Author
1,389 famous people found
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Philip K. Dick
American writer known for his work in science fiction
1928 - 1982 -
Julie ANDREWS
English actress, singer, and author
1935 -
Bob HOPE
British-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, and author
1903 - 2003 -
Sacha BARON COHEN
English actor, comedian, writer, and producer
1971 -
Elie WIESEL
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
1928 - 2016 -
Jack LONDON
American novelist, journalist, and social activist
1876 - 1916 -
Dan BROWN
American author best known for his thriller novels
1964 -
Samuel DE CHAMPLAIN
French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler, founder of Quebec
1574 - 1635 -
Alexander PUSHKIN
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era
1799 - 1837 -
Peter USTINOV
English actor, writer, filmmaker, theatre and opera director, comedian, radio broadcaster and television presenter
1921 - 2004 -
Ben STILLER
American actor, comedian, film producer, director, and writer
1965 -
Arnold SCHWARZENEGGER
Austrian-American actor, filmmaker, businessman, author, and former politician and professional bodybuilder
1947 -
Salvador DALI
Spanish Surrealist artist
1904 - 1989 -
J. D. SALINGER
American writer best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye
1919 - 2010 -
Stephen COLBERT
American comedian, writer, producer, actor and television host
1964 -
Anne FRANK
German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist
1929 - 1945 -
Michel HOUELLEBECQ
French author, known for his novels, poems and essays
1956 -
Bob GELDOF
Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist, and occasional actor
1951 -
Michael MOORE
American documentary filmmaker and author
1954 -
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