Culture
2,361 people, sorted by fame.
Hermann HesseJuly 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962 · Culture
PetrarchJuly 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374 · Culture
Jonathan SwiftNovember 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745 · Culture
Thalescirca 625 BC – 540s BC · Culture
Anatole FranceApril 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924 · Culture
MontesquieuJanuary 18, 1689 – February 10, 1755 · Culture
Murasaki ShikibuAD 970s – 12th century · Culture
Plutarchcirca AD 40s – circa AD 120 · Culture
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynDecember 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008 · Culture
RumiSeptember 30, 1207 – December 17, 1273 · Culture
David HumeApril 26, 1711 – August 25, 1776 · Culture
Kwame NkrumahSeptember 21, 1909 – April 27, 1972 · Culture
T. S. EliotSeptember 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965 · Culture
Seneca0s BC – April 12, AD 65 · Culture
Euripides480s BC – 400s BC · Culture
ErasmusOctober 28, 1466 – July 12, 1536 · Culture
Ralph Waldo EmersonMay 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882 · Culture
Selma LagerlöfNovember 20, 1858 – March 16, 1940 · Culture
William Butler YeatsJune 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939 · Culture
Sun Yat-senNovember 12, 1866 – March 12, 1925 · Culture
John Stuart MillMay 20, 1806 – May 8, 1873 · Culture
Umberto EcoJanuary 5, 1932 – February 19, 2016 · Culture
Denis DiderotOctober 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784 · Culture
Epicurus342–270 BC · Culture
John SteinbeckFebruary 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968 · Culture
Martin HeideggerSeptember 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976 · Culture
William FaulknerSeptember 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962 · Culture
Henry David ThoreauJuly 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 · Culture
Aldous HuxleyJuly 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963 · Culture
André GideNovember 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951 · Culture
Chanakya375–283 BC · Culture
Václav HavelOctober 5, 1936 – December 18, 2011 · Culture
Pearl S. BuckJune 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973 · Culture
Mikhail BakuninMay 30, 1814 – July 1, 1876 · Culture
Boris PasternakJanuary 29, 1890 – May 30, 1960 · Culture
Michel de MontaigneFebruary 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592 · Culture
Romain RollandJanuary 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944 · Culture
Samuel BeckettApril 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989 · Culture
Henryk SienkiewiczMay 5, 1846 – November 15, 1916 · Culture
George EliotNovember 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880 · Culture
Henri BergsonOctober 18, 1859 – January 4, 1941 · Culture
Mimar Sinancirca 1490 – July 17, 1588 · Culture
Günter GrassOctober 16, 1927 – April 13, 2015 · Culture
Orhan PamukJune 7, 1952 – present · Culture
José SaramagoNovember 16, 1922 – June 18, 2010 · Culture
GalenSeptember AD 129 – 4th century · Culture
Knut HamsunAugust 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952 · Culture
Thomas PaineJanuary 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809 · Culture
Doris LessingOctober 22, 1919 – November 17, 2013 · Culture
Luigi PirandelloJune 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936 · Culture