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129 famous people found

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  Michel HOUELLEBECQ

  French author, known for his novels, poems and essays

  1956
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  J. R. R. TOLKIEN

  English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion

  1892 - 1973
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  Paul ÉLUARD

  French poet

  1895 - 1952
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  Léo FERRÉ

  French singer and poet

  1916 - 1993
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  André BRETON

  French writer and poet

  1896 - 1966
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  Paul FORT

  French poet

  1872 - 1960
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  Claude ROY

  French poet and essayist

  1915 - 1997
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  Léo MALET

  French crime novelist and surrealist

  1909 - 1996
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  Louis SCUTENAIRE

  Belgian poet, anarchist, surrealist and civil servant

  1905 - 1987
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  Artur LUNDQVIST

  Swedish writer, poet and literary critic

  1906 - 1991
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  René CHAR

  French poet and member of the French Resistance

  1907 - 1988
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  Mano SOLO

  French singer

  1963 - 2010
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  Jean GENET

  French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist

  1910 - 1986
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  Jacques PREVERT

  French poet and screenwriter

  1900 - 1977
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  León DE GREIFF

  Colombian poet

  1895 - 1976
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  Jean-Henri AZEMA

  French poet

  1913 - 2000
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  Henri MICHAUX

  Belgian-born poet, writer, and painter

  1899 - 1984
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  Louis AMADE

  senior civil servant, senior prefect, poet and lyricist

  1915 - 1992
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  Jean ARP

  German-French sculptor, painter, and poet

  1886 - 1966
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  Sebastian Shaw

  English actor, theatre director, novelist, playwright and poet

  1906 - 1994