Poet

395 famous people found

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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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  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 writer and poet

  1854 - 1900
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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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  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
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  Alphonse DE LAMARTINE

  French writer, poet and politician

  1790 - 1869
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  Charles BAUDELAIRE

  French poet, critic, and translator

  1821 - 1867
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  Heinrich HEINE

  Journalist, essayist, literary critic, and one of the most significant German romantic poets

  1797 - 1856
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  Charles PEGUY

  French poet, essayist, and editor

  1873 - 1914
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  Arthur RIMBAUD

  French Poet

  1854 - 1891