.68
- Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) c.369–286 BC
- Mary, Lady Chudleigh (née Leigh) 1656–1710
- Francis Pharcellus Church
- Charles Churchill 1731–64
- Lord Randolph Churchill 1849–94
- Winston Churchill 1874–1965
- Count Galeazzo Ciano 1903–44
- Colley Cibber 1671–1757
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) 106–43 BC
- E. M. Cioran 1911–95
- Citizen Kane
- Claire Clairmont 1798–1879
- John Clare 1793–1864
- Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon 1609–74
- Claribel (Mrs Charlotte Alington Barnard) 1840–69
- Alan Clark 1928–99
- Kenneth Clark 1903–83
- Arthur C. Clarke 1917–2008
- Austin Clarke 1896–1974
- Grant Clarke 1891–1931 and Edgar Leslie 1885–1976
- James Stanier Clarke c.1765–1834
- John Clarke d. 1658
- Kenneth Clarke 1940–
- Claudian 370–c.404
- Appius Claudius Caecus fl. 312–279 BC
- Matthias Claudius 1740–1815
- Karl von Clausewitz 1780–1831
- Henry Clay 1777–1852
- Philip ‘Tubby’ Clayton 1885–1972
- Clearchus c.450–401 BC
- Eldridge Cleaver 1935–98
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- Clement XIII 1693–1769
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- Lord Clive 1725–74
- A Clockwork Orange
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Arthur Hugh Clough 1819–61
- Vernon Coaker 1953–
- Kurt Cobain 1967–94
- Irvin S. Cobb 1876–1944
- Thomas W. Cobb fl. 1820
- William Cobbett 1762–1835
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- Claud Cockburn 1904–81
- Jean Cocteau 1889–1963
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- John Cohen
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- Stephen Colbert 1964–
- David Coleman 1926–2013
- Hartley Coleridge 1796–1849
- Mary Coleridge 1861–1907
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834
- Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) 1873–1954
- John Payne Collier 1789–1883
- Mary Collier c.1690–c.1762
- William Collingbourne d. 1484
- Lord Collingwood 1748–1810
- R. G. Collingwood 1889–1943
- Charles Collins
- Michael Collins 1890–1922
- Tim Collins 1960–
- Wilkie Collins 1824–89
- William Collins 1721–59
- George Colman, the Elder 1732–94 and David Garrick 1717–79
- George Colman, the Younger 1762–1836
- John Robert Colombo 1936–
- Charles Caleb Colton c.1780–1832
- St Columba (St Colum Cille)?521–597
- Christopher Columbus 1451–1506
- Betty Comden 1919–2006 and Adolph Green 1915–2002
- Henry Steele Commager 1902–98
- Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884–1969
- Auguste Comte 1798–1857
- Prince de Condé (the Great Condé) 1621–86
- Marquis de Condorcet 1743–94
- Confucius (K’ung Fu-tzu) 551–479 BC
- William Congreve 1670–1729
- Gerry Conlon 1954–
- James M. Connell 1852–1929
- Billy Connolly 1942–
- Cyril Connolly 1903–74
- James Connolly 1868–1916
- Jimmy Connors 1952–
- Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski) 1857–1924
- Shirley Conran 1932–
- Henry Constable 1562–1613
- John Constable 1776–1837
- Benjamin Constant (Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque) 1767–1834
- Constantine the Great c.AD 288–337
- Constitution of the United States 1787
- A. J. Cook 1885–1931
- Eliza Cook 1812–89
- James Cook (Captain Cook) 1728–79
- Robin Cook 1946–2005
- Calvin Coolidge 1872–1933
- Anna Julia Cooper c.1858–1964
- Duff Cooper, Lord Norwich 1890–1954
- Elizabeth Cooper fl. 1730
- Susie Cooper 1902–95
- Wendy Cope 1945–
- Aaron Copland 1900–90
- Richard Corbet 1582–1635
- Pierre Corneille 1606–84
- Cornelius Nepos c.110–24 BC
- Ralph Cornes
- Bernard Cornfeld 1927–95
- Frances Cornford (née Darwin) 1886–1960
- Francis M. Cornford 1874–1943
- Mme Cornuel 1605–94
- Coronation Service 1689
- Correggio (Antonio Allegri Correggio) c.1489–1534
- William Cory (Johnson) 1823–92
- Bill Cosby 1937–
- Leda Cosmides 1957– and John Tooby
- Charles Cotton 1630–87
- John Cotton 1584–1652
- Baron Pierre de Coubertin 1863–1937
- Émile Coué 1857–1926
- Douglas Coupland 1961–
- The Court Jester
- Victor Cousin 1792–1867
- Jacques Cousteau 1910–97
- Thomas Coventry 1578–1640
- Noël Coward 1899–1973
- Abraham Cowley 1618–67
- Hannah Cowley (née Parkhouse) 1743–1809
- William Cowper 1731–1800
- George Crabbe 1754–1832
- Maurice James Craig 1919–
- Dinah Mulock Craik 1826–87
- Hart Crane 1899–1932
- Stephen Crane 1871–1900
- Thomas Cranmer 1489–1556
- Richard Crashaw c.1612–49
- Julia Crawford c.1800–c.55
- O. G. S. Crawford 1886–1957
- Robert Crawford 1959–
- Crazy Horse (Ta-Sunko-Witko) c.1849–77
- Mandell Creighton 1843–1901
- Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur 1735–1813
- Ranulphe Crewe 1558–1646
- Francis Crick 1916–2004
- Francis Crick 1916–2004 and James D. Watson 1928–
- Quentin Crisp 1908–99
- Julian Critchley 1930–2000
- Richmal Crompton (Richmal Crompton Lamburn) 1890–1969
- Oliver Cromwell 1599–1658
- Walter Cronkite 1916–2009
- Bing Crosby 1903–77
- Anthony Crosland 1918–77
- Amanda Cross (Carolyn G. Heilbrun) 1926–2003
- Douglas Cross
- Richard Assheton, Lord Cross 1823–1914
- Richard Crossman 1907–74
- Samuel Crossman 1624–83
- The Crowd
- Crowfoot c.1830–90
- Aleister Crowley 1875–1947
- Ralph Cudworth 1617–88
- John Culkin 1928–93
- Nicholas Culpeper 1616–54
- Richard Cumberland 1631–1718
- e. e. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings) 1894–1962
- William Thomas Cummings 1903–45
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- Don Cupitt 1934–
- Marie Curie 1867–1934
- Allen Curnow 1911–2001
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- Lord Curzon 1859–1925
- Astolphe Louis Léonard, Marquis de Custine 1790–1857
- St Cyprian c.AD 200–258
- D
- Louis Daguerre 1787–1851
- Hugh Dalton 1887–1962
- Tam Dalyell 1932–2017
- Charles A. Dana 1819–97
- Samuel Daniel 1563–1619
- Dante Alighieri 1265–1321
- Georges Jacques Danton 1759–94
- Joe Darion 1917–2001
- Darius I 558–486 BC
- George Darley 1795–1846
- Bill Darnell
- Clarence Darrow 1857–1938
- Charles Darwin 1809–82
- Erasmus Darwin 1731–1802
- Erasmus Darwin 1804–81
- Francis Darwin 1848–1925
- Charles D’Avenant 1656–1714
- William D’Avenant 1606–68
- Elizabeth David 1913–92
- John Davidson 1857–1909
- John Davies 1569–1626
- Robertson Davies 1913–95
- Scrope Davies c.1783–1852
- W. H. Davies 1871–1940
- Bette Davis 1908–89
- Jefferson Davis 1808–89
- Sammy Davis, Jnr. 1925–90
- Thomas Davis 1814–45
- Emily Wilding Davison 1872–1913
- Michael Davitt 1846–1905
- Richard Dawkins 1941–
- Christopher Dawson 1889–1970
- Lord Dawson of Penn 1864–1945
- A Day at the Races
- C. Day-Lewis 1904–72
- James Dean 1931–55
- John Dean 1938–
- Seamus Deane 1940–
- Percy Dearmer 1867–1936
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908–86
- Louis de Bernières 1954–
- Edward de Bono 1933–
- Eugene Victor Debs 1855–1926
- Stephen Decatur 1779–1820
- Declaration of Arbroath 1320
- Declaration of Independence 1776
- Jack Dee 1961–
- Daniel Defoe 1660–1731
- Edgar Degas 1834–1917
- Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970
- Thomas Dekker 1570–1641
- Walter de la Mare 1873–1956
- Shelagh Delaney 1939–2011
- Frederick Delius 1862–1934
- Michael Dell 1965–
- Agnes de Mille 1908–93
- Democritus c.460–c.370 BC
- Demosthenes c.384–c.322 BC
- Jack Dempsey 1895–1983
- Deng Xiaoping 1904–97
- John Denham 1615–69
- Lord Denman 1779–1854
- Lord Denning 1899–1999
- John Dennis 1657–1734
- Christine de Pisan 1364–c.1430
- Thomas De Quincey 1785–1859
- Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby 1799–1869
- Jacques Derrida 1930–2004
- René Descartes 1596–1650
- Camille Desmoulins 1760–94
- Septimus Despencer (Ralph Butler)
- Philippe Néricault Destouches 1680–1754
- Buddy De Sylva 1895–1950 and Lew Brown 1893–1958
- Eamon de Valera 1882–1975
- Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford
- Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
- Lord Devlin 1905–92
- Bernard De Voto 1897–1955
- Peter De Vries 1910–93
- Donald Dewar 1937–2000
- Lord Dewar 1864–1930
- George Dewey 1837–1917
- John Dewey 1859–1952
- Sergei Diaghilev 1872–1929
- Diana, Princess of Wales 1961–97
- Diane de Poitiers 1499–1566
- Porfirio Diaz 1830–1915
- Charles Dibdin 1745–1814
- Thomas Dibdin 1771–1841
- Philip K. Dick 1928–82
- Charles Dickens 1812–70
- Emily Dickinson 1830–86
- John Dickinson 1732–1808
- Paul Dickson 1939–
- Bo Diddley 1928–2008
- Denis Diderot 1713–84
- Joan Didion 1934–
- John G. Diefenbaker 1895–1979
- Howard Dietz 1896–1983
- Wentworth Dillon, Lord Roscommon c.1633–85
- Ernest Dimnet 1866–1954
- Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) 1885–1962
- Diogenes c.400–c.325 BC
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus fl. 30–7 BC
- Pseudo-Dionysius fl. 6th century
- Paul Dirac 1902–84
- Everett Dirksen 1896–1969
- Walt Disney 1901–66
- Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield 1804–81
- Isaac D’Israeli 1766–1848
- William Chatterton Dix 1837–98
- Henry Austin Dobson 1840–1921
- Ken Dodd 1927–
- Philip Doddridge 1702–51
- Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe 1691–1762
- Dogen Kigen 1200–53
- Aelius Donatus
- J. P. Donleavy 1926–
- John Donne 1572–1631
- Ariel Dorfman 1942–
- Fedor Dostoevsky 1821–81
- Lord Alfred Douglas 1870–1945
- Gavin Douglas c.1475–1522
- James Douglas, Earl of Morton c.1516–81
- Keith Douglas 1920–44
- Norman Douglas 1868–1952
- O. Douglas (Anna Buchan) 1877–1948
- William Douglas of Fingland fl. 1700
- Alec Douglas-Home
- Frederick Douglass c.1818–95
- Lorenzo Dow 1777–1834
- Ernest Dowson 1867–1900
- Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930
- Francis Doyle 1810–88
- Margaret Drabble 1939–
- Francis Drake c.1540–96
- Joseph Rodman Drake 1795–1820
- Michael Drayton 1563–1631
- William Drennan 1754–1820
- John Drinkwater 1882–1937
- William Driver 1803–86
- Dr No
- Henry Drummond 1851–97
- Thomas Drummond 1797–1840
- William Drummond of Hawthornden 1585–1649
- John Dryden 1631–1700
- Alexander Dubček 1921–92
- Joachim Du Bellay 1522–60
- W. E. B. Du Bois 1868–1963
- Marcel Duchamp 1887–1968
- Stephen Duck 1705–56
- Duck Soup
- Mme Du Deffand (Marie de Vichy-Chamrond) 1697–1780
- James Stemble Duesenberry 1918–2009
- Helen, Lady Dufferin 1807–67
- George Duffield 1818–88
- Carol Ann Duffy 1965–
- Charles Gavan Duffy 1816–1903
- Du Fu 712–770
- Georges Duhamel 1884–1966
- John Foster Dulles 1888–1959
- Alexandre Dumas (‘Dumas père’) 1802–70
- Alexandre Dumas (‘Dumas fils’) 1824–95
- Daphne Du Maurier 1907–89
- Charles François du Périer Dumouriez 1739–1823
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar 1872–1906
- William Dunbar c.1465–c.1513
- Isadora Duncan 1878–1927
- Henry Dundas 1742–1811
- Ian Dunlop 1940–
- Douglas Dunn 1942–
- Irina Dunn 1948–
- Finlay Peter Dunne 1867–1936
- Sean Dunne 1956–97
- John Dunning, Lord Ashburton 1731–83
- Richard Duppa 1770–1831
- Marguerite Duras 1914–96
- Paul Durcan 1944–
- Ray Durem 1915–63
- Albrecht Dürer 1471–1528
- John George Lambton, Lord Durham 1792–1840
- Leo Durocher 1906–91
- Gerald Durrell 1925–95
- Lawrence Durrell 1912–90
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1921–90
- Ian Dury 1942–2000
- Andrea Dworkin 1946–2005
- Edward Dyer 1543–1607
- John Dyer 1700–58
- John Dyer
- Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) 1941–
- James Dyson 1947–
- E
- Amelia Earhart 1898–1937
- George Eastman 1854–1932
- Clint Eastwood
- Abba Eban 1915–2002
- Fred Ebb 1932–2004
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1830–1916
- Arthur Eddington 1882–1944
- Mary Baker Eddy 1821–1910
- Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon 1897–1977
- Clarissa Eden 1920–
- Marriott Edgar 1880–1951
- Maria Edgeworth 1767–1849
- Richard Lovell Edgeworth 1744–1817
- Thomas Alva Edison 1847–1931
- James Edmeston 1791–1867
- John Maxwell Edmonds 1875–1958
- St Edmund of Abingdon c.1175–1240
- Edward III 1312–77
- Edward VII 1841–1910
- Edward VIII, afterwards Duke of Windsor 1894–1972
- Jonathan Edwards 1703–58
- Oliver Edwards 1711–91
- Richard Edwards c.1523–66
- Sarah Egerton 1670–1723
- Paul Ralph Ehrlich 1932–
- John Ehrlichman 1925–99
- Max Ehrmann 1872–1945
- Joseph von Eichendorff 1788–1857
- Albert Einstein 1879–1955
- Carlos Eire 1950–
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890–1969
- Alfred Eisenstaedt 1898–1995
- Eleazar of Worms 1176–1238
- Edward Elgar 1857–1934
- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819–80
- T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot) 1888–1965
- Elizabeth I 1533–1603
- Elizabeth II 1926–
- Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 1900–2002
- Elizabeth, Countess von Arnim 1866–1941
- Alf Ellerton
- John Ellerton 1826–93
- Duke Ellington 1899–1974
- Emily Elizabeth Steele Elliot 1836–97
- Jane Elliot 1727–1805
- Charlotte Elliott 1789–1871
- Ebenezer Elliott 1781–1849
- George Ellis 1753–1815
- Havelock Ellis (Henry Havelock Ellis) 1859–1939
- Thomas Edward Ellis 1859–99
- Henry Elston (Friar Elstow) fl. 1517–59
- Paul Éluard 1895–1952
- Rahm Emanuel 1959–
- Buchi Emecheta 1944–2017
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–82
- Robert Emmet 1778–1803
- William Empson 1906–84
- Les Enfants du Paradis
- Friedrich Engels 1820–95
- Thomas Dunn English 1819–1902
- Ennius 239–169 BC
- Ephelia
- Nora Ephron 1941–2012
- Epictetus c.AD 50–120
- Epicurus 341–271 BC
- Epitaphs
- Jacob Epstein 1880–1959
- Olaudah Equiano c.1745–c.97
- Erasmus (Desiderius Erasmus) c.1469–1536
- Ludwig Erhard 1897–1977
- Susan Ertz 1894–1985
- Lord Esher 1913–2004
- Phil Esposito 1942–
- Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex 1566–1601
- Henri Estienne 1531–98
- E.T.
- George Etherege c.1635–91
- Euclid fl. c.300 BC
- Eugénie 1826–1920
- Infanta Eulalia of Spain 1864–1958
- Euripides c.485–c.406 BC
- John Evelyn 1620–1706
- Lord Eversley
- Every Day's a Holiday
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex
- Gavin Ewart 1916–95
- William Norman Ewer 1885–1977
- Winifred Ewing 1929–
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- Frederick William Faber 1814–63
- Quintus Fabius Maximus c.275–203 BC
- Robert Fabyan d. 1513
- Clifton Fadiman 1904–99
- Émile Faguet 1847–1916
- Thomas Fairfax 1621–71
- Lucius Cary, Lord Falkland 1610–43
- Frantz Fanon 1925–61
- Richard Fanshawe 1605–66
- U. A. Fanthorpe 1929–2009
- Michael Faraday 1791–1867
- Wallace Fard c.1891–1934
- Eleanor Farjeon 1881–1965
- Herbert Farjeon 1887–1945
- James Farley 1888–1976
- Edward Farmer c.1809–76
- Farouk 1920–65
- George Farquhar 1678–1707
- David Glasgow Farragut 1801–70
- William Faulkner 1897–1962
- John Fawcett 1740–1817
- Guy Fawkes 1570–1606
- Dianne Feinstein 1933–
- Federico Fellini 1920–93
- James Fenton 1949–
- Edna Ferber 1887–1968
- Ferdowsi (Firdawsi) d. c.1020
- Samuel Ferguson 1810–86
- Robert Fergusson 1750–74
- Pierre de Fermat 1601–65
- Enrico Fermi 1901–54
- Kathleen Ferrier 1912–53
- Ludwig Feuerbach 1804–72
- Paul Feyerabend 1924–94
- Richard Phillips Feynman 1918–88
- Eugene Field 1850–95
- Helen Fielding 1958–
- Henry Fielding 1707–54
- Dorothy Fields 1905–74
- W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield) 1880–1946
- Film titles
- Alain Finkielkraut
- Ronald Firbank 1886–1926
- L’Abbé Edgeworth de Firmont 1745–1807
- Michael Fish 1944–
- Andrew Fisher 1862–1928
- H. A. L. Fisher 1856–1940
- John Arbuthnot Fisher 1841–1920
- Marve Fisher
- R. A. Fisher 1890–1962
- Albert H. Fitz
- Charles Fitzgeffrey c.1575–1638
- Edward Fitzgerald 1809–83
- F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896–1940
- Penelope Fitzgerald 1916–2000
- Robert Fitzsimmons 1862–1917
- Bud Flanagan 1896–1968
- Michael Flanders 1922–75 and Donald Swann 1923–94
- Thomas Flatman 1637–88
- Gustave Flaubert 1821–80
- James Elroy Flecker 1884–1915
- Richard Flecknoe d. c.1678
- Ian Fleming 1908–64
- Marjory Fleming 1803–11
- Robert, Marquis de Flers 1872–1927 and Arman de Caillavet 1869–1915
- Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun 1655–1716
- John Fletcher 1579–1625
- Phineas Fletcher 1582–1650
- Matthew Flinders 1774–1814
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian 1755–94
- The Fly
- Dario Fo 1926–2016
- Ferdinand Foch 1851–1929
- J. Foley 1906–70
- Jane Fonda 1937–
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657–1757
- Michael Foot 1913–2010
- Samuel Foote 1720–77
- Miss C. F. Forbes 1817–1911
- Anna Ford 1943–
- Ford Madox Ford 1873–1939
- Gerald Ford 1909–2006
- Henry Ford 1863–1947
- John Ford 1586–after 1639
- Lena Guilbert Ford 1870–1918
- Howell Forgy 1908–83
- Johann Nicolaus Forkel 1749–1818
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Forrest Gump
- E. M. Forster 1879–1970
- Venantius Fortunatus c.AD 530–c.610
- 42nd Street
- Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878–1969
- Charles Foster 1828–1904
- John Foster 1770–1843
- Stephen Collins Foster 1826–64
- Charles Fourier 1772–1837
- H. W. Fowler 1858–1933
- H. W. Fowler 1858–1933 and F. G. Fowler 1870–1918
- Norman Fowler 1938–
- William Fowler c.1560–1612
- Caroline Fox 1723–74
- Charles James Fox 1749–1806
- George Fox 1624–91
- Henry Fox
- Liam Fox 1961–
- Michael J. Fox 1961–
- Terry Fox 1958–81
- Janet Frame 1924–2004
- Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault) 1844–1924
- Francis I 1494–1547
- St Francis of Assisi 1181–1226
- St Francis de Sales 1567–1622
- Anne Frank 1929–45
- Felix Frankfurter 1882–1965
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–90
- Miles Franklin 1879–1954
- Rosalind Franklin 1920–58
- Lord Franks 1905–92
- Tommy Franks 1945–
- Dawn Fraser 1937–
- Malcolm Fraser 1930–2015
- James George Frazer 1854–1941
- Frederick the Great 1712–86
- Cathy Freeman 1973–
- E. A. Freeman 1823–92
- John Freeth c.1731–1808
- Marilyn French 1929–2009
- Percy French 1854–1920
- John Hookham Frere 1769–1846
- Sigmund Freud 1856–1939
- Nancy Friday 1937–
- Betty Friedan 1921–2006
- Milton Friedman 1912–2006
- Brian Friel 1929–2015
- Elisabeth Frink 1930–93
- Max Frisch 1911–91
- Charles Frohman 1860–1915
- Erich Fromm 1900–80
- The Front Page
- David Frost 1939–2013
- Robert Frost 1874–1963
- Christopher Fry 1907–2005
- Elizabeth Fry 1780–1845
- Roger Fry 1866–1934
- Stephen Fry 1957–
- Mary E. Frye 1905–2004
- Carlos Fuentes 1928–2012
- Athol Fugard 1932–
- Francis Fukuyama 1952–
- J. William Fulbright 1905–95
- R. Buckminster Fuller 1895–1983
- Thomas Fuller 1608–61
- Thomas Fuller 1654–1734
- Alfred Funke 1869–1941
- David Maxwell Fyfe
- Rose Fyleman 1877–1957
- G
- Clark Gable
- Lady Gaga 1986–
- Thomas Gainsborough 1727–88
- Thomas Gaisford 1779–1855
- Hugh Gaitskell 1906–63
- Gaius (or Caius) c.AD 110–c.180
- J. K. Galbraith 1908–2006
- Galen AD 129–199
- Galileo Galilei 1564–1642
- Evariste Galois 1811–32
- John Galsworthy 1867–1933
- John Galt 1779–1839
- Ray Galton 1930– and Alan Simpson 1929–2017
- George Gamow 1904–68
- Indira Gandhi 1917–84
- Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) 1869–1948
- Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) 1905–90
- Frederico García Lorca
- Gabriel García Márquez 1927–2014
- Richard Gardiner b. c.1533
- Ed Gardner 1901–63
- James A. Garfield 1831–81
- Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807–82
- John Nance Garner 1868–1967
- David Garrick 1717–79
- William Lloyd Garrison 1805–79
- Samuel Garth 1661–1719
- Marcus Garvey 1887–1940
- George Gascoigne c.1534–77
- Elizabeth Gaskell 1810–65
- Bill Gates 1955–
- Paul Gauguin 1848–1903
- Alan Gaunt 1935–
- Théophile Gautier 1811–72
- Gavarni (Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier) 1804–66
- John Gay 1685–1732
- Noel Gay (Richard Moxon Armitage) 1898–1954
- Eric Geddes 1875–1937
- Frank Gehry 1929–
- Bob Geldof 1954– and Midge Ure 1953–
- Martha Gellhorn 1908–98
- Aulus Gellius c.AD 125–c.180
- Jean Genet 1910–86
- Genghis Khan (Temujin) 1162–1227
- George I 1660–1727
- George II 1683–1760
- George III 1738–1820
- George IV 1762–1830
- George V 1865–1936
- George VI 1895–1952
- Dan George 1899–1981
- Daniel George (Daniel George Bunting)
- David Lloyd George
- Geronimo c.1829–1909
- Ira Gershwin 1896–1983
- Gervase of Canterbury c.1141–c.1210
- J. Paul Getty 1892–1976
- Giuseppe Giacosa 1847–1906 and Luigi Illica 1857–1919
- Edward Gibbon 1737–94
- Orlando Gibbons 1583–1625
- Stella Gibbons 1902–89
- Wolcott Gibbs 1902–58
- Kahlil Gibran 1883–1931
- Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1878–1962
- William Gibson 1948–
- André Gide 1869–1951
- Gabrielle Giffords 1970–
- Humphrey Gilbert c.1537–83
- W. S. Gilbert (Sir William Schwenck Gilbert) 1836–1911
- Eric Gill 1882–1940
- Andrew Gilligan 1968–
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860–1935
- Allen Ginsberg 1926–97
- George Gipp 1895–1920
- Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales) c.1146–c.1223
- Jean Giraudoux 1882–1944
- George Gissing 1857–1903
- Rudolph Giuliani 1944–
- Edna Gladney
- W. E. Gladstone 1809–98
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- Gone with the Wind
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- Thomas Gray 1716–71
- The Great Director
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- Haggadah
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- Stephen Harper 1959–
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- Hippocleides
- Hippocrates c.460–357 BC
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- Dolores Ibarruri (‘La Pasionaria’) 1895–1989
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- Weldon J. Irvine
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- The Italian Job
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- Jack Judge 1878–1938 and Harry Williams 1874–1924
- Julian of Norwich 1343–after 1416
- Julian the Apostate c.AD 332–363
- Carl Gustav Jung 1875–1961
- Jung Chang 1952–
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- ‘Junius’
- John Junor 1919–97
- Donald Justice 1925–2004
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- Donna Karan 1948–
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- Paul Kaufman and Mike Anthony
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- Kautilya (Chanakya) fl. c.300 BC
- Patrick Kavanagh 1904–67
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- Walt Kelly
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- Omar Khayyám
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- Ted Koehler
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- The Koran
- Gene Kranz 1933–
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- Satish Kumar 1937–
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- Stephen Langton d. 1228
- Emilia Lanier 1569–1645
- Lao Tzu c.604–c.531 BC
- Dionysius Lardner 1793–1859
- Ring Lardner 1885–1933
- James Larkin 1867–1947
- Philip Larkin 1922–85
- Duc de la Rochefoucauld 1613–80
- Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt 1747–1827
- Harold Laski 1893–1950
- Hugh Latimer c.1485–1555
- William Laud 1573–1645
- Harry Lauder (Hugh MacLennan) 1870–1950
- Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson)
- Ralph Lauren 1939–
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- Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741–1801
- Emily Lawless 1845–1913
- D. H. Lawrence 1885–1930
- T. E. Lawrence (‘Lawrence of Arabia’) 1888–1935
- Laws of Manu
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- Irving Layton 1912–2006
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- Edward Lear 1812–88
- Timothy Leary 1920–96
- Mary Elizabeth Lease 1853–1933
- F. R. Leavis 1895–1978
- Fran Lebowitz 1950–
- Stanislaw Lec 1909–66
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- Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965
- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin 1807–74
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- Tom Lehrer 1928–
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- Fred W. Leigh d. 1924
- Vivien Leigh 1913–67
- Curtis E. LeMay 1906–90
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- Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) 1870–1924
- John Lennon 1940–80
- John Lennon 1940–80 and Paul McCartney 1942–
- Dan Leno (George Galvin) 1860–1904
- William Lenthall 1591–1662
- Elmore Leonard 1925–2013
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- Kathy Lette 1958–
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- Ada Leverson 1865–1936
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- Primo Levi 1919–87
- Bernard Levin 1928–2004
- Duc de Lévis 1764–1830
- Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908–2009
- Theodore Levitt 1925–2006
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- C. S. Lewis 1898–1963
- David Lewis 1909–81
- Esther Lewis (Clark) fl. 1747–89
- George Cornewall Lewis 1806–63
- Gwyneth Lewis 1959–
- Robert Lewis
- Sam M. Lewis 1885–1959 and Joe Young 1889–1939
- Sinclair Lewis 1885–1951
- Wyndham Lewis 1882–1957
- Ludwig Lewisohn 1882–1955
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- Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919–87
- Libosus of Vaga
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742–99
- A. J. Liebling 1904–63
- Gordon Lightfoot 1938–
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- Beatrice Lillie 1894–1989
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- R. M. Lindner
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- Eric Linklater 1899–1974
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- Joan Littlewood 1914–2002 and Charles Chilton 1914–2013
- Maxim Litvinov 1876–1951
- Penelope Lively 1933–
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- Madonna 1958–
- Gaeus Cilnius Maecenas d. 8 BC
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- The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
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- Mary I (Mary Tudor) 1516–58
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- Mencius
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- Angela Merkel 1954–
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- Midrash
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- A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey, and Bennett Scott
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- Mistinguett 1875–1956
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- Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) 1622–73
- Mary Mollineux (née Southworth) 1651–95
- Helmuth von Moltke 1800–91
- Walter Mondale 1928–
- Piet Mondrian 1872–1944
- James, Duke of Monmouth 1649–85
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- John Samuel Bewley Monsell 1811–75
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- Robert Montgomery 1807–55
- Henry de Montherlant 1896–1972
- Casimir, Comte de Montrond 1768–1843
- James Graham, Marquess of Montrose 1612–50
- Percy Montrose
- Monty Python's Flying Circus 1969–74
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Clement C. Moore 1779–1863
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- George Moore 1852–1933
- Henry Moore 1898–1986
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- Sturge Moore 1870–1944
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- Morelly fl. 1755
- John Pierpont Morgan 1837–1913
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- James Morrill 1824–65
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- Jan Morris 1926–
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- Herbert Morrison 1888–1965
- Herbert ‘Herb’ Morrison d. 1989
- Jim Morrison 1943–71
- R. F. Morrison
- Toni Morrison 1931–
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- Morrissey 1959–
- Dwight Morrow 1873–1931
- Samuel Morse 1791–1872
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- Edwin Moses 1955–
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- John Lothrop Motley 1814–77
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- Peter Motteux
- Mottoes
- Lord Mountbatten 1900–79
- Daniel P. Moynihan 1927–2003
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–91
- Hosni Mubarak 1928–
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- Paul Muldoon 1951–
- Robert Muldoon 1921–92
- H. J. Muller 1890–1967
- Herbert J. Muller 1905–80
- Wilhelm Müller 1794–1827
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- Lewis Mumford 1895–1990
- Mumonkan c.1228
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- Murasaki Shikibu c.978–c.1031
- Iris Murdoch 1919–99
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- Fred Murray
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- Les A. Murray 1938–
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- Network
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- Now, Voyager
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- Sam Nunn 1938–
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- Julius Nyerere 1922–99
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- Charles Edward Oakley 1832–65
- Lawrence Oates 1880–1912
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- Omar c.581–644
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- Michael Ondaatje 1943–
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- Yoko Ono 1933–
- Brian O’Nolan
- On the Waterfront
- John Opie 1761–1807
- James Oppenheim 1882–1932
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- Egan O’Rahilly c.1675–1729
- Susie Orbach 1946–
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- Orchot Tzaddikim
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- Orderic Vitalis 1075–c.1142
- Meta Orred
- José Ortega y Gasset 1883–1955
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- Dorothy Osborne 1627–95
- John Osborne 1929–94
- Arthur O’Shaughnessy 1844–81
- William Osler 1849–1919
- John L. O’Sullivan 1813–95
- James Otis 1725–83
- Thomas Otway 1652–85
- The Outlaw
- Thomas Overbury 1581–1613
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) 43 BC–c.AD 17
- John Owen c.1563–1622
- Robert Owen 1771–1858
- Wilfred Owen 1893–1918
- Jesse Owens 1913–80
- Count Oxenstierna 1583–1654
- Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford 1550–1604
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- Lord George Paget 1818–80
- Camille Paglia 1947–
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- Thomas Paine 1737–1809
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- Pali Tripitaka
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- Orhan Pamuk 1952–
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- Paracelsus (Theophrastus Phillipus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim) c.1493–1541
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- St Patrick fl. 5th cent.
- Mark Pattison 1813–84
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- Tom Paulin 1949–
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- Jeremy Paxman 1950–
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- Pedro I (Pedro IV of Portugal) 1798–1834
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- George Peele c.1556–96
- Charles Péguy 1873–1914
- Pelé 1940–
- Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 1561–1621
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- Henry Herbert, Lord Pembroke 1734–94
- Vladimir Peniakoff 1897–1951
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- Ted Persons
- Max Perutz 1914–2002
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- Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74
- Jamie Petrie and Peter Cunnah
- Petronius (Petronius Arbiter) d. AD 65
- Pheidippides d. 490 BC
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- Kim Philby (Harold Adrian Russell Philby) 1912–88
- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1921–
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- Ambrose Philips c.1675–1749
- Katherine Philips 1632–64
- Arthur Angell Phillips 1900–85
- Caryl Phillips 1958–
- Morgan Phillips 1902–63
- Eden Phillpotts 1862–1960
- Phocion c.402–317 BC
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- Frank Pick 1878–1941
- Pindar 518–438 BC
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- Luigi Pirandello 1867–1936
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- Walter B. Pitkin 1878–1953
- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 1708–78
- William Pitt 1759–1806
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- Pius XII 1876–1958
- Max Planck 1858–1947
- Planet of the Apes
- Sylvia Plath 1932–63
- Plato 429–347 BC
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- Pliny the Elder AD 23–79
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- William Plomer 1903–73
- Plotinus 205–270
- George Washington Plunkitt 1842–1924
- Plutarch c.AD 46–c.120
- Edgar Allan Poe 1809–49
- Henri Poincaré 1854–1912
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- Political sayings and slogans
- Jackson Pollock 1912–56
- Polybius c.200–c.118 BC
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- Pompey the Great 106–48 BC
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- Karl Popper 1902–94
- Cole Porter 1891–1964
- Hal Porter 1911–84
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- Michael Portillo 1953–
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- Eugène Pottier 1816–87
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- John Critchley Prince 1808–66
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- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809–65
- Annie Proulx 1935–
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- Proverbs
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- Pyrrhus 319–272 BC
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- Qianlong 1711–99
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- Arthur Quiller-Couch (‘Q’) 1863–1944
- Philippe Quinault 1635–88
- Josiah Quincy 1772–1864
- W. V. O. Quine 1908–2000
- Quintilian c.AD 35–c.96
- The Qur’an
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- François Rabelais c.1494–c.1553
- Yitzhak Rabin 1922–95
- Jean Racine 1639–99
- Lord Radcliffe 1899–1977
- St Radegund 518–587
- James Rado 1939– and Gerome Ragni 1942–
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- Craig Raine 1944–
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- Walter Raleigh 1861–1922
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- Rumi
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- Sallustius fl. c.AD 363
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- Sappho
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- Lord Scarman 1911–2004
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- Albert Schweitzer 1875–1965
- Kurt Schwitters 1887–1948
- Scipio Africanus (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major) 236–c.184 BC
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- Scottish Metrical Psalms 1650
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- Arthur Seldon 1916–2005
- W. C. Sellar 1898–1951 and R. J. Yeatman 1898–1968
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- John Sentamu 1949–
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- Vikram Seth 1952–
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- She Done Him Wrong
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- The Shorter Catechism (1647)
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- The Siddur
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- Harold Simpson
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- Manmohan Singh 1932–
- C. H. Sisson 1914–2003
- Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) c.1831–90
- Edith Sitwell 1887–1964
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- The Sixth Sense
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- Sleeper
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- Socrates 469–399 BC
- Solon c.640–after 556 BC
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- Some Like It Hot
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- Sophocles c.496–406 BC
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- Mme de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker) 1766–1817
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- Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) 1879–1953
- Bessie Anderson Stanley fl. 1905
- Henry Morton Stanley 1841–1904
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- John Stark 1728–1822
- Star Wars
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- Peter Steiner
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- Anne Stevenson 1933–
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- Sting (Gordon Sumner) 1951–
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- Winifred Sackville Stoner 1902–83
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- William Scott, Lord Stowell 1745–1836
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- William L. Strauss and A. J. E. Cave
- Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
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- Sunset Boulevard
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey c.1517–47
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- David Sutton 1944–
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- Charles J. Sykes 1954–
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- Thomas Szasz 1920–2012
- Albert von Szent-Györgyi 1893–1986
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- Tacitus (Cornelius Tacitus) c.AD 56–after 117
- William Howard Taft 1857–1930
- Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941
- Nellie Talbot
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand 1754–1838
- The Talmud
- Amy Tan 1952–
- Tantric Buddhist texts
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- Catherine Tate
- Nahum Tate 1652–1715
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- Bayard Taylor 1825–78
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- Henry Taylor 1800–86
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- Tom Taylor 1817–80
- Ibn Taymiyyah 1263–1328
- Norman Tebbit 1931–
- Tecumseh 1768–1813
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881–1955
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- William Temple 1881–1944
- John Tenniel 1820–1914
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809–92
- Tenzing Norgay 1914–86
- Te Rauparaha d. 1849
- Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) c.190–159 BC
- Terentianus Maurus
- Mother Teresa (Blessed Teresa of Calcutta) 1910–97
- St Teresa of Ávila 1512–82
- St Teresa of Lisieux 1873–97
- The Terminator
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Ellen Terry 1847–1928
- Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) c.AD 160–c.225
- A. S. J. Tessimond 1902–62
- William Makepeace Thackeray 1811–63
- Margaret Thatcher 1925–2013
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- Themistocles c.528–c.462 BC
- Theocritus c.300–260 BC
- Louis Adolphe Thiers 1797–1877
- The Third Man
- Thomas à Kempis c.1380–1471
- St Thomas Aquinas c.1225–74
- Brandon Thomas 1856–1914
- Dylan Thomas 1914–53
- Edward Thomas 1878–1917
- Elizabeth Thomas 1675–1731
- Gwyn Thomas 1913–81
- Irene Thomas 1919–2001
- R. S. Thomas 1913–2000
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- Francis Thompson 1859–1907
- Julian Thompson 1934–
- Robert Norman Thompson 1914–97
- William Hepworth Thompson 1810–86
- James Thomson 1700–48
- James Thomson 1834–82
- Roy Thomson 1894–1976
- Henry David Thoreau 1817–62
- Robert Thorne d. 1527
- Jeremy Thorpe 1929–2014
- Thucydides c.455–c.400 BC
- James Thurber 1894–1961
- Edward, Lord Thurlow 1731–1806
- Edward, Lord Thurlow 1781–1829
- Tiberius 42 BC–AD 37
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Tibullus (Albius Tibullus) c.50–19 BC
- Chidiock Tichborne c.1558–86
- Thomas Tickell 1686–1740
- Lionel Tiger 1937–
- Tiglath-pileser I c.1115–c.1077 BC
- Paul Tillich 1886–1965
- The Time Machine
- Kahn Tineta-Horn 1940–
- Tipu Sultan c.1750–99
- Titian c.1488–1576
- Titus (Titus Flavius Vespasianus) AD 39–81
- Alexis de Tocqueville 1805–59
- Alvin Toffler 1928–2016
- To Have and Have Not
- J. R. R. Tolkien 1892–1973
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- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Michael Torke 1961–
- Robert Torrens 1780–1864
- Cyril Tourneur
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- Pete Townshend 1945–
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- Polly Toynbee 1946–
- Toy Story
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- Joseph Trapp 1679–1747
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- Frances Trollope 1780–1863
- Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940
- Pierre Trudeau 1919–2000
- François Truffaut 1932–84
- Harry S. Truman 1884–1972
- Donald Trump 1946–
- Sojourner Truth c.1797–1883
- Morgan Tsvangirai 1952–
- Harriet Tubman c.1820–1913
- Barbara W. Tuchman 1912–89
- Sophie Tucker (Sophia Abuza) 1884–1966
- Martin Tupper 1810–89
- Ivan Turgenev 1818–83
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- Alan Turing 1912–54
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- Thomas Turner 1729–93
- Walter James Redfern Turner 1889–1946
- John Tusa 1936–
- Desmond Tutu 1931–
- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835–1910
- Kenneth Tynan 1927–80
- William Tyndale c.1494–1536
- Dudley Atkins Tyng 1825–58
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- Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade
- Ulpian (Domitius Ulpianus) d. 228
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1938–
- Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz c.682–720
- Miguel de Unamuno 1864–1937
- The Upanishads
- John Updike 1932–2009
- Urban II (Odo of Lagery) c.1035–99
- James Ussher 1581–1656
- Peter Ustinov 1921–2004
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- Valerius Flaccus fl. c.AD 90
- Paul Valéry 1871–1945
- John Vanbrugh 1664–1726
- Vivian van Damm c.1889–1960
- William Henry Vanderbilt 1821–85
- Laurens van der Post 1906–96
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- Henry Vane 1613–62
- Raoul Vaneigem 1934–
- Vincent Van Gogh 1853–90
- William Cornelius Van Horne 1843–1915
- Bartolomeo Vanzetti 1888–1927
- Marcus Terentius Varro 116–27 BC
- Michel Vaucaire 1904–80
- Henry Vaughan 1622–95
- Janet-Maria Vaughan 1899–1993
- Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues 1715–47
- Thomas, Lord Vaux 1510–56
- Thorstein Veblen 1857–1929
- Lope de Vega 1562–1635
- Vegetius (Flavius Vegetius Renatus) fl. AD 379–95
- J. Craig Venter 1946–
- Robert Venturi 1925–
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- Pierre Vergniaud 1753–93
- Paul Verlaine 1844–96
- Jules Verne 1828–1905
- René Aubert, Abbé de Vertot 1655–1735
- Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd 1901–66
- Vespasian (Titus Flavius Vespasianus) AD 9–79
- Giambattista Vico 1668–1744
- Queen Victoria 1819–1901
- Gore Vidal 1925–2012
- José Antonio Viera Gallo 1943–
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- Alfred de Vigny 1797–1863
- Matteo Villani d. c.1363
- Philippe-Auguste Villiers de L’Isle-Adam 1838–89
- François Villon c.1431– after 63
- St Vincent of Lerins d. c.AD 450
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) 70–19 BC
- Vitruvius fl. 1st century BC
- Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) 1694–1778
- Kurt Vonnegut 1922–2007
- Andrei Voznesensky 1933–2010
- Diana Vreeland 1903–89
- Peter Vyazemsky 1792–1878
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- Alice Walker 1944–
- Felix Walker fl. 1820
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- George Wallace 1919–98
- Henry Wallace 1888–1965
- William Wallace c.1270–1305
- William Ross Wallace 1819–81
- Graham Wallas 1858–1932
- Edmund Waller 1606–87
- William Waller 1598–1668
- Wall Street
- Horace Walpole, Lord Orford 1717–97
- Robert Walpole, Lord Orford 1676–1745
- William Walsh 1663–1708
- John Walter 1739?–1812
- Izaak Walton 1593–1683
- Sam Walton 1919–92
- William Warburton 1698–1779
- Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) 1834–67
- Barbara Ward 1914–81
- Nathaniel Ward 1578–1652
- Andy Warhol 1927–87
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- Earl Warren 1891–1974
- Robert Penn Warren 1905–89
- Booker T. Washington 1856–1915
- George Washington 1732–99
- Ned Washington 1901–76
- Edward Waterfield
- Rowland Watkyns c.1616–64
- James Dewey Watson 1928–
- Thomas Watson, Snr. 1874–1956
- William Watson c.1559–1603
- William Watson 1858–1936
- Isaac Watts 1674–1748
- Evelyn Waugh 1903–66
- Frederick Weatherly 1848–1929
- Beatrice Webb 1858–1943
- Sidney Webb 1859–1947
- Byron Webber b. 1838
- Max Weber 1864–1920
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- John Webster c.1580–c.1625
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- Simone Weil 1909–43
- Max Weinreich 1894–1969
- Arabella Weir
- Robert Stanley Weir 1856–1926
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- Johnny Weissmuller
- Chaim Weizmann 1874–1952
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- Fay Weldon 1931–
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- Duke of Wellington 1769–1852
- H. G. Wells 1866–1946
- Arnold Wesker 1932–2016
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- John Wesley 1703–91
- Mary Wesley 1912–2002
- Samuel Wesley 1662–1735
- Mae West 1892–1980
- Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Fairfield) 1892–1983
- William C. Westmoreland 1914–2005
- John Fane, Lord Westmorland 1759–1841
- R. P. Weston 1878–1936 and Bert Lee 1880–1947
- Charles Wetherell 1770–1846
- Adelheid Wette 1858–1916
- Edith Wharton 1862–1937
- Thomas, Lord Wharton 1648–1715
- Richard Whately 1787–1863
- Phillis Wheatley c.1753–84
- When Harry Met Sally
- William Whewell 1794–1866
- James McNeill Whistler 1834–1903
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- Gilbert White 1720–93
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- Patrick White 1912–90
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- Theodore H. White 1915–86
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- Katharine Whitehorn 1928–
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- Charlotte Whitton 1896–1975
- Cornelius Whur
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- George John Whyte-Melville 1821–78
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- Thornton Wilder 1897–1975
- Robert Wilensky 1951–
- Wilhelm II (‘Kaiser Bill’) 1859–1941
- John Wilkes 1727–97
- Emma Hart Willard 1787–1870
- William I (William the Conqueror) 1027–87
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- William of Malmesbury c.1090–c.1143
- Heathcote Williams 1941–2017
- Isaac Williams 1802–65
- Peter Williams
- R. J. P. Williams 1926–2015
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- Shirley Williams 1930–
- Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) 1911–83
- William Carlos Williams 1883–1963
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- Roy Williamson 1936–90
- Love Maria Willis (née Whitcomb) 1824–1908
- Wendell Willkie 1892–1944
- Angus Wilson 1913–91
- Charles E. Wilson 1890–1961
- Edward O. Wilson 1929–
- Harold Wilson 1916–95
- Harriette Wilson 1789–1846
- John Wilson
- Sandy Wilson 1924–2014
- Woodrow Wilson 1856–1924
- Walter Winchell 1897–1972
- Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea 1661–1720
- Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson) 1896–1986
- Duke of Windsor
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- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
- The Wizard of Oz
- P. G. Wodehouse 1881–1975
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- Humbert Wolfe 1886–1940
- James Wolfe 1727–59
- Thomas Wolfe 1900–38
- Tom Wolfe 1931–
- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759–97
- Thomas Wolsey c.1475–1530
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- Woman of the Year
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- Woodbine Willie
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- X
- Xenophon c.428–c.354 BC
- Xerxes I c.519–465 BC
- Augustin, Marquis de Ximénèz 1726–1817
- Y
- Isoroku Yamamoto 1884–1943
- Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani 1930–
- Minoru Yamasaki 1912–88
- William Yancey 1814–63
- Thomas Russell Ybarra b. 1880
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- Shoichi Yokoi 1915–97
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- Neil Young 1945– and Jeff Blackburn
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- You’re Telling Me
- Malala Yousafzai 1997–
- Z
- Yevgeny Zamyatin 1884–1937
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- Emiliano Zapata 1879–1919
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- Zeno of Citium c.335–c.263 BC
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- Zhuangzi
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- Philip Ziegler 1929–
- Ronald L. Ziegler 1939–2003
- Grigori Zinoviev 1883–1936
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- Zohar
- Émile Zola 1840–1902
- Zoroastrian Scriptures