Poet
506 famous people found
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer
1850 - 1894 -
Chico Buarque
Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet
1944 -
Eino LEINO
Finnish poet and journalist who is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry and a national poet of Finland
1878 - 1926 -
Francis Jammes
French poet
1868 - 1938 -
Federico GARCÍA LORCA
Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director
1898 - 1936 -
Alexander PUSHKIN
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era
1799 - 1837 -
Michel HOUELLEBECQ
French author, known for his novels, poems and essays
1956 -
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 -
Paul ÉLUARD
French poet
1895 - 1952 -
Patti SMITH
American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist
1946 -
Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic
1880 - 1918 -
BEAUMARCHAIS
French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)
1732 - 1799 -
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet and playwright
1854 - 1900 -
Lord Byron
English romantic poet and peer
1788 - 1824 -
Victor HUGO
French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement
1802 - 1885 -
Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE
German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath
1749 - 1832 -
André CHÉNIER
French poet
1762 - 1794 -
Fiodor Tiouttchev
Russian poet and diplomat
1803 - 1873 -
BEN
French artist
1935 - 2024 -
Léo FERRÉ
French singer and poet
1916 - 1993