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This is a list of artists (including writers, musicians, etc.) in different times around the world.
Don't forget to use [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor Browser] and [https://ab-kotecha.medium.com/how-to-connect-from-a-specific-country-without-any-vpn-but-privately-enough-through-tor-browser-5dc2d45043b set the exit node] if they don't show you for the geographical reason.
Not all are good for kids or adolescents: some have sexual content, some have radical thoughts.
In progress.
== 20<sup>th</sup> Century ==
{| class="wikitable"
! name
! region
! period
! family background
! title
! style
! link to works
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| Agatha Christie
| England
| Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Postwar era
| army officer
| novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, memoirist
| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Agatha_Mary_Clarissa_Christie
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Agatha%20Christie%29
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| Albert Camus
| Algeria, France
| French Algeria, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic
| worker
| philosopher, author, journalist
| Absurdism
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Albert%20Camus%29
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| Alberto Pincherle (Alberto Moravia)
| Italy
| Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic
| architect and painter
| novelist and journalist
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| Andy Warhol
| United States of America
| Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-War Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era
| miner
| painter, film director, film producer
| Pop Art
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/andy-warhol
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Andy%20Warhol%29
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| Charles Spencer Chaplin
| England, United States of America, Switzerland
| Victorian era, Edwardian era, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war United States of America, Post-war Switzerland
| music hall entertainer
| actor, comedian, film director, composer, screenwriter, film producer, film editor
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* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8ujRSkMl0zCl-5l0Qu5J6vOPzxn91Jqd
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Charles%20Chaplin%29
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| Clive Staples Lewis
| England
| Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war era
| solicitor
| novelist, scholar, broadcaster
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Clive_Staples_Lewis
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/782
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28C.%20S.%20Lewis%29
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| Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell)
| India, Burma, England, France, Spain
| British Raj, British rule in Burma, Interwar, French Third Republic, Spanish Civil War, World War II, Post-war Britain
| civil servant
| novelist, essayist, journalist, literary critic
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Orwell
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28George%20Orwell%29
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| Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc
| France
| French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic
| pharmaceutical manufacturer owner
| composer, pianist
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* https://www.classiccat.net/poulenc_f/index.php
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| Franz Kafka
| Bohemia
| Austro-Hungarian Empire, First Czechoslovak Republic
| ritual slaughterer
| novelist, short-story writer, insurance officer
| Modernism
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* https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Franz%20Kafka%29
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| Gabriel García Márquez
| Colombia, Mexico
| Liberal and Conservative Conflict, National Front regime, "Revolution to evolution", Economic crisis in Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo,  Vicente Fox Quesada, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, Enrique Peña Nieto
| pharmacist
| novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, journalist
| Latin American Boom, Magic Realism
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Gabriel%20Garc%C3%ADa%20M%C3%A1rquez%29
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| Grant DeVolson Wood
| United States of America
| Gilded Age, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II
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| painter
| Regionalism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood
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| Hamid Aytaç
| Turkey
| Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Republic of Turkey
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| calligrapher
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| Henri Émile Benoît Matisse
| France
| Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic
| grain merchant
| painter, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor
| Fauvism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse
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| Jerome David Salinger
| United States of America
| World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, modern day
| kosher cheese trader
| writer
|
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28J.%20D.%20Salinger%29
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| John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
| Orange Free State, England
| Orange Free State, Victorian Era, Edwardian Era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war Era
| craftsman
| writer, academic, philologist, poet
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28J.R.R.+Tolkien%29
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| Louis Daniel Armstrong
| United States of America
| Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era
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| musician, singer
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* https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL56B9E8A382FE7CFA
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Louis%20Armstrong%29
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| Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
| Mexico, United States of America
| Mexican Revolution, Consolidation of revolution, Great Depression, Consolidation of revolution, "Revolution to evolution"
| painter and photographer
| painter
| Surrealism, Magic Realism, Naïve
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/frida-kahlo
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| Michael Joseph Jackson
| United States of America
| Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, Modern day
| crane operator and band guitarist
| singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer
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* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL08865B6758432FE8
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Michael%20Jackson%29
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| Pablo Ruiz Picasso
| Spain, France
| Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic
| painter
| painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, theatre designer
| Cubism, Surrealism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/pablo-picasso
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| Paul Jackson Pollock
| United States of America
| Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era
| farmer, land surveyor
| painter
| Abstract Expressionism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/jackson-pollock
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| Primo Michele Levi
| Italy
| Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic
| worker
| chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Primo%20Levi%29
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| Roald Dahl
| England
| World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war period
| ship broker
| novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, fighter pilot
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Roald%20Dahl%29
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| Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
| Spain, France, United States of America
| Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Francoist Spain, Post-Franco Spain
| lawyer and notary
| painter, photographer, sculptor, writer
| Cubism, Dada, Surrealism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/salvador-dali
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| Umberto Eco
| Italy
| Fascist Italy, World War II, Italian Republic
| accountant
| medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, commentator, novelist
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Umberto%20Eco%29
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| Александр Исаевич Солженицын
''Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn''
| Russia, United States of America
| Russian Revolution, Soviet Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era in the USA, Russian Federation
| landowner
| novelist, essayist, historian
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Aleksandr%20Solzhenitsyn%29
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| Владимир Владимирович Набоков
''Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov''
| Russia, Germany, United States of America, Switzerland
| Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, World War II in the USA, Post-war Era in the USA, Post-war Switzerland
| noble
| novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist
| Modernism, Post-Modernism
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Vladimir%20Nabokov%29
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| Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
''Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov''
| Russia
| Alexander III, Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Establishment of the USSR, Stalinism
| state councilor and professor
| novelist, short-story writer, playwright, physician
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* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Михаил_Афанасьевич_Булгаков
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| ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿਲ
''Amrita Sher-Gil''
| Hungary, India, France
| Hungarian Republic, Kingdom of Hungary, British Raj, French Third Republic
| aristocrat and scholar
| painter
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/amrita-sher-gil
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| যামিনী রায়
''Jamini Roy''
| India
| British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India
| landowner
| painter
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| নন্দলাল বসু
''Nandalal Bose''
| India
| British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India
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| painter
| Contextual Modernism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/nandalal-bose
|-
| 이광수 [李光洙]
''Yi Kwang-su''
| Korea
| late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea
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| novelist, activist
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* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:이광수
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| 최남선 [崔南善]
''Choe Nam-seon''
| Korea
| late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea
| jungin
| historian, poet, publisher
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* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:최남선
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| 川端康成
''Kawabata Yasunari''
| Japan
| Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle
| doctor
| novelist, short-story writer, essayist
| Shinkankakuha
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| 平岡公威 (三島由紀夫)
''Hiraoka Kimitake (Mishima Yukio)''
| Japan
| Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle
| official
| novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic
| Romanticism, Aestheticism
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| 谷崎潤一郎
''Tanizaki Jun'ichirō''
| Japan
| Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle
| merchant
| writer
| Aestheticism
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| 周樹人 (魯迅)
''Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)''
| China
| late Qing dynasty, Republic of China
| landowner
| essayist, short-story writer, critic
| New Culture Movement
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* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:魯迅
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26193
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| 查良鏞 (金庸) / Louis Cha
''Zha Liangyong (Jin Yong)''
| China
| Republic of China, British Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
| landowner
| novelist, essayist, newspaper founder, newspaper editor
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* http://www.haodoo.net/?M=hd&P=martial
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| 徐悲鴻
''Xu Beihong''
| China
| late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation
| teacher
| painter
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/xu-beihong
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| 張大千
''Chang Dai-chien''
| China
| late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, Taiwan under martial law, democratic reforms in Taiwan
| teacher, politician
| painter
| Impressionism, Expressionism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/chang-dai-chien
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| 張愛玲 / Eileen Chang
''Chang Ai-ling''
| China, United States of America
| Republic of China, British Hong Kong, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era
| naval commander
| novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, short-story writer
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| 遠藤周作
''Endō Shūsaku''
| Japan
| Taishō period, Shōwa period, Heisei period
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| writer
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| 齊純芝 (齊白石)
''Qi Chunzhi (Qi Baishi)''
| China
| late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation
| peasant
| painter
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/qi-baishi
|}
== 19<sup>th</sup> Century ==
{| class="wikitable"
! name
! region
! period
! family background
! title
! style
! link to works
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| Achille-Claude Debussy
| France, Italy
| Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Kingdom of Italy
| shop owner
| composer
| Impressionism
|
* https://www.classiccat.net/debussy_c/index.php
|-
| Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni
| Italy
| Age of Enlightenment, Napoleonic Era, Unification of Italy
| noble
| poet, novelist and philosopher
| Enlightenment, Romanticism
|
* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Alessandro_Manzoni
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37500
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Alessandro%20Manzoni%29
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| Alexandre César Léopold Bizet (Georges Bizet)
| France, Italy
| July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Unification of Italy, French Third Republic
| singing teacher
| composer
| Romanticism
|
* https://www.classiccat.net/bizet_g/index.php
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| Alexandre Dumas
| France
| First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire
| noble
| novelist, playwright
| Romanticism, Historical Fiction
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Alexandre_Dumas
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/492
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Alexandre%20Dumas%29
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| Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (George Sand)
| France
| First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| noble
| novelist, memoirist, journalist
| Romanticism, Pastoralism
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:George_Sand
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28George%20Sand%29
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| Antonín Leopold Dvořák
| Bohemia, United States of America
| Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gilded Age
| innkeeper and butcher
| composer
| Romanticism
|
* https://www.classiccat.net/dvorak_a/index.php
|-
| Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
| England
| Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar
| illustrator and civil servant
| writer, physician
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* https://sherlock-holm.es/
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Arthur_Conan_Doyle
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69
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| Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns
| France
| July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| official
| composer, organist, conductor, pianist
| Romanticism
|
* https://www.classiccat.net/saint-saens_c/index.php
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| Charles John Huffam Dickens
| England, United States of America, France
| Georgian era, Jacksonian democracy, July Monarchy, Victorian era, Reconstruction era
| clerk in the Navy Pay Office
| writer, social critic
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Charles%20Dickens%29
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| Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
| England
| Victorian era
| clergy
| writer, illustrator, poet, mathematician, photographer, teacher, inventor
|
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Charles_Lutwidge_Dodgson
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Lewis%20Carroll%29
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| Edgar Allan Poe
| United States of America
| Jeffersonian Era, Era of Good Feelings, Jacksonian Era
| actor
| writer, poet, editor, literary critic
|
|
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Edgar_Allan_Poe
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/481
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Edgar+Allan+Poe%29
|-
| Edvard Munch
| Norway, Germany, France
| United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, Wilhelm II, French Third Republic, Interwar Independence of Norway, German occupation of Norway
| doctor and medical officer
| painter
| Expressionism, Symbolism
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/edvard-munch
|-
| Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola
| Italy, France
| Unification of Italy, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| engineer
| novelist, journalist, playwright, poet
| Naturalism
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Émile_Zola
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/528
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28%C3%89mile%20Zola%29
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| Eric Alfred Leslie Satie
| France
| Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| shipping broker
| composer, pianist
|
|
* https://www.classiccat.net/satie_e/index.php
|-
| Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
| France
| French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire
| official
| painter, lithographer
| Romanticism
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/eugene-delacroix
|-
| Gabriele D'Annunzio
| Italy
| Kingdom of Italy
| landowner and mayor
| poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, army officer
| Decadent Movement
|
* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Gabriele_D'Annunzio
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9030
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Gabriele%20D%27Annunzio%29
|-
| Gustave Flaubert
| France
| Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| director and senior surgeon
| novelist
| Realism, Romanticism
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Gustave_Flaubert
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/574
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Gustave%20Flaubert%29
|-
| Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
| France
| French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
|
| novelist, short story writer, poet
| Naturalism, Realism
|
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Guy_de_Maupassant
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/306
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Guy%20de%20Maupassant%29
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| Honoré de Balzac
| France
| French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic
| artisan
| writer, critic, journalist, printer
| Realism
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Honoré_de_Balzac
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/251
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Honor%C3%A9%20de%20Balzac%29
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| Joseph Maurice Ravel
| France
| French Third Republic
| engineer
| composer, pianist, conductor
| Impressionism
|
* [https://www.classiccat.net/ravel_m/ https://www.classiccat.net/ravel_m/]
|-
| Jules Gabriel Verne
| France
| Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| attorney
| novelist, poet, playwright
| Avant-garde, Surrealism
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Jules_Verne
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/60
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Jules%20Verne%29‘
|-
| Louis-Hector Berlioz
| France, Italy
| French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, Unification of Italy, July Monarchy, French Second Republic
| physician
| composer, conductor
| Romanticism
|
* [https://www.classiccat.net/berlioz_h/index.php https://www.classiccat.net/berlioz_h/index.php]
|-
| Mehmet Âkif Ersoy
| Turkey
| Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish War of Independence, Government of the Grand National Assembly, One-party period of the Republic of Turkey
|
| poet, writer, academic, politician
| The Republican Era
|
* https://tr.wikisource.org/wiki/Kişi:Mehmet_Âkif_Ersoy
|-
| Oscar-Claude Monet
| France, Algeria
| July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Algeria, French Third Republic
| merchant
| painter
| Impressionism
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet
|-
| Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
| United States of America
| Jacksonian Era, Civil War Era, Reconstruction Era, Gilded Age, Progressive Era
| attorney and judge
| writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer
|
|
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Samuel_Langhorne_Clemens
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Mark+Twain%29
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| Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
| France
| French Third Republic
| pathologist and epidemiologist
| novelist, critic, essayist
|
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Marcel_Proust
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/987
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Marcel%20Proust%29
|-
| Victor-Marie Hugo
| France, Channel Islands
| French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Victorian Era
| general
| poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, dramatist
| Romanticism
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Victor_Hugo
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/85
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Victor%20Hugo%29
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| Vincent Willem van Gogh
| Netherlands, France
| democratic and industrial development in Netherlands, French Third Republic
| church minister
| painter
| Post-Impressionism
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh
|-
| Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
''Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin''
| Russia
| Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I
| noble
| poet, novelist, playwright
| Romanticism, Realism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Александр_Сергеевич_Пушкин
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1457
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Alexander%20Pushkin%29
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| Антон Павлович Чехов
''Anton Pavlovich Chekhov''
| Russia
| Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II
| grocery store owner
| physician, short-story writer, playwright
| Modernism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Антон_Павлович_Чехов
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/708
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Anton%20Chekhov%29
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| Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
''Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev''
| Russia
| Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III
| noble
| novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, translator
| Realism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Иван_Сергеевич_Тургенев
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/922
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Ivan%20Turgenev%29
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| Лев Николаевич Толстой
''Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy''
| Russia
| Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II
| aristocrat
| novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist
| Realism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Лев_Николаевич_Толстой
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/136
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28%28Lev%20OR%20%20Leo%29%20Tolstoy%29
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| Микола Васильович Гоголь / Николай Васильевич Гоголь
''Mykola Vasyl'ovych Hohol / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol'''
| Ukraine / Russia
| Alexander I, Nicholas I
| military officer
| Playwright, short-story writer, novelist
| Surrealism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Николай_Васильевич_Гоголь
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/531
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Gogol%29
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| Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов
''Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov''
| Russia
| Alexander I, Nicholas I
| noble
| writer, poet, painter
| Romanticism, Pre-Realism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Михаил_Юрьевич_Лермонтов
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/469
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| Пётр Ильич Чайковский
''Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky''
| Russia
| Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III
| iron worker
| composer
| Romanticism
|
* [https://www.classiccat.net/tchaikovsky_pi/index.php https://www.classiccat.net/tchaikovsky_pi/index.php]
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| Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
''Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky''
| Russia
| Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II
| noble
| military engineer, novelist, journalist
| Realism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Фёдор_Михайлович_Достоевский
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/314
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Dostoevsky%29
|-
| অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
''Abanindranath Tagore''
| India
| British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India
| noble
| painter
| Bengal school
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/abanindranath-tagore
|-
| രാജാ രവിവർമ്മ
''Raja Ravi Varma''
| India
| Kingdom of Travancore
| aristocrat
| painter
|
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/raja-ravi-varma
|-
| 장승업 [張承業] (오원 [吾園])
''Jang Seung-eop (Owon)''
| Korea
| late Jeoson period
|
| painter
|
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/owon
|-
| 夏目金之助 (夏目漱石)
''Natsume Kin'nosuke (Natsume Sōseki)''
| Japan, England
| Meiji period, Edwardian Era, Taishō period
| official
| novelist, essayist, critic
| Yoyūha, Anti-Naturalism
|
* https://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person148.html
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Natsume%20S%C5%8Dseki%29
|}
== 18<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
| France
| Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI
| lawyer
| writer, philosopher, historian
|
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Voltaire
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/913
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Voltaire%29
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| Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi
| Turkey
| Ottoman Old Regime, Nizam-i Cedid, Tanzimat
|
| composer
|
|
* https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Dede_Efendi,_Hammamizade_İsmail
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| Hattat Mehmet Sâmi Efendi
| Turkey
| Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Second Constitutional Era
| guild official
| calligrapher
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sami_Efendi
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| Jane Austen
| England
| Georgian era
| clergy
| novelist
|
|
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Jane_Austen
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Jane%20Austen%29
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| Johann Sebastian Bach
| Germany
| sectionalism in the Holy Roman Empire, Enlightenment in Germany
| director of musicians
| composer
| Baroque
|
* https://www.classiccat.net/bach_js/index.php
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| Levnî Abdülcelil Çelebi
| Turkey
| Mustafa II, Ahmed III
| noble
| painter
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Abdulcelil_Levni
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| Ludwig van Beethoven
| Germany
| Enlightenment in Germany
| musician)
| composer, pianist
| classicism, Romanticism
|
* https://www.classiccat.net/beethoven_l_van/index.php
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| 신윤복 [申潤福] (혜원 [蕙園])
''Sin Yun-bok (Hyewon)''
| Korea
| late Joseon period
| court painter
| painter
|
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/yoon-bok-shin
|-
| 曹雪芹
''Cao Xueqin''
| China
| middle Qing dynasty
| official
| novelist, poet, philosopher, painter
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:曹雪芹
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3092
|}
== 17<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Johannes Vermeer
| Netherlands
| Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
| worker
| painter
| Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/johannes-vermeer
|-
| Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
| Netherlands
| Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
| miller
| painter, printmaker, draughtsman
| Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt
|-
| 김만중 [金萬重]
''Kim Man-jung''
| Korea
| late Joseon period
| noble
| novelist, politician
|
|
* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:김만중
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| 平山藤五 (井原西鶴)
''Hirayama Tōgo (Saikaku Ihara)''
| Japan
| early Edo period
| merchant
| writer
| Ukiyo-zōshi
|
* https://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person1216.html
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Saikaku%20Ihara%29
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| 朱耷 (八大山人)
''Zhu Da (Bada Shanren)''
| China
| late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty
| noble
| painter
|
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/bada-shanren
|-
| 松尾金作 (松尾芭蕉)
''Matsuo Kinsaku (Matsuo Bashō)''
| Japan
| early Edo period
| musokunin
| poet
| Shōfū Haikai
|
* https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/作者:松尾芭蕉
|}
== 16<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Spain
| Charles, Philip II, Philip III
| physician
| soldier, tax collector, accountant, purchasing agent for Navy
|
|
* https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Autor:Miguel_de_Cervantes
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/505
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Miguel%20de%20Cervantes%29
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| Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
| Italy
| Italian Renaissance
| banker
| sculptor, painter, architect, poet
| High Renaissance
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/michelangelo
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| William Shakespeare
| England
| Elizabethan era, Jacobean era
| alderman and glover
| playwright. poet. actor
| English Renaissance
|
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:William_Shakespeare_(1564-1616)
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28William%20Shakespeare%29
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| 허균 [許筠]
''Heo Gyun''
| Korea
| middle Joseon period
| noble
| novelist, poet, politician
|
|
* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:허균
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| 吳承恩
''Wu Cheng'en''
| China
| middle Ming dynasty
| artisan
| poet, novelist
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:吳承恩
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26148
|}
== 15<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Leonardo da Vinci
| Italy, France
| Italian Renaissance, Valois-Angoulême
| legal notary
| painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, architect
| High Renaissance
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonardo-da-vinci
|-
| Ludovico Ariosto
| Italy
| Italian Renaissance
| citadel commander
| poet
| Renaissance Humanism
|
* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Ludovico_Ariosto
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/322
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Ludovico%20Ariosto%29
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| Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
| Italy
| Republic of Florence
| attorney
| diplomat, author, philosopher, historian
| classical Realism
|
* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Niccolò_Machiavelli
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/563
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Niccol%C3%B2%20Machiavelli%29
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| Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
| Italy
| Italian Renaissance
| court painter
| painter, architect
| High Renaissance
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/raphael
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| Şeyh Hamdullah
| Turkey
| rise of the Ottoman Empire, Classical Age
| official
| calligrapher
|
|
|-
| 김시습 [金時習]
''Kim Si-seup''
| Korea
| early Joseon period
| aristocrat
| scholar, writer
|
|
* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:김시습
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| 文壁 (文徵明)
''Wen Bi (Wen Zhengming)''
| China
| Ming dynasty
| official
| painter, calligrapher, poet
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wen_Zhengming
|}
== 14<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Giovanni Boccaccio
| Italy
| Republic of Florence
| merchant
| writer, poet
| Renaissance Humanism
|
* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Giovanni_Boccaccio
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1279
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Giovanni%20Boccaccio%29
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| Guillaume de Machaut
| France
| House of Capet, House of Valois
|
| composer, poet
|
|
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Guillaume%20de%20Machaut%29
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| میرعلی تبریزی‎
''Mir Ali Tabrizi''
| Iran
| rise of the Timurid Empire, stagnation of the Timurid Empire
|
| poet, calligrapher
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mir_Ali_Tabrizi
|-
| 施耐庵
''Shi Nai'an''
| China
| late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty
|
| writer, teacher
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:施耐庵
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26093
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| 羅本 (羅貫中)
''Luo Be (Luo Guanzhong)''
| China
| late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty
|
| writer
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:羅貫中
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1511
|}
== 13<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Dante Alighieri
| Italy
| Republic of Florence
| politician
| statesman, poet, writer, philosopher, language theorist, political theorist
|
|
* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Dante_Alighieri
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/507
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| یاقوت مستعصمی
''Yaqut al-Musta'simi''
| Iraq
| Mongol invasion, Ilkhanate
|
| calligrapher
|
|
|-
| 일연 [一然]
''Il-yeon''
| Korea
| Goryeo military regime, Mongol invasions, late Goryeo
|
| monk, writer
|
|
* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:일연
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| 趙孟頫
''Zhao Mengfu''
| China
| late Song dynasty, early Yuan dynasty
| imperial family
| calligrapher, painter, scholar
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zhao_Mengfu
|}
== 12<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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== 11<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| ابن البواب‎
''Ibn al-Bawwab''
| Iraq
| Buyid and Seljuq control
|
| calligrapher, illuminator
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Ibn_al-Bawwab_Qur%27an
|-
| أم محمد فخر النساء شهدة بنت أحمد الإبري الدينوري البغدادية
''Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah Umm Muhammad al-Baghdadiyyah''
| Iraq
| Buyid and Seljuq control
|
| scholar, calligrapher
|
|
|-
| 米芾
''Mi Fu''
| China
| Northern Song dynasty
| general
| painter, poet, calligrapher
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mi_Fu
|-
| 黃庭堅
''Huang Tingjian''
| China
| Northern Song dynasty
| noble
| calligrapher, painter, poet
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Huang_Tingjian
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| 蘇軾
''Su Shi''
| China
| Northern Song Dynasty
| literati
| poet, writer, politician, calligrapher, painter, pharmacologist, gastronome
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:蘇軾
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26172
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Su_Shi
|}
== 10<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| 清少納言
''Sei Shōnagon''
| Japan
| middle Heian period
| scholar and poet
| writer, poet, lady-in-waiting
|
|
* https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/作者:清少納言
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Sei%20Shonagon%29
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| 紫式部
''Murasaki Shikibu''
| Japan
| middle Heian period
| noble
| novelist, poet, lady-in-waiting
|
|
* https://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person52.html
* https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/作者:紫式部
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46975
|}
== 9<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| أبو علي محمد بن علي ابن مقلة‎
''Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muqla''
| Iraq
| fracture of Abbasid Caliphate
|
| vizier, calligrapher
|
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| 최치원 [崔致遠]
''Choe Chiwon''
| Korea
| Unified Silla
| yukdupum
| philosopher, poet
|
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* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:최치원
|}
== 8<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| 王維
''Wang Wei''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
| aristocrat
| poet, musician, painter, politician
|
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/wang-wei
|-
| 杜甫
''Du Fu''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
| official
| poet, politician
|
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* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:杜甫
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| 李白
''Li Bai''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
| businessman
| poet
|
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* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:李白
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| 吳道子
''Wu Daozi''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
|
| painter
|
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/wu-daozi
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| 周昉
''Zhou Fang''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
| official
| painter
|
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* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chou_Fang
|-
| 柳公權
''Liu Gongquan''
| China
| late Tang dynasty
|
| calligrapher
|
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* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Liu_Gongquan
|-
| 張萱
''Zhang Xuan''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
|
| painter
|
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* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zhang_Xuan
|-
| 韓幹
''Han Gan''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
|
| painter
|
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/han-gan
|-
| 顏真卿
''Yan Zhenqing''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
| official
| calligrapher, military general, politician
|
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* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yan_Zhenqing
|}
== 7<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| 王勃
''Wang Bo''
| China
| early Tang dynasty
| scholar
| poet
|
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* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:王勃
|-
| 楊炯
''Yang Jiong''
| China
| early Tang dynasty
|
| poet
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:楊炯
|-
| 駱賓王
''Luo Binwang''
| China
| early Tang dynasty
|
| poet
|
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* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:駱賓王
|-
| 盧照鄰
''Lu Zhaolin''
| China
| early Tang dynasty
|
| poet
|
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* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:盧照鄰
|}
== 6<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| 歐陽詢
''Ouyang Xun''
| Chiina
| Southern Chen dynasty, early Tang dynasty
| official
| calligrapher, politician, writer
|
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* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ouyang_Xun
|}
== 5<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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== 4<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| 王羲之
''Wang Xizhi''
| China
| Western Jin Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty
| noble
| calligrapher, politician, writer
|
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* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Calligraphy_by_Wang_Xizhi
|-
| 陶潛 (陶淵明)
''Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming)
| China
| Eastern Jin dynasty, Liu Song dynasty
| official
| poet, politician
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:陶淵明
|-
| 顧愷之
''Gu Kaizhi''
| China
| Eastern Jin dynasty
| official
| painter
|
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* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gu_Kaizhi
|}
== 3<sup>rd</sup> Century ==
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== 2<sup>nd</sup> Century ==
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== 1<sup>st</sup> Century ==
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== 1<sup>st</sup> Century BC ==
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''Qu Yuan''
| Chu
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[[File:world-artists-history-polyglotclub.jpg|thumb]]
This is a list of artists (including writers, musicians, etc.) in different times around the world.
Don't forget to use [https://www.torproject.org/ Tor Browser] and [https://ab-kotecha.medium.com/how-to-connect-from-a-specific-country-without-any-vpn-but-privately-enough-through-tor-browser-5dc2d45043b set the exit node] if they don't show you for the geographical reason.
Not all are good for kids or adolescents: some have sexual content, some have radical thoughts.
In progress.
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| Agatha Christie
| England
| Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Postwar era
| army officer
| novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, memoirist
| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Agatha_Mary_Clarissa_Christie
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Agatha%20Christie%29
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| Albert Camus
| Algeria, France
| French Algeria, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic
| worker
| philosopher, author, journalist
| Absurdism
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Albert%20Camus%29
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| Alberto Pincherle (Alberto Moravia)
| Italy
| Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic
| architect and painter
| novelist and journalist
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| Andy Warhol
| United States of America
| Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-War Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era
| miner
| painter, film director, film producer
| Pop Art
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/andy-warhol
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Andy%20Warhol%29
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| Charles Spencer Chaplin
| England, United States of America, Switzerland
| Victorian era, Edwardian era, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war United States of America, Post-war Switzerland
| music hall entertainer
| actor, comedian, film director, composer, screenwriter, film producer, film editor
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* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8ujRSkMl0zCl-5l0Qu5J6vOPzxn91Jqd
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Charles%20Chaplin%29
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| Clive Staples Lewis
| England
| Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war era
| solicitor
| novelist, scholar, broadcaster
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Clive_Staples_Lewis
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/782
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28C.%20S.%20Lewis%29
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| Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell)
| India, Burma, England, France, Spain
| British Raj, British rule in Burma, Interwar, French Third Republic, Spanish Civil War, World War II, Post-war Britain
| civil servant
| novelist, essayist, journalist, literary critic
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Orwell
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28George%20Orwell%29
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| Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc
| France
| French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic
| pharmaceutical manufacturer owner
| composer, pianist
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* https://www.classiccat.net/poulenc_f/index.php
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| Franz Kafka
| Bohemia
| Austro-Hungarian Empire, First Czechoslovak Republic
| ritual slaughterer
| novelist, short-story writer, insurance officer
| Modernism
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* https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Franz%20Kafka%29
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| Gabriel García Márquez
| Colombia, Mexico
| Liberal and Conservative Conflict, National Front regime, "Revolution to evolution", Economic crisis in Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo,  Vicente Fox Quesada, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, Enrique Peña Nieto
| pharmacist
| novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, journalist
| Latin American Boom, Magic Realism
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Gabriel%20Garc%C3%ADa%20M%C3%A1rquez%29
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| Grant DeVolson Wood
| United States of America
| Gilded Age, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II
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| Regionalism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood
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| Hamid Aytaç
| Turkey
| Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Republic of Turkey
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| Henri Émile Benoît Matisse
| France
| Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic
| grain merchant
| painter, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor
| Fauvism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse
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| Jerome David Salinger
| United States of America
| World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, modern day
| kosher cheese trader
| writer
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28J.%20D.%20Salinger%29
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| John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
| Orange Free State, England
| Orange Free State, Victorian Era, Edwardian Era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war Era
| craftsman
| writer, academic, philologist, poet
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28J.R.R.+Tolkien%29
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| Louis Daniel Armstrong
| United States of America
| Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era
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* https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL56B9E8A382FE7CFA
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Louis%20Armstrong%29
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| Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
| Mexico, United States of America
| Mexican Revolution, Consolidation of revolution, Great Depression, Consolidation of revolution, "Revolution to evolution"
| painter and photographer
| painter
| Surrealism, Magic Realism, Naïve
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/frida-kahlo
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| Michael Joseph Jackson
| United States of America
| Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, Modern day
| crane operator and band guitarist
| singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer
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* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL08865B6758432FE8
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Michael%20Jackson%29
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| Pablo Ruiz Picasso
| Spain, France
| Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic
| painter
| painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, theatre designer
| Cubism, Surrealism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/pablo-picasso
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| Paul Jackson Pollock
| United States of America
| Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era
| farmer, land surveyor
| painter
| Abstract Expressionism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/jackson-pollock
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| Primo Michele Levi
| Italy
| Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic
| worker
| chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Primo%20Levi%29
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| Roald Dahl
| England
| World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war period
| ship broker
| novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, fighter pilot
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Roald%20Dahl%29
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| Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
| Spain, France, United States of America
| Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Francoist Spain, Post-Franco Spain
| lawyer and notary
| painter, photographer, sculptor, writer
| Cubism, Dada, Surrealism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/salvador-dali
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| Umberto Eco
| Italy
| Fascist Italy, World War II, Italian Republic
| accountant
| medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, commentator, novelist
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Umberto%20Eco%29
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| Александр Исаевич Солженицын
''Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn''
| Russia, United States of America
| Russian Revolution, Soviet Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era in the USA, Russian Federation
| landowner
| novelist, essayist, historian
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Aleksandr%20Solzhenitsyn%29
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| Владимир Владимирович Набоков
''Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov''
| Russia, Germany, United States of America, Switzerland
| Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, World War II in the USA, Post-war Era in the USA, Post-war Switzerland
| noble
| novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist
| Modernism, Post-Modernism
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* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Vladimir%20Nabokov%29
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| Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
''Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov''
| Russia
| Alexander III, Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Establishment of the USSR, Stalinism
| state councilor and professor
| novelist, short-story writer, playwright, physician
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* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Михаил_Афанасьевич_Булгаков
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| ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿਲ
''Amrita Sher-Gil''
| Hungary, India, France
| Hungarian Republic, Kingdom of Hungary, British Raj, French Third Republic
| aristocrat and scholar
| painter
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/amrita-sher-gil
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| যামিনী রায়
''Jamini Roy''
| India
| British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India
| landowner
| painter
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| নন্দলাল বসু
''Nandalal Bose''
| India
| British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India
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| Contextual Modernism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/nandalal-bose
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| 이광수 [李光洙]
''Yi Kwang-su''
| Korea
| late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea
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| novelist, activist
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* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:이광수
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| 최남선 [崔南善]
''Choe Nam-seon''
| Korea
| late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea
| jungin
| historian, poet, publisher
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* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:최남선
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| 川端康成
''Kawabata Yasunari''
| Japan
| Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle
| doctor
| novelist, short-story writer, essayist
| Shinkankakuha
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| 平岡公威 (三島由紀夫)
''Hiraoka Kimitake (Mishima Yukio)''
| Japan
| Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle
| official
| novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic
| Romanticism, Aestheticism
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| 谷崎潤一郎
''Tanizaki Jun'ichirō''
| Japan
| Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle
| merchant
| writer
| Aestheticism
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| 周樹人 (魯迅)
''Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)''
| China
| late Qing dynasty, Republic of China
| landowner
| essayist, short-story writer, critic
| New Culture Movement
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* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:魯迅
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26193
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| 查良鏞 (金庸) / Louis Cha
''Zha Liangyong (Jin Yong)''
| China
| Republic of China, British Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
| landowner
| novelist, essayist, newspaper founder, newspaper editor
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* http://www.haodoo.net/?M=hd&P=martial
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| 徐悲鴻
''Xu Beihong''
| China
| late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation
| teacher
| painter
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/xu-beihong
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| 張大千
''Chang Dai-chien''
| China
| late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, Taiwan under martial law, democratic reforms in Taiwan
| teacher, politician
| painter
| Impressionism, Expressionism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/chang-dai-chien
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| 張愛玲 / Eileen Chang
''Chang Ai-ling''
| China, United States of America
| Republic of China, British Hong Kong, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era
| naval commander
| novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, short-story writer
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| 遠藤周作
''Endō Shūsaku''
| Japan
| Taishō period, Shōwa period, Heisei period
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| 齊純芝 (齊白石)
''Qi Chunzhi (Qi Baishi)''
| China
| late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation
| peasant
| painter
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/qi-baishi
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== 19<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Achille-Claude Debussy
| France, Italy
| Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Kingdom of Italy
| shop owner
| composer
| Impressionism
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* https://www.classiccat.net/debussy_c/index.php
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| Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni
| Italy
| Age of Enlightenment, Napoleonic Era, Unification of Italy
| noble
| poet, novelist and philosopher
| Enlightenment, Romanticism
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* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Alessandro_Manzoni
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37500
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Alessandro%20Manzoni%29
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| Alexandre César Léopold Bizet (Georges Bizet)
| France, Italy
| July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Unification of Italy, French Third Republic
| singing teacher
| composer
| Romanticism
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* https://www.classiccat.net/bizet_g/index.php
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| Alexandre Dumas
| France
| First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire
| noble
| novelist, playwright
| Romanticism, Historical Fiction
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* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Alexandre_Dumas
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/492
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Alexandre%20Dumas%29
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| Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (George Sand)
| France
| First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| noble
| novelist, memoirist, journalist
| Romanticism, Pastoralism
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* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:George_Sand
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28George%20Sand%29
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| Antonín Leopold Dvořák
| Bohemia, United States of America
| Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gilded Age
| innkeeper and butcher
| composer
| Romanticism
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* https://www.classiccat.net/dvorak_a/index.php
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| Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
| England
| Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar
| illustrator and civil servant
| writer, physician
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* https://sherlock-holm.es/
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Arthur_Conan_Doyle
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69
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| Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns
| France
| July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| official
| composer, organist, conductor, pianist
| Romanticism
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* https://www.classiccat.net/saint-saens_c/index.php
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| Charles John Huffam Dickens
| England, United States of America, France
| Georgian era, Jacksonian democracy, July Monarchy, Victorian era, Reconstruction era
| clerk in the Navy Pay Office
| writer, social critic
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Charles%20Dickens%29
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| Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
| England
| Victorian era
| clergy
| writer, illustrator, poet, mathematician, photographer, teacher, inventor
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Charles_Lutwidge_Dodgson
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Lewis%20Carroll%29
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| Edgar Allan Poe
| United States of America
| Jeffersonian Era, Era of Good Feelings, Jacksonian Era
| actor
| writer, poet, editor, literary critic
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Edgar_Allan_Poe
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/481
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Edgar+Allan+Poe%29
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| Edvard Munch
| Norway, Germany, France
| United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, Wilhelm II, French Third Republic, Interwar Independence of Norway, German occupation of Norway
| doctor and medical officer
| painter
| Expressionism, Symbolism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/edvard-munch
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| Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola
| Italy, France
| Unification of Italy, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| engineer
| novelist, journalist, playwright, poet
| Naturalism
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* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Émile_Zola
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/528
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28%C3%89mile%20Zola%29
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| Eric Alfred Leslie Satie
| France
| Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| shipping broker
| composer, pianist
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* https://www.classiccat.net/satie_e/index.php
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| Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
| France
| French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire
| official
| painter, lithographer
| Romanticism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/eugene-delacroix
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| Gabriele D'Annunzio
| Italy
| Kingdom of Italy
| landowner and mayor
| poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, army officer
| Decadent Movement
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* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Gabriele_D'Annunzio
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9030
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Gabriele%20D%27Annunzio%29
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| Gustave Flaubert
| France
| Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| director and senior surgeon
| novelist
| Realism, Romanticism
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* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Gustave_Flaubert
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/574
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Gustave%20Flaubert%29
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| Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
| France
| French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
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| novelist, short story writer, poet
| Naturalism, Realism
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* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Guy_de_Maupassant
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/306
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Guy%20de%20Maupassant%29
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| Honoré de Balzac
| France
| French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic
| artisan
| writer, critic, journalist, printer
| Realism
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* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Honoré_de_Balzac
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/251
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Honor%C3%A9%20de%20Balzac%29
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| Joseph Maurice Ravel
| France
| French Third Republic
| engineer
| composer, pianist, conductor
| Impressionism
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* [https://www.classiccat.net/ravel_m/ https://www.classiccat.net/ravel_m/]
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| Jules Gabriel Verne
| France
| Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic
| attorney
| novelist, poet, playwright
| Avant-garde, Surrealism
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* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Jules_Verne
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/60
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Jules%20Verne%29‘
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| Louis-Hector Berlioz
| France, Italy
| French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, Unification of Italy, July Monarchy, French Second Republic
| physician
| composer, conductor
| Romanticism
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* [https://www.classiccat.net/berlioz_h/index.php https://www.classiccat.net/berlioz_h/index.php]
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| Mehmet Âkif Ersoy
| Turkey
| Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish War of Independence, Government of the Grand National Assembly, One-party period of the Republic of Turkey
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| poet, writer, academic, politician
| The Republican Era
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* https://tr.wikisource.org/wiki/Kişi:Mehmet_Âkif_Ersoy
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| Oscar-Claude Monet
| France, Algeria
| July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Algeria, French Third Republic
| merchant
| painter
| Impressionism
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet
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| Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
| United States of America
| Jacksonian Era, Civil War Era, Reconstruction Era, Gilded Age, Progressive Era
| attorney and judge
| writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer
|
|
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Samuel_Langhorne_Clemens
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Mark+Twain%29
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| Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
| France
| French Third Republic
| pathologist and epidemiologist
| novelist, critic, essayist
|
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Marcel_Proust
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/987
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Marcel%20Proust%29
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| Victor-Marie Hugo
| France, Channel Islands
| French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Victorian Era
| general
| poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, dramatist
| Romanticism
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Victor_Hugo
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/85
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Victor%20Hugo%29
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| Vincent Willem van Gogh
| Netherlands, France
| democratic and industrial development in Netherlands, French Third Republic
| church minister
| painter
| Post-Impressionism
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh
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| Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
''Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin''
| Russia
| Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I
| noble
| poet, novelist, playwright
| Romanticism, Realism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Александр_Сергеевич_Пушкин
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1457
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Alexander%20Pushkin%29
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| Антон Павлович Чехов
''Anton Pavlovich Chekhov''
| Russia
| Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II
| grocery store owner
| physician, short-story writer, playwright
| Modernism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Антон_Павлович_Чехов
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/708
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Anton%20Chekhov%29
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| Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
''Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev''
| Russia
| Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III
| noble
| novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, translator
| Realism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Иван_Сергеевич_Тургенев
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/922
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Ivan%20Turgenev%29
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| Лев Николаевич Толстой
''Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy''
| Russia
| Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II
| aristocrat
| novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist
| Realism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Лев_Николаевич_Толстой
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/136
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28%28Lev%20OR%20%20Leo%29%20Tolstoy%29
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| Микола Васильович Гоголь / Николай Васильевич Гоголь
''Mykola Vasyl'ovych Hohol / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol'''
| Ukraine / Russia
| Alexander I, Nicholas I
| military officer
| Playwright, short-story writer, novelist
| Surrealism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Николай_Васильевич_Гоголь
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/531
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Gogol%29
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| Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов
''Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov''
| Russia
| Alexander I, Nicholas I
| noble
| writer, poet, painter
| Romanticism, Pre-Realism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Михаил_Юрьевич_Лермонтов
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/469
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| Пётр Ильич Чайковский
''Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky''
| Russia
| Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III
| iron worker
| composer
| Romanticism
|
* [https://www.classiccat.net/tchaikovsky_pi/index.php https://www.classiccat.net/tchaikovsky_pi/index.php]
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| Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
''Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky''
| Russia
| Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II
| noble
| military engineer, novelist, journalist
| Realism
|
* https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Фёдор_Михайлович_Достоевский
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/314
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Dostoevsky%29
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| অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
''Abanindranath Tagore''
| India
| British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India
| noble
| painter
| Bengal school
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/abanindranath-tagore
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| രാജാ രവിവർമ്മ
''Raja Ravi Varma''
| India
| Kingdom of Travancore
| aristocrat
| painter
|
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/raja-ravi-varma
|-
| 장승업 [張承業] (오원 [吾園])
''Jang Seung-eop (Owon)''
| Korea
| late Jeoson period
|
| painter
|
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/owon
|-
| 夏目金之助 (夏目漱石)
''Natsume Kin'nosuke (Natsume Sōseki)''
| Japan, England
| Meiji period, Edwardian Era, Taishō period
| official
| novelist, essayist, critic
| Yoyūha, Anti-Naturalism
|
* https://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person148.html
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Natsume%20S%C5%8Dseki%29
|}
== 18<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
| France
| Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI
| lawyer
| writer, philosopher, historian
|
|
* https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Voltaire
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/913
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Voltaire%29
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| Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi
| Turkey
| Ottoman Old Regime, Nizam-i Cedid, Tanzimat
|
| composer
|
|
* https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Dede_Efendi,_Hammamizade_İsmail
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| Hattat Mehmet Sâmi Efendi
| Turkey
| Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Second Constitutional Era
| guild official
| calligrapher
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sami_Efendi
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| Jane Austen
| England
| Georgian era
| clergy
| novelist
|
|
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Jane_Austen
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Jane%20Austen%29
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| Johann Sebastian Bach
| Germany
| sectionalism in the Holy Roman Empire, Enlightenment in Germany
| director of musicians
| composer
| Baroque
|
* https://www.classiccat.net/bach_js/index.php
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| Levnî Abdülcelil Çelebi
| Turkey
| Mustafa II, Ahmed III
| noble
| painter
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Abdulcelil_Levni
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| Ludwig van Beethoven
| Germany
| Enlightenment in Germany
| musician)
| composer, pianist
| classicism, Romanticism
|
* https://www.classiccat.net/beethoven_l_van/index.php
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| 신윤복 [申潤福] (혜원 [蕙園])
''Sin Yun-bok (Hyewon)''
| Korea
| late Joseon period
| court painter
| painter
|
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/yoon-bok-shin
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| 曹雪芹
''Cao Xueqin''
| China
| middle Qing dynasty
| official
| novelist, poet, philosopher, painter
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:曹雪芹
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3092
|}
== 17<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Johannes Vermeer
| Netherlands
| Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
| worker
| painter
| Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/johannes-vermeer
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| Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
| Netherlands
| Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
| miller
| painter, printmaker, draughtsman
| Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt
|-
| 김만중 [金萬重]
''Kim Man-jung''
| Korea
| late Joseon period
| noble
| novelist, politician
|
|
* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:김만중
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| 平山藤五 (井原西鶴)
''Hirayama Tōgo (Saikaku Ihara)''
| Japan
| early Edo period
| merchant
| writer
| Ukiyo-zōshi
|
* https://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person1216.html
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Saikaku%20Ihara%29
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| 朱耷 (八大山人)
''Zhu Da (Bada Shanren)''
| China
| late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty
| noble
| painter
|
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/bada-shanren
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| 松尾金作 (松尾芭蕉)
''Matsuo Kinsaku (Matsuo Bashō)''
| Japan
| early Edo period
| musokunin
| poet
| Shōfū Haikai
|
* https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/作者:松尾芭蕉
|}
== 16<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Spain
| Charles, Philip II, Philip III
| physician
| soldier, tax collector, accountant, purchasing agent for Navy
|
|
* https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Autor:Miguel_de_Cervantes
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/505
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Miguel%20de%20Cervantes%29
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| Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
| Italy
| Italian Renaissance
| banker
| sculptor, painter, architect, poet
| High Renaissance
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/michelangelo
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| William Shakespeare
| England
| Elizabethan era, Jacobean era
| alderman and glover
| playwright. poet. actor
| English Renaissance
|
* https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:William_Shakespeare_(1564-1616)
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28William%20Shakespeare%29
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| 허균 [許筠]
''Heo Gyun''
| Korea
| middle Joseon period
| noble
| novelist, poet, politician
|
|
* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:허균
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| 吳承恩
''Wu Cheng'en''
| China
| middle Ming dynasty
| artisan
| poet, novelist
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:吳承恩
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26148
|}
== 15<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Leonardo da Vinci
| Italy, France
| Italian Renaissance, Valois-Angoulême
| legal notary
| painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, architect
| High Renaissance
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonardo-da-vinci
|-
| Ludovico Ariosto
| Italy
| Italian Renaissance
| citadel commander
| poet
| Renaissance Humanism
|
* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Ludovico_Ariosto
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/322
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Ludovico%20Ariosto%29
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| Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
| Italy
| Republic of Florence
| attorney
| diplomat, author, philosopher, historian
| classical Realism
|
* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Niccolò_Machiavelli
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/563
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Niccol%C3%B2%20Machiavelli%29
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| Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
| Italy
| Italian Renaissance
| court painter
| painter, architect
| High Renaissance
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/raphael
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| Şeyh Hamdullah
| Turkey
| rise of the Ottoman Empire, Classical Age
| official
| calligrapher
|
|
|-
| 김시습 [金時習]
''Kim Si-seup''
| Korea
| early Joseon period
| aristocrat
| scholar, writer
|
|
* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:김시습
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| 文壁 (文徵明)
''Wen Bi (Wen Zhengming)''
| China
| Ming dynasty
| official
| painter, calligrapher, poet
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wen_Zhengming
|}
== 14<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Giovanni Boccaccio
| Italy
| Republic of Florence
| merchant
| writer, poet
| Renaissance Humanism
|
* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Giovanni_Boccaccio
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1279
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Giovanni%20Boccaccio%29
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| Guillaume de Machaut
| France
| House of Capet, House of Valois
|
| composer, poet
|
|
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Guillaume%20de%20Machaut%29
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| میرعلی تبریزی‎
''Mir Ali Tabrizi''
| Iran
| rise of the Timurid Empire, stagnation of the Timurid Empire
|
| poet, calligrapher
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mir_Ali_Tabrizi
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| 施耐庵
''Shi Nai'an''
| China
| late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty
|
| writer, teacher
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:施耐庵
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26093
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| 羅本 (羅貫中)
''Luo Be (Luo Guanzhong)''
| China
| late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty
|
| writer
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:羅貫中
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1511
|}
== 13<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| Dante Alighieri
| Italy
| Republic of Florence
| politician
| statesman, poet, writer, philosopher, language theorist, political theorist
|
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* https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Autore:Dante_Alighieri
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/507
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| یاقوت مستعصمی
''Yaqut al-Musta'simi''
| Iraq
| Mongol invasion, Ilkhanate
|
| calligrapher
|
|
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| 일연 [一然]
''Il-yeon''
| Korea
| Goryeo military regime, Mongol invasions, late Goryeo
|
| monk, writer
|
|
* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:일연
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| 趙孟頫
''Zhao Mengfu''
| China
| late Song dynasty, early Yuan dynasty
| imperial family
| calligrapher, painter, scholar
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zhao_Mengfu
|}
== 12<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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== 11<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| ابن البواب‎
''Ibn al-Bawwab''
| Iraq
| Buyid and Seljuq control
|
| calligrapher, illuminator
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Ibn_al-Bawwab_Qur%27an
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| أم محمد فخر النساء شهدة بنت أحمد الإبري الدينوري البغدادية
''Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah Umm Muhammad al-Baghdadiyyah''
| Iraq
| Buyid and Seljuq control
|
| scholar, calligrapher
|
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| 米芾
''Mi Fu''
| China
| Northern Song dynasty
| general
| painter, poet, calligrapher
|
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* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mi_Fu
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| 黃庭堅
''Huang Tingjian''
| China
| Northern Song dynasty
| noble
| calligrapher, painter, poet
|
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* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Huang_Tingjian
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| 蘇軾
''Su Shi''
| China
| Northern Song Dynasty
| literati
| poet, writer, politician, calligrapher, painter, pharmacologist, gastronome
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:蘇軾
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26172
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Su_Shi
|}
== 10<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| 清少納言
''Sei Shōnagon''
| Japan
| middle Heian period
| scholar and poet
| writer, poet, lady-in-waiting
|
|
* https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/作者:清少納言
* https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Sei%20Shonagon%29
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| 紫式部
''Murasaki Shikibu''
| Japan
| middle Heian period
| noble
| novelist, poet, lady-in-waiting
|
|
* https://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person52.html
* https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/作者:紫式部
* https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46975
|}
== 9<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| أبو علي محمد بن علي ابن مقلة‎
''Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muqla''
| Iraq
| fracture of Abbasid Caliphate
|
| vizier, calligrapher
|
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| 최치원 [崔致遠]
''Choe Chiwon''
| Korea
| Unified Silla
| yukdupum
| philosopher, poet
|
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* https://ko.wikisource.org/wiki/저자:최치원
|}
== 8<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| 王維
''Wang Wei''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
| aristocrat
| poet, musician, painter, politician
|
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/wang-wei
|-
| 杜甫
''Du Fu''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
| official
| poet, politician
|
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* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:杜甫
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| 李白
''Li Bai''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
| businessman
| poet
|
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* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:李白
|-
| 吳道子
''Wu Daozi''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
|
| painter
|
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* https://www.wikiart.org/en/wu-daozi
|-
| 周昉
''Zhou Fang''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
| official
| painter
|
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* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chou_Fang
|-
| 柳公權
''Liu Gongquan''
| China
| late Tang dynasty
|
| calligrapher
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Liu_Gongquan
|-
| 張萱
''Zhang Xuan''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
|
| painter
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zhang_Xuan
|-
| 韓幹
''Han Gan''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
|
| painter
|
|
* https://www.wikiart.org/en/han-gan
|-
| 顏真卿
''Yan Zhenqing''
| China
| middle Tang dynasty
| official
| calligrapher, military general, politician
|
|
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yan_Zhenqing
|}
== 7<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| 王勃
''Wang Bo''
| China
| early Tang dynasty
| scholar
| poet
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:王勃
|-
| 楊炯
''Yang Jiong''
| China
| early Tang dynasty
|
| poet
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/Author:楊炯
|-
| 駱賓王
''Luo Binwang''
| China
| early Tang dynasty
|
| poet
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:駱賓王
|-
| 盧照鄰
''Lu Zhaolin''
| China
| early Tang dynasty
|
| poet
|
|
* https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:盧照鄰
|}
== 6<sup>th</sup> Century ==
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| 歐陽詢
''Ouyang Xun''
| Chiina
| Southern Chen dynasty, early Tang dynasty
| official
| calligrapher, politician, writer
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''Gu Kaizhi''
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This is a list of artists (including writers, musicians, etc.) in different times around the world.

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Not all are good for kids or adolescents: some have sexual content, some have radical thoughts.

In progress.

20th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
Agatha Christie England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Postwar era army officer novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, memoirist Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Albert Camus Algeria, France French Algeria, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic worker philosopher, author, journalist Absurdism
Alberto Pincherle (Alberto Moravia) Italy Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic architect and painter novelist and journalist
Andy Warhol United States of America Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-War Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era miner painter, film director, film producer Pop Art
Charles Spencer Chaplin England, United States of America, Switzerland Victorian era, Edwardian era, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war United States of America, Post-war Switzerland music hall entertainer actor, comedian, film director, composer, screenwriter, film producer, film editor
Clive Staples Lewis England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war era solicitor novelist, scholar, broadcaster
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) India, Burma, England, France, Spain British Raj, British rule in Burma, Interwar, French Third Republic, Spanish Civil War, World War II, Post-war Britain civil servant novelist, essayist, journalist, literary critic
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc France French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic pharmaceutical manufacturer owner composer, pianist
Franz Kafka Bohemia Austro-Hungarian Empire, First Czechoslovak Republic ritual slaughterer novelist, short-story writer, insurance officer Modernism
Gabriel García Márquez Colombia, Mexico Liberal and Conservative Conflict, National Front regime, "Revolution to evolution", Economic crisis in Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox Quesada, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, Enrique Peña Nieto pharmacist novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, journalist Latin American Boom, Magic Realism
Grant DeVolson Wood United States of America Gilded Age, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II painter Regionalism
Hamid Aytaç Turkey Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Republic of Turkey calligrapher
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse France Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic grain merchant painter, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor Fauvism
Jerome David Salinger United States of America World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, modern day kosher cheese trader writer
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Orange Free State, England Orange Free State, Victorian Era, Edwardian Era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war Era craftsman writer, academic, philologist, poet
Louis Daniel Armstrong United States of America Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era musician, singer
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón Mexico, United States of America Mexican Revolution, Consolidation of revolution, Great Depression, Consolidation of revolution, "Revolution to evolution" painter and photographer painter Surrealism, Magic Realism, Naïve
Michael Joseph Jackson United States of America Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, Modern day crane operator and band guitarist singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer
Pablo Ruiz Picasso Spain, France Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic painter painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, theatre designer Cubism, Surrealism
Paul Jackson Pollock United States of America Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era farmer, land surveyor painter Abstract Expressionism
Primo Michele Levi Italy Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic worker chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
Roald Dahl England World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war period ship broker novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, fighter pilot
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech Spain, France, United States of America Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Francoist Spain, Post-Franco Spain lawyer and notary painter, photographer, sculptor, writer Cubism, Dada, Surrealism
Umberto Eco Italy Fascist Italy, World War II, Italian Republic accountant medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, commentator, novelist
Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Russia, United States of America Russian Revolution, Soviet Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era in the USA, Russian Federation landowner novelist, essayist, historian
Владимир Владимирович Набоков

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Russia, Germany, United States of America, Switzerland Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, World War II in the USA, Post-war Era in the USA, Post-war Switzerland noble novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist Modernism, Post-Modernism
Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov

Russia Alexander III, Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Establishment of the USSR, Stalinism state councilor and professor novelist, short-story writer, playwright, physician
ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿਲ

Amrita Sher-Gil

Hungary, India, France Hungarian Republic, Kingdom of Hungary, British Raj, French Third Republic aristocrat and scholar painter
যামিনী রায়

Jamini Roy

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India landowner painter
নন্দলাল বসু

Nandalal Bose

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India painter Contextual Modernism
이광수 [李光洙]

Yi Kwang-su

Korea late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea novelist, activist
최남선 [崔南善]

Choe Nam-seon

Korea late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea jungin historian, poet, publisher
川端康成

Kawabata Yasunari

Japan Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle doctor novelist, short-story writer, essayist Shinkankakuha
平岡公威 (三島由紀夫)

Hiraoka Kimitake (Mishima Yukio)

Japan Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle official novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic Romanticism, Aestheticism
谷崎潤一郎

Tanizaki Jun'ichirō

Japan Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle merchant writer Aestheticism
周樹人 (魯迅)

Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China landowner essayist, short-story writer, critic New Culture Movement
查良鏞 (金庸) / Louis Cha

Zha Liangyong (Jin Yong)

China Republic of China, British Hong Kong, People's Republic of China landowner novelist, essayist, newspaper founder, newspaper editor
徐悲鴻

Xu Beihong

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation teacher painter
張大千

Chang Dai-chien

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, Taiwan under martial law, democratic reforms in Taiwan teacher, politician painter Impressionism, Expressionism
張愛玲 / Eileen Chang

Chang Ai-ling

China, United States of America Republic of China, British Hong Kong, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era naval commander novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, short-story writer
遠藤周作

Endō Shūsaku

Japan Taishō period, Shōwa period, Heisei period writer
齊純芝 (齊白石)

Qi Chunzhi (Qi Baishi)

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation peasant painter

19th Century

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Achille-Claude Debussy France, Italy Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Kingdom of Italy shop owner composer Impressionism
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni Italy Age of Enlightenment, Napoleonic Era, Unification of Italy noble poet, novelist and philosopher Enlightenment, Romanticism
Alexandre César Léopold Bizet (Georges Bizet) France, Italy July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Unification of Italy, French Third Republic singing teacher composer Romanticism
Alexandre Dumas France First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire noble novelist, playwright Romanticism, Historical Fiction
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (George Sand) France First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic noble novelist, memoirist, journalist Romanticism, Pastoralism
Antonín Leopold Dvořák Bohemia, United States of America Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gilded Age innkeeper and butcher composer Romanticism
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar illustrator and civil servant writer, physician
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns France July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic official composer, organist, conductor, pianist Romanticism
Charles John Huffam Dickens England, United States of America, France Georgian era, Jacksonian democracy, July Monarchy, Victorian era, Reconstruction era clerk in the Navy Pay Office writer, social critic
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) England Victorian era clergy writer, illustrator, poet, mathematician, photographer, teacher, inventor
Edgar Allan Poe United States of America Jeffersonian Era, Era of Good Feelings, Jacksonian Era actor writer, poet, editor, literary critic
Edvard Munch Norway, Germany, France United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, Wilhelm II, French Third Republic, Interwar Independence of Norway, German occupation of Norway doctor and medical officer painter Expressionism, Symbolism
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola Italy, France Unification of Italy, Second French Empire, French Third Republic engineer novelist, journalist, playwright, poet Naturalism
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie France Second French Empire, French Third Republic shipping broker composer, pianist
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix France French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire official painter, lithographer Romanticism
Gabriele D'Annunzio Italy Kingdom of Italy landowner and mayor poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, army officer Decadent Movement
Gustave Flaubert France Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic director and senior surgeon novelist Realism, Romanticism
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant France French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic novelist, short story writer, poet Naturalism, Realism
Honoré de Balzac France French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic artisan writer, critic, journalist, printer Realism
Joseph Maurice Ravel France French Third Republic engineer composer, pianist, conductor Impressionism
Jules Gabriel Verne France Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic attorney novelist, poet, playwright Avant-garde, Surrealism
Louis-Hector Berlioz France, Italy French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, Unification of Italy, July Monarchy, French Second Republic physician composer, conductor Romanticism
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy Turkey Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish War of Independence, Government of the Grand National Assembly, One-party period of the Republic of Turkey poet, writer, academic, politician The Republican Era
Oscar-Claude Monet France, Algeria July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Algeria, French Third Republic merchant painter Impressionism
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) United States of America Jacksonian Era, Civil War Era, Reconstruction Era, Gilded Age, Progressive Era attorney and judge writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust France French Third Republic pathologist and epidemiologist novelist, critic, essayist
Victor-Marie Hugo France, Channel Islands French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Victorian Era general poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, dramatist Romanticism
Vincent Willem van Gogh Netherlands, France democratic and industrial development in Netherlands, French Third Republic church minister painter Post-Impressionism
Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Russia Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I noble poet, novelist, playwright Romanticism, Realism
Антон Павлович Чехов

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Russia Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II grocery store owner physician, short-story writer, playwright Modernism
Иван Сергеевич Тургенев

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III noble novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, translator Realism
Лев Николаевич Толстой

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Russia Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II aristocrat novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist Realism
Микола Васильович Гоголь / Николай Васильевич Гоголь

Mykola Vasyl'ovych Hohol / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol'

Ukraine / Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I military officer Playwright, short-story writer, novelist Surrealism
Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I noble writer, poet, painter Romanticism, Pre-Realism
Пётр Ильич Чайковский

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russia Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III iron worker composer Romanticism
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II noble military engineer, novelist, journalist Realism
অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

Abanindranath Tagore

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India noble painter Bengal school
രാജാ രവിവർമ്മ

Raja Ravi Varma

India Kingdom of Travancore aristocrat painter
장승업 [張承業] (오원 [吾園])

Jang Seung-eop (Owon)

Korea late Jeoson period painter
夏目金之助 (夏目漱石)

Natsume Kin'nosuke (Natsume Sōseki)

Japan, England Meiji period, Edwardian Era, Taishō period official novelist, essayist, critic Yoyūha, Anti-Naturalism

18th Century

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François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) France Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI lawyer writer, philosopher, historian
Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi Turkey Ottoman Old Regime, Nizam-i Cedid, Tanzimat composer
Hattat Mehmet Sâmi Efendi Turkey Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Second Constitutional Era guild official calligrapher
Jane Austen England Georgian era clergy novelist
Johann Sebastian Bach Germany sectionalism in the Holy Roman Empire, Enlightenment in Germany director of musicians composer Baroque
Levnî Abdülcelil Çelebi Turkey Mustafa II, Ahmed III noble painter
Ludwig van Beethoven Germany Enlightenment in Germany musician) composer, pianist classicism, Romanticism
신윤복 [申潤福] (혜원 [蕙園])

Sin Yun-bok (Hyewon)

Korea late Joseon period court painter painter
曹雪芹

Cao Xueqin

China middle Qing dynasty official novelist, poet, philosopher, painter

17th Century

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Johannes Vermeer Netherlands Republic of the Seven United Netherlands worker painter Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Netherlands Republic of the Seven United Netherlands miller painter, printmaker, draughtsman Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
김만중 [金萬重]

Kim Man-jung

Korea late Joseon period noble novelist, politician
平山藤五 (井原西鶴)

Hirayama Tōgo (Saikaku Ihara)

Japan early Edo period merchant writer Ukiyo-zōshi
朱耷 (八大山人)

Zhu Da (Bada Shanren)

China late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty noble painter
松尾金作 (松尾芭蕉)

Matsuo Kinsaku (Matsuo Bashō)

Japan early Edo period musokunin poet Shōfū Haikai

16th Century

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Spain Charles, Philip II, Philip III physician soldier, tax collector, accountant, purchasing agent for Navy
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Italy Italian Renaissance banker sculptor, painter, architect, poet High Renaissance
William Shakespeare England Elizabethan era, Jacobean era alderman and glover playwright. poet. actor English Renaissance
허균 [許筠]

Heo Gyun

Korea middle Joseon period noble novelist, poet, politician
吳承恩

Wu Cheng'en

China middle Ming dynasty artisan poet, novelist

15th Century

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Leonardo da Vinci Italy, France Italian Renaissance, Valois-Angoulême legal notary painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, architect High Renaissance
Ludovico Ariosto Italy Italian Renaissance citadel commander poet Renaissance Humanism
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli Italy Republic of Florence attorney diplomat, author, philosopher, historian classical Realism
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino Italy Italian Renaissance court painter painter, architect High Renaissance
Şeyh Hamdullah Turkey rise of the Ottoman Empire, Classical Age official calligrapher
김시습 [金時習]

Kim Si-seup

Korea early Joseon period aristocrat scholar, writer
文壁 (文徵明)

Wen Bi (Wen Zhengming)

China Ming dynasty official painter, calligrapher, poet

14th Century

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Giovanni Boccaccio Italy Republic of Florence merchant writer, poet Renaissance Humanism
Guillaume de Machaut France House of Capet, House of Valois composer, poet
میرعلی تبریزی‎

Mir Ali Tabrizi

Iran rise of the Timurid Empire, stagnation of the Timurid Empire poet, calligrapher
施耐庵

Shi Nai'an

China late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty writer, teacher
羅本 (羅貫中)

Luo Be (Luo Guanzhong)

China late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty writer

13th Century

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Dante Alighieri Italy Republic of Florence politician statesman, poet, writer, philosopher, language theorist, political theorist
یاقوت مستعصمی

Yaqut al-Musta'simi

Iraq Mongol invasion, Ilkhanate calligrapher
일연 [一然]

Il-yeon

Korea Goryeo military regime, Mongol invasions, late Goryeo monk, writer
趙孟頫

Zhao Mengfu

China late Song dynasty, early Yuan dynasty imperial family calligrapher, painter, scholar

12th Century

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11th Century

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ابن البواب‎

Ibn al-Bawwab

Iraq Buyid and Seljuq control calligrapher, illuminator
أم محمد فخر النساء شهدة بنت أحمد الإبري الدينوري البغدادية

Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah Umm Muhammad al-Baghdadiyyah

Iraq Buyid and Seljuq control scholar, calligrapher
米芾

Mi Fu

China Northern Song dynasty general painter, poet, calligrapher
黃庭堅

Huang Tingjian

China Northern Song dynasty noble calligrapher, painter, poet
蘇軾

Su Shi

China Northern Song Dynasty literati poet, writer, politician, calligrapher, painter, pharmacologist, gastronome

10th Century

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清少納言

Sei Shōnagon

Japan middle Heian period scholar and poet writer, poet, lady-in-waiting
紫式部

Murasaki Shikibu

Japan middle Heian period noble novelist, poet, lady-in-waiting

9th Century

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أبو علي محمد بن علي ابن مقلة‎

Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muqla

Iraq fracture of Abbasid Caliphate vizier, calligrapher
최치원 [崔致遠]

Choe Chiwon

Korea Unified Silla yukdupum philosopher, poet

8th Century

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王維

Wang Wei

China middle Tang dynasty aristocrat poet, musician, painter, politician
杜甫

Du Fu

China middle Tang dynasty official poet, politician
李白

Li Bai

China middle Tang dynasty businessman poet
吳道子

Wu Daozi

China middle Tang dynasty painter
周昉

Zhou Fang

China middle Tang dynasty official painter
柳公權

Liu Gongquan

China late Tang dynasty calligrapher
張萱

Zhang Xuan

China middle Tang dynasty painter
韓幹

Han Gan

China middle Tang dynasty painter
顏真卿

Yan Zhenqing

China middle Tang dynasty official calligrapher, military general, politician

7th Century

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王勃

Wang Bo

China early Tang dynasty scholar poet
楊炯

Yang Jiong

China early Tang dynasty poet
駱賓王

Luo Binwang

China early Tang dynasty poet
盧照鄰

Lu Zhaolin

China early Tang dynasty poet

6th Century

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歐陽詢

Ouyang Xun

Chiina Southern Chen dynasty, early Tang dynasty official calligrapher, politician, writer

5th Century

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4th Century

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王羲之

Wang Xizhi

China Western Jin Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty noble calligrapher, politician, writer
陶潛 (陶淵明)

Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming)

China Eastern Jin dynasty, Liu Song dynasty official poet, politician
顧愷之

Gu Kaizhi

China Eastern Jin dynasty official painter

3rd Century

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1st Century

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1st Century BC

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2nd Century BC

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3rd Century BC

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4th Century BC

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屈原

Qu Yuan

Chu Warring States royal clan poet, politician

5th Century BC

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6th Century BC

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7th Century BC

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8th Century BC

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9th Century BC

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10th Century BC

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This is a list of artists (including writers, musicians, etc.) in different times around the world.

Don't forget to use Tor Browser and set the exit node if they don't show you for the geographical reason.

Not all are good for kids or adolescents: some have sexual content, some have radical thoughts.

In progress.

20th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
Agatha Christie England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Postwar era army officer novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, memoirist Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Albert Camus Algeria, France French Algeria, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic worker philosopher, author, journalist Absurdism
Alberto Pincherle (Alberto Moravia) Italy Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic architect and painter novelist and journalist
Andy Warhol United States of America Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-War Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era miner painter, film director, film producer Pop Art
Charles Spencer Chaplin England, United States of America, Switzerland Victorian era, Edwardian era, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war United States of America, Post-war Switzerland music hall entertainer actor, comedian, film director, composer, screenwriter, film producer, film editor
Clive Staples Lewis England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war era solicitor novelist, scholar, broadcaster
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) India, Burma, England, France, Spain British Raj, British rule in Burma, Interwar, French Third Republic, Spanish Civil War, World War II, Post-war Britain civil servant novelist, essayist, journalist, literary critic
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc France French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic pharmaceutical manufacturer owner composer, pianist
Franz Kafka Bohemia Austro-Hungarian Empire, First Czechoslovak Republic ritual slaughterer novelist, short-story writer, insurance officer Modernism
Gabriel García Márquez Colombia, Mexico Liberal and Conservative Conflict, National Front regime, "Revolution to evolution", Economic crisis in Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox Quesada, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, Enrique Peña Nieto pharmacist novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, journalist Latin American Boom, Magic Realism
Grant DeVolson Wood United States of America Gilded Age, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II painter Regionalism
Hamid Aytaç Turkey Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Republic of Turkey calligrapher
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse France Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic grain merchant painter, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor Fauvism
Jerome David Salinger United States of America World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, modern day kosher cheese trader writer
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Orange Free State, England Orange Free State, Victorian Era, Edwardian Era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war Era craftsman writer, academic, philologist, poet
Louis Daniel Armstrong United States of America Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era musician, singer
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón Mexico, United States of America Mexican Revolution, Consolidation of revolution, Great Depression, Consolidation of revolution, "Revolution to evolution" painter and photographer painter Surrealism, Magic Realism, Naïve
Michael Joseph Jackson United States of America Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, Modern day crane operator and band guitarist singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer
Pablo Ruiz Picasso Spain, France Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic painter painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, theatre designer Cubism, Surrealism
Paul Jackson Pollock United States of America Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era farmer, land surveyor painter Abstract Expressionism
Primo Michele Levi Italy Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic worker chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
Roald Dahl England World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war period ship broker novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, fighter pilot
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech Spain, France, United States of America Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Francoist Spain, Post-Franco Spain lawyer and notary painter, photographer, sculptor, writer Cubism, Dada, Surrealism
Umberto Eco Italy Fascist Italy, World War II, Italian Republic accountant medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, commentator, novelist
Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Russia, United States of America Russian Revolution, Soviet Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era in the USA, Russian Federation landowner novelist, essayist, historian
Владимир Владимирович Набоков

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Russia, Germany, United States of America, Switzerland Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, World War II in the USA, Post-war Era in the USA, Post-war Switzerland noble novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist Modernism, Post-Modernism
Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov

Russia Alexander III, Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Establishment of the USSR, Stalinism state councilor and professor novelist, short-story writer, playwright, physician
ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿਲ

Amrita Sher-Gil

Hungary, India, France Hungarian Republic, Kingdom of Hungary, British Raj, French Third Republic aristocrat and scholar painter
যামিনী রায়

Jamini Roy

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India landowner painter
নন্দলাল বসু

Nandalal Bose

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India painter Contextual Modernism
이광수 [李光洙]

Yi Kwang-su

Korea late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea novelist, activist
최남선 [崔南善]

Choe Nam-seon

Korea late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea jungin historian, poet, publisher
川端康成

Kawabata Yasunari

Japan Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle doctor novelist, short-story writer, essayist Shinkankakuha
平岡公威 (三島由紀夫)

Hiraoka Kimitake (Mishima Yukio)

Japan Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle official novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic Romanticism, Aestheticism
谷崎潤一郎

Tanizaki Jun'ichirō

Japan Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle merchant writer Aestheticism
周樹人 (魯迅)

Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China landowner essayist, short-story writer, critic New Culture Movement
查良鏞 (金庸) / Louis Cha

Zha Liangyong (Jin Yong)

China Republic of China, British Hong Kong, People's Republic of China landowner novelist, essayist, newspaper founder, newspaper editor
徐悲鴻

Xu Beihong

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation teacher painter
張大千

Chang Dai-chien

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, Taiwan under martial law, democratic reforms in Taiwan teacher, politician painter Impressionism, Expressionism
張愛玲 / Eileen Chang

Chang Ai-ling

China, United States of America Republic of China, British Hong Kong, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era naval commander novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, short-story writer
遠藤周作

Endō Shūsaku

Japan Taishō period, Shōwa period, Heisei period writer
齊純芝 (齊白石)

Qi Chunzhi (Qi Baishi)

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation peasant painter

19th Century

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Achille-Claude Debussy France, Italy Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Kingdom of Italy shop owner composer Impressionism
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni Italy Age of Enlightenment, Napoleonic Era, Unification of Italy noble poet, novelist and philosopher Enlightenment, Romanticism
Alexandre César Léopold Bizet (Georges Bizet) France, Italy July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Unification of Italy, French Third Republic singing teacher composer Romanticism
Alexandre Dumas France First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire noble novelist, playwright Romanticism, Historical Fiction
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (George Sand) France First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic noble novelist, memoirist, journalist Romanticism, Pastoralism
Antonín Leopold Dvořák Bohemia, United States of America Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gilded Age innkeeper and butcher composer Romanticism
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar illustrator and civil servant writer, physician
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns France July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic official composer, organist, conductor, pianist Romanticism
Charles John Huffam Dickens England, United States of America, France Georgian era, Jacksonian democracy, July Monarchy, Victorian era, Reconstruction era clerk in the Navy Pay Office writer, social critic
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) England Victorian era clergy writer, illustrator, poet, mathematician, photographer, teacher, inventor
Edgar Allan Poe United States of America Jeffersonian Era, Era of Good Feelings, Jacksonian Era actor writer, poet, editor, literary critic
Edvard Munch Norway, Germany, France United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, Wilhelm II, French Third Republic, Interwar Independence of Norway, German occupation of Norway doctor and medical officer painter Expressionism, Symbolism
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola Italy, France Unification of Italy, Second French Empire, French Third Republic engineer novelist, journalist, playwright, poet Naturalism
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie France Second French Empire, French Third Republic shipping broker composer, pianist
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix France French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire official painter, lithographer Romanticism
Gabriele D'Annunzio Italy Kingdom of Italy landowner and mayor poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, army officer Decadent Movement
Gustave Flaubert France Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic director and senior surgeon novelist Realism, Romanticism
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant France French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic novelist, short story writer, poet Naturalism, Realism
Honoré de Balzac France French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic artisan writer, critic, journalist, printer Realism
Joseph Maurice Ravel France French Third Republic engineer composer, pianist, conductor Impressionism
Jules Gabriel Verne France Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic attorney novelist, poet, playwright Avant-garde, Surrealism
Louis-Hector Berlioz France, Italy French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, Unification of Italy, July Monarchy, French Second Republic physician composer, conductor Romanticism
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy Turkey Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish War of Independence, Government of the Grand National Assembly, One-party period of the Republic of Turkey poet, writer, academic, politician The Republican Era
Oscar-Claude Monet France, Algeria July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Algeria, French Third Republic merchant painter Impressionism
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) United States of America Jacksonian Era, Civil War Era, Reconstruction Era, Gilded Age, Progressive Era attorney and judge writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust France French Third Republic pathologist and epidemiologist novelist, critic, essayist
Victor-Marie Hugo France, Channel Islands French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Victorian Era general poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, dramatist Romanticism
Vincent Willem van Gogh Netherlands, France democratic and industrial development in Netherlands, French Third Republic church minister painter Post-Impressionism
Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Russia Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I noble poet, novelist, playwright Romanticism, Realism
Антон Павлович Чехов

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Russia Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II grocery store owner physician, short-story writer, playwright Modernism
Иван Сергеевич Тургенев

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III noble novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, translator Realism
Лев Николаевич Толстой

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Russia Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II aristocrat novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist Realism
Микола Васильович Гоголь / Николай Васильевич Гоголь

Mykola Vasyl'ovych Hohol / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol'

Ukraine / Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I military officer Playwright, short-story writer, novelist Surrealism
Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I noble writer, poet, painter Romanticism, Pre-Realism
Пётр Ильич Чайковский

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russia Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III iron worker composer Romanticism
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II noble military engineer, novelist, journalist Realism
অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

Abanindranath Tagore

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India noble painter Bengal school
രാജാ രവിവർമ്മ

Raja Ravi Varma

India Kingdom of Travancore aristocrat painter
장승업 [張承業] (오원 [吾園])

Jang Seung-eop (Owon)

Korea late Jeoson period painter
夏目金之助 (夏目漱石)

Natsume Kin'nosuke (Natsume Sōseki)

Japan, England Meiji period, Edwardian Era, Taishō period official novelist, essayist, critic Yoyūha, Anti-Naturalism

18th Century

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François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) France Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI lawyer writer, philosopher, historian
Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi Turkey Ottoman Old Regime, Nizam-i Cedid, Tanzimat composer
Hattat Mehmet Sâmi Efendi Turkey Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Second Constitutional Era guild official calligrapher
Jane Austen England Georgian era clergy novelist
Johann Sebastian Bach Germany sectionalism in the Holy Roman Empire, Enlightenment in Germany director of musicians composer Baroque
Levnî Abdülcelil Çelebi Turkey Mustafa II, Ahmed III noble painter
Ludwig van Beethoven Germany Enlightenment in Germany musician) composer, pianist classicism, Romanticism
신윤복 [申潤福] (혜원 [蕙園])

Sin Yun-bok (Hyewon)

Korea late Joseon period court painter painter
曹雪芹

Cao Xueqin

China middle Qing dynasty official novelist, poet, philosopher, painter

17th Century

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Johannes Vermeer Netherlands Republic of the Seven United Netherlands worker painter Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Netherlands Republic of the Seven United Netherlands miller painter, printmaker, draughtsman Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
김만중 [金萬重]

Kim Man-jung

Korea late Joseon period noble novelist, politician
平山藤五 (井原西鶴)

Hirayama Tōgo (Saikaku Ihara)

Japan early Edo period merchant writer Ukiyo-zōshi
朱耷 (八大山人)

Zhu Da (Bada Shanren)

China late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty noble painter
松尾金作 (松尾芭蕉)

Matsuo Kinsaku (Matsuo Bashō)

Japan early Edo period musokunin poet Shōfū Haikai

16th Century

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Spain Charles, Philip II, Philip III physician soldier, tax collector, accountant, purchasing agent for Navy
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Italy Italian Renaissance banker sculptor, painter, architect, poet High Renaissance
William Shakespeare England Elizabethan era, Jacobean era alderman and glover playwright. poet. actor English Renaissance
허균 [許筠]

Heo Gyun

Korea middle Joseon period noble novelist, poet, politician
吳承恩

Wu Cheng'en

China middle Ming dynasty artisan poet, novelist

15th Century

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Leonardo da Vinci Italy, France Italian Renaissance, Valois-Angoulême legal notary painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, architect High Renaissance
Ludovico Ariosto Italy Italian Renaissance citadel commander poet Renaissance Humanism
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli Italy Republic of Florence attorney diplomat, author, philosopher, historian classical Realism
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino Italy Italian Renaissance court painter painter, architect High Renaissance
Şeyh Hamdullah Turkey rise of the Ottoman Empire, Classical Age official calligrapher
김시습 [金時習]

Kim Si-seup

Korea early Joseon period aristocrat scholar, writer
文壁 (文徵明)

Wen Bi (Wen Zhengming)

China Ming dynasty official painter, calligrapher, poet

14th Century

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Giovanni Boccaccio Italy Republic of Florence merchant writer, poet Renaissance Humanism
Guillaume de Machaut France House of Capet, House of Valois composer, poet
میرعلی تبریزی‎

Mir Ali Tabrizi

Iran rise of the Timurid Empire, stagnation of the Timurid Empire poet, calligrapher
施耐庵

Shi Nai'an

China late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty writer, teacher
羅本 (羅貫中)

Luo Be (Luo Guanzhong)

China late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty writer

13th Century

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Dante Alighieri Italy Republic of Florence politician statesman, poet, writer, philosopher, language theorist, political theorist
یاقوت مستعصمی

Yaqut al-Musta'simi

Iraq Mongol invasion, Ilkhanate calligrapher
일연 [一然]

Il-yeon

Korea Goryeo military regime, Mongol invasions, late Goryeo monk, writer
趙孟頫

Zhao Mengfu

China late Song dynasty, early Yuan dynasty imperial family calligrapher, painter, scholar

12th Century

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11th Century

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ابن البواب‎

Ibn al-Bawwab

Iraq Buyid and Seljuq control calligrapher, illuminator
أم محمد فخر النساء شهدة بنت أحمد الإبري الدينوري البغدادية

Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah Umm Muhammad al-Baghdadiyyah

Iraq Buyid and Seljuq control scholar, calligrapher
米芾

Mi Fu

China Northern Song dynasty general painter, poet, calligrapher
黃庭堅

Huang Tingjian

China Northern Song dynasty noble calligrapher, painter, poet
蘇軾

Su Shi

China Northern Song Dynasty literati poet, writer, politician, calligrapher, painter, pharmacologist, gastronome

10th Century

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清少納言

Sei Shōnagon

Japan middle Heian period scholar and poet writer, poet, lady-in-waiting
紫式部

Murasaki Shikibu

Japan middle Heian period noble novelist, poet, lady-in-waiting

9th Century

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أبو علي محمد بن علي ابن مقلة‎

Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muqla

Iraq fracture of Abbasid Caliphate vizier, calligrapher
최치원 [崔致遠]

Choe Chiwon

Korea Unified Silla yukdupum philosopher, poet

8th Century

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王維

Wang Wei

China middle Tang dynasty aristocrat poet, musician, painter, politician
杜甫

Du Fu

China middle Tang dynasty official poet, politician
李白

Li Bai

China middle Tang dynasty businessman poet
吳道子

Wu Daozi

China middle Tang dynasty painter
周昉

Zhou Fang

China middle Tang dynasty official painter
柳公權

Liu Gongquan

China late Tang dynasty calligrapher
張萱

Zhang Xuan

China middle Tang dynasty painter
韓幹

Han Gan

China middle Tang dynasty painter
顏真卿

Yan Zhenqing

China middle Tang dynasty official calligrapher, military general, politician

7th Century

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王勃

Wang Bo

China early Tang dynasty scholar poet
楊炯

Yang Jiong

China early Tang dynasty poet
駱賓王

Luo Binwang

China early Tang dynasty poet
盧照鄰

Lu Zhaolin

China early Tang dynasty poet

6th Century

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歐陽詢

Ouyang Xun

Chiina Southern Chen dynasty, early Tang dynasty official calligrapher, politician, writer

5th Century

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4th Century

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王羲之

Wang Xizhi

China Western Jin Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty noble calligrapher, politician, writer
陶潛 (陶淵明)

Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming)

China Eastern Jin dynasty, Liu Song dynasty official poet, politician
顧愷之

Gu Kaizhi

China Eastern Jin dynasty official painter

3rd Century

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2nd Century

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1st Century

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1st Century BC

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2nd Century BC

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3rd Century BC

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4th Century BC

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屈原

Qu Yuan

Chu Warring States royal clan poet, politician

5th Century BC

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6th Century BC

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7th Century BC

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8th Century BC

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9th Century BC

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10th Century BC

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World-artists-history-polyglotclub.jpg

This is a list of artists (including writers, musicians, etc.) in different times around the world.

Don't forget to use Tor Browser and set the exit node if they don't show you for the geographical reason.

Not all are good for kids or adolescents: some have sexual content, some have radical thoughts.

In progress.

20th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
Agatha Christie England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Postwar era army officer novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, memoirist Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Albert Camus Algeria, France French Algeria, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic worker philosopher, author, journalist Absurdism
Alberto Pincherle (Alberto Moravia) Italy Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic architect and painter novelist and journalist
Andy Warhol United States of America Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-War Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era miner painter, film director, film producer Pop Art
Charles Spencer Chaplin England, United States of America, Switzerland Victorian era, Edwardian era, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war United States of America, Post-war Switzerland music hall entertainer actor, comedian, film director, composer, screenwriter, film producer, film editor
Clive Staples Lewis England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war era solicitor novelist, scholar, broadcaster
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) India, Burma, England, France, Spain British Raj, British rule in Burma, Interwar, French Third Republic, Spanish Civil War, World War II, Post-war Britain civil servant novelist, essayist, journalist, literary critic
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc France French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic pharmaceutical manufacturer owner composer, pianist
Franz Kafka Bohemia Austro-Hungarian Empire, First Czechoslovak Republic ritual slaughterer novelist, short-story writer, insurance officer Modernism
Gabriel García Márquez Colombia, Mexico Liberal and Conservative Conflict, National Front regime, "Revolution to evolution", Economic crisis in Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox Quesada, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, Enrique Peña Nieto pharmacist novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, journalist Latin American Boom, Magic Realism
Grant DeVolson Wood United States of America Gilded Age, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II painter Regionalism
Hamid Aytaç Turkey Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Republic of Turkey calligrapher
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse France Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic grain merchant painter, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor Fauvism
Jerome David Salinger United States of America World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, modern day kosher cheese trader writer
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Orange Free State, England Orange Free State, Victorian Era, Edwardian Era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war Era craftsman writer, academic, philologist, poet
Louis Daniel Armstrong United States of America Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era musician, singer
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón Mexico, United States of America Mexican Revolution, Consolidation of revolution, Great Depression, Consolidation of revolution, "Revolution to evolution" painter and photographer painter Surrealism, Magic Realism, Naïve
Michael Joseph Jackson United States of America Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, Modern day crane operator and band guitarist singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer
Pablo Ruiz Picasso Spain, France Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic painter painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, theatre designer Cubism, Surrealism
Paul Jackson Pollock United States of America Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era farmer, land surveyor painter Abstract Expressionism
Primo Michele Levi Italy Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic worker chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
Roald Dahl England World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war period ship broker novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, fighter pilot
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech Spain, France, United States of America Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Francoist Spain, Post-Franco Spain lawyer and notary painter, photographer, sculptor, writer Cubism, Dada, Surrealism
Umberto Eco Italy Fascist Italy, World War II, Italian Republic accountant medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, commentator, novelist
Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Russia, United States of America Russian Revolution, Soviet Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era in the USA, Russian Federation landowner novelist, essayist, historian
Владимир Владимирович Набоков

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Russia, Germany, United States of America, Switzerland Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, World War II in the USA, Post-war Era in the USA, Post-war Switzerland noble novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist Modernism, Post-Modernism
Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov

Russia Alexander III, Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Establishment of the USSR, Stalinism state councilor and professor novelist, short-story writer, playwright, physician
ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿਲ

Amrita Sher-Gil

Hungary, India, France Hungarian Republic, Kingdom of Hungary, British Raj, French Third Republic aristocrat and scholar painter
যামিনী রায়

Jamini Roy

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India landowner painter
নন্দলাল বসু

Nandalal Bose

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India painter Contextual Modernism
이광수 [李光洙]

Yi Kwang-su

Korea late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea novelist, activist
최남선 [崔南善]

Choe Nam-seon

Korea late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea jungin historian, poet, publisher
川端康成

Kawabata Yasunari

Japan Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle doctor novelist, short-story writer, essayist Shinkankakuha
平岡公威 (三島由紀夫)

Hiraoka Kimitake (Mishima Yukio)

Japan Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle official novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic Romanticism, Aestheticism
谷崎潤一郎

Tanizaki Jun'ichirō

Japan Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle merchant writer Aestheticism
周樹人 (魯迅)

Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China landowner essayist, short-story writer, critic New Culture Movement
查良鏞 (金庸) / Louis Cha

Zha Liangyong (Jin Yong)

China Republic of China, British Hong Kong, People's Republic of China landowner novelist, essayist, newspaper founder, newspaper editor
徐悲鴻

Xu Beihong

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation teacher painter
張大千

Chang Dai-chien

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, Taiwan under martial law, democratic reforms in Taiwan teacher, politician painter Impressionism, Expressionism
張愛玲 / Eileen Chang

Chang Ai-ling

China, United States of America Republic of China, British Hong Kong, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era naval commander novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, short-story writer
遠藤周作

Endō Shūsaku

Japan Taishō period, Shōwa period, Heisei period writer
齊純芝 (齊白石)

Qi Chunzhi (Qi Baishi)

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation peasant painter

19th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
Achille-Claude Debussy France, Italy Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Kingdom of Italy shop owner composer Impressionism
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni Italy Age of Enlightenment, Napoleonic Era, Unification of Italy noble poet, novelist and philosopher Enlightenment, Romanticism
Alexandre César Léopold Bizet (Georges Bizet) France, Italy July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Unification of Italy, French Third Republic singing teacher composer Romanticism
Alexandre Dumas France First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire noble novelist, playwright Romanticism, Historical Fiction
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (George Sand) France First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic noble novelist, memoirist, journalist Romanticism, Pastoralism
Antonín Leopold Dvořák Bohemia, United States of America Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gilded Age innkeeper and butcher composer Romanticism
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar illustrator and civil servant writer, physician
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns France July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic official composer, organist, conductor, pianist Romanticism
Charles John Huffam Dickens England, United States of America, France Georgian era, Jacksonian democracy, July Monarchy, Victorian era, Reconstruction era clerk in the Navy Pay Office writer, social critic
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) England Victorian era clergy writer, illustrator, poet, mathematician, photographer, teacher, inventor
Edgar Allan Poe United States of America Jeffersonian Era, Era of Good Feelings, Jacksonian Era actor writer, poet, editor, literary critic
Edvard Munch Norway, Germany, France United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, Wilhelm II, French Third Republic, Interwar Independence of Norway, German occupation of Norway doctor and medical officer painter Expressionism, Symbolism
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola Italy, France Unification of Italy, Second French Empire, French Third Republic engineer novelist, journalist, playwright, poet Naturalism
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie France Second French Empire, French Third Republic shipping broker composer, pianist
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix France French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire official painter, lithographer Romanticism
Gabriele D'Annunzio Italy Kingdom of Italy landowner and mayor poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, army officer Decadent Movement
Gustave Flaubert France Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic director and senior surgeon novelist Realism, Romanticism
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant France French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic novelist, short story writer, poet Naturalism, Realism
Honoré de Balzac France French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic artisan writer, critic, journalist, printer Realism
Joseph Maurice Ravel France French Third Republic engineer composer, pianist, conductor Impressionism
Jules Gabriel Verne France Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic attorney novelist, poet, playwright Avant-garde, Surrealism
Louis-Hector Berlioz France, Italy French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, Unification of Italy, July Monarchy, French Second Republic physician composer, conductor Romanticism
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy Turkey Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish War of Independence, Government of the Grand National Assembly, One-party period of the Republic of Turkey poet, writer, academic, politician The Republican Era
Oscar-Claude Monet France, Algeria July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Algeria, French Third Republic merchant painter Impressionism
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) United States of America Jacksonian Era, Civil War Era, Reconstruction Era, Gilded Age, Progressive Era attorney and judge writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust France French Third Republic pathologist and epidemiologist novelist, critic, essayist
Victor-Marie Hugo France, Channel Islands French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Victorian Era general poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, dramatist Romanticism
Vincent Willem van Gogh Netherlands, France democratic and industrial development in Netherlands, French Third Republic church minister painter Post-Impressionism
Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Russia Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I noble poet, novelist, playwright Romanticism, Realism
Антон Павлович Чехов

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Russia Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II grocery store owner physician, short-story writer, playwright Modernism
Иван Сергеевич Тургенев

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III noble novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, translator Realism
Лев Николаевич Толстой

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Russia Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II aristocrat novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist Realism
Микола Васильович Гоголь / Николай Васильевич Гоголь

Mykola Vasyl'ovych Hohol / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol'

Ukraine / Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I military officer Playwright, short-story writer, novelist Surrealism
Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I noble writer, poet, painter Romanticism, Pre-Realism
Пётр Ильич Чайковский

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russia Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III iron worker composer Romanticism
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II noble military engineer, novelist, journalist Realism
অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

Abanindranath Tagore

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India noble painter Bengal school
രാജാ രവിവർമ്മ

Raja Ravi Varma

India Kingdom of Travancore aristocrat painter
장승업 [張承業] (오원 [吾園])

Jang Seung-eop (Owon)

Korea late Jeoson period painter
夏目金之助 (夏目漱石)

Natsume Kin'nosuke (Natsume Sōseki)

Japan, England Meiji period, Edwardian Era, Taishō period official novelist, essayist, critic Yoyūha, Anti-Naturalism

18th Century

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François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) France Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI lawyer writer, philosopher, historian
Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi Turkey Ottoman Old Regime, Nizam-i Cedid, Tanzimat composer
Hattat Mehmet Sâmi Efendi Turkey Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Second Constitutional Era guild official calligrapher
Jane Austen England Georgian era clergy novelist
Johann Sebastian Bach Germany sectionalism in the Holy Roman Empire, Enlightenment in Germany director of musicians composer Baroque
Levnî Abdülcelil Çelebi Turkey Mustafa II, Ahmed III noble painter
Ludwig van Beethoven Germany Enlightenment in Germany musician) composer, pianist classicism, Romanticism
신윤복 [申潤福] (혜원 [蕙園])

Sin Yun-bok (Hyewon)

Korea late Joseon period court painter painter
曹雪芹

Cao Xueqin

China middle Qing dynasty official novelist, poet, philosopher, painter

17th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
Johannes Vermeer Netherlands Republic of the Seven United Netherlands worker painter Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Netherlands Republic of the Seven United Netherlands miller painter, printmaker, draughtsman Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
김만중 [金萬重]

Kim Man-jung

Korea late Joseon period noble novelist, politician
平山藤五 (井原西鶴)

Hirayama Tōgo (Saikaku Ihara)

Japan early Edo period merchant writer Ukiyo-zōshi
朱耷 (八大山人)

Zhu Da (Bada Shanren)

China late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty noble painter
松尾金作 (松尾芭蕉)

Matsuo Kinsaku (Matsuo Bashō)

Japan early Edo period musokunin poet Shōfū Haikai

16th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Spain Charles, Philip II, Philip III physician soldier, tax collector, accountant, purchasing agent for Navy
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Italy Italian Renaissance banker sculptor, painter, architect, poet High Renaissance
William Shakespeare England Elizabethan era, Jacobean era alderman and glover playwright. poet. actor English Renaissance
허균 [許筠]

Heo Gyun

Korea middle Joseon period noble novelist, poet, politician
吳承恩

Wu Cheng'en

China middle Ming dynasty artisan poet, novelist

15th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
Leonardo da Vinci Italy, France Italian Renaissance, Valois-Angoulême legal notary painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, architect High Renaissance
Ludovico Ariosto Italy Italian Renaissance citadel commander poet Renaissance Humanism
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli Italy Republic of Florence attorney diplomat, author, philosopher, historian classical Realism
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino Italy Italian Renaissance court painter painter, architect High Renaissance
Şeyh Hamdullah Turkey rise of the Ottoman Empire, Classical Age official calligrapher
김시습 [金時習]

Kim Si-seup

Korea early Joseon period aristocrat scholar, writer
文壁 (文徵明)

Wen Bi (Wen Zhengming)

China Ming dynasty official painter, calligrapher, poet

14th Century

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Giovanni Boccaccio Italy Republic of Florence merchant writer, poet Renaissance Humanism
Guillaume de Machaut France House of Capet, House of Valois composer, poet
میرعلی تبریزی‎

Mir Ali Tabrizi

Iran rise of the Timurid Empire, stagnation of the Timurid Empire poet, calligrapher
施耐庵

Shi Nai'an

China late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty writer, teacher
羅本 (羅貫中)

Luo Be (Luo Guanzhong)

China late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty writer

13th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
Dante Alighieri Italy Republic of Florence politician statesman, poet, writer, philosopher, language theorist, political theorist
یاقوت مستعصمی

Yaqut al-Musta'simi

Iraq Mongol invasion, Ilkhanate calligrapher
일연 [一然]

Il-yeon

Korea Goryeo military regime, Mongol invasions, late Goryeo monk, writer
趙孟頫

Zhao Mengfu

China late Song dynasty, early Yuan dynasty imperial family calligrapher, painter, scholar

12th Century

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11th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
ابن البواب‎

Ibn al-Bawwab

Iraq Buyid and Seljuq control calligrapher, illuminator
أم محمد فخر النساء شهدة بنت أحمد الإبري الدينوري البغدادية

Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah Umm Muhammad al-Baghdadiyyah

Iraq Buyid and Seljuq control scholar, calligrapher
米芾

Mi Fu

China Northern Song dynasty general painter, poet, calligrapher
黃庭堅

Huang Tingjian

China Northern Song dynasty noble calligrapher, painter, poet
蘇軾

Su Shi

China Northern Song Dynasty literati poet, writer, politician, calligrapher, painter, pharmacologist, gastronome

10th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
清少納言

Sei Shōnagon

Japan middle Heian period scholar and poet writer, poet, lady-in-waiting
紫式部

Murasaki Shikibu

Japan middle Heian period noble novelist, poet, lady-in-waiting

9th Century

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أبو علي محمد بن علي ابن مقلة‎

Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muqla

Iraq fracture of Abbasid Caliphate vizier, calligrapher
최치원 [崔致遠]

Choe Chiwon

Korea Unified Silla yukdupum philosopher, poet

8th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
王維

Wang Wei

China middle Tang dynasty aristocrat poet, musician, painter, politician
杜甫

Du Fu

China middle Tang dynasty official poet, politician
李白

Li Bai

China middle Tang dynasty businessman poet
吳道子

Wu Daozi

China middle Tang dynasty painter
周昉

Zhou Fang

China middle Tang dynasty official painter
柳公權

Liu Gongquan

China late Tang dynasty calligrapher
張萱

Zhang Xuan

China middle Tang dynasty painter
韓幹

Han Gan

China middle Tang dynasty painter
顏真卿

Yan Zhenqing

China middle Tang dynasty official calligrapher, military general, politician

7th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
王勃

Wang Bo

China early Tang dynasty scholar poet
楊炯

Yang Jiong

China early Tang dynasty poet
駱賓王

Luo Binwang

China early Tang dynasty poet
盧照鄰

Lu Zhaolin

China early Tang dynasty poet

6th Century

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歐陽詢

Ouyang Xun

Chiina Southern Chen dynasty, early Tang dynasty official calligrapher, politician, writer

5th Century

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4th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
王羲之

Wang Xizhi

China Western Jin Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty noble calligrapher, politician, writer
陶潛 (陶淵明)

Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming)

China Eastern Jin dynasty, Liu Song dynasty official poet, politician
顧愷之

Gu Kaizhi

China Eastern Jin dynasty official painter

3rd Century

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2nd Century

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1st Century

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1st Century BC

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2nd Century BC

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3rd Century BC

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4th Century BC

name region period family background title style link to works
屈原

Qu Yuan

Chu Warring States royal clan poet, politician

5th Century BC

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6th Century BC

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7th Century BC

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8th Century BC

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9th Century BC

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10th Century BC

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This is a list of artists (including writers, musicians, etc.) in different times around the world.

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Not all are good for kids or adolescents: some have sexual content, some have radical thoughts.

In progress.

20th Century

name region period family background title style link to works
Agatha Christie England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Postwar era army officer novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, memoirist Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Albert Camus Algeria, France French Algeria, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic worker philosopher, author, journalist Absurdism
Alberto Pincherle (Alberto Moravia) Italy Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic architect and painter novelist and journalist
Andy Warhol United States of America Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-War Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era miner painter, film director, film producer Pop Art
Charles Spencer Chaplin England, United States of America, Switzerland Victorian era, Edwardian era, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war United States of America, Post-war Switzerland music hall entertainer actor, comedian, film director, composer, screenwriter, film producer, film editor
Clive Staples Lewis England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war era solicitor novelist, scholar, broadcaster
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) India, Burma, England, France, Spain British Raj, British rule in Burma, Interwar, French Third Republic, Spanish Civil War, World War II, Post-war Britain civil servant novelist, essayist, journalist, literary critic
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc France French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic pharmaceutical manufacturer owner composer, pianist
Franz Kafka Bohemia Austro-Hungarian Empire, First Czechoslovak Republic ritual slaughterer novelist, short-story writer, insurance officer Modernism
Gabriel García Márquez Colombia, Mexico Liberal and Conservative Conflict, National Front regime, "Revolution to evolution", Economic crisis in Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox Quesada, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, Enrique Peña Nieto pharmacist novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, journalist Latin American Boom, Magic Realism
Grant DeVolson Wood United States of America Gilded Age, Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II painter Regionalism
Hamid Aytaç Turkey Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Republic of Turkey calligrapher
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse France Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic grain merchant painter, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor Fauvism
Jerome David Salinger United States of America World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, modern day kosher cheese trader writer
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Orange Free State, England Orange Free State, Victorian Era, Edwardian Era, World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war Era craftsman writer, academic, philologist, poet
Louis Daniel Armstrong United States of America Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era musician, singer
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón Mexico, United States of America Mexican Revolution, Consolidation of revolution, Great Depression, Consolidation of revolution, "Revolution to evolution" painter and photographer painter Surrealism, Magic Realism, Naïve
Michael Joseph Jackson United States of America Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era, Modern day crane operator and band guitarist singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer
Pablo Ruiz Picasso Spain, France Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Vichy France, Provisional Government of the French Republic, French Fourth Republic, French Fifth Republic painter painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, theatre designer Cubism, Surrealism
Paul Jackson Pollock United States of America Progressive Era, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era farmer, land surveyor painter Abstract Expressionism
Primo Michele Levi Italy Kingdom of Italy, World War II, Italian Republic worker chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
Roald Dahl England World War I, Interwar, World War II, Post-war period ship broker novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, fighter pilot
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech Spain, France, United States of America Bourbon Restoration in Spain, French Third Republic, Great Depression, World War II, Post-war Era, Francoist Spain, Post-Franco Spain lawyer and notary painter, photographer, sculptor, writer Cubism, Dada, Surrealism
Umberto Eco Italy Fascist Italy, World War II, Italian Republic accountant medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, commentator, novelist
Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Russia, United States of America Russian Revolution, Soviet Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era in the USA, Russian Federation landowner novelist, essayist, historian
Владимир Владимирович Набоков

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Russia, Germany, United States of America, Switzerland Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, World War II in the USA, Post-war Era in the USA, Post-war Switzerland noble novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist Modernism, Post-Modernism
Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov

Russia Alexander III, Nicholas II, Russian Revolution, Establishment of the USSR, Stalinism state councilor and professor novelist, short-story writer, playwright, physician
ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿਲ

Amrita Sher-Gil

Hungary, India, France Hungarian Republic, Kingdom of Hungary, British Raj, French Third Republic aristocrat and scholar painter
যামিনী রায়

Jamini Roy

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India landowner painter
নন্দলাল বসু

Nandalal Bose

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India painter Contextual Modernism
이광수 [李光洙]

Yi Kwang-su

Korea late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea novelist, activist
최남선 [崔南善]

Choe Nam-seon

Korea late Joseon period, Korean Empire, Korea under Japanese rule, Provisional Government of Korea, Division of Korea jungin historian, poet, publisher
川端康成

Kawabata Yasunari

Japan Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle doctor novelist, short-story writer, essayist Shinkankakuha
平岡公威 (三島由紀夫)

Hiraoka Kimitake (Mishima Yukio)

Japan Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle official novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic Romanticism, Aestheticism
谷崎潤一郎

Tanizaki Jun'ichirō

Japan Meiji period, Taishō period, Shōwa financial crisis, growth of militarism, World War II, Allied Occupation of Japan, Japanese economic miracle merchant writer Aestheticism
周樹人 (魯迅)

Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China landowner essayist, short-story writer, critic New Culture Movement
查良鏞 (金庸) / Louis Cha

Zha Liangyong (Jin Yong)

China Republic of China, British Hong Kong, People's Republic of China landowner novelist, essayist, newspaper founder, newspaper editor
徐悲鴻

Xu Beihong

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation teacher painter
張大千

Chang Dai-chien

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, Taiwan under martial law, democratic reforms in Taiwan teacher, politician painter Impressionism, Expressionism
張愛玲 / Eileen Chang

Chang Ai-ling

China, United States of America Republic of China, British Hong Kong, Post-war Era, Civil Rights Era, Reagan Era, Post-Cold War Era naval commander novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, short-story writer
遠藤周作

Endō Shūsaku

Japan Taishō period, Shōwa period, Heisei period writer
齊純芝 (齊白石)

Qi Chunzhi (Qi Baishi)

China late Qing dynasty, Republic of China, socialist transformation peasant painter

19th Century

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Achille-Claude Debussy France, Italy Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Kingdom of Italy shop owner composer Impressionism
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni Italy Age of Enlightenment, Napoleonic Era, Unification of Italy noble poet, novelist and philosopher Enlightenment, Romanticism
Alexandre César Léopold Bizet (Georges Bizet) France, Italy July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Unification of Italy, French Third Republic singing teacher composer Romanticism
Alexandre Dumas France First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire noble novelist, playwright Romanticism, Historical Fiction
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (George Sand) France First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic noble novelist, memoirist, journalist Romanticism, Pastoralism
Antonín Leopold Dvořák Bohemia, United States of America Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gilded Age innkeeper and butcher composer Romanticism
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle England Victorian era, Edwardian era, World War I, Interwar illustrator and civil servant writer, physician
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns France July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic official composer, organist, conductor, pianist Romanticism
Charles John Huffam Dickens England, United States of America, France Georgian era, Jacksonian democracy, July Monarchy, Victorian era, Reconstruction era clerk in the Navy Pay Office writer, social critic
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) England Victorian era clergy writer, illustrator, poet, mathematician, photographer, teacher, inventor
Edgar Allan Poe United States of America Jeffersonian Era, Era of Good Feelings, Jacksonian Era actor writer, poet, editor, literary critic
Edvard Munch Norway, Germany, France United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, Wilhelm II, French Third Republic, Interwar Independence of Norway, German occupation of Norway doctor and medical officer painter Expressionism, Symbolism
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola Italy, France Unification of Italy, Second French Empire, French Third Republic engineer novelist, journalist, playwright, poet Naturalism
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie France Second French Empire, French Third Republic shipping broker composer, pianist
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix France French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire official painter, lithographer Romanticism
Gabriele D'Annunzio Italy Kingdom of Italy landowner and mayor poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, army officer Decadent Movement
Gustave Flaubert France Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic director and senior surgeon novelist Realism, Romanticism
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant France French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic novelist, short story writer, poet Naturalism, Realism
Honoré de Balzac France French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic artisan writer, critic, journalist, printer Realism
Joseph Maurice Ravel France French Third Republic engineer composer, pianist, conductor Impressionism
Jules Gabriel Verne France Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Third Republic attorney novelist, poet, playwright Avant-garde, Surrealism
Louis-Hector Berlioz France, Italy French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, Unification of Italy, July Monarchy, French Second Republic physician composer, conductor Romanticism
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy Turkey Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish War of Independence, Government of the Grand National Assembly, One-party period of the Republic of Turkey poet, writer, academic, politician The Republican Era
Oscar-Claude Monet France, Algeria July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, French Algeria, French Third Republic merchant painter Impressionism
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) United States of America Jacksonian Era, Civil War Era, Reconstruction Era, Gilded Age, Progressive Era attorney and judge writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust France French Third Republic pathologist and epidemiologist novelist, critic, essayist
Victor-Marie Hugo France, Channel Islands French First Republic, First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, French Second Republic, Second French Empire, Second French Empire, French Third Republic, Victorian Era general poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, dramatist Romanticism
Vincent Willem van Gogh Netherlands, France democratic and industrial development in Netherlands, French Third Republic church minister painter Post-Impressionism
Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Russia Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I noble poet, novelist, playwright Romanticism, Realism
Антон Павлович Чехов

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Russia Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II grocery store owner physician, short-story writer, playwright Modernism
Иван Сергеевич Тургенев

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III noble novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, translator Realism
Лев Николаевич Толстой

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Russia Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II aristocrat novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist Realism
Микола Васильович Гоголь / Николай Васильевич Гоголь

Mykola Vasyl'ovych Hohol / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol'

Ukraine / Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I military officer Playwright, short-story writer, novelist Surrealism
Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I noble writer, poet, painter Romanticism, Pre-Realism
Пётр Ильич Чайковский

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russia Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III iron worker composer Romanticism
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Russia Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II noble military engineer, novelist, journalist Realism
অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

Abanindranath Tagore

India British Raj, Union of India, Republic of India noble painter Bengal school
രാജാ രവിവർമ്മ

Raja Ravi Varma

India Kingdom of Travancore aristocrat painter
장승업 [張承業] (오원 [吾園])

Jang Seung-eop (Owon)

Korea late Jeoson period painter
夏目金之助 (夏目漱石)

Natsume Kin'nosuke (Natsume Sōseki)

Japan, England Meiji period, Edwardian Era, Taishō period official novelist, essayist, critic Yoyūha, Anti-Naturalism

18th Century

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François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) France Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI lawyer writer, philosopher, historian
Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi Turkey Ottoman Old Regime, Nizam-i Cedid, Tanzimat composer
Hattat Mehmet Sâmi Efendi Turkey Tanzimat, First Constitutional Era, Second Constitutional Era guild official calligrapher
Jane Austen England Georgian era clergy novelist
Johann Sebastian Bach Germany sectionalism in the Holy Roman Empire, Enlightenment in Germany director of musicians composer Baroque
Levnî Abdülcelil Çelebi Turkey Mustafa II, Ahmed III noble painter
Ludwig van Beethoven Germany Enlightenment in Germany musician) composer, pianist classicism, Romanticism
신윤복 [申潤福] (혜원 [蕙園])

Sin Yun-bok (Hyewon)

Korea late Joseon period court painter painter
曹雪芹

Cao Xueqin

China middle Qing dynasty official novelist, poet, philosopher, painter

17th Century

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Johannes Vermeer Netherlands Republic of the Seven United Netherlands worker painter Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Netherlands Republic of the Seven United Netherlands miller painter, printmaker, draughtsman Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
김만중 [金萬重]

Kim Man-jung

Korea late Joseon period noble novelist, politician
平山藤五 (井原西鶴)

Hirayama Tōgo (Saikaku Ihara)

Japan early Edo period merchant writer Ukiyo-zōshi
朱耷 (八大山人)

Zhu Da (Bada Shanren)

China late Ming dynasty, early Qing dynasty noble painter
松尾金作 (松尾芭蕉)

Matsuo Kinsaku (Matsuo Bashō)

Japan early Edo period musokunin poet Shōfū Haikai

16th Century

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Spain Charles, Philip II, Philip III physician soldier, tax collector, accountant, purchasing agent for Navy
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Italy Italian Renaissance banker sculptor, painter, architect, poet High Renaissance
William Shakespeare England Elizabethan era, Jacobean era alderman and glover playwright. poet. actor English Renaissance
허균 [許筠]

Heo Gyun

Korea middle Joseon period noble novelist, poet, politician
吳承恩

Wu Cheng'en

China middle Ming dynasty artisan poet, novelist

15th Century

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Leonardo da Vinci Italy, France Italian Renaissance, Valois-Angoulême legal notary painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, architect High Renaissance
Ludovico Ariosto Italy Italian Renaissance citadel commander poet Renaissance Humanism
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli Italy Republic of Florence attorney diplomat, author, philosopher, historian classical Realism
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino Italy Italian Renaissance court painter painter, architect High Renaissance
Şeyh Hamdullah Turkey rise of the Ottoman Empire, Classical Age official calligrapher
김시습 [金時習]

Kim Si-seup

Korea early Joseon period aristocrat scholar, writer
文壁 (文徵明)

Wen Bi (Wen Zhengming)

China Ming dynasty official painter, calligrapher, poet

14th Century

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Giovanni Boccaccio Italy Republic of Florence merchant writer, poet Renaissance Humanism
Guillaume de Machaut France House of Capet, House of Valois composer, poet
میرعلی تبریزی‎

Mir Ali Tabrizi

Iran rise of the Timurid Empire, stagnation of the Timurid Empire poet, calligrapher
施耐庵

Shi Nai'an

China late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty writer, teacher
羅本 (羅貫中)

Luo Be (Luo Guanzhong)

China late Yuan dynasty, early Ming dynasty writer

13th Century

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Dante Alighieri Italy Republic of Florence politician statesman, poet, writer, philosopher, language theorist, political theorist
یاقوت مستعصمی

Yaqut al-Musta'simi

Iraq Mongol invasion, Ilkhanate calligrapher
일연 [一然]

Il-yeon

Korea Goryeo military regime, Mongol invasions, late Goryeo monk, writer
趙孟頫

Zhao Mengfu

China late Song dynasty, early Yuan dynasty imperial family calligrapher, painter, scholar

12th Century

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11th Century

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ابن البواب‎

Ibn al-Bawwab

Iraq Buyid and Seljuq control calligrapher, illuminator
أم محمد فخر النساء شهدة بنت أحمد الإبري الدينوري البغدادية

Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah Umm Muhammad al-Baghdadiyyah

Iraq Buyid and Seljuq control scholar, calligrapher
米芾

Mi Fu

China Northern Song dynasty general painter, poet, calligrapher
黃庭堅

Huang Tingjian

China Northern Song dynasty noble calligrapher, painter, poet
蘇軾

Su Shi

China Northern Song Dynasty literati poet, writer, politician, calligrapher, painter, pharmacologist, gastronome

10th Century

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清少納言

Sei Shōnagon

Japan middle Heian period scholar and poet writer, poet, lady-in-waiting
紫式部

Murasaki Shikibu

Japan middle Heian period noble novelist, poet, lady-in-waiting

9th Century

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أبو علي محمد بن علي ابن مقلة‎

Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muqla

Iraq fracture of Abbasid Caliphate vizier, calligrapher
최치원 [崔致遠]

Choe Chiwon

Korea Unified Silla yukdupum philosopher, poet

8th Century

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王維

Wang Wei

China middle Tang dynasty aristocrat poet, musician, painter, politician
杜甫

Du Fu

China middle Tang dynasty official poet, politician
李白

Li Bai

China middle Tang dynasty businessman poet
吳道子

Wu Daozi

China middle Tang dynasty painter
周昉

Zhou Fang

China middle Tang dynasty official painter
柳公權

Liu Gongquan

China late Tang dynasty calligrapher
張萱

Zhang Xuan

China middle Tang dynasty painter
韓幹

Han Gan

China middle Tang dynasty painter
顏真卿

Yan Zhenqing

China middle Tang dynasty official calligrapher, military general, politician

7th Century

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王勃

Wang Bo

China early Tang dynasty scholar poet
楊炯

Yang Jiong

China early Tang dynasty poet
駱賓王

Luo Binwang

China early Tang dynasty poet
盧照鄰

Lu Zhaolin

China early Tang dynasty poet

6th Century

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歐陽詢

Ouyang Xun

Chiina Southern Chen dynasty, early Tang dynasty official calligrapher, politician, writer

5th Century

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4th Century

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王羲之

Wang Xizhi

China Western Jin Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty noble calligrapher, politician, writer
陶潛 (陶淵明)

Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming)

China Eastern Jin dynasty, Liu Song dynasty official poet, politician
顧愷之

Gu Kaizhi

China Eastern Jin dynasty official painter

3rd Century

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2nd Century

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1st Century

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1st Century BC

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2nd Century BC

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3rd Century BC

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4th Century BC

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屈原

Qu Yuan

Chu Warring States royal clan poet, politician

5th Century BC

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6th Century BC

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7th Century BC

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8th Century BC

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9th Century BC

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10th Century BC

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