List of Knowledge
List of important people. The GENUS Man.

For some years I’ve been doing an ambitious encyclopedic, interdisciplinary and historical2 list of various names in different areas of the human knowledge, and I want to share it here for all.3
Each list has a idiosyncratic division that I did in its expansion, I will explain.
It works basically this way: It’s divided by nationalities and a chronological —although very loose— order. Sometimes there’s also people who had affinities with each other, e.g., teacher and pupil, milieu, school of thought etc. If you know them, you will recognize.
Please give me suggestions4 (I may be missing essential peoples!) or tell me if there’s any errors or typos. I’m open, I don’t bite ok. And I suggest a nice game; going after names which are very eccentric. You might have a surprise!
The list start with writers, novelists, playwrights and poets, the most important for sure.
Oh, before we start. For comprehensiveness here is a ‘table of contents’. Use “ctrl+F” to reach each one you wish, also have in mind that some have subdivisions, which I will omit here, in order to not make it huge.
Here we go:
I - Writers, novelists, playwrights, poets and literary critics.
II - Painters and sculptors [WIP for the latter.. no, WIP is for the List! Like what Joyce regarded of Finnegans WAKE5]
III - Composers
IV - Ars Occvlta
V - Philosophers
VI - Maths and physics
VII - Psychologists, Psychiatrists and a few neurologists
VIII - Sociology/Social sciences
IX - History
X - Geography and Geopolitics
XI - Anthropology, Ethnology, Mythology and Archaeology
XII - Natural Sciences and Medicine
XIII - Linguists
XIV - Pedagogues and educators
XV - Economy and Management
XVI - ‘Cybertechnocrats’
XVII - Anarchists and radical writers
XVIII - Utopian Socialists
XIX - Rare, forgotten marxists, socialists, councilists and syndicalists. This list also has the so called critical theory and post-modernist philosophers
I - Writers, novelists, playwrights, poets and literary critics.
This one begin with the greeks and romans, the most crucial ones, at least for us westerners. Then the russians, an odd transition, though I prefer to keep this way. Another thing you will encounter along all those writers is that many aren’t necessarily writers as artists, many are people who had a lot of experience in their lives and wrote them down, usually, beautifully. For example Marco Polo.
Hesiod
Homer
Aeschylus
Aesop
Apollonius of Rhodes
Aristophanes
Theognis
Euripides
Ennius
Sophocles
Pindar
Lucretius
Theocritus
Philemon
Cratinus
Gnaeus Naevius
Pacuvius
Mimnermus
Phrynichus
Diphilus
Isocrates
Stesichorus
Semonides of Amorgos
Philiscus of Corcyra
Meleager of Gadara
Epicharmus of Kos
Philitas of Cos
Hermesianax
Sophron of Syracuse
Philodemus of Gadara
Archilochus
Palladas
Menander
Sappho
Anyte of Tegea
Menippus of Gadara
Callimachus
Aulus Persius Flaccus
Lucian of Samosata6
Simmias of Rhodes
Horace
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Bion of Borysthenes
Gaius Lucilius
Ovid
Catullus
Demosthenes
Cassiodorus
Gaius Julius Caesar
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lucius Accius
Sextus Propertius
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Marcus Valerius Martialis
Publius Papinius Statius
Titus Calpurnius Siculus
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens
Censorinus
Florus
Publilius Syrus
Petronius
Ausonius
Terence
Plautus
Apuleius
Tibullus
Virgil
Columella
Marcus Terentius Varro
Paulus Silentiarius
Anacreon
Alcman
Alcaeus of Mytilene
Venantius Fortunatus
Nonnus of Panopolis
Hesychius of Alexandria
Tiberianus
Artemidorus Daldianus
Flavius Dioscorus
Aelius Donatus
Martianus Capella
Paulinus of Nola
Callinus of Ephesus
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius
Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
Gaius Julius Solinus
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Diogenes Laertius [Wrote about the life of greek philosophers, very useful, interesting and also funny!]
Priscian
Russians
Alexander Sumarokov
Vasily Tatishchev
Vasily Trediakovsky
Ivan Krylov
Nikifor Krylov
Denis Fonvizin
Gavrila Derzhavin
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodr Dostoyevsky
Aleksey Koltsov
A. K. Tolstoy
P. P. Muratov
Nikolai Stankevich
Nikolay Ogarev
Vasily Botkin
Shoqan Walikhanov
Sergey Aksakov
Anton Chekhov
Ivan Goncharov
Nikolay Yazykov
Konstantin Aksakov
Yevgeny Baratynsky
Mikhail Lermontov
Alexandr Pushkin
Ivan Turgenev
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Leskov
Nikolai Nekrasov
Fyodor Tyutchev
Alexander Griboyedov
Anton Delvig
Afanasy Fet
Aleksey Pisemsky
Alexander Ostrovsky
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Sergei Diaghilev
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Maximilian Voloshin
Mikhail Shcherbatov
Nikolay Novikov
Vissarion Belinsky
Marie Bashkirtseff
Sergey Makovsky
Leonid Andreyev
Mikhail Artsybashev
Innokenty Annensky
Alexandre Ivanovich Kuprin
Mikhail Kuzmin
Valery Bryusov
Fyodor Sologub
Ivan Bunin
Igor Severyanin
Nadejda Mandelstam
Alexander Blok
Vasily Zhukovsky
Konstantin Paustovsky
Taras Shevchenko
Nikolay Karamzin
Sasha Chorny
Nikolai Evreinov
Viktor Shklovsky
D. S. Mirsky
S. Ansky
Osip Mandelstam
Nikolai Gumilev
Anna Akhmatova
Yuri Tynianov
Marina Tsvetaeva
Maxim Gorky
Daniil Kharms
Sergei Yesenin
Vladmir Mayakovsky
Aleksei Kruchyonykh
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Nikolai Karamzin
Nikolai Kulbin
David Burliuk
Vasily Kamensky
Korney Chukovsky
Velimir Khlebnikov
Alexander Belyaev
Boris Eikhenbaum
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Andrei Bely
Arkady Averchenko
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Mikhail Bulgakov
Semyon Nadson
Mikhail Sholokhov
Joseph Brodsky
Mikhail Zoshchenko
Andrei Platonov
Isaac Babel
Ilya Ilf
Yevgeny Petrov
Nikolay Punin
Yuri Olesha
Grigori Gorin
Anatoli Ivanov
Boris Pasternak
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Varlam Shalamov
Anatoly Rybakov
Ilya Ehrenburg
Vasily Grossman
Semyon Lipkin
Vladimir Nabokov
Andrei Amalrik
Dziga Vertov [“I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I show you the world as only I can see it. Now and forever, I free myself from human immobility, I am in constant motion, I draw near, then away from objects, I crawl under, I climb onto them.”]
Sergei Eisenstein
Boris Strugatsky
Dmitri Glukhovski
Vladimir Voinovich
Andrei Tarkovsky
Eduard Limonov
Alexandr Dugin
Victor Pelevin
Americans (Some are writers of the “Great American Novel”)
Thomas Paine
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams
James Madison [see The Federalist Papers]
Noah Webster
James Gates Percival
Anne Bradstreet
John Woolman
Sarah Josepha Hale
Charles Brockden Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Fenimore Cooper
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Cullen Bryant
James Russell Lowell
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
John William De Forest
Washington Irving
Herman Melville
John Gregory Bourke
Francis James Child
Horatio Alger
John Muir
Walt Whitman
Ernest Thompson Seton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
William Wordsworth
Wendell Phillips
Horace Traubel
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Orestes Brownson
Margaret Fuller
Emily Dickinson
Julia Ward Howe [Battle Hymn of the Republic]
Louisa May Alcott
Sarah Orne Jewett
Jones Very
Kate Chopin
Sidney Lanier
Edmund Clarence Stedman
John Greenleaf Whittier
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Edward Bellamy
Charles W. Chesnutt
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
H. L. Mencken
Robert Green Ingersoll
Finley Peter Dunne
Harold Frederic
Ambrose Bierce
Bret Harte
Fremont Older
James Branch Cabell
Sinclair Lewis
Richard Henry Dana
Edgar Alan Poe
H. P. Lovecraft
Charles Godfrey Leland
Edgar Saltus
Charles Ashleigh
Amy Lowell
Gertrude Stein
W. H. Auden
O. Henry
John Armstrong tr
Nathanael West
Edgar Lee Masters
Edwin Justus Mayer
Benjamin De Casseres
Waldo David Frank
Garet Garrett
Dorothy Parker
Trumbull Stickney
James Oppenheim
Samuel Putnam
Thomas Wolfe
Jack London
George Washington Cable
Austin Tappan Wright
John Brooks Wheelwright
Upton Sinclair
Erskine Caldwell
Frank Norris
Arthur Cheney Train
Oscar Kaplan Williams
Booth Tarkington
Ring Lardner
Edwin Arlington Robinson
William Ridley Wills
John Crowe Ransom
Donald Grady Davidson
John Gould Fletcher
Delmore Schwartz
Ernest Haycox
Stark Young
George Herriman
Henry Harland
Theodore Dreiser
Stephen Crane
Frank Harris
James T. Farrell
John P. Marquand
James Thurber
Willa Cather
Harriet Monroe
Max Michelson
Robert Frost
Joyce Kilmer
Robert Hayden
Wallace Stevens
Melvin B. Tolson
Maximilian J. Rudwin
Carl Sandburg
Charles Wharton Stork
William Dean Howells
Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney
Margaret C. Anderson
Mabel Loomis Todd
Peggy Guggenheim
Natalie Clifford Barney
Vachel Lindsay
Djuna Barnes
Marianne Moore
Hilda Doolittle
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
T. S. Eliot [Not with a bang but a whimper…]
Elizabeth Hardwick
Ezra Pound
Elliot Paul
Floyd Dell
Frank R. Stockton
Langston Hughes
Hart Crane
Janet Flanner
Raymond Chandler
Alfred Henry Lewis
Claude McKay
Jean Toomer
Wallace Thurman
Countee Cullen
James Weldon Johnson
Max Eastman
John Silas Reed
Witter Bynner
George Sterling
Gertrude Atherton
Conrad Aiken
Ogden Nash
William Ellery Leonard
Arthur Davison Ficke
Howard Fast
Whittaker Chambers
Ralph de Toledano
Groucho Marx
James Thurber
Jack Conroy
Nelson Algren
Theodor Seuss Geisel
L. Frank Baum [Wizard of Oz]
Edgar Rice Burroughs [TARZAN]
Al Capp
Harvey Kurtzman
John Steinbeck [“I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.”]
E. E. Cummings (!!!)
Ernest Hemingway
Harold Loeb
John dos Passos
Mike Gold
Henry Miller
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald
Laura Riding
Saul Bellow
Weldon Kees
S. S. McClure
Ida Tarbell
William Allen White
Burton J. Hendrick
Lincoln Steffens
John Updike
Eugene O'Neill
William Carlos Williams
Norman Holmes Pearson
Louis Zukofsky
Reed Whittemore
Robie Macauley
Fletcher Pratt
Thornton Wilder
Dashiell Hammett
Louis Adamic
Richard Fariña
Jeremy Brecher
Lawrence Lipton
A. J. Liebling
Louise Bryant
John Reed
John Hersey
Norman Mailer
Howard Gossage
George Schuyler
John Howard Griffin
Sadakichi Hartman
Harry Kemp
Maxwell Bodenheim
Horace Gregory
John Cheever
Sherwood Anderson
Christopher Isherwood
Malcolm Cowley
William Prochnau
Peter Bryan George
John Kennedy Toole
Ben Hecht
Dalton Trumbo
Orson Welles
Stanley Kubrick
Emile de Antonio
Tom Lehrer
Joey Skaggs
Blaster Al Ackerman
Terrence Malick
Herbert Blau
Adam Parfrey
Boyd Rice
Abraham Cahan
Sholom Aleichem
Sholem Asch
Moishe Nadir
Maurice Samuel
Mani Leib
Yehoash
H. Leivick
T. Carmi
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Israel Joshua Singer
Chaim Grade
Jacob Glatstein
Leo Rosten
Theodore Roethke
Elinor Wylie
M. F. K. Fisher
Anna de Koven
Amélie Rives
Ellen Glasgow
Lillian Hellman
Tillie Olsen
Peter Neagoe
Anna Hempstead Branch
Idah Meacham Strobridge
Katherine Anne Porter
Sara Teasdale
Lorraine Hansberry
Mary Butts
Esther Forbes
Flannery O'Connor
Elizabeth Bishop
Léonie Adams
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Adrienne Rich
Carson McCullers
Jean Garrigue
Mabel Dodge Luhan
Mary McCarthy
Eleanor Clark
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna Ferber
Isadora Newman
Taylor Caldwell
Jean Stafford
Kay Boyle
May Swenson
Margaret Mitchell
Louise Bogan
Harper Lee
Ken Kesey
Max Brand
Zane Grey
Emanuel Carnevali
Robert McAlmon
Edward Dahlberg
Paul Zweig
Paul Krassner
Greil Marcus
Grace Paley
Louis Bromfield
Stephane Groueff
Muriel Rukeyser
Rube Goldberg
Lola Ridge
Philip Roth
Sloan Wilson
Richard Yates
Stith Thompson
Jaime de Angulo
Vance Randolph
John Norman
Alan Lomax
E. Haldeman-Julius
Asa Earl Carter
Hutton Gibson
Jamake Highwater
Gerald Vizenor
Louis L'Amour
Gershon Legman
Harold Rosenberg
Dore Ashton
Mark Schorer
S. Foster Damon
Yvor Winters
Helen Keller
Eugene Jolas
Bernard Malamud
Frank O'Hara
Harold Lamb
David Lance Goines
Clark Ashton Smith
Robert E. Howard
Henry Morton Robinson
J. D. Salinger
Shirley Jackson
Thomas Merton
Jack Spicer
Allen Tate
Ed Sanders
Walter Lowenfels
Walter Russell
Kenneth Rexroth [A genius, the best of SF Renaissance and the “Beats”. His writings here: https://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/ ]
Henry Beston
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Cohen
Charles Plymell
Chester Anderson
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Peter Orlovsky
Herbert Huncke
James Broughton
Ron Loewinsohn
John Berryman
Armand Schwerner
Philip Whalen
Larry Eigner
Gary Snyder
Michael Rumaker
Ted Berrigan
John Rechy
Bob Kaufman
David Antin
Leroi Jones
David Meltzer
Jackson Mac Low
Aaron Bank
Michael McClure
Kenneth Patchen
Joyce Johnson
Joan Vollmer
Edie Parker
Joel Oppenheimer
Paul Blackburn
Jonathan Williams
Lorine Niedecker
Lou Harrison
Kerry Wendell Thornley
“Malaclypse the Younger” (Greg Hill)
Camden Benares
Bob Dobbs (!!!)
Neal Cassidy
Dale Pendell
Gregory Corso
Lew Welch
Charles Upton
William Everson
Robert Creeley
Lenore Kandel
Denise Levertov
William S. Burroughs
Edward Merton Dorn
Richard Brautigan
George Oppen
Charles Reznikoff
Aaron Shurin
Philip Lamantia
Thomas Pynchon
Jack Kerouac
Neal Cassady
Carolyn Cassady
Cormac McCarthy
John Gardner
Franklin Rosemont
Albert J. Guerard
William Gaddis
William Faulkner
Joseph Blotner
Kurt Vonnegut
John Barth
Mai-Mai Sze [Wrote a notable book, The Tao of Painting]
Ita Jones [ Author of “The Grubbag: An Underground Cookbook”]
Eli Siegel [A veritable and forgotten american writer, his writings
https://aestheticrealism.net/ ]
Wheeler Thackston
George P. Elliott
Alfred Kazin
Parker Tyler
Peter Lorrimer Whitehead
Wylie Sypher
Donald Allen
Julius Lester
Louis Kronenberger
Robinson Jeffers
Charles Olson
Robert Duncan
Charles Bukowski
Terry Southern
Horace McCoy
Barry Lopez
Edward Abbey
Paul Bowles
Truman Capote
James Baldwin
Ralph Ellison
Alice Notley
Zora Hurston
M. C. Richards
Hilda Morley
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
Richard N. Wright
John Ashbery
John Wieners
Fielding Dawson
James Schuyler
Pearl S. Buck
Ralph Siu
R. L Wing
David Hinton
Thomas Cleary
Burton Watson
Edward L. Shaughnessy
W. S. Merwin
Louis Auchincloss
Paul Reps
Rick Fields
Raja Rao
Tess Gallagher
Cid Corman
John Ciardi
William Elbert Gay
Tennessee Williams
Charles Henri Ford
John Edward Williams
Jerome Rothenberg
Nikki Giovanni
Gilbert Sorrentino
Margaret Wise Brown
Eudora Welty
Robert Penn Warren
Joel Chandler Harris
Harold Brodkey
E. B. White
A. R. Ammons
Luke Rhinehart
Robert Ardrey
Hunter S. Thompson
Wendell Berry
Irving Feldman
James Wright
John Irving
Raymond Carver
James Agee
Edward Albee
Stephen Berg
Robert Mezey
Donald Barthelme
Archibald MacLeish
Edgar Bowers
Peter S. Beagle
Walter Abish
Mark Van Doren
Charles Van Doren
Clifton Fadiman
Robert B. Downs
Richard Howard
Martin Gardner
Ricky Jay
Uri Geller
Nina Simone
Bob Dylan
Gil Scott-Heron
Amiri Baraka
Gerry Fialka
Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Frank Zappa
Leonard Cohen [For their poetry in music, I could add more..]
George Carlin
Mordecai Richler
Arthur Kurzweil
Walker Percy
Thomas Berger
Robert Lowell
Wallace Stegner
S. J. Perelman
John McCabe
Joseph Mitchell
David Mamet
Gore Vidal
Howard Moss
Jay Wright [The poet]
Richard Bach
August Wilson
Ishmael Reed
Wright Morris
James Merrill
Henry Roth
Anthony Hecht
Ivan Morris
Irwin Shaw
Donald Hall
Frank Waters
Lew Dietz
William Styron
Galway Kinnell
Larry McMurtry
Joseph Heller
Philip Levine
Richard Joseph Howard
Kenneth Koch
James Jones
James Salter
Paul Theroux
Denis Johnson
Randall Jarrell
Joseph Frank
James Dickey
Donald Justice
Pauline Kael
Jerome Bixby
Arthur Miller
Elmore Leonard
David Markson
Jack Prelutsky
Shel Silverstein
J. P. Donleavy
Frederick Crews
Guy Davenport
Richard Eberhart
Edward Gorey
Burton Hatlen
Andrew Schelling
Allen Grossman
Hal Bennett
E. L. Doctorow
Don Robertson (Novelist)
Mickey Spillane
Jim Harrison
John Hawkes
Morris Schappes
Rudolf Baranik
Donald Kuspit
Richard Wesley
Brewster Ghiselin
Michael K. Ferber
Leopold Damrosch Jr.
John D. MacDonald
Eugene Burdick
John Harvey Wheeler [Author of “Fail-Safe”]
Shelby Foote
Robert Bly
Sam Hamill
Eliot Weinberger
Philip Ward [Commentator of books and author of “Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books”. The last of the librarians]
Kathy Acker
Lewis Hyde
Daniel Quinn
Ursula Le Guin
Diane Ackerman
August Derleth
Isaac Asimov
A. E. van Vogt
R. A. Lafferty
Cyril M. Kornbluth
Tobias Wolff
James Gleick
Roger Zelazny
Anthony Boucher
Clifford D. Simak
Fritz Leiber
Hubert Selby Jr.
Robert Bloch
Robert Sheckley
Robert Silverberg
Michael Moorcock
Norman Spinrad
Fredric Brown
Stanislaw Lem
Mac Hyman
Theodore Sturgeon
Ron Goulart
Philip K. Dick
Forrest J. Ackerman
Robert Shea
David Lynch
Dean Koontz
Harlan Ellison
William Gibson
Frank Herbert
Russell Hoban
Richard Matheson
Michael Talbot
Karl Shapiro
L. Ron Hubbard
Lewis Thomas
Roberts Blossom
Rudy Rucker
Kim Stanley Robinson
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Thomas M. Disch
Gustav Hasford
Tom Clancy
Alan Furst
Elizabeth Sewell
Mary Oliver
Susan Howe
Nancy Friday
Barbara G. Walker
Adrienne Rich
Audre Lorde
Meridel Le Sueur
Miriam Simos
Barbara Mor
Monica Sjöö
Vicki Noble
Robert Heinlein
William Steig
Robert Crumb
S. Clay Wilson
Eli Valley
Gilbert Shelton
Bill Mauldin
Jules Feiffer
Gary Larson
Robertson Davies
William H. Gass
Peter Matthiessen
Gene Wolfe
Ray Bradbury
Thomas Ligotti
Paul Auster
Stephen King
Chuck Palahniuk
Stanley Elkin
Dave Eggers
Don DeLillo
Kenneth Goldsmith
David Foster Wallace
Bret Easton Ellis
Brendan Connell
The French
Angilbert, Count of Ponthieu
Peire Vidal
Arnaut Daniel
Turc Malec
Marie de France
Robert de Boron
Héloïse du Paraclet
Chrétien de Troyes
Jean de Meung
Guilherme de Lorris
Alain Chartier
François Villon
Jean Froissart
Guillaume Crétin
Jean Lemaire de Belges
Bonaventure des Périers
Jean Molinet
Pierre Boaistuau
Claude Le Petit
Rémy Belleau
Jean de Sponde
Jean de La Ceppède
Clément Marot
Joachim du Bellay
Geoffroi de Charny
Étienne Jodelle
Pontus de Tyard
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
Jean Daurat
Jacques Amyot
Robert Garnier
Alexandre Hardy
Antoine de Montchrestien
Maurice Scève
Marguerite de Valois
Louise Labé
Madeleine de Scudéry
Madame de Lafayette
Madame de Sévigné
Marie de Gournay
Olympe de Gouges
Théophraste Renaudot
Jean Puget de la Serre
François de La Mothe Le Vayer
Prosper Marchand
Jean Rousset de Missy
Bernard de la Monnoye
Gabriel Naudé
François Rabelais
Molière
Charles Perrault
Gaspard Abeille
Pierre Corneille
François de Malherbe
Jean-Jacques Boissard
Jean Racine
Nicolas Boileau
Agrippa d’Aubigné
Pierre de Ronsard
Charles de Saint-Évremond
Antoine François Prévost
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Bruyère
Cardinal de Retz
Jean François Sarrazin
Paul Pellisson
Gabriel-Marie Legouvé
Gilles Ménage
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
Charles Etienne Boniface
Anne Dacier
Antoine Galland
Madame du Deffand
Madame Roland
Julie de Lespinasse
Fanny de Beauharnais
Pierre de Marivaux
Marguerite de Launay
Germaine de Staël
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne
Joseph Joubert
Jacques Cazotte
Jacques Hébert
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean Astruc
Jean-François Ancelot
Antoine-Vincent Arnault
Étienne Aignan
François Andrieux
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Maximilien Robespierre
François-René de Chateaubriand
Pierre-Simon Ballanche
Henri-Benjamin Constant
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Henri de Boulainvilliers
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Marquis de Custine
Alfred de Musset
André Chénier
Antoine de Rivarol
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin7
René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Charles Paul de Kock
Eugène Sue
Gustave Flaubert
Theophile Gautier
Stendhal
Émile Zola
Victor Hugo
Paul Verlaine
Honoré de Balzac
Guy de Maupassant
Stéphane Mallarmé
Pierre Jean Jouve
Leconte de Lisle
Théodore de Banville
Sully Prudhomme
François Coppée
Pierre Jean de Béranger
Pierre Loti
Émile Augier
Nina de Callias
José-Maria de Heredia
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Gaston Paris
Charles Baudelaire
Xavier de Maistre
Alexandre Dumas, père [Les Trois Mousquetaires]
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Prosper Mérimée
Henri Meilhac
Isidore Ducasse (aka Lautréamont)
Arthur Rimbaud
Marcel Allain
Marcel Proust
Alphonse de Lamartine
Adolphe Retté
Jacques Rivière
Jean Aicard
Alfred de Vigny
Alfred Jarry
Jean Cocteau
Louis Artus
Léon Bloy
Henri Wallon
Anatole France
Yvan Goll
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Edmond de Goncourt
Jules de Goncourt
Eugène Fromentin
Édouard Fournier
Paul Lacroix
Émile Faguet
Gustave Geffroy
Alphonse Karr
Félix Fénéon
Joachim Gasquet
Charles Péguy
Jules Lemaître
Ferdinand Brunetière
Maurice Barrès
Charles Maurras
Maurice de Guérin
Maurice Joly
Eugénie de Guérin
Alphonse Daudet
Lucien Daudet
George Sand
Judith Gautier
Colette
Myriam Harry
Jane de La Vaudère
Valentine de Saint-Point
Louise-Victorine Ackermann
Élisabeth de Gramont
Rémy de Gourmont
Alexandra David-Néel
Eugène Labiche
Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray [Participated in the commune of 1871 and wrote about it]
Henri Rochefort
Tristan Corbière
Alfred Capus
Paul Claudel
Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Jean de Bosschère
Raymond Roussel
Pierre de Nolhac
Henri Piéron
Édouard Toulouse
Jules Romains
Jules Laforgue
Georges Feydeau
Edmond Rostand
Maurice Rostand
Jules Renard
Gustave Kahn
Francis Vielé-Griffin
Rosemonde Gérard
Marcelle Capy
Marcel Aymé
Paul Adam
Stuart Merrill
Henri de Régnier
Laurent Tailhade
Francis Jammes
Marcel Brion
Paul Fort
Émile Verhaeren
Octave Mirbeau
Raymond Radiguet
Édouard Schuré
Victor Segalen
Édouard Chavannes
Henri Maspero
Stanislas de Guaita
Joséphin Peladan
Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail
Jules Verne
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Eric Gill
Antoine Albalat
Pierre Aguétant
Alain-Fournier
Romain Rolland
Henri Barbusse
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Maurice Genevoix
Thierry Maulnier
Édouard Estaunié
Edmond Jaloux
Roland Dorgelès
Paul Vialar
Félicien Marceau
Roland Topor
Marie Le Franc
Anne Desclos
Minou Drouet
Édouard Dujardin
Raymond Escholier
Jacques de Lacretelle
Geneviève Fauconnier
Henri Fauconnier
Georges Bernanos
Jean Galtier-Boissière
Henry Bordeaux
Pierre Benoit
Félix Dubois
Jean Paulhan
André Malraux
Frédéric Mistral
André Gide
Jean Genet
René Daumal
Antonin Artaud
Philippe Soupault
Guillaume Apollinaire
Henry de Montherlant
André Pieyre de Mandiargues
André Salmon
André Maurois
Bertrand de Jouvenel
Julien Gracq
Jean Follain
Joseph Delteil
Francis Ponge
Robert Desnos
Pierre Seghers
Raymond Queneau
Marcel Jouhandeau
Robert Pinget
Victor Llona
Max Jacob
Paul Valéry
Gérard de Nerval
Pierre Reverdy
Charles de Coster
Jean Anouilh
Georges Perec
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz
Tristan Derème
Léon-Paul Fargue
Francis Carco
Pierre Mac Orlan
Jules Supervielle
Paul Éluard
Jean Lescure
René Char
Eugène Guillevic
André du Bouchet
Henri Michaux
Jacques Rigaut
Jacques Prévert
Boris Vian
Benjamin Péret
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Michel Leiris
Jacques Copeau
Gustave Thibon
Emmanuel Berl
François Le Lionnais
Jean-Marie Domenach
Pierre Emmanuel
Jacques Audiberti
Alexandre Arnoux
Julien Torma
Louis Aragon
André Breton
René Crevel
Albert Camus
Claude Aveline
Pascal Pia
Jean Grenier
Jacques Vaché
Luc Étienne
Jean Ajalbert
Drieu La Rochelle
Robert Brasillach
Serge Berna
Placide Tempels [La philosophie bantoue]
Michel Carrouges [Les machines célibataires]
Laura Makarius
Jean Hytier
Saint-John Perse
François Mauriac
Valery Larbaud
Johann Schlumberger
Blaise Cendrars
Henri Ghéon
René Taupin
Jean Renoir
Jean Giono
Jean Giraudoux
Jacques Dupin
Paul Morand
Louis Scutenaire
Philippe Jaccottet
Pierre Bergounioux
Claude Simon
Pierre Michon
Jean-Louis Brau
Alain Robbe-Grillet
George Brassens [For his poetry in music]
Marcel Pagnol
Romain Gary
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Patrick Manchette
Roger Martin du Gard
Thierry Jonquet
André Ruyters
Marc-Édouard Nabe
Pierre Klossowski
René Goscinny
Yves Bonnefoy
Marguerite Yourcenar
Louis Pauwels
Anaïs Nin
André Dhôtel
Hugo Claus
Marguerite Duras
Michel Tournier
François Augiéras
François Eliès (Abeozen)
François Maspero
Annie Le Brun
Dominique Lapierre
Albert Cohen
Aimé Césaire
Edmond Jabès
Édouard Glissant
Patrick Chamoiseau
François Cheng
Georges Simenon
Raymond De Becker
Ghislain de Diesbach
René Étiemble
Maurice Bessy
Jean-Marie Apostolidès
Georges Schéhadé
Albert Cossery
Jean Malaquais
Philippe Sollers
Mathias Énard
Étienne Chouard
Renaud Camus
Thierry Meyssan
Michel Houellebecq
Olivier Jacquemond
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
Germans and austrians, ain’t them the same? (A few swiss (sissy?) too)
Rabanus Maurus
Hrotsvitha
Wolfram Eschenbach
Gottfried von Straßburg
Hartmann von Aue
Walther von der Vogelweide
Wernher der Gartenaere
Hieronymus Osius
Pantaleon Candidus
Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Franck
Martin Opitz
Paul Fleming
Andreas Gryphius
Friedrich von Logau
Ludwig Uhland
Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
Johann Michael Moscherosch
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Christoph Martin Wieland
Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg
Johann David Wyss
Caroline Schelling
Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer
Dorothea von Schlegel
Ludwig Ferdinand Huber
Meta Forkel-Liebeskind
Philippine Engelhard
Therese Huber
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Ernst Moritz Arndt
Johannes Bückler
Karl Philipp Moritz
Franz von Schober
Georg Büchner
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Herman Grimm
Johann Peter Eckermann
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Jeremias Gotthelf
Clemens Brentano
Ludwig Tieck
Johann Heinrich Jung
Wilhelm Mannhardt
Lorenz Diefenbach
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
Johann Anton Leisewitz
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Gottfried August Bürger
Wilhelm Hauff
Susanne von Klettenberg
Georg Forster
Heinrich von Kleist
Jean Paul Richter
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Heinrich Heine
Friedrich Hebbel
Johann Peter Hebel
Paul Heyse
Ferdinand Kürnberger
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Ödön von Horváth
Franz Grillparzer
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Storm
Gustav Freytag
Gustav Falke
Gottfried Keller
Hermann Löns
Wilhelm Raabe
Stefan George
Friedrich Rückert
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Wilhelm Busch
August Stramm
Rudolf Borchardt
Friedrich Theodor Vischer
Christian Morgenstern
Eduard Mörike
Richard Dehmel
Gustav Falke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Arthur Schnitzler
Adalbert Stifter
Heinrich Seidel
Gerhard Fritsch
Hermann Sudermann
Gerhart Hauptmann
Peter Rosegger
Carl Sternheim
Gustav Meyrink
Frank Wedekind
Joseph Roth
Franz Kafka
Max Brod
Manès Sperber
Gustav Janouch
Gottfried Benn
Johannes Bobrowski
Robert Musil
Elias Canetti
Karl Kraus
Kurt Tucholsky
Robert Walser
Stefan Zweig
Alfred Polgar
Peter Altenberg
Franz Werfel
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hermann Broch
Heinrich Mann
Alfred Döblin
Georg Trakl
Rudolf Kassner
Thomas Mann
Katia Mann
Hermann Hesse
Kurt Schwitters
Stefan Heym
Erich von Kahler
Ernst Robert Curtius
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Erich Maria Remarque
Joseph Breitbach
Erich Fried
Emil Ludwig
Heinrich Böll
Christa Wolf
Hilde Spiel
Emmy Hennings
Susette Gontard
Hugo Ball
Richard Huelsenbeck
Hans Richter
Walter Serner
Ingeborg Bachmann
Günter Eich
Max Herrmann-Neisse
Walther Rehm
Walter Flex
Franz Jung
Arno Schmidt
Ernst Jünger
Friedrich Georg Jünger
Erwin Piscator
Bertolt Brecht
Max Frisch
Hans Sahl
Jörg Fauser
Heiner Müller
Reiner Stach
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Thomas Bernhard
Hermann Burger
Reiner Kunze
Günter Grass
Walter Burkert
Werner Herzog
W. G. Sebald
Peter Handke
Eastern Europeans, Scandinavians, greeks, turks, jews, south africans and other ‘exotic’ ones.. well I mean people from Central and Southern Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, sub saharan africans and a few more undefinable ones. Very overlooked folks to say the least.
Marko Marulić
Petar Zoranić
Marin Držić
Hanibal Lucić
Petar Hektorović
Juraj Baraković
Nikola Nalješković
Mihály Csokonai
Mihály Vörösmarty
Sándor Petőfi
Ferenc Kölcsey
Mór Jókai
Imre Madach
Gyula Reviczky
Arthur Breisky
Hans Habe
Endre Ady
Mihály Babits
Lőrinc Szabó
Oszkár Jászi
Anna Lesznai
France Prešeren
Dezső Kosztolányi
Kálmán Mikszáth
Josef Váchal
László Németh
Attila József
Vítězslav Nezval
Konstantin Biebl
Óndra Łysohorsky
L. L. Zamenhof [The creator of esperanto, stupidest language ever]
Béla Balázs
Miklós Radnóti
Vladimir Bartol
Jaroslav Hašek
Derviš Sušić
Jaroslav Seifert
Sándor Weöres
Danilo Kiš
Stanisław Lem
Vladimír Holan
Gyula Illyés
Miroslav Holub
Bohdan Lepky
Sydir Tverdokhlib
Radoje Domanović
Stevan Sremac
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Josef Škvorecký
Dimitrije Mitrinović
Vladmir Bartol
Charles Simic
Karel Čapek
János Pilinszky
László Nagy [The poet]
Vasko Popa
Arthur Koestler
Ivan Vazov
Mihai Eminescu
Camil Petrescu
Ion Minulescu
Mihail Sebastian
Nicolae Crevedia
Mateiu Caragiale
Felix Aderca
Tudor Arghezi
Ilarie Voronca
Victor Eftimiu
Urmuz
Sergiu Dan
Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești
Alexandru Macedonski
Nichita Stănescu
Perpessicius
Emil Cioran
Claudia Millian
Eugène Ionesco
Tristan Tzara
Paul Celan
Panait Istrati
Isidore Isou
Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu
Max Blecher
Mircea Cărtărescu
Czeslaw Milosz
Ferenc Juhász
Miloš Crnjanski
Ivo Andrić
Meša Selimović
Milan Kundera [‘The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence’]
Karel Mauser
Attila Kotányi
Lajos Kassák
Michal Mares [1893-1971]
György Konrád
Jan Kochanowski
Juliusz Słowacki
Adam Mickiewicz
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Kajetan Kraszewski
Franciszka Arnsztajnowa
Jadwiga Łuszczewska
Józef Czechowicz
Józef Łobodowski
Witold Gombrowicz
Zygmunt Krasiński
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Jerzy Grotowski
Stanisław Wyspiański
Srečko Kosovel
Haig Acterian
Dragan Aleksić
Ljubomir Micić
Branko Ve Poljanski
Ferdynand Ossendowski
Zbigniew Herbert
Sławomir Mrożek
Adam Zagajewski
Ivan Franko
Yanka Kupala
Maksim Bahdanovič
László Krasznahorkai
Péter Nádas
Bruno Schulz
Carl Michael Bellman
Erik Gustaf Geijer
Esaias Tegnér
Johan Olof Wallin
Gustaf Fröding
Verner von Heidenstam
Sigurd Hoel
Olof von Dalin
Gunnar Wennerberg
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Ernst Olson
Henrik Ibsen
Knut Hamsun
August Strindberg
Hans Christian Andersen
Tarjei Vesaas
Eino Leino
Aino Kallas
Karen Blixen
Sigrid Undset
Dan Andersson
Selma Lagerlöf
Tove Jansson
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Martin Andersen Nexø
Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Alexander Kielland
Jonas Lie [Not the painter]
Tom Kristensen (poet)
Bertel Gripenberg
Eyvind Johnson
Ingmar Bergman
Hjalmar Söderberg
Jan Fridegård
Harry Martinson
Jan Myrdal
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Artur Lundkvist
Carl-Göran Ekerwald
Gunnar Ekelöf
Lars Gustafsson
Tomas Tranströmer
Henning Mankell
Aleksis Kivi
Elias Lönnrot
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Johan Ludvig Heiberg [This one is the novelist and poet, but there was a historian with this name, great one too]
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens August Schade
Mika Waltari
Zachris Topelius
Níkos Kazantzákis
Yiannis Ritsos
Ángelos Sikelianós
Giorgos Seferis
Kostis Palamas
C. P. Cavafy
Dionysios Solomos
Odysséas Elýtis
Count of St. Germain
Nadine Gordimer
Laurens van der Post
Alan Paton
Roy Campbell
Uys Krige
Athol Fugard
J. M. Coetzee
Mervyn Peake
Lennard Bickel
Joshua Slocum
Richard E. Byrd
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Ulrich von Hutten
Joost van den Vondel
Frederik van Eeden
Willem Kloos
Lodewijk van Deyssel
Hendrik Marsman
Rudolf Ritsema
Corrie ten Boom
Malcolm de Chazal
Michel de Ghelderode
B. Traven
Marcel Mariën
Paul Nougé
Chiquet Mawet
Noël Godin
Hans Widmer [bolo’bolo]
Fred Bodsworth
Max Nordau [Although a Zionist, his social criticisms were excellent]
I. L. Peretz
Naftali Herz Imber
Mendele Moicher Sforim
Shahan Shahnour
S. Y. Agnon
Ephraim Kishon
Yehuda Amichai
Hayim Nahman Bialik
Dan Pagis
A. B. Yehoshua
Yoram Kaniuk
Aharon Appelfeld
Yaakov Shabtai
David Shahar
Nathan Zach
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Amos Oz
Bhāsa
Kalidasa
Jayadeva
Vishakhadatta
Somadeva Bhatta
Shudraka
Milarepa
Bilhana
Vātsyāyana
Bhartṛhari
Valmiki
Chanakya
Vidyapati
Chandidas
Kabir
Ilango Adigal
Guru Arjan
Bhavabhuti
Al-Mutanabbi
Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani
Al-Jāḥiẓ
Al-Hariri of Basra
Ubayd Zakani
Ferdowsi
Yehudah Halevi
Hafez
Jami
Nasir Khusraw
Attar of Nishapur
Yūsuf Balasaguni
Saadi Shirazi
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Muḥammad Rumi
Omar Khayyam
Khushal Khattak
Abul Fazl
Ibn Battuta
Ahmad Yasawi
Yunus Emre
Evliya Çelebi
Fuzuli
Shota Rustaveli
Khalil Gibran
Muzaffer Ozak
Ikbal Ali Shah
Shakib Arslan
Suheil Bushrui
Muhammad Iqbal
Sadeq Hedayat
Bozorg Alavi
Houshang Golshiri
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
Ahmad Mahmoud
Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi
Simin Daneshvar
Nâzım Hikmet
Abbas Maroufi
Jason Jorjani
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı
Jalil Mammadguluzadeh
Naguib Mahfouz
Taha Hussein
Georges Henein
Mirza Ghalib
Rabindranath Tagore
Suryakant Tripathi
Subramania Bharati
R. K. Narayan
Bibhutibhusan Banerji
Alamgir Hashmi
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Sayyid Qutb
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
Ahmad Fardid
Reza Negarestani
Munshi Premchand
Lakshminath Bezbarua
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Chairil Anwar
Christopher Okigbo
Gabriel Okara
Chinua Achebe
Ayi Kwei Armah
Amos Tutuola
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Wole Soyinka
Agostinho Neto
J. P. Clark
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Italians
Dante Alighieri
Cielo d'Alcamo
Pietro de' Crescenzi
Guido Cavalcanti
Marco Polo
Rustichello da Pisa
Francesco Petrarca
Giovanni Boccaccio
Christine de Pizan
Matteo Maria Boiardo
Angelo Poliziano
Christopher Columbus
Gabriele Faerno
Pietro Aretino
Giorgio Vasari [Wrote about the life of Renaissance artists, also a painter]
Pietro Bembo
Daniele Barbaro
Benvenuto Cellini
Gaspara Stampa
Matteo Ricci
Torquato Tasso
Baldassare Castiglione
Ludovico Ariosto
Claudio Achillini
Gabriello Chiabrera
Matteo Bandello
Agnolo Firenzuola
Lodovico Guicciardini
Giambattista Marino
Girolamo Preti
Giovan Francesco Maia Materdona
Fulvio Testi
Pietro Metastasio
Francesco Algarotti
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Leopardi
Carlo Goldoni
Giuseppe Parini
Vincenzo Monti
Ippolito Pindemonte
Ugo Foscolo
Giuseppe Aurelio Costanzo
Vittorio Sereni
Piero Chiara
Giuseppe Mazzini
Sergio Corazzini
Luciano Erba
Nino Oxilia
Carlo Collodi [Le avventure di Pinocchio]
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
Achille Giovanni Cagna
Fausto Maria Martini
Mario Rapisardi
Felice Cavallotti
Ferdinando Fontana
Camillo Boito
Carlo Dossi
Emilio Praga
Marco Praga
Antonio Ghislanzoni
Giuseppe Rovani
Olindo Guerrini
Guido Gozzano
Giuseppe Giacosa
Salvatore Farina
Trilussa
Vittorio Alfieri
Carlo Porta
Giuseppe Belli
Ippolito Nievo
Dino Campana
Luigi Capuana
Giosuè Carducci
Giovanni Verga
Federico De Roberto
Giovanni Pascoli
Guelfo Civinini
Grazia Deledda
Natalia Ginzburg
Luigi Pirandello
Italo Svevo
Scipio Slataper
Federigo Tozzi
Giovanni Amendola
Carlo Michelstaedter
Alessandro Manzoni
Antonio Fogazzaro
Aleardo Aleardi
Giovanni Prati
Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Arrigo Boito
Giovanni Papini
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Umberto Saba
Giorgio Bassani
Dino Buzzati
Cesare Pavese
Ignazio Silone
Carlo Levi
Primo Levi
Eugenio Montale
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giovanni Testori
Salvatore Quasimodo
Curzio Malaparte
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giovanni Paolo Panini
Elio Vittorini
Alberto Moravia
Tommaso Landolfi
Roberto Calasso
Leonardo Sciascia
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Antonio Porta
Italo Calvino
Andrea Zanzotto
Dario Fo
Wu Ming [literary “anon” group, look it up: “Wu Ming” is a common byline among Chinese citizens demanding democracy and freedom of speech) and as a rejection of the celebrity-making machine which turns the author into a star.” Wiki)]
Iberians and Latin americans.
Juan Ruiz Arcipreste de Hita
Diego de San Pedro
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Antonio de Nebrija
Fernando de Rojas
Miguel de Cervantes
Tirso de Molina
Mateo Alemán
Bernardino de Sahagún
Baltasar Gracián
Lope de Vega
Calderón de la Barca
Francisco de Quevedo
Luis de Góngor
José Pellicer de Ossau Salas y Tovar
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
Jorge Manrique
Garcilaso de la Vega
Hortensio Félix Paravicino
Luis Vélez de Guevara
Conde de Villamediana
Bartolomé de las Casas
Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Juan de la Cruz
Luis de León
Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Agustín de Zárate
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Pedro Cieza de León
Francisco de Sá de Miranda
Juan Andrés
Lorenzo Hervás
Francisco Javier Clavijero
José Celestino Mutis
Gil Vicente
António Ferreira
Luís de Camões
Almeida Garrett
Camilo Castelo Branco
Antero de Quental
António Ferro
Eça de Queiroz
Fernanda de Castro
Fernando Pessoa
Eugénio de Andrade
Alves Redol
José Saramago
Jorge de Sena
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
José Cardoso Pires
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
José María de Pereda
Benito Pérez Galdós
Pío Baroja
Antonio Machado
Blasco Ibanez
Miguel de Unamuno
Leopoldo Alas
Antonio Buero Vallejo
Luis Cernuda
León Felipe
Federico García Lorca
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Camilo José Cela
Miguel Hernández
Vicente Aleixandre
Josep Pla
Joan Perucho
Jorge Guillén
Juan Ramón Jiménez
J. V. Foix
Salvador Espriu i Castelló
Carles Riba i Bracons
Juan Eduardo Cirlot
Mercè Rodoreda
Pedro Salinas
Pere Gimferrer
Rafael Alberti
Javier Marías
Juan Goytisolo
Agustín García Calvo
Jorge Semprún
Fernando Arrabal
Fernando Savater
Evaristo Carriego
Leopoldo Lugones
Jorge Luis Borges
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Mariano Azuela
Carlos Fuentes
Aurora Cáceres
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Reinaldo Arenas
José Lezama Lima
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Nicolás Guillén
Alejo Carpentier
Severo Sarduy
Juan José Arreola
Julio Cortázar
José Martí
Julián del Casal
Jorge Isaacs
Alfonsina Storni
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Juana Manuela Gorriti
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
Clorinda Matto de Turner
Manuel Díaz Rodríguez
José Asunción Silva
Daniel Devoto
Horacio Quiroga
Julio Herrera y Reissig
Enrique González Martínez
Ramón López Velarde
Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera
Delmira Agustini
Rubén Darío
Ricardo Palma
Manuel Bernárdez
Gabriela Mistral
José Carlos Mariátegui
Mario Vargas Llosa
Ernesto Mejía Sánchez
Amado Nervo
Alfonso Reyes
Juan Rulfo
César Moro
Manuel Payno
Octavio Paz
Roberto Bolaño
José Donoso
Rosario Castellanos
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Pablo Neruda
César Vallejo
Gabriel García Márquez
Álvaro Mutis
Matias Aires
Antônio Vieira
Gregório de Matos
Bento Teixeira
Tomás António Gonzaga
Álvares de Azevedo
Gonçalves Dias
Machado de Assis
Aluísio Azevedo
João Manuel Pereira da Silva
João Batista Ribeiro de Andrade Fernandes
Alfredo d’Escragnolle Taunay
Oliveira Lima
João da Cruz e Sousa
Casimiro de Abreu
Castro Alves
Olavo Bilac
Paulo Prado
Alberto de Oliveira
Raimundo Correia
Euclides de Cunha
Augusto dos Anjos
José Bonifácio
Tobias Barreto
Raimundo de Farias Brito
Lima Barreto
Avelino Fóscolo [Descendent of Ugo Foscolo! Cearly so]
Graça Aranha
Monteiro Lobato
Guimarães Rosa
Paulo Prado
Raul Bopp
Mario de Andrade
Oswald de Andrade
Murilo Mendes
Manuel Bandeira [Camus visited Brazil and was met by those above, the “modernists”]
Manoel de Barros
Cyro dos Anjos
José Geraldo Vieira
Jorge Amado
Assis Chateaubriand
Pietro Maria Bardi
Haroldo de Campos
Augusto de Campos
Décio Pignatari
Ronaldo Azeredo
José Lino Grünewald
Arlindo Veiga dos Santos [Negão Monarquista]
Gustavo Dodt Barroso
Nelson Rodrigues
Clarice Lispector
Ariano Suassuna
Chico Buarque
Antonio Candido
Roberto Piva
Roberto Schwarz
Álvaro Vieira Pinto
Bento Prado Júnior
José Arthur Giannotti
Leandro Konder
Vicente Ferreira da Silva
Mário Ferreira dos Santos
Orientals, Japanese and Chinese
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Ki no Tsurayuki
Sei Shōnagon
Murasaki Shikibu
Izumi Shikibu
Koshikibu no Naishi
Michitsuna no Haha
Sami Mansei
Lady Nijō
Lady Ukon
Yamabe no Akahito
Ono no Komachi
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
Takasue no musume
Ariwara no Narihira
Saigyō
Fujiwara no Nagako
Fujiwara no Teika
Yoshida Kenkō
Matsuo Bashō
Takarai Kikaku
Ihara Saikaku
Yosa Buson
Kobayashi Issa
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Namiki Sōsuke
Takeda Izumo
Shikitei Sanba
Ueda Akinari
Tsubouchi Shōyō
Masaoka Shiki
Murō Saisei
Hakushū Kitahara
Okakura Kakuzō
Natsume Soseki
Sakutarō Hagiwara
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Michizō Tachihara
Motojirō Kajii
Osamu Dazai
Futabatei Shimei
Roka Tokutomi
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Yasunari Kawabata
Tōson Shimazaki
Kafū Nagai
Akiko Yosano
Kazuko Shiraishi
Shōhei Ōoka
Hiroshi Noma
Noriko Ibaragi
Yukio Mishima [The MAN]
Taijun Takeda
Sei Itō
Shūzō Kuki
Junzaburō Nishiwaki
Riichi Yokomitsu
Narushima Ryūhoku
Tsubouchi Shōyō
Tomoji Abe
Haruo Satō
Tatsuo Hori
Yamaguchi Seishi
Haruki Murakami
Eiji Yoshikawa
Kobo Abe
Ryōtarō Shiba
Takaaki Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto
Kenzaburō Ōe
Ban Gu
Huangfu Mi
Li Bai
Su Wu
Qu Yuan
Cai Yan
Ruan Ji
Xu Shen
Lady Su Hui
Xie Lingyun
Tao Yuanming
Zhang Ruoxu
He Zhizhang
Zhang Xu
Luo Guanzhong
Li Shangyin
Shi Nai'an
Meng Jiao
Li He
Han Yu
Bai Juyi
Wang Wei
Yuan Zhen
Han Shan
Shide
Fenggan
Su Shi
Li Qingzhao
Xin Qiji
Mei Yaochen
Lu You
Wang Shifu
Guan Hanqing
Guan Daosheng
Gao Ming
Huang E
Wu Cheng'en
Shen Fu
Meng Haoran
Tu Fu
Bai Renfu
Hong Sheng [Author of The Palace of Eternal Life]
Liu Bowen
Feng Menglong
Kim Man-jung
Zhang Yingyu
Ji Yun
Yuan Mei
Tang Xianzu
Kong Shangren
Li Liweng
Pu Songling
Wu Jingzi
Cao Xueqin
Li Ruzhen
Lin Huiyin
Xiao Hong
Qiu Jin
Hong Shen
Gu Jiegang
Feng Youlan
Guo Moruo
Lu Xun
Lao She
Lin Yutang
Xu Zhimo
Zhu Ziqing
Yu Dafu
Cao Yu
Hong Ying
Ling Shuhua
Wu-chi Liu
C. T. Hsia
D. C. Lau
Cixin Liu
Writers from the superb island called United Kingdom (English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish and a other few from the Commonwealth)
Alcuin of York
Aldhelm
Geoffrey de Monmouth
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gawain Poet
William Langland
John Gower
Thomas Walsingham
Thomas Malory
John Webster
John Donne
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
John Lyly
Christopher Marlowe
John Marston
John Skelton
Thomas Kyd
Gabriel Harvey
Thomas Nashe
Thomas Middleton
William Rowley
Cyril Tourneur
Henry Constable
Raphael Holinshed
Richard Lovelace
Francis Pretty
George Sandys
John Denham
James Harrington
William Drummond of Hawthornden
Thomas Dekker [The Elizabethan dramatist]
John Ford [Another dramatist, not the famous american film director]
Roger Ascham
Walter Raleigh
Giovanni Florio
Fulke Greville
Thomas Otway
Thomas Wyatt
Robert Herrick
Henry Howard
George Chapman
George Pettie
Robert Greene
Philip Sidney
Samuel Daniel
Richard Crashaw
William Dunbar
Walter Raleigh
Izaak Walton
John Bunyan
John Leyland
John Bagford
Thomas Fuller
Lucy Hutchinson
Samuel Butler [The poet]
Thomas Browne
John Aubrey
Michael Drayton
Thomas Carew
Henry Fielding
Edmund Spenser
Thomas Campion
Francis Beaumont
John Fletcher
Joseph Hall
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Philip Massinger
John Barclay
John Harington
Andrew Marvell
John Wilmot
Christopher Smart
Thomas Traherne
Tobias Smollett
Jeremy Taylor
Abraham Cowley
George Herbert
George Etherege
Margaret Cavendish
Aphra Behn
George Farquhar
Samuel Garth
Joseph Addison
John Milton
John Dryden
John Philips
Joseph Spence
Alexander Pope
Colley Cibber
Daniel Defoe
Eliza Haywood
Nicholas Rowe
Thomas Parnell
Thomas Bewick
Lewis Theobald
Richard Blackmore
Richard Owen Cambridge
William Warburton
Joseph Warton
John Evelyn
John Gay
Henry Vaughan
William Congreve
Matthew Prior
John Cleland
Samuel Rogers
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jonathan Swift
John Arbuthnot
Laurence Sterne
David Mallet [Writer - 1705-1765]
James Thomson [The poet]
James Bramston
William Shenstone
William Dampier
William Penn
Samuel Richardson
William Cowper
William Hayley
William Wycherley
Samuel Pepys
Frances Burney
Oliver Goldsmith
James Cook
Charles Lamb
William Hamilton Reid
James Macpherson
William Collins
Thomas de Quincey
Thomas Gray
Thomas Campbell
James Boswell
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
George Douglas Brown
George Borrow
Robert Morrison
Horace Walpole
William Hazlitt
Samuel Johnson
Leigh Hunt
Thomas Hood
David Garrick
Robert Fergusson
Robert Burns
Robert Southey
Arthur Young
James Froude
Alexander William Kinglake
John Gibson Lockhart
Charles Maturin
Walter Savage Landor
Arthur Hugh Clough
Thomas Love Peacock
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
William Thomas Beckford
John Morley
Rev Robert Blair
William Cobbett
Walter Scott
Lord Byron
William Blake
William Godwin
John Clare
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
James Redding Ware
Matthew Arnold
Leslie Stephen
Coventry Patmore
Robert Browning
Thomas Moore
Algernon Charles Swinburne
James Silk Buckingham
William Aldis Wright
William George Clark
Edward FitzGerald
John Galt
James Hogg
Samuel Butler
Ann Radcliffe
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Jane Austen
Lady Florence Dixie
Margaret Harkness
Mary Brunton
May Sinclair
Maria Edgeworth
Mona Caird
Elizabeth Gaskell
Dorothy Wordsworth
George Eliot
Mary Webb
P. B. Shelley
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft
Stella Gibbons
John Keats
William Michael Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Olivia Rossetti Agresti
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Charles Lever
William Carleton
Edward Walsh [The poet]
Padraic Colum
James Stephens
James Fintan Lalor
John Mitchel
Horatio Smith
Arthur Machen
Freeman Wills Crofts
George Crabbe
James Hinton
Walter Bagehot
Frederic Myers
Sydney Dobell
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Philip James Bailey
Thomas Henry Kendall
Robert Seymour Bridges
George MacDonald
Arnold Bennett
George Moore
Sheridan Le Fanu
Edward Lear
George Darley
James Legge
William Allingham
E. C. Bentley
J. M. Synge
W. B. Yeats
D. H. Lawrence
G. B. Shaw
E. M. Forster
J. M. Barrie
T. H. White
A. W. Verrall
F. D. Maurice
J. W. Mackail
L. A. G. Strong
Gerald James Whitrow
Lewis Carroll [Alice in Wonderland]
Gilbert Cannan
Thomas Hardy
William Thackeray
John Ruskin
Oscar Wilde
Edwin Arnold
Arthur Cravan
Patrick Pearse
Gilbert Murray
Reverend Canon John Gray
John Hanning Speke
James Augustus Grant
Edward William Lane
Frederick Burnaby
James Sibree
Gerald Massey
George Griffith
Edward R. Pease
Augusta Gregory
James Hain Friswell
John George Wood
Anthony Trollope
Charles Mackay
Alfred Tennyson
Thomas Davidson
William Morris
Joseph Conrad
Wilkie Collins
Rudyard Kipling
George Gissing
Marie Louise de la Ramée
Edith Wharton
Ethel Voynich
Virginia Woolf
Janet Malcolm
George Egerton
Katherine Mansfield
Elizabeth Smart
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Jean Rhys
Amy Levy
Frances Cornford
Dorothy L. Sayers
Judith Wright
Miles Franklin
Edith Nesbit
Violet Jacob
Angelica Garnett
Amanda McKittrick Ros
Edith Sitwell
Helen Waddell
Beatrix Potter
Nancy Mitford
Stevie Smith
Christina Stead
Rebecca West
Mary Renault
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Charles Dickens
Ford Madox Ford
F. S. Flint
A. P. Herbert
Wallace Gould
David Lindsay
Richard Francis Burton
Robert Louis Stevenson
John Addington Symonds
Henry Austin Dobson
Gerard Manley Hopkins
W. E. Henley
George Meredith
Joseph Jacobs
Julian Bell
William Roughead
Francis Thompson
John Davidson [The scottish poet]
Arthur Conan Doyle [Sherlock Holmes]
Kenneth Vennor Morris
George William Russell [Also a painter]
Norman Angell
Arthur Symons
Ronald Firbank
W. T. Stead
W. N. P. Barbellion
J. W. N. Sullivan
H. H. Munro
F. M. Cornford
R. C. Trevelyan
Max Plowman
Jack Common
Alfred Richard Orage
Arthur Clutton-Brock
Sisley Huddleston
Holbrook Jackson
Herbert Giles
Lafcadio Hearn
Arthur Waley
Lytton Strachey
Michael Banim
John Banim
Charles Kickham
R. B. Cunninghame Graham
Algernon Blackwood
Lord Dunsany
W. H. Hudson
Lionel Johnson
Maurice Hewlett
A. E. Housman
Ernest Dowson
Walter Besant
Robert Graves
Richard Jefferies
Bram Stoker
John Boyle O’Reilly
H. Rider Haggard
Pádraic Ó Conaire
Peadar O'Donnell
Flann O'Brien
Liam O'Flaherty
Frank O'Connor
Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Seosamh Mac Grianna
Osbert Sitwell
M. R. James
W. S. Gilbert
T. L. Heath
T. E. Hulme
H. W. Fowler
Samuel Henry Butcher
John Middleton Murry
Jerome Klapka Jerome
Erich Heller
Hall Caine
Clive Bell
Roger Fry
Michael Arlen
John Galsworthy
John Alexander Hammerton
Richard Broxton Onians
Gerald Basil Edwards
William Harrison Ainsworth
John Drinkwater
Gordon Bottomley
John Masefield
Maurice Baring
Richard Aldington
Lascelles Abercrombie
Siegfried Sassoon
Edmund Blunden
Geoffrey Dearmer
Mabel Dearmer
Ivor Gurney
Rupert Brooke
Alan Seeger
F. W. Harvey
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Thomas Sturge Moore
Philip Edward Thomas
Alun Lewis
Geoffrey Keynes
Wilfred Owen
John McCrae
Isaac Rosenberg
John Rodker
Joseph Leftwich
Stephen Winsten
Christopher Cornford
Adam Cornford
John Cornford
W. G. Palgrave
T. E. Lawrence
G. K. Chesterton
C. S. Lewis
H. G. Wells
E. R. Eddison
J. C. Squire
Hilaire Belloc
William McGonagall
Annie Winifred Ellerman
Charles Dealtry Locock
John Cowper Powys
Herbert Read
Edwin Abbott Abbott [Flatland]
W. Somerset Maugham
George Granville Barker
Malcolm Lowry
Edmund Gosse
George Grossmith
Max Beerbohm
W. C. Fields
W. H. Davies
Walter de la Mare
John Masefield
Alfred Noyes
Kenneth Grahame [The Wind in the Willows]
A. A. Milne [Winnie the Pooh]
Dodie Smith [101 Dalmatians]
J. R. R. Tolkien [The Hobbit]
P. G. Wodehouse
Robert Byron
Stephen Potter
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Goudge
Richard Adams
Frank Budgen
James Joyce
Stanislaus Joyce
Francis Hackett
Seán O'Casey
James Hilton
Thomas Bracken
Thomas MacGreevy
William Kirkpatrick Magee
Benjamin Disraeli
Charles Williams
John Buchan
W. W. Jacobs
M. P. Shiel
Ralph Chubb
Samuel Beckett
Seamus Heaney
Paul Muldoon
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Gerald Brenan
Keith Douglas
Ethel Mannin
Anthony Powell
Martin Seymour-Smith
James Reeves
Geoffrey Grigson
C. H. Sisson
J. G. Ballard
J. G. Farrell
Graham Greene
Eric Ambler
John le Carré
J. I. M. Stewart
Norman Douglas
Edwin Muir
Willa Muir
Hugh MacDiarmid
Philip Larkin
Roy Fuller
David Jones
David Gascoyne
Michael Horovitz
Basil Bunting
Richard Caddel
Tom Pickard
Hamish Henderson
Henry Treece
Dannie Abse
Sir Henry Taylor
Henry Williamson
Wyndham Lewis
Gavin Ewart
Wilfred Thesiger
Evelyn Waugh
Malcolm Muggeridge
F. T. Prince
C. P. Snow
Dylan Thomas
John Malcolm Brinnin
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu
Kodwo Eshun
Andrew Crozier
Nicholas Moore
Gavin Maxwell
Brendan Behan
Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick O'Brian
John Osborne
Cyril Connolly
Colin Wilson
Bill Hopkins
Kenneth Tynan
Elizabeth Jennings
Agatha Christie
Georgette Heyer
Daphne du Maurier
Kathleen Raine
Iris Murdoch
Mary Midgley
Philippa Foot
Brigid Brophy
John Braine
Donald Davie
Kingsley Amis
Anthony Burgess
William Golding
Philip Larkin
Roland McHugh
Andrew William Gibson
Peter Francis Mackey
David Greenham
Thomas Jackson Rice
Michael Ferber
Marsha Keith Schuchard
Charles Radcliffe
Alexander Trocchi
Christopher Logue
Irwin Peter Russell
Ted Hughes
Peter Redgrove
Heathcote Williams
Cecil Day-Lewis
Louis MacNeice
Stephen Spender
Henry Green
John Arden
Nigel Dennis
Michael Dibdin
L. P. Hartley
R. S. Thomas
Tom Stoppard
Kenneth McLeish
V. S. Pritchett
Laurie Lee
Barbara Pym
Margaret Atwood
Angela Carter
Clare Boothe Luce
Marion Woodman
Mary Low
Catherine Aird
Joe Orton
Edna O'Brien
Thomas Kinsella
Wilson Harris
John Montague
John Frederick Norman Lewis
Michael Bullock
Frederick Turner [The poet]
Wolf Mankowitz
Patrick White
Enoch Powell
William Trevor
Lawrence Durrell
Peter Watkins
Peter Cook
Peter Ackroyd
David John Lodge
Noël Coward
Michael Frayn
Alistair Cooke
Alan Bennett
John Prebble
Ian Fleming
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Arthur C. Clarke [“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”]
Christopher Priest
Brian Aldiss
E. C. Tubb
J. H. Prynne
James Moffat
James Hamilton-Paterson
John Brunner
Alan Moore
Antony Jay
Alfred Hitchcock [Not a writer, but, buut.. can’t afford losing him, as I said you gonna find the important filmmakers in between, “nas entrelinhas”]
Peter Swales
Benjamin Woolley
Edward Bond
Stuart Gilbert
Geoffrey Hill
Vidiadhar Naipaul
Richard Rutt
Neil Gaiman
Martin Amis
Philip Pullman
Iain Sinclair
Keith Johnstone
Harold Pinter
Alexander Baron
Brian Catling
Brian Eno
China Miéville
Chris Petit
Doris Lessing
Douglas Dunlop Oliver
Farley Mowat
John Fowles
John Muckle
Robin Waterfield
Stewart Home
Madeleine Bunting
Quentin S. Crisp
Lars Iyer (“if we are to become more than livestock managed by technical means and conditioning tactics and escape the global control system that we’re building with our compliance… We need allies in these unusually terrible times”…)
Will Self
Literary Critics
Andrew Lang
George Saintsbury
Gustave Lanson
Walter Pater
Henry James
James Huneker
Irving Babbitt
Philip Wicksteed
Georg Brandes
Renato Poggioli
William Empson
Erich Auerbach
Leo Spitzer
Dámaso Alonso
Ernst Robert Curtius
Mario Praz
Hendrik Wagenvoort
Lionel Trilling
Philip Rahv
Leslie Fiedler
Edmund Wilson
Charles J. Lumsden
Richard Wilbur
John Bayley
Eugenio D'Ors
R. H. Blyth
William Theodore de Bary
Arthur Stuart Ahluwalia Stronge Gilbert
F. R. Leavis
C. M. Bowra
I. A. Richards
E. M. W. Tillyard
William York Tindall
William K. Wimsatt
Richard D. Altick
Van Wyck Brooks
Monroe Beardsley
Montgomery Schuyler
Enid Welsford
Frank Kermode
Richard Ellmann
Robert Scholes
G. Wilson Knight
Stanley Edgar Hyman
David V. Erdman
Karl Beckson
Harry Levin
Northrop Frye
Roger Shattuck
M. C. Bradbrook
Roy Harvey Pearce
Harold Bloom
George Steiner
Wayne Booth
Richard Gilman
Susan Sontag
Marina Warner
Richard Poirier
Sven Birkerts
Cleanth Brooks
Geoffrey Hartman
Roland Barthes
Jean-Pierre Richard
Sylvère Lotringer
Simon Leys
Hugh Kenner
Paul de Man
William V. Spanos
Umberto Eco
Franco Moretti
Molly Mahood
Sander Gilman
Jack David Zipes
~The end~
II - Now the painters, beginning with pre-renaissance, renaissance, baroque and classic artists.
Agnolo Gaddi
Alesso Baldovinetti
Cennino Cennini
Cimabue
Duccio
Giotto di Bondone
Masaccio
Michelangelo
Rafael Sanzio
Andrea del Sarto
Leonardo da Vinci
Tintoretto
Tiepolo
Titianus
Giorgione
Domenico Veneziano
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio
Giovanni Bellini
Gentile Bellini
Sofonisba Anguissola
Artemisia Gentileschi
Andrea Mantegna
Palma Vecchio
Palma il Giovane
Parmigianino
Sebastiano del Piombo
Sandro Botticelli [VENUS…]
Filippo Lippi
Piero di Cosimo
Piero della Francesca
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Antonio da Correggio
Caravaggio
Domenichino
Daniele da Volterra
Santi di Tito
Jacopo Bassano
Guercino
Aniello Falcone
Andrei Rublev
Matthias Grünewald
Hans Baldung
Albrecht Dürer
Hans Hoffmann [1530-1591, not the modern one]
Hieronymus Bosch
Hans Holbein
Jan Gossaert
Pieter Aertsen
Pieter Bruegel
Hans Memling
Peter Paul Rubens
Jacob Willemszoon de Wet
Jan van Eyck
Antoon van Dyck
Jan van Goyen
Jan van Bijlert
Jan van Cleve (III)
Govert Flinck
Jan Steen
Gerrit Dou
Reyer van Blommendael
Cornelis Engebrechtsz
Jan Davidszoon de Heem
Otto van Veenc
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter van Laer
Hendrik Goltzius
Gabriël Metsu
Aelbert Cuyp
Jan Both
Gerard van Honthorst
Abraham Bloemaert
Hendrick ter Brugghen
Clara Peeters
Judith Leyster
Rachel Ruysch
Frans Post
Frans Hals
Jacopo de' Barbari
Albert Eckhout
Lucas van Valckenborch
Jan Miense Molenaer
Lucas van Leyden
Johannes Vermeer
Albrecht Altdorfer
Lucas Cranach
Meindert Hobbema
Salomon van Ruysdael
Jan van Kessel
Giuseppe Cesari
Pierre Mignard
Noël Coypel
Antoine Coypel
Jacob Jordaens
Leonaert Bramer
Rembrandt
El Greco
Francesco Solimena
Diego Velázquez
Antônio de Pereda y Salgado
Jusepe de Ribera
Juan de Valdés Leal
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Francisco de Zurbarán
Annibale Carracci
Marcantonio Franceschini
Guido Reni
Cecco Bravo
Giovanni Lanfranco
Charles Mellin
Claude Vignon
Paolo Veronese
Georges de La Tour
Salvator Rosa
Philippe de Champaigne
Giovanni Antonio Canal
Mariano Salvador Maella
Eustache Le Sueur
Sébastien Bourdon
David Teniers
Charles Le Brun
Claude Lorrain
Gaspard Dughet
Nicolas Poussin
Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy [A writer as well]
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Antoine Watteau
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Louis Galloche
François Boucher
Louis de Boullogne
Charles-Joseph Natoire
François Lemoyne
Madame Le Brun
Anna Maria van Schurman
Pietro Longhi
Luigi Mayer
Francesco Guardi
Johann Moritz Rugendas
Jean-Baptiste Debret
Francisco de Goya [El sueño de la razón produce monstruos]
Nikolai Abraham Abildgaard
18-20th Century: French, Scandinavians, Germans, Austrians, Low Countries, Italians and more
Jacques-Louis David
Eugène Delacroix
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Étienne Moreau-Nélaton
Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier
Achille Etna Michallon
Charles-François Daubigny
Alfred Philippe Roll
Anne-Louis Girodet
Jean-Baptiste Bertrand
Jean-Claude Bonnefond
Hubert Robert
Horace Vernet
Jules Dupré
Eugène Boudin
Ernest Meissonier
Alfred Smith [The painter not the politician]
Ary Scheffer
Pierre Emmanuel Damoye
François-Léon Benouville
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Louis Emile Adan
Paul A. de La Boulaye
Léopold François Kowalsky
Antoine Wiertz
Stanislas Lépine
Léon Bonnat
Angelika Kauffmann
Rosa Bonheur
Joséphine Bowes
Thomas Couture
Théodore Géricault
Alexandre Cabanel
Alfred Guillou
Fernand Cormon
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Léon Cogniet
Tony Robert-Fleury
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret
George Desvallières
Jean-François Millet
Hugues Merle
Jules Bastien-Lepage
Alexandre Antigna
Adolphe Monticelli
Jean-François Raffaëlli
Pierre Édouard Frère
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Camille Pissarro
Lucien Pissarro
Paul Cézanne
Claude Monet
Paul Signac
Henri-Edmond Cross
Jean Charles Cazin
Charles Angrand
Édouard Manet
Eugène Manet
Anna Boch
Mary Cassatt
Berthe Morisot
Eva Gonzalès
Gaston La Touche
Charles Kuwasseg
Théophile Deyrolle
Marie Bracquemond
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Jean-François Portaels
Joseph Noël Sylvestre
Maximilien Luce
François Flameng
James Tissot
Lucien Simon
André Devambez
Eugène Boch
Eugène Trigoulet
Émile Bernard
Edgar Degas
Frédéric Soulacroix
Luigi Loir
Henri Fantin-Latour
Henry Caro-Delvaille
Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic
Édouard Frédéric Wilhelm Richter
Francis Tattegrain
Marie Cazin
Luc Olivier Mersons
Henri-Jean-Guillaume Martin
Ernest Laurent
Lionel Royer
Léon Benett
Alfred Sisley
Frédéric Bazille
Édouard Vuillard
Pierre Bonnard
Paul Sérusier
Maurice Denis
Henri Regnault
Charles Gleyre
Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Moreau
Georges Seurat
Gustave Doré
Rodolphe Bresdin
Jean-Paul Laurens
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer
Henri Rouart
Ernest Rouart
Edouard Leon Cortes
Delphin Enjolras
Nicolas Sicard
Paul Merwart
Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Maurice Utrillo
Miguel Utrillo
André Derain
Victor Tardieu
Élisabeth Chaplin
Sonia Delaunay
Raoul Dufy
Louis Apol
Jan Altink
August Allebé
Lizzy Ansingh
August Friedrich Schenck [Anguish, contemplate this painting while listening to Edvard Grieg‘s Death of Ase…]
Frederik Ludvig Storch
Harriet Backer
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Peder Severin Krøyer
Johan Christian Dahl
Carl Larsson
Peder Monsted
Frans Masereel
Lynd Ward
Otto Nückel
Lajos Vajda
Jonas Lie [Not the writer]
Albert Edelfelt
Anna Ancher
Carl Locher
Christian Krohg
Ellen Thesleff
Hugo Simberg
Magnus Enckell
Michael Ancher
Laurits Tuxen
Viggo Johansen
Verner Thomé
Frits Thaulow
Theodor Kittelsen
Kay Nielsen
Gunnar Berndtson
August Malmström
Arild Rosenkrantz
Gerda Wegener
Claude-Joseph Vernet
Philip James de Loutherbourg
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Johann Christian Reinhart
Joseph Anton Koch
Caspar David Friedrich [Wanderer above the Sea of Fog…]
Carl Gustav Carus
Caspar Wolf
Andreas Achenbach
Anselm Feuerbach
Friedrich Heyser
Carl Spitzweg [The Bookworm…]
Karl von Piloty
Adolph Menzel
Franz von Stuck
Franz Krüger
Ernst Ferdinand Oehme
Erich Heckel
Otto Mueller
Emil Nolde
Ludwig Knaus
Max Pechstein
Max Beckmann
Fritz Bleyl
Otto Dix
Hans Grundig
August Macke
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Theodor Hildebrandt
Heinrich Hofmann
Ludwig von Hofmann
Wilhelm Gause
Rudolf von Alt
Friedrich Loos
Anton Zwengauer
Max Liebermann
Carl Seibels
Richard Friese
Albin Egger Lienz
Franz Defregger
Johann Baptist Reiter
Josef Danhauser
Ferdinand Keller
Peter Fendi
Carl Moll
Adolf Schreyer
Koloman Moser
Carl Gustav Rodde
Paula Modersohn Becker
Lovis Corinth
Max Slevogt
Lesser Ury
Hans Zatzka
Albert Bierstadt
Marie Egner
Gabriele Maria Deininger-Arnhard
Gabriele Münter
Évariste Carpentier
Emile Claus
Evrard Larock
Fernand Khnopff
Jozef Israëls
James Ensor
Meijer de Haan
Léon Spilliaert
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
M. C. Escher
Max Peiffer Watenphul
Ferdinand Hodler
Konrad Grob
Albert Anker
Felix Edouard Vallotton
Arnold Böcklin
Francesco Hayez [The Kiss]
Eugene de Blaas
Giovanni Fattori
Giuseppe Abbati
Gaetano Previati
Telemaco Signorini
Silvestro Lega
Vincenzo Cabianca
Cristiano Banti
Odoardo Borrani
Serafino De Tivoli
Adriano Cecioni
Stefano Ussi
Filippo Palizzi
Domenico Morelli
Ippolito Caffi
Achille Funi
Ernesto Bertea
Gabriele Brunati
Eugenio Zampighi
Emanuel Krescenc Liška
Samuel Hirszenberg [Excommunicated Spinoza, Portrait of Maria Feldman]
Adolf Behrman
Alfred Kowalski
Henryk Siemiradzki
Jan Matejko [None less than Stańczyk, author of]
Max Švabinský
Wilhelm Kotarbiński
Witold Pruszkowski
Władysław T. Benda
Władysław Czachórski
Aleksandr Deyneka
Georgy Nissky
Gyula Tornai
János Valentiny
Ravi Varma
Abanindranath Tagore
Gaganendranath Tagore
Nandalal Bose
Jamini Roy
Amrita Sher-Gil
Ba Nyan
Ba Kyi
Aung Soe
Edward Tingatinga
Charles Verlat
Johann Heinrich Füssli [The Nightmare]
Vincent Van Gogh
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Paul Gauguin
Edvard Munch
Henri Rousseau
Ion Theodorescu-Sion
Nicolae Grigorescu
Nicolae Vermont
Ștefan Luchian
Camil Ressu
Ioan Andreescu
M. H. Maxy
Martiros Saryan
Nicolae Tonitza
Marià Fortuny i Marsal
José Garnelo y Alda
Francesc Miralles i Galaup
Ramón Martí i Alsina
Francisco Pradilla Ortiz
José García Ramos
Ignacio Pinazo
Ignacio Zuloaga
Manuel Castellano
Nicolau Raurich
Santiago Rusiñol
Joaquín Sorolla
Enric Serra Auqué
José Jiménez Aranda
Eugenio Lucas Velázquez
Rafael Senet Pérez
Veloso Salgado
Eugenio Alvarez Dumont
Julio Romero de Torres
Rafael Romero Barros
Alfredo Roque Gameiro
Antonio López García
Josef Váchal
Jozef Czapski
Marceli Harasimowicz
Bolesław Biegas
László Mednyánszky
Władysław Łuszczkiewicz
Zygmunt Andrychiewicz
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
Władysław Ślewiński
Józef Mehoffer
Wojciech Weiss
Edward Okuń
Đorđe Krstić
Lajos Gulácsy
Paja Jovanović
Uroš Predić
Károly Ferenczy
Simon Hollósy
Käthe Kollwitz
Kazimierz Dąbrowski
Félicien Rops
Jean Delville
Alphonse Mucha
Jan Frans De Boever
Alfred Kubin
Odilon Redon
Max Klinger
George Grosz
Alfred Rethel
John Bauer
Alfred Stevens
Thomas John Thomson
Emily Carr
Maud Lewis
Jean-Paul Riopelle
Britons
William Hogarth
Joshua Reynolds
Joseph Wright of Derby
George Morland
John Constable
Thomas Gainsborough
William Mulready
William Etty
George Stubbs
Edwin Landseer
John Hamilton Mortimer
John Sell Cotman
Frederic Leighton
William Wyld
Abraham Pether
Henry Pether
Sebastian Pether
Herbert James Draper
Samuel Palmer
Edward Calvert
Francis Danby
John Martin [The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah]
Richard Parkes Bonington
Thomas Sidney Cooper
Charles Napier Hemy
Richard Dadd
J. M. W. Turner
David Roberts
Charles de Lacy
John Atkinson Grimshaw
John Collier
Walter Crane
George Elgar Hicks
William Powell Frith
John Singer Sargent [Gassed]
George Frederic Watts
Phoebe Anna Traquair
Thomas Edwin Mostyn
Arthur Hacker
Evelyn De Morgan
Edward Burne-Jones
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
John Everett Millais
William Holman Hunt
Frederick Sandys
James Collinson
John William Waterhouse
Arthur John Elsley
Edmund Leighton
Edwin Longsden Long
Edward John Poynter
John William Godward
Matthew Ridley Corbet
Stanhope Forbes
Walter Langley
Frank Bramley
Frank Dicksee
Norman Garstin
William Orpen
Alfred Munnings
Laura Knight
Stanley Spencer
C. R. W. Nevinson
Dora Carrington
Thomas Cooper Gotch
Elizabeth Adela Forbes
Henry Scott Tuke
Thomas Benjamin Kennington
Augustus Edwin Mulready
Annie Louisa Swynnerton
William Logsdail
Helen Allingham
Vanessa Bell
Richard Doyle
Frank C. Papé
James Gillray
Pamela Colman Smith
Duncan Grant
Mark Gertler
Marcus Stone
Russell Flint
David Foggie
Roderic O'Conor
George Edmund Butler
Frederick William Elwell
Charles Ricketts
Aubrey Beardsley
Walter Sickert
John Christopher Wood
Augustus John
John Duncan
Eric Ravilious
Alex Colville
David Bomberg
Hannah Gluckstein
Stanley William Hayter
Timothy Easton
David Hockney
Americans
Benjamin West
Thomas Cole [The Course of Empire - Destruction, the pic everyone uses to talk about collapse]
Alvan Fisher
Samuel Colman
Louis Rémy Mignot
Frederic Edwin Church
Charles Willson Peale
Titian Ramsay Peale
Raphaelle Peale
Winslow Homer
George Inness
George Catlin
John Quidor
Charles Marion Russell
James McNeill Whistler
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Ralph Albert Blakelock
Edward Mitchell Bannister
Robert Frederick Blum
Leon Dabo
Alfred Boisseau
J. Alden Weir
Carl Rungius
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
Daniel Ridgway Knight
John Henry Twachtman
Henry Ward Ranger
Childe Hassam
Edward Steichen
Thomas Eakins
Elihu Vedder
Maurice Prendergast
William Glackens
William Merritt Chase
Robert Henri
George Luks
Guy Pène Du Bois
Marsden Hartley
Charles Sheeler
John Sloan
Leon Kroll
Emil Armin
George Bellows
Charles Allan Gilbert [All is vanity]
Alonzo Myron Kimball
Julius LeBlanc Stewart
Morris Graves
Mark Tobey
Kenneth Callahan
Grant Wood
Homer Dean Boss
Hilaire Hiler
Rudolph Weisenborn
Maxfield Parrish
Charles Demuth
Joseph Stella
Archibald Motley
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Tom Lea
Norman Rockwell
John Steuart Curry
Arthur Dove
Byron Randall
Hyman Bloom
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Ivan Albright
Romaine Brooks
Dorothea Tanning
Georgia O'Keeffe
Edith Hamlin
Suzi Gablik
Alice Neel
Florine Stettheimer
Maynard Dixon
Edward Hopper
Andrew Wyeth
Bill Traylor
Russians
Ilya Repin
Ivan Kramskoy [Christ in the Desert]
Viktor Vasnetsov
Vasily Polenov
Vasily Perov
Pavel Fedotov
Semyon Shchedrin
Sylvester Shchedrin
Ivan Aivazovsky
Arkhip Kuindzhi
Vladimir Makovsky
Konstantin Makovsky
Grigoriy Myasoyedov
Nikolai Yaroshenko
Andrei Ryabushkin
Illarion Pryanishnikov
Ivan Shishkin
Konstantin Savitsky
Isaac Levitan
Nikolay Kuznetsov
Yefim Volkov
Nikolai Ge
Alexei Harlamoff
Karl Bryullov
Alexei Savrasov
Maksim Vorobyov
Valentin Serov
Alexey Bogolyubov
Vassily Maximov
Vasily Surikov
Mikhail Nesterov
Apollinary Vasnetsov
Vasily Vereshchagin
Emily Shanks
Jan Chrucki
Vardges Sureniants
Aleksandr Benois
Marie Bashkirtseff
Zinaida Serebriakova
Mikhail Vrubel
Leon Bakst
Ivan Bilibin
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Konstantin Yuon
Konstantin Bogayevsky
Nicholas Roerich
Svetoslav Roerich
Leonid Pasternak
Nicholas Kalmakoff [Russian Blake?]
Mikhail Larionov
Olga Rozanova
Marie Vorobieff
Natalia Goncharova
Marianne von Werefkin
Greeks
Andreas Pavias
Leos Moskos
Elias Moskos
Ioannis Moskos
Ioannis Permeniates
Michael Damaskinos
Georgios Nomikos
Georgios Markou
Theodore Poulakis
Georgios Kastrofylakas
Emmanuel Tzanes
Georgios Klontzas
Nikiforos Lytras
Nikolaos Himonas
Angelos Giallinas
Konstantinos Volanakis
Ioannis Altamouras
Thalia Flora-Karavia
Michalis Oikonomou
Konstantinos Maleas
Demetrios Galanis
Georgios Jakobides
Brazilians
Victor Meirelles
Pedro Américo
Almeida Júnior [Saudade]
Eliseu Visconti
Rodolfo Amoedo [Marabá]
Félix Émile Taunay
José Maria de Medeiros
Emmanuel Zamor
Antônio Parreiras
Pedro Weingärtner
Belmiro de Almeida
Georg Grimm
Antonio Rocco
Anita Malfatti
Tarsila do Amaral
Vicente do Rego Monteiro
Di Cavalcanti
Candido Portinari
Geraldo de Barros [Grupo Ruptura - 1952. não irei colocar todos..]
Australians
Arthur Streeton
George Washington Lambert
Max Meldrum
Tom Roberts
Frederick McCubbin
Charles Conder
Penleigh Boyd
Russell Drysdale
Orientals
Wang Wei
Ni Zan
Dai Jin
Mengfu Zhao
Hsia Kuei
Wang Meng
Wang Hui
Qiu Ying
Shen Zhou
Xu Wei
Shitao
Sesshu
Bada Shanren
Eitoku Kanō
Sanraku Kanō
Utagawa Yoshiiku
Hiroshige [The Great Wave off Kanagawa]
Totoya Hokkei
Katsushika Hokusai
Kitagawa Utamaro
Utagawa Kuniyoshi [Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre]
Utagawa Kunisada
Utagawa Toyohiro
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Shunsō Hishida
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Uemura Shōen
Kanō Hōgai
Hashimoto Gahō
Taikan Yokoyama
Takahashi Yūichi
Chū Asai
Kanzan Shimomura
Nakahara Nantenbō
Ohara Koson
Qi Baishi
Hasui Kawase
Hiroshi Yoshida
Chang Dai-chien
Lê Thị Lựu
Zao Wou-Ki
Moderns, ‘modern’ as a broad definition, because those here are radically different from each other. A better word: avant-garde.
Paul Klee [Angelus Novus]
Gustav Klimt
Adolf Hölzel
Egon Schiele
Franz Marc
Mikhail Larionov
Olga Rozanova
Kazimir Malevich
Piet Mondrian
Wassily Kandinsky
Arthur Segal
Alexej von Jawlensky
El Lissitzky
Mikhail Matyushin
Vladimir Tatlin
László Moholy-Nagy
György Kepes
Josef Albers
Joost Schmidt
Varvara Stepanova
Theo van Doesburg
Georges Vantongerloo
Oskar Schlemmer
Willi Baumeister
Lyonel Feininger
René Magritte
Ben Nicholson
Lucian Freud
Max Ernst
Hans Arp
John Heartfield [“A German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon”]
Wolfgang Paalen
Serge Brignoni
Auguste Herbin
Johannes Baader
Raoul Hausmann
Hannah Höch
Giorgio de Chirico
Marcel Janco
Yves Tanguy
Joan Miró
Paul Delvaux
Salvador Dalí
Marcel Duchamp
Amédée Ozenfant
Ithell Colquhoun
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Antonio Saura
Francis Picabia
Pablo Picasso
Marie Čermínová
Robert Delaunay
Victor Brauner
František Kupka
Jindřich Štyrský
Zdzisław Beksiński
János Mattis-Teutsch
Juan Gris
Remedios Varo
Olga Sacharoff
Leonora Carrington
Leonor Fini
Stanislao Lepri
Kay Sage
Albert Gleizes
Jean Metzinger
Ramses Younan
Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio
Karel Appel
Asger Jorn
Jacqueline de Jong
Gil J Wolman
Gino Severini
Giacomo Balla
Umberto Boccioni
Enrico Prampolini
Fortunato Depero
Carlo Carrà
Gerardo Dottori
Luigi Russolo
Henri Matisse
Georges Braque
Jean Dubuffet
Pierre Alechinsky
André Masson
Fernand Léger
Marc Chagall
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Edward Wadsworth
Nicolas de Staël
Oskar Kokoschka
Aleksandra Ekster
Oleksandr. Bohomazov
Georges Rouault
Chaïm Soutine
Pierre Tal-Coat
Ben Shahn
Jack Levine
Wolf Kibel
Amedeo Modigliani
Alberto Giacometti
Joseph Beuys
Andy Warhol
Allan Kaprow
Robert Rauschenberg
Stanislav Szukalski
Jasper Johns
Jean Arp
Man Ray
Ray Johnson
David Hockney
Diego Rivera [El hombre controlador del universo]
José Orozco
Nemesio Antúnez
Mauricio Lasansky
Mark Rothko
Ernest Briggs
Jackson Pollock
Willem de Kooning
Robert Motherwell
Clyfford Still
Philip Guston
Franz Kline
Jacob Kramer
Adolph Gottlieb
Alexander Calder
Phillip Guston
Helen Frankenthaler
Hans Hofmann
Ad Reinhardt
J. C. Heywood
Agnes Martin
Brion Gysin
Sorel Etrog
Ernst Fuchs
Peter Kennard
Martha Rosler
Jenny Holzer
Marshall Soules
Banksy
Subsection of artistes; Sculptors (WIP - Work in Progress)
Donatello
Auguste Rodin
Camille Claudel8
Henry Moore
Constantin Brâncuși
Stanisław Szukalski
Naum Gabo
III - Composers
Beginning with baroque, then, classic, romantic and modern, altogether. Same principle goes to nationals below.
Adrian Willaert
Jacob Obrecht
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Orlando di Lasso
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Cristóbal de Morales
Karl Friedrich Abel
J. S. Bach
G. H. Händel
Heinrich Schütz
Claudio Monteverdi
Antonio Vivaldi
Arcangelo Corelli
Alessandro Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti
Muzio Clementi
Luigi Boccherini
Padre Antônio Soler
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Tomaso Albinoni
Dieterich Buxtehude
Georg Philipp Telemann
François Couperin
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Johann Pachelbel
François-Joseph Gossec
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Carl Loewe
Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Franz Schubert
Anton Diabelli
Johann Gottfried Piefke
Josef Franz Wagner
Friedrich Kuhlau
Robert Schumann
Clara Schumann
Carl Maria von Weber
Felix Mendelssohn
Johannes Brahms
Franz Liszt
Anton Bruckner
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Frédéric Chopin
Richard Strauss
Richard Wagner
Ignaz Lachner
Leon Jessel
Ludwig Minkus
Gustav Mahler
Arnold Schönberg
Alban Berg
Anton Webern
Carl Orff
Ernst Toch
Hugo Wolf
Frederick Stock
Kurt Weill
Arthur Benjamin
Carlos Gomes
Carlos Chávez
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Julián Carrillo
José Pablo Moncayo
Manuel M. Ponce
Silvestre Revueltas
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Václav Nelhýbel
Italians
Niccolò Paganini
Giuseppe Tartini
Antonio Salieri
Gioachino Rossini
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Franco Faccio
Giuseppe Verdi
Giacomo Puccini
Gaetano Donizetti
Ferruccio Busoni
Vittorio Monti
Ottorino Respighi
Russian and Soviet [Some here composed waltzes too, the russian waltzes are one of the most unique styles, very melancholic]
Alexandr Borodin
Mily Balakirev
Rimsky-Korsakov
Mikhail Glinka
César Cui
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Alexander Scriabin
Aleksandr Glazunov
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sergei Prokofiev
Igor Stravinsky
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Dmitri Shostakovich
Aram Khachaturian
Isaak Dunayevsky
Vasily Agapkin
Ilya Shatrov
Max Kyuss
Matvei Blanter
Isaak Tchernetsky
Alfred Schnittke
Edison Denisov
Georgy Sviridov
French
Guillaume Du Fay
Gilles Binchois
Josquin des Prez
Johannes Ockeghem
Antoine Busnois
Claudin de Sermisy
Clément Janequin
Félicien David
Daniel Auber
Jules Massenet
Charles Gounod
Ernest Chausson
Erik Satie
Hector Berlioz
Camille Saint-Saëns
Maurice Ravel
Claude Debussy
Gabriel Fauré
Léo Delibes
Georges Bizet
Jacques Offenbach
Émile Waldteufel
Henri Duparc
Olivier Métra
Emmanuel Chabrier
Francis Poulenc
Olivier Messiaen
Darius Milhaud
Edgar Varèse
Georges Auric
British and American
Henry Purcell
William Byrd
Thomas Tallis
John Dunstaple
Thomas Arne
William Boyce
John Stafford Smith
Edward Elgar
Hubert Parry
Arthur Sullivan
Frederick Delius
Peter Warlock
Vaughan Williams
Benjamin Britten
Gustav Holst
John Philip Sousa9
Edward MacDowell
William Walton
Leo Sowerby
Henry Cowell
John Alden Carpenter
Roger Sessions
Marc Blitzstein
Aaron Copland
Virgil Thomson
Samuel Barber
Leonard Bernstein
Charles Ives
Leon Kirchner
Duke Ellington
Glenn Miller
John Cage
Philip Glass
Eastern European and Scandinavian
František Kmoch
Béla Kéler
Julius Fučik
Mark Rozsavolgyi
Antonín Dvořák
Leoš Janáček
Bedřich Smetana
Josef Suk
Béla Bartók
Zoltán Kodály
Edvard Grieg
Jean Sibelius
Carl Nielsen
Hugo Alfvén
My favorite! Waltz and operetta composers. So unheard of! Literally.
Michael Pamer
Joseph Lanner
Johann Strauss I or Sr
Those three men above were the most important pioneers of the style, try to explore them. It’s beautiful because it has the mixture of classical, folk and the new, emerging-at-the-time romantic music, it’s unique.
What really puzzles me is why waltzes are so under appreciated nowadays? Nobody dances anymore? Everyone lost their passion?…
Strauss II surely is well known but only a few of his opuses are, which became cliched.
August Lanner
Johann Strauss II or Jr [the son was more famous and prolific than the father! Brahms a friend, envied him, and Mahler the cynical rascal used to remember him in his compositions]
Joseph Strauss
Eduard Strauss
Johann Strauss III
Carl Michael Ziehrer [wonderful composer, he was very famous at the time and a fierce opponent of the Strauss' brothers above, unfortunately who got the fame after were the Strauss’ brothers and Ziehrer was forgotten, but there’s a lot of his compositions out there, give it a try]
Ion Ivanovici
Julius Fučik [known as the czech John Philip Sousa, composed fantastic marches, one thing with the marches coming from Austria-Hungary is that they do not look like marches, they have the Landler/waltz style ingrained in them and Fucik excelled in it, he also composed some waltzes and humoresques]
Alphons Czibulka
Oskar Nedbal
Karel Komzák II
Karel Komzák III
Johann Schrammel
Franz von Suppé
Philipp Fahrbach Sr.
Joseph Hellmesberger Jr.
Joseph Gung’l
Joseph Labitzky
August Labitzky
Richard Geneé
Ivan Caryll
Émile Waldteufel
Juventino Rosas
Hans Christian Lumbye
Franz Lehár
Béla Kéler
Oscar Fetrás
Richard Eilenberg
Carl W. Drescher
Johann Nepomuk Kral
Léon Minkus
Franz von Blon
Carl Zeller
Oscar Straus
Paul Lincke
Robert Stolz
Siegfried Translateur
Emmerich Kálman
Leo Fall
Carl Millöcker
Edmund Eysler
Richard Heuberger
Rudolf Sieczynski
Josef Bayer
Nico Dostal
Eduard Kuenneke
Robert Vollstedt
Jakob Pazeller
Mark Rozsavolgyi [The father of Czárdás]
Vittorio Monti
Fritz Kreisler
Anton Karas10
“Making petrified conditions dance by singing them their own tune.”
IV - Ars Occvlta… relevant ‘sages’, mystics, alchemists, saints, scholars etc
o Hermes Trismegistus
o St. Irenaeus
o Prisciliano
o Evagrius Ponticus
o St. Macarius of Egypt
o John of Lycopolis
o John Cassian
o Rabbi Akiva
o Rabbi Tarfon
o Hillel the Elder
o Shimon bar Yochai
o Alexander of Abonoteichus
o Simon Magus
o Valentinus
o Saturninus of Antioch
o Carpocrates of Alexandria
o Marcion of Sinope
o Mary the Jewess
o Zosimus of Panopolis
o Constantine-Silvanus
o Bogomil
o Saadia Gaon
o Ibn Abbas
o Jabir ibn Hayyan
o Ibn Wahshiyya
o Al-Hallaj
o Ibn Taymiyya
o Michael Psellus
o Artephius
o Solomon ibn Gabirol
o Judah Halevi
o Isaac ben Jacob ha-Cohen
o Moses de León
o Bernard of Clairvaux
o Aelred of Rievaulx
o Michael Scotus
o Richard Rolle
o Walter Hilton
o Pietro d'Abano
o Otman Baba
o Hadewijch
o Nicolas Flamel
o Basil Valentine
o Gemistos Plethon
o Robert Grosseteste
o Marsilio Ficino
o Bernard Trevisan
o Leonardo Fioravanti [Too obscure! So, to help you: he was born in 1517 and died in 1588, also a doctor]
o Nazari Giovanni Battista [Even more obscure! But he is known for having written ‘Della Tramutatione Metallica Sogni Tre’]
o Salomon Trismosin
o Paracelsus
o Johann Georg Faust
o Andreas Libavius
o Johann Konrad Dippel
o Johannes Valentinus Andreae
o Christian Knorr von Rosenroth
o Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont
o Johann Joachim Becher
o John Fian
o Georg Ernst Stahl
o Urbain Grandier
o Johann Weyer
o Nostradamus
o John Lambe
o John Dee
o Robert Fludd
o George Starkey
o Johannes Trithemius
o Leon Battista Alberti
o Cornelius Agrippa
o Giordano Bruno
o Isaac Luria
o Hayyim ben Joseph Vital
o Sabbatai Zevi
o Abraham Azulai
o Simon Forman
o Elias Ashmole
o Michael Maier
o Gerhard Dorn
o Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
o Edward Kelley
o Thomas Vaughan
o John Heydon
o William Lilly
o Ebenezer Sibly
o Israel ben Eliezer
o Dov Ber of Mezeritch
o Rabbi Nachman
o Jacob Frank
o Christian Rosenkreuz
o Karl von Eckartshausen
o Emanuel Swedenborg
o Jean-Baptiste Willermoz
o Ivan Lopukhin
o Alessandro Cagliostro
o Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński
o Johann Baptist Malfatti von Monteregio
o Hildegard von Bingen
o Caterina da Siena
o St. Mechthild of Magdeburg
o Marguerite Porete
o Joachim of Fiore
o Dame Juliana of Norwich
o St. Teresa D’Ávila
o St. Francis of Assisi
o Johann Tauler
o Meister Eckhart
o Jakob Böhme
o Thomas à Kempis
o Hendrik Jansen van Barrefelt
o Pierre Poiret
o Dionysius Andreas Freher
o George Rapp
o Francis Barrett
o Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
o Lamennais
o Louis Massignon
o Charles de Foucauld
o St. Paisios
o Vyāsa
o Vasishtha
o Bhartṛhari
o Nāropā
o Patanjali
o Shantideva
o Badarayana
o Shankara
o Mirabai
o Guru Gobind Singh
o Chuang Tzu
o Lao Tzu
o Mo Tzu
o Ge Hong
o Bao Jingyan
o Fazang
o Ikkyū
o Kukai
o Shinran Shonin
o Yuien
o Kamo no Chōmei
o Eshin Sōzu
o Eihei Dogen
o Shidō Bu'nan
o Bankei Yōtaku
o Hakuin Ekaku
o Baizhang Huaihai
o Mazu Daoyi
o Zhenzhou Puhua
o Huangbo Xiyun
o Nichiren
o René Guenon
o Frithjof Schuon
o Ivan Aguéli
o Ananda Coomaraswamy
o Vilayat Inayat Khan
o Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
o Seyyed Hossein Nasr
o Mark Sedgwick
o Martin Lings
o Gershom Scholem
o Joseph Dan
o George Gurdjieff
o P. D. Ouspensky
o Robert S. de Ropp
o Hans-Ulrich Rieker
o D. T. Suzuki
o Taizan Maezumi
o Nyogen Senzaki
o Edwin Bryant
o Thich Nhat Hanh
o Jiddu Krishnamurti
o U. G. Krishnamurti
o Barry Long
o Eckhart Tolle
o Deepak Chopra
o Ramana Maharshi
o Kirpal Singh
o Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
o Swami Vivekananda
o Anagarika Dharmapala
o Virchand Gandhi
o Sri Aurobindo
o B. G. Tilak
o S. N. Dasgupta
o Gopi Krishna
o Nyanaponika Thera
o Anagarika Govinda
o Vinoba Bhave
o Benjamin Fiske Barrett
o Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie
o Edgar Cayce
o Madame Guyon
o Éliphas Lévi
o Joseph Saint-Yves d’Alveydre
o Gérard Encausse
o Allan Kardec
o Camille Flammarion
o A. P. Sinnett
o Émile Grillot de Givry
o Ignatius L. Donnelly
o Hans Schindler Bellamy
o Immanuel Velikovsky
o James Morgan Pryse
o Henry Steel Olcott
o Fulcanelli
o Giuliano Kremmerz
o Eugène Canseliet
o Guido von List
o René Alleau
o Mabel Collins
o Helena Blavatsky
o Carl Kellner
o Theodor Reuss
o Wilfred Talbot Smith
o Arthur Findlay
o Franz Hartmann
o Max Heindel
o Franz Bardon
o Annie Besant
o Helena Roerich
o Alice Bailey
o C. W. Leadbeater
o Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa
o Walton Hannah
o John Woodroffe
o Albert Pike
o Manly P. Hall
o Rudolf Steiner
o Ñāṇavīra Thera
o Charles Henry Allan Bennett
o Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
o Julis Evola
o Miguel Serrano
o Macgregor Mathers
o William Robert Woodman
o Wynn Westcott
o A. E. Waite
o G. R. S. Mead
o Anna Kingsford
o Dion Fortune
o Austin Osman Spare
o Mary Anne Atwood
o Evelyn Underhill
o Paul Brunton
o Charles Fort
o Marc Edmund Jones
o Valentin Tomberg
o Aleister Crowley
o Gerald Gardner
o Cecil Williamson
o Kenneth Grant
o Israel Regardie
o Robert Lawlor
o Barbara Marx Hubbard
o Marilyn Ferguson
o Willis Harman
o Kurt Seligmann
o George P. Hansen
o Gary Lachman
o Gareth Knight
o Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
o Frances Yates
o Wouter Hanegraaff
o Frank G. Ripel
o Rosemary Ellen Guiley
o Antero Alli
V - Philosophers! Stretching thousand of years
Greeks, romans and christians (It’s a mess chronologically, I have difficulties with ancient dating)
§ Socrates
§ Plato
§ Aristotle
§ Themistoclea
§ Aspasia
§ Diotima of Mantinea
§ Theano of Crotone
§ Arete of Cyrene
§ Leontion
§ Solon
§ Posidonius
§ Thales of Miletus
§ Alexander of Aphrodisias
§ Archelaus
§ Heschelander
§ Stilpo
§ Onesicritus
§ Menedemus
§ Demonax
§ Agathobulus
§ Peregrinus Proteus
§ Hegesias of Cyrene
§ Metrocles
§ Crates of Thebes
§ Hipparchia of Maroneia [Oh if we had more women like Hipparchia..]
§ Metrokles
§ Theophrastus
§ Zeno of Citium
§ Zeno of Elea
§ Aristo of Chios
§ Bolus of Mendes
§ Timon of Phlius
§ Hermippus of Smyrna
§ Herillus
§ Clitomachus
§ Carneades
§ Dionysius, the Renegade
§ Cleanthes
§ Sphaerus
§ Chrysippus
§ Leucippus
§ Xenophanes
§ Anaximenes
§ Philolaus
§ Eurytus
§ Alcmaeon of Croton
§ Heraclitus
§ Antisthenes
§ Monimus
§ Democritus
§ Parmenides
§ Anaxagoras
§ Pythagoras
§ Apollonius of Tyana
§ Protagoras
§ Hypatia
§ Plutarch
§ Syrianus
§ Plutarch of Athens
§ Asclepigenia
§ Nicomachus of Gerasa
§ Diogenes of Apollonia
§ Gorgias
§ Panaetius
§ Euclid of Megara
§ Archytas
§ Plotinus
§ Empedocles
§ Pyrrho
§ Epicurus
§ Epictetus
§ Anaxarchus
§ Aristippus
§ Enchiridion of Epictetus
§ Demetrius the Cynic
§ Melissus of Samos
§ Aristarchus of Samos
§ Euclid of Alexandria
§ Heraclides Ponticus
§ Archimedes
§ Eudemus of Rhodes
§ Eratosthenes of Cyrene
§ Sextus Empiricus
§ Claudius Galenus
§ Philo of Alexandria
§ Bias of Priene
§ Brontinus of Metapontum
§ Aristoxenus
§ Themistius
§ Ptolemy
§ Iamblichus
§ Porphyry
§ Proclus
§ Ammonius Saccas
§ Apuleius
§ Seneca
§ Marcus Aurelius
§ Aelius Aristides
§ Philostratus
§ Ammonius Hermiae
§ Clement of Alexandria
§ Simplicius of Cilicia
§ Theodoret
§ Damascius
§ John Philoponus
§ Boethius
§ Justin Martyr
§ St. Irenaeus
§ Hippolytus of Rome
§ Tertullian
§ Hegesippus the Nazarene
§ John Chrysostom
§ Basil of Caesarea
§ St. Gregory of Nyssa
§ St. Jerome
§ Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
§ Origen of Alexandria
§ Scotus Erigena
§ Severus of Antioch
Chinese
§ Lao Tzu
§ Chuang Tzu
§ Mo Tzu
§ He Yan
§ Wang Bi
§ Shan Tao
§ Ji Kang
§ Liu Ling
§ Xiang Xiu
§ Wang Rong
§ Ruan Xian
§ Bao Jingyan
§ Shandao
§ Kong Yingda
§ Wang Chong
§ Confucius
§ Mencius
§ Zengzi
§ Xunzi
§ Zisi
§ Han Fei
§ Dong Zhongshu
§ Linji Yixuan
§ Zhou Dunyi
§ Zhu Xi
§ Wang Yangming
§ Yan Yuan
§ Hong Liangji
§ Kang Youwei
§ Liang Qichao
§ Sun Yat-sen
§ Hu Shi
§ Mou Zongsan
§ Xiong Shili
§ Tu Weiming
Arabs
§ Al-Farabi
§ Ibn Arabi
§ Al-Ghazali
§ Ibn Hazm
§ Ibn Tufayl
§ Avicena
§ Averroes
§ Avempace
§ Mulla Sadra
§ Suhrawardi
§ Avenzoar
§ Al-Biruni
§ Nizam al-Mulk
§ Rhazes
§ Moses ibn Ezra
§ Maimonides [Not really an arab, but he fits well here]
§ David Kimhi
§ Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
Scholastics/theologians/mystics
§ Ambrose of Milan
§ Augustine of Hippo
§ Athanasius of Alexandria
§ Hilary of Poitiers
§ Gregory of Nazianzus
§ Eusebius of Caesarea
§ Paulus Orosius
§ Benedict of Nursia
§ Isidore of Seville
§ Sedulius Scottus
§ Jacobus de Voragine
§ Eustathius of Thessalonica
§ Anselm of Canterbury
§ Thomas of Cantimpré
§ Angela of Foligno
§ Alexander of Hales
§ Amalric of Bena
§ Peter Abelard
§ Peter Lombard
§ Albertus Magnus
§ Alain de Lille
§ Hugh of Saint Victor
§ Richard of Saint Victor
§ Roscellinus Compendiensis
§ St. Bonaventura da Bagnoregio
§ John of Salisbury
§ John of the Cross
§ William of Auvergne
§ Henry Suso
§ Fra Dolcino
§ John van Ruysbroeck
§ Roger Bacon
§ Duns Scotus
§ Thomas Aquinas
§ Walter Burley
§ Ramon Llull
§ William Ockham
§ Robert Holcot
§ Bernardino Ochino
§ Fausto Sozzini
§ Adam de Wodeham
§ Nicholas of Cusa
§ Nicolas d'Autrécourt
§ Erasmus of Rotterdam
§ Egnazio
§ Angelus Silesius
More Religious/theologians (Moderns)
§ John Wycliffe
§ Jan Hus
§ Martin Luther
§ Philip Melanchthon
§ John Calvin
§ Huldrych Zwingli
§ Matthias Flacius
§ Menno Simons
§ Pierre Charron
§ Jacobus Arminius
§ John Knox
§ Abiezer Coppe [Ranter]
§ Hugo Grotius
§ Gisbertus Voetius
§ Jacob Acontius
§ Johann Friedrich Mayer
§ Philip Jacob Spener
§ Johann Arndt
§ Thomas Müntzer [Absolutely the best of the protestant reformists, for he had the balls]
§ Caspar Schwenckfeld
§ Andreas Karlstadt
§ Hans Denck
§ Valentin Weigel
§ William Tyndale
§ Lancelot Andrewes
§ Stephen Charnock
§ Richard Hooker
§ Isaac La Peyrère
§ Edward Stillingfleet
§ William Chillingworth
§ John Bramhall
§ Henry Aldrich
§ Nicholas Ferrar
§ John Cosin
§ William Laud
§ Thomas Morton
§ John Pearson
§ Richard Baxter
§ Thomas Burnet
§ George Bull
§ George Fox
§ George Whitefield
§ Samuel Horsley
§ John Wesley
§ William Keil
§ François Fénelon
§ Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
§ Jonathan Edwards
§ Johann Adam Möhler
§ Ignaz von Döllinger
§ Franz Heinrich Reusch
§ Karl Immanuel Nitzsch
§ Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm
§ Felicité de Lamennais
§ James Martineau
§ Louis Duchesne
§ John Henry Newman
§ Teilhard de Chardin
§ Charles E. Raven
§ B. H. Streeter
§ Frederic Baraga
§ Alphonse Gratry
§ Albert Schweitzer
§ Friedrich von Hügel
§ Mathias Joseph Scheeben
§ George Tyrrell
§ Alfred Loisy
§ Paul Philip Levertoff
§ B. B. Warfield
§ Rufus M. Jones
§ Louis Massignon
§ Antonin Sertillanges
§ Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange
§ Paul Tillich
§ Karl Barth
§ Reinhold Niebuhr
§ Cornelius Van Til
§ Albrecht Ritschl
§ Hans Urs von Balthasar
§ Dietrich von Hildebrand
§ Adolf von Harnack
§ Alphonsus Liguori
§ Karl Rahner
§ Hugo Rahner
§ Joseph Maréchal
§ Marie-Dominique Chenu
§ Erich Przywara
§ Will Herberg
§ Theodore Parker
§ Stanislas Breton
§ Jean Daniélou
§ Raymond E. Brown
§ S. G. F. Brandon
§ Oscar Cullmann
§ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
§ Anders Nygren
§ Romano Guardini
§ Frederick Dillistone
§ Henri de Lubac
§ Paul Evdokimov
§ Rudolf Bultmann
§ Ernst Fuchs [Not the painter]
§ Gerhard Ebeling
§ Martin Niemöller [“And there was no one left to speak for me”..]
§ Adrienne von Speyr
§ Edith Stein
§ Vernard Eller
§ John L. McKenzie
§ Gerald B. Phelan
§ Aage Bentzen
§ Austin Farrer
§ William Stringfellow
§ Bernard Lonergan
§ Robert McQueen Grant
§ John Milbank
§ John Betz
§ Walter Wink
§ Benjamin Wiker
§ Hans Dieter Betz
§ Huston Smith
§ John B. Cobb
§ Jean-Yves Leloup
§ Marshall T. Meyer
§ Aryeh Kaplan
§ Andrew Louth
§ Leo Schaya
§ Lex Hixon
§ Yoel Hoffmann
Moderns, Enlightenment and ‘Romantics’ or idealists
§ Nicole Oresme
§ Blasius of Parma
§ Niccolò Machiavelli
§ Thomas More
§ Girolamo Savonarola
§ Tommaso Campanella
§ Giovani Pico della Mirandola
§ Giovanni Battista della Porta
§ Giambattista Vico
§ Giovanni Botero
§ Jean Buridan
§ Coluccio Salutati
§ Pierre de la Ramée
§ Bernardino Telesio
§ Jacopo Zabarella
§ Cæsar Cremonius
§ Justus Lipsius
§ Pietro Catena
§ Ioannis Kottounios
§ Joachim Jungius
§ Theophilos Corydalleus
§ René Descartes
§ Thomas Hobbes
§ Johannes Althusius
§ Athanasius Kircher
§ Francisco de Vitoria
§ Uriel da Costa
§ Franciscus van den Enden
§ Baruch Spinoza
§ Jakob Thomasius
§ Gottfried Leibniz
§ Michel de Montaigne
§ Étienne de La Boétie
§ Samuel von Pufendorf
§ Lucilio Vanini
§ Henry Oldenburg
§ Joseph Glanvill
§ John Toland
§ Francis Bacon
§ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
§ Damaris Cudworth Masham
§ Julien Offray de La Mettrie
§ Montesquieu
§ Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
§ Benjamin Whichcote
§ Ralph Cudworth
§ Henry More
§ Richard Cumberland
§ Robert Filmer
§ John Locke
§ David Hume
§ George Berkeley
§ Joseph Butler
§ David Hartley
§ Adam Ferguson
§ James Beattie
§ Dugald Stewart
§ James Mackintosh
§ Francis Hutcheson
§ Thomas Reid
§ Edmund Burke
§ Richard Price
§ William Paley
§ Joseph Priestley
§ Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
§ Claude-Adrien Helvétius
§ Pierre Bayle
§ Gilbert Burnet
§ Nicolas Malebranche
§ Charles-François Panard
§ Armand Gouffé
§ Blaise Pascal
§ Baron d'Holbach
§ Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
§ François de La Rochefoucauld
§ Nicolas Chamfort
§ Vauvenargues
§ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
§ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
§ Voltaire
§ Denis Diderot
§ Jean le Rond d'Alembert
§ Marquis de Condorcet
§ Juan Donoso Cortés
§ Jean Meslier
§ James Burnett Monboddo
§ Emmerich de Vattel
§ J. G. Feder
§ Hermann Andreas Pistorius
§ Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
§ Johann Joachim Spalding
§ Johann Augustus Eberhard
§ Johann Maass
§ Christian Garve
§ Johann Kaspar Lavater
§ Adam Weishaupt
§ Christian Wolff
§ Ernst Platner
§ Immanuel Kant
§ Solomon Maimon
§ Nachman Krochmal
§ Moses Mendelssohn
§ Hermann Cohen
§ Charles Secrétan
§ Thomas Abbt
§ Thomas Hollis
§ Karl Leonhard Reinhold
§ Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
§ Johann Gottfried Herder
§ Johann Georg Hamann
§ Friedrich August Wolf
§ Johann August Ernesti
§ Karl Otfried Müller
§ Friedrich Schleiermacher
§ Karl Philipp Moritz
§ Friedrich Schlegel
§ Johann Friedrich Herbart
§ Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
§ Joseph de Maistre
§ Victor Cousin
§ Charles de Villers
§ Émile Saisset
§ Émile Littré
§ Théodore Jouffroy
§ Paul Janet
§ Maine de Biran
§ François Picavet
§ Jules Lequier
§ Henrik Steffens
§ Louis de Bonald
§ Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis
§ Antoine Destutt de Tracy
§ Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet
§ Alexis de Tocqueville
§ James Martineau
§ Alfred Espinas
§ Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer
§ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
§ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
§ G. F. W. Hegel
§ Arthur Schopenhauer
§ Friedrich Hölderlin
§ Friedrich Schiller
§ Joseph von Schelling
§ Novalis
§ Franz von Baader
§ Johann Jakob Bachofen
§ Alexander von Humboldt
§ Wilhelm von Humboldt
§ Friedrich Julius Stahl
§ Christian Hermann Weisse
§ Bruno Bauer
§ August von Cieszkowski
§ Thomas Carlyle
§ Friedrich Nietzsche
§ Søren Kierkegaard
§ Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
§ Philipp Mainländer
§ Julius Bahnsen
§ Eduard von Hartmann
§ Gustav Teichmüller
Socialists, utilitarians and positivists, then ‘existentialists’ and phenomenologists.
§ Karl Marx
§ Friedrich Engels
§ Ludwig Feuerbach
§ Moses Hess
§ Max Stirner
§ James Mill
§ J. S. Mill
§ Harriet Taylor
§ Jeremy Bentham
§ Henry Sidgwick
§ T. H. Huxley
§ Herbert Spencer
§ Auguste Comte
§ Charles Sanders Peirce
§ G. E. Moore
§ Bertrand Russell
§ Gottlob Frege
§ Ludwig Wittgenstein
§ Elizabeth Anscombe
§ Willard Van Orman Quine
§ Rudolf Carnap
§ Carl Gustav Hempel
§ Hans Reichenbach
§ Kurt Gödel
§ A. J. Ayer
§ A. N. Whitehead
§ Wilhelm Dilthey
§ Eduard Spranger
§ Paul Yorck von Wartenburg
§ Edmund Husserl
§ Herbert Spiegelberg
§ Aron Gurwitsch
§ Alfred Schütz
§ Roman Ingarden
§ Hedwig Conrad-Martius
§ Eugen Fink
§ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
§ Karl Jaspers
§ Jan Patočka
§ Jacob Klein
§ Paul Ludwig Landsberg
§ Martin Heidegger
§ Jean-Paul Sartre
§ José Ortega y Gasset
§ Miguel de Unamuno
§ George Santayana
§ Xavier Zubiri
§ José Gaos
§ Julián Marías
Miscellaneous [Beggining with Germans]
§ Otto Weininger
§ Hans Vaihinger
§ Eugen Karl Dühring
§ Erich Adickes
§ Heinrich Rickert
§ Wilhelm Jerusalem
§ Friedrich Jodl
§ Oskar Ewald
§ Hermann Lotze
§ Friedrich Paulsen
§ Christoph von Sigwart
§ Wilhelm Windelband
§ Richard Avenarius
§ Franz Brentano
§ Tadeusz Kotarbiński
§ Kazimierz Twardowski
§ Robert von Zimmermann
§ Theodor Lipps
§ Carl Stumpf
§ Herbert Feigl
§ Rudolf Eucken
§ Bernard Bolzano
§ Friedrich Albert Lange
§ Salomo Friedlaender
§ Christian von Ehrenfels
§ Henry Nelson Wieman
§ Egon Friedell
§ Alois Höfler
§ Werner Jaeger
§ Oskar Goldberg
§ Alexius Meinong
§ Oswald Spengler
§ Paul Rée
§ Hans Jonas
§ Ernst Mach
§ Erich Unger
§ Hans Leisegang
§ Hermann Diels
§ Alois Dempf
§ Josef Pieper
§ Gallus Maria Manser
§ Nicolai Hartmann
§ Jean Gebser
§ Friedrich Dessauer
§ Eugen Herrigel
§ Ernst Cassirer
§ Constantin Brunner
§ Eric Gutkind
§ Abraham Joshua Heschel
§ Martin Buber
§ Max Scheler
§ Helmuth Plessner
§ Ludwig Klages
§ Carl Schmitt
§ Leo Strauss
§ Eric Voegelin
§ Karl Löwith
§ Kurt Riezler
§ Hans Blumenberg
§ Hannah Arendt
§ George Lichtheim
§ Günther Anders
§ Reiner Schürmann
§ Ilsetraut Hadot
§ Karl-Otto Apel
§ Alfred Schmidt
§ Hans-Georg Gadamer
§ Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
§ Hans Arens
§ Frederic Beiser
§ Peter Sloterdijk
§ Dieter Henrich
§ Siegfried Zielinski
§ Ernst von Glasersfeld
§ Axel Honneth
§ Ernst Tugendhat
§ Rahel Jaeggi
§ William Whewell
§ Patrick Geddes
§ Victoria, Lady Welby
§ James Fitzjames Stephen
§ F. C. S. Schiller
§ Alexander Bain
§ Bernard Bosanquet
§ Edward Caird
§ John Cook Wilson
§ R. G. Collingwood
§ F. H. Bradley
§ T. H. Green
§ G. R. G. Mure
§ Harold H. Joachim
§ H. H. Price
§ H. A. Prichard
§ H. W. Chandler
§ A. E. Taylor
§ J. M. E. McTaggart
§ J. J. C. Smart
§ C. E. M. Joad
§ H. J. Paton
§ J. L. Austin
§ C. D. Broad
§ J. R. Lucas
§ W. D. Ross
§ J. O. Urmson
§ L. P. Jacks
§ J. E. Raven
§ J. L. Austin
§ Peter Frederick Strawson
§ Thomas Malcolm Knox
§ James Black Baillie
§ Gustav Emil Mueller
§ William Wallace
§ Geoffrey Kirk
§ Malcolm Schofield
§ Michael Oakeshott
§ Martin Cyril D'Arcy
§ Douglas Harding
§ Wilbur Marshall Urban
§ John Oulton Wisdom
§ John Wisdom
§ Hugh Barr Nisbet
§ Frederick Copleston
§ Stuart Hampshire
§ Leon MacLaren
§ Herbert Butterfield
§ Max Black
§ Peter Geach
§ Iris Murdoch
§ Owen Barfield
§ Gilbert Ryle
§ Peter Winch
§ Galen Strawson
§ Timothy Sprigge
§ Bryan Magee
§ Raymond Tallis
§ Iain Hamilton Grant
§ Louis Arnaud Reid
§ Michael Polanyi
§ Isaiah Berlin
§ Walter T. Stace
§ Alasdair MacIntyre
§ H. L. A. Hart
§ Jerome Frank
§ Hans Kelsen
§ Derek Parfit
§ John N. Gray
§ Michael Inwood
§ Roger Scruton
§ Alan Thomas
§ Bernard Williams
§ Simon Critchley
§ Nikolay Lossky
§ Dmitry Pisarev
§ Vasily Rozanov
§ Ivan Ilyin
§ Nikolay Danilevsky [Had a similar cyclical idea of history before Spengler]
§ Semyon Frank
§ Ivan Kireyevsky
§ Nikolai Fyodorov
§ Konstantin Leontiev
§ Vladimir Solovyov
§ Alexander Zinoviev
§ Mikhail Bakhtin
§ Alexander Bogdanov
§ Afrikan Spir
§ Aleksey Khomyakov
§ Nikolai Berdyaev
§ Lev Shestov
§ Georges Bataille
§ Simone Weil
§ Jean-Marie Guyau
§ Jules de Gaultier
§ Frédéric Paulhan
§ Félix Ravaisson
§ Jules Lagneau
§ Régis Jolivet
§ Victor Delbos
§ Victor Brochard
§ Jules Lachelier
§ Henri Bergson
§ Maurice Blondel
§ Henri Gouhier
§ Julien Benda
§ Jean Cavaillès
§ Michel Henry
§ Émile-Auguste Chartier
§ Émile Bréhier
§ Léon Brunschvicg
§ Xavier Léon
§ Jean Hyppolite
§ Henri Berr
§ Joseph Rovan
§ Vladimir Jankélévitch
§ Louis Lavelle
§ Georges Vallin
§ Octave Hamelin
§ Paul Masson-Oursel
§ Charles Renouvier
§ Gabriel Marcel
§ Marcel De Corte
§ Jacques Maritain
§ Raïssa Maritain
§ Peter Maurin
§ Henry Corbin
§ Étienne Gilson
§ Ferdinand Alquié
§ Denis de Rougemont
§ Alexandre Marc
§ Jean Lacroix
§ Emmanuel Mounier
§ Maurice Blanchot
§ Jean Wahl
§ Monsieur Chouchani
§ Emmanuel Lévinas
§ Emil Fackenheim
§ André Gorz
§ Gilles Lipovetsky
§ Jean-Pierre Dupuy
§ Paul Dumouchel
§ Guy Lardreau
§ Christian Jambet
§ Bernard Bourgeois
§ Jean-Jacques Salomon
§ Bruno Latour
§ Raymond Ruyer
§ Raymond Aron
§ Raymond Abellio
§ Pierre Hadot
§ Jean Rostand
§ Georges Canguilhem
§ Gilles-Gaston Granger
§ Paul Ricœur
§ Jacques D'Hondt
§ Sandra Laugier
§ Jamila Mascat
§ Grégoire Chamayou
§ Miguel Abensour
§ Marc Crépon
§ Vincent Descombes
§ Jacques Lacarrière
§ Kostas Axelos
§ Pierre Fougeyrollas
§ Mikel Dufrenne
§ Étienne Souriau
§ Hubert Damisch
§ François Laruelle
§ Quentin Meillassoux
§ Jean-Pierre Faye
§ Jean-François Mattéi
§ Jean-François Gautier
§ Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
§ Georges Didi-Huberman
§ François Jullien
§ Michel de Certeau
§ Jules Vuillemin
§ Michel Foucault
§ Gillez Deleuze
§ Étienne Balibar
§ Michel Serres
§ Pierre Lévy
§ Paul Virilio
§ Lucian Blaga
§ Bernard Stiegler
§ Frédéric Neyrat
§ Jean-Luc Nancy
§ Jean-Marc Narbonne
§ Serge Carfantan
§ Jean-Joseph Goux
§ Roger Dadoun
§ Michel Weber
§ George Grant
§ John Ralston Saul
§ Charles Taylor
§ Susan E. Babbitt
§ Henry Silton Harris
§ Ian Hacking
§ Rupert Lodge
§ William James
§ George Herbert Mead
§ Josiah Royce
§ John Dewey
§ John Fiske
§ John Watson [1847-1939]
§ Mary Whiton Calkins
§ George Trumbull Ladd
§ Chauncey Wright
§ Clarence Irving Lewis
§ Morris Raphael Cohen
§ William Ernest Hocking
§ George Holmes Howison
§ Edward Douglas Fawcett
§ Edgar S. Brightman
§ Borden Parker Bowne
§ Ralph T. Flewelling
§ Robert Maynard Hutchins
§ Albert C. Knudson
§ Horace Kallen
§ Cleary Collin
§ Alain LeRoy Locke
§ Ernest Nagel
§ Sidney Hook
§ William Frankena
§ E. A. Burtt
§ Ernest Addison Moody
§ Howard Haines Brinton
§ Kenneth Burke
§ Scott Buchanan
§ Richard D. McKirahan
§ Gerald Frank Else
§ John Rawls
§ Paul Kurtz
§ Walter Kaufmann
§ R. J. Hollingdale
§ Mortimer Adler
§ Nelson Goodman
§ Robert Nozick
§ Robert Paul Wolff
§ Charles Hartshorne
§ William Irwin Thompson
§ Morton White
§ Lyndon LaRouche
§ Francis Parker Yockey
§ Richard McKeon
§ Henry Flynt
§ Charles Musès
§ Hilary Putnam
§ Donald Davidson
§ Wilfrid Sellars
§ William James Desmond
§ Gerald Eustace Howell Palmer
§ R. F. C. Hull
§ Arthur M. Young [Not only a philosopher but inventor of helicopter and an astrologer-mystic]
§ Dean W. Zimmerman
§ Michael E. Zimmerman
§ John J. McDermott
§ Manuel DeLanda
§ Stanley Cavell
§ Sam Keen
§ Gerald Else
§ John Searle
§ Ferdinand Edward Cranz
§ Paul Oskar Kristeller
§ John Richard Perry
§ Robert G. Olson
§ Charles H. Kahn
§ Thomas G. Bergin
§ Norman O. Brown
§ T. K. Seung
§ Domenico Vittorini
§ Douglas Moggach
§ Frits Staal
§ Alan Watts
§ Robert M. Pirsig
§ Mark Wrathall
§ Michael A. Weinstein
§ Kendall Walton
§ Robert Brandom
§ Jacob Needleman
§ Ted Honderich
§ Fabian Freyenhagen
§ Maurice Stanley Friedman
§ Harry Austryn Wolfson
§ Ivan Mortimer Linforth
§ Charles Farwell Edson Jr.
§ Roderick Chisholm
§ Michael Hardt
§ Martha Nussbaum
§ Arthur Danto
§ Sidney Morgenbesser
§ Jerry Fodor
§ Richard Wolin
§ Thomas Nagel
§ Alan Sokal
§ Bernard Rosenberg
§ Vernon Venable
§ Richard King [Author of The Party of Eros, I’m part of it too!]
§ Sarah B. Pomeroy
§ Russell E. Gmirkin
§ Gilbert G. Germain
§ William Woodthorpe Tarn
§ William Pawlett
§ Allan Stoekl
§ Paul Hegarty
§ Martin Litchfield West
§ Richard J.F. Day
§ W. C. hackett
§ Stefan Andriopoulos
§ Richard Popkin
§ Michael Shallis
§ Brian Copenhaver
§ Josef Chytry
§ Alfred Dodd
§ Philip Kuberski
§ Nancy Perloff
§ Ethan Kleinberg
§ Gregor Sebba
§ Richard Terdiman
§ Graham Harman
§ Roy Bhaskar
§ Levi R. Bryant
§ Timothy Morton
§ James Ogilvy
§ Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
§ Matthew W. Slaboch
§ Glenn Alexander Magee
§ David Farrell Krell
§ Eugene Thacker
§ Julius Thomas Fraser
§ Mark C. Taylor
§ Paul R. Patton
§ Lawrence Sklar
§ Peter Hallward
§ Ray Brassier
§ Paul Churchland
§ Zeno Vendler
§ Richard J. Bernstein
§ Charles A. Moore
§ Leonard Lawlor
§ Antony Flew
§ Ivan Soll
§ George Lakoff
§ Susanne Langer
§ Alphonso Lingis
§ Jeff Malpas
§ Ruth Nanda Anshen
§ Elizabeth Wolgast
§ Susan Buck-Morss
§ Genevieve Lloyd
§ Mary Daly
§ Carol Diethe
§ Gillian Rose
§ Eleonore Stump
§ Wendy Brown
§ Herbert Fingarette
§ Brian Joseph O'Shaughnessy
§ Howard Rheingold
§ Donald Phillip Verene
§ Edward S. Casey
§ Elaine Pagels
§ Betsy Prioleau
§ Rick Roderick
§ Tom Cheetham
§ Terry Pinkard
§ Hubert Dreyfus
§ David Skrbina
§ Carl Mitcham
§ David Abram
§ Marian Hillar
§ Babette Babich
§ Albert Borgmann
§ Beatrice Bruteau
§ John Blofeld
§ Benjamin Hoff
§ Peter Kingsley
§ Jay L. Garfield
§ David Lewis
§ Thomas Metzinger
§ David Chalmers
§ Daniel Dennett
§ Carolyn Merchant
§ Gaston Bachelard
§ Édouard Le Roy
§ Joseph Henry Woodger
§ Karl Popper
§ Paul Feyerabend
§ Thomas Kuhn
§ Imre Lakatos
§ Émile Meyerson
§ Abel Rey
§ Émile Boutroux
§ Pierre Duhem
§ Alexandre Koyré
§ Ervin László
§ Niall Shanks
§ Aant Elzinga
§ Hélène Metzger
§ Claudine Tiercelin
§ Norwood Russell Hanson
§ Marx W. Wartofsky
§ Max Black
§ Saul Kripke
§ Abraham Kaplan
§ Isabelle Stengers
§ Alenka Zupančič
§ Oxana Timofeeva
§ Sadie Plant
§ Amy Ireland
§ Eugène Dupréel
§ Chaïm Perelman
§ Jan Smuts
§ J. N. Findlay
§ David Stove
§ Harry Oldmeadow
§ Peter Singer
§ Colin Murray Turbayne
§ Peter Wessel Zapffe
§ Pentti Linkola
§ Martin Hägglund
§ Helena Norberg-Hodge
§ Nishida Kitaro [or vice-versa…]
§ Hajime Tanabe
§ Jun Tosaka
§ Kiyoshi Miki
§ Keiji Nishitani
§ Shin’ichi Hisamatsu
§ Masao Abe
§ Lajos Szabó
§ Béla Hamvas
§ Pál Szende
§ György Márkus
§ István Mészáros
§ Predrag Vranicki
§ Gajo Petrović
§ Ágnes Heller
§ Constantin Noica
§ Petre Țuțea
§ Franz Rosenzweig
§ Ferdinand Ebner
§ Béla Tábor
§ Alabert Fogarasi
§ Leszek Kołakowski
§ Dragoš Kalajić
§ Milič Čapek
§ Arne Næss
§ Valéria Dienes
§ Bernhard Alexander
§ Alexander Nehamas
§ Gregory Vlastos
§ Uku Masing
§ Yirmiyahu Yovel
§ Dan Zahavi
§ Max Picard
§ Vilém Flusser
§ Francisco Varela
§ Humberto Maturana
§ Alberto Bernabé Pajares
§ Bulent Diken
§ Robert Spaemann
§ Francis Fukuyama
§ Benedetto Croce
§ Diego Marconi
§ Eugenio Rignano
§ Adriano Tilgher
§ Giovanni Vailati
§ Giovanni Gentile
§ Augusto Del Noce
§ Paolo Rossi Monti
§ Giovanni Reale
§ Giacomo Marramao
§ Adriana Cavarero
§ Umberto Eco
§ Umberto Galimberti
§ Mario Perniola
§ Ugo Perone
§ Luciano Parinetto
§ Federico Campagna
§ Paolo Virno
§ Franco Volpi
§ Emanuele Severino
§ Robert Bernasconi
§ Roberto Esposito
§ Costanzo Preve
§ Giorgio Agamben
§ Gianni Vattimo
§ Alberto Toscano
§ Massimiliano Tomba
§ Achille Mbembe
§ Eduardo Mendieta
§ Enrique Dussel
§ Edward Said
§ Nick Land
§ Byung-Chul Han
§ Yuk Hui
§ Ljubodrag Simonović [Was a serbian basketball player who won silver and gold medals, then turned in a philosopher critical of capitalism, truly remarkable. His writings: https://ljubodragsimonovic.com/english/ ]11
§ Panagiotis Kondylis
§ Nick Bostrom
§ Bernardo Kastrup
§ Masao Miyoshi
§ Kojin Karatani
§ Kohei Saito
§ Masahiro Morioka
VI - Maths, astronomy, chemistry, physics, engineering and some inventors (The last guys are more like popularizers, who are a good choice for those who want to dip into mathematics)
§ Pythagoras
§ Eratosthenes
§ Hypatia
§ Apollonius of Perga
§ Hero of Alexandria
§ Diophantus of Alexandria
§ Euclid
§ Archimedes
§ Hippocrates of Chios
§ Pappus of Alexandria
§ Claudius Ptolemy
§ Zhang Heng
§ Aryabhata
§ Brahmagupta
§ Bhāskara II
§ Madhava of Sangamagrama
§ Thābit ibn Qurra
§ Al-Kindi
§ Al-Khwārizmī
§ Abbas ibn Firnas
§ Ahmad al-Buni
§ Alhazen
§ Al-Zarqali
§ Ali Qushji
§ Vitello Thuringopolonis
§ Leonardo Fibonacci
§ Jordanus de Nemore
§ Johannes Gutenberg
§ Nicolas Jenson
§ Antonio Stradivari
§ Regiomontanus
§ Girolamo Cardano
§ Alessandro Piccolomini
§ Bonaventura Cavalieri
§ Evangelista Torricelli
§ Vincenzo Viviani
§ Luca Pacioli
§ Benedetto Castelli
§ Galileu Galilei
§ John Napier
§ Nicolaus Copernicus
§ Johannes Kepler
§ Tycho Brahe
§ Johannes Hevelius
§ Otto von Guericke
§ Christiaan Huygens
§ Robert Boyle
§ Henry Briggs
§ Michael Stifel
§ Simon Stevin
§ Fausto Veranzio
§ Jacques Besson
§ Cornelis Drebbel
§ Daniel Schwenter
§ Willebrord Snellius
§ Marin Mersenne
§ François Viète
§ Pierre de Fermat
§ Ismaël Bullialdus
§ Johan de Witt
§ Jacob Bernoulli
§ René Descartes
§ Girard Desargues
§ Gilles de Roberval
§ Guillaume Amontons
§ Gottfried Leibniz
§ Vannoccio Biringuccio
§ Hans Lippershey
§ Friedrich Wöhler
§ Alexis Clairaut
§ Christopher Wren
§ Thomas Harriot
§ John Wilkins
§ Isaac Newton
§ Isaac Barrow
§ John Wallis
§ John Pell
§ Willian Gilbert
§ Richard Bentley
§ Denis Papin
§ Roger Cotes
§ Guillaume de l'Hôpital
§ Roger Joseph Boscovich
§ Ole Rømer
§ Ferdinand Verbiest
§ Johann Beckmann
§ Christopher Polhem
§ Robert Hooke
§ Blaise Pascal
§ Leonhard Euler
§ Thomas Bayes
§ Daniel Bernoulli
§ Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle
§ Johann Heinrich Lambert
§ Joseph-Louis Lagrange
§ Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
§ Léon Foucault
§ Émilie du Châtelet
§ Sophie Germain
§ Anders Celsius
§ Carl Friedrich Gauss
§ Wilhelm Eduard Weber
§ Niels Henrik Abel
§ Pierre Louis Maupertuis
§ Pierre Prévost
§ Charles Cagniard de Latour
§ Francesco Algarotti
§ John Robison [He is more remarkable for having written some wild conspiracy theories, which were probably true, given his background and connections, like Fritz Springmeier or John Coleman’s ones]
§ Henry Cavendish
§ Joseph Black
§ James Watt
§ Erastus Brigham Bigelow
§ Matthew Boulton
§ Robert Fulton
§ Richard Trevithick
§ George Stephenson
§ William Symington
§ Joseph Bramah
§ Henry Maudslay
§ John Kay
§ Thomas Savery
§ Thomas Newcomen
§ George Cayley
§ John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson
§ William Hyde Wollaston
§ Henry Bessemer
§ John Smeaton
§ John Playfair
§ Edward Cresy
§ William Sturgeon
§ Jacob Perkins
§ Mary Somerville
§ Norman Lockyer
§ Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
§ Pierre Janssen
§ Julius von Mayer
§ Moritz von Jacobi
§ Werner von Siemens
§ Carl Benz
§ Max Eyth
§ Eduard Suess
§ Émile Argand
§ August Föppl
§ Gustav Egloff
§ Gustav Steinmann
§ Ernst Cloos
§ Hans Stille
§ M. King Hubbert
§ Francis J. Pettijohn
§ William C. Krumbein
§ Angelo Secchi
§ Johann Heinrich von Mädler
§ Charles Richter
§ Francis Birch
§ Alfred Ewing
§ Peter Barlow
§ Michael Faraday
§ Humphry Davy
§ Heinrich Hertz
§ Christian Hülsmeyer
§ Henry Darcy
§ Adolf Eugen Fick
§ Rudolf Clausius
§ Henri Poincaré
§ Eli Whitney
§ Ascanio Sobrero
§ Antonio Pacinotti
§ Riccardo Felici
§ André Blondel
§ Augusto Righi
§ Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
§ Christian Friedrich Schönbein
§ William Robert Grove
§ Gaston Planté
§ Ányos Jedlik
§ William Crookes
§ John Frederic Daniell
§ Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville
§ Jean-Baptiste Dumas
§ Alfred Nobel
§ Adolf von Baeyer
§ Carl Auer von Welsbach
§ Kristian Birkeland
§ Karl Weierstrass
§ Leopold Kronecker
§ Bernard Bolzano
§ Gabriel Fahrenheit
§ William Herschel
§ Thomas Young
§ August Ferdinand Möbius
§ Charles Howard Hinton
§ Alessandro Volta
§ William Kingdon Clifford
§ Hermann Grassmann
§ James Clerk Maxwell
§ Peter Guthrie Tait
§ William Ramsay
§ John Strutt
§ John Herschel
§ Julius Robert Mayer
§ Hermann von Helmholtz
§ Hans Christian Ørsted
§ George Boole
§ Gaspard Monge
§ Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
§ Mathurin Jacques Brisson
§ Charles Augustin de Coulomb
§ Jean-Étienne Montucla
§ Jean-Victor Poncelet
§ Joseph Marie Jacquard
§ Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
§ Gustave-Adolphe Hirn
§ Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
§ Jacques de Vaucanson
§ Joseph Michel de Montgolfier
§ Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier [Montgolfier brothers]
§ Lothar Meyer
§ Sofya Kovalevskaya
§ Dmitri Mendeleev
§ Alexander Bogdanov
§ Hermann Kolbe
§ Ludwig Darmstaedter
§ Robert Bunsen
§ Emil Erlenmeyer
§ Fritz Haber
§ Heinrich Gustav Magnus
§ Wilhelm Ostwald
§ Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff
§ Johannes Stöffler
§ Walther Nernst
§ Svante Arrhenius
§ Vilhelm Bjerknes
§ Nikolai Lobachevsky
§ Évariste Galois
§ Ada Lovelace
§ William Rowan Hamilton
§ Henry Fox Talbot
§ Thomas Sutton
§ Oliver Lodge
§ Nicéphore Niépce
§ Louis Daguerre
§ Auguste Lumière
§ Louis Lumière [Lumière brothers]
§ Étienne-Gaspard Robert
§ Georges Méliès
§ Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
§ André-Marie Ampère
§ Claude Chappe
§ Franz Reuleaux
§ Marie Curie
§ Irène Joliot-Curie
§ Frédéric Joliot-Curie
§ Lise Meitner
§ Viktor von Lang
§ August Kundt
§ Theodor Zincke
§ Otto Hahn
§ Otto Frisch
§ Fritz Strassmann
§ Felix Ehrenhaft
§ Charles Babbage
§ John Venn
§ Gustav Kirchhoff
§ Wilhelm Röntgen
§ A. A. C. Swinton
§ Philipp Lenard
§ Shelford Bidwell
§ Charles P. Steinmetz
§ Antoine Henri Becquerel
§ James Prescott Joule
§ Augustin-Jean Fresnel
§ Siméon Denis Poisson
§ François Arago
§ Sophus Lie
§ Adrien-Marie Legendre
§ Warren De la Rue
§ Julius Robert von Mayer
§ Julius von Hann
§ Maria Gaetana Agnesi
§ Vito Volterra
§ Luigi Fantappiè
§ Léon Brillouin
§ Joseph Wilson Swan
§ Karl Ferdinand Braun
§ Johann Philipp Reis
§ Joseph Larmor
§ Mihajlo Pupin
§ Arthur Korn
§ Amos Dolbear
§ Antonio Meucci
§ Guglielmo Marconi
§ Alexander Graham Bell
§ Samuel Morse
§ Nikola Tesla
§ Thomas Edison
§ Christopher Latham Sholes
§ Émile Girardeau
§ John Dalton
§ Paul Dirac
§ Ernst Schröder
§ Georg Ohm
§ Otto Hesse
§ Oswald Veblen
§ L. E. J. Brouwer
§ H. J. S. Smith
§ W. J. M. Rankine
§ Katherine Johnson
§ Giuseppe Peano
§ William Thomson
§ Hermann Minkowski
§ Hendrik Lorentz
§ Bernhard Riemann
§ Solomon Lefschetz
§ Poul Heegaard
§ Henri Lebesgue
§ Augustin-Louis Cauchy
§ Joseph-Alfred Serret
§ Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
§ Carl Reichenbach
§ Hermann Schwarz
§ Richard Dedekind
§ Victor Conrad
§ Georg Cantor
§ Hermann Weyl
§ Johannes Diderik van der Waals
§ John James Waterston
§ Ludwig Boltzmann
§ Emmy Noether
§ Dorothy Hodgkin
§ Pavel Alexandrov
§ Rosalind Franklin
§ Maria Goeppert Mayer
§ J. Hans D. Jensen
§ Josef Stefan
§ Ernst Abbe
§ Otto Schott
§ Joseph Petzval
§ Henry Augustus Rowland
§ Josiah Willard Gibbs
§ François Massieu
§ Oliver Heaviside
§ J. E. Littlewood
§ G. H. Hardy
§ Alfred Pringsheim
§ Jan Śleszyński
§ André Weil
§ Simone Weil
§ Jean Leray
§ Charles Pisot
§ André Joyal
§ Jean Dieudonné
§ Charles Ehresmann
§ Claude Chevalley
§ Jean Delsarte
§ Paul Langevin
§ Claude Chabauty
§ Camille Jordan
§ René Thom
§ René Taton
§ Jacques Hadamard
§ Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan
§ Felix Klein
§ Christopher Zeeman
§ Hans Geiger
§ Rudolf Geiger
§ Gottlob Frege
§ Bertrand Russell
§ Karl Menger
§ Karl Sigmund
§ Hans Hahn
§ Richard von Mises
§ Philipp Frank
§ Otto Neurath
§ Ernst Zermelo
§ Abraham Fraenkel
§ Kurt Gödel
§ David Hilbert
§ Alan Turing
§ Robert Watson-Watt
§ Patrick Blackett
§ Arthur Eddington
§ Fred Hoyle
§ Georges Lemaître
§ Alexander Friedmann
§ George Gamow
§ Robert Woodrow Wilson
§ Arno Allan Penzias
§ Arthur Geoffrey Walker
§ Hermann Bondi
§ Thomas Gold
§ Richard C. Tolman
§ Howard P. Robertson
§ Ilya Prigogine
§ Peter Coveney
§ J. J. Thomson
§ Ludwig Bieberbach
§ Heinrich Weber
§ Heinrich Friedrich Weber
§ Edward V. Huntington
§ Charles de Lambert
§ Louis Blériot
§ Octave Chanute
§ William Samuel Henson
§ Orville Wright
§ Wilbur Wright [Wright brothers]
§ Alberto Santos-Dummont
§ Robert Esnault-Pelterie
§ Charles F. Kettering
§ Hermann Oberth
§ Herman Potočnik
§ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
§ Robert Hutchings Goddard
§ Jack Parsons
§ Wernher von Braun
§ Hans von Ohain
§ Frank Whittle
§ Percy Williams Bridgman
§ Nevill Francis Mott
§ Charles Galton Darwin
§ Robert Andrews Millikan
§ Alfred Wegener
§ Eugene Wigner
§ Émile Clapeyron
§ Constantin Carathéodory
§ Jean Baptiste Perrin
§ Friedrich Hasenöhrl
§ Hans-Hermann Hupfeld
§ Franz S. Exner
§ Stefan Meyer
§ Louis de Broglie
§ Wolfgang Pauli
§ Paul Ehrenfest
§ Oswald Teichmüller
§ John Logie Baird
§ Philo Farnsworth
§ Srinivasa Ramanujan
§ Vladimir Zworykin
§ Charles Francis Jenkins
§ Arnold Sommerfeld
§ Linus Pauling
§ Frederick Soddy
§ William Henry Bragg
§ Lawrence Bragg
§ James Jeans
§ Sir Francis Simon
§ Kurt Mendelssohn
§ Edward Andrade
§ Benchara Branford
§ Ernest Rutherford
§ Niels Bohr
§ Max Planck
§ Erwin Schrödinger
§ Richard Feynman
§ Marian Smoluchowski
§ John Archibald Wheeler
§ David Bohm
§ Enrico Fermi
§ Emil Fischer
§ Karl Lark-Horovitz
§ Werner Heisenberg
§ Robert Oppenheimer
§ Edwin Hall
§ Leopold Infeld
§ Ernest Lawrence
§ Albert Einstein
§ Leo Szilard
§ Edward Teller
§ Stanisław Ulam
§ Theodore von Kármán
§ Théophile De Donder
§ Lars Onsager
§ Ludwig Prandtl
§ Luis Walter Alvarez
§ Chien-Shiung Wu
§ Qian Xuesen
§ Song Jian
§ A. Q. Khan
§ John G. Kemeny
§ Paul Erdős
§ Paul Halmos
§ George Pólya
§ Cornelius Lanczos
§ Peter Lax
§ George de Hevesy
§ John Polanyi
§ John Harsanyi
§ Peter Carl Goldmark
§ Alfred Tarski
§ Jan Łukasiewicz
§ Stefan Mazurkiewicz
§ Wacław Sierpiński
§ Stanisław Leśniewski
§ György Marx
§ John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
§ Philip W. Anderson
§ Wallace Clement Sabine
§ Edward Norton Lorenz
§ John C. Slater
§ Gilbert N. Lewis
§ Alfred J. Lotka
§ Edwin Hubble
§ Gérard de Vaucouleurs
§ Gerald Holton
§ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
§ Prafulla Chandra Ray
§ Derek de Solla Price
§ Walter Sydney Adams
§ Olivier Costa de Beauregard
§ Alexander Chizhevsky
§ Nikita Moiseyev
§ Nikolai Kardashev
§ Igor Shafarevich
§ Nikolay Basov
§ Alexander Prokhorov
§ Charles H. Townes
§ Theodore Maiman
§ Robert N. Hall
§ Percy Spencer
§ Arthur Leonard Schawlow
§ Gordon Gould
§ Dennis Gabor
§ Harold Aspden
§ Anthony Peratt
§ Isidor Isaac Rabi
§ Peter Mansfield
§ Paul Lauterbur
§ Godfrey Hounsfield
§ Paul Davies
§ Anthony James Leggett
§ Hermann Haken
§ Roger Penrose
§ Paul Steinhardt
§ Bernard d'Espagnat
§ Dionys Burger [“Sphereland”]
§ Heinz Pagels
§ Heinz Hopf
§ Robert Noyce
§ Mikhail Dyakonov
§ E. T. Whittaker
§ William Lawvere
§ Abraham Robinson
§ Edwin Hewitt
§ Leonard Jimmie Savage
§ John Lighton Synge
§ Robin Farquharson
§ Michael Dummett
§ John Forbes Nash
§ Freeman Dyson
§ Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond
§ Edward Witten
§ Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
§ Asım Orhan Barut
§ Harold E. Puthoff
§ David Finkelstein
§ G. Spencer-Brown
§ Claus Peter Ortlieb
§ Jean-Yves Girard
§ Fred Alan Wolf
§ Saul-Paul Sirag
§ Stanley Pons
§ Martin Fleischmann
§ Edmund Storms
§ Elizabeth Rauscher
§ Jack Sarfatti
§ William Pfaff
§ Ivor Catt
§ Julian Schwinger
§ John McCarthy
§ Richard Montague
§ Jon Barwise
§ Peter Aczel
§ Peter Higgs
§ K. Eric Drexler
§ Steven Strogatz
§ Michel Bitbol
§ Asher Peres
§ Anton Zeilinger
§ Jean-Paul Delahaye
§ Jean-Pierre Vigier
§ Jean Bricmont
§ Steven Weinberg
§ Ray Kurzweil
§ Seymour Papert
§ Douglas Hofstadter
§ Ralph Herman Abraham
§ Alexander Grothendieck
§ John D. Barrow
§ Adam Frank
§ Carl Sagan
§ Carlo Rovelli
§ Dorion Sagan
§ Terence Tao
§ Shing-Tung Yau
§ Pan Jianwei
§ Stephen Wolfram
§ Georges Ifrah
§ Tibor Gánti
§ Manfred Eigen
§ Mario Novello
§ Per Bak
§ Kurt Wiesenfeld
§ Stuart Kauffman
§ E. T. Bell
§ Ian N. Stewart
§ Raymond Smullyan
§ Keith Devlin
VII - Psychologists, Psychiatrists and a few neurologists
Hippocrates
Yes, Hippocrates, he was the first. And of course a great man with all his contributions.
Earliest persons in the field of psychiatry and psychology
Robert Burton
Juan Huarte de San Juan
William Cullen
Thomas Willis
John Haslam
Philippe Pinel
Benjamin Rush
Joseph Rogues de Fursac
Jean-Étienne Esquirol
François Leuret
K. L. Kahlbaum
Bénédict Morel
Jules Baillarger
Jean-Pierre Falret
Valentin Magnan
James Crichton-Browne
Paul Broca
Cesare Lombroso
Gina Lombroso
Jules Cotard
Jules Séglas
Henry Maudsley
Ewald Hecker
Eugen Bleuler
Emil Kraepelin
Alois Alzheimer
Sergei Korsakov
Vladimir Serbsky
Victor Kandinsky
Pyotr Gannushkin
Elmer Ernest Southard
Pierre Janet
Gustave Le Bon
Scipio Sighele
Wilfred Trotter
Sante De Sanctis
William McDougall
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Stern
Alfred Binet
Charles Féré
Charles Spearman
E. H. Weber
Franz Brentano
Gustav Fechner
Edward Titchener
Hugo Münsterberg
Hermann von Helmholtz
Stanley Hall
William James
Max Wertheimer
Kurt Koffka
Wolfgang Köhler
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Albert von Schrenck-Notzing
Charles Richet
Charles Lasègue
Auguste-Henri Forel
Jean-Martin Charcot
Howard Henry Tooth
John Hughlings Jackson
Richard Maurice Bucke
Pierre Marie
Paul Richer
Wilhelm Fliess
Alfred Maury
Hippolyte Bernheim
Paul Sérieux
Joseph Capgras
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault
Georg Groddeck
Josef Breuer
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Hans Berger
Sigmund Exner
Havelock Ellis
Albert Moll
Iwan Bloch
Magnus Hirschfeld
Harry Benjamin
Rudolf Tischner
James H. Leuba
Nina Rodrigues
Constantin von Monakow
Hermann Rorschach
Psychoanalysis entering now. Freud himself and his disciples. Psychiatrists and other psychologists will appear too.
Sigmund Freud
Otto Gross
Otto Rank
Otto Fenichel
Max Eitingon
Hanns Sachs
Karl Abraham
Theodor Reik
Paul Federn
Kurt Eissler
Victor Tausk
Siegfried Bernfeld
Wilhelm Stekel
Sandor Ferenczi
Ernest Jones
Sandor Rado
Géza Révész
Géza Róheim
James Strachey
Edmund Bergler
Bruno Bettelheim
Carl Gustav Jüng
Edward Armstrong Bennet
Wilhelm Reich
Alexander Lowen
John Pierrakos
Myron Sharaf
Erich Fromm
Andras Angyal
Heinz Hartmann
Alexander Mitscherlich
Hermann Nunberg
Ernst Kris
Michael Balint
Enid Balint
Jacob Arlow
Gordon Allport
Abraham A. Brill
James J. Gibson
Igor A. Caruso
Leopold Szondi
John Flügel
Willi Hoffer
Maurice Nicoll
Donald Woods Winnicott
Franz Gabriel Alexander
Walter Charles Langer
Henry Alden Bunker
Jacques Brosse
Theodore Lidz
Rudolf Arnheim
Bertram D. Lewin
Wilfred Bion
Michael Fordham
Harry Guntrip
Masud Khan
Roy Schafer
R. E. Money-Kyrle
M. Brewster Smith
Edward Glover
Frederic Bartlett
Martha Bernays
Charles Brenner
Anna Freud
Annie Reich
Alix Strachey
Marie Bonaparte
Rudolph Loewenstein
Anny Rosenberg Katan
Ella Freeman Sharpe
Sabina Spielrein
Helene Deutsch
Grete L. Bibring
Toni Wolff
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Marie-Louise von Franz
Margaret Mahler
Edith Jacobson
Gisela Pankow
Marion Milner
Ruth Mack Brunswick
Alix Strachey
June Singer
Clara Thompson
Melanie Klein
Karen Horney
Egon Brunswik
Hanna Segal
Therese Benedek
Paula Heimann
Karl Buhler
Charlotte Buhler
Lauretta Bender
Margaret Lowenfeld
Jane Loevinger
Floyd Henry Allport
W. H. R. Rivers
Whately Carington
J. Malcolm Bird
Theodore Besterman
Walter Franklin Prince
James Alexander Cannon
Samuel Soal
Millais Culpin
James H. Hyslop
W. J. H. Sprott
G. N. M. Tyrrell
S. H. Foulkes
J. B. Rhine
R. H. Mason
J. R. Smythies
C. E. M. Hansel
Ola Raknes
Nic Waal
Raynor Johnson
Robert A. Baker
William G. Roll
John B. Watson
John Rawlings Rees
Gardner Murphy
Humphry Osmond
Karl Menninger
Robert Sommer
Lewis Terman
John Bowlby
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Lawrence Kohlberg
Ludwig Jekels
Jerome Kagan
Frank Fornari
Daniel N. Stern
Eugene T. Gendlin
Joseph L. Henderson
Louis Leon Thurstone
Karl Lashley
H. S. Sullivan
Rollo May
Abraham Maslow
Timothy Leary
Henry Murray
Eugene Brody
Arthur Kleps
Erik Erikson
Phil Lapsley
Joseph Cox
Mark Wigley
Hans Loewald
Viktor Frankl
Heinz Kohut
Eric Berne
Carl Rogers
Albert Ellis
Irving Janis
Alfred Lorenzer
Erich Neumann
Ronald Fairbairn
Daniel J. Levinson
Benjamin Spock
Stephen B. Karpman
Arnold Goldberg
David E. Scharff
Phyllis Greenacre
Elton Mayo
Kurt Lewin
Kurt Goldstein
Joost Meerloo
Edwin Ray Guthrie
Edward C. Tolman
Calvin S. Hall
Hadley Cantril
Joseph Jastrow
Stjepan Betlheim
Fritz Heider
Adhémar Gelb
Fritz Künkel
Alfred Adler
Fritz Riemann
George Kelly
Fritz Perls
Ralph Hefferline
Ernest Beaglehole
Edward Bibring
Eduard Hitschmann
Arthur Janov
Milton H. Erickson
Virginia Satir
Jacob Moreno
Jerome Bruner
Édouard Pichon
René Laforgue
George Devereux
Hubert Benoit
Françoise Dolto
Guy Rosolato
Jacques Lacan
Élisabeth Roudinesco
Jacques-Alain Miller
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
Jean Laplanche
Jean Oury
Félix Guattari
Béla Grunberger
Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
Hervey M. Cleckley
Trigant Burrow
Lev Vygotsky
Alexander Luria
Gregory Zilboorg
Paul Schilder
Nandor Fodor
William Alanson White
Jule Eisenbud
Adolf Meyer
Léon Chertok
François Tosquelles
Stanley Cobb
Hans Zulliger
Hans Asperger
Leo Kanner
Ernst Kretschmer
J. H. van den Berg
Henri Baruk
Kurt Schneider
Karl Jaspers
Henri Ey
Ludwig Binswanger
Eugène Minkowski
Medard Boss
Silvano Arieti
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Jurgen Ruesch
Psychologists who did experiments.. nasty guys, irreedemable.
Ivan Pavlov
Philip Zimbardo
Stanley Milgram
Solomon Asch
Leon Festinger
John B. Calhoun
Sidney Gottlieb
William Sargant
Miscellaneous, including parapsychologists
André Green
Ron Britton
Bruce Fink
Ken Wilber
Christopher Bollas
Marvin Zuckerman
Arnold H. Buss
Edward Evarts
Hans Eysenck
Arnold Gesell
Julian Jaynes
Stuart Sutherland
James Hillman
James Fadiman
Howard Gardner
Edward F. Edinger
Robert Frager
John M. Broughton
Albert Bandura
David Ausubel
George Leonard
Howard Gruber
Louise Kaplan
Thomas Moore [Psychotherapist]
Montague Ullman
Martin Hoffman
Ralph Metzner
Jill Mellick
Sam Vaknin
J. Jacques Voneche
Joseph H. Di Leo
Jerome L. Singer
Kenneth S Pope
Robert E. Ornstein
Harry T. Hunt
Édouard Claparède
Pierre Bovet
Peter Lomas
Adam Phillips
Théodore Simon
Helena Antipoff
Marguerite Sechehaye
Beate Hermelin
Jean Piaget
Josef Parnas
Heinz Werner
Wilson Van Dusen
William C. Dement
Eliot Sandler Deutsch
E. Fuller Torrey
E. Mark Stern
John E. Mack
Otto F. Kernberg
Henri Ellenberger
Lester Grinspoon
Paul Roazen
Israel Rosenfield
Harold Searles
Ernest Schachtel
Stanley Schachter
George Makari
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Carl Alfred Meier
Erwin Walter Maximilian Straus
Joaquim Roberto Corrêa Freire
Honorio Delgado
Lorna Wing
Darcia Narvaez
Robert Jay Lifton
Lloyd deMause
Howard F. Stein
C. Fred Alford
David Bakan
Donald Kalsched
Greg Mogenson
Sanford L. Drob
Richard Noll
Muriel Gardiner
Kurt R. Eissler
Reuben Fine
Stanislav Grof
Neil O'Connor
Stephen K. Levine
Bruce Levine
Serge Moscovici
Theodore Newcomb
Milton Rokeach
Kenneth Keniston
P. R. Hofstätter
Horst-Eberhard Richter
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Liam Hudson
Paul Watzlawick
Kenneth J. Gergen
David Smail
Martin Seligman
Stanley Krippner
Russell Targ
Allen Frances
Louis Sass
Ernest Becker
Jessica Benjamin
Charles Rycroft
Maurice Brinton
Temple Grandin
Christophe Dejours
Thierry Simonelli
Gabor Maté
Stephen Porges
Pierre Weil
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Andrzej Łobaczewski
Allan Combs
Charles Spence
Christopher Hyatt
Robert A. Bjork
Simon Baron-Cohen
Joseph Weizenbaum
Barbara Hayes-Roth
Nicholas Humphrey
Oliver Sacks
Steven Rose
Ron Roberts
Wilder Penfield
William Grey Walter
Horace Winchell Magoun
Richard Restak
Michael Gazzaniga
Paul D. MacLean
John Grinder
Richard Bandler
John Eccles
Antonio Damasio
Miguel Nicolelis
Iain McGilchrist
Roland L. Fischer
Richard Cytowic
Norman Geschwind
Stephen LaBerge
Benjamin Libet
Allan Hobson
Albert Hofmann
Rick Strassman
Merlin Donald
Robin Carhart-Harris
Dante R. Chialvo
Etzel Cardeña
David Eagleman
“Anti-psychiatry” folks
Ronald D. Laing
Thomas Szasz
Jeffrey A. Schaler
Aaron Esterson
David G. Cooper
Mony Elkaim
Franco Basaglia
VIII - Sociology/Social sciences
Early
Auguste Comte
Henri de Tourville
Adolphe Quetelet
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
Harriet Martineau
Gabriel Tarde
Philippe Buchez
Herbert Spencer
Max Weber
Moisey Ostrogorsky
Ernst Troeltsch
Carl Heinrich Becker
Otto von Gierke
Martin Hartmann
Ferdinand Tönnies
Georg Simmel
Edmond Goblot
Émile Durkheim
Marcel Mauss
Lester Frank Ward
Others
Werner Sombart
Thorstein Veblen
Johann Plenge
Robert Michels
Paul Fauconnet
Marcel Granet
Hans Freyer
Pitirim Sorokin
Robert Hertz
Morris Ginsberg
Beatrice Webb
Charles James Booth
Victor Branford
W. E. B. Du Bois
William Graham Sumner
George Fitzhugh
Vilfredo Pareto
Gaetano Mosca
Ali Shariati
Americans
Lester Frank Ward
Edward Alsworth Ross
Erving Goffman
Talcott Parsons
C. Wright Mills
Robert Nisbet
Jane Addams
Jane Jacobs
Emily Greene Balch
Helen Marot
Neil Smelser
Harold Garfinkel
John Ronald Seeley
Arthur J. Vidich
Emory S. Bogardus
Howard W. Odum
Barrington Moore Jr.
Seymour Martin Lipset
William I. Thomas
Florian Znaniecki
Nathan Glazer
Lewis Hine
Werner Stark
Edward Shils
Philip Rieff
Lewis A. Coser
Robert K. Merton
Robert Ezra Park
W. I. Thomas
Louis Wirth
Robert Morrison MacIver
E. Franklin Frazier
William Fielding Ogburn
John Bellamy Foster
Paul Burkett
Richard Cloward
Howard Becker
David Riesman
Benjamin N. Nelson
Paul Lazarsfeld
William H. Whyte Jr
William F. Whyte
Eliot L. Freidson
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Paul Goodman
Stanley Cohen
Guenter Lewy
Alvin Gouldner
Richard Sennett
Richard Stivers
Ben Agger
Christian Fuchs
Shoshana Zuboff
Daniel Foss
Daniel Bell
Ely Chinoy
William R. Catton Jr.
Marcello Truzzi
Robert Bellah
Randall Collins
Georgi Derluguian
Craig Calhoun
Todd Gitlin
Jacob Taubes
Gary T. Marx
Dalton Conley
Richard Florida
Theodor Nelson
Sherry Turkle
Nancy Chodorow
Arlie Russel Hochschild
Eva Illouz
Miscellaneous
Karl Mannheim
Norbert Elias
Radhakamal Mukerjee
Thomas Luckmann
Peter Berger
Stanley Pullberg
Anton Zijderveld
Rudi Supek
Leo Kofler
Dimitrie Gusti
Thomas Bottomore
Zygmunt Bauman
Franz Oppenheimer
Alexander Rüstow
Heinrich Popitz
Wolfgang Streeck
Mark Granovetter
Ulrich Beck
Erhard Friedberg
Andre Gunder Frank
Immanuel Wallerstein
Gunnar Heinsohn
Niklas Luhmann
Johan Galtung
Peter E. S. Freund
T. H. Marshall
William Davies
Ralf Dahrendorf
Hans Speier
Peter Worsley
Michael Young
Raymond Williams
Stuart Hall
Richard Hoggart
Anthony Giddens
Nikolas Rose
David Frayne
Georges Palante
Hubert Tonka
Maurice Halbwachs
Roger Bastide
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Michel Maffesoli
Georges Friedmann
Lucien Goldmann
Jacques Berque
Jean Cazeneuve
Pierre Bourdieu
Joseph Gabel
Gaston Bouthoul
Raymond Boudon
Isaac Joseph
Alain Touraine
Roger Caillois
Edgar Morin
Alain Caillé
Alain Ehrenberg
Jean Baechler
Jacques Danzelot
Michel Crozier
Bernard Lahire
Hervé Fischer
Manuel Castells
Hartmut Rosa
Oliveira Viana
Octavio Ianni
Francisco José de Oliveira Viana
Antônio Carneiro Leão
Guerreiro Ramos
Gilberto Freyre
Raymundo Faoro
Hélio Jaguaribe
Darcy Ribeiro
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
Câmara Cascudo
Jessé Souza
Samir Amin
Giovanni Arrighi
Paul Gilroy
Peter Palmer Ekeh
Philip McMichael
Iván Szelényi
Claudia von Werlhof
Diego Gambetta
Hans Joas
M. N. Srinivas
A. A. Phillips
Those aren’t really sociologists, but they are important and somewhat related to the area, e. g., (rare) good journos, political scientists, media “experts”, architects, generals, spies, scholar of humanities etc. I’d call them: Men of Externalities.
Sun Tzu
Frontinus
Polyaenus
Vegetius
Carl von Clausewitz
Simón Bolívar
Alfred Thayer Mahan
J. F. C. Fuller
John Glubb
Smedley Butler [“War is a Racket” the rich arms dealer skyrocket and the poor receive the rocket, on his roof]
Hans Morgenthau
Walt Rostow
Carl Kaysen
Clark Clifford
Dean Acheson
Roger Hilsman
Henry Kissinger [his last words before passing away was about “AI”]
Fritz G. A. Kraemer
Zbigniew Brzezinski
George Kennane
Daniel Ellsberg
Graham Allison
Douglas Macgregor [“On several occasions he has said that U.S. support for Israel is due to the “Israeli lobby” and “AIPAC” making top officials “very, very rich”]
Alfred McCoy
Alexander Vassiliev
Christopher Maurice Andrew
Ian Wilson
Herman Hollerith
Howard H. Aiken
Frieder Nake
Konrad Zuse
J. C. R. Licklider
Jacques Vallée
Stewart Brand
Alvin Toffler [SHOCKED!!]
Gordon Moore
Claude Shannon
Warren Weaver
Douglas Engelbart
Robert Kahn
Vint Cerf
Leonard Kleinrock
Tim Berners-Lee
Paul Baran
David Parnas
Friedrich Kittler
Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln
Mansfield Smith-Cumming
Sidney Reilly
Duško Popov
R. H. Bruce Lockhart
Elizabeth Bentley
William Stephenson
William J. Donovan
E. Howard Hunt
J. Edgar Hoover
James Jesus Angleton
Allen Dulles
William Colby
Richard M. Bissell Jr.
William J. Casey
Miles Copeland Jr.
Ray McGovern
Joseph Burkholder Smith
John Mulholland
Edward Lansdale
Edward Luttwak
Theodore Shackley
Tony Poe
Robert A. McClure
H. Keith Melton
John E. McLaughlin
Jim Channon
John B. Alexander
Michael A. Aquino
Mark Felt
Kurt Saxon [Poor Man James Bond!!]
Well I gotta divide.. out of so sudden. below are architects:
Al-Jazari
Vitruvius
Donato Bramante
Filippo Brunelleschi
Jacopo Sansovino
Andrea Palladio
Luigi Cornaro
Marc Seguin
John A. Roebling
Horatio Greenough
George Gilbert Scott
Gustave Eiffel
Eugene Viollet-le-Duc
John Wellborn Root
Ebenezer Howard
Patrick Geddes
Antoni Gaudí
Adolf Loos
Louis Sullivan
Henry van de Velde
Walter Gropius
Roderick Seidenberg
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
Christopher Tunnard
Percival Goodman
Clay Lancaster
Robert Moses
Frank Lloyd Wright
Lawrence Halprin
Le Corbusier
Oscar Niemeyer
C. A. Doxiadis
Serge Chermayeff
Maciej Nowicki
Wallace Harrison
Victor Papanek
Jacque Fresco
Christopher Alexander
Gilles Clément
Victor Gruen
Paul Schmitthenner
Fritz Schumacher
Rudolf Schwarz
Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera
Eyal Weizman
Now for the journos, political scientists, info/media guys & brute matter engineers, etc etc:
Albert Jay Nock
George Seldes
Harrison Evans Salisbury
Edward R. Murrow
Neil Postman
William F. Buckley Jr.
Walter Lippmann
Lawrence Lipton
Louis Fischer
Vance Packard
Joe McGinniss
Norman Mailer
Hunter S. Thompson
Warren Hinckle
Stewart Steven
Stanley Karnow
Herbert Agar
Anne Fremantle
Gordon Rattray Taylor
Max Lerner
Eric Schlosser
I. F. Stone
Nicholas G. Carr
Christopher Booker
David Halberstam
Marie Winn
Ethan Watters
Mark Ames
Neal Gabler
Nick Turse
Bob Woodward
Mae Brussell
Ron Suskind
David Samuels
Walter Kirn
James H. Billington
Matthew B. Crawford
Thomas Carr Frank
Matt Taibbi
Daniel J. Flynn
Kevin D. Williamson
Jamie Lincoln Kitman
Marty Beckerman
Joshua Kurlantzick
Annie Jacobsen
Anne Applebaum
Josh Chin
Gareth Gore
Nate Thayer
Matt Kennard
Trevor Paglen
Naomi Klein
Naomi Wolf [she-wolf RAWR!]
Frances FitzGerald
Cintra Wilson
Hamid Dabashi
Tariq Ali
David Atlee Phillips
John D. Marks
Victor Marchetti
L. Fletcher Prouty
Tom Mangold
Philip Agee
John Kiriakou
Daniele Ganser
Martin A. Lee
Lewis H. Lapham
Paul L. Williams
Vincent Bevins
John Perkins [Economic Hitman Guy]
Walter Laqueur
Evgeny Morozov
Nicco Mele
Erik Davis
Daniel Lazare
Tim Watkins [Hard to find, so his Amazon account, https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B00E0EN9GO/about ]
Chris Hedges
Fabrice Balanche
Aki Orr [Aqui ô! LISTEN, LITTLE MAN, Knowledge is Power said Jefferson and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely and also, Power to the People.. those men close here are critical and highly specialized in Middle East.]
Henry Cattan
Moshé Machover
René Naba
Pierre Stambul
Israel Shahak
Gilad Atzmon
Ramzy Baroud
Sanyika Shakur [T.H.U.G Life]
Léon de Poncins
Martin John Short
Yakov M. Rabkin
Edward Bernays
Harold Innis
Quentin Fiore
Bernard J. Muller-Thym
Marshall McLuhan
Eric McLuhan
Andrew McLuhan
Robert K. Logan
Barrington Nevitt
Hugh Dalziel Duncan
Richard Cavell
Arthur Kroker
Frank Zingrone
Donald Theall
B. W. Powe
Harley Parker
Peter Dale Scott
Derrick de Kerckhove
David G. Walley
W. Terrence Gordon
Edward S. Herman
Manuel De Landa
Nick Dyer-Witheford
Dwayne R. Monroe
Richard Barbrook [author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture]
Tiziana Terranova
Simon Reynolds
Malcolm Harris
Dominic Pettman
Geoff Simons
Fred Turner
Angela Nagle
James Bridle
Jean Kilbourne
John Markoff
J. K. Gibson-Graham
McKenzie Wark
Tom McDonough
Todd McGowan
Pamela McCorduck
Stuart Ewen
Sut Jhally
Sohail Inayatullah
Ziauddin Sardar
Robert Cluley
Mauricio Loza
Justin Kirkwood
Ivor Southwood
Michael Rowbotham
Alfred Owen Crozier
W. H. Vanderburg
Lee Simonson
Harold Burris-Meyer
Adolf A. Berle
Herbert Croly
James Burnham
Harold Isaacs
Louis Hartz
Herman Kahn
Eric Hoffer
Norman Podhoretz
Irving Kristol
Victor Gollancz
William Blum
Michael Parenti
Howard Zinn
David Harvey
Harvey O'Connor
Robert Caro
Ward Churchill
Andrew MacKay Scott
Robert C. Tucker
Seymour Hersh
Peter Lawler
Samuel P. Huntington
John Mearsheimer
Andrew J. Bacevich
Jeremy Rifkin
Franz Leopold Neumann
Elmer Eric Schattschneider
Alfred Eckhard Zimmern
Timothy Mitchell
Brian Martin [ https://www.bmartin.cc/index.html ]
Jeff Schmidt
Robert Dahl
Alfred de Grazia
Robert Fisk
Norman Finkelstein
Olivier Roy
Robert Pape
Joseph Overton
Jean-François Bayart
Ben Fowkes
Guido Giacomo Preparata
Mark Crispin Miller
William E. Connolly
Gene Sharp
John Arquilla
David Ronfeldt
Neil Howe
William Strauss
Anthony Wilden
James C. Scott
John Dunn
John Michael Greer
James Howard Kunstler
Richard Heinberg
Peter Victor
William E. Rees
Simon P. Michaux
Arthur Berman
Jean Laherrère
Nate Hagens
Ugo Bardi
Alice Friedemann
Michael Ruppert
William Ophuls
Andrey Korotayev
Peter Turchin
Philippe Grasset
Nicolas Bonnal
Dmitry Orlov
Nassim Taleb
William Leiss
Václav Havel
Vaclav Smil
André Spicer
Carl Cederström
Ronald Purser
David McGowan
Fabio Vighi
John Gall
Laurence J. Peter
Eugene McCarraher
Phillip Darrell Collins
Joel Bakan
Ursula Franklin
Jaron Lanier
Andrew Keen
Cory Doctorow
Douglas Rushkoff
IX - History
Ancient historians
Herodotus
Thucydides
Plutarch
Polybius
Strabo
Herodian
Nicolaus of Damascus
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Cornelius Tacitus
Titus Livius
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Younger
Theopompus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Cornelius Nepos
Procopius of Caesarea
Lucius Flavius Arrianus
Marcus Porcius Cato
Diodorus Siculus
Lucius Cassius Dio
Josephus
Joannes Zonaras
Agathias Scholasticus
Snorri Sturluson
Sima Qian
Al-Jahiz
Ibn Khaldun
St. Bede the Venerable
William of Malmesbury
Ana Comnena
Francesco Guicciardini
Richard Hakluyt
Thomas Fuller
Guido Bentivoglio
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Samuel Purchas
Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus
John Selden
Georgius Hornius
Paolo Sarpi
Joseph Justus Scaliger
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim
Classic and victorian
Edward Gibbon
Charles de Brosses
George Grote
Leopold von Ranke
Heinrich von Sybel
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
Fustel de Coulanges
Augustin Thierry
Jules Michelet
Ernest Renan
Edgar Quinet
François Guizot
Johann Gustav Droysen
Thomas Arnold
Henry Maine
Samuel Roffey Maitland
Henry Thomas Buckle
Edward Augustus Freeman
John Robert Seeley
John Emerich Dalberg-Acton [“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”]
Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
Thomas Macaulay
Henry Hallam
Nikolay Karamzin
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
Gustav Hertzberg
Paul de Lagarde
Heinrich von Treitschke
Heinrich Gustav Hotho
Ludwig von Pastor
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Hippolyte Taine
Prosper Boissonnade
Art historians (And some critics)
J. J. Winckelmann
Jacob Burckhardt
Ernst Guhl
Élie Faure
Alois Riegl
Émile Mâle
Max Dvořák
H. W. Janson
Ernst Gombrich
Franz Wickhoff
Aby Warburg
Fritz Saxl
Max Raphael
Adrian Stokes
Edgar Wind
Jacques Barzun
Harold Osborne
Wilhelm Worringer
Alfred Gotthold Meyer
Karl Lamprecht
Arnold Hauser
Erwin Panofsky
Wilhelm Pinder
Robert Goldwater
Meyer Schapiro
Alfred H. Barr Jr.
Jakob Rosenberg
Dagobert Frey
Joseph Gantner
Bernard Berenson
Henri Focillon
Louis Frédéric
Louis Gillet
Anthony Blunt
John Berger
Anton Ehrenzweig
Clement Greenberg
Arthur G. Miller
Adrian Durham Stokes
James Jackson Jarves
T. J. Clark
Lajos Fülep
Norbert Lynton
Simon Schama
David Craven
Kenneth Clark
James Johnson Sweeney
Michael Baxandall
Heinrich Wölfflin
Adolf von Hildebrand
Carola Giedion-Welcker
Leo Steinberg
Barbara Rose
Irving Sandler
Roger Kimball
David Bindman
Craig Clunas
Michael Fried
Quentin Bell
Peter H. Feist
Joseph Kerman
Ernest Newman
Neville Cardus
Arturo Schwarz
General historians, many here were much more than historians, but for the sake of conventionality, I believe this best fit them
Marc Bloch
Lucien Febvre
Fernand Braudel
Jacques Bainville
Joseph Bédier
Henri Hauser
Paul Mantoux
Gustave Glotz
Henri Jeanmaire
Henri Hubert
Georges Blondel
Michel Mourre
Jean-Yves Guiomar
Gaston Bonet-Maury
Georges Lacour-Gayet
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Henri-Charles Puech
Jacques Le Goff
Salomon Reinach
Lucien Braun
Lucien Bianco
Karl Sudhoff
Robert Fossier
Pierre Nora
Edmond Faral
Étienne Balazs
Marcel Bataillon
Jean François Billeter
René Sédillot
Jean Bottéro
Mikhail Rostovtzeff
Oswald Spengler
William Coxe
J. B. Bury
R. G. Collingwood
G. G. Coulton
Arnold J. Toynbee
G. M. Trevelyan
Stewart Perowne
Frederic Seebohm
James Headlam-Morley
Thomas Francis Carter
Arnold Wycombe Gomme
Herbert Henry Gowen
John Lawrence Hammond
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Nora K. Chadwick
Barbara Hammond
Hannah Adams
Edward Long
George Bancroft
George McCall Theal
Samuel Gardner Drake
Herbert Baxter Adams
John Lothrop Motley
Arthur James Todd
Charles William Heckethorn
Nesta Helen Webster
Frederick Jackson Turner
Abbott Payson Usher
Robert G. Albion
Thomas Frederick Tout
Henry Osborn Taylor
Henry Brooks Adams
Brooks Adams [Great brothers, Brooks Adams also came to the same cyclical notion before Spengler]
William Prescott
Francis Parkman
Preserved Smith
Henry Charles Lea
Charles A. Beard
J. H. Breasted
B. H. Liddell Hart
E. H. Carr
Ronald Hyam
Moses Finley
John Ulric Nef
Abdulkadir Inan
Zeki Velidi Togan
Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch
Mikhail Pokrovsky
Lynn Townsend White Jr.
James Harvey Robinson
W. F. Jackson Knight
Will Durant
Lewis Mumford
Edith Hamilton
Robert Conquest
Samuel Eliot Morison
Philip S. Foner
William H. McNeill
Richard M. Weaver
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
H. Stuart Hughes
Herbert Aptheker
Lynn Thorndike
Charles Singer
Carl L. Becker
Leo Marx
Richard White
Herbert J. Muller
Theodore A. Wertime
David M. Potter
Donald B. Meyer
James B. Gilbert
Christopher Lasch
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
Judith V. Field
Peter Marin
Robert Wiebe
Richard Hofstadter
Daniel Boorstin
Frederick Merk
Richard Drinnon
Perry Miller
Bernard Bailyn
Norman Cantor
Donald Harnish Fleming
Frank E. Manuel
Samuel Noah Kramer
Jefferson Cowie
John Nicholas Postgate
Adolf Leo Oppenheim
Franz Maria Feldhaus
Ivor Blashka Hart
Peter Machinist
Russell Jacoby
Hayden White
Dilwyn Jones
Gerald Feldman
Alan Trachtenberg
Arno J. Mayer
Lowell Dale Morgan
George Huntston Williams
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
Theodore H. Von Laue
Gustave E. von Grunebaum
Carl Emil Schorske
Friedrich Meinecke
F. J. C. Hearnshaw
Gerry Docherty
Martin Malia
J. H. Hexter
Peter Gay
Boris Porshnev
Stephen Budiansky
William C. Meadows
William Cronon
John Womack
Sidney Fine
Jonathan Spence
Katherine Sopka
Paul Avrich
Alfred W. Crosby
Paul A. Robinson
Philip Pomper
Richard Elphick
Richard T. Vann
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Alfred W. McCoy
Ernst Florian Winter
George Sarton
Owen Lattimore
Harry Elmer Barnes
Marshall Hodgson
Carroll Quigley
Joseph Tainter
Knight Biggerstaff
Donald Keene
William H. Kötke
Benedict Anderson
Ian Matthew Morris
Norman Yoffee
Philip Mirowski
Eric H. Cline
Georges Minois
Christopher I. Beckwith
Lawrence Nees
Jared Diamond
Geoffrey Parker
Lionel Casson
Arthur O. Lovejoy
Frederic Maitland
Charles Singer
Joseph Needham
Roger Highfield
Harold Perkin
Antony C. Sutton
T. S. Ashton
A. J. P. Taylor
J. G. A. Pocock
J. F. C. Harrison
F. W. Walbank
J. C. McKeown
Iain McCalman
Edward Cuthbert Butler
W. Montgomery Watt
Edward Togo Salmon
Ramsay MacMullen
Walter Goffart
Peter Heather
Peter Robert Lamont Brown
Christopher Hill
Christopher Dawson
Maurice Dobb
Chris Wickham
William Pietz
Lewis Namier
Gerald Heard
George Stanley
Norman Cohn
Clive Ponting
Richard Seaford
Bernard Wasserstein
Mary Beard
William Chester Jordan
R. I. Moore
Niall Ferguson
Erwin Rohde
Fritz Heichelheim
Ernst Kantorowicz
Hermann Schneider
Bernhard Laum
René Fülöp-Miller
Karl August Wittfogel
Victor Ehrenberg
Geo Widengren
Sigfried Giedion
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Ferdinand Lot
Henri Pirenne
Louis Bréhier
Elie Halévy
René Girard
Philippe Ariès
Georges Duby
Paul Veyne
Marcel Detienne
Marcel Gauchet
Jacques Lafaye
Jean Gimpel
Robert Latouche
Alfred Cobban
Richard Cobb
Carl Guarneri
Santo Mazzarino
Norman Hampson
Henri Irénée Marrou
Johan Huizinga
Steven Runciman
Robert S. Lopez
Martin Bernal
A. L. Basham
C. Northcote Parkinson
Thomas McStay Adams
N. G. L. Hammond
Walter Ong
Eric Havelock
C. B. Macpherson
Ellen Meiksins Wood
R. H. Tawney
A. L. Morton
Margot Heinemann
Maximilien Rubel
W. H. Chaloner
E. A. Thompson
E. P. Thompson
Eric Hobsbawm
Ralph Miliband
Perry Anderson
Burnett Bolloten
David McNally
Marcel van der Linden
Vladislav M. Zubok
Morris Berman
Basil Davidson
Barbara Duden
Kären Wigen
Carlo Ginzburg
Quentin Skinnner
Maxime Rodinson
Henri Brunschwig
Gabriel Gorodetsky
Joseph Klausner
Alain Demurger
Arlette Farge
Emmanuel Todd
Gilbert Dagron
Jacques Julliard
Christian Laval
Stephen Kotkin
Reinhart Koselleck
Greg Grandin
Adam Tooze
Ilan Pappé
Allen Weinstein
Benny Morris
Jeffrey Herf
David Hackett Fischer
David Cannadine
Kenneth O. Morgan
John A. Lynn
Charles Donald O'Malley
Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen
Joaquim Nabuco
Capistrano de Abreu
Américo Castro
Alfredo Pimenta
Pedro Laín Entralgo
Fernando Novais
X - Geography and Geopolitics
Al-Idrisi
Kâtip Çelebi
Pausanias
Sebastian Münster
Martin Behaim
Abraham Ortelius
Immanuel Kant [Yes! Movie about Him BTW]
Alexander von Humboldt
Carl Ritter
Élisée Reclus
Petr Kropotkin [Both Petr and Reclus were not only anarchists but geographers!]
Maximilien Sorre
Helmut de Terra
Carl Sauer
Marcel Dubois
Jean Gottmann
Arnold Henry Guyot
Paul Vidal de La Blache
André Siegfried
William Morris Davis
Ellen Churchill Semple
George Perkins Marsh
Arnaldo Faustini
Rudolf Kjellén
Friedrich Ratzel
Halford John Mackinder
Nicholas J. Spykman
David N. Livingstone
Derek Gregory
Doreen Massey
Karl Haushofer
Otto Schlüter
Ferdinand von Richthofen
Sven Hedin
Harry Hess
Andy Merrifield
Carl O. Sauer
Edward Soja
Ken Worpole
Éric Dardel
David Harvey
Milton Santos
Yi-Fu Tuan
Nigel Thrift
XI - Anthropology, Ethnology, Mythology and Archaeology
Early
François Bernier
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Gustav Friedrich Klemm
Christoph Meiners
Adolf Bastian
Henry Schoolcraft
Edward Clodd
E. B. Tylor
Leo Frobenius
Richard Thurnwald
Daniel Garrison Brinton
Lewis Henry Morgan
George Bird Grinnell
Alfred Cort Haddon
Walter Baldwin Spencer
Francis James Gillen
A. P. Elkin
Carl Strehlow
Arthur de Gobineau
Georges Vacher de Lapouge
Arnold van Gennep
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
Arthur Maurice Hocart
Frank Hamilton Cushing
Annette Laming-Emperaire
Maurice Leenhardt
Robert Ranulph Marett
Otis Tufton Mason
W. J. Sollas
Walter Hough
John Layard
Arthur Keith
Robert Lowie
James Frazer
Edward Sapir
Benjamin Whorf
Godfrey Lienhardt
Alexander Goldenweiser
Loomis Havemeyer
C. Lloyd Morgan
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Bronisław Malinowski
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Raymond Firth
Edmund Leach
Isaac Schapera
Franz Boas
Weston La Barre
Theodor Gaster
Melville J. Herskovits
William John McGee
Harry Holbert Turney-High
George Grant MacCurdy
Roderick Urwick Sayce
Charles P. Mountford
Adolphus Peter Elkin
John Collier Jr.
J. D. Unwin
Ernest Crawley
Raphael Patai
Frances Densmore
Theodore Baker
Ruth Benedict
Margaret Mead
Leslie White
Paul Radin
Ralph Linton
Others
Edward S. Curtis
Frederick Webb Hodge
Robert McCormick Adams Jr.
J. R. Swanton
L. H. Dudley Buxton
Robert von Heine-Geldern
Samuel Alfred Barrett
Gertrude Rachel Levy
Dorothy Way Eggan
William Robertson Smith
Ashley Montagu
Stanley Diamond
Eleanor Leacock
George Murdock
Gene Weltfish
Lawrence Krader
Gregory Bateson
Julian Steward
Victor Turner
Daryll Forde
David Bidney
Donald Symons
Loren Eiseley
Roland Burrage Dixon
Alfred Irving Hallowell
Melville Jean Herskovits
Edward T. Hall
E. Lloyd Du Brul
Eric R. Wolf
A. L. Kroeber
Theodora Kroeber
E. R. Dodds
W. J. Perry
R. J. Braidwood
Robert Redfield
Elman Service
Jules Henry
Ernest Becker
Jack Goody
Eric Dingwall
Lev Gumilev
Charles Laughlin
Anthony F. C. Wallace
William N. Fenton
Edmund Snow Carpenter
Mark Nathan Cohen
Abner Cohen
Sol Tax
James Spuhler
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
Francis L. K. Hsu
Georges Condominas
Clyde Kluckhohn
Walter Goldschmidt
Clifford Geertz
Paul Bohannan
Laura Bohannan
Marcel Griaule
Pierre Clastres
Louis Dumont
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Philippe Descola
André Leroi-Gourhan
Maurice Godelier
Marc Augé
Bernard Traimond
Georges Balandier
Paul Jorion
Ernest Gellner
Meyer Fortes
Andreas Lommel
Max Gluckman
Mary Douglas
Alice Schlegel
Susanne Küchler
Barbara Tedlock
Barbara Noske
David Howes
Philip Lieberman
Peter Farb
Tim Ingold
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld
Marvin Harris
Donald E. Brown
Daniel Miller
Robin Dunbar
Bradd Shore
James Jasper Atkinson
Caroline Humphrey
Christopher Boehm
Jonathan Friedman
William A. Haviland
Jacquetta Hawkes
Eric Gans
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
T. C. McLuhan
W. Lloyd Warner
Michael Harner
Joseph Epes Brown
Roy Rappaport
Rodney Needham
Joan Halifax
Felicitas Goodman
Schuyler Cammann
Barbara Glowczewski
Kenneth Oakley
Robert A. Paul
Robin W. G. Horton
Paul S .C. Taçon
Bernard Arcand
Robert Boyd
Richard K. Nelson
Walter Evans-Wentz
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Knud Rasmussen
Thor Heyerdahl
Erich von Hornbostel
Peter Freuchen
Paul Kirchhoff
Julius Lips
Mario Polia
Theodor Koch-Grünberg
Michael Taussig
Robert A. Hahn
Hans Peter Duerr
Jeremy Narby
Sula Benet
Bruce Albert
Manuel João Ramos
Ernesto De Martino
Carlos Castañeda
Ann Laura Stoler
Erika Bourguignon
Roberto DaMatta
Orlando Villas-Bôas
Mythologists and scholars of religion
Jacob Bryant
Max Müller
Antti Aarne
Julius Krohn
Kaarle Krohn
Paul Deussen
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl
Hermann Usener
Friedrich Marx
Rudolf Otto
Hellmut Ritter
Thomas Bulfinch
Paul Carus
Mircea Eliade
Ion Culiano
Carl Brockelmann
Sigmund Mowinckel
Gerard van der Leeuw
Ignác Goldziher
G. H. A. Juynboll
Joseph Schacht
Hans-Joachim Schoeps
Richard Wilhelm
James Hastings
Gilbert Durand
Károly Kerényi
Geoffrey Parrinder
Paul E. Kahle
R. C. Zaehner
Martin P. Nilsson
Robert Eisler
Richard Longenecker
Annemarie Schimmel
Antoine Faivre
Joseph Campbell
Heinrich Zimmer
Georges Dumézil
Bernard Sergent
Michael Witzel
Robert Kirk
Tobias Churton
Wendy Doniger
Carl A. P. Ruck
Other anthropologists, some here are often associated with primitivism
Marshall Sahlins
Richard Borshay Lee
Colin Turnbull
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
David F. Lancy
E. Richard Sorenson
Layla AbdelRahim
Robert L. Kelly
James Suzman
Daniel Everett
Jean Liedloff
Archaelogists [Along with some Egyptologists, sinologists, assiriologists etc…]
Jean-François Champollion
Boucher de Perthes
J. Gardner Wilkinson
C. J. Thomsen
Friedrich Wieseler
Heinrich Schliemann
Gustaf Kossinna
Zelia Nuttall
Édouard Naville
Leonard Woolley
Mortimer Wheeler
Gertrude Bell
Kathleen Kenyon
Gaston Maspero
Charles William Wilson
Arthur Bernard Cook
Arthur Weigall
Otto Jahn
Adolf Erman
Aurel Stein
Dorothy Garrod
Eduard Gerhard
Howard Carter
Robert Mond
Alan Gardiner
Arthur Evans
Harold Peake
Flinders Petrie
Walter Bryan Emery
Grafton Elliot Smith
Gordon Childe
Marija Gimbutas
Laurette Séjourné
C. Walter Ceram
Grahame Clark
T. C. Lethbridge
Bruce Trigger
Louis Leakey
Mary Leakey
Gordon Willey
Jacques Cauvin
Henri Breuil
Glynn Isaac
Stuart Piggott
Herbert Wendt
Henri Frankfort
Carl Whiting Bishop
Victor Wolfgang von Hagen
John Louis Romer
D. T. Potts
T. G. H. James
H. W. F. Saggs
Kent V. Flannery
James Mellaart
Kristian Kristiansen
K. Aslihan Yener
Thomas G. Wynn
W. F. Albright
John Baines
David Wengrow
Steven Mithen
Clive Gamble
Cyril Aldred
Geoffrey Bibby
Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards
Robert J. Braidwood
Max Mallowan
Brian M. Fagan
Lawrence H. Keeley
Keith F. Otterbein
Francis Pryor
Lewis Binford
David Lewis-Williams
XII - Natural Sciences (some chemistry too) and Medicine
Hippocrates
Crateuas
Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Rufus of Ephesus
Nicander of Colophon
Pedanius Dioscorides
Paul of Aegina
Asclepiades of Bithynia
Aretaeus of Cappadocia
Stobaeus
Zhang Zhongjing
Bian Qiao
Li Shizhen
Ibn al-Nafis
al-Zahrawi
Soranus of Ephesus
Caelius Aurelianus
Erasistratus
Herophilos
Mondino de Luzzi
Ambroise Paré
Andreas Vesalius
Georgius Agricola
Conrad Gessner
Thomas Muffet
John Ray
Michael Servetus
William Harvey
Thomas Ady
Guy Patin
Charles Bonnet
Georges de Buffon
Xavier Bichat
Jan Baptist van Helmont
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Jean-Baptiste Robinet
Théodore de Mayerne
Stephen Hales
Carl Linnaeus
Gilbert White
Mikhail Lomonosov
C. F. Wolff
Lorenz Oken
Sir John Floyer
John Brown [1735-1788]
Thomas Beddoes
Franz Mesmer
Kurt Sprengel
Antoine Lavoisier
Marquis of Puységur
René Laennec
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
Antoine-François de Fourcroy
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
Claude Louis Berthollet
Karl Ernst von Baer
Joseph Rodes Buchanan
Thomas Edward Bowdich
Peter Simon Pallas
Georges Cuvier
Ernst Haeckel
Étienne Serres
Johann Friedrich Meckel
George Romanes
Erasmus Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Lyell
Robert Brown
John William Draper
James Hutton
Francis Galton
Arthur Thomson
Gunther Stent
John Collins Warren
Franz Theodor Doflein
Ernst Trömner
William T. G. Morton
J. F. C. Hecker
Andreas Schimper
Wilhelm Bölsche
Richard Lydekker
Richard Hertwig
Richard Hesse
Karl Möbius
Karl Patterson Schmidt
Eric Pianka
Ernst von Bergmann
James Young Simpson
Horace Wells
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Albrecht von Haller
Herman Boerhaave
Johannes Peter Müller
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Karl Rudolphi
Gregor Mendel
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow
Edward Jenner
Paolo Mantegazza
Agostino Bassi
Louis Agassiz
Theodor Schwann
Thomas Graham
Thomas Thomson
Justus von Liebig
Joseph Henry Gilbert
John Bennet Lawes
August Kekulé
Antoine Béchamp
Ferdinand Cohn
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Rudolf Virchow
Paul Ehrlich
Emil von Behring
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
Élie Metchnikoff
Claude Bernard
Joseph Lister
Ignaz Semmelweis
Benjamin Ward Richardson
David Starr Jordan
Florence Nightingale
Lillian Wald
Louis Lewin
Ronald Fisher
J. B. S. Haldane
W.C. Allee
Alexander Fleming
Paul Du Chaillu
Félix Le Dantec
Carlo Matteucci
William Cecil Dampier
Sidney Farber
Jane Cooke Wright
Alfred Russel Wallace
Henry Walter Bates
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Charles Scott Sherrington
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
James Bell Pettigrew
Jacques Loeb
Reginald Punnett
William Bateson
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre
Wilhelm His Sr.
Karl von Frisch
Hans Driesch
Eugène Marais
Étienne-Jules Marey
Fritz Kahn
William Henry Hudson
William Morton Wheeler
Weston Price
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Adelbert Ames Jr.
Andrew Ure
Albert Szent-Györgyi
William Horatio Bates
Denis Parsons Burkitt
Edwin Emery Slosson
Arnold DeVries
Charles Kenneth Leith
Benton MacKaye
Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
Konrad Lorenz
Desmond Morris
Jakob von Uexküll
Fritz Müller
Nikolaas Tinbergen
George Schaller
George Gaylord Simpson
Ludwig von Berthalanffy
George A. Bartholomew
C. H. Waddington
J. D. Bernal
Lancelot Law Whyte
Jacob Bronowski
Charles Judson Herrick
David M. Scienceman [LOL!]
Howard Thomas Odum
Charles A. S. Hall
Stephen Jay Goulds
Alfred Kinsey
Walter B. Cannon
Howard W. Haggard
R. Gordon Wasson
Harry Harlow
Hans Selye
Frederic Clements
Alan Hodgkin
Camille Dareste
René Leriche
Jacques Monod
René Dubos
Étienne Wolff
Archibald James Campbell
Oakes Ames [A botanistl]
Rachel Carson
Eugene Odum
Adolf Portmann
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Richard St. Barbe Baker
Paul Alfred Weiss
William Homan Thorpe
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Vernadsky
Julian Huxley
Andrew Huxley
Ernst Mayr
Erwin Chargaff
James Lovelock
E. O. Wilson
W. D. Hamilton
George R. Price
Peter Richerson
Colin Tudge
Dennis Meadows
Donella Meadows
Craig Dilworth
David Ehrenfeld
Oren Harman
John Maynard Smith
Peter Brian Medawar
Manfred Clynes
Bernhard Rensch
Hermann Muller
Francis Crick
Ludwik Fleck
Rudolf Weigl
Rupert Sheldrake
James Watson
Kary Mullis
Peter Duesberg
Jacques Benveniste
Barry Commoner
Garrett Hardin
Aldo Leopold
Gerald Durrell
Alison Jolly
Jane Goodall
David Attenborough
Amotz Zahavi
Keith Campbell
Ian Wilmut (dolly! dolly guarana dolly!…)
Innes Hope Pearse
Robert S. Mendelsohn
David R. Montgomery
Gerald Crabtree
Michael Pollan
Lynn Margulis
Nessa Carey
Alexey Eryomin
XIII - Linguists
Ferdinand de Saussure
Jane Ellen Harrison
Ferdinand Justi
Franz Anton Schiefner
Archibald Sayce
Michel Bréal
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
Wilhelm Schmidt
Edmund Backhouse
Émile Benveniste
Jaan Puhvel
Louis Hjelmslev
Mikhail Bakhtin
Valentin Voloshinov
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Roman Jakobson
Hermann Hirt
Otto Schrader
Otto Jespersen
Vladimir Propp
Alexander Afanasyev
C. K. Ogden
George L. Trager
Georges Mounin
Edward Sapir
Benjamin Whorf
Harry Hoijer
Mario Pei
Antoine Meillet
Joseph Greenberg
Mary LeCron Foster
Leonard Robert Palmer
Charles Carpenter Fries
Eric Lenneberg
Daniel Everett
Bernhard Karlgren
Alain Rey
Li Fang-Kuei
Uwe Pörksen
William H. Baxter
Algirdas Julien Greimas
XIV - Pedagogues and educators (note that some are ‘radicals’)
Jan Amos Comenius
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Friedrich Fröbel
Johann Friedrich Herbart
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
Guts Muths
Maria Montessori
Rudolf Steiner
Amos Bronson Alcott
William Holmes McGuffey
Charles William Eliot
Abraham Flexner [he wrote a piece titled “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”]
John Dewey
Harold Rugg
Adolphe Ferrière
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
A. S. Neill
Paul Robin
Francisco Ferrer
Everett Reimer
George Dennison
Paulo Freire
Célestin Freinet
Marcello Bernardi
Chris Mercogliano
Madhu Suri Prakash
Grace Llewellyn
John Holt
John Taylor Gatto
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
Nel Noddings
Matt Hern
Jean-Georges Noverre
Isadora Duncan
Vaslav Nijinsky
François Delsarte
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
Georges Hébert
XV - Economists and Management theorists
Early economists
§ William Petty
§ Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
§ Jean-Baptiste Colbert
§ David Ricardo
§ Adam Smith
§ James Steuart
§ Josiah Tucker
§ Giammaria Ortes
§ Bernard Mandeville
§ Ferdinando Galiani
§ François Quesnay
§ Cesare Beccaria
§ Richard Cantillon
§ Thomas Malthus
§ Louis Auguste Say
§ Jean-Baptiste Say
§ Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
§ Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui
§ Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi
§ Johann Heinrich von Thünen
§ August von Haxthausen
§ Lorenz von Stein
§ Bruno Hildebrand
§ Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
§ Frédéric Bastiat
§ Daniel Raymond
§ Charles Gide
Austrian and Chicago schools (awful!)
§ Carl Menger
§ Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
§ Friedrich Hayek
§ Ludwig von Mises
§ Allyn Abbott Young
§ Harry Gunnison Brown
§ Frank Fetter
§ Henry Calvert Simons
§ Henry Ludwell Moore
§ Wesley Clair Mitchell
§ Jacob Viner
§ Frank Knight
§ Milton Friedman
§ Ludwig Lachmann
§ Israel Kirzner
§ Murray Rothbard
§ George Stigler
§ James M. Buchanan
Keynesians
§ John Maynard Keynes
§ John Kenneth Galbraith
§ James Tobin
§ John Hicks
§ Paul Davidson
§ Sidney Weintraub
§ Nicholas Kaldor
§ Paul Krugman
Other economists, here we have some of the so called heterodox economists and ‘degrowthers’
§ Karl Polanyi
§ Adolph Wagner
§ Alfred Weber
§ Gustav von Schmoller
§ Johann Karl Rodbertus
§ Thorstein Veblen
§ Werner Sombart
§ Richard Ehrenberg
§ Karl Bücher
§ Paul de Rousiers
§ Alexander Chayanov
§ Pyotr Maslov
§ Daniel Thorner
§ Stuart Chase
§ Simon Patten
§ Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz
§ Robert Giffen
§ Spencer Heath
§ Alfred Marshall
§ Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
§ Richard T. Ely
§ Edward R. Dewey
§ Nikolai Kondratiev
§ William Stanley Jevons
§ Léon Walras
§ Wolf Ladejinsky
§ Kenneth E. Boulding
§ John A. Hobson
§ Joseph Schumpeter
§ Alexander Del Mar
§ David Ames Wells
§ James A. Field
§ John R. Commons
§ Stephen Marglin
§ Silvio Gesell
§ Henry George
§ Joan Robinson
§ Lionel Robbins
§ Leonard Read
§ G. D. H. Cole
§ C. H. Douglas
§ Oskar Morgenstern
§ Piero Sraffa
§ Carlo M. Cipolla
§ Jean Fourastié
§ Joseph Shield Nicholson
§ François Perroux
§ Ragnar Frisch
§ Gunnar Myrdal
§ Guy Standing [Precariat of the World, Unite!]
§ Charles Goodhart
§ Charles P. Kindleberger
§ Albert O. Hirschman
§ Bernard Lietaer
§ Kenneth Arrow
§ Paul Romer
§ Robert Solow
§ Paul Craig Roberts
§ Irwin Stelzer
§ Herbert Simon
§ Henry Schultz
§ Simon H. Johnson
§ Paul Samuelson
§ Michael Pettis
§ Mancur Olson
§ Jean-Luc Gréau
§ Ha-Joon Chang
§ Gérard Debreu
§ Maurice Allais
§ Bernard Guerrien
§ André Orléan
§ Pierre Dockès
§ Jacques Sapir
§ Michel Beaud
§ François Fourquet
§ Michel Aglietta
§ Steve Keen
§ Michael Hudson
§ Michael Roberts
§ Michael Perelman
§ Stephen Maher
§ Scott Aquanno
§ Robert Heilbroner
§ Alfred Sauvy
§ Joel Mokyr
§ J. C. Kumarappa
§ E. F. Schumacher
§ Leopold Kohr
§ Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
§ Herman Daly
§ E. J. Mishan
§ François Partant
§ Serge Latouche
§ Martin A. Armstrong
Management (know thy enemy)
§ Henri Fayol
§ Frederick Winslow Taylor
§ Henry Ford
§ Henry Gantt
§ Alfred P. Sloan
§ Walther Rathenau
§ Hjalmar Schacht
§ Mary Parker Follett
§ Pierre S. Du Pont
§ Harold Koontz
§ Luther Gulick
§ Chris Argyris
§ Walter Polakov
§ Chester Barnard
§ Peter Drucker
§ Dale Carnegie
§ Douglas McGregor
§ Elton Mayo
§ Frederick Herzberg
§ David McClelland
§ Allan Savory
§ Michael Porter
XVI - Cybertechnocrats. Those people are related with theories of cybernetics, it’s important to know about them, because this thing shaped the modern world we are in, once again, know thy enemy
§ Warren McCulloch
§ Walter Pitts
§ Ross Ashby
§ Heinz von Foerster
§ John von Neumann
§ Norbert Wiener
§ Stafford Beer
§ Victor Glushkov
§ B. F. Skinner
§ Buckminster Fuller
§ Alfred Korzybski [The map is not the territory]
§ Howard Scott
§ Gilbert Simondon
§ Erich Jantsch
§ Niklas Luhmann
§ Lawrence J. Fogel
XVII - Now finally, the list of notable anarchists and radical writers
Early
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
William Godwin
Mikhail Bakunin
Petr Kropotkin
Errico Malatesta
Élisée Reclus
Late 19th Century and early 20th century
Carlo Pisacane
Renzo Novatore
Giovanni Rossi
Carlo Cafiero
Joseph Déjacque
Fernand Pelloutier
Anselme Bellegarrigue
Pierre De Geyter
Jean Allemane
Jules Vallès
Eugène Edine Pottier
Eugène Varlin
Georges Darien
Pierre Besnard
Jacques Gross
Ernest Cœurderoy
Émile Armand
Henri Zisly
Michael Kácha
Bernard Lazare
Louis Lingg
Voltarine de Cleyre
Emma Goldman
Lucy Parsons
Albert Parsons
August Spies
Louise Michel
Madeleine Vernet
James Guillaume
Alexander Berkman
Gustav Landauer
Rudolf Rocker
Max Nettlau
Ernst Toller
Silvio Gesell
Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis
Christiaan Cornelissen
Heinrich Blücher
Luigi Galleani
Luigi Fabbri
Luce Fabbri
Enrico Arrigoni
Camillo Berneri
Marie-Louise Berneri
Ralph Chaplin
Vernon Richards
Sam Dolgoff
Russians/ukrainians
Yemelyan Pugachev
Stenka Razin
Nestor Makhno
Halyna Kuzmenko
Fanya Baron
Senya Fleshin
Sergey Nechayev
Gregori Maximoff
Peter Arshinov
Ida Mett
Voline
Spaniards
Camillo Berneri
Salvador Seguí
Ramón de la Sagra
Fernando Tarrida del Mármol
Francesc Pi y Margall
Buenaventura Durruti
José Pellicer Gandía
Francisco Maroto del Ojo
Anselmo Lorenzo
Francisco Ferrer
Ricardo Flores Magón
Teresa Mañé
Diego Abad de Santillán
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
Federica Montseny
José Peirats
Abel Paz
The French
Émile Pouget
Émile Armand
Émile Pataud
Charles Malato
Auguste Vaillant
Paul Reclus
Sebastien Faure
Gustave Lefrançais
Jules Bonnot [Bonnot Gang]
Marius Jacob
Clément Duval
Joseph Albert
Jean Grave
Han Ryner
Daniel Guérin
Victor Serge
Gaston Leval
Anglais, those of old times weren’t really ‘anarchists’ in the modern sense, but say, anarchical
Wat Tyler
John Ball
Gerrard Winstanley
William Godwin
William Morris
Oscar Wilde
Edward Carpenter
Edward Hyams
Arthur Penty
George Woodcock
Herbert Read
Colin Ward
Albert Meltzer
Alex Comfort
Stuart Christie
Nicolas Walter
Larry Law [situ-esque]
Some americans
Henry David Thoreau
Josiah Warren
Lysander Spooner
Johann Most
Stephen Pearl Andrews
John Henry Mackay
J. L. Walker
Jo Labadie
Hippolyte Havel
Charles H. Kerr
Benjamin Tucker
Marcus Graham
Latin America
Julio López Chávez
Emiliano Zapata
Augusto César Sandino
Alfredo Lopez
Plotino Rhodakanaty
Ricardo Flores Magón
Manuel González Prada
Giovanni Rossi
Domingos Passos
Gigi Damiani
Neno Vasco
Avelino Fóscolo
Edgard Leuenroth
José Oiticica
João Penteado
Oreste Ristori
Everardo Dias
Maria Lacerda de Moura
Angelina Soares
Asians
Ba Jin
He-Yin Zhen
Liu Shifu
Kanno Sugako
Shūsui Kōtoku
Itō Noe
Ōsugi Sakae
Bhagat Singh
Radical writers and post-left anarchists
Ida B. Wells
Randolph Bourne [“War is the health of the state”]
Samuel Gompers
Clarence Darrow
Dorothy Day
Ammon Hennacy
Saul Alinsky [Reformistic, but very instructive]
Michael Harrington
Jo Freeman
Ralph Borsodi
Emmett Grogan
Paul Mattick
Hal Draper
Carl Oglesby
Ivan Illich
Camilo Torres
Carlos Marighella
Eduardo Rothe
Gustavo Esteva
Lee Hoinacki
John L. McKnight
Lennard J. Davis
Irving Zola
Jacques Ellul
Kit Pedler
Kirkpatrick Sale
Theodore Roszak
Derrick Jensen
David Foreman
Edward Abbey
Jerry Mander
Bernard Charbonneau
John Seymour
Murray Bookchin
Dwight MacDonald
Nicola Chiaromonte [We only leave the cave one by one, or else we do
not leave it at all]
John Hampden Jackson
Lucio Magri
Abbie Hoffman
Jerry Rubin
Paul Goodman
Charles A. Reich
David Thoreau Wieck
Donald Nicholson-Smith
Ralph Dumain [http://www.autodidactproject.org/ ]
Ben Morea
Fredy Perlman
John Zerzan
Enrico Manicardi
Ted Kaczynski
John Moore
Paul Cudenec
Darren Allen
Terence McKenna
Dennis McKenna
Robert Anton Wilson
Peter Lamborn Wilson
Bob Black
Gerry Reith [NEUTRON GUN — “The only work worth working is to slay the dragon or follow Ulysses, and trapped as I am the best I can do is crawl through the mud of the psychosis called daily life and console myself with visions of mayhem, vengeance, riot, bombings, and instant death for those responsible for any specific crime.”]
Ran Prieur
Ram Dass
Daniel Pinchbeck
Samuel Konkin
Peter H. Marshall
John P. Clark
David Graeber
Mark Neocleous
Paul Z. Simons
Wolfi Landstreicher
Peter Gelderloos
Lupus Dragonowl
Duane Rousselle
Saul Newman
Todd May
Süreyyya Evren
Ann Hansen [Ann Hansen is a Canadian anarchist and former member of Direct Action, a guerrilla organization known for the 1982 bombing of a Litton Industries plant, which made components for American cruise missiles.]
Giorgio Cesarano
Alfredo Bonanno
Tomás Ibáñez
Loren Goldner [ His website: https://www.breaktheirhaughtypower.net/ Goldner is no doubt one of the most erudite, eccentric and original marxists I came cross, highly recommend the man, very insightful and informative (RIP)]
Gianni Collu
Gianni Emilio Simonetti
Jacques Camatte
Pierre Guillaume
Guillaume Faye
Troy Southwood
Claudio Mutti
Alain de Benoist
Alain Soral
Hervé Juvin
Michel Clouscard
Jacques Cheminade
Jean-Claude Michéa
Jean-Marc Mandosio
Rafael Pallais
Michel Bounan [https://libcom.org/article/mad-history-world-michel-bounan]
Éric Hazan
Baudouin de Bodinat
Bertrand Louart
Situationists, pro-situs and post-situs (Situationism, mind you, started as an artistic movement and therefore with artists, like some painters, of which I preferred to put under “Moderns” in painters section)
Guy Debord
Asger Jorn
Jørgen Nash
Attila Kotányi
Ivan Chtcheglov [He tried to bomb the Eiffel Tower! Because the light was annoying him on the attic he slept at night]
Raoul Vaneigem
Gianfranco Sanguinetti
Mustapha Khayati
Michèle Bernstein
Alice Becker-Ho
René Viénet
René Riesel
Jean-Pierre Voyer
Yves Le Manach
Ken Knabb [His site https://www.bopsecrets.org/]
Isaac Cronin
Tony Verlaan
Jonathan Horelick
Robert Chasse
Bruce Elwell
Jaime Semprún
Miguel Amorós
XVIII - Utopian Socialists
Robert Owen
Saint-Simon
Pierre Leroux
Charles Fourier
Philippe Buonarroti
Sylvain Maréchal
Alphonse Toussenel
Étienne Cabet
Albert Brisbane
John Humphrey Noyes [One of those Badass American personalities you discover along the way, not unlike “Emperor Norton” or Marquis de Morès, and the more modern Gerry Reith (NeutronGun) love em]
XIX - Rare, forgotten, yet important marxists, socialists councilists and syndicalists. This list also has the so called ‘critical theorists’, feminists, ‘post-modernist’ philosophers, as well as some philosophers of Soviet Union. (Some here are the lowest scum —they are here because in a way or another they were influential— while others are of quality, brave and exemplar and you can get something fruitful from them)
François-Noël Babeuf
Louis Blanc
Paul Lafargue
César De Paepe
Flora Tristan
Wilhelm Weitling
Carl Schurz
Edward Aveling
Eleanor Marx
Karl Heinzen
Arnold Ruge
Georg Herwegh
Emma Herwegh
Ferdinand Freiligrath
Georg Weerth
Henry Boernstein
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Alexander Herzen
Sergei Stepniak
Svetozar Marković
Vasa Pelagić
Ervin Szabó
Jan Wacław Machajski
Wilfrid Voynich
Georgi Plekhanov
Henry Hyndman
Henri de Man
Catherine Breshkovsky
Isaak Illich Rubin
Milovan Djilas
Abram Deborin
Alexandre Kojéve
Evald Ilyenkov
Alexandre Koyré
Alexandra Kollontai
Nikolai Bukharin
Grigory Zinoviev
Alexander Parvus
Nikolay Mikhaylovsky
Pyotr Lavrov
Georges Sorel
Hubert Lagardelle
Carlo Tresca
Andrés Nin
Herman Gorter
Antonio Labriola
George Novack
Karl Liebknecht
Vera Zasulich
Lev Grigorievich Deutsch
Pavel Axelrod
Leó Frankel
Rosa Luxemburg
Franz Mehring
Antonio Gramsci
Louis-Auguste Blanqui
Peter Struve
Karl Kautsky
Eduard Bernstein
Rudolf Hilferding
Michał Kalecki
Max Adler
Arturo Giovannitti
Daniel de León
William Thompson
James Connolly
Wesley Everest
Franklin Henry Little
John L. Lewis
William F. Dunne
Morris Hillquit
Bill Haywood
Eugene V. Debs
Ernest Belfort Bax
Mary E. Marcy
Irving Howe
G. A. Cohen
Roman Rosdolsky
Moishe Postone
Lucio Colletti
Amadeo Bordiga
Domenico Losurdo
Mario Tronti
W. E. B. Du Bois
C. L. R. James
Grace Lee Boggs
Robert Brenner
Huey P. Newton
Bobby Seale
Eldridge Cleaver
Harold Cruse
John Sinclair
Frantz Fanon
Steve Biko
Kwame Nkrumah
Aimé Césaire
Walter Rodney
Stokely Carmichael
George Jackson
Fred Hampton
Assata Shakur
Cornel West
James Carr [An ex-black panther who was assassinated. "When I was nine years old I burned down my school."]
M. N. Roy
Philip Spratt
Raya Dunayevskaya
Anton Pannekoek
Joseph Dietzgen
Otto Rühle
Boris Souvarine
Kostas Papaioannou
Henri Lefebvre
Gilles Dauvé
Jacek Kuroń
Franz Borkenau
Josef Weber
Ngo Van Xuyet
Phil Mailer
Isaac Deutscher
Maurice Brinton
Ralph Schoenman
Joel Kovel
Cornelius Castoriadis
Claude Lefort
Karl Korsch
Ante Ciliga
Georg Lukács
Karel Kosík
Walter Benjamin
Ernst Bloch
Theodor Adorno
Max Horkheimer
Siegfried Kracauer
Friedrich Pollock
Carl Grünberg
Leo Löwenthal
Otto Kirchheimer
Georg Rusche
Herbert Marcuse
Jürgen Habermas
Simone de Beauvoir
Louis Althusser
Pierre Macherey
Nicos Poulantzas
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Derrida
Jean-François Lyotard
Michael Dillon
Guy Hocquenghem
Néstor Perlongher
Bruce Bagemihl
Michel Foucault
Gilles Deleuze
Félix Guattari
Gilles Châtelet
Alain Badiou
Louis Janover
Antonio Negri
Franco Berardi
Bruno Bosteels
Jean Baudrillard
Richard Rorty
Kate Millett
Shulamith Firestone [She was so cute, poor woman though..]
Valerie Solanas [SCUM Manifesto]
Andrea Dworkin [The SCUM in human form, don’t be like her, Chercons la Femme!]
Adrian Johnston
Betty Friedan
Germaine Greer
Julia Kristeva
Hélène Cixous
Judith Butler
Luce Irigaray
Donna Haraway
Lauren Berlant
Angela Davis
Bell Hooks (!!!)
Monique Wittig
Françoise d'Eaubonne
Silvia Federici
Nancy Fraser
Catherine Malabou
Alfred Sohn-Rethel
Oskar R. Lange
Ernest Mandel
Benjamin Noys
Henryk Grossmam
Ronald L. Meek
Paul A. Baran
Paul Sweezy
Harry Braverman
Andrew Kliman
Richard David Wolff
Hans-Georg Backhaus
Lucien Sève
Stephen Resnick
Marshall Berman
Fredric Jameson
Terry Eagleton
Bertell Ollman
Ernest Laclau
Chantal Mouffe
Boris Groys
Régis Debray
Jonathan Crary
Douglas Kellner
Peter McLaren
Robert Blatchford
Chris Harman
Anselm Jappe
Robert Kurz
Michael Löwy
Vladimir Safatle
Harry Magdoff
Li Minqi
Daniel Bensaïd
Mark Fisher
Gustavo Bueno
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not really
You might ask “where is Zizek, Chomsky, Jordan Peterson, Ayn Rand, de Sade?”
No no no, those are so detestable and famous that they do not deserve to enter in this list. They will curse it.
Without further ado, thanks for taking interest in reading it! Hope you discover new things, things like the Truth.
I suggest saving and printing this list before the Apocalypse!
Quantitas est Qualitas12
COMMONEST EXPERIENCES BEFORE APOTHEOSIS OF. THE LUSTRAL PRINCIPIUM.
hidden occult meaning of the tree (besides tree of life/knowledge): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Eugenics_congress_logo.png
also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Education_of_Little_Tree Very verily educated, Sir
This list has a certain focus or soft-spot for putting the earliest people of certain disciplines, the pioneers. It’s important to know about origins, a lost art in this modern ahistorical world, as Zerzan pointed out. I also have the intent to foster interdisciplinary thinking.
‟When selfish happiness is the only goal in life, life soon becomes goalless”
—Romain Rolland
Categories missing here because I have no ‘initiation’ into are: Sculptors [now added] and movie directors. I know a few, the most famous ones, but that would be incomplete.
babble bubbles: Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Exagmination_Round_His_Factification_for_Incamination_of_Work_in_Progress
Lucian is known as a satirist of such a period:
“Traditional Greco-Roman religion was in decline and its role in society had become largely ceremonial. As a substitute for traditional religion, many people in the Hellenistic world joined mystery cults, such as the Mysteries of Isis, Mithraism, the cult of Cybele, and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Superstition had always been common throughout ancient society, but it was especially prevalent during the second century” (Wikipedia, the footnotes says the scholar behind these assertions is Lionel Casson)
Sounds familiar?
Fascinating character, known for having written the Physiologie du goût (or Physiology of Taste: Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy), widely read during ole victorian times.
He wrote:
“Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are”
He also said that the destiny of nations depends on what its populace eats and that true men of Spirit know how to eat well. He was a friend of Charles Fourier!
https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/
War is for losers
Sousa, the great march composer of United States, if your taste is open you will like him. John Cowper Powys was obsessed with him, specifically with his Star and Strips:
“But how those exultant, reckless, cynical, devil may-care strains delighted me. I derived from them a notion of the character of the American spirit which still seems to me, after all these years, no unworthy interpretation.” (From his Autobiography)
Sousa also was very vocal against recorded music, which was just at the beggining in the time he lived. He called it “The Menace of Mechanical Music”. In a very Walter Benjaminean and even Situtationistic vein, also very poetically, he wrote:
“Heretofore, the whole course of music, from its first day to this, has been along the line of making it the expression of soul states. Now, in this the twentieth century, come these talking and playing machines, and offer again to reduce the expression of music to a mathematical system of megaphones, wheels, cogs, disks, cylinders, all as like real art as the marble statue of Eve is like her beautiful, living, breathing daughters. With music in such easy reach, who will bother learning to perform it themselves? What of the national throat? Will it not weaken? What of the national chest? Will it not shrink? When a mother can turn on the phonograph with the same ease that she applies to the electric light, will she croon her baby to slumber with sweet lullabys, or will the infant be put to sleep by machinery?”
—1906
Both Kreisler and Karas weren’t really *composers* but virtuosos. Kreisler of violin and Karas of the zither, of course they composed some, that wasn’t their main activity though. Their talent were so much that they deserve to be here, they were the last breath of the waltz/ländler tradition in Vienna after the wars and social breakdowns that devastated that place, a destruction that we can sense in the literature of its inhabitants.. Musil, Kraus, Canetti et al….
“Philosophers like Slavoj Zizek and Bernard‐Henri Lévy are typical examples of Coca‐Cola intellectuals. Their „reflections” are being tailored to provide „philosophical” legitimacy to the ecocidal and genocidal activities of the stakeholders in the „new world order”. Their thought represents a philosophical merit badge on the chests of the capitalist executioners who obliterate nature and humankind.”
Indeed, how they are. Zizek with his cynical support for lockdowns… we also have the idiotized ‘accelerationists’. They will pay.




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It's over boys..
I will actually split this sooner or later.
Locked new names I can't add:
Wlastimil Hofman (Polish Painter)
Mario Sironi (Futurist Painter)
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (Polemic Polymath)
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (Science Historian)
Karl L. King (American Marches Composer, I loved his "Emblem of Freedom" march)
John Ross Browne (Writer)
Jean Cardonnel (Leftist priest)
Oliver Leslie Reiser (Technocrat)
Robert I. Friedman (Investigative Journalist)
Vladimir Dedijer (Historian)
Antonio Moresco (Italian Writer)
Stefano D'Arrigo (Italian Writer)
Venedikt Yerofeyev (Russian Writer)
Milorad Pavić (Serbian Poet & Writer)
Hugh Walpole (British Novelist)
Rudolf Wagner (Natural Scientist)
Carl Vogt (Natural Scientist)
John Murray Cuddihy (Sociologist)
Philipp Jakob Spener (Theologian)
Susan Stebbing (British Philosopher)
This is a very good list, though I would include also (among linguists) John Rupert Firth, Michael Halliday, (and among scholastics/theologians) Nagarjuna, Muhammad al-Bukhari, and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj. I would also consider adding Bai Xingjian, Frank Jackson, and the pseudonymous author of Jin Ping Mei, Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng. I am wondering also if the exclusion of John Stuart Mill and Carl Jung is intentional.