British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)
Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American investor, businessman and philanthropist
Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642)
Rod Serling
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 - June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone
Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 - August 14, 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music
John Green
John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American writer of young adult fiction and a YouTube vlogger and educator. He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, and reached number one on a New York Times Best Seller list with The Fault in Our Stars in January 2012.
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyere (pronounced [--delabeyej-?] in French) (August 16, 1645 - May 10, 1696), was a French essayist and moralist
Henry Maudsley
Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) was a pioneering English psychiatrist
G. Stanley Hall
US educator & experimental psychologist (1844 - 1924)
Elijah Wood
Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor and film producer.
John Hay
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 - July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
Tecumseh
a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813)
Ben Hecht
United States writer of stories and plays (1894-1946)
Walt Disney
United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)
Antonin Artaud
French actor, critic, & drama theorist (1896 - 1948)
Arthur Miller
United States playwright (1915-2005)
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman; first woman to serve as Prime Minister (born in 1925)
Robert Louis Stephenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (November 13, 1850-December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, and a representative of neo-romanticism in English literature
Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman, a Canadian-born sociologist and writer, was considered "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (February 1, 1874 - July 15, 1929), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist
Matthew Arnold
English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)
Pan Ku
Ban Gu (Chinese: --; Wade-Giles: Pan Ku, 32-92), courtesy name Mengjian (--), was a 1st century Chinese historian best known for his part in compiling the Book of Han
Erich Fromm
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Clive James
Clive James AM (born Vivian James, on 7 October 1939 in Kogarah, New South Wales) is an expatriate Australian author, poet, critic, memoirist, talk show host, television presenter, travel writer and cultural commentator
Phil Donahue
Phillip John "Phil" Donahue is an American media personality, writer, and film producer best known as the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show.
Christopher Marlowe
English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)