Poet

450 famous people found

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  Eino LEINO

  Finnish poet and journalist who is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry and a national poet of Finland

  1878 - 1926
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  Francis Jammes

  French poet

  1868 - 1938
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  Federico GARCÍA LORCA

  Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director

  1898 - 1936
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  Alexander PUSHKIN

  Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era

  1799 - 1837
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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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  Patti SMITH

  American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist

  1946
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  Guillaume Apollinaire

  French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic

  1880 - 1918
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  BEAUMARCHAIS

  French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)

  1732 - 1799
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  Oscar Wilde

  Irish poet and playwright

  1854 - 1900
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  Lord Byron

  English romantic poet and peer

  1788 - 1824
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  Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE

  German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath

  1749 - 1832
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  Victor HUGO

  French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement

  1802 - 1885
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  Fiodor Tiouttchev

  Russian poet and diplomat

  1803 - 1873
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  BEN

  French artist

  1935
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  Léo FERRÉ

  French singer and poet

  1916 - 1993
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  Paul VERLAINE

  French poet associated with the Symbolist movement

  1844 - 1896
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  Walter SCOTT

  Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

  1771 - 1832
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  André BRETON

  French writer and poet

  1896 - 1966