Includes over tens of thousands of quotations for all occasions, from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century

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
• Maurice Chevalier 1888–1972
• Joseph Benedict ‘Ben’ Chifley 1885–1951
• Lydia Maria Child 1802–80
• Erskine Childers 1870–1922
• William Chillingworth 1602–44
• Jacques Chirac 1932– 
• Shirley Chisholm 1924–2005
• Thomas O. Chisholm 1866–1960
• Rufus Choate 1799–1859
• Duc de Choiseul 1719–85
• Noam Chomsky 1928– 
• Jean Chrétien 1934– 
• 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
• John Cleland 1710–89
• Georges Clemenceau 1841–1929
• Clement XIII 1693–1769
• Cleopatra 69–30 BC
• Grover Cleveland 1837–1908
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• John Cleveland 1613–58
• Clarice Cliff 1899–1972
• William Clifford 1845–79
• Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947– 
• William Jefferson (‘Bill’) Clinton 1946– 
• 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
• Alison Cockburn (née Rutherford) 1713–94
• Bruce Cockburn 1945– 
• Claud Cockburn 1904–81
• Jean Cocteau 1889–1963
• J. M. Coetzee 1940– 
• George M. Cohan 1878–1942
• John Cohen
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• Aston Cokayne 1608–84
• Edward Coke 1552–1634
• Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619–83
• 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
• Allan Cunningham 1784–1842
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• Astolphe Louis Léonard, Marquis de Custine 1790–1857
• St Cyprian c.AD 200–258
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• Louis Daguerre 1787–1851
• Hugh Dalton 1887–1962
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• Charles A. Dana 1819–97
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• Darius I 558–486 BC
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• Bill Darnell
• Clarence Darrow 1857–1938
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Clark Gable
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• Thomas Gainsborough 1727–88
• Thomas Gaisford 1779–1855
• Hugh Gaitskell 1906–63
• Gaius (or Caius) c.AD 110–c.180
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• Evariste Galois 1811–32
• John Galsworthy 1867–1933
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• 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
• Thomas Glascock
• Hannah Glasse fl. 1747
• William Henry, Duke of Gloucester 1743–1805
• Louise Glück 1943– 
• Jean-Luc Godard 1930– 
• The Godfather Part II
• A. D. Godley 1856–1925
• Sidney Godolphin 1610–43
• William Godwin 1756–1836
• Joseph Goebbels 1897–1945
• Hermann Goering 1893–1946
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
• Oliver St John Gogarty 1878–1957
• Nikolai Gogol 1809–52
• Isaac Goldberg 1887–1938
• Whoopi Goldberg 1949– 
• William Golding 1911–93
• Emma Goldman 1869–1940
• Carlo Goldoni 1707–93
• James Goldsmith 1933–97
• Oliver Goldsmith 1728–74
• Barry Goldwater 1909–98
• Sam Goldwyn (Samuel Goldfish) 1882–1974
• Ivan Goncharov 1812–91
• Gone with the Wind
• Maud Gonne (Maud Gonne MacBride) 1867–1953
• Charles Goodhart 1936– 
• Amy Goodman 1957– 
• Barnabe Googe 1540–94
• Thomas Goold 1766–1846
• Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev 1931– 
• Nadine Gordimer 1923–2014
• Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833–70
• Mack Gordon 1904–59
• Albert Gore, Jr. 1948– 
• Eva Gore-Booth 1870–1926
• Maxim Gorky 1868–1936
• Stuart Gorrell 1902–63
• George Joachim, Lord Goschen 1831–1907
• Edmund Gosse 1849–1928
• Glenn Gould 1932–82
• Stephen Jay Gould 1941–2002
• Remy de Gourmont 1858–1915
• John Gower c.1330–1408
• Goya (Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes) 1746–1828
• Baltasar Gracián 1601–58
• Clementina Stirling Graham 1782–1877
• D. M. Graham 1911–99
• Harry Graham 1874–1936
• James Graham
• Martha Graham 1894–1991
• Kenneth Grahame 1859–1932
• James Grainger c.1721–66
• Phil Gramm 1942– 
• Antonio Gramsci 1891–1937
• Bernie Grant 1944–2000
• Cary Grant 1904–86
• George P. Grant 1918–88
• Robert Grant 1785–1838
• Ulysses S. Grant 1822–85
• George Granville, Lord Lansdowne 1666–1735
• Günter Grass 1927–2015
• Henry Grattan 1746–1820
• Arthur Percival Graves 1846–1931
• John Woodcock Graves 1795–1886
• Robert Graves 1895–1985
• John Gray 1951– 
• John Chipman Gray 1839–1915
• Patrick, Lord Gray c.1558–1611
• Thomas Gray 1716–71
• The Great Director
• Horace Greeley 1811–72
• Matthew Green 1696–1737
• Graham Greene 1904–91
• Nancy Greene 1943– 
• Robert Greene c.1560–92
• Alan Greenspan 1926– 
• Germaine Greer 1939– 
• Gregory the Great c.AD 540–604
• Gregory VII c.1020–85
• Stephen Grellet 1773–1855
• Joyce Grenfell 1910–79
• Julian Grenfell 1888–1915
• George Grenville 1712–70
• Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset 1709–77
• Wayne Gretzky 1961– 
• Frances Greville (née Macartney) c.1724–89
• Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke 1554–1628
• Edward Grey, Lord Grey of Fallodon 1862–1933
• Lady Jane Grey 1537–54
• Arthur Griffith 1871–1922
• Mervyn Griffith-Jones 1909–79
• John Grigg 1924–2001
• Nicholas Grimald 1519–62
• Jacob Grimm 1785–1863 and Wilhelm Grimm 1786–1859
• Joseph (‘Jo’) Grimond 1913–93
• Andrei Gromyko 1909–89
• George Grossmith 1847–1912
• George Grossmith 1847–1912 and Weedon Grossmith 1854–1919
• Andrew Grove 1936–2016
• Philip Guedalla 1889–1944
• Edgar A. Guest 1881–1959
• Ernesto (‘Che’) Guevara 1928–67
• François Guizot 1787–1874
• Nubar Gulbenkian 1896–1972
• Nikolai Gumilev 1886–1921
• Thom Gunn 1929–2004
• Dorothy Frances Gurney 1858–1932
• Ivor Gurney 1890–1937
• John Hampden Gurney 1802–62
• Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) 1912–67
• Nell Gwyn 1650–87
• Peter John Gzowski 1934–2002
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• William Habington 1605–54
• Hadrian AD 76–138
• Ernst Haeckel 1834–1919
• Hafiz c.1325–c.90
• Haggadah
• H. Rider Haggard 1856–1925
• C. F. S. Hahnemann
• Earl Haig 1861–1928
• Quintin Hogg, Lord Hailsham 1907–2001
• Hakuin 1686–1769
• J. B. S. Haldane 1892–1964
• H. R. Haldeman 1929–93
• Edward Everett Hale 1822–1909
• Matthew Hale 1609–76
• Nathan Hale 1755–76
• Sarah Josepha Hale 1788–1879
• Judah Ha-Levi c.1075–1141
• George Savile, Lord Halifax (‘the Trimmer’) 1633–95
• Joseph Hall 1574–1656
• Radclyffe Hall 1883–1943
• Fitz-Greene Halleck 1790–1867
• Friedrich Halm 1806–71
• Margaret Halsey 1910–97
• W. F. (‘Bull’) Halsey 1882–1959
• Alexander Hamilton c.1755–1804
• William Hamilton 1788–1856
• Dag Hammarskjold 1905–61
• Oscar Hammerstein II 1895–1960
• Learned Hand 1872–1961
• George Frederick Handel 1685–1759
• Kate Hankey 1834–1911
• Hannibal 247–182 BC
• Brian Hanrahan 1949–2010
• Lorraine Hansberry 1930–65
• Rick Hansen 1957– 
• Edmond Haraucourt 1856–1941
• Otto Harbach 1873–1963
• E. Y. (‘Yip’) Harburg 1898–1981
• William Harcourt 1827–1904
• Keir Hardie 1856–1915
• D. W. Harding 1906– 
• Warren G. Harding 1865–1923
• Philip Yorke, Lord Hardwicke 1690–1764
• Godfrey Harold Hardy 1877–1947
• Thomas Hardy 1840–1928
• David Hare 1947– 
• Julius Hare 1795–1855 and Augustus Hare 1792–1834
• Maurice Evan Hare 1886–1967
• W. F. Hargreaves 1846–1919
• John Harington d. 1582
• John Harington 1561–1612
• Harold II (Harold Godwinson) c.1019–66
• Jimmy Harper, Will E. Haines, and Tommy Connor
• Stephen Harper 1959– 
• Arthur Harris 1892–1984
• Charles Harris 1937– 
• Joel Chandler Harris 1848–1908
• Wilson Harris 1921– 
• Tony Harrison 1937– 
• Josephine Hart 1942–2011
• Lorenz Hart 1895–1943
• Bret Harte 1836–1902
• David Hartley 1731–1813
• L. P. Hartley 1895–1972
• F. W. Harvey 1888–1957
• Molly Haskell 1940– 
• Minnie Louise Haskins 1875–1957
• Edwin Hatch 1835–89
• Helen Hathaway 1893–1932
• Charles Haughey 1925–2006
• Václav Havel 1936–2011
• Zahi Hawass 1947– 
• Stephen Hawes d. c.1523
• R. S. Hawker 1803–75
• Jacquetta Hawkes 1910–96
• Stephen Hawking 1942– 
• Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804–64
• Lord Charles Hay c.1700–60
• Ian Hay (John Hay Beith) 1876–1952
• Franz Joseph Haydn 1732–1809
• Alfred Hayes 1911–85
• J. Milton Hayes 1884–1940
• Eliza Haywood c.1693–1756
• William Hazlitt 1778–1830
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• Denis Healey 1917–2015
• Edna Healey 1918–2010
• Timothy Michael Healy 1855–1931
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• Lafcadio Hearn 1850–1904
• William Randolph Hearst 1863–1951
• The Heart of Humanity
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• John Heath-Stubbs 1918–2006
• Reginald Heber 1783–1826
• Ben Hecht 1894–1964
• G. W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
• Heikhalot Rabbati
• Christoph Hein 1944– 
• Piet Hein 1905–96
• Heinrich Heine 1797–1856
• Werner Heisenberg 1901–76
• Joseph Heller 1923–99
• Lillian Hellman 1905–84
• Leona Helmsley c.1920–2007
• Héloise c.1098–1164
• Helvétius (Claude Arien Helvétius) 1715–71
• Felicia Hemans 1793–1835
• John Heming 1556–1630 and Henry Condell d. 1627
• Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961
• Jimi Hendrix (James Marshall Hendrix) 1942–70
• Arthur W. D. Henley
• W. E. Henley 1849–1903
• Peter Hennessy 1947– 
• Henri IV (Henri of Navarre) 1553–1610
• Henry I 1068–1135
• Henry II 1133–89
• Henry VIII 1491–1547
• Henry of Huntingdon c.1084–1155
• Matthew Henry 1662–1714
• O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 1862–1910
• Patrick Henry 1736–99
• Philip Henry 1631–96
• Joseph Henshaw 1603–79
• Barbara Hepworth 1903–75
• Heraclitus c.540–c.480 BC
• Lord Herbert of Cherbury 1583–1648
• A. P. Herbert (Sir Alan Patrick Herbert) 1890–1971
• George Herbert 1593–1633
• Johann Gottfried von Herder 1744–1803
• Hermetic Corpus
• Herodotus c.485–c.425 BC
• Robert Herrick 1591–1674
• William Herschel
• Marcus Hertz 1747–1803
• Lord Hervey 1696–1743
• Alexander Herzen 1812–70
• Theodor Herzl 1860–1904
• Hesiod
• Hermann Hesse 1877–1962
• Gordon Hewart 1870–1943
• Foster William Hewitt
• John Hewitt 1907–87
• Reinhard Heydrich 1904–42
• Du Bose Heyward 1885–1940 and Ira Gershwin 1896–1983
• John Heywood c.1497–c.1580
• Thomas Heywood c.1574–1641
• J. R. Hicks 1904–89
• David Hilbert 1862–1943
• Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179
• Aaron Hill 1685–1750
• Christopher Hill 1912–2003
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• Joe Hill (Joel Hägglund) 1879–1915
• Napoleon Hill 1883–1970
• Pattie S. Hill 1868–1946
• Rowland Hill 1744–1833
• Edmund Hillary 1919–2008
• Fred Hillebrand 1893–1963
• Hillel ‘The Elder’ c.60 BC– c.AD 9
• James Hilton 1900–54
• Paris Hilton 1981– 
• Cyril Norman Hinshelwood 1897–1967
• Hippocleides
• Hippocrates c.460–357 BC
• Emperor Hirohito 1901–89
• Damien Hirst 1965– 
• Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980
• Christopher Hitchens 1949–2011
• Adolf Hitler 1889–1945
• Lady Ho fl. 300 BC
• Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679
• John Cam Hobhouse, Lord Broughton 1786–1869
• Eric Hobsbawm 1917–2012
• Margaret Hoby 1571–1633
• David Hockney 1937– 
• Dorothy Hodgkin 1910–94
• Ralph Hodgson 1871–1962
• Al Hoffman 1902–60 and Dick Manning 1912– 
• August Heinrich Hoffman (Hoffman von Fallersleben) 1798–1874
• Heinrich Hoffmann 1809–94
• Gerard Hoffnung 1925–59
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1874–1929
• Lancelot Hogben 1895–1975
• James Hogg 1770–1835
• Paul Henri, Baron d’Holbach 1723–89
• Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin 1770–1843
• Billie Holiday (Eleanor Fagan) 1915–59
• Henry Fox, Lord Holland 1705–74
• Henry Scott Holland 1847–1918
• Richard Holloway 1933– 
• Stanley Holloway 1890–1982
• John H. Holmes 1879–1964
• Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809–94
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1841–1935
• Winifred Holtby 1898–1935
• Miroslav Holub 1923–98
• John Home 1722–1808
• Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Home 1903–95
• Homer
• Arthur Honegger 1892–1955
• Thomas Hood 1799–1845
• Richard Hooker c.1554–1600
• Ellen Sturgis Hooper 1816–41
• Herbert Hoover 1874–1964
• Alec Derwent Hope 1907–2000
• Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope Hawkins) 1863–1933
• Bob Hope 1903–2003
• Francis Hope 1938–74
• Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) 1865–1904
• Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–89
• Joseph Hopkinson 1770–1842
• Edward Hopper 1882–1967
• Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) 65–8 BC
• Lena Mary Calhoun Horne 1917–2010
• Samuel Horsley 1733–1806
• W. G. Hoskins 1908–92
• Khaled Hosseini 1965– 
• A. E. Housman 1859–1936
• Samuel Houston 1793–1863
• John Howard 1939– 
• Geoffrey Howe 1926–2015
• Gordie Howe 1928–2016
• Joseph Howe 1804–73
• Julia Ward Howe 1819–1910
• James Howell c.1594–1666
• Frankie Howerd (Francis Alex Howard) 1922–92
• Mary Howitt 1799–1888
• Edmond Hoyle 1672–1769
• Fred Hoyle 1915–2001
• Elbert Hubbard 1859–1915
• Frank McKinney (‘Kin’) Hubbard 1868–1930
• Howard Hughes, Jr. 1905–76
• Jimmy Hughes and Frank Lake
• Langston Hughes 1902–67
• Robert Hughes 1938–2012
• Ted Hughes 1930–98
• Thomas Hughes 1822–96
• William Morris ‘Billy’ Hughes 1862–1952
• Victor Hugo 1802–85
• Hui-neng 638–713
• Basil Hume 1923–99
• David Hume 1711–76
• David Hume 1757–1838
• Hubert Humphrey 1911–78
• G. W. Hunt c.1829–1904
• Leigh Hunt 1784–1859
• Anne Hunter 1742–1821
• Robert Hunter 1941–2005
• William Hunter 1718–83
• Herman Hupfeld 1894–1951
• Zora Neale Hurston c.1901–60
• John Huss c.1372–1415
• Saddam Hussein 1937–2006
• Francis Hutcheson 1694–1746
• Lord Hutton 1931– 
• Aldous Huxley 1894–1963
• Julian Huxley 1887–1975
• Thomas Henry Huxley 1825–95
• Edward Hyde
• I
• Dolores Ibarruri (‘La Pasionaria’) 1895–1989
• Henrik Ibsen 1828–1906
• Ice-T 1958– 
• St Ignatius Loyola 1491–1556
• I-Hsüan d. 867
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• Ivan Illich 1926–2002
• I’m No Angel
• Charles Inge 1868–1957
• William Ralph Inge 1860–1954
• Jean Ingelow 1820–97
• Robert G. Ingersoll 1833–99
• John Kells Ingram 1823–1907
• J. A. D. Ingres 1780–1867
• Eugène Ionesco 1912–94
• St Irenaeus c.AD 130–c.200
• Weldon J. Irvine
• Washington Irving 1783–1859
• Anne Ingram, Lady Irwin c.1696–1764
• Christopher Isherwood 1904–86
• St Isidore of Seville c.560–636
• Alec Issigonis 1906–88
• The Italian Job
• Jonathan Ive 1967– 
• Charles Ives 1874–1954
• Alija Izetbegović 1925–2003
• Eddie Izzard 1962– 
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• Andrew Jackson 1767–1845
• Jesse Jackson 1941– 
• Mahalia Jackson 1911–72
• Michael Jackson 1958–2009
• Robert H. Jackson 1892–1954
• Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson 1824–63
• Harriet Jacobs 1813–97
• Joe Jacobs 1896–1940
• Jacopone da Todi c.1230–1306
• Mick Jagger 1943–  and Keith Richards 1943– 
• Richard Jago 1715–81
• Jaina Sutras
• Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi 1207–73
• James I (James VI of Scotland) 1566–1625
• James V 1512–42
• Evan James 1809–78
• Henry James 1843–1916
• P. D. James 1920–2014
• William James 1842–1910
• Tove Jansson 1914–2001
• Randall Jarrell 1914–65
• Jaws 2
• Douglas Jay 1907–96
• Jean Paul
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• Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826
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• David Jenkins 1925–2016
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• Elizabeth Jennings 1926–2001
• Soame Jenyns 1704–87
• St Jerome c.AD 342–420
• Jerome K. Jerome 1859–1927
• William Jerome 1865–1932
• Douglas Jerrold 1803–57
• John Jewel 1522–71
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah 1876–1948
• St Joan of Arc c.1412–31
• Steve Jobs 1955–2011
• John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) 1881–1963
• John of Salisbury c.1115–80
• St John of the Cross 1542–91
• Elton John 1947–  and Bernie Taupin 1950– 
• John Paul II 1920–2005
• Amryl Johnson 1944–2001
• Amy Johnson 1903–41
• Boris Johnson 1964– 
• Dorothy Johnson 1905–84
• Hiram Johnson
• Linton Kwesi Johnson 1952– 
• Lyndon Baines Johnson 1908–73
• Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) 1861–1913
• Philander Chase Johnson 1866–1939
• Philip Johnson 1906–2005
• Samuel Johnson 1709–84
• Samuel Johnson 1822–82
• Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 1938– 
• Tom Johnston 1881–1965
• Hanns Johst 1890–1978
• Jean de Joinville c.1224–1319
• Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) 1886–1950
• Bobby Jones 1902–71
• Henry Arthur Jones 1851–1929 and Henry Herman 1832–94
• John Paul Jones 1747–92
• LeRoi Jones
• Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones c.1837–1930
• Steve Jones 1944– 
• William Jones 1746–94
• Erica Jong 1942– 
• Ben Jonson c.1573–1637
• Janis Joplin 1943–70
• Thomas Jordan c.1612–85
• Joseph II 1741–90
• Chief Joseph (Hinmaton-Yalaktit) c.1840–1904
• Jenny Joseph 1932– 
• Joseph Joubert 1754–1824
• Benjamin Jowett 1817–93
• James Joyce 1882–1941
• William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) 1906–46
• Juan Carlos I 1938– 
• Judah ben Samuel the Hasid d. 1217
• 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– 
• Ernst Junger 1895–1998
• ‘Junius’
• John Junor 1919–97
• Donald Justice 1925–2004
• Justinian AD 483–565
• Claude Jutra 1930–86
• Juvenal c.AD 60–c.140
• K
• Pauline Kael 1919–2001
• Franz Kafka 1883–1924
• Frida Kahlo 1907–54
• Gus Kahn 1886–1941 and Raymond B. Egan 1890–1952
• Kamo no Chomei 1155–1216
• Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
• Donna Karan 1948– 
• Alphonse Karr 1808–90
• George S. Kaufman 1889–1961
• Gerald Kaufman 1930–2017
• Paul Kaufman and Mike Anthony
• Christoph Kaufmann 1753–95
• Kenneth Kaunda 1924– 
• Kautilya (Chanakya) fl. c.300 BC
• Patrick Kavanagh 1904–67
• Alan Kay 1940– 
• Danny Kaye
• Paul Keating 1944– 
• John Keats 1795–1821
• John Keats 1920– 
• John Keble 1792–1866
• Brian Keenan
• Garrison Keillor 1942– 
• Helen Keller 1880–1968
• Frank B. Kellogg
• Hugh Kelly 1739–77
• Ned Kelly 1855–80
• Thomas Kelly 1769–1855
• Walt Kelly
• Lord Kelvin 1824–1907
• Thomas à Kempis
• Thomas Ken 1637–1711
• Jaan Kenbrovin and William Kellette
• Florynce Kennedy 1916–2000
• Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917–63
• Joseph P. Kennedy 1888–1969
• Robert Kennedy 1925–68
• Rose Kennedy 1890–1995
• Kenojuak Ashevak 1927– 
• Jomo Kenyatta 1891–1978
• Lady Caroline Keppel b. 1735
• Jack Kerouac 1922–69
• Jean Kerr 1923–2003
• John Kerry 1943– 
• William Kethe d. 1594
• Ralph Kettell 1563–1643
• Charles Kettering 1876–1958
• Thomas Kettle 1880–1916
• Francis Scott Key 1779–1843
• John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946
• Omar Khayyám
• Ruhollah Khomeini 1900–89
• Nikita Khrushchev 1894–1971
• Amir Khusrau 1253–1325
• Sören Kierkegaard 1813–55
• Kitty Kiernan d. 1945
• Joyce Kilmer 1886–1918
• David Maxwell Fyfe, Lord Kilmuir 1900–67
• Francis Kilvert 1840–79
• Benjamin Franklin King 1857–94
• Henry King 1592–1669
• Martin Luther King 1929–68
• Stephen King 1947– 
• Stoddard King 1889–1933
• William King 1650–1729
• William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874–1950
• King Kong
• Charles Kingsley 1819–75
• Hugh Kingsmill (Hugh Kingsmill Lunn) 1889–1949
• Barbara Kingsolver 1955– 
• Neil Kinnock 1942– 
• Alfred Kinsey 1894–1956
• Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936
• Henry Kissinger 1923– 
• Lord Kitchener 1850–1916
• Paul Klee 1879–1940
• Heinrich von Kleist 1777–1811
• Friedrich Klopstock 1724–1803
• Charles Knight and Kenneth Lyle
• Frank H. Knight 1885–1973
• L. C. Knights 1906–97
• Mary Knowles 1733–1807
• John Knox c.1505–72
• Ronald Knox 1888–1957
• Vicesimus Knox 1752–1821
• Ted Koehler
• Arthur Koestler 1905–83
• Helmut Kohl 1930–2017
• Johann Georg Kohl 1808–78
• Käthe Kollwitz 1867–1945
• The Koran
• Gene Kranz 1933– 
• Karl Kraus 1874–1936
• Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895–1986
• Kris Kristofferson 1936– 
• Leopold Kronecker 1823–91
• Paul Kruger 1825–1904
• Joseph Wood Krutch 1893–1970
• Stanley Kubrick 1928–99
• Satish Kumar 1937– 
• Milan Kundera 1929– 
• Hanif Kureishi 1954– 
• Thomas Kyd 1558–94
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• Henry Labouchere 1831–1912
• Jean de la Bruyère 1645–96
• Nivelle de la Chaussée 1692–1754
• James Lackington 1746–1815
• Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1741–1803
• Madame de La Fayette 1634–93
• Jean de la Fontaine 1621–95
• Jules Laforgue 1860–87
• Fiorello La Guardia 1882–1947
• John Lahr 1941– 
• R. D. Laing 1927–89
• Alphonse de Lamartine 1790–1869
• Lady Caroline Lamb 1785–1828
• Charles Lamb 1775–1834
• Constant Lambert 1905–51
• John Lambert 1619–83
• John George Lambton
• George Lamming 1927– 
• Norman Lamont 1942– 
• Giuseppe di Lampedusa 1896–1957
• Osbert Lancaster 1908–86
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) 1802–38
• Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864
• Andrew Lang 1844–1912
• David Lange 1942–2005
• Susanne Langer 1895–1985
• William Langland c.1330–c.1400
• 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– 
• William L. Laurence 1888–1977
• Wilfrid Laurier 1841–1919
• 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
• Nigel Lawson 1932– 
• Irving Layton 1912–2006
• Emma Lazarus 1849–87
• Edmund Leach 1910–89
• Stephen Leacock 1869–1944
• Mary Leapor 1722–46
• 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
• John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) 1931– 
• Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965
• Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin 1807–74
• Francis Ledwidge 1891–1917
• Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Louise Hovick) 1914–70
• Harper Lee 1926–2016
• Henry Lee (‘Light-Horse Harry’) 1756–1818
• Laurie Lee 1914–97
• Nathaniel Lee c.1653–92
• Robert E. Lee 1807–70
• Jacobus Johannes van der Leeuw 1893–1934
• Richard Le Gallienne 1866–1947
• Ursula K. Le Guin 1929– 
• Ernest Lehman
• Tom Lehrer 1928– 
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
• Fred W. Leigh d. 1924
• Vivien Leigh 1913–67
• Curtis E. LeMay 1906–90
• Ninon de Lenclos 1620–1705
• 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
• Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519
• Mikhail Lermontov 1814–41
• Alan Jay Lerner 1918–86
• Doris Lessing 1919–2013
• G. E. Lessing 1729–81
• Kathy Lette 1958– 
• Winifred Mary Letts 1882–1972
• Lord Leverhulme 1851–1925
• Ada Leverson 1865–1936
• Denise Levertov 1923–97
• René Lévesque 1922–87
• Primo Levi 1919–87
• Bernard Levin 1928–2004
• Duc de Lévis 1764–1830
• Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908–2009
• Theodore Levitt 1925–2006
• G. H. Lewes 1817–78
• 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
• George Leybourne d. 1884
• Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919–87
• Libosus of Vaga
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742–99
• A. J. Liebling 1904–63
• Gordon Lightfoot 1938– 
• Charles-Joseph, Prince de Ligne 1735–1814
• Beatrice Lillie 1894–1989
• George Lillo 1693–1739
• Abraham Lincoln 1809–65
• Charles Lindbergh 1902–74
• R. M. Lindner
• J. A. Lindon
• Audrey Erskine Lindop fl. 1959
• Vachel Lindsay 1879–1931
• Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews
• Eric Linklater 1899–1974
• Art Linkletter 1912–2010
• George Linley 1798–1865
• Lin Yutang 1895–1976
• Walter Lippmann 1889–1974
• Joseph Lister 1827–1912
• Richard Littledale 1833–90
• Joan Littlewood 1914–2002 and Charles Chilton 1914–2013
• Maxim Litvinov 1876–1951
• Penelope Lively 1933– 
• David Livingstone 1813–73
• Ken Livingstone 1945– 
• Livy (Titus Livius) 59 BC–AD 17
• Richard Llewellyn (Richard Llewellyn Lloyd) 1907–83
• Robert Lloyd 1733–64
• David Lloyd George 1863–1945
• Liz Lochhead 1947– 
• John Locke 1632–1704
• Frederick Locker-Lampson 1821–95
• John Gibson Lockhart 1794–1854
• David Lodge 1935– 
• Thomas Lodge 1558–1625
• Frank Loesser 1910–69
• Christopher Logue 1926– 
• Vince Lombardi 1913–70
• Jack London 1876–1916
• Huey Long 1893–1935
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807–82
• Longinus on the Sublime
• Michael Longley 1939– 
• Alice Roosevelt Longworth 1884–1980
• Anita Loos 1893–1981
• Federico García Lorca 1899–1936
• Edward N. Lorenz 1917–2008
• Konrad Lorenz 1903–89
• Louis XIV (the ‘Sun King’) 1638–1715
• Louis XV 1710–74
• Louis XVI 1754–93
• Louis XVIII 1755–1824
• Joe Louis 1914–81
• Louis Philippe 1773–1850
• Love and Death
• H. P. Lovecraft 1890–1937
• Ada Lovelace 1815–52
• Richard Lovelace 1618–58
• Bernard Lovell 1913–2012
• James Lovell 1928– 
• Samuel Lover 1797–1868
• Love Story
• David Low 1891–1963
• Robert Lowe, Lord Sherbrooke 1811–92
• Amy Lowell 1874–1925
• James Russell Lowell 1819–91
• Robert Lowell 1917–77
• William Lowndes 1652–1724
• L. S. Lowry 1887–1976
• Malcolm Lowry 1909–57
• Mina Loy 1882–1966
• Ingrid Loyau-Kennett – 
• Lu Xun (Chou Shu Jen) 1881–1936
• Henri de Lubac 1896–1991
• John Lubbock 1834–1913
• Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39–65
• George Lucas
• Clare Booth Luce 1903–87
• Lucilius (Gaius Lucilius) c.180–102 BC
• Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) c.94–55 BC
• Fray Luis de León c.1527–91
• Alison Lurie 1926– 
• Martin Luther 1483–1546
• Edwin Lutyens 1869–1944
• Rosa Luxemburg 1871–1919
• John Lydgate c.1370–c.1451
• John Lyly c.1554–1606
• Lord Lyndhurst 1772–1863
• Jonathan Lynn 1943–  and Antony Jay 1930–2016
• Lysander d. 395 BC
• Henry Francis Lyte 1793–1847
• George Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton 1709–73
• Humphrey Lyttelton 1922–2008
• E. R. Bulwer, Lord Lytton
• M
• Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964
• Rose Macaulay 1881–1958
• Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800–59
• Anthony McAuliffe 1898–1975
• Christa McAuliffe 1948–86
• Norman McCaig 1910–96
• Joseph McCarthy 1908–57
• Mary McCarthy 1912–89
• Linda McCartney 1941–98
• Paul McCartney 1942– 
• George B. McClellan 1826–85
• Ewan MacColl 1915–89
• P. D. McCormick c.1834–1916
• Horace McCoy 1897–1955
• John McCrae 1872–1918
• Carson McCullers 1917–67
• Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) 1892–1978
• George MacDonald 1824–1905
• John A. Macdonald 1815–91
• Ramsay MacDonald 1866–1937
• A. G. MacDonell 1889–1941
• Ian McEwan 1948– 
• William McGonagall c.1825–1902
• Patrick McGoohan 1928–2009, George Markstein, and David Tomblin
• Roger McGough 1937– 
• Jimmie McGregor 1932– 
• Antonio Machado 1875–1939
• Niccolò Machiavelli 1469–1527
• Claude McKay 1890–1948
• Compton Mackenzie 1883–1972
• James Mackintosh 1765–1832
• Alexander Maclaren 1826–1910
• Don McLean 1945– 
• Archibald MacLeish 1892–1982
• Murdoch McLennan fl. 1715
• Iain Macleod 1913–70
• Marshall McLuhan 1911–80
• Comte de MacMahon 1808–93
• Harold Macmillan 1894–1986
• Robert McNamara 1916–2009
• Louis MacNeice 1907–63
• Robert MacNeil 1931– 
• William Macpherson of Cluny 1926– 
• Geoffrey Madan 1895–1947
• Samuel Madden 1686–1765
• Winnie Madikizela-Mandela 1934– 
• James Madison 1751–1836
• Madonna 1958– 
• Gaeus Cilnius Maecenas d. 8 BC
• Maurice Maeterlinck 1862–1949
• John Gillespie Magee 1922–41
• William Connor Magee 1821–91
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Magna Carta
• René Magritte 1898–1967
• Mahāyāna Buddhist texts
• Gustav Mahler 1860–1911
• Derek Mahon 1941– 
• Norman Mailer 1923–2007
• Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) 1135–1204
• Henry Maine 1822–88
• Joseph de Maistre 1753–1821
• John Major 1943– 
• Bernard Malamud 1914–86
• Malcolm X 1925–65
• Stéphane Mallarmé 1842–98
• David Mallet (Malloch) c.1705–65
• George Leigh Mallory 1886–1924
• Thomas Malory c.1418–71
• David Malouf 1934– 
• André Malraux 1901–76
• Thomas Robert Malthus 1766–1834
• Lord Mancroft 1914–87
• W. R. Mandale
• Nelson Mandela 1918–2013
• Peter Mandelson 1953– 
• Osip Mandelstam 1892–1938
• Édouard Manet 1832–83
• John Streeter Manifold 1915–85
• Manilius (Marcus Manilius)
• Mrs Manley 1663–1724
• Horace Mann 1796–1859
• Thomas Mann 1875–1955
• John Manners, Duke of Rutland 1818–1906
• Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp) 1888–1923
• William Murray, Lord Mansfield 1705–93
• Richard Mant 1776–1848
• Hilary Mantel 1952– 
• The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
• Alessandro Manzoni 1785–1873
• Mao Zedong 1893–1976
• Diego Maradona 1960– 
• René Maran 1887–1960
• Marco Polo c.1254–c.1324
• William Learned Marcy 1786–1857
• Princess Margaret 1930–2002
• Marguerite of Angoulême 1492–1549
• Lynn Margulis 1938–2011
• Marie-Antoinette 1755–93
• Edwin Markham 1852–1940
• Johnny Marks 1909–85
• Leo Marks 1920–2001
• Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough 1660–1744
• Bob Marley 1945–81
• Christopher Marlowe 1564–93
• Don Marquis 1878–1937
• John Marriot 1780–1825
• Frederick Marryat (Captain Marryat) 1792–1848
• Arthur Marshall 1910–89
• John Marshall 1755–1835
• Thomas R. Marshall 1854–1925
• Thurgood Marshall 1908–93
• Martial c.AD 40–c.104
• Harriet Martineau 1802–76
• Andrew Marvell 1621–78
• Holt Marvell (Eric Maschwitz) 1901–69
• Chico Marx 1891–1961
• Groucho Marx 1890–1977
• Karl Marx 1818–83
• Karl Marx 1818–83 and Friedrich Engels 1820–95
• Mary I (Mary Tudor) 1516–58
• Queen Mary 1867–1953
• Mary, Queen of Scots 1542–87
• John Masefield 1878–1967
• Abraham Maslow 1908–70
• Donald Mason 1913– 
• Philip Massinger 1583–1640
• Cotton Mather 1662–1728
• Increase Mather 1639–1723
• James Mathew 1830–1908
• Henri Matisse 1869–1954
• Leonard Matlovich 1943–88
• W. Somerset Maugham 1874–1965
• Bill Mauldin 1921–2003
• Guy de Maupassant 1850–93
• André Maurois 1885–1967
• James Maxton 1885–1946
• James Clerk Maxwell 1831–79
• Theresa May 1956– 
• Vladimir Mayakovsky 1893–1930
• Louis B. Mayer 1885–1957
• Jonathan Mayhew 1720–66
• Cardinal Mazarin 1602–61
• Giuseppe Mazzini 1805–72
• Cormac McCarthy 1933– 
• Leonard McNally 1752–1820
• Scott McNealy 1954– 
• Margaret Mead 1901–78
• Shepherd Mead 1914–94
• Hughes Mearns 1875–1965
• Peter Medawar 1915–87
• Catherine de’ Medici 1518–89
• Cosimo de’ Medici 1389–1464
• Lorenzo de’ Medici 1449–92
• Mehmed II 1430–81
• Mehrab Khan fl. 1839– 
• Golda Meir 1898–1978
• Nellie Melba (Helen Porter Mitchell) 1861–1931
• William Lamb, Lord Melbourne 1779–1848
• David Mellor 1949– 
• Herman Melville 1819–91
• Gilles Ménage 1613–92
• Menander 342–c.292 BC
• Mencius
• H. L. Mencken 1880–1956
• Moses Mendelssohn 1729–86
• Meng-tzu (Mencius) 371–289 BC
• Robert Gordon Menzies 1894–1978
• David Mercer 1928–80
• Johnny Mercer 1909–76
• George Meredith 1828–1909
• Owen Meredith (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Lord Lytton) 1831–91
• Angela Merkel 1954– 
• Bob Merrill 1921–98
• James Merrill 1926–95
• Dixon Lanier Merritt 1879–1972
• W. S. Merwin 1927– 
• Jean Meslier c.1664–1733
• Ian Messiter
• Methodist Service Book 1975
• Prince Metternich 1773–1859
• Charlotte Mew 1869–1928
• Michelangelo 1475–1564
• Jules Michelet 1798–1874
• Adam Mickiewicz 1798–1855
• William Julius Mickle 1735–88
• Thomas Middleton c.1580–1627
• Bette Midler 1945– 
• Midrash
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886–1969
• George Mikes 1912–87
• William Porcher Miles 1822–96
• Military sayings and songs
• John Stuart Mill 1806–73
• Edna St Vincent Millay 1892–1950
• Alice Duer Miller 1874–1942
• Arthur Miller 1915–2005
• Henry Miller 1891–1980
• Jonathan Miller 1934– 
• Spike Milligan (Terence Alan Milligan) 1918–2002
• A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey, and Bennett Scott
• Irving Mills 1894–1985
• Henry Hart Milman 1791–1868
• A. A. Milne 1882–1956
• Lord Milner 1854–1925
• John Milton 1608–74
• Comte de Mirabeau 1749–91
• Misquotations
• The Missal
• Mistinguett 1875–1956
• Adrian Mitchell 1932–2008
• Elma Mitchell 1919–2000
• John Mitchell 1785–1859
• Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) 1945– 
• Margaret Mitchell 1900–49
• Mary Russell Mitford 1787–1855
• Nancy Mitford 1904–73
• François Mitterrand 1916–96
• Issey Miyake 1935– 
• Wilson Mizner 1876–1933
• Ariane Mnouchkine 1934– 
• Emilio Mola 1887–1937
• 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
• Jean Monnet 1888–1979
• James Monroe 1758–1831
• Marilyn Monroe 1926–62
• John Samuel Bewley Monsell 1811–75
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689–1762
• C. E. Montague 1867–1928
• John Montague 1929– 
• Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne) 1533–92
• Eugenio Montale 1896–1981
• Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat) 1689–1755
• Lord Montgomery of Alamein 1887–1976
• 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
• Edward Moore 1712–57
• George Moore 1852–1933
• Henry Moore 1898–1986
• Marianne Moore 1887–1972
• Sturge Moore 1870–1944
• Thomas Moore 1779–1852
• Thomas Osbert Mordaunt 1730–1809
• Hannah More 1745–1833
• Thomas More 1478–1535
• Thomas Morell 1703–84
• Morelly fl. 1755
• John Pierpont Morgan 1837–1913
• Robin Morgan 1941– 
• Christopher Morley 1890–1957
• Lord Morley 1838–1923
• Countess Morphy (Marcelle Azra Forbes) fl. 1930–50
• James Morrill 1824–65
• Charles Morris 1745–1838
• Desmond Morris 1928– 
• George Pope Morris 1802–64
• Jan Morris 1926– 
• William Morris 1834–96
• Herbert Morrison 1888–1965
• Herbert ‘Herb’ Morrison d. 1989
• Jim Morrison 1943–71
• R. F. Morrison
• Toni Morrison 1931– 
• Van Morrison 1945– 
• Morrissey 1959– 
• Dwight Morrow 1873–1931
• Samuel Morse 1791–1872
• Wayne Lyman Morse 1900–74
• Owen Morshead 1893–1977
• John Mortimer 1923–2009
• J. B. Morton (‘Beachcomber’) 1893–1975
• Jelly Roll Morton 1885–1941
• Rogers Morton 1914–79
• Thomas Morton c.1764–1838
• Claus Moser 1922–2015
• Edwin Moses 1955– 
• Kate Moss 1974– 
• Andrew Motion 1952– 
• John Lothrop Motley 1814–77
• N
• Motoori Norinaga 1730–1801
• Peter Motteux
• Mottoes
• Lord Mountbatten 1900–79
• Daniel P. Moynihan 1927–2003
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–91
• Hosni Mubarak 1928– 
• Robert Mugabe 1924– 
• Malcolm Muggeridge 1903–90
• Edwin Muir 1887–1959
• Frank Muir 1920–98
• Jean Muir 1928–95
• John Muir 1838–1914
• Paul Muldoon 1951– 
• Robert Muldoon 1921–92
• H. J. Muller 1890–1967
• Herbert J. Muller 1905–80
• Wilhelm Müller 1794–1827
• Ethel Watts Mumford 1878–1940 and others
• Lewis Mumford 1895–1990
• Mumonkan c.1228
• Edvard Munch 1863–1944
• Murasaki Shikibu c.978–c.1031
• Iris Murdoch 1919–99
• C. W. Murphy and Will Letters
• Fred Murray
• James Augustus Henry Murray 1837–1915
• Les A. Murray 1938– 
• Ed Murrow 1908–65
• Miyamoto Musashi 1584–1645
• Alfred de Musset 1810–57
• Benito Mussolini 1883–1945
• A. J. Muste 1885–1967
• Vladimir Nabokov 1899–1977
• Ralph Nader 1934– 
• Nagarjuna c.AD 2nd century
• Sarojini Naidu 1879–1949
• Shiva Naipaul 1945–85
• V. S. Naipaul 1932– 
• Ian Nairn 1930–83
• Lewis Namier 1888–1960
• Fridtjof Nansen 1861–1930
• Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) 1769–1821
• R. K. Narayan 1906–2001
• Ogden Nash 1902–71
• Thomas Nashe 1567–1601
• John Mason Neale 1818–66
• Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964
• A. S. Neill 1883–1973
• Horatio, Lord Nelson 1758–1805
• Howard Nemerov 1920–91
• Nero AD 37–68
• Pablo Neruda 1904–73
• Gérard de Nerval 1808–55
• Edith Nesbit 1858–1924
• Network
• John von Neumann 1903–57
• Otto Neurath 1882–1945
• Allan Nevins 1890–1971
• Henry Newbolt 1862–1938
• Anthony Newley 1931–99 and Leslie Bricusse 1931– 
• John Henry Newman 1801–90
• Newspaper headlines and leaders
• Huey Newton 1942–89
• Isaac Newton 1642–1727
• John Newton 1725–1807
• Nicholas I 1796–1855
• Nicias c.470–413 BC
• Harold Nicolson 1886–1968
• Reinhold Niebuhr 1892–1971
• Martin Niemöller 1892–1984
• Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
• Night After Night
• A Night at the Opera
• Florence Nightingale 1820–1910
• Chester W. Nimitz 1885–1966
• Anaïs Nin 1903–77
• Ninotchka
• Richard Milhous Nixon 1913–94
• Kwame Nkrumah 1900–72
• Caroline Maria Noel 1817–77
• Thomas Noel 1799–1861
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) 1920–93
• Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk 1746–1815
• Christopher North (John Wilson) 1785–1854
• Lord North 1732–92
• Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe 1865–1922
• Caroline Norton (née Sheridan) 1808–77
• Jack Norworth 1879–1959
• Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) 1772–1801
• Now, Voyager
• Alfred Noyes 1880–1958
• William Richard Morris, Lord Nuffield 1877–1963
• Sam Nunn 1938– 
• Nursery rhymes
• Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) 1850–96
• Julius Nyerere 1922–99
• O
• Charles Edward Oakley 1832–65
• Lawrence Oates 1880–1912
• Barack Obama 1961– 
• Michelle Obama 1964– 
• Conor Cruise O’Brien 1917–2008
• Edna O’Brien 1932– 
• Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nolan and O Nuallain) 1911–66
• Sean O’Casey 1880–1964
• William of Occam c.1285–1349
• Daniel O’Connell 1775–1847
• Bernard O’Donoghue 1945– 
• Official advice
• David Ogilvy 1911–99
• James Ogilvy, Lord Seafield 1664–1730
• John O’Hara 1905–70
• Theodore O’Hara 1820–67
• Georgia O’Keeffe 1887–1986
• John O’Keeffe 1747–1833
• Dennis O’Kelly c.1720–87
• Abraham Okpik d. 1997
• Bruce Oldfield 1950– 
• William Oldys 1696–1761
• Frederick Scott Oliver 1864–1934
• Laurence Olivier 1907–89
• Frank Ward O’Malley
• Omar c.581–644
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929–94
• Michael Ondaatje 1943– 
• Eugene O’Neill 1888–1953
• Ellison S. Onizuka 1946–86
• Yoko Ono 1933– 
• Brian O’Nolan
• On the Waterfront
• John Opie 1761–1807
• James Oppenheim 1882–1932
• J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904–67
• Egan O’Rahilly c.1675–1729
• Susie Orbach 1946– 
• Roy Orbison 1936–88 and Joe Melson 1935– 
• Orchot Tzaddikim
• Baroness Orczy (Mrs Montague Barstow) 1865–1947
• Orderic Vitalis 1075–c.1142
• Meta Orred
• José Ortega y Gasset 1883–1955
• Joe Orton 1933–67
• George Orwell (Eric Blair) 1903–50
• 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
• P
• Vance Packard 1914–97
• John Page 1743–1808
• William Tyler Page 1868–1942
• Lord George Paget 1818–80
• Camille Paglia 1947– 
• Marcel Pagnol 1895–1974
• Thomas Paine 1737–1809
• José de Palafox 1780–1847
• William Paley 1743–1805
• Pali Tripitaka
• Sarah Palin 1964– 
• Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston 1784–1865
• Orhan Pamuk 1952– 
• Christabel Pankhurst 1880–1958
• Emmeline Pankhurst 1858–1928
• Paracelsus (Theophrastus Phillipus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim) c.1493–1541
• Mitchell Parish 1900–93
• Charlie Parker 1920–55
• Dorothy Parker 1893–1967
• Martin Parker d. c.1656
• Ross Parker 1914–74 and Hugh Charles 1907–95
• Theodore Parker 1810–60
• Thomas Parker 1667–1732
• Colin Murray Parkes 1928– 
• Henry Parkes 1815–95
• C. Northcote Parkinson 1909–93
• Rosa Parks 1913–2005
• Charles Stewart Parnell 1846–91
• Thomas Parnell 1679–1718
• Tony Parsons 1953– 
• Blaise Pascal 1623–62
• Boris Pasternak 1890–1960
• Louis Pasteur 1822–95
• Walter Pater 1839–94
• ‘Banjo’ Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) 1864–1941
• Sadashiv Kanoji Patil
• Coventry Patmore 1823–96
• Alan Paton 1903–88
• St Patrick fl. 5th cent.
• Mark Pattison 1813–84
• George S. Patton 1885–1945
• Leslie Paul 1905–85
• Wolfgang Pauli 1900–58
• Tom Paulin 1949– 
• Linus Pauling 1901–94
• Cesare Pavese 1908–50
• Jeremy Paxman 1950– 
• James Payn 1830–98
• J. H. Payne 1791–1852
• Thomas Love Peacock 1785–1866
• Norman Vincent Peale 1898–1993
• Patrick Pearse 1879–1916
• Hesketh Pearson 1887–1964
• Lester Pearson 1897–1972
• Robert Peary 1856–1920
• Pedro I (Pedro IV of Portugal) 1798–1834
• Robert Peel 1788–1850
• George Peele c.1556–96
• Charles Péguy 1873–1914
• Pelé 1940– 
• Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 1561–1621
• William Herbert, Lord Pembroke c.1501–70
• Henry Herbert, Lord Pembroke c.1534–1601
• Henry Herbert, Lord Pembroke 1734–94
• Vladimir Peniakoff 1897–1951
• William Penn 1644–1718
• Roger Penrose 1931– 
• Samuel Pepys 1633–1703
• George Percy 1580–1632/3
• S. J. Perelman 1904–79
• Shimon Peres 1923–2016
• Pericles c.495–429 BC
• Eva Perón 1919–52
• Charles Perrault 1628–1703
• Edward Perronet 1726–92
• Jimmy Perry 1923–2016
• Oliver Hazard Perry 1785–1819
• Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) AD 34–62
• Ted Persons
• Max Perutz 1914–2002
• Henri Philippe Pétain 1856–1951
• Laurence J. Peter 1919–90
• Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74
• Jamie Petrie and Peter Cunnah
• Petronius (Petronius Arbiter) d. AD 65
• Pheidippides d. 490 BC
• Edward John Phelps 1822–1900
• Kim Philby (Harold Adrian Russell Philby) 1912–88
• Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1921– 
• John Woodward (‘Jack’) Philip 1840–1900
• 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
• Pablo Picasso 1881–1973
• Frank Pick 1878–1941
• Pindar 518–438 BC
• Harold Pinter 1930–2008
• Luigi Pirandello 1867–1936
• Robert M. Pirsig 1928–2017
• Walter B. Pitkin 1878–1953
• William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 1708–78
• William Pitt 1759–1806
• Pius VII 1742–1823
• Pius XII 1876–1958
• Max Planck 1858–1947
• Planet of the Apes
• Sylvia Plath 1932–63
• Plato 429–347 BC
• Plautus c.250–184 BC
• Pliny the Elder AD 23–79
• Pliny the Younger c.AD 61–c.112
• 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
• John C. Polanyi 1929– 
• Political sayings and slogans
• Jackson Pollock 1912–56
• Polybius c.200–c.118 BC
• John Pomfret 1667–1702
• Madame de Pompadour (Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour) 1721–64
• Pompey the Great 106–48 BC
• Alexander Pope 1688–1744
• John Pope-Hennessy 1913–94
• Karl Popper 1902–94
• Cole Porter 1891–1964
• Hal Porter 1911–84
• Beilby Porteus 1731–1808
• Michael Portillo 1953– 
• Francis Pott 1832–1909
• Beatrix Potter 1866–1943
• Dennis Potter 1935–94
• Stephen Potter 1900–69
• Eugène Pottier 1816–87
• Ezra Pound 1885–1972
• Nicolas Poussin 1594–1665
• Anthony Powell 1905–2000
• Colin Powell 1937– 
• Enoch Powell 1912–98
• John Powell 1645–1713
• John Wesley Powell 1834–1902
• John O’Connor Power 1848–1919
• Terry Pratchett 1948–2015
• Keith Preston 1884–1927
• Jacques Prévert
• Anthony Price 1928– 
• Richard Price 1723–91
• Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883–1969
• Gerald Priestland 1927–91
• J. B. Priestley 1894–1984
• Joseph Priestley 1733–1804
• John Critchley Prince 1808–66
• Matthew Prior 1664–1721
• V. S. Pritchett 1900–97
• Procopius c.AD 499–565
• Adelaide Ann Procter 1825–64
• Propertius c.50–after 16 BC
• Protagoras b. c.485 BC
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809–65
• Annie Proulx 1935– 
• Marcel Proust 1871–1922
• Proverbs
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• Pu Yi 1906–67
• Publilius Syrus
• John Pudney 1909–77
• Augustus Welby Pugin 1812–52
• Joseph Pulitzer 1847–1911
• Philip Pullman 1946– 
• Pulp Fiction
• William Pulteney, Earl of Bath 1684–1764
• Punch 1841–1992
• Al Purdy 1918–2000
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• Vladimir Putin 1952– 
• Israel Putnam 1718–90
• Mario Puzo 1920–99
• Barbara Pym 1913–80
• John Pym 1584–1643
• Pyrrhus 319–272 BC
• Pythagoras 580–500 BC
• Q
• Qianlong 1711–99
• Francis Quarles 1592–1644
• François Quesnay 1694–1774
• 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
• R
• 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– 
• John Rae 1931–2006
• Thomas Rainborowe d. 1648
• Craig Raine 1944– 
• Kathleen Raine 1908–2003
• Walter Ralegh c.1552–1618
• Walter Raleigh 1861–1922
• Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887–1920
• Michael Ramsey 1904–88
• Ayn Rand 1905–82
• John Randolph 1773–1833
• Ian Rankin 1960– 
• John Crowe Ransom 1888–1974
• Arthur Ransome 1884–1967
• Raoul Glabar c.985–c.1046
• Frederic Raphael 1931– 
• Joe Raposo 1937–89
• Dan Rather 1931– 
• Gerald Ratner 1949– 
• Terence Rattigan 1911–77
• Gwen Raverat 1885–1957
• Carveth Read 1848–1931
• Herbert Read 1893–1968
• Charles Reade 1814–84
• Nancy Reagan 1921–2016
• Ronald Reagan 1911–2004
• Erell Reaves
• Red Cloud (Mahpiua Luta) 1822–1909
• John Redmond 1856–1918
• Henry Reed 1914–86
• John Reed 1887–1920
• Joseph Reed 1741–85
• Max Reger 1873–1916
• Charles A. Reich 1928– 
• John Reid 1947– 
• Keith Reid 1946– 
• Thomas Reid 1710–96
• Lord Reith 1889–1971
• Erich Maria Remarque 1898–1970
• Ernest Renan 1823–92
• Jules Renard 1864–1910
• Montague John Rendall 1862–1950
• Jean Renoir 1894–1979
• Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841–1919
• Reservoir Dogs
• Jean-François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz 1613–79
• Paul Revere 1735–1818
• Charles Revson 1906–75
• Frederic Reynolds 1764–1841
• Joshua Reynolds 1723–92
• Malvina Reynolds 1900–78
• Cecil Rhodes 1853–1902
• Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams) c.1890–1979
• David Ricardo 1772–1823
• Alice Caldwell Rice 1870–1942
• Grantland Rice 1880–1954
• Stephen Rice 1637–1715
• Tim Rice 1944– 
• Mandy Rice-Davies 1944–2014
• Adrienne Rich 1923–2012
• Ann Richards 1933–2006
• Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton) 1876–1961
• I. A. Richards 1893–1979
• Justin Richardson 1900–75
• Samuel Richardson 1689–1761
• Cardinal Richelieu 1585–1642
• Mordecai Richler 1931–2001
• Hans Richter 1843–1916
• Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (‘Jean Paul’) 1763–1825
• George Ridding 1828–1904
• Laura Riding 1901–91
• Nicholas Ridley 1929–93
• Louis Riel 1844–85
• Rig Veda
• Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926
• Arthur Rimbaud 1854–91
• César Ritz 1850–1918
• Antoine de Rivarol 1753–1801
• Joan Riviere 1883–1962
• Alain Robbe-Grillet 1922–2008
• Lord Robbins 1898–1984
• Robin Robertson 1955– 
• Maximilien Robespierre 1758–94
• Leo Robin 1900–84
• Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
• Elizabeth Robins 1862–1952
• Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869–1935
• John Robinson c.1576–1625
• John Robinson 1919–83
• Mary Robinson (Perdita) 1758–1800
• Mary Robinson 1944– 
• Boyle Roche 1743–1807
• John Wilmot, Lord Rochester 1647–80
• John D. Rockefeller 1839–1937
• Gene Roddenberry 1921–91
• Anita Roddick 1942–2007
• Richard Rodgers 1902–79
• Theodore Roethke 1908–63
• Ginger Rogers
• Richard Rogers 1933– 
• Samuel Rogers 1763–1855
• Thorold Rogers 1823–90
• Will Rogers 1879–1935
• Mme Roland (Marie-Jeanne Philipon) 1754–93
• Frederick William Rolfe (‘Baron Corvo’) 1860–1913
• Romain Rolland 1866–1944
• Richard Rolle de Hampole c.1290–1349
• Samuel Romilly 1757–1818
• Erwin Rommel 1891–1944
• Pierre de Ronsard 1524–85
• Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882–1945
• Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919
• Lord Rootes 1894–1964
• Salvator Rosa 1615–73
• Lord Rosebery 1847–1929
• Ethel Rosenberg 1916–53 and Julius Rosenberg 1918–53
• A. C. Ross
• William Stewart Ross 1844–1906
• Christina Rossetti 1830–94
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828–82
• Gioacchino Rossini 1792–1868
• Edmond Rostand 1868–1918
• Jean Rostand 1894–1977
• Leo Rosten 1908–97
• Philip Roth 1933– 
• Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle 1760–1836
• Charles Roupell
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–78
• Martin Joseph Routh 1755–1854
• Adolphe-Basile Routhier 1839–1920
• Matthew Rowbottom, Richard Stannard, and The Spice Girls (Melanie Brown, Victoria Adams, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, and Melanie Chisholm)
• Nicholas Rowe 1674–1718
• Helen Rowland 1875–1950
• Richard Rowland c.1881–1947
• J. K. Rowling 1965– 
• Maude Royden 1876–1956
• Naomi Royde-Smith c.1875–1964
• Matthew Roydon fl. 1580–1622
• Paul Alfred Rubens 1875–1917
• Helena Rubinstein 1882–1965
• Richard Rumbold c.1622–85
• Carol Rumens 1944– 
• Rumi
• Donald Rumsfeld 1932– 
• Robert Runcie 1921–2000
• Damon Runyon 1884–1946
• Salman Rushdie 1947– 
• Dean Rusk 1909–94
• John Ruskin 1819–1900
• Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
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• Bob Russell and Bobby Scott 1937–90
• Dale Russell 1937– 
• Dora Russell 1894–1986
• George William Russell
• Lord John Russell 1792–1878
• William Howard Russell 1820–1907
• Ernest Rutherford 1871–1937
• Sue Ryder 1923–2000
• Gilbert Ryle 1900–76
• Sa’adiah ben Joseph Gaon 882–942
• Rafael Sabatini 1875–1950
• Thomas Sackville, Lord Dorset 1536–1608
• Victoria (‘Vita’) Sackville-West 1892–1962
• Anwar al-Sadat 1918–81
• Marquis de Sade 1740–1814
• Sadi c.1213–c.91
• Carl Sagan 1934–96
• Françoise Sagan 1935–2004
• Mohammed al-Sahhaf
• Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve 1804–69
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900–44
• Andrei Sakharov 1921–89
• Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) 1870–1916
• J. D. Salinger 1919–2010
• Lord Salisbury (3rd Marquess of Salisbury) 1830–1903
• Lord Salisbury (5th Marquess of Salisbury) 1893–1972
• Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) 86–35 BC
• Sallustius fl. c.AD 363
• Alex Salmond 1954– 
• Sambandar (Tirunanacampantar)
• Lord Samuel 1870–1963
• Paul A. Samuelson 1915–2009
• Sana’i d. c.1131
• George Sand (Amandine-Aurore Lucille Dupin, Baronne Dudevant) 1804–76
• Carl Sandburg 1878–1967
• Henry ‘Red’ Sanders 1905–58
• Lord Sandwich 1718–92
• Martha Sansom 1690–1736
• George Santayana 1863–1952
• Sappho
• John Singer Sargent 1856–1925
• Leslie Sarony 1897–1985
• Nathalie Sarraute 1902–99
• Patrick Sarsfield c.1655–93
• May Sarton 1912–95
• Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–80
• Siegfried Sassoon 1886–1967
• Cicely Saunders 1916–2005
• Ferdinand de Saussure 1857–1913
• Minot Judson Savage 1841–1918
• George Savile
• Dorothy L. Sayers 1893–1957
• Sayings and slogans
• Gerald Scarfe 1936– 
• Lord Scarman 1911–2004
• Friedrich von Schelling 1775–1854
• Elsa Schiaparelli 1896–1973
• Ferdinand von Schill 1776–1809
• Friedrich von Schiller 1759–1805
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1917–2007
• Moritz Schlick 1882–1936
• Heinrich Schliemann 1822–90
• Eric Schmidt 1955– 
• Artur Schnabel 1882–1951
• Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951
• Arthur Schopenhauer 1788–1860
• Olive Schreiner 1855–1920
• Patricia Schroeder 1940– 
• Budd Schulberg 1914–2009
• E. F. Schumacher 1911–77
• Robert Schumann 1810–56
• J. A. Schumpeter 1883–1950
• Carl Schurz 1829–1906
• Delmore Schwartz 1913–66
• Albert Schweitzer 1875–1965
• Kurt Schwitters 1887–1948
• Scipio Africanus (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major) 236–c.184 BC
• Alexander Scott c.1525–c.84
• C. P. Scott 1846–1932
• Robert Falcon Scott 1868–1912
• Sir Walter Scott 1771–1832
• Scottish Metrical Psalms 1650
• Edmund Hamilton Sears 1810–76
• Chief Seattle 1786–1866
• George Seddon 1927– 
• John Sedgwick 1813–64
• Charles Sedley c.1639–1701
• Alan Seeger 1888–1916
• Pete Seeger 1919–2014
• John Seeley 1834–95
• Sefer Yezirah
• Erich Segal
• Sei Shōnagon c.966–c.1013
• Haile Selassie 1892–1975
• John Selden 1584–1654
• Arthur Seldon 1916–2005
• W. C. Sellar 1898–1951 and R. J. Yeatman 1898–1968
• Amartya Sen 1933– 
• Maurice Sendak 1928–2012
• Seneca (‘the Younger’) c.4 BC–AD 65
• John Sentamu 1949– 
• Gitta Sereny 1923–2012
• Robert W. Service 1874–1958
• Vikram Seth 1952– 
• Dr Seuss (Theodor Geisel) 1904–91
• William Seward 1801–72
• Anna Sewell 1820–78
• Edward Sexby d. 1658
• Anne Sexton 1928–74
• Ernest Shackleton 1874–1922
• Thomas Shadwell c.1642–92
• Peter Shaffer 1926–2016
• Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury 1621–83
• Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury 1671–1713
• William Shakespeare 1564–1616
• Shammai 1st century BC–AD 1st century
• Bill Shankly 1913–81
• Shantideva c.685–763
• Ariel Sharon 1928–2014
• George Bernard Shaw 1856–1950
• Hartley Shawcross 1902–2003
• Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Lord Eversley 1794–1888
• Patrick Shaw-Stewart 1888–1917
• She Done Him Wrong
• Lord Shelburne 1737–1805
• Mary Shelley (née Godwin) 1797–1851
• Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822
• William Shenstone 1714–63
• Philip Henry Sheridan 1831–88
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751–1816
• Hugh Sherlock 1905–98
• Sidney Sherman 1805–73
• William Tecumseh Sherman 1820–91
• Carol Shields 1935–2003
• Arthur Shipley 1861–1927
• William Shippen 1673–1743
• James Shirley 1596–1666
• Mikhail Sholokhov 1905–84
• Clare Short 1946– 
• The Shorter Catechism (1647)
• Nevil Shute 1899–1960
• Walter Sickert 1860–1942
• The Siddur
• Algernon Sidney 1622–83
• Philip Sidney 1554–86
• Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (Abbé Sieyès) 1748–1836
• Maurice Sigler 1901–61 and Al Hoffman 1902–60
• Simone Signoret 1921–85
• Sikh Scriptures
• Alan Sillitoe 1928–2010
• St Silouan 1866–1938
• Georges Simenon 1903–89
• Paul Simon 1942– 
• Simonides c.556–468 BC
• Konstantin Simonov 1915–79
• Harold Simpson
• Kirke Simpson 1881–1972
• Tom Simpson 1937–67
• George R. Sims 1847–1922
• Upton Sinclair 1878–1968
• Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904–91
• Manmohan Singh 1932– 
• C. H. Sisson 1914–2003
• Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) c.1831–90
• Edith Sitwell 1887–1964
• Osbert Sitwell 1892–1969
• The Sixth Sense
• Antonio Skarmeta 1940– 
• John Skelton c.1460–1529
• Noel Skelton 1880–1935
• B. F. Skinner 1904–90
• Sleeper
• Slogans
• Joseph Roberts Smallwood 1900–91
• Christopher Smart 1722–71
• Elizabeth Smart 1913–86
• Samuel Smiles 1812–1904
• Adam Smith 1723–90
• Alfred Emanuel Smith 1873–1944
• Delia Smith 1941– 
• Dodie Smith 1896–1990
• Edgar Smith 1857–1938
• F. E. Smith, Lord Birkenhead 1872–1930
• Godfrey Smith 1926– 
• Iain Duncan Smith 1954– 
• Ian Smith 1919–2007
• John Smith 1938–94
• Langdon Smith 1858–1908
• Logan Pearsall Smith 1865–1946
• Samuel Francis Smith 1808–95
• Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith) 1902–71
• Sydney Smith 1771–1845
• Walter Chalmers Smith 1824–1908
• Tobias Smollett 1721–71
• Jan Christiaan Smuts 1870–1950
• C. P. Snow 1905–80
• Socrates 469–399 BC
• Solon c.640–after 556 BC
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918–2008
• Some Like It Hot
• William Somerville 1675–1742
• Anastasio Somoza 1925–80
• Stephen Sondheim 1930– 
• Susan Sontag 1933–2004
• Donald Soper 1903–98
• Sophocles c.496–406 BC
• Charles Hamilton Sorley 1895–1915
• Robert South 1634–1716
• Thomas Southerne 1660–1746
• Robert Southey 1774–1843
• St Robert Southwell c.1561–95
• Wole Soyinka 1934– 
• Muriel Spark 1918–2006
• John Sparrow 1906–92
• Edward Spears 1886–1974
• Rachel Speght fl. 1621
• Herbert Spencer 1820–1903
• Lord Spencer 1964– 
• Raine, Countess Spencer 1929–2016
• Stanley Spencer 1891–1959
• Stephen Spender 1909–95
• Edmund Spenser c.1552–99
• Steven Spielberg
• Baruch Spinoza 1632–77
• Benjamin Spock (Dr Spock) 1903–98
• William Archibald Spooner 1844–1930
• Thomas Sprat 1635–1713
• Cecil Spring-Rice 1859–1918
• Bruce Springsteen 1949– 
• C. H. Spurgeon 1834–92
• J. C. Squire 1884–1958
• Mme de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker) 1766–1817
• Lord Stair 1648–1707
• Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) 1879–1953
• Bessie Anderson Stanley fl. 1905
• Henry Morton Stanley 1841–1904
• Charles E. Stanton 1859–1933
• Edwin Mcmasters Stanton 1814–69
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815–1902
• Frank L. Stanton 1857–1927
• Freya Stark 1893?–1993
• John Stark 1728–1822
• Star Wars
• Statius (Publius Papinius Statius) c.AD 45–c.96
• Christina Stead 1902–83
• David Steel 1938– 
• Michael Steele 1958– 
• Richard Steele 1672–1729
• Lincoln Steffens 1866–1936
• Edward Steichen 1879–1973
• Gertrude Stein 1874–1946
• John Steinbeck 1902–68
• Gloria Steinem 1934– 
• Peter Steiner
• Adin Steinsaltz 1937– 
• Stendhal (Henri Beyle) 1783–1842
• James Fitzjames Stephen 1829–94
• James Kenneth Stephen 1859–92
• Leslie Stephen 1832–1904
• James Stephens 1882–1950
• George Stephenson 1781–1848
• Nicholas Stern 1946– 
• Laurence Sterne 1713–68
• Brooks Stevens 1911–95
• Wallace Stevens 1879–1955
• Adlai Stevenson 1900–65
• Anne Stevenson 1933– 
• Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–94
• Ian Stewart 1945– 
• Sting (Gordon Sumner) 1951– 
• Caskie Stinnett 1911–98
• Samuel John Stone 1839–1900
• Winifred Sackville Stoner 1902–83
• Marie Stopes 1880–1958
• Tom Stoppard 1937– 
• William Stoughton 1631–1701
• Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811–96
• William Scott, Lord Stowell 1745–1836
• Lytton Strachey 1880–1932
• Thomas Wentworth, Lord Strafford 1593–1641
• William L. Strauss and A. J. E. Cave
• Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
• John Whitaker (‘Jack’) Straw 1946– 
• August Strindberg 1849–1912
• Jan Struther (Joyce Anstruther) 1901–53
• William Stubbs 1825–1901
• G. A. Studdert Kennedy 1883–1929
• John Suckling 1609–42
• Sudden Impact
• Sudraka
• Alan Sugar 1947– 
• Suger 1081–1151
• Annie Sullivan 1866–1936
• Louis Henri Sullivan 1856–1924
• Terry Sullivan
• Timothy Daniel Sullivan 1827–1914
• Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully 1559–1641
• Arthur Hays Sulzberger 1891–1968
• Edith Summerskill 1901–80
• Charles Sumner 1811–74
• Sun Tzu fl. c.400–320 BC
• Sunset Boulevard
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey c.1517–47
• R. S. Surtees 1805–64
• David Sutton 1944– 
• Italo Svevo 1861–1928
• Hannen Swaffer 1879–1962
• Annie S. Swan 1859–1953
• Jonathan Swift 1667–1745
• Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837–1909
• Herbert Bayard Swope 1882–1958
• Thomas Sydenham 1624–89
• Charles J. Sykes 1954– 
• John Millington Synge 1871–1909
• Thomas Szasz 1920–2012
• Albert von Szent-Györgyi 1893–1986
• T
• 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
• Booth Tarkington 1869–1946
• Donna Tartt 1963– 
• Torquato Tasso 1544–95
• Allen Tate 1899–1979
• Catherine Tate
• Nahum Tate 1652–1715
• R. H. Tawney 1880–1962
• A. J. P. Taylor 1906–90
• Ann Taylor 1782–1866 and Jane Taylor 1783–1824
• Bayard Taylor 1825–78
• Edward Taylor c.1645–1729
• Henry Taylor 1800–86
• Jeremy Taylor 1613–67
• Tom Taylor 1817–80
• Ibn Taymiyyah 1263–1328
• Norman Tebbit 1931– 
• Tecumseh 1768–1813
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881–1955
• William Temple 1628–99
• 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
• Bob Thaves 1924–2006
• William Roscoe Thayer 1859–1923
• 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
• E. P. Thompson 1924–93
• 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
• Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910
• Wolfe Tone 1763–98
• Augustus Montague Toplady 1740–78
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Michael Torke 1961– 
• Robert Torrens 1780–1864
• Cyril Tourneur
• A. Toussenel 1803–85
• Pete Townshend 1945– 
• Arnold Toynbee 1889–1975
• Polly Toynbee 1946– 
• Toy Story
• Thomas Traherne c.1637–74
• Henry Duff Traill 1842–1900
• Joseph Trapp 1679–1747
• Merle Travis 1917–83
• Herbert Beerbohm Tree 1852–1917
• G. M. Trevelyan 1876–1962
• George Otto Trevelyan 1838–1928
• William Trevor (William Trevor Cox) 1928–2016
• Calvin Trillin 1935– 
• David Trimble 1944– 
• Tommy Trinder 1909–89
• Anthony Trollope 1815–82
• 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
• A. R. J. Turgot 1727–81
• Alan Turing 1912–54
• Charles Tennyson Turner 1808–79
• J. M. W. Turner 1775–1851
• 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
• U
• 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
• Henry Van Dyke 1852–1933
• 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– 
• Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901
• Giovanni Verga 1840–1922
• 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– 
• Gilles Vigneault 1928– 
• 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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• Richard Wagner 1813–83
• Derek Walcott 1930–2017
• Lech Wałęsa 1943– 
• Alice Walker 1944– 
• Felix Walker fl. 1820
• Edgar Wallace 1875–1932
• 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
• Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893–1978
• 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
• Daniel Webster 1782–1852
• John Webster c.1580–c.1625
• Josiah Wedgwood 1730–95
• Simone Weil 1909–43
• Max Weinreich 1894–1969
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• Mary Wesley 1912–2002
• Samuel Wesley 1662–1735
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• Charles Wetherell 1770–1846
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• Edith Wharton 1862–1937
• Thomas, Lord Wharton 1648–1715
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• When Harry Met Sally
• William Whewell 1794–1866
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• Gilbert White 1720–93
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• Patrick White 1912–90
• T. H. White 1906–64
• Theodore H. White 1915–86
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• White Heat
• Katharine Whitehorn 1928– 
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• William Whiting 1825–78
• Gough Whitlam 1916–2014
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• Charlotte Whitton 1896–1975
• Cornelius Whur
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• Thornton Wilder 1897–1975
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• William I (William the Conqueror) 1027–87
• William III (William of Orange) 1650–1702
• William of Malmesbury c.1090–c.1143
• Heathcote Williams 1941–2017
• Isaac Williams 1802–65
• Peter Williams
• R. J. P. Williams 1926–2015
• Rowan Williams 1950– 
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• Shirley Williams 1930– 
• Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) 1911–83
• William Carlos Williams 1883–1963
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• Wendell Willkie 1892–1944
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• Charles E. Wilson 1890–1961
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• Harold Wilson 1916–95
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• John Wilson
• Sandy Wilson 1924–2014
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• Duke of Windsor
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• The Wizard of Oz
• P. G. Wodehouse 1881–1975
• Terry Wogan 1938–2016
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• Naomi Wolf 1962– 
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• Humbert Wolfe 1886–1940
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• Thomas Wolfe 1900–38
• Tom Wolfe 1931– 
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• Woman of the Year
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• Tammy Wynette 1942–98 and Billy Sherrill c.1938–2015
• Andrew of Wyntoun c.1350–c.1420
• X
• Xenophon c.428–c.354 BC
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• 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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• You’re Telling Me
• Malala Yousafzai 1997– 
• Z
• Yevgeny Zamyatin 1884–1937
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• Zeno of Citium c.335–c.263 BC
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• Zohar
• Émile Zola 1840–1902
• Zoroastrian Scriptures